It’s 52 years and 2 months before Sadie is born and 8 years and 8 months before Thomas is…it’s June, 1968 in our journey so let’s hear what it sounds like!
Songs of the month
“A Beautiful Morning” – Rascals
[new] “A Man Without Love” – Engelbert Humperdinck
[new] “Ain’t Nothin’ Like The Real Thing” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
“Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
[new] “Angel Of The Morning” – Merrilee Rush
[new] “Choo Choo Train” – Box Tops
“Cowboys To Girls” – Intruders
“Cry Like A Baby” – Box Tops
[new] “D.W. Washburn” – Monkees
“Delilah” – Tom Jones
[new] “Do You Know That Way To San Jose” – Dionne Warwick
“Do You Know The Way To San Jose” – Dionne Warwick
[new] “Grazing In The Grass” – Hugh Masekela
[new] “Here Comes The Judge” – Shorty Long
“Honey” – Bobby Goldsboro
[new] “How’d We Ever Get This Way” – Andy Kim
“I Could Never Love Another” – Temptations
[new] “I Love You” – People
“I Will Always Think About You” – New Colony Six
“If I Were A Carpenter” – Four Tops
[new] “Indian Lake” – Cowsills
[new] “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” – Rolling Stones
[new] “Lady Willpower” – Gary Puckett And The Union Gap
[new] “Lickin’ Stick” – James Brown
“Like To Get To Know You” – Spanky And Our Gang
“Love Is All Around” – Troggs
[new] “Macarthur Park” – Richard Harris
“Master Jack” – Four Jacks And A Jill
“Mony Mony” – Tommy James And The Shondells
“Mrs. Robinson” – Simon And Garfunkel
[new] “Never Give You Up” – Jerry Butler
[new] “Reach Out Of Darkness” – Friend And A Lover
[new] “She’s A Heartbreaker” – Gene Pitney
“She’s Lookin’ Good” – Wilson Pickett
“Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day” – Stevie Wonder
“Soul Serenade” – Willie Mitchell
[new] “Stoned Soul Picnic” – 5Th Dimension
“Take Time To Know Her” – Percy Sledge
“The Good The Bad And The Ugly” – Hugo Montenegro
“The Happy Song” – Otis Redding
[new] “The Horse” – Cliff Nobles And Co.
[new] “The Look Of Love” – Sergio Mendes And Brasil ’66
“The Unicorn” – Irish Rovers
“Think” – Aretha Franklin
“This Guy’s In Love With You” – Herb Alpert
“Tighten Up” – Archie Bell And The Drells
[new] “Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips” – Tiny Tim
[new] “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” – Joe Simon
“Young Girl” – Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
“Yummy Yummy Yummy” – Ohio Express
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
On the 5th, moments after thanking supporters for his win in the California primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and fatally wounded while walking through a corridor at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy would die the next day, 5 years after his brother’s assassination. 56 years later… yeah let’s stay in the past!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmW153nTkM
Then on the 20th a US federal law, that had prohibited the printing of color images of United States postage stamps, was repealed as President Johnson signed legislation. “Since stamp counterfeiting is today virtually nonexistent,” a White House statement said, “this restriction is no longer necessary. There is no reason now why the full meaning and beauty of our postage stamps cannot be communicated to all the world in color reproduction.” Previously, stamp catalogs and encyclopedias could only display black-and-white images. The law had become obsolete after U.S. stamps were “impregnated with an invisible phosphor which causes canceling machines to reject counterfeits”.
I can’t find a video on this specifically, but here’s a video of US stamps from ’68-’69:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz_ul0l5YsY
Also on the 20th, David Ruffin was fired from The Temptations for missing a performance, after he developed a cocaine addiction and began questioning Berry Gordy’s handling of the group’s financial affairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9JcariNKV4
What’d Sadie think?
Three weeks at the top for “Mrs. Robinson” by Simon And Garfunkel then two for “This Guy’s In Love With You” by Herb Alpert.
Loved ’em
- “Ain’t Nothin’ Like The Real Thing” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
- “Angel Of The Morning” – Merrilee Rush
- “Do You Know That Way To San Jose” – Dionne Warwick
- “I Love You” – People
- “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” – Rolling Stones
- “Stoned Soul Picnic” – 5Th Dimension
- “The Look Of Love” – Sergio Mendes And Brasil ’66
Liked ’em
- “A Man Without Love” – Engelbert Humperdinck
- “D.W. Washburn” – Monkees
- “Grazing In The Grass” – Hugh Masekela
- “Here Comes The Judge” – Shorty Long
- “How’d We Ever Get This Way” – Andy Kim
- “Indian Lake” – Cowsills
- “Lady Willpower” – Gary Puckett And The Union Gap
- “Lickin’ Stick” – James Brown
- “Macarthur Park” – Richard Harris
- “Never Give You Up” – Jerry Butler
- “Reach Out Of Darkness” – Friend And A Lover
- “She’s A Heartbreaker” – Gene Pitney
- “The Horse” – Cliff Nobles And Co.
- “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” – Joe Simon
Leave ’em
- “Choo Choo Train” – Box Tops
- “Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips” – Tiny Tim
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.