The Yearly GELT's TOP 1965-1969

1969
Artist of the year : The Rolling Stones
1969 remains undoubtedly a significant year in the stellar career of the Rolling Stones. The group once imagined to have been disrupted since the death of Brian Jones acquires quite the contrary a global fame. It has been said that they took opportunely advantage of the expected disbandment of the Beatles but admittedly, they won a decisive round in the small squabble involving fans from both sides. Their tour starting in November in the USA will certainly result in a financial failure but its aftermath was to have for good introduced the group into the legend. With two first-rate hits such as Honky Tonk Women and Gimme Shelter, the British band gains a maturity which will also mold the main ingredients of its hallmark: inventive intros, punchy drums, tremendous stage presence and a stack of key songs.

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#
Artist
Title
CT
VIDEO
 1 
The Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
 2 
The Beatles 
Get Back
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
3
5th Dimension
Aquarius
(James Rado/Gerome Ragni/Galt McDermot)
4
Elvis Presley
In The Ghetto
(Mac Davis)
5
The Rolling Stones
Honky Tonk Women
(Keith Richards/Mick Jagger)
6
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
(Neil Diamond)
7
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Proud Mary, (Rolling On The River)
(John Fogerty)
8
The Hollies
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
(Bobby Scott/Bob Russell)
To my everliving brother, once left to harvest the stars
9
The Beatles
Come Together
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
10
The Youngbloods
Get Together
(Chet Powers, 1964)
11
Bobbie Gentry
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)
12
The Archies
Sugar Sugar
(Jeff Bary/Andy Kim)
13
Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
(Paul Simon)
14
Shocking Blue
Venus
(Robbie Van Leeuwen)

15
Elvis Presley
Don't Cry Daddy
(Scott Davis)
16
Stevie Wonder
My Cherie Amour
(Stevie Wonder)
17
The Guess Who
These Eyes
(Randy Bachman/Burton Cummings)

18
Zager & Evans
In The Year 2525
(Rick Evans, 1964)
19
Harry Nilsson
Everybody's talkin'
(Fred Neil, 1966)
20
Tommy James & The Shondells
Crystal Blue Persuasion
(Eddy Gray/Tommy James/Mick Vale)
21
The Marmalade
Reflections Of My Life
(Junior Campbell/Dean Ford)
22
The Bee Gees
I Started A Joke
(Barry Gibb/Maurice Gibb)

23
Led Zeppelin
Whole Lotta Love
(Jimmy Page/Robert Plant)
24
The Grass Roots
I'd Wait A Million Years
(Gary Zekley/Mitchell Bottler)
25
The Allman Brothers Band
Whipping Post
(Gregg Allman)
26
Three Dog Night
Easy To Be Hard
(James Rado/Gerome Ragni/Galt McDermot)
27
The Beatles 
Something
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
28
Johnny Cash
A Boy Named Sue
(Shel Siverstein)
29
David Bowie
Space Oddity
(David Bowie)
30
Blood, Sweat & Tears
You've Made Me So Very Happy
(Brenda Holloway/Patrice Holloway/Frank Wilson/Berry Gordy)
31
The Temptations
Runaway Child,  Running Wild
(Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong)
32
Kenny Rogers
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
(Mel Tillis, 1966)

33
Jr. Walker & The All Stars
What Does It Take (T o Win Your Love)
(Johnny Bristol/Harvey Fuqua/Vernon Bullock)
34
Vanity Fare
Early In the Morning
(Edward Seago/Mike Leander)
35
The Friends Of Distinction
Going In Circles
(Jerry Peters/Anita Poree)
36
Chicago Transit Authority
I'm A Man
(Steve Winwood/Jimmy Miller, 1967)
37
Classic IV
Traces feat. Dennis Yost
(Buddy Buie/Emory Gordy/James Cobb)
38
The Wallace Collection
Daydream
(Raymond Vincent/Sylvain Van Holme/David McKay)

39
Robert Charlebois & Louise Forestier
Lindberg
(Robert Charlebois/Claude Peloquin)

40
The Winstons
Color Him Father
(Richard Spencer)


1968


Artist of the Year: Aretha Franklin
All in all nothing less atypical than the life of Aretha Franklin before her to  become the “Queen of Soul”. Born in Memphis but raised in Detroit, she sings with her sisters in the church choir of her father, a renown  Baptist minister. Aretha makes her first recordings at the age 14, when she gives birth to her first son. This does not prevent her from starting the musical career thanks to the support of John C. Hammond, legendary talent scout. She signs with Columbia a first contract but jazz record in which she is confined does not suit her and debuts are not convincing. After leaving Columbia in 1967 for Atlantic, she releases the same year  I Never Loved has Man (The Way I Love You), an album that will enable her to win two Grammy Awards. In 1968, she is already at the height of her fame. Her warm and powerful voice commands the respect and admiration, making her a brilliant representative of the African American community outside the US. 



#
Artist
Title
CT
VIDEO
 1 
The Beatles
Hey Jude
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

 2 
The Rolling Stones
Jumpin' Jack Flash
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSGw0hMd_I
 3 
Deep Purple
Hush
(Joe South)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1PNvopXjbg
 4 
Steppenwolf
Born To Be Wild
(Mars Bonfire)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbATaj7Il8
 5 
Canned Heat
On The Road Again
(Floyd Jones/Alan Wilson)

 6 
Otis Redding
(Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay
(Otis Redding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug
 7 
Classic IV
Stormy
(Buddy Buie/James Cobb)

8
Simon & Garfunkel
Mrs Robinson
(Paul Simon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4QB1bkL3g&list=RDNY4QB1bkL3g#t=17
9
Donovan
Hurdy Gurdy Man
(Donovan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHV8Wzldlck
 10 
Richard Harris
MacArthur Park
(Jimmy Webb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY
11
Classic IV
Spooky
(Buddy Buie/James Cobb/Harry Middlebrooks/James Sharpe)

12
Bobby Goldsboro
Honey
(Bobby Russell)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BZxgohr9g
 13 
Barry Ryan
Eloise
(Paul Ryan)

14
The Turtles
Elenore
(John Barbata/Howard Kayulan/Al Nichol/Jim Pons/Mark Volman)

15
The Beatles
Lady Madonna
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

16
The Doors
Hello I Love You
(Jim Morrison/Robby Krieger/Ray Manzarek/Johnh Densmore)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1huRuo6Wj0
 17 
Aretha Franklin
Think
(Aretha Franklin/Red White)

18
Cream
Sunshine Of Your Love
(Jack Bruce/Eric Clapton)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt51rITH3EA
19
Marvin Gaye
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
(Norman Whitfiled/Barrett Strong)

 20 
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Susie Q
(Dale Hawkins)

21
Tom Jones
Delilah
(Barry Mason/Sylvan Wittingham/Les Reed

22
Sly & The Family Stone
Dance To The Music
(Sly Stone)

23
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
All Along The Watchtower
(Jimi Hendrix)

24
David McWilliams
The Days Of Pearly Spencer
(David McWilliams)

 25 
Aretha Franklin
I Say A Little Prayer For You
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)

 26 
Ohio Express
Yummy Yummy Yummy
(Arthur Resnick/Joey Levine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtME-3rcP4
27
Jacky
White Horses
(Ben Nisbet/Michael Carr)

28
Tommy James & The Shondells
Mony Mony
(Tommy James/Bo Gentry/Ritchie Cordell/Bobby Bloom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwvpRbm0P5c
 29 
The Delfonics
La-La (Means I Love You)
(Thom Bell/William Hart)

30
Aphrodite's Child
Rain And Tears
(Joahnn Pachelbel/Boris Bergman/Vangelis)

31
Herb Alpert
This Guy's In Love With You
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)

32
Clarence Carter
Slip Away 
(Clarence Carter)

33
 Les Irresistibles
 My Year Is A Day
(Tom Arena/William Sheller)

34
Dion
Abraham, Martin & John
(Dick Holler)

35
Glen Campbell
The Wichita Lineman
(Jimmy Webb)
36
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Love Child
(Deke Richards/Frank Wilson/Pam Sawyer/R. Dean Taylor)

37
Mary Hopkin
Those Were The Days
(Boris Fomin/Gene Raskin)

38
People 
I Love You
(Chris White, 1965)

 39 
The Rolling Stones
Street Fighting Man
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

 40 
The Amboy Dukes
Journey To The Center Of The Mind
(Steve Farmer)


1967

Artist of the year : Bobbie Gentry
When Bobbie Gentry began writing her Ode To Billie Joe, referring to far images from her childhood in the Deep South, she certainly did not imagine to tell a story that would trigger any number of articles to become perhaps one of the most haunting songs of the last century. The slow rhythmic  and repetitive music amplifies even more the lyrics that they clearly depict possible circumstances drawn from an autobiographical  background. But if this narrative is not different from news items  happening unfortunately someplace else, it is there seen from the inside, making the listener a true witness, raising questions without giving answers. This tragedy is under Bobbie Gentry’s pen strangely displayed like a slice of life emphazising all cynicism and indifference prevailing in this farmers family as shown by the detached tone of the protagonists, seemingly hardly moved by that their young neighbor’s doom. Remains the relater herself, directly involved in this sad affair but stubbornly silent, having no choice but to hide for ever the truth about what led the boy with whom she had undoubtedly close relationships to jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Nobody would subsequently ever know what happened the day before the 3rd of June near Choctaw Ridge or what was by the way the “something”  the young couple threw in the river. This incidental event that should have never made ​​a paragraph in the Delta newspapers since has never stopped arousing the most expected as the craziest assumptions.



#
Artist
Title
CT
VIDEO
 1 
Bobbie Gentry
Ode To Billie Joe
(Bobbie Gentry)

 2 
The Turtles
Happy Together
(Gary Bonner/Alan Gordon)

 3 
The Beatles
Strawberry Fields For Ever
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

 4 
The Boxtops
The Letter
(Wayne Carson Thompson)

 5 
The Moody Blues
Nights In White Satin
(Justin Hayward)

 6 
Nancy Sinatra
You Only Live Twice
(John Barry/Leslie Bricusse)

 7 
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
(Bob Crewe/Bob Gaudio)

 8 
Buffalo Springfiled
For What It's Worth
(Stephen Stills)

 9 
The Beatles
A Day In The Life
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

10
5th Dimension
Up, Up And Away
(Jimmy Webb)

11
Peter, Paul & Mary
I Dig Rock & Roll Music
(Paul Stooket/James Mason/Dave Dixon)

12
The Bee Gees
Massachusetts
(Barrry Gibb/Robin Gibb/Maurice Gibb)

 13 
The Doors
Light My Fire
(The Doors)

 14 
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hey Joe
(Jimi Hendrix)

15
The Rolling Stones
Let's Spend The Night Together
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

16
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
(Nickolas Ashford/Valerie Simpson)

 17 
Lesley Gore
California Nights
(Marvin Hamlisch/Howard Liebling)

18
Dionne Warwick
I Say A Little Prayer For You
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)

19
Sonny & Cher
The Beat Goes On
(Sonny Bono)

20
The Monkees
Daydream Believer
(John Stewart)

 21 
The Beatles
Penny Lane
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

22
Procol Harum
A Whiter Shade Of Pale
(Gary Brooker/Keith Reid/Matthew Fisher)

23
The Rolling Stones
Ruby Tuesday
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

24
The Who
I Can See See For Miles
(Pete Townsend)

25
The Beatles
Hello Goodbye
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

26
Aretha Franklin
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
(Otis Redding, 1965)

27
The Beach Boys
Then I Kissed Her
(Brian Wilson)

 28 
The Cowsills
The Rain, The Park & Other Things
(Artie Kornfield/Steve Duboff)

 29 
Cat Stevens
Matthew & Son
(Cat Stevens)

30
Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra
Somethin' Stupid
(C. Carson Parks)

31
The Association
Never My Love
(Donald Addrisi/Richard Addris)

32
Jacques Brel
Jacky
(Jacques Brel/Gerard Jouannest)

33
The Four Tops
Bernadette
(Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier)

34
Scott McKenzie
San Francisco
(John Phillips)

35
The Mamas & The Papas
Creeque Alley
(John Phillips/Michelle Phillips)

 36 
The Buckinghams
Don't You Care
(Jim Holvay)

37
Manfred Mann
Ha, Ha, Said The Clown
(Tony Hazzard)

 38 
Pink Floyd
Arnold Layne
(Syd Barrett)

 39 
Donovan
Sunshine Superman
(Donovan)

40
The Young Rascals
Groovin'
(Felix Cavaliere/Eddie Brigati)


1966

Artist of the year : The Mamas And The Papas

Cass and Michelle, the two girls in the group having chosen to be called the Mamas, both boys John and Denny opted for the Papas. Thus, in Los Angeles were born The Mamas & The Papas. Formed in 1965 in the folk movement of the early 60s, the debuts were however not easy for the quartet. John Phillips, the leader of the group who wrote the songs was also the husband of Michelle and adapted rather badly Cass’s presence, blaming her bass voice and judging her physically improper to make stage. It was however her and Denny who, inspired by contemporary pop including The Beatles were the most capable of guiding the group in a more consistent style to the contemporary taste. After a first single without real success, the band releases its first album in February 1966 from which is extracted the single Monday, Monday, ranking # 1 in the U.S. Profilic, the Mamas & The Papas release two more albums in 1966 but struggle quickly to top the charts, yielding too often to Southern California light pop recipes. Too many concerts are sloppy and the public finds it difficult to get his bearings. Anyway, the Mamas & The Papas will remain the reference group in 1966 with songs like California Dreaming and thanks to its “sunshine pop” one of the few American bands having challenged the British Invasion.



#
Artist
Title
CT
VIDEO
 1 
The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby 
(Paul McCartney)

 2 
The Mamas & The Papas
Monday, Monday
(John Phillips)

 3 
Herman's Hermits
No Milk Today
(Terry Kirkman)

4
The Rolling Stones
Paint It, Black
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

 5 
The Mamas & The Papas
California Dreaming
(John Phillips)

 6 
The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations
(Brian Wilson)

 7 
The Kinks
Sunny Afternoon
(Ray Davies)

8
The Lovin' Spoonful
Daydream
(John Sebastian)

 9 
The Association
Cherish
(Terry Kirkman)

10
The Supremes
You Can't Hurry Love
(Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier)

 11 
The Four Tops
Reach Out (I'll Be There)
(Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier)

 12 
Frank Sinatra
Strangers In The Night
(Bert Kaempfert/Charles Singleton/Eddie Snyder)

 13 
Chris Montez
The More I See You
(Harry Warren/Mack Gordon)

 14 
The Rolling Stones
19th Nervous Breakdown
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

15
The Monkees
Last Train To Clarksville
(Tommy Boice/Bobby Hart)

16
Ike & Tina Turner
River Deep, Mountain High
(Phil Spector/Jef Barry/Ellie Greenwich)

17
The Hollies
Bus Stop
(Graham Gouldman)

18
Cher
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
(Sonny Bono)

19
Crispain St Peters
You Were On My Mind
(Sylvia Tyson, 1964)

 20 
The Lovin' Spoonful
Summer In The City
(John Sebastian/Mark Sebastian/Steve Boone)

21
Nancy Sinatra
These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
(Lee Hazlewood)

22
James Brown
It's A Man's Man's Man's World
(James Brown)

 23 
The Beatles
Michelle
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

 24 
The Spencer Davis Group
Keep On Running
(Jackie Edwards)

25
The Beach Boys
Sloop John B
(Brian Wilson)

 26 
Simon & Garfunkel
Scarborough Fair
(Paul Simon)

 27 
Donovan
Mellow Yellow
(Donovan)

 28 
Bobby Darin 
If I Were A Carpenter
(Tim Hardin)

29
The New Vaudeville Band
Winchester Cathedral
(Geoff Stephens)

30
Los Bravos
Black Is Black
(Michelle Grainger/Tony Hayes/Steve Wadey)

31
Tommy James & The Shondells
Hanky Panky
(Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich)

32
Lou Christie
Lightnin' Strikes
(Lou Christie/Twyla Herbert)

33
Paul Revere & The Raiders
Kicks
(Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil)

34
? And The Mysterians
96 Tears
(Rudy Martinez)

35
The Temptations
Get Ready
(Smokey Robinson)

 36 
The Rolling Stones
Mother's Little Helper
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

37
Percy Sledge
When A Man Loves A Woman
(Calvin Lewis/Andrew Wright)

38
Dusty Springfield
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
(Pino Donaggio/Vito Pallavicini/Vicki Wickham/Simon Napier-Bell)

39
Bobby Hebb
Sunny
(Bobby Hebb)

40
Bob Dylan
I Want You
(Bob Dylan)


1965


Artist of the year : The Rolling Stones
Even though the year is still dominated by the Beatles who store once more sales records through their last album Help, the Rolling Stones assert themselves among all fashionable English rock bands like true competitors. They do not look like the nice Fab Four, favoring conversely a bad boys style. Like the Beatles, they write their own songs but it is mostly from Blues that Keith Richards and Mick Jagger draw their inspiration. Isn’t their very name itself taken directly from Rollin 'Stone, a song from Muddy Waters. The Stones maintain their difference with the Beatles but their beginnings remain difficult and their first tracks arouse only minor interest. Despite the promising success of Time Is On My Side released in 1964, As Tears Go By, written the same year by the duo Keith Richards, Mick Jagger becomes a true hit thanks to the performance of Marianne Faithfull who records it first. The group breaks through in 1965 with Satisfaction, a track that reaches the top of the charts. The song propels in a short time the Stones on a par with the Beatles. The riff imagined by Keith Richard will almost single-handedly ensure the success of the track, as disconcerting by its apparent ease as by audacity. But when Keith Richards had the idea of it during a restless night, he will surely not envision that these few notes would remain over time as one of the greatest moments in rock history.


 #
 Artist
 Title
 CT
 VIDEO
 1 
The Rolling Stones
(I Can Get No) Satisfaction
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richard)

 2 
The Zombies
Tell Her No
(Rod Argent)

 3 
The Beatles
Ticket To Ride
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

 4 
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Ooo, Baby Baby
(Smokey Robinson/Pete Moore)

 5 
Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames
Yeh, Yeh
(Jon Hendricks/Rodgers Grant/Pat Patrick)

 6 
The Righteous Brothers
Ebb Tide
(Carl Sigman/Robert Maxwell)

 7 
The Fortunes
You've Got Your Troubles
(Roger Cook/Roger Greenaway)
  
 8
The Beatles
Help !
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

 9
The Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody
(Alex North/Hy Zaret, 1955)

 10
The Byrds
Hey, Mr Tambourine Man
(Bob Dylan)
 
 11
The Beach Boys
California Girls
(Brian Wilson/Mike Love)

 12 
Unit 4+2
Concrete And Clay
(Tommy Moeller/Brian Parker)

 13
Sonny & Cher
I Got You Babe
(Sonny Bonno)

 14
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
The Game Of Love
(Clint Ballard, Jr.)

 15 
Lulu
Leave A Little Love
(Les Reed/Peter Callender)

 16 
The Beatles
Yesterday
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

 17
Gary Lewis & The Playboys
This Diamond Ring
(Al Kooper/Bob Brass/Irwin Levine)

 18
Shirley Bassey
Goldfinger
(John Barry/Anthony Newly/Leslie Bricusse)

 19
Them
Baby Please Don't Go
(Big Joe Williams)

 20
Elvis Presley with the Jordanaires
Crying In The Chapel
(Artie Glenn, 1953)

 21
Herman's Hermits
Silhouettes
(Bob Crewe/Frank Slay, Jr., 1957)

 22
The Lovin' Spoonful
Do You Believe In Magic
(John Sebastian)

 23 
Little Anthony & The Imperials
Hurt So Bad
(Teddy Randazzo/Bobby Weinstein/Bobby Hart)

 24
Jay & The Americans
Cara, Mia
(Lee Lange/Tulio Trapani)

 25
The Supremes
Stop! In The Name Of Love
(Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier)

 26
Bob Dylan
Like A Rolling Stone
(Bob Dylan)

 27
The Yardbirds
For Your Love
(Graham Gouldman)

 28
Bobby Goldsboro
Little Things
(Bobby Goldsboro)

 29
The Animals
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
(Bennie Benjamin/Gloria Caldwell/Sol Marcus)

 30
Tom Jones
What's New Pussycat
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)

 31
The McCoys
Hang On Sloopy
(Wes Farrell/Bert Russel)

 32 
James Brown
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
(James Brown)

 33 
The Seekers
I'll Never Find Another You
(Tom Springfield)

 34
Donovan
Catch The Wind
(Donovan)

 35 
Brenda Holloway
When I'm Gone
(Smokey Robinson)

 36
Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
Wooly Bully
(Domingo "Sam" Samudio)

 37
Jody Miller
Queen Of The House
(Roger Miller/Mary Taylor)

 38
Salvatore Adamo
La Nuit
(Adamo)

 39 
The Who
My Generation
(Pete Townshend)

 40 
The Four Tops
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
(Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier)








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