Top 20 ‘Count-Up’ from the Summer of Love

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This summer, we’ve celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love in many different ways, with shows dedicated to album tracks, relevant singles, the Monterey Pop Festival and of course, an entire show dedicated to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” While prepping for today’s show, I happened to be reviewing the singles chart from July 29, 1967, and I realized that we already covered a good number of these songs, but the remainder also seemed significant. To paint an accurate picture, we decided that we could “count up” (i.e., start with #1) the singles chart, playing each of the songs we neglected in previous coverage. If you wish to hear the songs we DON’T play in the course of today’s show, just peruse through our previous shows and you’re sure to find them.
Below is a copy of the top 20 from 7/29/67. Song titles in bold type are featured in today’s program;
1) Light My Fire – The Doors
2) I Was Made to Love Her – Stevie Wonder
3) Windy – The Association
4) Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You – Frankie Valli
5) A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procul Harum
6) Little Bit O’ Soul – Music Explosion
7) Mercy, Mercy, Mercy – The Buckinghams
8) White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
9) Up, Up, and Away – The 5th Dimension
10) C’mon Marianne – The Four Seasons
11) San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) – Scott McKenzie
12) I Take It Back – Sandy Posey
13) Come On Down to My Boat – Every Mother’s Son
14) Jackson – Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
15) Here We Go Again – Ray Charles
16) Carrie Ann – The Hollies
17) Silence Is Golden – The Tremeloes
18) Soul Finger – The Bar-Kays
19) A Girl Like You – The Young Rascals
20) There Goes My Everything – Engelbert Humperdinck