Mel’s Top 100 Hits of 1969

 Get Back is My Favorite Song of 1969

I was only 12 back in 1969. The biggest event of that year was the manned landing on the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins. 

Music wise 1969 was another year of great rock and pop music that wrapped the decade of the 1960s up. We had some great big classic hits by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many others.

In retrospect my favorite songs from 1969 are those by The Beatles. My #1 song of the year is "Get Back" and I list it with its 45 rpm B-side "Don't Let Me Down". My #2 song of the year is another Beatles song that was never released as a single. It is George Harrison's greatest song of all time... "Here Comes The Sun" from the Abbey Road album. He also showed up with The Beatles at #12 with "Something". John Lennon had Beatles tracks on my top 100 with "The Ballad of John & Yoko" at #9, "Come Together" at #21 and his first solo track, "Give Peace a Chance" at #58, which is shown on the record's label at John Lennon / The Plastic Ono Band. 

The Rolling Stones had a couple of big hits in 1969, with my favorite being "Honky Tonk Woman" at #3 for the year.

Several songs in my Top 100 of 1969 were not in the Billboard Top 100 of 1969. They include It's a Beautiful Day's "White Bird" at #4, The Youngbloods' "Get Together" at #11 (originally released in 1967), and "The Boxer" and "Baby Driver" 45 from Simon & Garfunkel. Several other songs that did not score high enough on the year end Billboard Chart of 1969 made this chart.

All of the songs on this chart can be streamed on my Spotify playlist. The Top 100 Hits of 1969 list is posted below. Enjoy!

Rank	Title	Artist
1	Get Back / Don't Let Me Down	The Beatles
2	Here Comes The Sun	The Beatles
3	Honky Tonk Women	The Rolling Stones
4	White Bird	It's A Beautiful Day
5	In the Year 2525	Zager & Evans
6	One	Three Dog Night
7	Crimson and Clover (album version)	Tommy James and the Shondells
8	Bad Moon Rising / Lodi	Creedence Clearwater Revival
9	The Ballad of John & Yoko / Old Brown Shoe	The Beatles
10	Time of the Season	The Zombies
11	Get Together	The Youngbloods
12	Something	The Beatles
13	Everyday People	Sly and the Family Stone
14	Fortunate Son / Down on the Corner	Creedence Clearwater Revival
15	Dizzy	Tommy Roe
16	Hair	The Cowsills
17	Crystal Blue Persuasion	Tommy James and the Shondells
18	Green River / Commotion	Creedence Clearwater Revival
19	Eli's Coming	Three Dog Night
20	I Heard It Through the Grapevine	Marvin Gaye
21	Come Together	The Beatles
22	Proud Mary / Born on the Bayou	Creedence Clearwater Revival
23	Love (Can Make You Happy)	Mercy
24	Suspicious Minds	Elvis Presley
25	Put a Little Love in Your Heart	Jackie DeShannon
26	Someday, We'll Be Together	Diana Ross & The Supremes
27	It's Your Thing	The Isley Brothers
28	Sugar, Sugar	The Archies
29	These Eyes	The Guess Who
30	Sympathy for the Devil	The Rolling Stones
31	Hawaii Five-O	The Ventures
32	Touch Me	The Doors
33	Lay Lady Lay	Bob Dylan
34	Easy to Be Hard	Three Dog Night
35	Hot Fun in the Summertime	Sly and the Family Stone
36	Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye	Steam
37	A Boy Named Sue	Johnny Cash
38	Soul Deep	The Box Tops
39	Time Is Tight	Booker T. & the M.G.'s
40	More Today Than Yesterday	Spiral Starecase
41	Sugar on Sunday	The Clique
42	Spinning Wheel	Blood, Sweat & Tears
43	The Boxer / Baby Driver	Simon & Garfunkel
44	Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin
45	Marakesh Express / Helplessly Hoping	Crosby, Stills & Nash
46	Atlantis	Donovan
47	Laughing	The Guess Who
48	I'd Wait a Million Years	The Grass Roots
49	I Can Hear Music	The Beach Boys
50	My Cherie Amour	Stevie Wonder
51	What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)	Jr. Walker & The All Stars
52	You've Made Me So Very Happy	Blood, Sweat & Tears
53	You Showed Me	The Turtles
54	Smile a Little Smile for Me	The Flying Machine
55	Traces	Classics IV
56	Ramblin' Gamblin' Man	Bob Seger System
57	Tell All The People	The Doors
58	Give Peace A Chance	John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band
59	Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town	Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
60	Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In	The 5th Dimension
61	Backfield in Motion	Mel and Tim
62	I Can't Get Next to You	The Temptations
63	Wishful Sinful	The Doors
64	Build Me Up Buttercup	The Foundations
65	This Magic Moment	Jay and the Americans
66	Maxwell's Silver Hammer	The Beatles
67	In the Ghetto	Elvis Presley
68	Everybody's Talkin'	Harry Nilsson
69	Baby It's You	Smith
70	The River is Wide	The Grass Roots
71	Too Busy Thinking About My Baby	Marvin Gaye
72	Good Morning Starshine	Oliver
73	Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'	Crazy Elephant
74	Wedding Bell Blues	The 5th Dimension
75	It's Getting Better	Mama Cass Elliot
76	Sweet Caroline	Neil Diamond
77	Games People Play	Joe South
78	Baby, Baby Don't Cry	The Miracles
79	Take A Letter Maria	R.B. Greaves
80	Israelites	Desmond Decker & The Aces
81	Jingle Jangle	The Archies
82	Galveston	Glen Campbell
83	Undun	The Guess Who
84	Octopus's Garden	The Beatles
85	Goodbye	Mary Hopkin
86	I'm Gonna Make You Love Me	The Supremes & The Temptations
87	Bella Linda	The Grass Roots
88	That's the Way Love Is	Marvin Gaye
89	Hooked on a Feeling	B.J. Thomas
90	This Girl Is a Woman Now	Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
91	Only The Strong Survive	Jerry Butler
92	Ruben James	Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
93	Time Machine	Grand Funk Railroad
94	Try A Little Tenderness	Three Dog Night
95	Baby, I Love You	Andy Kim
96	Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon	Paul Revere & the Raiders
97	Can I Change My Mind	Tyronne Davis
98	Gitarzan	Ray Stevens
99	Grazing in the Grass	The Friends of Distinction
100	Keem-O-Sabe	Electric Indian