Apparently, this is part of a series. Here's the iist from 1968.

By the time you get to 1969, some of the songs are getting more familiar and by 1970, you likely know every one of them. 

RadioActive wrote:

Apparently, this is part of a series. Here's the iist from 1968.

By the time you get to 1969, some of the songs are getting more familiar and by 1970, you likely know every one of them. 

I didn't recognize any of the tunes from 1966 or 67.  1968 and 69 majority, but not all 10.

paterson1 wrote:

I don't know about these so called top ten lists.  Whoever made them up seem to have a thing for Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Guess Who (?) and a few others. And some of these songs were hits where?  

No Mashmakhan- As The Years Go By,  Blood Sweat and Tears- You've Made Me So Very Happy, Edward Bear- You, Me and Mexico, R. Dean Taylor- Indiana Wants Me or The Archie's- Sugar, Sugar?  All of these from 1970!

And since the list seems so focused with The Guess Who and a few others, sort of odd it has American Woman as #1 for 1969.  Should have been 1970.
 

I didn't think much of the lists and really wondered about some of the years too, until I saw that Millie Zeiler had a rather strange tendency to assign the songs to the years recorded rather than when they were hits (if they even were hits). That's how "American Woman" ended up in 1969. That's also actually the year that "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and "Sugar, Sugar" belong to as well, but it may be that those artists weren't considered to be Canadian enough by Zeiler. However, that certainly doesn't explain the absence of "As The Years Go By" or "Indiana Wants Me" ... I completely agree that Zeiler seems to have just had a thing for certain artists and prioritized that over actual chart access or any other discernible criteria.

Came across this on a Facebook page about Toronto's past. It's from 1964 and it was apparently held at Maple Leaf Gardens. Note that CKEY and Johnny Lombardi were behind the concert. Talk about your strange bedfellows.