WANTED: Classics from Classmates

Hey kids! Be a part of the 50ish Reunion planning process. Email your suggestions (limit 2) for the Official Reunion Playlist to DJ Snazzy Chaz, Charlie Davis daviscj27@gmail.com.

We are looking for your favorite classic tunes from our high school years (1967 to 1970, in case you’ve forgotten). One-hit wonders are welcome! Together, we can build a classic playlist full of Good Vibrations!

Remember what “albums” and “45s” were?

So many choices! Take a look at the Billboard Top 100 Chart for the first week of June 1967 — The Summer of Love! — as we were preparing to enter to Roosevelt for the first time.

Or skip to May 1970, when we walked (or ran) out the doors to begin new adventures, to a soundtrack that included:

BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE WEEKLY ALBUM CHARTS: May 23, 1970

1 McCARTNEY-PAUL McCARTNEY

2 Bridge Over Troubled Water-Simon & Garfunkel

3 Deja Vu-Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young

4 Chicago II-Chicago

5 Band Of Gypsys-Jimi Hendrix,Buddy Miles & Billy Cox

6 Hey Jude-Beatles

7 Steppenwolf Live-Steppenwolf

8 It Ain’t Easy-Three Dog Night

9 American Woman-Guess Who

10 Here Comes Bobby-Bobby Sherman

Bobby Sherman? Please don’t send me any Bobby Sherman.

El Presidente Pete Lewis starts it off. See if you can figure out the theme:

Get Back, by The Beatles with Billy Preston (1969)

Come Together, by The Beatles (1969)

---