August 14, 2009, playlist with host Alex McNeil

First, a brief salute to Les Paul, who died this week at age 94:
01. Chet Atkins & Les Paul - Caravan (LP, 1976)

This weekend is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, but Top 40 radio stations weren't necessarily playing that kind of music. Today's selections were all on Billboard's pop chart for the week that ended August 16, 1969:
02. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie (CD)
03. Guess Who - Laughing (CD)
04. Joe Jeffrey Group - My Pledge of Love (LP)
05. Elvis Presley - Clean Up Your Own Back Yard (CD)
06. James Brown - Mother Popcorn, part 1 (45)
07. Aretha Franklin - Share Your Love (CD)
08. Winstons - Color Him Father (45)
09. Impressions - Choice of Colors (CD)
10. Meters - Ease Back (LP)
11. Crow - Time to Make a Turn (45)
12. Spiral Starecase - No One for Me to Turn To (CD)
13. Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me (CD)
14. Cascades - Maybe the Rain Will Fall (CD)
15. Henry Mancini - Moonlight Sonata (LP)
16. Chi-Lites - Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was (LP)
17. Moments - I Do (CD)
18. Wilson Pickett - Hey Joe (CD)
19. Carolyn Franklin - It's True I'm Gonna Miss You (LP)
20. King Curtis - La Jeanne (45)
21. Andy Kim - Baby I Love You (LP)
22. Flying Machine - Smile a Little Smile for Me (CD)
23. 1910 Fruitgum Company - The Train (CD)
24. Archies - Sugar Sugar (CD)
25. Edwin Hawkins Singers - Ain't It Like Him (45)
26. Russell Morris - The Real Thing (45)
27. Friends of Distinction - Going in Circles (CD)
28. Young-Holt Unlimited - Straight Ahead (45)
29. Tim Hardin - Simple Song of Freedom (45)
30. Judy Collins - Chelsea Morning (CD)
31. Association - Goodbye Columbus (CD)
32. Electric Indian - Keem-O-Sabe (CD)
33. Clarence Reid - Nobody But You Babe (45)
34. Lou Rawls - Your Good Thing (CD)
35. Illusion - Did You See Her Eyes (CD)