50 Years Ago This Week on the Billboard Hot 100
Aug 15, 2018 13:36:18 GMT -5
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Post by bobbo428 on Aug 15, 2018 13:36:18 GMT -5
Thirty years ago at this time, Casey was no longer hosting the classic edition of AT40. This means that only the chart from 40 years ago will be represented by a Casey countdown until July 2020. In the meantime, here was what was going on 50 years ago on the pop chart:
The Rascals jump 5-1 with "People Got to Be Free."...Unfortunately, my favorite tune at the time, Mason Williams' "Classical Gas," is pushed down to No. 3.....Steppenwolf makes an 11-4 jump with "Born to Be Wild," while Jose Feliciano soars 20-5 with his jazzy cover of "Light My Fire." Two of my other all-time favorite instrumentals, "Grazing in the Grass" and "The Horse," are still hanging in the top 30...Merilee Rush is still hanging in there as "Angel of the Morning" logs its 13th week in the top 40...Cherry People jump 68-50 with "And Suddenly, while Ray Stevens soars 78-58 with "Mr. Businessmen." Lady Soul has the highest new entry at No. 59 with "The House that Jack Built." Curiously, Aretha also has the second-highest new entry with the B-side, a cover of Dionne Warwick's "I Say a Little Prayer." The O'Kaysions enter the chart at No. 89 with "Girl Watcher," a tune that would become one of my personal favorites around the time I entered first grade, a few weeks later. Al Wilson made his bow at No. 93 with "The Snake," an eventual top-30 hit with a 1970 sound...O.C. Smith debuts at 98 with his romantic classic "Little Green Apples." The Bee Gees squeak in at 99 with what would become their first top-10 American hit, "I've Gotta Get a Message to You." Nilsson was bubbling under with "Everybody's Talking"; it would become a big hit a year and change later...
Summer 1968 was a carefree time for me--I got a lot of swimming done in various pools and lakes. I was oblivious to the turmoil going on in the world because I was only age 7.
The Rascals jump 5-1 with "People Got to Be Free."...Unfortunately, my favorite tune at the time, Mason Williams' "Classical Gas," is pushed down to No. 3.....Steppenwolf makes an 11-4 jump with "Born to Be Wild," while Jose Feliciano soars 20-5 with his jazzy cover of "Light My Fire." Two of my other all-time favorite instrumentals, "Grazing in the Grass" and "The Horse," are still hanging in the top 30...Merilee Rush is still hanging in there as "Angel of the Morning" logs its 13th week in the top 40...Cherry People jump 68-50 with "And Suddenly, while Ray Stevens soars 78-58 with "Mr. Businessmen." Lady Soul has the highest new entry at No. 59 with "The House that Jack Built." Curiously, Aretha also has the second-highest new entry with the B-side, a cover of Dionne Warwick's "I Say a Little Prayer." The O'Kaysions enter the chart at No. 89 with "Girl Watcher," a tune that would become one of my personal favorites around the time I entered first grade, a few weeks later. Al Wilson made his bow at No. 93 with "The Snake," an eventual top-30 hit with a 1970 sound...O.C. Smith debuts at 98 with his romantic classic "Little Green Apples." The Bee Gees squeak in at 99 with what would become their first top-10 American hit, "I've Gotta Get a Message to You." Nilsson was bubbling under with "Everybody's Talking"; it would become a big hit a year and change later...
Summer 1968 was a carefree time for me--I got a lot of swimming done in various pools and lakes. I was oblivious to the turmoil going on in the world because I was only age 7.