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Sunday, September 1, 2019

WLS Top Ten for September 1, 1969: "Easy To Be Hard"


From the Oldies Loon WLS year site.

These were the Top Ten songs and the Debut songs on Chicago's WLS 890 AM fifty years ago.

1.  SUGAR, SUGAR--  Archies
2.  HURT SO BAD--  Lettermen
3.  EASY TO BE HARD--  Three Dog Night

4.  GREEN RIVER--  Creedence Clearwater Revival
5.  SOUL DEEP--  Box Tops
6.  LAY LADY LAY--  Bob Dylan
7.  HONKY TONK WOMAN--  Rolling Stones

8.  I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN--  Tom Jones
9.  GET TOGETHER--  Youngbloods
10.  DID YOU SEE HER EYES--  Illusion

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DEBUTS

30.  THAT'S THE WAY LOVE IS--  Marvin Gaye
33.  LITTLE WOMAN--  Bobby Sherman

34.  OH WHAT A NIGHT--  Dells
35.  NOBODY BUT YOU BABE--  Clarence Reid

36.  EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'--  Nilsson
38.  WHAT'S THE USE OF BREAKING UP--  Jerry Butler

39.  CARRY ME BACK--  Rascals
40.  MAH-NA-MAH-NA--   Pete Howard

Take a trip back to September 1, 1979, on Bob Stroud's Root Salute to the summer of 1979 on his Rock and Roll Roots show on Chicago's DRIVE, WDRV, 97.1 FM from 7 to 10 a.m. CDST.  It also will have an encore from 7  to 10 p.m. tonight. It streams at www.wdrv.com.


Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Darlin' I Don't Know Much, I Know I Love You So Much."  Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Soul Deep"

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