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”

Songs About Believers

I hadn’t planned on a follow-up post to yesterday’s Songs About Heathens – it just sort of came about naturally. For what it’s worth, I found twice as many good “Believer” songs as “Heathen” ones. And one group here had two hit songs with that word in their titles. Go figure! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Monkees  ~  “I’m A Believer”

2)  American Authors  ~  “Believer”

3)  twenty one pilots  ~  “Oh, Ms. Believer”

4)  Morcheeba  ~  “Make Believer”

5)  Neil Young  ~  “The Believer”

6)  Giant  ~  “I’m A Believer”

7)   Ronnie Milsap  ~  “True Believer”

8)  Chantal Kreviazuk  ~  “Believer”

9)  The Black Crowes  ~  “Walk, Believer, Walk”

10)  Bill Anderson  ~  “Liars One, Believers Zero”

11)  Christina Milian ~   “Believer”

12)  Level 42  ~  “Believers”

13)  B.B. King  ~  “Midnight Believer”

14)  Phil Keaggy  ~  “True Believers”

15)  Nanci Griffith  ~  “The Last Of The True Believers”

16)  Freemasons ft. Wynter Gordon  ~  “Believer”

17)  Darius Rucker  ~  “True Believers”

18)  The Cult  ~  “True Believers”

19)  38 Special  ~  “Stone Cold Believer”

20)  Jazzanova  ~  “Believer”

21)  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros  ~  “Dear Believer”

22)  Tonéx  ~  “Believer”

23)  Mark Chesnutt  ~  “Thank God For Believers”

24)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Believer”

25)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “Stone Believer”

26)  Michael Schenker Group  ~  “Rock & Roll Believer”

27)   The Monkees  ~  “Daydream Believer”

28)  Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius  ~  “Born Believer”

29)  Paper Lions  ~  “Believer”

30)  Sass Jordan  ~  “Make You A Believer”

Songs About Butterflies

After coming up with the idea for this post, I second-guessed myself a bit. I mean, butterflies, come on...how wussy can you get? So, this is (unofficially, at least) a two-parter. First up, Songs About Butterflies. Then later – as un-wussy a subject as I could possibly conceive – Songs About Dragons. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  a-ha  ~  “Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)”

2)  Weezer  ~  “Butterfly”

3)  Mariah Carey  ~  “Butterfly”

4)  HIM  ~  “Wings Of A Butterfly”

5)  Crazy Town  ~  “Butterfly”

6)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  “Butterfly”

7)  Noel Gallagher & Paul Weller  ~  “The Butterfly Collector”

8)  Miley Cyrus & Billy Ray Cyrus  ~  “Butterfly, Fly Away”

9)  Shinedown  ~  “The Crow & The Butterfly”

10)  Heart  ~  “Dog & Butterfly”

11)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”

12)  John Denver  ~  “Catch Another Butterfly”

13)  Joan Osborne  ~  “Baby Is A Butterfly”

14)  Bob Carlisle  ~  “Butterfly Kisses”

15)  Procol Harum  ~  “Butterfly Boy”

16)  Deniece Williams  ~  “Black Butterfly”

17)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “Butterfly Bleu”

18)  Chaka Khan  ~  “Papillon (a.k.a. Hot Butterfly)”

19)  Muse  ~  “Butterflies And Hurricanes”

20)  Dusty Springfield  ~  “Sometimes Like Butterflies”

21)  Screaming Trees  ~  “Butterfly”

22)  Mads Langer  ~  “Drunken Butterfly”

23)  Tori Amos  ~  “Sleeps With Butterflies”

24)  The Hollies  ~  “Butterfly”

25)  K’s Choice  ~  “Butterflies Instead”