“Does Your Mama Know About Me” – Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers were a Canadian soul band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The group recorded for the Gordy Records division of Motown Records in 1968, where they had a top 30 hit single,
January 8, 1968 – “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper.
“Think” is a song written by American singer Aretha Franklin and Ted White, and first recorded by Franklin. It was released as a single in 1968, from her Aretha Now album.
“Oh, How It Hurts” – Barbara Mason (born August 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American soul singer with several R&B and pop hits in the 1960s and 1970s, best known for her self-written 1965 hit song “Yes, I’m Ready.
“Cowboys to Girls” is a 1968 R&B single written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and performed by The Intruders. The single was a crossover hit becoming The Intruders‘ first Top 40 single. “Cowboys to Girls” was also The Intruders’ only #1 song on the R&B singles chart and a Top 10 smash on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #6, making it the biggest hit of The Intruders’ career. “Slow Drag” released the same year.
February 1968 – “Tell Mama” is the seventh studio album by American singer Etta James. Her second album release for Cadet Records, produced by Rick Hall at his FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, it was James’s first album since 1964 to enter the Billboard 200 chart. It contained her first Top 10 R&B hits since 1964 – the title cut and “Security”. The “Tell Mama” single gave James her all-time highest Billboard Hot 100 position, reaching number 23.
February 1968 – “Listen Here” Eddie Harris (October 20, 1934 – November 5, 1996) was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are “Freedom Jazz Dance”, popularized by Miles Davis in 1966, and “Listen Here”.
March 12, 1968 – “Grazing in the Grass” is an instrumental composed by Philemon Hou and first recorded by the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
March 28, 1968 – “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing” is a 1968 single released by American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, on the Tamla label
April 1968 – “Dance to the Music” is the second studio album by funk/soul band Sly and the Family Stone, released in 1968 on Epic/CBS Records. It contains the Top Ten hit single of the same name, which was influential in the formation and popularization of the musical subgenre of psychedelic soul and helped lay the groundwork for the development of funk music.
April 5, 1968 – “Mrs. Robinson” is a song by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fourth studio album, Bookends
April 30, 1968 – “Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day” is a 1968 single released by American and Motown recording artist Stevie Wonder.
May 9, 1968 – “Born to Be Wild” is a song written by Mars Bonfire and first performed by the band Steppenwolf.
“Magic Carpet Ride” is a rock song written by John Kay and Rushton Moreve from the Canadian-American hard rock band Steppenwolf.
May 14, 1968 – “La La Means I Love You” is the debut studio album by American vocal group the Delfonics. It was released via Philly Groove Records in 1968. It peaked at number 100 on the Billboard 200 chart.
May 31, 1968 – “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones
June 11, 1968 – “Hello, I Love You” is a song recorded by American rock band the Doors
July 9, 1968 – “You’re All I Need to Get By” is a song recorded by the American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and released on Motown Records’ Tamla label
August, 1968 – “Stoned Soul Picnic” is the third album by the American pop group the 5th Dimension, released in 1968. Early versions of the album had a lyric sheet inserted in the sleeve.
August 7, 1968 – “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” is a funk song performed by James Brown, and written with his bandleader Alfred “Pee Wee” Ellis
August 26, 1968 – “Hey Jude” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single
September 30, 1968 – “Love Child” released by the Motown label for Diana Ross & the Supremes. The second single and title track from their album Love Child
October 1968 – “Who’s Making Love” is a song written by Stax Records staffers Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Don Davis and Raymond Jackson and recorded by singer Johnnie Taylor in 1968.