Artist	Song
The Doors	Break On Through (To the Other Side) (1967)
The Beach Boys	Surfin' Safari (1962 #14)
Chuck Berry	Sweet Little Sixteen (1958 #2)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets	Oh, Boy! (1958 #10)
Dave Clark Five	Glad All Over (1964 #6)
Elvis Presley	Blue Suede Shoes (1956 #20)
Dion & The Belmonts	I Wonder Why (1958 #22)
The Pointer Sisters	Yes We Can Can (1973 #11)
James Brown	Please, Please, Please (1963)
Three Dog Night	One (1969 #5)
The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man (1965 #1)
Bruce Springsteen	Blinded by the Light (1975)
Dire Straits	Down to the Waterline (1979)
Elvis Costello	Welcome to the Working Week (1977)
Cat Stevens	Matthew And Son (1971)
Queen	Keep Yourself Alive (1973)
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band	Cool Brittania (1967)
Neil Diamond	Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon (1967 #10)
B.J. Thomas	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (1966 #8)
Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade of Pale (1967 #5)
Crosby, Stills & Nash	Suite Judy Blue Eyes (1969 #21)
Traffic	Heaven is In Your Mind (1968)
Billy Joel	She's Got A Way (1971)
Bobby Vee	Devil Or Angel (1960 #6)
The Fleetwoods	Mr. Blue (1959 #1)
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap	Over You (1968 #7)

Comment:

I want to thank April 20 for inspiring me to tackle this project with his The First Thing You Hear: Side 1, Track 1 that he posted on 6/23/2007, but I just recently discovered. I had the idea of doing a similar mix over a year ago, using a track by a given group off their first album, but not necessarily the first track. This one that I came up with uses only the first track off the given artist's first album.I started off with a list of 147 albums and, because I'd used the first song on 33 of them in previous mixes, ended up with 114 albums. From that I distilled this mix, using less than 1/4 of the remaining songs. For those of you who don't like to see a mix with more than one track per artist, this mix is for you (due to the very nature of this mix I can't use more than one track per artist). For the ten songs used that didn't have a single that charted in the top Billboard 100, the years given are when the LP itself was in the charts. The rest have the year when the single peaked (and is not necessarily the same year as the LP). Of the 16 songs that had singles charting, the average number on the charts came out to 9.31. The average year of all the songs in this mix is somewhere in the middle of 1966, with the mean between the oldest song from 1956 and the newest from 1979, at the crossroads between 1967 & 1968.I decided to include a picture of James Brown because, although I'm not a huge fan, I like the song of his included here as track 9 a whole lot.<!-- -->

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