Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Number One on This Date

Let's get ready to take atrip back in time and bring back the memories of former #1 songs. Thanks to www.joshhosley.biz for the list based on Billboard charts, the ONLY correct list of national songs.

I took the entire decades of the sixties and seventies because that is MY ERA.

2009-- BOOM BOOM POW-- BLACKEYED PEAS-- ????, I don't know this one. Reckon I'll have to listen to American Top Forty soon.
1999-- NO SCRUBS-- TLC
1989-- LIKE A PRAYER-- MADONNA--

1979-- REUNITED-- PEACHES & HERB--
1978-- NIGHT FEVER-- BEE GEES-- Disco, anybody?
1977-- HOTEL CALIFORNIA-- EAGLES-- You can check in, but never leave, like the Roach Motel.
1976-- LET YOU LOVE FLOW-- BELLAMY BROTHERS-- Country, in the top 40?
1975-- HE DON'T LOVE YOU (LIKE I DO)-- TONY ORLANDO & DAWN
1974-- THE LOCOMOTION-- GFR-- Was Little Eva ever mad.
1973-- TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE-- TONY ORLANDO & DAWN-- Two number ones in three years? Who'd have figured?
1972-- THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE-- ROBERTA FLACK--
1971-- JOY TO THE WORLD-- THREE DOG NIGHT-- What was the name of that bullfrog we used to get drunk with?
1970-- ABC-- JACKSON FIVE-- Before bthe weird.

1969-- AQAURIUS/LET THE SUNSHINE IN-- FIFTH DIMENSION-- From the rock musical "Hair."
1968-- HONEY-- BOBBY GOLDSBORO-- Totally gag.
1967-- SOMETHING STUPID-- NANCY & FRANK SINATRA--
1966-- MONDAY, MONDAY-- MAMAS AND PAPAS--
1965-- MRS. BROWN, YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER-- HERMAN'S HERMITS--
1964-- CAN'T BUY ME LOVE-- BEATLES-- Beatle mania reigns.
1963-- I WILL FOLLOW HIM-- LITTLE PEGGY MARCH-- Give us some estrogen.
1962-- SOLDIER BOY-- SHIRELLES- More estrogen
1961-- RUNAWAY-- DEL SHANNON-- One of the greats. "I wonder, why, why, why, she ran away." I can hear some of you singing right now.
1960-- STUCK ON YOU-- ELVIS PRESLEY--

1959-- COME SOFTLY TO ME-- FLEETWOODS--
1949-- CRUISING DOWN THE RIVER-- RUSS MORGAN
1939-- OUR LOVE-- TOMMY JAMES--

Any Memories? --RoadDog

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