WLS Top 40 for March 10, 1969-- Part 1: "Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In"

The top 40 songs in Chicago fifty years ago.  How's that for a slice of life?  (D) means DEBUT.  The number after the artist is the highest the song got on Billboards Top 100.

40.  AQUARIUS / LET THE SUNSHINE IN--  Fifth Dimension    (D)     #1   Takes me right back to Senior Lounge at Palatine High School in Palatine and that great juke box as we were finishing up senior year.   Their biggest hit.   Medley from "Hair."

39.  JOHNNY ONE TIME--  Brenda Lee    (D)     #41    Never heard it before.  Sounds more pop than country.    Her 49th (of 52) Top 100.   Her first Top 100 was "One Step At a Time" in 1957    #43.

38.  YOU'VE MADE ME SO VERY HAPPY--  Blood, Sweat & Tears   (D)    #2  Or do you say BST?  Love those horns.  Their first hit, and the first of three consecutive #2s.  Like CCR, they just never could crack it to #1.

37.  HAIR--  Cowsills   (D)     #2    A real Hippy song.    #40 and this one from the movie of the same name.   Family group from Newport, Rhode Island.

36.  GALVESTON--  Glen Campbell    (D)      #4    Such a young Glen.  Was Galveston a person or place or maybe both?   The pride of Billstown, Arkansas.

Definitely a lot of big debuts this week.

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen."  Answer below.  --RoadDog



"Hair"