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Friday, 7 August 2026

1969: We Call It a Trap

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 6   —  Young-Holt Unlimited: "Soulful Strut"   6   —  Bee Gees: "I Started a Joke"   5   —  Tommy James and the Shondel...

Peter, Paul and Mary: "Leaving on a Jet Plane"

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December 27, 1969 (1 week) "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was the final RPM number one of the sixties. Carrying over, it also happened t...
Thursday, 6 August 2026

Blood, Sweat and Tears: "And When I Die"

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December 13, 1969 (2 weeks) On April 8, 1997 the following people who are notable enough to have Wikipedia pages were born: Korean singer Ki...
Wednesday, 5 August 2026

The Beatles: "Something"

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November 15, 1969 (4 weeks) You Know I Believe — and How!: Rating the Stars of the "Something" Promo The Beatles gradually began m...
Monday, 3 August 2026

The Cuff Links: "Tracy"

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November 8, 1969 (1 week) Gosh, it's as if the bubblegum groups didn't get the memo. Then again, neither did the youngsters who kept...

Elvis Presley: "Suspicious Minds"

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October 18, 1969 (3 weeks) It had been just shy of five years since Elvis Presley last topped the Canadian charts but a great deal had chang...
Thursday, 23 July 2026

Nilsson: "Everybody's Talkin'"

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October 11, 1969 (1 week) There are numerous examples of pop songs that became hits by accident. (So numerous that I couldn't possible b...
Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Oliver: "Jean"

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October 4, 1969 (1 week) Ruining a fairly good song is one thing but what about when you aren't able to do anything with rubbish materia...

The Archies: "Sugar, Sugar"

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September 13, 1969 (3 weeks) "Sugar, Sugar" came out of The Archie Show , a late sixties Saturday morning cartoon, the first of ma...
Sunday, 19 July 2026

The Guess Who: "Laughing"

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September 6, 1969 (1 week) It had been over four years since the group that had now fully committed to their alter ego last appeared at the ...
Saturday, 18 July 2026

Motherlode: "When I Die"

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August 23, 1969 (2 week) 'Toronto Soul' doesn't have a great ring to it (plus, it isn't accurate). 'London Soul' sou...
Tuesday, 14 July 2026

Andy Kim: "Baby, I Love You"

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August 9, 1969 (2 weeks) One of the key differences between the British Invasion and the Canadian Invasion is that the latter wasn't sim...
Monday, 13 July 2026

Zager and Evans: "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)"

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August 2, 1969 (1 week) Bassist Colin Moulding of XTC once described his eccentric recording "What in the World??..." as being ...
Saturday, 11 July 2026

Tommy James and the Shondells: "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

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July 28, 1969 (1 week) There is only about twenty seconds left in the running time of "Crystal Blue Persuasion" when it finally co...
Friday, 10 July 2026

Blood, Sweat and Tears: "Spinning Wheel"

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July 7, 1969 (3 weeks) "What goes up, must come down..." It was good of Blood, Sweat and Tears to look ahead to their eventual dem...