My Lost On A Desert Island music collection would have 22 songs from 1969 on it, 4 by The Beatles, all from Abbey Road. Original Beatles songs are not available as videos on YouTube so I cannot provide any links to such videos. I leave it to you to search out Beatles videos or simply put on your own music and start singing! Here are the 4 from 1969:
- Come Together
- Something
- Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
- Here Comes The Sun
Following are the other 18 songs from 1969 that I would take with me if there were a possibility of being lost on a desert island.
A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash
#2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Johnny Cash’s only Top 10 hit
And When I Die by Blood, Sweat & Tears
#2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Cold Turkey by Plastic Ono Band
#30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Cotton Fields by Creedence Clearwater Revival
A non-charting single released in 1982
Day Is Done by Peter, Paul & Mary
#21 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Dear Diary by The Moody Blues
From the album On The Threshold Of A Dream
Honky Tonky Women by The Rolling Stones
#1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Kept Johnny Cash from having a #1 hit
I Can Hear Music by The Beach Boys
#24 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
One of my favorite songs by The Beach Boys
In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) by Zager & Evans
#1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Probably my favorite song from 1969
Laughing by The Guess Who
#10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Lazy Day by The Moody Blues
From the album On The Threshold Of A Dream
Make Your Own Kind Of Music by Mama Cass Elliot
#36 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Marrakesh Express by Crosby Stills & Nash
#28 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Pinball Wizard by The Who
#19 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Other than chess and 42, I have never been much of a games person.
I did, however, play a lot of pinball at the Dixie Chicken during my college days at Texas A&M University, 1973-1977.
Sugar, Sugar by The Archies
#1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
And they weren’t even a real group!
Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
#4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Probably my favorite song by Neil Diamond
These Eyes by The Guess Who
#6 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Their first Top 10 hit in the United States.
Undun by The Guess Who
#22 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
