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