THE iNFOMAN 1968 SINGLES OF THE YEAR
(created 1968/1969, revised and expanded 1986)

 

  1. Jimi Hendrix Experience - All along the watchtower (cover of Bob Dylan)

  2. Love - Laughing stock/
    Your mind and we belong together

  3. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity - This wheel's on fire

  4. Jefferson Airplane - Greasy heart/
    Share a little joke with the world

  5. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Yellowbrick Road/
    Abba zaba

  6. Love - Alone again or

  7. The Who - I can see for miles

  8. The Beatles - Hey Jude/
    Revolution

  9. Fairport Convention - If I had a ribbon bow (cover of Maxine Sullivan)/
    If (Stomp)

  10. Love - Andmoreagain

  11. Procol Harum - Quite rightly so

  12. Traffic - No face, no name and no number

  13. Byrds - Wasn't born to follow

  14. Grateful Dead - Dark star/
    Born cross-eyed

  15. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne/
    So long, Marianne

  16. Incredible String Band - Painting box

  17. Donovan - Hurdy gurdy man

  18. Pink Floyd - Point me at the sky/
    Be careful with that axe, Eugene

  19. Fairport Convention - Meet on the ledge

  20. Tim Buckley - Once I was

  21. Aretha Franklin - I say a little prayer (cover of Dionne Warwick)

  22. Tyrannosaurus Rex - One inch rock/
    Salamander palaganda

  23. Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson

  24. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Piece of my heart  (cover of Erma Franklin)

  25. Jefferson Airplane - If you feel like china breaking

  26. Dave Mason - Little woman

  27. Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to fly

  28. Pretty Things - Talking about the good times

  29. Tyrannosaurus Rex - Deborah

  30. Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash

  31. Joni Mitchell - Night in the city

  32. Buffalo Springfield - Rock and roll woman

  33. Tim Buckley - Wings

  34. Pink Floyd - It would be so nice/
    Julia Dream

  35. The Nice - America (from West Side Story)

  36. Cream - Sunshine of your love/
    SWLABR

  37. Temptations - I wish it would rain

  38. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Need your love so bad (cover of Etta James)

  39. Bonzo Dog Band - I'm the urban spaceman/
    Canyons of your mind

  40. Aretha Franklin - Think

  41. Small Faces - Lazy Sunday afternoon

  42. Marvelettes - My baby must be a magician

  43. Family - Me my friend/
    Hey Mr Policeman

  44. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity - Road to Cairo (cover of David Ackles)

  45. Tom Rush - No regrets

  46. Beach Boys - Darlin'

  47. Martha and the Vandellas - Honey chile

  48. Small Faces - The universal

  49. The Who - Call me Lightning

  50. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Black magic woman

Bubbling under:

  1. Deviants - You've got to hold on/
    Let's loot the supermarket

  2. Blue Cheer - Summertime blues (cover of Eddie Cochran)

  3. Chicken Shack - When the train comes back

  4. Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky pilot

  5. Traffic - Medicated goo

  6. The Who - Magic bus

  7. Judy Collins - Both sides now (cover of Joni Mitchell)

  8. Donovan - Atlantis

  9. Eclection - Please

  10. Iron Butterfly - Possession 


    This page was last updated on 18 April, 2006 .