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It’s July, 1969

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Thomas Scovell

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It’s 51 years and 1 months before Sadie is born and 7 years and 7 months before Thomas is, let’s hear the sounds of July, 1969!

Songs of the month

  • [new] “Baby I Love You” – Andy Kim
  • “Bad Moon Rising” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • “Black Pearl” – Sonny Charles And The Checkmates Ltd.
  • [new] “Choice Of Colours” – Impressions
  • “Colour Him Father” – Winstons
  • “Crystal Blue Persuasion” – Tommy James And The Shondells
  • “Everyday With You Girl” – Classics Iv
  • “Get Back” – Beatles
  • “Good Morning Starshine” – Oliver
  • [new] “Good Old Rock N Roll” – Cat Mother And The All Night News Boys
  • “Grazing In The Grass” – Friends Of Distinction
  • [new] “Honky Tonk Women” – Rolling Stones
  • [new] “I Can Sing A Rainbow / Love Is Blue” – Dells
  • [new] “I Turned You On” – Isley Brothers
  • “In The Ghetto” – Elvis Presley
  • [new] “In The Year 2525” – Zager & Evans
  • “Israelites” – Desmond Dekker And The Aces
  • “Let Me” – Paul Revere And The Raiders
  • “Love Can Make You Happy” – Mercy
  • “Love Me Tonight” – Tom Jones
  • “Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet” – Henry Mancini
  • “Medicine Man” – Buchanan Brothers
  • “Moody Woman” – Jerry Butler
  • “More Today Than Yesterday” – Spiral Staircase
  • “Mother Popcorn” – James Brown
  • “My Cherie Amour” – Stevie Wonder
  • [new] “My pledge Of Love” – Joe Jeffrey Group
  • “One” – Three Dog Night
  • [new] “Polk Salad Annie” – Tony Joe White
  • [new] “Quentin’s Theme” – Charles Randolph Grean Sounde
  • [new] “Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town” – Kenny Rogers And The First Edition
  • “See” – Rascals
  • “Spinning Wheel” – “Blood Sweat And Tears”
  • [new] “Sweet Caroline” – Neil Diamond
  • “The Ballad Of John And Yoko” – Beatles
  • [new] “The Popcorn” – James Brown
  • “These Eyes” – Guess Who
  • “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” – Marvin Gaye
  • “What Does It Take” – Junior Walker And The All Stars
  • [new] “Yesterday When I Was Young” – Roy Clark

[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 The Rolling Stones performed a live rock concert in front of at least 250,000 fans at Hyde Park in London. The event was their first public concert in more than two years, and had originally been planned as the debut of guitarist Mick Taylor, who had joined the Stones after Brian Jones had quit the band in May. Jones would later die in an accident two days before the Hyde Park Festival.

And on the 20th, as the world watched on live television, Neil Armstrong piloted the descent of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, and, at 4:17 in the afternoon EDT , he and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first human beings to land on another world.

Then on the 31st Elvis Presley returned to live performances for the first time since 1961, starting with his “comeback special” at the International Hotel in Las Vegas – which, unlike his 1968 TV comeback, was not professionally recorded. He would go on to break all previous Las Vegas attendance records playing to over 100,000 people in 30 days.

What’d Sadie think?

One week at the top for “Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet” – Henry Mancini before new comer, “In The Year 2525” by Zager & Evans takes it for 3 weeks.

The latter is an interesting one-hit wonder, that is described as, “a song about the journey of mankind over a 10,000-year span. It predicts that man’s thoughts, relationships and body will be negatively impacted by technological advances and ends with man’s extinction.”

Sounds worryingly prescient currently!

Loved ’em

  • “Choice Of Colours” – Impressions
  • “Honky Tonk Women” – Rolling Stones
  • “In The Year 2525” – Zager & Evans
  • “Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town” – Kenny Rogers And The First Edition
  • “Sweet Caroline” – Neil Diamond
  • “The Popcorn” – James Brown

Liked ’em

  • “Baby I Love You” – Àndy Kim
  • “Good Old Rock N Roll” – Cat Mother And The All Night News Boys
  • “I Can Sing A Rainbow / Love Is Blue” – Dells
  • “I Turned You On” – Isley Brothers
  • “My Pledge Of Love” – Joe Jeffrey Group
  • “Polk Salad Annie” – Tony Joe White
  • “Yesterday When I Was Young” – Roy Clark

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

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