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Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968

Index Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1968. [1]

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Andrew Bernard

Andrew B. Bernard (born June 20, 1963) is an American economist, currently the Kadas T'90 Distinguished Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

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Archie Bell & the Drells

Archie Bell & the Drells was an American R&B vocal group from Houston, Texas, and one of the main acts on Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records.

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Archie Bell (singer)

Archie Lee Bell (born September 1, 1944) is an African-American solo singer and former lead singer of Archie Bell & the Drells.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Artie Resnick

Arthur Resnick (born 1937) is an American songwriter, record producer and musician.

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Barrett Strong

Barrett Strong (born February 5, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1967

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1967 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1967.

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Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1969.

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Bo Gentry

Robert Allan Ackoff (c.1942 – 1983), known professionally as Bo Gentry, was an American pop singer, songwriter and record producer, most noted for his work with Tommy James and the Shondells in the 1960s.

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Bobby Bloom

Robert Bloom (January 15, 1946 – February 28, 1974) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Born to Be Wild

"Born to Be Wild" is a song first performed by the band Steppenwolf, written by Mars Bonfire.

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Chain of Fools

"Chain of Fools" is a song written by Don Covay.

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Cliff Nobles

Clifford James Nobles (August 4, 1941 – October 12, 2008) was an American soul singer, who is best known for his instrumental hit, "The Horse".

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Cry Like a Baby

"Cry Like a Baby" is a 1968 song written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and performed by The Box Tops.

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Dan Penn

Dan Penn (born Wallace Daniel Pennington, 16 November 1941) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s, including "The Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" with Chips Moman and "Cry Like a Baby" with Spooner Oldham.

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Deke Richards

Deke Richards (born Dennis Lussier, April 8, 1944 – March 24, 2013), also known as Deke Lussier, was an American songwriter and record producer who was affiliated with Motown.

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Don Covay

Donald James Randolph (March 24, 1936 – January 31, 2015), better known by the stage name Don Covay, was an American R&B, rock and roll and soul singer and songwriter most active from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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Eddie Brigati

Edward "Eddie" Brigati Jr. (born October 22, 1945, Garfield, New Jersey) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Felix Cavaliere

Felix Cavaliere (born November 29, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and musician.

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Frank Wilson (musician)

Frank Edward Wilson (December 5, 1940 – September 27, 2012) was an American songwriter, singer and record producer for Motown Records.

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Grazing in the Grass

"Grazing in the Grass" is an instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela.

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Green Tambourine

"Green Tambourine" is a song about busking, written and composed by Paul Leka (who also produced it) and Shelley Pinz.

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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer.

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966.

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Jesse James (songwriter)

Jesse James is an American independent record producer and songwriter, based in Philadelphia.

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Joey Levine

Joey Levine (born May 29, 1947, New York City) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer of pop music, who has been active since 1966.

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John Fred

John Fred Gourrier (May 8, 1941 – April 14, 2005), known by his stage name John Fred, was an American blue-eyed soul, swamp pop, R&R, and R&B performer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, best known for the 1968 hit song "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)".

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Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)

"Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" is a song that was a hit for the Louisiana-based John Fred & His Playboy Band in late 1967.

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Love Child (song)

"Love Child" is a 1968 song released by the Motown label for Diana Ross & the Supremes.

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Mars Bonfire

Dennis Edmonton (born Dennis Eugene McCrohan, 21 April 1943), also known by the stage name Mars Bonfire, is a Canadian rock musician and songwriter, best known for writing the hit song "Born to Be Wild" for Steppenwolf.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mony Mony

"Mony Mony" is a 1968 single by American pop rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which reached No.

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Norman Whitfield

Norman Jesse Whitfield (May 12, 1940 – September 16, 2008) was an American songwriter and producer, who worked with Berry Gordy's Motown labels during the 1960s.

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Ohio Express

The Ohio Express is an American bubblegum pop band, formed in Mansfield, Ohio in 1967.

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Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.

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Pam Sawyer

Pamela Joan Sawyer (born 1938) is a British-born American lyricist and songwriter, who started writing songs in the mid-1960s and whose credits as a co-writer at Motown included "Love Child", "If I Were Your Woman", "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)", and "Love Hangover".

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Paul Leka

Paul Leka (February 20, 1943 – October 12, 2011) was an American songwriter, record producer, pianist, arranger, and orchestrator, most notable for his writing associations with the later 1960s hits "Green Tambourine" and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", the latter of which has become a standard song at sporting events.

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People Got to Be Free

"People Got to Be Free" is a song released in 1968 by The Rascals.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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R. Dean Taylor

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Ritchie Cordell

Ritchie Cordell (born Richard Joel Rosenblatt; March 10, 1943 – April 13, 2004) was an American songwriter, singer and record producer.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Spooner Oldham

Dewey Lindon "Spooner" Oldham (born June 14, 1943) is an American songwriter and session musician.

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Steppenwolf (band)

Steppenwolf is a Canadian-American rock band, prominent from 1968 to 1972.

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Steve Cropper

Steven Lee Cropper (born October 21, 1941) is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

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The Box Tops

The Box Tops are an American rock band, formed in Memphis in 1967.

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The Horse

"The Horse" is an American instrumental song by Cliff Nobles and Company.

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The Lemon Pipers

The Lemon Pipers were a 1960s psychedelic pop band from Oxford, Ohio, known chiefly for their song "Green Tambourine", which reached No. 1 in the United States in 1968.

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The Rascals

The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965.

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The Supremes

The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

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Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells song)

"Tighten Up" is a 1968 song by Houston, Texas–based R&B vocal group Archie Bell & the Drells.

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Tommy James

Tommy James (born Thomas Gregory Jackson; April 29, 1947) is an American pop rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, widely known as leader of the 1960s rock band Tommy James and the Shondells.

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Tommy James and the Shondells

Tommy James and the Shondells are an American rock band, formed in Niles, Michigan in 1964.

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Yummy Yummy Yummy

"Yummy Yummy Yummy" is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968.

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(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper.

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1968 in music

List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1968.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Top_Rock'n'Roll_Hits:_1968

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