UK Number One Singles Of 1969. Pick Your Favourites.

I've neglected my homeland for too long. This is all the UK number ones of 1969. Not a bad year, is it?

Pick as many as you like.

1969263Marmalade"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"1 January 19691reThe Scaffold"Lily the Pink"8 January 19691reMarmalade"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"15 January 19692264Fleetwood Mac"Albatross"29 January 19691265The Move"Blackberry Way"5 February 19691266Amen Corner"(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice"12 February 19692267Peter Sarstedt"Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"26 February 19694268Marvin Gaye"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"26 March 19693269Desmond Dekker &The Aces"Israelites"16 April 19691270The Beatles with Billy Preston"Get Back"23 April 19696271Tommy Roe"Dizzy"4 June 19691272The Beatles"The Ballad of John and Yoko"11 June 19693273Thunderclap Newman"Something in the Air"2 July 19693274The Rolling Stones"Honky Tonk Women"23 July 19695275Zager and Evans"In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)"30 August 19693276Creedence Clearwater Revival"Bad Moon Rising"20 September 19693277Jane Birkin andSerge Gainsbourg"Je t'aime... moi non plus"11 October 19691278Bobbie Gentry"I'll Never Fall in Love Again"18 October 19691279The Archies"Sugar, Sugar" †25 October 19698280Rolf Harris"Two Little Boys"20 December 19696

 

Here's the US number ones of 1969.


January 4 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
January 11
January 18
January 25
February 1 "Crimson and Clover" Tommy James and the Shondells
February 8
February 15 "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone
February 22
March 1
March 8
March 15 "Dizzy" Tommy Roe
March 22
March 29
April 5
April 12 "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" The 5th Dimension
April 19
April 26
May 3
May 10
May 17
May 24 "Get Back" The Beatles with Billy Preston
May 31
June 7
June 14
June 21
June 28 "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" Henry Mancini
July 5
July 12 "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" Zager and Evans
July 19
July 26
August 2
August 9
August 16
August 23 "Honky Tonk Women" The Rolling Stones
August 30
September 6
September 13
September 20 "Sugar, Sugar" The Archies
September 27
October 4
October 11
October 18 "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations
October 25
November 1 "Suspicious Minds" Elvis Presley
November 8 "Wedding Bell Blues" The 5th Dimension
November 15
November 22
November 29 "Come Together" / "Something" The Beatles
December 6 "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" Steam
December 13
December 20 "Leaving on a Jet Plane" Peter, Paul and Mary
December 27 "Someday We'll Be Together" Diana Ross & the Supremes

 

i am truly amazed at how many of those songs i have not heard.

 

You took my tip Bobby( your learning)!!!

 

Really? I wasn't listening to the radio then but I know all these well somehow. Guess some of them didn't 'cross over' to the States.

 

It was time.

I actually prefer our top hits of '69 to the US list..

 

Probably the best year ever for number one hits. I voted for everything except the first 2 and the last one.

 

Voted 6, could have been nine I don't mind, I don't mind.

 

What's cashbox /billboard version ?

 

I always use the Billboard charts for my polls.

 

68' was brill as well, if I recall.

 

It was. I nearly did that one.

 

Meant to say 1967.
A few hits that year.

 

lots of great singles, prefer the US charts in this instance. na na hey hey kiss him goodbye

 

The Bananarama version was better.

 

Sexier ..I think that's what you meant

 

Fleetwood, Thunderclap, Stones, CCR

 

Wasn't Sugar Sugar Billboard's number one for the entire year ? It's among those I voted for and a very embarrassing revelation.

Just checked...YES it was !

Top 100 Songs of 1969 - Billboard Year End Charts »

Seeing those Archie girls dancing to the tune is pretty darn sexy.

 

Some great songs: Grapevine, Israelites, Get Back, Ballad and Honky Tonk.

2525 goes under the "guilty pleasures" category.

 

Poor old Rolf, down at the bottom.

Though maybe that's where he likes to be.

 

Now come on. I don't want any of that Carry On stuff in my polls.

 

OK, back on track, I voted -

Sarstedt (A guilty pleasure of mine)
Gaye
Beatles (with Preston)
Beatles

 

I'm assuming the ones that are polling low didn't do very well in America. Staggering to think they missed out on Lily The Pink. I also thought that Sarstedt song would have been a hit everywhere.

Stones and the Beatles are neck and neck. It'll end in tears.

 

Surprised no one's made a apocalyptical movie with the title 2525.

 

Blackberry Way - The Move
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Israelites - Desmond Dekker & the Aces

Those are the three classics imo, love those three.