{"id":918,"date":"2009-06-28T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=918"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:41","slug":"top-50-songs-of-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Songs of 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a mixture of styles, or what??<br \/>I think of &#8220;Sweet Caroline&#8221; as our song (Keith &#038; mine), since my middle name is Caroline:)<br \/>Not sure about the sweet part (standing on shaky ground with that word), but the rest of the lyrics fit our story:)<\/p>\n<p>I included the top 50 to get in a Beach Boys&#8217; song, Keith favorite group:)<br \/>I loved The Beatles &#038; CCR:)<br \/>Number 41 became one of our favorites, &#038; we finally saw Arlo a few summers ago at Regency here in Cary:)<\/p>\n<p>Evidently &#8220;In The Summer Of &#8217;69&#8221; was not even thought of til 1984, when written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance.<\/p>\n<p>1. Build Me Up Buttercup &#8211; Foundations<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #3)<br \/>2. Sweet Caroline &#8211; Neil Diamond<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #4)<br \/>3. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye &#8211; Steam<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>4. More Today Than Yesterday &#8211; Spiral Staircase<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #12)<br \/>5. Mah-Na-Mah-Na (Mahna Mahna) &#8211; Piero Umiliani<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #55)<br \/>6. Son Of A Preacher Man &#8211; Dusty Springfield<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #10)<br \/>7. My Way &#8211; Frank Sinatra<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #27)<br \/>8. Proud Mary &#8211; Creedence Clearwater Revival<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>9. Something &#8211; the Beatles<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #3)<br \/>10. Sugar Sugar &#8211; Archies<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>11. Stand By Your Man &#8211; Tammy Wynette<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #19)<br \/>12. Touch Me &#8211; Doors<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #3)<br \/>13. Honky Tonk Women &#8211; Rolling Stones<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>14. Bad Moon Rising &#8211; Creedence Clearwater Revival<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>15. Hooked On A Feeling &#8211; B.J. Thomas<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #5)<br \/>16. I Can&#8217;t Get Next To You &#8211; Temptations<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>17. Come Together &#8211; the Beatles<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>18. Grazing In The Grass &#8211; Friends of Distinction<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #3)<br \/>19. Traces &#8211; Classics IV &#038; Dennis Yost<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>20. Hawaii 5-0 &#8211; Ventures<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #4)<br \/>21. It&#8217;s Your Thing &#8211; The Isley Brothers<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>22. My Cherie Amour &#8211; Stevie Wonder<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #4)<br \/>23. Hot Fun In The Summertime &#8211; Sly and the Family Stone<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>24. Someday We&#8217;ll Be Together &#8211; Diana Ross and the Supremes<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>25. Everybody&#8217;s Talkin&#8217; &#8211; Nilsson<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #6)<br \/>26. Suspicious Minds &#8211; Elvis Presley<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>27. Everyday People &#8211; Sly &#038; Family Stone<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>28. Crimson and Clover &#8211; Tommy James and the Shondells<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>29. Time of the Season &#8211; Zombies<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #3)<br \/>30. Down On The Corner &#8211; CCR<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #3)<br \/>31. Twenty Five Miles &#8211; Edwin Starr<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #6)<br \/>32. Worst That Could Happen &#8211; Brooklyn Bridge<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #3)<br \/>33. Love&#8217;s Been Good To Me &#8211; Frank Sinatra<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #75)<br \/>34. Ruben James &#8211; Kenny Rogers &#038; the First Edition<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #26)<br \/>35. A Boy Named Sue &#8211; Johnny Cash<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>36. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin &#8211; Crazy Elephant<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: # 12)<br \/>37. You&#8217;ve Made Me So Very Happy &#8211; Blood, Sweat and Tears<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>38. Give Peace A Chance &#8211; John Lennon<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #14)<br \/>39. Get Back &#8211; Beatles<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>40. Wedding Bell Blues &#8211; The 5th Dimension<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #1)<br \/>41. Alice&#8217;s Rock and Roll Restuaraunt &#8211; Arlo Guthrie<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #97)<br \/>42. Stand! &#8211; Sly and the Family Stone<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #22)<br \/>43. Isrealites &#8211; Desmond Dekker and the Aces<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #9)<br \/>44. Green River &#8211; Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #2)<br \/>45. Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday &#8211; Stevie Wonder<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #7)<br \/>46. Put A Little Love In Your Heart &#8211; Jackie DeShannon<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #4)<br \/>47. These Eyes &#8211; Guess Who<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #6)<br \/>48. Jingo &#8211; Santana<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #56)<br \/>49. I Can Hear Music &#8211; Beach Boys<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #24)<br \/>50. Memphis Underground &#8211; Herbie Mann<br \/>(Billboard High Chart: #44)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a mixture of styles, or what??I think of &#8220;Sweet Caroline&#8221; as our song (Keith &#038; mine), since my middle name is Caroline:)Not sure about the sweet part (standing on shaky ground with that word), but the rest of the lyrics fit our story:) I included the top 50 to get in a Beach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}