Sunday, June 07, 2009

K/mentertainer June 7, 1969

Your Souvenir SOUNDATHON Edition for 1969. Always my favorite K/mentertainer edition. Hey Jude-Beatles #1 Light My Fire was #1 for 1968 and Cherish was #1 for 1967
also in the top ten Love Is Blue-Paul Mauriat, Sunshine of Your Love-Cream, Satisfaction-Rolling Stones
Some unusual songs in the top 50: Soul Experience-Iron Butterfly #14 Purple Haze-Jimi Hendrix Experince #26 Bluebird-Buffalo Springfield #31 The Lonely Bull-Tijuana braas #41 Wichita Lineman-Glen Campbell #50
Some of my personal favarites from 51 to 150 Rhythm Of The Rain-Cascades #56 I Feel Free-Cream #63 I Will-Beatles #69 Outer Limits-Marketts #80 (yes K/men is still calling it The Outer Limits in 1969) I Want To Hold Your Hand-Beatles #88 Let's Live For Today-Grass Roots #98 Little Black Egg-Night Crawlers #104 Catch The Wind-Donovan #125 How'd We Ever Get This Way-Andy Kim #127 On The Way Home-Buffalo Springfield #134
Some more numbers And Suddenly-Cherry People #166 October Country-October Country #183 Rock Around The Clock-Bill Haley & The Comets #200 Pipeline-Chantays #228 Live-Merry-Go-Round #233 Born Free-Matt Monroe #248 Nowhere Man-Beatles #250
The bottom part of the chart features these tunes.
Earth Angel-Penguins #252 Fortune Teller-Rolling Stones #255 Try Me-James Brown #276 Break On Through-Doors #293 and ending up at #300 Knock On Wood-Eddie Floyd
Look at he survey. Any surprises for you on the Top 300?
As voted the top albums of all time #1 The Beatles (White album) It beat out Sgt Peppers



For this week there is a tie for #1 Get Back-Beatles and One-Three Dog Night
Highest debut Love Me Tonight-Tom Jones #25
New
Ballad Of John & Yoko-The Beatles

3 comments:

radio Ads said...

unbelievable, its been long time seening all these, thanks for sharing.

Anonymous said...

Its always great to see a Soundathon-type survey and see what has stood the test of time since the survey.

John from Fontana (back then)

Gary Green said...

Cherish??

#3????