Popular Songs Of 1968, Vol. 2

And the hits just keep on coming! Part 2 of the most Popular Songs of 1968 starts NOW! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Joni Mitchell  ~  “Both Sides Now”

2)  Louis Armstrong  ~  “What A Wonderful World”

3)  Merle Haggard  ~  “Mama Tried”

4)  John Fred & His Playboy Band  ~  “Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)”

5)  Archie Bell & The Drells  ~  “Tighten Up”

6)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “Take Me To Your World”

7)  Kenny Rogers & The First Edition  ~  “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”

8)  Cliff Nobles & Co.  ~  “The Horse”

9)  Creedence Clearwater Revival  ~  “Suzie Q.”

10)  Status Quo  ~  “Pictures Of Matchstick Men”

11)  Mary Hopkin  ~  “Those Were The Days”

12)  Tom Jones  ~  “Delilah”

13)  Sam And Dave  ~  “I Thank You”

14)  Gary Puckett & The Union Gap  ~  “Over You”

15)  The Beatles  ~  “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”

16)  Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra  ~  “Some Velvet Morning”

17)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”

18)  The Temptations  ~  “I Wish It Would Rain”

19)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Folsom Prison Blues”

20)  The Impressions  ~  “We’re A Winner”

21)  The O’Kaysions  ~  “Girl Watcher”

22)  Janis Joplin  ~  “Piece Of My Heart”

23)  The American Breed  ~  “Bend Me, Shape Me”

24)  The Turtles  ~  “Elenore”

25)  The Chambers Brothers  ~  “Time Has Come Today”

Popular Songs Of 1968, Vol. 1

I'll bet you thought I forgot about continuing these Popular Songs Of..." posts this year, didn't you? Well, you were right! I kinda did forget. But not anymore! Here's part 1 of 4 featuring the best and/or most Popular Songs Of 1968. If you remember these songs when they came out, I'm sorry to tell you that you might be old. But that's alright. Some really great classics in these sets. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Beatles  ~  “Hey Jude”

2)  Aretha Franklin  ~  “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone”

3)  Gary Puckett & The Union Gap  ~  “Woman, Woman”

4)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “Stand By Your Man”

5)  Simon & Garfunkel  ~  “Scarborough Fair”

6)  The Grass Roots  ~  “Midnight Confessions”

7)  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell  ~  “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing”

8)  Canned Heat  ~  “Going Up The Country”

9)  The Foundations  ~  “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You”

10)  Dusty Springfield  ~  “Son Of A Preacher Man”

11)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”

12)  O.C. Smith  ~  “Little Green Apples”

13)  Tiny Tim  ~  “Tiptoe Through The Tulips”

14)  The Delfonics  ~  “La-La (Means I Love You)”

15)  Paul Mauriat Orchestra  ~  “Love Is Blue”

16)  Spanky And Our Gang  ~  “Like To Get To Know You”

17)  Richard Harris  ~  “MacArthur Park”

18)  People!  ~  “I Love You”

19)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day”

20)  The Doors  ~  “Hello, I Love You”

21)  Friend & Lover  ~  “Reach Out Of The Darkness”

22)  Waylon Jennings  ~  “The Chokin’ Kind”

23)  The Box Tops  ~  “Cry Like A Baby”

24)  Jerry Butler  ~  “Hey, Western Union Man”

25)  Joe Cocker  ~  “With A Little Help From My Friends”

A Song For Every Word In The Preamble To The Constitution

This is exactly what it sounds like it is. Yay, democracy!  ~  JH

Click on each underlined portion of the Preamble to hear a song with that word (or phrase) in its title. The full playlist of songs is included below.

We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


PLAYLIST:
A Tribe Called Quest  ~  "We The People"
Bastille  ~  "Of The Night"
Arrested Development  ~  "United Front"
Animal Liberation Orchestra  ~  "States Of Friction"
Paramore  ~  "In The Mourning / Landslide"
Curtis Mayfield  ~  "New World Order"
Mr. Big  ~  "To Be With You"
Everything Everything  ~  "Final Form"
Titus Andronicus  ~  "A More Perfect Union"
Modico  ~  "Ah, Establish"
Flyleaf  ~  "Justice & Mercy"
Nuell  ~  "Insure"
John Conlee  ~  "Domestic Life"
Galactic Cowboys  ~  "Sea Of Tranquility"
Ekolu  ~  "Provide For You"
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down  ~  "We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)"
Freddie Mercury  ~  "In My Defence"
Honey Wilson  ~  "Leaders Don't Promote Hate"
Dispatch  ~  "The General"
Buck Owens  & The Buckaroos  ~  "Waitin' In Your Welfare Line"
The Beatles  ~  "And I Love Her"
Indigo Girls  ~  "Secure Yourself"
Ellie Goulding  ~  "The Writer"
Laura Story  ~  "Blessings"
XTC  ~  "Statue Of Liberty"
Anberlin  ~  "We Owe This To Ourselves"
Babyface  ~  "And Our Feelings"
Soft Bullets  ~  "Posterity"
Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  "Do Everything"
Pontifex  ~  "Ordained"
Kate Bush  ~  "And Dream Of Sheep"
Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, & Frank Sinatra  ~  "The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)"
Darius Rucker  ~  "This"
The Stationary Set  ~  "Constitution Of Love"
Ray Price  ~  "For The Good Times"
Judas Priest  ~  "United"
Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "United States"
Will Hoge  ~  "Middle Of America"

Popular Songs Of 1967, Vol. 4

Last but not least, these Popular Songs Of 1967. Hope you've enjoyed this miniseries of posts at least a fraction as much as I have!  ~  JH

1)  The Monkees  ~  “Daydream Believer”

2)  The Turtles  ~  “She’d Rather Be With Me”

3)  Aretha Franklin  ~  “Baby, I Love You”

4)  Herman’s Hermits  ~  “There’s A Kind Of Hush”

5)  The Bar-Kays  ~  “Soul Finger”

6)  The Seekers  ~  “Georgy Girl”

7)  The Beatles  ~  “A Day In The Life”

8)  The Doors  ~  “People Are Strange”

9)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “I Don’t Wanna Play House”

10)  Merle Haggard  ~  “The Fugitive”

11)  Bobby Vee & The Strangers  ~  “Come Back When You Grow Up”

12)  Sandy Posey  ~  “I Take It Back”

13)  The Four Tops  ~  “Bernadette”

14)  Cream  ~  “Strange Brew”

15)  The Cowsills  ~  “The Rain, The Park, And Other Things”

16)  Neil Diamond  ~  “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon”

17)  The Association  ~  “Never, My Love”

18)  Dionne Warwick  ~  “I Say A Little Prayer”

19)  The Young Rascals  ~  “Groovin’”

20)  Sam & Dave  ~  “Soul Man”

21)  The Buckinghams  ~  “Mercy Mercy Mercy”

22)  Sonny James  ~  “I’ll Never Find Another You”

23)  The Supremes  ~  “Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone”

24)  The Tremeloes  ~  “Here Comes My Baby”

25)  The Grass Roots  ~  “Let’s Live For Today”

Popular Songs Of 1967, Vol. 3

Continuing with the Popular Songs Of 1967, here's Vol. 3 of 4. The hits just keep on coming! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Petula Clark  ~  “Don’t Sleep In The Subway”

2)  The Moody Blues  ~  “Nights In White Satin”

3)  George Jones  ~  “Walk Through This World With Me”

4)  Aretha Franklin  ~  “I Never Loved A Man”

5)  The Beatles  ~  “Hello, Goodbye”

6)  The Association  ~  “Windy”

7)  Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell  ~  “Your Precious Love”

8)  The Monkees  ~  “I’m A Believer”

9)  The Turtles  ~  “Happy Together”

10)  Lesley Gore  ~  “California Nights”

11)  The Young Rascals  ~  “How Can I Be Sure”

12)  Frankie Valli  ~  “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”

13)  Peter, Paul, And Mary  ~  “I Dig Rock And Roll Music”

14)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “I Was Made To Love Her”

15)  Johnny Rivers  ~  “Baby, I Need Your Lovin’”

16)  Sonny & Cher  ~  “The Beat Goes On”

17)  Marty Robbins  ~  “Tonight Carmen”

18)  Tommy James & The Shondells  ~  “I Think We’re Alone Now”

19)  Vikki Carr  ~  “It Must Be Him / All The Time”  (Only the first of these two songs was a 1967 hit. But they came as a package deal, so…)

20)  The Music Explosion  ~  “Little Bit O’ Soul”

21)  The Box Tops  ~  “The Letter”

22)  Martha & The Vandellas  ~  “Jimmy Mack”

23)  The Who  ~  “I Can See For Miles”

24)  Tom Jones  ~  “Green, Green Grass Of Home”

25)  The Fifth Dimension  ~  “Up, Up, And Away”