WLS Top 40 for Week of May 11, 1970-- Part 1: "Lay Down (Candles In the Wind)"

Here we go again, with the Top 40 songs in Chicago fifty years ago according to super station WLS 890 AM.

(D) means a Debut song.  The number after the artist refers to how high the song got on Billboard Hot 100 chart.

40.  UNITED WE STAND--  Brotherhood of Man    #13    (D)  Good song for these days.  Back then, it would be Kent State.  Their biggest hit.

39.  QUESTION--  Moody Blues        #21    (D)   Love the guitar solo at the beginning.  Wonder how his fingers didn't fall off.  Especially a good song to listen to on your earphones.   From Birmingham, England.

38.  LAY DOWN (CANDLES IN THE WIND)--  Melanie      #6   (D)      Actually, this was not her biggest hit.  That came in 1971.    What a beautiful voice. This song takes me right back to the campus of Northern Illinois University after Kent State.  I listened to this on the campus radio station, WNIU, while I watched protesters line up outside Lincoln Hall and the police attack them..

I thought I was watching the end of the United States.

37.  RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE--  Blues Image    #4    (D)    From Tampa, Florida, in 1961.  One-Hit Wonders.

36.  RED RED WINE--  Vic Dana   #72    Cover of a Neil Diamond song.  His last Top 100 song.

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Seventy-Three Men Sailed Off To History."  Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Ride Captain Ride"