Time-Life's
AM Gold '60s series provides a highly enjoyable history lesson. Each year is represented by 22 songs drawn from a wide range of sources, features all very big hits all the time, and plays like an hour of true golden oldies radio. The entry from 1969 is a nice mix of throwaway pop by lightweights like
the Flying Machine ("Smile a Little Smile for Me"),
Oliver ("Good Day Starshine"),
the Cuff Links ("Tracy"), and
the Brooklyn Bridge ("The Worst That Could Happen"); middleweights like
the Youngbloods ("Get Together"),
Jay & the Americans ("This Magic Moment"), and
the Guess Who ("These Eyes"); and heavyweights like
Harry Nilsson ("Everybody's Talkin'"),
the Supremes ("Someday We'll Be Together"),
the Turtles ("You Showed Me"), and
the 5th Dimension ("Wedding Bell Blues"). In other words, you'll get a pretty good idea from this disc of what was going on in the charts, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a better single-disc collection of hits from the year. ~ Tim Sendra, All Music Guide