Spirit in the Sky

There are a lot of great gospel songs and rock songs about the Good Lord and religion. So today on this Sunday, let's travel back to 1969 to Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky. This song made it to #3 in the United States Billboard charts, but is considered one of the great one-hit wonders of the 1960s. The s...

Norman Greenbaum's 1969 hit "Spirit in the Sky" is, along with Nena's "99 Luftballons" and Lipps, Inc.'s "Funkytown," one of the definitive one-hit wonders of the rock era.

The singer was a passenger in a car when it was hit by a motorcycle.