U.S. number ones, 1969: I Heard It through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye; Crimson and Clover Tommy James & the Shondells; Everyday People Sly & the Family Stone; Everyday People Sly & the Family Stone; Dizzy Tommy Roe; Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In The Fifth Dimension; Get Back The Beatles with Billy Preston; Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet Henry Mancini; In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus) Zager and Evans; Honky Tonk Women The Rolling Stones; Sugar, Sugar The Archies; I Can't Get Next to You The Temptations; Suspicious Minds Elvis Presley; Wedding Bell Blues The Fifth Dimension; Come Together / Something The Beatles; Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye Steam; Leaving on a Jet Plane Peter, Paul and Mary; Someday We'll Be Together Diana Ross & The Supremes

(Not exactly sure what my point is in printing this, except to note the strangeness of extracting the Archies from this list as the one that represents perfect pop. Maybe "Crimson and Clover" and "Dizzy" would count as well, since they were perceived as bubblegum. But they both have psychedelic overtones. Are Steam and the Temptations too soul? Is "Heard It Through the Grapevine?" too, um, good, to be perfect pop? Too passionate?)