Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	1989 1993 (re-release)
Genre	Pop, Rock
Length	28:28 (original 1988 release) 27:46 (1993 re-release)
Label	Rhino Records
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits chronology
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1967 (1989) Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968 (1989) Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969 (1989)

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Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1968.

The album includes five songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The remaining five tracks each reached the Hot 100's Top 5. When the album was re-release in 1993, a number of tracks were taken off the collection and replaced with other hits from 1968. "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," "Love Child," "Born to Be Wild," & "Grazing in the Grass" were replaced with "Tighten Up," (the #1 song of the year) "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay," "People Got to Be Free," & "Chain of Fools."

Track listing

1989 original release

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Billboard peak No. 1 in December)	Whitfield/Strong	Marvin Gaye	3:19
2.	"Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)" (Billboard peak No. 1 in January)		John Fred & His Playboy Band	2:58
3.	"Yummy Yummy Yummy" (Billboard peak No. 4 in June)	Levine/Resnick	Ohio Express	2:22
4.	"Green Tambourine" (Billboard peak No. 1 in February)	Leka/Pinz	The Lemon Pipers	2:25
5.	"Grazing in the Grass" (Billboard peak No. 1 in July)	Hou	Hugh Masekela	2:40
6.	"Born to Be Wild" (Billboard peak No. 2)	Bonfire	Steppenwolf	3:33
7.	"Cry Like a Baby" (Billboard peak No. 2 in April)	Penn/Oldham	The Box Tops	2:35
8.	"Mony Mony" (Billboard peak No. 3 in June)		Tommy James & the Shondells	2:54
9.	"Love Child" (Billboard peak No. 1 in November)	Taylor/Wilson/Sawyer/Richards	Diana Ross & the Supremes	2:58
10.	"The Horse" (Billboard peak No. 2 in June)	James	Cliff Nobles & Co.	2:39

1993 re-release

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Tighten Up" (Billboard peak No. 1 in May)	Bell/Buttier	Archie Bell & the Drells	3:14
2.	"Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)" (Billboard peak No. 1 in January)	Fred/Bernard	John Fred & His Playboy Band	2:58
3.	"(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" (Billboard peak No. 1 in March)	Redding/Cropper	Otis Redding	2:41
4.	"People Got to Be Free" (Billboard peak No. 1 in August)	Cavaliere/Brigati	The Rascals	3:01
5.	"Chain of Fools" (Billboard peak No. 2 in January)	Covay	Aretha Franklin	2:48
6.	"Green Tambourine" (Billboard peak No. 1 in February)	Leka/Pinz	The Lemon Pipers	2:27
7.	"Cry Like a Baby" (Billboard peak No. 2 in April)	Penn/Oldham	The Box Tops	2:35
8.	"Mony Mony" (Billboard peak No. 3 in June)	Bloom/Cordell/Gentry/James	Tommy James & the Shondells	2:54
9.	"Yummy Yummy Yummy" (Billboard peak No. 4 in June)	Levine/Resnick	Ohio Express	2:22
10.	"The Horse" (Billboard peak No. 2 in June)	James	Cliff Nobles & Co.	2:39