Other Mixes By RetroJoe
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Going Out Like a Lion
(The End of the '60s)
| Artist | Song | |
| Bill Deal & The Rhondels |
May I (#39) 
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| Spirit | I Got a Line on You (#25) | |
| The Turtles | You Showed Me (#6) | |
| Booker T. & The MG's | Hang 'em High (Instrumental) (#9) | |
| Cream | Crossroads (#28) | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Proud Mary (#2) | |
| 1910 Fruitgum Company | Indian Giver (#5) | |
| The Box Tops | Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March (#28) | |
| Brooklyn Bridge | Worst That Could Happen (#3) | |
| Dusty Springfield | Son Of A Preacher Man (#10) | |
| Tammy Wynette | Stand By Your Man (#19) | |
| Classics IV | Traces (#2) | |
| Dionne Warwick | This Girl's In Love With You (#7) | |
| Mercy | Love (Can Make You Happy) (#2) | |
| Frank Sinatra | My way (#27) | |
| Peter, Paul & Mary | Day Is Done (#21) | |
| The 5th Dimension | Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) (#1) | |
| The Cowsills | Hair (#2) | |
| Young-Holt Unlimited | Who's Making Love (Instrumental) (#57) | |
| Steppenwolf | Rock Me (#10) | |
| The Beach Boys | I Can Hear Music (#24) | |
| Cream | Badge (#60) | |
| The Guess Who | These Eyes (#6) | |
| Donovan | Atlantis (#7) | |
Comment:
The first two songs debuted in 1969 on Jan. the 18th and peaked in the top 40, but they should have done better.The first song was originally recorded in 1965 by Maurice Williams (when it didn't reach the top 100 charts). Also, on that first song, the group was all white and based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The song sounds like it should have been on the R&B charts, but it wasn't.Cream, with Eric Clapton, takes the spot of being the only artist to be featured more than once on the same mix.This mix is kind of in two parts; I made the first part (thru track 13) after looking at chart dates for just one day, february 8th of this year (1969). The second half are primary rated songs for 6 weeks and 12 weeks after that date.One thing that I should have paid attention to before making this mix was the fact that Led Zeppelin issued their first LP on January 12th of this year (1969). If that fact had hit me earlier I might have considered using their first top 100 hit "Good Times Bad Times" (placing it perhaps just before track 20). Well, I've been listening to this mix while typing these remarks, and frankly, I'm satisfied. This was a great year and I think that this may be my last mix for that year; unfortunately (unless I do one of just leftovers).As usual, the mix is available for download by clicking on the first song title link. Oh, yeah, almost forgot... Yes,,, '69 was Divine!
Feedback:
Go Joe! 6-9 is my fave stretch here but yip it's all divine!
lets hear it for 9,10,13, and 23.
This is back when I was in my prime and I love it all-except the Frank who I adore but not that song.
Yeah, thanks Terry... I hear that Frankie eventually grew to hate that song quite a bit. Probably because he became so identified with it even though he didn't rate it very high. The English lyrics to the song were written by Paul Anka by the way (the melody came from the French song Comme d'habitude).
Let's see...2-7,9-13,17-21 and 23-24 are all brilliant choices, the others are only great. More stuff that I feel like I should be listening to through a single white plastic earplug and a transister radio.
a great lookin' miz.
Fan-flamin'-tastic. You've got to be due a MotW...
Love it all but the closing 5 are exceptional!
Great compilation.