A slow week. Joe South makes his first of 8 appearance on the Hot 100 with "Games People Play", which spent 12 weeks on the chart and peaked at #12, a position he reached the following year with "Walk a Mile in My Shoes." South made his first two appearance on the chart in 1958 and 1961.
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The return of Joe South. (Christian Science Monitor, 9/12/1990)
JOE SOUTH. You say the name doesn't quite ring a bell? Well, how about ``Games People Play''? That song was the anthem of 1969 - the double Grammy Award winner from South's groundbreaking album ``Introspect.'' With a guitar, a sympathetic band (The Believers), a great warm, rich voice, some memorable melodies, and lyrics that zeroed right in on every personal and universal foible you could think of, Joe South's music became a kind of mental blueprint for a lot of soul-searchers in the late '60s and early '70s. Then he virtually disappeared.
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September 1968
"Fire!" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
"Hey Jude" by the Beatles
"All Along the Watchtower" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Bang-shang-a-lang" by the Archies
October 1968
"White Room" by Cream
"Ride My See-Saw" by the Moody Blues
"Love Child" by Diana Ross and the Supremes
"Abraham, Martin & John" by Dion
November 1968
"For Once in my Life" by Stevie Wonder
"Hang 'em High" by Booker T. & the MG's
"Hooked on a Feeling" by B. J. Thomas
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye
"Everyday People" by Sly and the Family Stone
December 1968
"Going Up The Country" by Canned Heat
"Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells
"Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" by Bob Seger
"Touch Me" by the Doors
January 1969
"Build Me Up Buttercup" by the Foundations
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