** = funk/soul/jazz/reggae/world/ska/or combinations
no stars = something else

My top 17 of favorite songs of the year 1969 (out of 28 listed here):

1. The Golden Earring – Just a little bit of peace in my heart
2. Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier – La horse **
3. George Baker Selection – Little green bag (Note: In 1999 again a Dutch hit)
4. The Guess Who – Undun
5. Shocking Blue – Venus
6. Noriel Vilela – 16 toneladas **
7. Pharoah Sanders – The creator has a masterplan **
8. Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
9. Brainbox – Summertime
10. Bob Dylan – Lay lady lay
11. Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin – Je t’aime moi non plus
12. Amen Corner – (If paradise is) half as nice
13. The Beatles – Here comes the sun
14. Cuby And The Blizzards – Appleknockers flophouse
15. Joe Cocker – Delta lady
16. Astrud Gilberto – Beginnings **
17. The Blenders – Decimal currency **

My other favorites, the ‘subtop’ part (above is the potential ‘all time top 500′ stuff):

• Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid – The sundance kid
• East Of Eden – In the satable of the sphinx
• Edmundo Ross – London is the place for me (both samba and regular version) **
• Fleetwood Mac – Oh well
• Herbie Mann – Memphis underground **
• The Lloyd McNeill Quarted – Dig where dat’s at **
• Lou Christie – She sold me magic
• Moondog – Lament I **
• Sigattarius – My world fell down
• The Stooges – I wanna be your dog
• Tommy Roe – Dizzy