It’s 2025 here in the present-day, so we are entering our 6th calendar year of this journey as we finish off our 18th sped-up year in musical history.
Songs of the month
[new] “Abraham Martin And John” – Dion
“All Along The Watchtower” – Jimi Hendrix Experience
[new] “Always Together” – Dells
[new] “Bang Shang-A-Lang” – Archies
[new] “Both Sides Now” – Judy Collins
[new] “Bring It On Home To Me” – Eddie Floyd
[new] “Chewy Chewy” – Ohio Express
[new] “Cloud Nine” – Temptations
“Court Of Love” – Unifics
[new] “Cycles” – Frank Sinatra
“Elenore” – Turtles
“Fire” – Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
“Fool For You” – Impressions
[new] “For Once In My Life” – Stevie Wonder
“Girl Watcher” – O’kaysions
“Harper Valley P.T.A.” – Jeannie C. Riley
“Hey Jude” – Beatles
“Hey Western Union Man” – Jerry Butler
[new] “Hi-Heel Sneakers” – Jose Feliciano
“Hold Me Tight” – Johnny Nash
[new] “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” – Marvin Gaye
[new] “I Love How You Love Me” – Bobby Vinton
“I’ve Got To Get A Message To You” – Bee Gees
[new] “In-A-Gadda-La-Vida” – Iron Butterfly
[new] “Keep On Lovin’ Me Honey” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
[new] “Little Arrows” – Leapy Lee
“Little Green Apples” – O.C. Smith
“Love Child” – Diana Ross And The Supremes
“Magic Carpet Ride” – Steppenwolf
“Midnight Confessions” – Grass Roots
“My Special Angel” – Vogues
“Over You” – Gary Puckett And The Union Gap
“Piece Of My Heart” – Big Brother And The Holding Company
[new] “Promises Promises” – Dionne Warwick
[new] “Quick Joey Small” – Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus
“Revolution” – Beatles
“Say It Loud I’m Black And I’m Proud” – James Brown
[new] “See Saw” – Aretha Franklin
[new] “Shame Shame” – Magic Lanterns
“Shape Of Things To Come” – Max Frost And The Troopers
[new] “Stormy” – Classics Iv
“Suzie Q” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Sweet Blindness” – 5Th Dimension
“Those Were The Days” – Mary Hopkin
“Time Has Come Today” – Chambers Brothers
“White Room” – Cream
[new] “Who’s Making Love” – Johnnie Taylor
[new] “Wichita Lineman” – Glen Campbell
[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 14th, Yale University announced that it would admit women students for the first time in its 267 year history, beginning with the 1969–70 academic year. The Yale Corporation (the university’s board of trustees) had approved the proposal, made by university president Kingman Brewster, Jr., on November 9 and referred it to faculty for ratification. In the Thursday faculty meeting, the vote was 200 in favor, 1 against. Yale’s sister institution, the formerly all-women Vassar College, began admitting male students for the same year. But apparently all anyone remembers about Yale that year was a men’s football match, naturally!
On the 22nd the supposed first-ever interracial kiss on national television in the U.S. was shown on an episode of Star Trek, with white actor William Shatner (Captain Kirk) kissing black actress Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Uhura) in “Plato’s Stepchildren”. The kiss attracted no notice in the media at the time. Which may have been because, despite this being a pop-culture trope, there had been numerous interracial kisses on TV during the 1960s.
Then on the 28th, Enid Blyton, 71, popular British children’s author who authored more than 300 books, including “The Famous Five” series of 21 adventure and mystery novels, died at a nursing home three months after having a heart attack. Her works had been translated into 63 other languages. At the time of her death, she had sold 30 million copies of books.
What’d Sadie think?
After all four weeks at number one last month, it’s another four this week for “Hey Jude” before “Love Child” by Diana Ross And The Supremes knocks it off its 9-week run!
Loved ’em
- “Bang Shang-A-Lang” – Archies
- “Both Sides Now” – Judy Collins
- “Cloud Nine” – Temptations
- “For Once In My Life” – Stevie Wonder
- “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” – Marvin Gaye
- “Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud” – James Brown
- “Wichita Lineman” – Glen Campbell
Liked ’em
- “Abraham Martin And John” – Dion
- “Always Together” – Dells
- “Bring It On Home To Me” – Eddie Floyd
- “Cycles” – Frank Sinatra
- “Hi Heel Sneakers” – Jose Feliciano
- “I Love How You Love Me” – Bobby Vinton
- “Keep On Lovin’ Me Honey” – Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
- “Promises Promises” – Dionne Warwick
- “Quick Joey Small” – Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus
- “See Saw” – Aretha Franklin
- “Shame Shame” – Magic Lanterns
- “Stormy” – Classics Iv
- “Who’s Making Love” – Johnnie Taylor
Leave ’em
- “Chewy Chewy” – Ohio Express
- “Little Arrows” – Leapy Lee
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.