Fifty years ago in Chicago on the Big 890 AM. * means the song was climbing the charts. The number after the artist is how high it got on the Billboard Hot 100 National Charts.
25. ME AND BOBBY McGEE-- Janis Joplin #1 The 26-year-o;d white girl could sure sing the Blues with the best of them. Her only song to crack the Top 40. This song was first done by Roger Miller in 1969. Check her out in the Dick Cavett show video doing "To Love Somebody."
24. PROUD MARY-- Ike & Tina Turner #4 Their biggest hit while together. That John Fogerty song and those wonderful back-up singers, the Ikettes. How did those dresses stay up?
23. HANG ON TO YOUR LIFE-- Guess Who #43 Not one of their better known songs, but this one sure does rock the house. A real good opening riff.
22. MR. BOJAMGLES-- Nitty Gritt Dirt Band #9 After twenty years, he was still grieving. The song's writer, Jerry Jeff Walker just died recently. One person's comment said that he got banned from playing the jukebox...after he played this 26 times in a row.
21. 1900 YESTERDAY-- Liz Damon's Orient Express #33 I don't remember it at all. Soft Rock band from Hawaii.
Name That Tune (from the above songs): "We Never Ever Do Anything Nice And Easy." Answer below. --RoadDog
"Proud Mary"
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