May 6: 69 in '69

I developed a delightful category for yesterday's Jeo-Party called "69 in '69" that was super successful and I was very proud of. I had the idea to go through the weekly Billboard Top 100 lists throughout the year of 1969 to look for songs that ranked at #69. About half of them were by familiar artists, and a handful of them peaked at #69 in 1969; immediately I knew I had an awesome category: songs that peaked at #69 in 1969. I had never heard any of the songs so I created a playlist and listened; unfortunately none of the songs are very good, which I guess explains why they peaked at #69. I created the clues to have my friends guess the musician, because guessing the song title would have been impossible. Here they are the songs if you are curious:

• “The Young Folks” by The Supremes
•  “I've Been Loving You Too Long” by Ike & Tina Turner
•  “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” by Isaac Hayes (this song peaked at 69 on 9/6/69 😉)
• “Tell All The People” by The Doors
• “Blistered/See Ruby Fall” by Johnny Cash

My next challenge is to look with the Billboard Top 100 to find songs that ranked #99 in 1999. We'll see if any of them are at all familiar enough to create a category. 

I also created a category of "Before and Afters" by searching a database for Wikipedia search terms that included the word "girl" and them mashed 10 of them together into 5 clues. The absolute best, which had my friends laughing, was "Golden Girls Gone Wild." hahahahahaha. Still makes me giggle. I very much enjoy the searchable database in order to create Before and Afters, and I look forward to creating more. 

With delight,

♥Jamie