Top 100 countdown: 70-61.

70. I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren. From his 1972 masterpiece Something/Anything?

69. Streets of Your Town - Go Betweens. Post-optimistic mid-eighties studio air soaks through this hypnotic small-town track like a melancholy alcoholic.

68. Summer Rain - Johnny Rivers. Guitar notes are the early dew of a summer day before rain; Marty Paich strings are a passing storm, and horns blare the optimism that can build a whole new imagined world out of one sun shower. Possibly the best ‘summer’ song ever.

67. A Hundred Pounds of Clay - Gene McDaniels. Brilliant gospel crossover charted higher in Australia than anywhere else. (Banned in the UK, of course. Idiots.)

66. Starfish-on-the-Toast - Donovan. Hauntingly evocative regional psychedelic folk. I was given the album this was on at age 13 and I couldn't believe the tunes were not medieval folk songs.

65. Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen. Reviewed in this blog on 30 January 2008 but blogger won't allow hyperlink.

64. Sylvia's Mother - Dr. Hook. Almost fifty years later, Sylvia's mother still won't hand over the phone, the old bitch.

63. The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon and Garfunkel. Otherworldly Palestrina-like polyphonic harmonies murmur from the reverb chamber, taking this song into bewitching territory. Best song on the Bridge Over Troubled Water album.

62. You're the First, My Last, My Everything - Barry White. Soul, rock, funk, gospel, disco, plus an orchestra. Bizarrely, this was written in 1953 ... as a country tune.

61. We May Never Pass This Way Again - Seals and Crofts. Classified as 1970s soft rock, but head and shoulders above most of the rubbish that resides in that bin. Overshadowed by their smash hit Summer Breeze.