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Plethora of Pop’s Rate-A-Record
55 Years Before A Wedding
1969 and Love for my daughter
Five days before my younger daughter gets married, I should be doing many things related to it, yet here I sit thinking about a new edition of Rate-A-Record and the year 1969. How little I knew; how much I listened to the music that truly made me whatever it is that I am!
In that summer of moon landings, bad moon risings, and Manson families; of Woodstock, the Summer of Soul, and my soon-to-be entry into 8th grade, how could I possibly know that…
“Sugar Sugar” would end up at #1 on Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 songs? It beat out #2, “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” and #3, “I Can’t Get Next to You.”
Over on the Soul/R&B charts, Jr. Walker & the All-Stars’ “What Does It Take (to win your love)” was #1 for ’69 (#20 Pop), and since it’s of the right theme, let’s go ahead and do some ratin’:
My daughter and soon-to-be son-in law have answered that question for themselves, and we’re all so happy over here. Compared…