My Top Songs of All Time 1051-1075

1051 Think                                         Aretha Franklin
1052 On the Wings of Love                Jeffrey Osborne
1053 Baby It's You                            Smith
1054 Keep on Dancin'                        Gentrys
1055 Woodstock                                Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
1056 Jean Genie                                  David Bowie
1057 Praise You                                  Fatboy Slim
1058 Why Can't We Be Friends          War
1059 Strawberry Fields Forever           Beatles
1060 Like a Rolling Stone                    Bob Dylan
1061 634-5789                                   Wilson Pickett
1062 Brown Sugar                               Rolling Stones
1063 I Wanna Have Some Fun            Samantha Fox
1064 White Room                               Cream
1065 Pass the Dutchie                         Musical Youth
1066 Hard to Say I'm Sorry                Chicago
1067 Ruby Tuesday                            Rolling Stones
1068 Basketball Jones                        Cheech & Chong
1069 Love is Like Oxygen                  Sweet
1070 Human                                       Human League
1071 Nineteen                                    Paul Hardcastle
1072 Its Just Begun                            Jimmy Castor Bunch
1073 Ring of Fire                               Johnny Cash
1074 Give More Power to the People Chi Lites
1075 Little Willy                                  Sweet

If you grew up during the Viet Nam war, the experience probably had a significant effect on you. It had a greater effect on the combat soldier. The song Nieteen  starts out in WW II the average age of the combat soldier was 26. In Viet Nam he was 19. InInInInInInIn Viet Nam he was 19. Once you hear that song once you will never forget the song about not only the age of the soldier but the affect it had on the soldiers who served.

Musical Youth was a 5-boy reggae group who recorded a clean version of Pass the Kouchie(pass the joint). It contained two setrs of brothers and was a Grammy Nominee in 1982. The Musical Youth nwas also the first black group on MTV.

Keep on Dancin' was by far the Gentrys biggest hit--charting in 1965. What they may be better known for is producing Jimmy Hart--"The Mouth of the South" who went on to become a pro wrestling manager.

Why Can't We be Friends is the first of nine songs by War in my countdown. War was one of my favorite bands growing up and I saw them live in Shea Stadium in 1975. I keep hoping Lonnie Jordan who is the singer/organ player in War and who tours with a bunch of non-War guys will rejoin his old band now called the Low Rider Band which consists ex-War guys Howard Scott, Lee Oskar, Bebe Dickerson and Harold Brown but I'm afraid that won't happen.