The last installment of Mike Nessing’s triumphant reviewing of every single released in 1969. An amazing achievement by an amazing writer. Congratulations Mike, well done.
Whipping Post – The Allman Brothers Band-It’s rock, its soul, it’s blues. It’s proof positive that the best music cannot be pigeon-holed.
White Bird – It’s A Beautiful Day-Kinda like a cleaner Jefferson Airplane.
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin-“You Need Kool-Aid” is the way we used to sing this in the Nessing household. Finding something that rhymed with Kool-Aid was the real challenge.
Wild Child – The Doors-MoJo almost does a parody of himself here, muttering something ridiculous during the instrumental break and then laughing about it. Robbie Krieger on bottleneck slide is pretty sweet at the end.
Willie And Laura Mae Jones – Dusty Springfield-had to double check this cause it sounded like Bobbie Gentry. Nope, it’s Dusty alright.
Wings Upon Your Horns – Loretta Lynn-“Turned my halo into thorns”.. It’s a metaphor, figure it out.
Without You – Doug Parkinson In Focus-This thing is almost catchy. Almost.
Woman Of The World (Leave My World Alone) – Loretta Lynn-City slicker dame has got her meathooks in Loretta’s country bumpkin. She oughta know better than that.
Workin’ Man’s Blues – Merle Haggard-Great tune, and a great guitar solo, too. But I can do without the cheesy hammer hitting the metal spike overdub.
Workin’ On A Groovy Thing – The Fifth Dimension-Not one of their bigger hits, but has all the usual trappings found in one of their tunes. Oh man, more metal spike overdubs! What was this some kind of annoying trend?
Yester-Me Yester-You Yesterday – Stevie Wonder-Was 1969 soul music’s last stand?
You Can Make It If You Try – Sly & The Family Stone-Definitely one of the bands during this year that consistently brought quality 45’s to the proceedings.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want – The Rolling Stones-Single mix works really well without that choral introduction. Just sayin’.
You Don’t Have To Walk In The Rain – The Turtles-For every hit record by this band there’s another that should have been one. File under the latter.