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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 9, 2017 14:12:26 GMT 1
I will have another chart up here soon. I am way ahead of this now in the playlists. At one point I have two of the best songs of the year entering on the same week and really they HAVE to both get to #1 so I will probably make one #1 first then the other one.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 9, 2017 22:48:45 GMT 1
17 June 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band 3 ( 3 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 4 ( 6 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 5 ( 11 ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
6 ( 4 ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles (#4) 7 ( 13 ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces 8 ( 8 ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies 9 ( 16 ) Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight And The Pips 10 ( 10 ) Windy - Association
11 ( 7 ) Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion (#7) 12 ( 5 ) Okay! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#3) 13 ( 9 ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes (#9) 14 ( 21 ) Strange Brew - Cream 15 ( 14 ) Paper Sun - Traffic (#14) 16 ( 20 ) Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas 17 ( -- ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension 18 ( 15 ) Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark (#15) 19 ( 22 ) It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile) - Vikki Carr 20 ( 12 ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#4)
21 ( -- ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons 22 ( -- ) Come To The Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre 23 ( 28 ) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 24 ( 30 ) Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang 25 ( 37 ) What Good Am I - Cilla Black 26 ( 26 ) Two Streets - Val Doonican 27 ( 19 ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#11) 28 ( 18 ) Creeque Alley - Mamas & The Papas (#9) 29 ( 17 ) Respect - Aretha Franklin (#2[1]) 30 ( 25 ) Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG's (#22)
31 ( 34 ) Night Of The Long Grass - Troggs 32 ( 23 ) Shake A Tail Feather - James & Bobby Purify (#14) 33 ( 27 ) Six O'Clock - Lovin' Spoonful (#24) 34 ( 36 ) Let's Live For Today - Grass Roots 35 ( 24 ) Groovin' - Young Rascals (#5) 36 ( 35 ) There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck (#33) 37 ( -- ) Olive Tree - Judith Durham 38 ( -- ) Mary In The Morning - Al Martino 39 ( 31 ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane (#15) 40 ( -- ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans
-- ( 29 ) If I Were A Rich Man - Topol (#1[3]) -- ( 32 ) Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#9) -- ( 33 ) Sunshine Girl - Parade (#18) -- ( 38 ) Walkin' In The Sunshine - Roger Miller (#21) -- ( 39 ) All I Need - Temptations (#30) -- ( 40 ) You Gotta Stop / Love Machine - Elvis Presley (#26)
-- ( -- ) Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) - Janis Ian
Same top 2 now for 4 weeks in a row and top 3 for two weeks in a row. Frankie Valli and Scott McKenzie make some ground there. I might have expected all of those in that top 4 to reach #1. As the "solo" Frankie Valli tries to break into that top 3, his group gets another hit although the 4 seasons enter below the 5th dimension and 5 Americans also grab an entry so lots of bands with numbers.
Another group member getting a solo hit is Judith Durham, who was a singer with the Seekers.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 9, 2017 23:08:38 GMT 1
Waterloo Sunset is probably my favourite song of the 60s. I even like Cathy Dennis's version!
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 10, 2017 11:00:09 GMT 1
24 June 1967:
1 ( -- ) Light My Fire - Doors < Debut at #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (#1[5]) 3 ( 4 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 4 ( 2 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band (#2[4]) 5 ( 5 ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie 6 ( 3 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum (#3) 7 ( -- ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd 8 ( 7 ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces (#7) 9 ( -- ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees 10 ( 9 ) Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight And The Pips (#9)
11 ( 17 ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension 12 ( 8 ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies (#8) 13 ( 6 ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles (#4) 14 ( 21 ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons 15 ( 14 ) Strange Brew - Cream (#14) 16 ( -- ) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder 17 ( 22 ) Come To The Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre 18 ( 10 ) Windy - Association (#10) 19 ( 16 ) Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (#16) 20 ( 11 ) Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion (#7)
21 ( 15 ) Paper Sun - Traffic (#14) 22 ( 19 ) It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile) - Vikki Carr (#19) 23 ( 25 ) What Good Am I - Cilla Black 24 ( 13 ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes (#9) 25 ( 23 ) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (#23) 26 ( 12 ) Okay! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#3) 27 ( 24 ) Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang (#24) 28 ( 18 ) Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark (#15) 29 ( 37 ) Olive Tree - Judith Durham 30 ( -- ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies
31 ( 38 ) Mary In The Morning - Al Martino 32 ( 26 ) Two Streets - Val Doonican (#26) 33 ( 20 ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#4) 34 ( 40 ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans 35 ( 31 ) Night Of The Long Grass - Troggs (#31) 36 ( -- ) The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood 37 ( 34 ) Let's Live For Today - Grass Roots (#34) 38 ( 27 ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#11) 39 ( 30 ) Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG's (#22) 40 ( 36 ) There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck (#33)
-- ( 28 ) Creeque Alley - Mamas & The Papas (#9) -- ( 29 ) Respect - Aretha Franklin (#2[1]) -- ( 32 ) Shake A Tail Feather - James & Bobby Purify (#14) -- ( 33 ) Six O'Clock - Lovin' Spoonful (#24) -- ( 35 ) Groovin' - Young Rascals (#5) -- ( 39 ) Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane (#15)
Ok, so we've never had an artist debut at #1 before. (We will however get one in 1998, but that's over 30 years away). And we've had Hammond Organ before (? & The Mysterians). We've had long songs before, including "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck Quintet which has some interesting weird stuff in the middle too. This sort-of combines everything and just blew away everything that was on its playlist.
Given the stagnation near the top of the chart and that the previous number one had clocked up 5 weeks, it was almost "open" for this to debut at the top. (Also I get an insight as to what is coming and there's a really big one 3 weeks after this one. So as it's such a great song, let's maximise its weeks on top? The Kinks are too but they've managed 5...). This got to #1 in the USA but in the UK in 1967 it only peaked at #49. Which one do you think got it right? The UK did make some amends when it was re-issued in 1991 and at least went top 10.
Long epic songs may even at some time in the future become a standard of the band entering at #7 this week. At present they are still led by Syd Barrett and just make nice pop songs.
The entry at #9 I have preferred to use its original title not its "alternate" title. When it comes to the combi chart, Last Dreamer will need to be aware that this song has two different titles and remember to combine them.
A Stevie Wonder classic gets the next entry, and then a relatively unknown one.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 12, 2017 0:38:35 GMT 1
1 July 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Light My Fire - Doors < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli 3 ( 7 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd 4 ( 9 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees 5 ( 2 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (#1[5]) 6 ( 4 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band (#2[4]) 7 ( 5 ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie (#5) 8 ( 16 ) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder 9 ( 11 ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension 10 ( 6 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum (#3)
11 ( 8 ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces (#7) 12 ( 14 ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons 13 ( 10 ) Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight And The Pips (#9) 14 ( 17 ) Come To The Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre 15 ( -- ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea 16 ( 12 ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies (#8) 17 ( 15 ) Strange Brew - Cream (#14) 18 ( -- ) Just Loving You - Anita Harris 19 ( 30 ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies 20 ( -- ) Let's Pretend - Lulu
21 ( 13 ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles (#4) 22 ( -- ) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 23 ( 23 ) What Good Am I - Cilla Black 24 ( 19 ) Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (#16) 25 ( 29 ) Olive Tree - Judith Durham 26 ( 36 ) The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood 27 ( 31 ) Mary In The Morning - Al Martino 28 ( 22 ) It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile) - Vikki Carr (#19) 29 ( 18 ) Windy - Association (#10) 30 ( 21 ) Paper Sun - Traffic (#14)
31 ( 25 ) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (#23) 32 ( 34 ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans 33 ( 20 ) Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion (#7) 34 ( -- ) Soul Finger - Bar-Kays 35 ( 27 ) Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang (#24) 36 ( -- ) I Take It Back - Sandy Posey 37 ( -- ) Moanin' - Chris Farlowe 38 ( 24 ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes (#9) 39 ( 32 ) Two Streets - Val Doonican (#26) 40 ( 28 ) Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark (#15)
-- ( 26 ) Okay! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#3) -- ( 33 ) The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#4) -- ( 35 ) Night Of The Long Grass - Troggs (#31) -- ( 37 ) Let's Live For Today - Grass Roots (#34) -- ( 38 ) Too Many Fishes In The Sea & Three Little Fishes - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#11) -- ( 39 ) Hip Hug-Her - Booker T & The MG's (#22) -- ( 40 ) There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck (#33)
-- ( -- ) Make Me Yours - Bettye Swann -- ( -- ) Shake Rattle & Roll - Arthur Conley -- ( -- ) Claire - Paul and Barry Ryan
With there not being any singles to be taken of the Beatles Sgt Pepper album, it is open for various opportunist cover versions, and we got two of the same song. Young Idea beat Joe Brown's cover of "With A Little Help From My Friends". Incidentally this will not prevent another possible cover of this song charting as long as it sounds completely different...
Anita Harris gets the next of the entries with her ballad.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 12, 2017 22:19:52 GMT 1
Sporting successes of 1967:
Football. In England the league was won by Manchester United. the FA Cup by Tottenham Hotspur (beating Chelsea in the final) and the league cup was won by Queens Park Rangers (who beat West Brom in the final).
In Scotland, Celtic swept the board, winning the league, the Scottish Cup (vs Aberdeen) and won the Scottish League cup (beating Rangers).
In addition, Celtic won the European Cup. Rangers even came close to winning the Cup-Winners Cup but lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich. The Fairs cup was won by Dynamo Zagreb beating Leeds United in the final
American Football: The first Superbowl was contested in 1967 where the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
Baseball: St Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox.
Tennis: Wimbledon and the US Open had the same winners. John Newcombe won the men's singles defeating Wilhelm Bungert in the Wimbledon final and Clark Graebner in the US Open final. Billie Jean King won the women's singles beating Ann Haydon-Jones in both the Wimbledon and US Open finals.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 12, 2017 22:25:44 GMT 1
8 July 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Light My Fire - Doors < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd 3 ( 2 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees 5 ( 8 ) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder 6 ( 15 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea 7 ( -- ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood 8 ( 18 ) Just Loving You - Anita Harris 9 ( 9 ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension 10 ( 5 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (#1[5])
11 ( 6 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band (#2[4]) 12 ( 20 ) Let's Pretend - Lulu 13 ( 7 ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie (#5) 14 ( 22 ) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 15 ( 12 ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons (#12) 16 ( 14 ) Come To The Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre (#14) 17 ( -- ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra 18 ( 19 ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies 19 ( 11 ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces (#7) 20 ( 10 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum (#3)
21 ( -- ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 22 ( 13 ) Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight And The Pips (#9) 23 ( 26 ) The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood 24 ( 17 ) Strange Brew - Cream (#14) 25 ( 16 ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies (#8) 26 ( 34 ) Soul Finger - Bar-Kays 27 ( 25 ) Olive Tree - Judith Durham (#25) 28 ( 23 ) What Good Am I - Cilla Black (#23) 29 ( 27 ) Mary In The Morning - Al Martino (#27) 30 ( 36 ) I Take It Back - Sandy Posey
31 ( -- ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits 32 ( 37 ) Moanin' - Chris Farlowe 33 ( -- ) Bowling Green - Everly Brothers 34 ( -- ) Step Out Of Your Mind - American Breed 35 ( 24 ) Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (#16) 36 ( 21 ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles (#4) 37 ( 32 ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans (#32) 38 ( 28 ) It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile) - Vikki Carr (#19) 39 ( -- ) Marta - Bachelors 40 ( 31 ) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (#23)
-- ( 29 ) Windy - Association (#10) -- ( 30 ) Paper Sun - Traffic (#14) -- ( 33 ) Little Bit O' Soul - Music Explosion (#7) -- ( 35 ) Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang (#24) -- ( 38 ) When You're Young And In Love - Marvelettes (#9) -- ( 39 ) Two Streets - Val Doonican (#26) -- ( 40 ) Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark (#15)
-- ( -- ) Annabella - John Walker
A good week for Nancy Sinatra. This was a double A-side in the UK but in the US they charted separately and at least one of them entered there this week so they both enter this week and get the highest two entries too. One of them is a duet with Lee Hazlewood, with whom she recorded a few duets, and that is country-music style. The other is a theme for a James Bond film.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 14, 2017 1:32:15 GMT 1
15 July 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Light My Fire - Doors < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd 3 ( 7 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood 4 ( 4 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees 5 ( 6 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea 6 ( 3 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli (#2[1]) 7 ( -- ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles 8 ( 5 ) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder (#5) 9 ( 8 ) Just Loving You - Anita Harris (#8) 10 ( 17 ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
11 ( 12 ) Let's Pretend - Lulu 12 ( 14 ) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 13 ( 9 ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension (#9) 14 ( 21 ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 15 ( -- ) 007 - Desmond Dekker And The Aces 16 ( 10 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (#1[5]) 17 ( -- ) To Love Somebody - Bee Gees 18 ( 11 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band (#2[4]) 19 ( 18 ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies (#18) 20 ( 15 ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons (#12)
21 ( 31 ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits 22 ( 16 ) Come To The Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre (#14) 23 ( 13 ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie (#5) 24 ( 26 ) Soul Finger - Bar-Kays 25 ( 33 ) Bowling Green - Everly Brothers 26 ( 23 ) The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood (#23) 27 ( 34 ) Step Out Of Your Mind - American Breed 28 ( 30 ) I Take It Back - Sandy Posey 29 ( 19 ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces (#7) 30 ( 39 ) Marta - Bachelors
31 ( 32 ) Moanin' - Chris Farlowe 32 ( 27 ) Olive Tree - Judith Durham (#25) 33 ( -- ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw 34 ( 20 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum (#3) 35 ( 24 ) Strange Brew - Cream (#14) 36 ( 22 ) Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight And The Pips (#9) 37 ( 29 ) Mary In The Morning - Al Martino (#27) 38 ( 28 ) What Good Am I - Cilla Black (#23) 39 ( 25 ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies (#8) 40 ( 37 ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans (#32)
-- ( 35 ) Tramp - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (#16) -- ( 36 ) She'd Rather Be With Me - Turtles (#4) -- ( 38 ) It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile) - Vikki Carr (#19) -- ( 40 ) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (#23)
-- ( -- ) I Like The Way - Tommy James & The Shondells
The Doors have already accumulated 4 weeks on top - that's the second in a row to do so after there weren't any previously in 1967. Can it manage a 5th too, or will the Beatles get to the top next week?
This is a pop anthem that samples in a load of other bits, and it's a Lennon song. (The intro samples the French national anthem, the very end samples lots of little bits including "In The Mood" and even a bit of old Beatles songs, and a Bach 2-part invention).
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 16, 2017 0:11:50 GMT 1
22 July 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Light My Fire - Doors < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles 3 ( 3 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood 4 ( 2 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd (#2[2]) 5 ( 4 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees (#4) 6 ( 5 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea (#5) 7 ( 15 ) 007 - Desmond Dekker And The Aces 8 ( 10 ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra 9 ( 17 ) To Love Somebody - Bee Gees 10 ( 6 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli (#2[1])
11 ( 14 ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 12 ( 11 ) Let's Pretend - Lulu (#11) 13 ( 9 ) Just Loving You - Anita Harris (#8) 14 ( -- ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies 15 ( 12 ) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (#12) 16 ( 8 ) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder (#5) 17 ( -- ) When I'm Sixty Four - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 18 ( 21 ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits 19 ( 13 ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension (#9) 20 ( 25 ) Bowling Green - Everly Brothers
21 ( 19 ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies (#18) 22 ( 33 ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw 23 ( 27 ) Step Out Of Your Mind - American Breed 24 ( 16 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (#1[5]) 25 ( 24 ) Soul Finger - Bar-Kays (#24) 26 ( 30 ) Marta - Bachelors 27 ( 20 ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons (#12) 28 ( 18 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band (#2[4]) 29 ( 28 ) I Take It Back - Sandy Posey (#28) 30 ( -- ) A Girl Like You - Young Rascals 31 ( 22 ) Come To The Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre (#14) 32 ( 26 ) The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood (#23) 33 ( 31 ) Moanin' - Chris Farlowe (#31) 34 ( -- ) Your Unchanging Love - Marvin Gaye 35 ( -- ) Let The Good Times Roll & Feel So Good - Bunny Sigler 36 ( 23 ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie (#5) 37 ( 32 ) Olive Tree - Judith Durham (#25) 38 ( 29 ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces (#7) 39 ( 40 ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans (#32) 40 ( 37 ) Mary In The Morning - Al Martino (#27)
-- ( 34 ) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum (#3) -- ( 35 ) Strange Brew - Cream (#14) -- ( 36 ) Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight And The Pips (#9) -- ( 38 ) What Good Am I - Cilla Black (#23) -- ( 39 ) Carrie-Anne - Hollies (#8)
Two #1s in a row staying on top for 5 weeks as the Doors clock up the same number of weeks as the Kinks. Two completely different songs of course but both classics.
Whilst Ray Davies is the main songwriter for the Kinks, his brother Dave gets a solo hit, getting a bit of limelight for a change. This single reached #3 in the UK chart.
As Young Idea fall, another song from the Sgt Pepper album appears as Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen return to the chart after a lengthy absence to also have a go at an opportunist cover. One of the best songs on the album, this is a fairly faithful cover version, but unlike Young Idea who reached the top 10 with theirs, this one only just scraped the top 50.
The Young Rascals follow up their classic "Groovin'". This is the second hit with this title, Cliff Richard did so with a totally different song in 1961 and in 1995 the title would be used again for another song by Edwyn Collins.
Marvin Gaye on his own this time, having duetted with a couple of female singers earlier in the year.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 17, 2017 2:31:19 GMT 1
29 July 1967:
1 ( 2 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles < 13th #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Light My Fire - Doors (#1[5]) 3 ( 3 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood 4 ( 7 ) 007 - Desmond Dekker And The Aces 5 ( 14 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies 6 ( 9 ) To Love Somebody - Bee Gees 7 ( 5 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees (#4) 8 ( 4 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd (#2[2]) 9 ( 17 ) When I'm Sixty Four - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 10 ( 8 ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra (#8)
11 ( 6 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea (#5) 12 ( 11 ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (#11) 13 ( -- ) Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees 14 ( 12 ) Let's Pretend - Lulu (#11) 15 ( 10 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli (#2[1]) 16 ( 22 ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw 17 ( 18 ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits 18 ( 20 ) Bowling Green - Everly Brothers 19 ( -- ) Hi Hi Hazel - Troggs 20 ( 13 ) Just Loving You - Anita Harris (#8)
21 ( 30 ) A Girl Like You - Young Rascals 22 ( 15 ) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (#12) 23 ( 23 ) Step Out Of Your Mind - American Breed 24 ( 34 ) Your Unchanging Love - Marvin Gaye 25 ( 35 ) Let The Good Times Roll & Feel So Good - Bunny Sigler 26 ( 26 ) Marta - Bachelors 27 ( 21 ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies (#18) 28 ( 16 ) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder (#5) 29 ( -- ) Under My Thumb - Who 30 ( 19 ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension (#9)
31 ( 25 ) Soul Finger - Bar-Kays (#24) 32 ( 29 ) I Take It Back - Sandy Posey (#28) 33 ( 24 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (#1[5]) 34 ( -- ) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones 35 ( 27 ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons (#12) 36 ( 33 ) Moanin' - Chris Farlowe (#31) 37 ( -- ) Gin House Blues - Amen Corner 38 ( 32 ) The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood (#23) 39 ( 28 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band (#2[4]) 40 ( 39 ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans (#32)
-- ( 31 ) Come To The Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre (#14) -- ( 36 ) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie (#5) -- ( 37 ) Olive Tree - Judith Durham (#25) -- ( 38 ) Here Come The Nice - Small Faces (#7) -- ( 40 ) Mary In The Morning - Al Martino (#27)
Yet another Beatles #1. Lucky 13 for them.
Yet another Monkees hit. This song was written by Carole King & Gerry Goffin. Remember them? They were writing a lot of hits in the early 1960s.
Another songwriting name and also singer from the early 60s is Lonnie Donegan and he wrote the song that Tom Jones spent several weeks at #2 with. Apparently Lonnie gave him the song saying it was better suited for Tom Jones's voice than his own. Elvis Presley has also recorded it.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 19, 2017 2:29:11 GMT 1
5 August 1967:
1 ( 1 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood 3 ( 2 ) Light My Fire - Doors (#1[5]) 4 ( 5 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies 5 ( 4 ) 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker And The Aces (#4) 6 ( 13 ) Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees 7 ( -- ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band 8 ( 6 ) To Love Somebody - Bee Gees (#6) 9 ( 9 ) When I'm Sixty Four - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen 10 ( -- ) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes
11 ( 19 ) Hi Hi Hazel - Troggs 12 ( 7 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees (#4) 13 ( 16 ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw 14 ( 10 ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra (#8) 15 ( 8 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd (#2[2]) 16 ( -- ) The House That Jack Built - Alan Price Set 17 ( 12 ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (#11) 18 ( 21 ) A Girl Like You - Young Rascals 19 ( 11 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea (#5) 20 ( 17 ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits (#17)
21 ( 29 ) Under My Thumb - Who 22 ( 18 ) Bowling Green - Everly Brothers (#18) 23 ( 14 ) Let's Pretend - Lulu (#11) 24 ( 24 ) Your Unchanging Love - Marvin Gaye 25 ( -- ) A Bad Night - Cat Stevens 26 ( 25 ) Let The Good Times Roll & Feel So Good - Bunny Sigler (#25) 27 ( -- ) Tallyman - Jeff Beck 28 ( 15 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli (#2[1]) 29 ( -- ) Words - Monkees 30 ( 34 ) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones
31 ( -- ) Thank The Lord For The Night Time - Neil Diamond 32 ( 23 ) Step Out Of Your Mind - American Breed (#23) 33 ( 37 ) Gin House Blues - Amen Corner 34 ( 26 ) Marta - Bachelors (#26) 35 ( 20 ) Just Loving You - Anita Harris (#8) 36 ( 22 ) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (#12) 37 ( 27 ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies (#18) 38 ( -- ) Out & About - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart 39 ( 32 ) I Take It Back - Sandy Posey (#28) 40 ( -- ) More And More - Andy Williams
-- ( 28 ) I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder (#5) -- ( 30 ) Up Up And Away - 5th Dimension (#9) -- ( 31 ) Soul Finger - Bar-Kays (#24) -- ( 33 ) Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (#1[5]) -- ( 35 ) C'mon Marianne - Four Seasons (#12) -- ( 36 ) Moanin' - Chris Farlowe (#31) -- ( 38 ) The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood (#23) -- ( 39 ) Finchley Central - New Vaudeville Band (#2[4]) -- ( 40 ) Sound Of Love - Five Americans (#32)
-- ( -- ) Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin -- ( -- ) Don't Let The Rain Fall Down On Me - Critters -- ( -- ) The Time Has Come - PP Arnold -- ( -- ) (I Wanna) Testify - Parliaments
The first chart of August 1967, the "summer of love" and with that song at #1 you can see why. Meanwhile the New Vaudeville Band get the highest new entry with a single that didn't chart so high in the UK but in this chart already peaks higher than "Peek-A-Boo" managed. It will be their last hit, but Geoff Stephens will continue composing hit singles throughout the 1970s. (His final chart-hit composition got to #3 in my chart in early 1979 for Hot Chocolate). This song (Green Street Green) was also the first song I ever performed at Tricity Vogue's ukulele cabaret on the open mic. The subject that night was "green". Holly Penfield was there. (She would later have a #1 in my chart!) and told me she really liked my performance.
The Tremeloes previously covered Cat Stevens but this week enter higher than he does. Yet another Monkees hit, I think this may have been a US B-side but in any case it is not the Bee Gees song. (Not sure they've even written that song yet).
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 19, 2017 19:53:40 GMT 1
12 August 1967:
1 ( 1 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( -- ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces 3 ( 7 ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band 4 ( -- ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West 5 ( 2 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (#2[1]) 6 ( 10 ) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes 7 ( 6 ) Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees (#6) 8 ( 4 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies (#4) 9 ( 3 ) Light My Fire - Doors (#1[5]) 10 ( -- ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
11 ( 16 ) The House That Jack Built - Alan Price Set 12 ( 5 ) 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker And The Aces (#4) 13 ( 11 ) Hi Hi Hazel - Troggs (#11) 14 ( -- ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys 15 ( 9 ) When I'm Sixty Four - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen (#9) 16 ( 8 ) To Love Somebody - Bee Gees (#6) 17 ( 13 ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw (#13) 18 ( 25 ) A Bad Night - Cat Stevens 19 ( 27 ) Tallyman - Jeff Beck 20 ( 21 ) Under My Thumb - Who
21 ( 18 ) A Girl Like You - Young Rascals (#18) 22 ( 29 ) Words - Monkees 23 ( 12 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees (#4) 24 ( 14 ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra (#8) 25 ( 31 ) Thank The Lord For The Night Time - Neil Diamond 26 ( 17 ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (#11) 27 ( 15 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd (#2[2]) 28 ( -- ) Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles 29 ( 20 ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits (#17) 30 ( 24 ) Your Unchanging Love - Marvin Gaye (#24)
31 ( -- ) Fakin' It - Simon & Garfunkel 32 ( 38 ) Out & About - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart 33 ( 22 ) Bowling Green - Everly Brothers (#18) 34 ( 30 ) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (#30) 35 ( 19 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea (#5) 36 ( 26 ) Let The Good Times Roll & Feel So Good - Bunny Sigler (#25) 37 ( -- ) Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee 38 ( 40 ) More And More - Andy Williams 39 ( 33 ) Gin House Blues - Amen Corner (#33) 40 ( 23 ) Let's Pretend - Lulu (#11)
-- ( 28 ) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli (#2[1]) -- ( 32 ) Step Out Of Your Mind - American Breed (#23) -- ( 34 ) Marta - Bachelors (#26) -- ( 35 ) Just Loving You - Anita Harris (#8) -- ( 36 ) White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (#12) -- ( 37 ) Pay You Back With Interest - Hollies (#18) -- ( 39 ) I Take It Back - Sandy Posey (#28)
-- ( -- ) Cold Sweat - James Brown -- ( -- ) You're My Everything - Temptations -- ( -- ) Things Get Better - Eddie Floyd -- ( -- ) Time Seller - Spencer Davis Group
A 3rd week at #1 for the Beatles.
Putting names of places in England has been a recent trend. Little-known parts of Liverpool and London in particular. "Itchycoo Park" is not the formal name of a park but is a nickname for Little Ilford Park near Wanstead. So it joins "Green Street Green" in the top 3.
An epic hit about a grocer with a children's choir enters at #4. Not sure if the children are teenagers, they sound younger, and in the lyrics, if they don't understand what dying is, they must be very young. Still it's a lovely song. I think the teenage opera was never completed. (If it were, someone point me to the rest of it?).
So we all love songs that tell a story, and there are two of them entering in the top 10. Musically very repetitive, but you listen to the Bobbie Gentry song to hear what is happening, and the song even inspired a film (and possibly a novel?). It's a woman relating a tale of hearing of the suicide of Billie Joe McAllister (who is male in spite of that spelling of Billie). It then transpires she has been "seen" with him a few times, and it's clear they were in some kind of relationship, especially at the end when you hear she is throwing flowers into the river. Apparently though, the drop from that bridge is not that far and you would be expected to survive, and the song inspired people to dive off the bridge, so they had to prevent it with a special order and fine anyone who did.
In any case, both songs that tell a story involve someone dying, one of old age and the other by suicide. (Did the BBC still ban songs about death?).
Another great epic also by the Beach Boys but it only came in 4th in the new entries. Still it should climb into the top 10 next week. Some big names though enter lower, the Beatles B-side to "All You Need Is Love" and in addition to Simon & Garfunkel, a "comeback" single by Bobby Vee that actually went as high as #3 in the USA. And those are just the ones that charted.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 22, 2017 0:31:25 GMT 1
19 August 1967:
1 ( 2 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces < 1st #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West 3 ( 1 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles (#1[3]) 4 ( 3 ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band (#3) 5 ( 10 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry 6 ( 6 ) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes 7 ( -- ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison 8 ( 14 ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys 9 ( 11 ) The House That Jack Built - Alan Price Set 10 ( 5 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (#2[1])
11 ( 7 ) Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees (#6) 12 ( 8 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies (#4) 13 ( 18 ) A Bad Night - Cat Stevens 14 ( -- ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes 15 ( 19 ) Tallyman - Jeff Beck 16 ( -- ) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard 17 ( 9 ) Light My Fire - Doors (#1[5]) 18 ( 28 ) Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles 19 ( 13 ) Hi Hi Hazel - Troggs (#11) 20 ( 22 ) Words - Monkees
21 ( -- ) San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals 22 ( 31 ) Fakin' It - Simon & Garfunkel 23 ( 12 ) 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker And The Aces (#4) 24 ( 20 ) Under My Thumb - Who (#20) 25 ( -- ) Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On) - Elvis Presley 26 ( 25 ) Thank The Lord For The Night Time - Neil Diamond (#25) 27 ( 17 ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw (#13) 28 ( 15 ) When I'm Sixty Four - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen (#9) 29 ( 16 ) To Love Somebody - Bee Gees (#6) 30 ( 21 ) A Girl Like You - Young Rascals (#18)
31 ( 37 ) Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee 32 ( 32 ) Out & About - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart 33 ( -- ) Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques 34 ( 24 ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra (#8) 35 ( 23 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees (#4) 36 ( 26 ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (#11) 37 ( 30 ) Your Unchanging Love - Marvin Gaye (#24) 38 ( 38 ) More And More - Andy Williams 39 ( 29 ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits (#17) 40 ( 34 ) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (#30)
-- ( 27 ) See Emily Play - Pink Floyd (#2[2]) -- ( 33 ) Bowling Green - Everly Brothers (#18) -- ( 35 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Young Idea (#5) -- ( 36 ) Let The Good Times Roll & Feel So Good - Bunny Sigler (#25) -- ( 39 ) Gin House Blues - Amen Corner (#33) -- ( 40 ) Let's Pretend - Lulu (#11)
-- ( -- ) Everybody Needs Love - Gladys Knight & The Pips -- ( -- ) The Sweetest Thing This Side Of Heaven - Chris Bartley
The Small Faces get their first NM #1, with Keith West just behind as the Beatles yield and drop to #3. The highest new entry is a Van Morrison classic.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 23, 2017 0:38:37 GMT 1
26 August 1967:
1 ( 2 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (#1[1]) 3 ( 7 ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison 4 ( 5 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry 5 ( 14 ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes 6 ( 8 ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys 7 ( 4 ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band (#3) 8 ( 3 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles (#1[3]) 9 ( 16 ) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard 10 ( 6 ) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes (#6)
11 ( -- ) The Letter - Box Tops 12 ( 9 ) The House That Jack Built - Alan Price Set (#9) 13 ( 21 ) San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals 14 ( 13 ) A Bad Night - Cat Stevens (#13) 15 ( -- ) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck 16 ( 18 ) Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles 17 ( -- ) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men 18 ( 15 ) Tallyman - Jeff Beck (#15) 19 ( 25 ) Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On) - Elvis Presley 20 ( 11 ) Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees (#6)
21 ( 10 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (#2[1]) 22 ( 22 ) Fakin' It - Simon & Garfunkel 23 ( -- ) There Is A Mountain - Donovan 24 ( 12 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies (#4) 25 ( 20 ) Words - Monkees (#20) 26 ( 33 ) Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques 27 ( -- ) We Love You - Rolling Stones 28 ( 19 ) Hi Hi Hazel - Troggs (#11) 29 ( 17 ) Light My Fire - Doors (#1[5]) 30 ( 31 ) Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee
31 ( 26 ) Thank The Lord For The Night Time - Neil Diamond (#25) 32 ( 24 ) Under My Thumb - Who (#20) 33 ( 32 ) Out & About - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (#32) 34 ( 23 ) 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker And The Aces (#4) 35 ( -- ) The Windows Of The World - Dionne Warwick 36 ( 27 ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw (#13) 37 ( -- ) Thinking Ain't For Me - Paul Jones 38 ( 38 ) More And More - Andy Williams 39 ( 30 ) A Girl Like You - Young Rascals (#18) 40 ( 28 ) When I'm Sixty Four - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen (#9)
-- ( 29 ) To Love Somebody - Bee Gees (#6) -- ( 34 ) You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra (#8) -- ( 35 ) Randy Scouse Git - Monkees (#4) -- ( 36 ) More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (#11) -- ( 37 ) Your Unchanging Love - Marvin Gaye (#24) -- ( 39 ) Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) - Herman's Hermits (#17) -- ( 40 ) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones (#30)
-- ( -- ) You Know What I Mean - Turtles -- ( -- ) Funky Broadway - Wilson Pickett -- ( -- ) There Must Be A Way Frankie Vaughan -- ( -- ) The World We Knew (Over And Over) - Frank Sinatra
When Keith West and the Small Faces came up as being on the same week it did make it tricky as I couldn't really see either of these not reach #1, so now they have both made it to the top. I might have thought "Brown Eyed Girl" would reach the top too. Well maybe it will next week.
The highest entry is only at #11 this week, the Box Tops classic song. Perhaps more surprising is that Engelbert Humperdinck enters as high as #15. Unlikely to challenge those two songs, but could reach the top 10. But then Les Reed did co-write this song and he's done well in this chart as a songwriter, including a couple of #1s so far.
Flowerpot Men. Let's go to San Francisco, that's where the flowers go... They called this the "summer of love" and Scott McKenzie really seems to have had some influence. (Or whoever influenced him influenced loads of others). Even the Rolling Stones have decided to go all psychedelic for "We Love You": the other song Dandelion will be delayed for a few weeks and chart when it does so in the USA. This song seems to be thanking the public and the press, after Mick Jagger was given a harsh sentence for possession of a small amount of drugs. This was supposed to "set an example" but argument was that he can't be treated differently in the eyes of the law just because he's famous.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 24, 2017 0:40:21 GMT 1
2 September 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (#1[1]) 3 ( 3 ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison 4 ( 5 ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes 5 ( 11 ) The Letter - Box Tops 6 ( 4 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (#4) 7 ( 6 ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys (#6) 8 ( 15 ) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck 9 ( 9 ) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard 10 ( 17 ) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men
11 ( -- ) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson 12 ( 13 ) San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals 13 ( 7 ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band (#3) 14 ( 23 ) There Is A Mountain - Donovan 15 ( 8 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles (#1[3]) 16 ( 10 ) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes (#6) 17 ( 16 ) Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles (#16) 18 ( 27 ) We Love You - Rolling Stones 19 ( 19 ) Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On) - Elvis Presley 20 ( 12 ) The House That Jack Built - Alan Price Set (#9)
21 ( 14 ) A Bad Night - Cat Stevens (#13) 22 ( -- ) Getting Together - Tommy James & The Shondells 23 ( 26 ) Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques 24 ( -- ) I Dig Rock And Roll - Peter Paul & Mary 25 ( 18 ) Tallyman - Jeff Beck (#15) 26 ( 22 ) Fakin' It - Simon & Garfunkel (#22) 27 ( 35 ) The Windows Of The World - Dionne Warwick 28 ( -- ) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners 29 ( 37 ) Thinking Ain't For Me - Paul Jones 30 ( -- ) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience
31 ( 20 ) Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees (#6) 32 ( 30 ) Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee (#30) 33 ( 25 ) Words - Monkees (#20) 34 ( -- ) I Had A Dream - Paul Revere & The Raiders 35 ( 21 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (#2[1]) 36 ( -- ) Things I Should Have Said - Grass Roots 37 ( 33 ) Out & About - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (#32) 38 ( 24 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies (#4) 39 ( -- ) There I Go - Vikki Carr 40 ( 31 ) Thank The Lord For The Night Time - Neil Diamond (#25)
-- ( 28 ) Hi Hi Hazel - Troggs (#11) -- ( 29 ) Light My Fire - Doors (#1[5]) -- ( 32 ) Under My Thumb - Who (#20) -- ( 34 ) 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker And The Aces (#4) -- ( 36 ) Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw (#13) -- ( 38 ) More And More - Andy Williams -- ( 39 ) A Girl Like You - Young Rascals (#18) -- ( 40 ) When I'm Sixty Four - Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen (#9)
-- ( -- ) Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon) - Mamas & The Papas
No change in the top 3. It is also a very strong top 3. I didn't comment when it entered that Diana Ross had been top billing for the Supremes and not just this hit but all of those to come. Didn't go down that well with the other members.
Jackie Wilson seems to be known in the UK only for 3 songs. This is one of them. In the US he had loads of hits. He had a few earlier in the decade in this chart.
Among the others, the Mamas & The Papas fail to chart but are mentioned in the Peter Paul & Mary song. That trio had two #1s in 1963.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 26, 2017 2:34:45 GMT 1
9 September 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (#1[1]) 3 ( 5 ) The Letter - Box Tops 4 ( 3 ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (#3) 5 ( 11 ) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson 6 ( -- ) Flowers In The Rain - Move 7 ( 4 ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (#4) 8 ( 8 ) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck 9 ( -- ) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic 10 ( 10 ) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men
11 ( 6 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (#4) 12 ( 7 ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys (#6) 13 ( 14 ) There Is A Mountain - Donovan 14 ( 9 ) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard (#9) 15 ( -- ) Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood 16 ( 22 ) Getting' Together - Tommy James & The Shondells 17 ( 12 ) San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#12) 18 ( 24 ) I Dig Rock And Roll - Peter Paul & Mary 19 ( 18 ) We Love You - Rolling Stones (#18) 20 ( 28 ) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners
21 ( 30 ) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience 22 ( 17 ) Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles (#16) 23 ( 19 ) Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On) - Elvis Presley (#19) 24 ( 13 ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band (#3) 25 ( 23 ) Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques (#23) 26 ( 27 ) The Windows Of The World - Dionne Warwick 27 ( 34 ) I Had A Dream - Paul Revere & The Raiders 28 ( 16 ) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes (#6) 29 ( 15 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles (#1[3]) 30 ( 29 ) Thinking Ain't For Me - Paul Jones (#29)
31 ( 36 ) Things I Should Have Said - Grass Roots 32 ( -- ) Good Times - Eric Burdon And The Animals 33 ( -- ) Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone - Martha & The Vandellas 34 ( 39 ) There I Go - Vikki Carr 35 ( 21 ) A Bad Night - Cat Stevens (#13) 36 ( 20 ) The House That Jack Built - Alan Price Set (#9) 37 ( 26 ) Fakin' It - Simon & Garfunkel (#22) 38 ( -- ) Blue's Theme - Davie Allan & The Arrows 39 ( 25 ) Tallyman - Jeff Beck (#15) 40 ( 32 ) Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee (#30)
-- ( 31 ) Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees (#6) -- ( 33 ) Words - Monkees (#20) -- ( 35 ) Jackson - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (#2[1]) -- ( 37 ) Out & About - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (#32) -- ( 38 ) Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies (#4) -- ( 40 ) Thank The Lord For The Night Time - Neil Diamond (#25)
-- ( -- ) Never My Love - Association -- ( -- ) Little Ole Wine Drinker - Dean Martin
Not sure exactly when summer becomes autumn but the flowers theme continues on with the highest entry. And if there was a second "summer of love" I always felt it was 1984 because "Hole In My Shoe" was a big hit all over again. Brenton Wood's soul classic is the next highest entry.
All in all, the top 15 is strong, and that includes Engelbert at about the right place of #8 for this song.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 28, 2017 23:57:47 GMT 1
16 September 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Flowers In The Rain - Move 3 ( 3 ) The Letter - Box Tops 4 ( 9 ) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic 5 ( 2 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (#1[1]) 6 ( 5 ) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson (#5) 7 ( 15 ) Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood 8 ( 4 ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (#3) 9 ( -- ) From The Underworld - Herd 10 ( 8 ) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (#8)
11 ( 10 ) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (#10) 12 ( 7 ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (#4) 13 ( 16 ) Getting' Together - Tommy James & The Shondells 14 ( 13 ) There Is A Mountain - Donovan (#13) 15 ( 18 ) I Dig Rock And Roll - Peter Paul & Mary 16 ( 20 ) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners 17 ( 21 ) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience 18 ( 11 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (#4) 19 ( 12 ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys (#6) 20 ( -- ) Making Every Minute Count - Spanky And Our Gang
21 ( 14 ) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard (#9) 22 ( 32 ) Good Times - Eric Burdon And The Animals 23 ( 19 ) We Love You - Rolling Stones (#18) 24 ( 33 ) Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone - Martha & The Vandellas 25 ( -- ) Zip Code - Five Americans 26 ( 27 ) I Had A Dream - Paul Revere & The Raiders 27 ( 17 ) San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#12) 28 ( 26 ) The Windows Of The World - Dionne Warwick (#26) 29 ( -- ) Train To Skaville - Ethiopians 30 ( 38 ) Blue's Theme - Davie Allan & The Arrows
31 ( 31 ) Things I Should Have Said - Grass Roots 32 ( 23 ) Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On) - Elvis Presley (#19) 33 ( 22 ) Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles (#16) 34 ( 25 ) Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques (#23) 35 ( 34 ) There I Go - Vikki Carr (#34) 36 ( -- ) I Make A Fool Of Myself - Frankie Valli 37 ( 30 ) Thinking Ain't For Me - Paul Jones (#29) 38 ( -- ) Museum - Herman's Hermits 39 ( 24 ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band (#3) 40 ( -- ) Get On Up - Esquires
-- ( 28 ) Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes (#6) -- ( 29 ) All You Need Is Love - Beatles (#1[3]) -- ( 35 ) A Bad Night - Cat Stevens (#13) -- ( 36 ) The House That Jack Built - Alan Price Set (#9) -- ( 37 ) Fakin' It - Simon & Garfunkel (#22) -- ( 39 ) Tallyman - Jeff Beck (#15) -- ( 40 ) Come Back When You Grow Up - Bobby Vee (#30)
-- ( -- ) The Cat In The Window (The Bird In The Sky) - Petula Clark -- ( -- ) Try My World - Georgie Fame
As a song with a big production and a children's choir remains at #1 for a 4th week, Roy Wood and his band move up behind it. Maybe one day Roy Wood himself will make a song with a children's choir and quite a big production.
(Incidentally, I'm always interested in stats of oldest and youngest performers, and whilst they are not lead vocalists, how old were the children on Keith West's hit and how old were those on Roy Wood's later Christmas hit, should that get to #1 on this chart).
You know that song "Baby I Love Your Way" - that was written by Peter Frampton (he had the hit with it originally). He was also lead singer with The Herd who have the highest entry this week.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 2, 2017 1:54:43 GMT 1
23 September 1967:
1 ( 2 ) Flowers In The Rain - Move < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (#1[4]) 3 ( 4 ) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic 4 ( 9 ) From The Underworld - Herd 5 ( 3 ) The Letter - Box Tops 6 ( 7 ) Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood 7 ( 6 ) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson (#5) 8 ( 5 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (#1[1]) 9 ( 20 ) Making Every Minute Count - Spanky And Our Gang 10 ( 13 ) Getting' Together - Tommy James & The Shondells
11 ( -- ) How Can I Be Sure - Young Rascals 12 ( -- ) Massachusetts - Bee Gees 13 ( 10 ) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (#8) 14 ( 8 ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (#3) 15 ( 11 ) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (#10) 16 ( 25 ) Zip Code - Five Americans 17 ( 15 ) I Dig Rock And Roll - Peter Paul & Mary 18 ( 16 ) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners 19 ( -- ) Dandelion - Rolling Stones 20 ( 17 ) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience
21 ( 14 ) There Is A Mountain - Donovan (#13) 22 ( 22 ) Good Times - Eric Burdon And The Animals 23 ( 29 ) Train To Skaville - Ethiopians 24 ( 12 ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (#4) 25 ( 24 ) Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone - Martha & The Vandellas 26 ( -- ) To Sir With Love - Lulu 27 ( 36 ) I Make A Fool Of Myself - Frankie Valli 28 ( 30 ) Blue's Theme - Davie Allan & The Arrows 29 ( -- ) When Will The Good Apples Fall - Seekers 30 ( 18 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (#4)
31 ( 26 ) I Had A Dream - Paul Revere & The Raiders 32 ( 38 ) Museum - Herman's Hermits 33 ( 19 ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys (#6) 34 ( 23 ) We Love You - Rolling Stones (#18) 35 ( 21 ) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard (#9) 36 ( 40 ) Get On Up - Esquires 37 ( 28 ) The Windows Of The World - Dionne Warwick (#26) 38 ( 31 ) Things I Should Have Said - Grass Roots 39 ( -- ) In The Heat Of The Night - Ray Charles 40 ( 35 ) There I Go - Vikki Carr (#34)
-- ( 27 ) San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals (#12) -- ( 32 ) Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On) - Elvis Presley (#19) -- ( 33 ) Baby You're A Rich Man - Beatles (#16) -- ( 34 ) Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie - Jay & The Techniques (#23) -- ( 37 ) Thinking Ain't For Me - Paul Jones (#29) -- ( 39 ) Green Street Green - New Vaudeville Band (#3)
-- ( -- ) Expressway (To Your Heart) - Soul Survivors -- ( -- ) Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
Next week the BBC are going to launch their new radio station which will play current pop music. The song at #1 here would be a good place for them to start.
3 of the highest 4 entries were #1s in some regard. The highest new entry would reach #1 as a cover version by David Cassidy in the UK chart in 1972. Yes, that song was a cover version. Inferior to the original? Listen and decide.
The Bee Gees, having only just scraped the UK chart with 1941 Mining Disaster and To Love Somebody would then go all the way to #1 with Massachussets.
The Rolling Stones had Dandelion as a double A-side with We Love You. In the USA they charted separately and Dandelion went higher but neither side got close to #1 in either chart, suggesting a return to their more traditional rock style might be a good direction.
Lulu spent 5 weeks at #1 in the USA with "To Sir With Love", in the UK it was only a B-side. The lyrics were written by Don Black who later wrote songs with Andrew Lloyd Webber, and was the theme to a film of the same name.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 3, 2017 1:38:11 GMT 1
30 September 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Flowers In The Rain - Move < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic 3 ( 4 ) From The Underworld - Herd 4 ( 11 ) How Can I Be Sure - Young Rascals 5 ( 2 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (#1[4]) 6 ( 12 ) Massachusetts - Bee Gees 7 ( -- ) Soul Man - Sam & Dave 8 ( 9 ) Making Every Minute Count - Spanky And Our Gang 9 ( 6 ) Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood (#6) 10 ( 5 ) The Letter - Box Tops (#5)
11 ( 19 ) Dandelion - Rolling Stones 12 ( 10 ) Getting' Together - Tommy James & The Shondells (#10) 13 ( 7 ) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson (#5) 14 ( -- ) Baby Now That I've Found You - Foundations 15 ( 16 ) Zip Code - Five Americans 16 ( 8 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (#1[1]) 17 ( 26 ) To Sir With Love - Lulu 18 ( 13 ) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (#8) 19 ( 29 ) When Will The Good Apples Fall - Seekers 20 ( -- ) A Banda - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
21 ( 23 ) Train To Skaville - Ethiopians 22 ( 15 ) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (#10) 23 ( 17 ) I Dig Rock And Roll - Peter Paul & Mary (#17) 24 ( 14 ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (#3) 25 ( -- ) Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) - Buckinghams 26 ( 27 ) I Make A Fool Of Myself - Frankie Valli 27 ( 18 ) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners (#18) 28 ( 22 ) Good Times - Eric Burdon And The Animals (#22) 29 ( 20 ) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#20) 30 ( 25 ) Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone - Martha & The Vandellas (#25)
31 ( 28 ) Blue's Theme - Davie Allan & The Arrows (#28) 32 ( 32 ) Museum - Herman's Hermits 33 ( 39 ) In The Heat Of The Night - Ray Charles 34 ( 21 ) There Is A Mountain - Donovan (#13) 35 ( -- ) You Keep Running Away - Four Tops 36 ( 36 ) Get On Up - Esquires 37 ( -- ) King Midas In Reverse - Hollies 38 ( 24 ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (#4) 39 ( 31 ) I Had A Dream - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#31) 40 ( 30 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (#4)
-- ( 33 ) Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys (#6) -- ( 34 ) We Love You - Rolling Stones (#18) -- ( 35 ) The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard (#9) -- ( 37 ) The Windows Of The World - Dionne Warwick (#26) -- ( 38 ) Things I Should Have Said - Grass Roots -- ( 40 ) There I Go - Vikki Carr (#34)
-- ( -- ) Your Precious Love - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell -- ( -- ) Love Letters In The Sand - Vince Hill
The sound of 67 verberates in the top 3.
This week's highest new entry is a song written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, the latter not to be confused with Dave Prater who is the "Dave" in the duo along with Sam Moore.
The Foundations: now that's an interesting group. They're British and mixed white and black members. Not sure we've had that before. This song is co-written by Tony Macauley.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 3, 2017 17:05:22 GMT 1
7 October 1967:
1 ( 1 ) Flowers In The Rain - Move < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 7 ) Soul Man - Sam & Dave 3 ( 2 ) Hole In My Shoe - Traffic (#2[1]) 4 ( 4 ) How Can I Be Sure - Young Rascals 5 ( 3 ) From The Underworld - Herd (#3) 6 ( 6 ) Massachusetts - Bee Gees 7 ( -- ) A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like) - Aretha Franklin 8 ( 14 ) Baby Now That I've Found You - Foundations 9 ( -- ) Homburg - Procol Harum 10 ( 11 ) Dandelion - Rolling Stones
11 ( -- ) People Are Strange - Doors 12 ( 8 ) Making Every Minute Count - Spanky And Our Gang (#8) 13 ( 5 ) Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West (#1[4]) 14 ( 20 ) A Banda - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass 15 ( 17 ) To Sir With Love - Lulu 16 ( 9 ) Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood (#6) 17 ( 25 ) Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) - Buckinghams 18 ( 19 ) When Will The Good Apples Fall - Seekers 19 ( 15 ) Zip Code - Five Americans (#15) 20 ( 12 ) Getting' Together - Tommy James & The Shondells (#10)
21 ( -- ) Anything Goes - Harpers Bizarre 22 ( 10 ) The Letter - Box Tops (#5) 23 ( -- ) Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) - Hombres 24 ( 13 ) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson (#5) 25 ( 21 ) Train To Skaville - Ethiopians (#21) 26 ( 35 ) You Keep Running Away - Four Tops 27 ( 18 ) The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck (#8) 28 ( 16 ) Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (#1[1]) 29 ( 37 ) King Midas In Reverse - Hollies 30 ( 26 ) I Make A Fool Of Myself - Frankie Valli (#26)
31 ( -- ) You've Not Changed - Sandie Shaw 32 ( 33 ) In The Heat Of The Night - Ray Charles 33 ( -- ) Lightning's Girl - Nancy Sinatra 34 ( 23 ) I Dig Rock And Roll - Peter Paul & Mary (#17) 35 ( 22 ) Let's Go To San Francisco - Flowerpot Men (#10) 36 ( 32 ) Museum - Herman's Hermits (#32) 37 ( 28 ) Good Times - Eric Burdon And The Animals (#22) 38 ( 24 ) Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (#3) 39 ( 31 ) Blue's Theme - Davie Allan & The Arrows (#28) 40 ( 36 ) Get On Up - Esquires (#36)
-- ( 27 ) Black Velvet Band - Dubliners (#18) -- ( 29 ) Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#20) -- ( 30 ) Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone - Martha & The Vandellas (#25) -- ( 34 ) There Is A Mountain - Donovan (#13) -- ( 38 ) Reflections - Diana Ross & The Supremes (#4) -- ( 39 ) I Had A Dream - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#31) -- ( 40 ) Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (#4)
From hit to flop and back to hit again, Aretha Franklin gets a high entry with a song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, one of the last few songs they wrote together before they broke up. Carole King would then record this song herself for her "Tapestry" album.
Procol Harum follow up "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" with "Homburg". This reached the top 10 and for whatever reason the regular studio version isn't on Spotify. (A Whiter Shade Of Pale is).
Another follow-up to a major hit is by the Doors who had a huge hit earlier in the year with "Light My Fire".
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