Hot 100

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Steve Earle
Steve Earle as he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry earlier this year.

Steve Earle makes his debut on The Hot 100 this month with his plaintive plea to “come back Woody Guthrie” within the course of the song “Christmas In Washington” off his brilliant 1997 El Corazon album. We put it at #10 so you could hear it. (We need Woody Guthrie more than ever these days.)

Woody’s unofficial National Anthem “This Land Is Your Land” remains at #1. (He lived in our state during his sick years late in life.) Steve Earle is our Woody Guthrie now. The opening scene of A Complete Unknown has Dylan visiting his ailing hero in that Morris Plains hospital so he could sing him the song he wrote called “Song To Woody.” I was crying within minutes.

Speaking of Dylan, he too makes his Hot 100 debut with Woody’s 1941 “Pastures Of Plenty” at #56, a song he recorded in 1961 at the home of friends in East Orange.

1
This Land Is Your Land
Woody Guthrie
Same as Last Month
2
Summer Wind
Frank Sinatra
NEW
3
Sun City
Artists United Against Apartheid
▼ Last Month: 2
4
Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen
NEW
5
Woke Up This Morning
Alabama 3
Same as Last Month
6
Good Lovin'
The Rascals
▲ Last Month: 10
7
At 17
Janis Ian
▲ Last Month: 9
8
Isn't It A Pity
Bettye LaVette
▲ Last Month: 17
9
New Jersey Wife
Dion
NEW
10
Christmas In Washington
Steve Earle
NEW

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# Song / Artist Previous
11
Graceland
Paul Simon
 ▼ 4
12
Celebration
Kool & The Gang
 ▼ 7
13
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Bon Jovi
 ▼ 8
14
I Will Survvive
Gloria Gaynor
 ▼ 11
15
Because The Night
Patti Smith Group
 ▼ 12
16
I Wil Always Love You
Whitney Houston
 ▼ 13
17
Talk To Me
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
 ▼ 14
18
Big Girls Don't Cry
The Four Seasons
 ▼ 15
19
Poetry Man
Phoebe Snow
 ▼ 16
20
It Might As Well Be Spring
Sarah Vaughan
 ▼ 18
21
You Don't Own Me
Leslie Gore
 ▼ 19
22
My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
Connie Francis
 ▼ 20
23
Peppermint Twist
Joey Dee & The Starliters
 ▼ 21
24
I Think We're Alone Now
Tommy James & The Shondells
 NEW
25
Shout
The Isley Brothers
 NEW
26
All Fall Down
Richard Barone
 ▼ 24
27
Buffen It
Mark Mulch
 SAME
28
Rhapsody In Blue (One For Jeff)
Ricky Byrd
 SAME
29
When You Walk In The Room
Steve Forbert
 SAME
30
Rapper's Delight
Sugar Hill Gang
 ▲ 32
31
The Skin I'm In
Blue People
 SAME
32
Love Is Strange
Mickey & Sylvia
 NEW
33
Pillow Talk
Sylvia Robinson
 NEW
34
Brand New Key
Melanie
 ▲ 35
35
Rotten To The Core
Overkill
 ▼ 25
36
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Les Ford & Mary Ford
 SAME
37
I Wanna Be Around
Tony Bennett
 SAME
38
One Way Or Another
Blondie
 SAME
39
Give It To Me Good
Trixter
 SAME
40
La Vida Es Un Carnaval
Celia Cruz
 SAME
41
Deep In The Heart Of Jersey
Uncle Floyd
 ▲ 45
42
Long Way Down
Dean DeLeo
 ▲ 47
43
Numbers With Wings
The Bongos
 ▲ 48
44
Lucky 13
DD Verni
 ▲ 50
45
Chocolate Jesus
Eddie Skuller
 ▲ 52
46
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
Dionne Warwick
 NEW
47
In A Lonely Place
The Smithereens
 ▲ 60
48
The Gang's All Here
Skid Row
 ▲ 63
49
One O'Clock Jump
Count Basie
 ▼ 44
50
This Misery
J. Howard Duff
 ▲ 63
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# Song / Artist Previous
51
New Jerzey
Almondmilkhunni
 ▲ 71
52
Send It To Me
Williams Honor
 ▲ 72
53
13 Days
Fear Of Falling
 ▲ 77
54
Funky Broadway
Wilson Pickett
 NEW
55
The Boxer
Simon & Garfunkel
 NEW
56
Pastures Of Plenty
Bob Dylan
 NEW
57
Baldwin's Blues
Jaleel Shaw
 NEW
58
The Lost Generation
Side Project Skip
 NEW
59
Murder By Numbers
Christian McBride
 NEW
60
Jersey Bounce
Carrie Jackson
 NEW
61
Cover Band Town
Todd Bailey
 SAME
62
Down By The River
Biscuit Rouse
 SAME
63
Celestial Yard
Patriarchs In Black
 ▲ 64
64
Song To The Pharoah Kings
Return To Forever
 NEW
65
The Triumphant Dance Of The Butterfly
Buster Williams
 NEW
66
Superstar
Nat Adderley, Jr.
 NEW
67
Interstate Love Song
Stone Temple Pilots
 ▼ 66
68
Long Ones
Lauryn Hill
 ▼ 65
69
Deliver Me From Nowhere
Jason Didner
 NEW
70
Runaround
Blues Traveler
 ▲ 98
71
Wildwood Boogie
Charlie Gracie
 ▲ 96
72
On My Way To Cape May
Al Alberts
 ▲ 95
73
Lies
The Knickerbockers
 ▲ 94
74
Nobody Gonna Steal My Jelly Role
Billy Hector
 ▲ 93
75
Diamond Dogs
The Weeklings
 ▲ 83
76
I Think I Love You
The Partridge Family
 ▲ 79
77
Freedom
Richie Havens
 ▼ 46
78
Ladies First
Queen Latifah
 ▼ 43
79
Real
Rory D'Lasnow
 ▼ 41
80
Bent
Rhonette Smith
 ▼ 33
81
Rose Colored Glasses
Mike Daly
 ▼ 26
82
Palisades Park
Freddie Cannon
 ▼ 30
83
Blues In The 21st
Jimmy Vivino
 ▼ 42
84
Brooklyn Can Wait
Jake Thistle
 SAME
85
Frankie
The Modbeats
 SAME
86
Catalyst
Monte Maybe
 SAME
87
Five Dollar Yacht Club
Forever King Clark
 SAME
88
Make Sure They Spell Your Name Right
Cre8ive MC
 SAME
89
Whole Lotta Nothin'
Matt O'Ree Band
 SAME
90
Hey
Stella Mrowicki
 SAME
91
All In All
The Delavantes
 SAME
92
Blaming It All On You
Buzzed Meg
 SAME
93
Ice Cream On The Beach
Annabelle Chairlegs
 NEW
94
Bitter Fruit
Stevie Van Zandt
 ▲ 100
95
Old Shoes
The Cucumbers
 ▼ 82
96
Cherish
David Cassidy
 ▼ 78
97
You Enjoy Yourself
Phish
 ▼ 70
98
Garden State Parkway Boogie
Holme
 ▼ 56
99
Over You Under You
Eric Roberson
 ▼ 51
100
Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Monkees
 ▼ 34

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