US #1s of 1968

Dock Of The Bay, people.

every great year has a bobby goldsboro...

...whose "Honey" is still at least ten times as good as the Beatles' worst single ever.

out of these i'm probably happiest when "grazin" or "tighten up" comes on the radio...

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The thing is if I vote against "grapevine" it's only because I burned out on it. but I remember first getting floored by it back in high school, just freaking out: this is the greatest singer ever, greatest arrangement ever, etc etc. I felt that way about a number of Supremes songs at various points that year but not "Love Child." "green tambourine" is amazing too but at the end of the day "grapevine" is stronger than its big chillification/california raisination.

time to drag out the grapevine acappella I think

Lots of great records here, but Marvin is the man and "Grapevine" may be his greatest single performance. So . . .

which one of these is best to do karaoke to?

i have only ever done jeannie c. riley this way

"hello, i love you" could be pretty wild

Robert Smith pulled it off.

"Tighten Up", by a whisker over "Love Child".

Dock of the Bay came on an oldies station this weekend and stole my vote from the Grazing/Grapevine knockdown. Something incredible about pairing the beauty of the music and mastery of Otis's voice (every line has its own choice, surprising but perfect inflection) with the hopelessness of the lyric.

See the tree. how big it's grown

I voted Mrs Robinson.

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wow! lots of closeted s&g fans here, apparently.

Was listening to "People Got to Be Free" (0 votes) the other day and noticed that you can take it either as a leftist anthem or a rightist one. Wondered how people took it when it came out at the height of the Vietnam War debate. Too bad the Rascals got nothing here; their string of singles 1967 to 69 is pretty astonishing to my ears.

Wow. I don't hear what y'all do in "Green Tambourine." The rest, though.

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Aw bump Tighten up a notch wontcha.