"O-o-h Child" by the Five Stairsteps

It's like thunder
Lightning
The way you love me is frightening


#380.



Eddie Floyd - "Knock on Wood"

Year: 1966

US Chart Position: #28 Pop / #1 R&B

UK Chart Position: #19

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #47 (year), #338 (decade), #1474 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959 - 1968

Ranked Highest By: TerryKath'sBrain (#23)

Wait a minute...
something's going wrong...


#379.



Al Green - "Love and Happiness"

Year: 1977 (whoops)

US Chart Position: #92 R&B

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #39 (year), #349 (decade), #1841 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #389

Can Be Most Easily Found On: I'm Still in Love With You

Ranked Highest By: Ben (#18)

Hmm. Sorry if I screwed that up, B, but I'm pretty sure I'm Still in Love with You came out in 72. That vinyl appears to be a greatest hits repackaging.

Oh man, the live feel at the beginning of that record is so good. Al sighing and crooning, a little loose guitar picking, CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. WAH WAH WAH.

And the horns. Oh shit the horns. I need more hip hop songs with horns like that.

"Hey man, you got any like, promising leads?"
"Leads? Yeah, we got some leeds. Just let me, uh, check with the boys in the crime lab. We got a whole team of detectives working on this case. We got 'em working in shifts!!!"


#378.



Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Lookin' Out My Back Door"

Year: 1970

US Chart Position: #2

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #264

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Chronicle

Ranked Highest By: Voodoodaddy (#29)

What group will outperform CCR in this poll? Give me the short list.

"Kathy, I'm lost..."


#377.



Simon & Garfunkel - "America"

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: #97

UK Chart Position: #25

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Bookends

Ranked Highest By: Threshold of Revelation (#13)

Une incroyable personne...


#376.



Serge Gainsbourg - "Ballade de Melodie Nelson"

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Histoire de Melody Nelson

Ranked Highest By: Nic (#13)

This old song is still great.

edit: as is the Al Green.

I was listening to Toots and the Maytals a few days ago, and I was surprised that none of the frat boys on my floor came to high five me for listening to Marley.



I haven't listened to any Al Green for a while and I forgot how insanely good this song is.



I love this song, but I don't think I'll ever hear it in the same way again after watching the Stella Shorts.

They had three entries on my list, topped only by the Stones, Beatles and Led Zep. I'd expect those three to outdo them on the SOMB list as well. Other than that, I dunno.

They were the house band on a show I used to watch on TV called Where The Action Is when I was a kid. It aired in the morning in my market. What a way to get ready for school!


Here's the links for two songs that didn't link correctly...well one had no link...anyway....

CCR - Lookin' Out My Back Door

Simon And Garfunkel - America

sorry, links fixed.

no need to apologize.....glad to pitch in

That show aired after school where I lived. Wasn't that about the same time as the Monkees had a tv show? Everyone I knew had a crush on Davey Jones (Monkees) and Mark Whatsisname (Raiderz) for awhile.

The first song to appear on both decade polls so far...


#375.



The Yardbirds - "I'm a Man"

Year: 1965

US Chart Position: #17

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, 1964 - 1966

Ranked Highest By: Coolrock (#1)

And that's where I was last night...


#374.



The Turtles - "She's My Girl"

Year: 1967

US Chart Position: #14

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: 20 Greatest Hits

Ranked Highest By: Citizen (#2)

I remember well, the well where I drew water...


#373.



Loretta Lynn - "Coal Miner's Daughter"

Year: 1970

US Chart Position: #83 Pop / #1 Country

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #10 (year), #86 (decade), #380 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Definitive Collection

Ranked Highest By: Paul (#25)

"Oh, why can't we start out old and get young?"


#372.



The Association - "Cherish"

Year: 1966

US Chart Position: #1

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

CanBe Most Easily Found On: Greatest Hits

Ranked Highest By: jdubs3 (#10)

Yeah..around the same years. No Mark in the Monkees....that was Davey, Mickey, Peter and Michael...must be talking about Mark Lindsey of Paul Revere and the Raiders....had a solo hit when he split...Arizona.....

It's such a fine and natural sight...


#371.



King Harvest - "Dancing in the Moonlight"

Year: 1973

US Chart Position: #13

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box

Ranked Highest By: Thresholdofrevelation (#31)

Now there's some vintage cheese....but I love indulging in it

That's it, Mark Lindsey (fixed my post for posterity). I figured the network, or whoever syndicated that show, was trying to cash in on the Monkees' popularity.

If it's not love that you need
Well I'll try my best to make everything succeed


#370.



George Harrison - "What is Life?"

Year: 1971

US Chart Position: #10

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: All Things Must Pass

Ranked Highest By: TerryKath'sBrain (#43)

My mom loved this song. Clear memories of riding around wherever with an Oldie's station on and Dancing in the Moonlight playing and my mom turning it up everytime. She was very much an NPR/classical kind of person but I still pay attention when she finds the token pop song she really likes. The last time I called her she asked me if I knew he Jens Lekman is. My 62 year old mom is awsome.

Don't hang around 'coz two's a crowd...


#369.



The Rolling Stones - "Get Off of My Cloud"

Year: 1965

US Chart Position: #1

UK Chart Position: #1

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #42 (year), #275 (decade), #1120 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Forty Licks

Ranked Highest By: Coolrock (#5)

wow, dancing in the moonlight (!). One hopes that this doesn't end up like "I'm a Man" and figure into two different decades lists...Toploader *shudder*

Now you've told me that you wanna leave me
Darling, I just can't let you


#368.



The Foundations - "Baby, Now That I Found You"

Year: 1967

US Chart Positions: #11

UK Chart Positions: #1

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Very Best of the Foundations

Ranked Highest By: Terrmoto (#8)

MILT!

(mom i'd like to twigger. that's right. it's a verb now.)

"Love & Happiness" was originally released in 1972 - on an album. It didn't come out as a single till '77.



He just recorded those sappy solo records on the side. I don't believe he left the Raiders until '74 or so, well after the hits dried up.




Where The Action Is was already on the air for a year before The Monkees turned up, so they weren't cashing in.

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and children cryin'


#367.



Roberta Flack f/ Donny Hathaway - "Where is the Love?"

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: #5 Pop / #1 R&B / #1 AC

UK Chart Position: #29

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Softly With These Songs

Ranked Highest By: Huh? (#26)

on your knees you big booty bitch start suckin

You know, I really tried to like those Ween mixes you guys made. Not so much. There's some good stuff, for sure, but they're a little too clever for my tastes.

Even though the pain and heartache seems to follow me wherever I go,
Though I try and try to hide my feelings they always seems to show


#365.



The Jackson Five - "Never Can Say Goodbye"

Year: 1971

US Chart Position: #2 Pop / #1 R&B

UK Chart Position: #33

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Ultimate Collection

Ranked Highest By: Huh? (#11)



not in this thread, Ben.

Ja woll, Herr Doctor.

So what was Al Green doing releasing a single five years after the album came out?

where was this:




for this:



?

"You're like one of those clipper ship captains. You're married to the sea."
"Yes, that's true. But I've been out to sea for a long time."


#365.



Looking Glass - "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"

Year: 1972

US Chart Position: #1

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a (shocker)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box

Ranked Highest By: Undercooked Sausagė (#4)




it's funny to see this and "Dancing in the Moonlight" so close on this list--I always associate them together for some reason.

Look at the GDB, busting out the A game in the high 300s. This will go in the top ten intros of this poll for sure. Nicely.

I get the feeling like this practice was not all that uncommon in the 70s--I was reading through Bowie's singles discography the other day and I was truly astounded by the number of singles he released well after their accompanying albums had peaked. Could be because Al had a new hits compilation to promote, or his label needed something to tide audiences over while he came up with new material, or any number of other reasons.



I thought this post was (however extraneously) a response to the "Where is the Love?" entry and thus, was at least slighlty related to the topic at hand.

I know. Sausage is the Mayberry Otis of the SOMB--sure, we could haul him in to the jail, but only to sleep it off until he ties one on tomorrow.

I was responding to Sausage's Ween quote. This is all very confusing.

Anywho, please continue.

Was the Dexys version of this a single?


#364.



Chuck Wood - "Seven Days Too Long"

Year: 1966

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: no idea

Ranked Highest By: Terremoto (#3)

no, an album track.

awesome that this made the list.

I somehow get the impression that it wasn't Al's idea...by 1977 his popularity was fading, and releasing a five-year-old album cut was probably a desperation move that his label came up with. (It was right around this time that Al put out The Belle Album and started gradually switching over to gospel.)

When you mess me
Hold my hand
Make me understand


#363.



James Brown - "Cold Sweat"

Year: 1967

US Chart Position: #7 Pop / #1 R&B

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #49 (year), #367 (decade), #1762 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: 20 All-Time Greatest Hits

Ranked Highest By: Birdistheword (#31)

YOU'RE GONNA BURRRRN


#362.



Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire"

Year: 1968

US Chart Position: #2

UK Chart Position: #1

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Ranked Highest By: Gareth Kenan Invetigates (#34)

Last one should be 362 I think. Plus it links to Cold Sweat

edited, thanks

It's 5 o'clock in the morning...


#361.



The Persuaders - "Thin Line Between Love and Hate"

Year: 1971

US Chart Position: #15 Pop / #1 R&B

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Can You Dig It? The 70s Soul Experience

Ranked Highest By: Voodoodaddy (#34)

Well, it was a single in Canada, but I don't know if we count that for singles lists. I actually think I prefer the dexys version. Rowland just has an immensely emotive voice that works great with that song. He sounds like he's in an absolute panic at parts of the cover. Probably the second best track on 'Soul Rebels.'

ultimate Yacht Rock - so smooth