Top 10 Countdown

This week we look back to the year

1969

at the Top 10 Songs on the Billboard Charts

(for week ending Mar 22, 1969)

Headlines and Special Notes

Mar 19- Mar 25, 1969

Mar 19 -  22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55

Mar 20 - John Lennon, Beatle, marries artist Yoko Ono

Mar 21 -  The FBI is targeting the Black Panther Party in its program of investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States -- a program labeled COINTELPRO. Alex Rackley a 24-year-old member of the New York chapter of the Black Panthers was suspected of being an informant and taken to the Panther headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. There he was tortured and held for two days. On March 21 he is fatally shot and his body dumped in the Coginchaug River. 

Mar 22 -   1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes

Mar 23 - Anita Bryant and the Lettermen appeared at a "Rally For Decency" in Miami following Jim Morrison's indecent exposure onstage there.

Mar 24 - U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene

Born on This Day

 Mar 19

• Wyatt Earp 1848
• William Jennings Bryan 1860
• Earl Warren 1891
• Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley 1894
• John Sirica 1904
• Patrick McGoohan 1928
• Ursula Andress 1936
• Clarence "Frogman" Henry 1937
• Robin Luke 1942
• Paul Atkinson (The Zombies) 1946
• Ruth Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1946
• Glenn Close 1947
• Bruce Willis 1955 
•  Derek Longmuir (The Bay City Rollers) 1955

Mar 20

• Ozzie Nelson 1906
• Carl Reiner 1922
• Fred "Mr." Rogers 1928
• Hal Linden (Barney Miller) 1931
• Ted Bessell 1935
• Jerry Reed 1937
• Bobby Orr 1948
• William Hurt 1950

Mar 21

• Johann Sebastian Bach 1685
• Julio Gallo 1910
• Timothy Dalton 1944
• Rose Stone (Sly & The Family Stone) 1945
• Eddie Money 1949
• Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) 1950
• Conrad Lozano (Los Lobos) 1951
• Russell Thompkins, Jr. (The Stylistics)  1951
• Gary Oldman 1958
• Matthew Broderick 1962

Mar 22

• Chico Marx 1887
• Louis L'Amour 1908
• Karl Malden 1913
• Ross Martin 1920
• Werner Klemperer 1920
• Marcel Marceau 1923
• William Shatner 1931
• M. Emmett Walsh 1935
• Glen Campbell 1936
• Barbara Parkins 1942
• Keith Relf (Yardbirds) 1943
• Jeremy Clyde (Chad & Jeremy) 1944
• Harry Vanda (The Easybeats) 1947
• Randy Hobbs (The McCoys) 1948
• Bob Costas 1952
• Stephani Mills 1957
• Matthew Modine 1959

Mar 23

• Joan Crawford 1905
• Marty Allen 1922
• Chaka Khan 1953

Mar 24

• Harry Houdini 1874
• Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle 1887
• Dorothy Stratton 1898
• Joseph Barbera (Cartoonist) 1911
• Norman Fell 1924
• Steve McQueen 1930
• Billy Stewart 1937
• Bob Mackie (Fashion Designer) 1940
• Louie Anderson 1953
• Donna Pescow 1954

Mar 25

• Howard Cosell 1920
• Gene Shalit (Movie Critic) 1932
• Gloria Steinem 1934
• Johnny Burnette 1935
• Hoyt Axton 1938
• Anita Bryant 1940
• Aretha Franklin 1942
• Paul Michael Glaser 1943
•  Elton John 1947
• Bonnie Bedelia 1948