The Countdown so far- 100-‘Any Time At All’/ 99- ‘No Reply’ / 98- ‘You Know My Name [Look Up The Number]/ 97- ‘The Inner Light’ / 96- ‘ You Won’t See Me’ / 95- ‘Baby’s In Black’/ 94- ‘Sexy Sadie’ / 93- ‘I Need You’ / 92- ‘Love Me Do’/ 91- ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey’/ 90- ‘Doctor Robert’/ 89- ‘There’s A Place’/ 88- ‘Good Day Sunshine’ 87- ‘It’s Only Love’ 86- ‘I Want You [She’s So Heavy] 85-‘Yer Blues’ / 84- ‘From Me To You’/ 83-‘She’s Leaving Home’/ 82-‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite’/ 81-‘I’m So Tired’/ 80-‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ 79- ‘Baby, You’re A Rich Man’ 78- ‘Yellow Submarine.’ #77 ‘Things We Said Today.’ #76: ‘When I’m Sixty- Four’ #75: ‘Happiness IS A Warm Gun’ 74: ‘I Will’ 73: ‘Within You Without You’ 72: ‘ This Boy’ 71: ‘And I Love Her’- #70: ‘Fixing A Hole’ #69- ‘Drive My Car’

#69- ‘Drive My Car’ – the lead off track- and one of eight songs from Rubber Soul to crack the Hot 100. Written by Paul McCartney with some help from John Lennon. It was also the lead off track in America to the ‘Yesterday and Today’ album. As Paul tells it he arrived at John Lennon’s mansion- with the tune in his head but the lyrics were a disaster- which John told him. So they worked on it -and after some difficulty- it was ‘Drive My Car’ which Paul later said was an old blues euphemism for sex. While ‘Drive My Car’ wasn’t released as a single- I could see this being a hit if it had. Of course you could say that about a lot of Beatles songs.