Top 25 Hits of 1968
The Year is 1968…a Leap Year, The Green Bay Packers win the Super Bowl; U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In debuts; The Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam; Ex-Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem; U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the ASCII character encoding; Congress of the United States repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency; Joan Baez marries activist David Harris; Planet of the Apes is released in theaters; Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada’s 15th Prime Minister; The Beatles announce the creation of Apple Records in New York; Manchester United wins the European Cup Final; U.S. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; Mattel’s Hot Wheels toy cars are introduced; Detroit Tigers win the World Series; Led Zeppelin makes their first live performance; Yale University announces it is going to admit women; The Beatles release their self-titled album popularly known as the White Album; Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole;…
…and these songs were being spun by DJ’s all over the World…
TAZ’s Top 25 Hits of 1968
The Rascals People – Got to be Free
The Rolling Stones – Jumpin Jack Flash
The Grass Roots – Midnight Confessions
Tommy James And The Shondells – Mony Mony
The Beatles- Hey Jude
Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson
The Doors – Hello, I Love You
Aretha Franklin – Think
First Edition – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – The Look Of Love
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap – Lady Willpower
John Fred & His Playboy Band – Judy In Disguise
The Who – Magic Bus
Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Richard Harris – MacArthur Park
People – I Love You
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride
The Human Beinz – Nobody But Me
Spirit – I Got A Line On You
Cream – White Room
The Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today
Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn
Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company – Piece of my heart
American Breed – Bend Me Shape Me
( Bonus 26th ) The Turtles – Elenore
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Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s
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also our number-one hit collections:
Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s
also our hit collections:
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100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999
Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists
Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three
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