Haven Retro Combined Chart : 25.11.1967

[smokeyb]

As predicted the Monkees grab their 3rd number one of the year, the Dave Clark Five move up to 2

the Who slip one place to 3, the Troggs remain at 4 and the Kinks fall from the top spot to 5.



There are 5 new entries this week, with the highest by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound straight in at number 6.



The biggest climber is by Gene Pitney who moves up 15 places to number 7.



The biggest faller is by Nico who drops out of the chart from number 19.


25.11.1967 (Week # 47)


1 (03) Monkees - Daydream Believer - 110 points (25-3-1) 3 wks

2 (06) Dave Clark Five - Everybody Knows - 71 points (40-17-6-2) 4 wks

3 (02) The Who - I Can See For Miles - 64 points (37-19-16-12-6-4-2-3) 8 wks

4 (04) Troggs - Love Is All Around - 62 points (28-21-12-3-4-4) 6 wks

5 (01) Kinks - Autumn Almanac  - 59 points (17-11-1-1-1-5) 6 wks

6 (NE) Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - Kites - 51 points (1 wk)

7 (22) Gene Pitney - Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Gene Pitney - 50 points (39-36-24-40-22-7) 6 wks

8 (05) Sam & Dave - Soul Man - 49 points (26-20-8-9-7-2-2-5-8) 9 wks

9 (08) Erma Franklin - Piece Of My Heart - 48 points (21-13-8-6-8-9) 6 wks

10 (07) David McWilliams - The Days Of Pearly Spencer - 47 points (31-21-15-17-14-7-7-10) 8 wks

11 (10) Felice Taylor - I Feel Love Coming On - 42 points (34-13-10-11) 4 wks

12 (20) Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin - 42 points (20-12) 2 wks

13 (NE) Bee Gees - World - 41 points (1 wk)

14 (13) Doors – People Are Strange - 39 points (25-18-11-6-3-6-11-12-13-14) 10 wks

15 (11) Shirley Bassey - Big Spender - 37 points (22-14-8-7-10-11-15) 7 wks

16 (09) Foundations - Baby Now That I've Found You - 34 points (20-6-3-4-3-3-8-9-16) 9 wks

17 (12) Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix - 32 points (15-12-9-9-5-12-17) 7 wks

18 (17) Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Ladybird - 31 points (24-17-18) 3 wks

19 (15) Donovan - There Is A Mountain - 30 points (23-15-19) 3 wks

20 (23) Dionne Warwick - I Say A Little Prayer - 27 points (31-35-18-14-23-20) 6 wks

21 (18) Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - Knock On Wood - 25 points (25-38-24-20-15-18-21) 7 wks

22 (NE) Cliff Richard - All My Love - 20 points 1 wk

23 (21) Robert Knight - Everlasting Love - 20 points (34-29-20-21-23) 5 wks

24 (16) Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich - Zabadak! - 19 points (16-7-4-5-9-16-24) 7 wks

25 (24) Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints - 18 points (37-20-17-19-24-25) 6 wks

26 (14) The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park And Other Things - 18 points (35-32-40-22-15-15-11-14-26) 9 wks

27 (25) Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman - The Bare NecessIties {from "The Jungle Book" soundtrack} - 18 points (25-26-28-25-27) 5 wks

28 (29) The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger - 18 points (15-14-13-12-14-15-13-12-19-23-28-30-29-28) 14 wks

29 (33) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer - 17 points (33-29) 2 wks

30 (27) The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt - Different Drum - 17 points (27-29-27-30) 4 wks

31 (32) Ethiopians - Train To Skaville - 17 points (26-26-16-12-17-18-22-23-31-32-31) 11 wks

32 (26) Bee Gees - Massachusetts - 16 points (11-2-1-1-1-2-10-22-26-32) 10 wks

33 (28) Animals – San Franciscan Nights - 16 points (28-33) 2 wks

34 (30) Kinks - David Watts - 15 points (25-31-25-27-30-34) 6 wks

35 (40) Monkees - What Am I Doing Hangin’ Round? - 15 points (40-35) 2 wks

36 (NE) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion - 13 points 1 wk

37 (NE)Beach Boys - Wild Honey - 13 points 1 wk

38 (31) Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Sand - 13 points (33-32-33-31-38) 5 wks

39 (35) Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman - I Wanna Be Like You {from "The Jungle Book" soundtrack} - 12 points (27-30-35-35-39) 5 wks

40 (37) Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - 12 points (29-27-8-5-2-1-4-16-37-40) 10 wks



Dropped Out

42 (19) Nico - These Days - 11 points (26-21-18-19)

45 (34) Brenda & The Tabulations - When You're Gone - 10 points (34)

53 (36) Spanky & Our Gang - Lazy Day - 6 points (36-34-36)

68 (38) Lulu - To Sir With Love - 1 points (38-26-23-23-23-15-11-13-14-19-26-38)

69 (39) Procul Harum - Homburg - 1 points (36-13-5-5-13-21-39)


Thanks to Earl Purple raliverpool Whitneyfan smokeyb Shireblogger popchartfreak & a frozen chart by o


I will leave this open until end of next week.

[smokeyb]

UK CHART 02.12.1967

1 (1) Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin (4 wk)
2 (3) Dave Clark Five - Everybody Knows (5 wk)
3 (9) Val Doonican - If The Whole World Stopped Loving (7 wk)
4 (2) Foundations - Baby Now That I've Found You (10 wk)
5 (8) Englebert Humperdinck - The Last Waltz (15 wk)
6 (5) The Troggs - Love Is All Around (7 wk)
7 (18) Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart (3 wk)
8 (16) Cliff Richard - All My Love (3 wk)
9 (NE) Beatles - Hello Goodbye (1 wk)
10 (15) Des O'Connor - Careless Hands (5 wk)
11 (7) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Zabadak (8 wk)
12 (11) Felice Taylor - I Feel Love Comin' On (6 wk)
13 (36) Tom Jones - I'm Coming Home (2 wk)
14 (10) Donovan - There Is A Mountain (6 wk)
15 (30) Bee Gees - World (2 wk)
16 (4) Bee Gees - Massachusetts (11 wk)
17 (6) The Kinks - Autumn Almanac (7 wk)
18 (12) The Who - I Can See For Miles (7 wk)
19 (25) Monkees - Daydream Believer (3 wk)
20 (13) Eric Burden And The Animals - San Franciscan Nights (7 wk)
21 (37) Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - Kites (2 wk)
22 (14) Frankie Vaughan - There Must Be Away (15 wk)
23 (22) Shirley Bassey - Big Spender (8 wk)
24 (32) The Scaffold - Thank U Very Much (2 wk)
25 (27) Frankie Vaughn - So Tired (3 wk)
26 (24) Sam And Dave - Soul Man (5 wk)
27 (23) Sandie Shaw - You've Not Changed (9 wk)
28 (19) Procul Harum - Homburg (9 wk)
29 (35) Beach Boys - Wild Honey (2 wk)
30 (17) The Herd - From The Underworld (12 wk)
31 (26) Stevie Wonder - I'm wondering (6 wk)
32 (39) Lulu - Love Loves To Love Love (4 wk)
33 (31) Anita Harris - Just Loving You (23 wk)
34 (20) Traffic - Hole In My Shoe (13 wk)
35 (38) Pyramids - Train Tour to Rainbow City (2 wk)
36 (33) Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (45 wk)
37 (NE) Diana Ross & the Supremes - In And Out Of Love (1 wk)
38 (49) Keith West - Sam (2 wk)
39 (21) Seekers - When Will The Good Apples Fall (11 wk)
40 (28) Box Tops - The Letter (12 wk)
41 (29) Move - Flowers In The Rain (13 wk)
42 (NE) Traffic - Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (1 wk)
43 (43) Dubliners - Black Velvet Band (14 wk)
44 (48) Tom Jones - I'll Never Fall In Love Again (19 wk)
45 (42) Temptations - You're My Everything (13 wk)
46 (44) Jim Reeves - I Heard A Heart Break Last Night (2 wk)
47 (46) Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown (3 wk)
48 (34 Diana Ross & Supremes - Reflections (14 wk)
49 (47) Englebert Humperdinck -There Goes My Everything (28 wk)
50 (NE) Cilla Black - I Only Live To Love You (1 wk)

USA chart for this week:

www.umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=02&ChMonth=12&ChYear=1967&ChBand=&ChSong=

[raliverpool]

02/12/1967

1 Monkees - Daydream Believer (2wks 7-1)
2 Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer (5wks 28-12-6-4-2)
3 Who - I Can See For Miles (6wks 27-10-5-2-1-3)
4 Dave Clark Five - Everybody Knows (67) (4wks 18-10-5-4)
5 Troggs - Love Is All Around (5wks 16-9-4-3-5)
6 Gladys Knight & The Pips - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (3wks 19-12-6)
7 Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (2wks 18-7)
8 Felice Taylor - I Feel Love Comin' On (5wks 25-13-8-6-8)
9 Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart (2wks 16-9)
10 Beatles - Hello Goodbye (1wk 10 NEW)

11 David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer (8wks 29-14-6-2-1-1-2-11)
12 Doors - Strange Days (4wks 15-11-8-12)
13 Dionne Warwick - I Say A Little Prayer (3wks 21-13-13)
14 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion (2wks 26-14)
15 Country Joe and the Fish - The Fish Cheer/Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag (4wks 28-20-14-15)
16 Kinks - Autumn Almanac (6wks 22-7-4-3-9-16)
17 Cliff Richard - All My Love (2wks 32-17)
18 Zombies - Care of Cell 44 (1wk 18 NEW)

19 Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (4wks 23-18-15-19)
20 Merle Haggard - Sing Me Back Home (3wks 33-23-20)

21 Hollies - Dear Eloise (2wks 31-21)
22 Cher - You Better Sit Down Kids (2wks 30-22)
23 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints (7wks 19-7-5-6-7-11-23)
24 Bee Gees - World (2wks 40-24)
25 Nico - These Days (8wks 27-15-8-4-3-5-10-25)
26 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House (4wks 38-24-21-26)
27 Los Gatos - La Balsa (3wks 25-22-27)
28 Tom Jones - I'm Coming Home (1wk 28 NEW)
29 Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Beach Boys - Wild Honey (4wks 33-29-29-30)

31 Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Lady Bird (5wks 27-17-15-19-31)
32 Keith West - Sam (2wks 38-32)
33 Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin (2wks 36-33)
34 Beatles - I Am The Walrus (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Diana Ross & The Supremes - In And Out Of Love (1wk 35 NEW)
36 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mich & Tich - Zabadak (7wks 28-12-6-7-12-17-36)
37 Fantastic Johnny C - Boogaloo Down Broadway (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Buffalo Springfield - Mr Soul (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Cowsills - The Rain, The Park, and Other Things (5wks 31-25-22-28-39)
40 Spanky & Our Gang - Lazy Day (5wks 32-27-23-25-40)

Rod Argent's penned jaunty melancholic baroque rocker tells the story of a person writing to their partner in prison, as they await their release from prison. At its time of release as the lead single for Odessey and Oracle in 1967, the track was not a success, despite Paul McCartney praising it in contemporary interviews for the Magical Mystery Tour film/EP, causing significant tension that led to the eventual breakup of the band in December of that year. Colin Blunstone, the group's vocalist said, "I thought that 'Care of Cell 44' was incredibly commercial. I was really disappointed when it wasn't a hit."

[Shireblogger]

1 [1] :: Monkees - DAYDREAM BELIEVER
2 [4] :: Bee Gees - WORLD
3 [2] :: Erma Franklin - PIECE OF MY HEART
4 [new] :: Beatles - HELLO, GOODBYE
5 [8] :: Beach Boys - WILD HONEY
6 [3] :: Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman - THE BARE NECESSITIES {from "THE JUNGLE BOOK" soundtrack}
7 [5] :: Sam And Dave - SOUL MAN
8 [6] :: Kinks - DAVID WATTS
9 [7] :: Kinks - AUTUMN ALMANAC
10 [new] :: Beatles - I AM THE WALRUS
11 [9] :: Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman - I WANNA BE LIKE YOU {from "THE JUNGLE BOOK" soundtrack}
12 [new] :: Wilson Pickett - I'M IN LOVE
13 [12] :: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - SUSPICIONS
14 [13] :: Nirvana - PENTECOST HOTEL
15 [10] :: Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - KNOCK ON WOOD
16 [11] :: Glen Campbell - BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX
17 [14] :: Box Tops - THE LETTER
18 [18] :: David McWilliams - THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER
19 [new] :: The Scaffold - THANK U VERY MUCH
20 [20] :: Gene Pitney - SOMETHING'S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART


Charting this week in the USA, but never to grace the UK listings, is Bobby Womack's explanation to his friends about his marriage to Sam Cooke's widow. Womack wisely gave the song to Wilson Pickett, whose rendition is wonderfully emotive.

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 1 ) Daydream Believer - Monkees < 2nd week at #1 >   
2 ( 4 ) Kites - Simon Dupree And The Big Sound    
3 ( 8 ) I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles    
4 ( 5 ) Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Gene Pitney    
5 ( 3 ) Everybody Knows {1967} - Dave Clark Five (#3)   
6 ( 11 ) Thank U Very Much - Scaffold    
7 ( 2 ) I Say A Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick (#1[2])   
8 ( 9 ) All My Love - Cliff Richard    
9 ( 17 ) Sam - Keith West    
10 ( 7 ) Lady Bird - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (#7)  

11 ( -- ) Hello Goodbye - Beatles    
12 ( 6 ) Big Spender - Shirley Bassey (#1[2])   
13 ( 21 ) World - Bee Gees    
14 ( 10 ) Keep The Ball Rollin' - Jay & The Techniques (#10)   
15 ( 16 ) Beg Borrow And Steal - Ohio Express    
16 ( -- ) Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Traffic    
17 ( 14 ) Let The Heartaches Begin - Long John Baldry (#14)   
18 ( 19 ) Shame - Alan Price Set    
19 ( -- ) Neon Rainbow - Box Tops    
20 ( 29 ) In And Out Of Love - Diana Ross & The Supremes   

21 ( 22 ) Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs    
22 ( 12 ) Everlasting Love - Robert Knight (#4)   
23 ( 13 ) Autumn Almanac - Kinks (#2)   
24 ( 25 ) You Better Sit Down Kids - Cher    
25 ( 15 ) Lazy Day - Spanky & Our Gang (#6)   
26 ( -- ) I Only Live To Love You - Cilla Black    
27 ( 37 ) I'm Coming Home - Tom Jones    
28 ( 30 ) Back On The Street Again - Sunshine Company    
29 ( 23 ) She Is Still A Mystery - Lovin' Spoonful (#21)   
30 ( 20 ) Like An Old Time Movie - Scott Mckenzie (#13)  

31 ( 18 ) I Feel Love Coming On - Felice Taylor (#7)   
32 ( -- ) She's My Girl - Turtles    
33 ( 28 ) Love Loves To Love Love - Lulu (#27)   
34 ( -- ) Summer Rain - Johnny Rivers    
35 ( -- ) Woman Woman - Union Gap & Gary Puckett    
36 ( 27 ) Kentucky Woman - Neil Diamond (#15)   
37 ( 26 ) I Can See For Miles - Who (#11)   
38 ( 24 ) The Rain The Park & Other Things - Cowsills (#3)   
39 ( -- ) Honey Chile - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas    
40 ( 34 ) Big Boss Man - Elvis Presley (#27)  

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-- ( 31 ) Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba (#20)   
-- ( 32 ) Love Is All Around - Troggs (#13)   
-- ( 33 ) Zabadak! - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#7)   
-- ( 35 ) I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#28)   
-- ( 36 ) Soul Man - Sam & Dave (#1[2])   
-- ( 38 ) Glad To Be Unhappy - Mamas & The Papas (#31)   
-- ( 39 ) The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield (#10)   
-- ( 40 ) Be Mine - Tremeloes (#38)   

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[smokeyb]

1 (1) Monkees - Daydream Believer (3 wks)
2 (2) The Who - I Can See For Miles (6 wks)
3 (6) Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - Kites (2 wks)
4 (5) Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin (4 wks)
5 (9) Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart (3 wks)
6 (NE) Beatles - Hello Goodbye (1 wk)
7 (3) The Kinks - Autumn Almanac (6 wks)
8 (7) Dave Clark Five - Everybody Knows (5 wks)
9 (4) The Troggs - Love Is All Around (6 wks)
10 (15) Cliff Richard - All My Love (3 wks)
11 (17) Bee Gees - World (2 wks)
12 (11) Lulu - Love Loves To Love Love (4 wks)
13 (10) Robert Knight - Everlasting Love (6 wks)
14 (8) Foundations - Baby Now That I've Found You (10 wks)
15 (21) The Scaffold - Thank U Very Much (2 wks)
16 (12) Felice Taylor - I Feel Love Comin' On (6 wks)
17 (13) Donovan - There Is A Mountain (6 wks)
18 (22) Tom Jones - I'm Coming Home (2 wks)
19 (16) The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park And Other Things (6 wks)
20 (NE) Traffic - Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (1 wk)
21 (14) Doors - People Are Strange (7 wks)
22 (NE) Diana Ross & Supremes - In And Out Of Love (1 wk)
23 (18) Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (7 wks)
24 (19) Sam And Dave - Soul Man (7 wks)
25 (20) The Young Rascals - How Can I Be Sure (7 wks)
26 (23) Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints (6 wks)
27 (24) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Zabadak (8 wks)
28 (25) Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - Knock On Wood (6 wks)
29 (26) Procul Harum - Homburg (9 wks)
30 (NE) Beatles - I Am The Walrus (1 wk)

[Earl Purple]

4 of us have posted so far and we all have the same #1.

[o]

1 Monkees - Daydream Believer
2 Who - I Can See For Miles
3 Troggs - Love Is All Around
4 Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
5 Sam And Dave - Soul Man
6 Beatles - Hello Goodbye
7 Bar Kays – Soul finger
8 Kinks - Autumn Almanac
9 Foundations - Baby Now That I've Found You
10 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Zabadak
11 Shirley Bassey - Big Spender
12 Move - Flowers In The Rain
13 Temptations - You're My Everything
14 Doors – People are strange
15 Aretha Franklin – I say a little prayer
16 Erma Franklin – Piece of my heart
17 Bee Gees - Massachusetts
18 Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin
19 Traffic - Hole In My Shoe
20 Diana Ross & the Supremes - In And Out Of Love

[Whitneyfan]

Nov 27, 2017 0:55:51 GMT 1 Earl Purple said:

4 of us have posted so far and we all have the same #1.

Make that 6 now!


01(03) The Monkees – Daydream Believer
02(01) Erma Franklin – Piece Of My Heart
03(04) Donovan – There Is A Mountain
04(02) David McWilliams – The Days Of Pearly Spencer
05(14) Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood – Lady bird
06(09) Dave Clark Five – Everybody Knows
07(15) Gene Pitney – Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart
08(11) Long John Baldry – Let The Heartaches Begin
09(06) Felice Taylor – I Feel Love Comin’ On
10(13) Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints

11(--) The Beatles – Hello Goodbye
12(29) The Scaffold – Thank U Very Much
13(05) The Troggs – Love Is All Around
14(07) The Animals - San Franciscan Nights
15(19) Cliff Richard – All My Love
16(08) The Cowsills – The Rain, the Park & Other Things
17(30) Beach Boys – Wild Honey
18(43) Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites
19(37) Alan Price Set - Shame
20(31) Bee Gees - World

21(10) Sam & Dave – Soul Man
22(28) Tremeloes – Be Mine
23(34) Tom Jones – I’m Coming Home
24(12) Shirley Bassey – Big Spender
25(--)Diana Ross & The Supremes – In And Out Of Love
26(21) The Mamas & The Papas – Glad To Be Unhappy
27(16) Amen Corner – The World Of Broken Hearts
28(22) Etta James – Tell Mama
29(18) Four Seasons – Watch The Flowers Grow
30(25) Dusty Springfield – What’s It Gonna Be

31(17) The Who – I Can See For Miles
32(20) Procol Harum - Homburg
33(24) Lulu- Love Loves To Love Love
34(23) The Herd – From The Underworld
35(--)Cilla Black – I Only Live To Love You
36(26) Sandie Shaw – You’ve Not Changed
37(42) Pyramids – Train Tour To Rainbow City
38(47) Keith West - Sam
39(48) Jim Reeves - I Heard A Heart Break Last Night
40(27) Glen Campbell – By The Time I Get To Phoenix

41(41) Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
42(40) Frankie Vaughan – So Tired
43(32) Dionne Warwick – I Say A Little Prayer
44(33) Neil Diamond – Kentucky Woman
45(38) The Kinks – Autumn Almanac
46(--)Traffic – Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
47(39) Val Doonican – If The Whole World Stopped Loving
48(36) Scott McKenzie – Like An Old Time Movie
49(35) Stevie Wonder – I’m Wondering
50(46) Cher – You’d better Sit Down Kids

[Earl Purple]

popchartfreak is unlikely to have Daydream Believer at #1 this week as he already had it at the top but in his last chart it fell to #3.

For mine, this particular chart was actually compiled on 18th March this year.

[smokeyb]

Most Top Scores - highest points for a number one in 1967
     

Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever received 6 maximum 20 points plus 1 3rd 18 points scoring a total of 138 out of 140




Least points for a number one in 1967


Kinks - Autumn Almanac  received only 1 maximum 20 points scoring a total of 76 out of 140
this was their 3rd & last week at number 1

[popchartfreak]

yes I'm chartin them as soon as they enter the US 100 as I know from memory the December 1967 charts were awesome full of pop classics which all deserve a chart-topper status - plus I knew The beatles mini invasion was on the way...

[popchartfreak]

26th November 1967


It's up one place for Simon Dupree and the haunting Kites, swapping places with the epic Bee Gees World after only one week on top. Such is the competition that a classic Beatles track, one of my faves of theirs in the 60's and since, and the B side, also their greatest B side and EP track from the forthcoming TV special Magical Mystery Tour, I Am The Walrus, can only enter at 3 and 6. I adore the entire top 17 pretty much. Long John Baldry and Gary Puckett both get a first top 10, while The Lemon Pipers so-called bubblegum classic, Green Tambourine, enters at 17. Bubblegum was supposed to be disposable, manufactured hook-filled music that serious artists could look down on as for kiddies. Being a kiddie, that didn't bother me at all, and I still maintain it's all pop music, most tracks in the list have studio musicians (several had careers started that way), or professional songwriters involved (see 2017 when it's impossible to find a hit record that HASN'T a professional songwriter-for-hire involved) or record producers twiddling the knobs. No difference.

Talking of manufactured (earlier in the year, and now in control of their musical output), The Monkees take a moog into my 20 for the first time, for a hat-trick nestling amongst the Beatles. Pet Clark returns with one of her best Tony Hatch/Jackie Trent tunes, The Other Man's Grass, at 22, one I loved at the time, and more in Singapore 3 years later when it was one I captured on my reel-to-reel tapes. Dusty goes top 30 again, leapfrogged by Donovan's hippie-trippie ode to 2 Summer Of Love's. At 58, the great Al Green debuts some 4 years ahead of his UK chart breakthrough, with his back-up-train, outdoing a Cilla fave of early 68, I seem to recall it being on TV a lot - her show most probably, said "Cilla" variety show marking the climax of the fab Musical "Cilla" based on the award-winning fab "Cilla" TV series, which was pure mid-60's Liverpool nostalgia for me when I saw the musical the other week. Traffic get a 3rd 1967 entry, and I vaguely recall the movie it came from, Paul Revere & co are back with the "Wild Thing" intro and a totally different tune, while The Zombies pop in with a track from the album on sale of the foyer of the Wimborne Tivoli when I caught Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent doing a greatest hits tour 2 years back, Zombies, Argent & solo Blunstone - three-fer-one! 


1 ( 2 ) KITES Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
2 ( 1 ) WORLD The Bee Gees
3 ( NEW ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles
4 ( 3 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees
5 ( 4 ) DIFFERENT DRUM The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt
6 ( NEW ) I AM THE WALRUS The Beatles
7 ( 5 ) BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX Glen Campbell
8 ( 6 ) WHAT AM I DOING HANGIN’ ROUND? The Monkees
9 ( 12 ) LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN Long John Baldry
10 ( 17 ) WOMAN, WOMAN Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

11 ( 7 ) MASSACHUSSETS (THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN) The Bee Gees
12 ( 14 ) JUDY IN DISGUISE (WITH GLASSES) John Fred & His Playboy Band
13 ( 9 ) ZABADAK! Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
14 ( 16 ) MY RAINBOW VALLEY Robert Knight
15 ( 8 ) SAND Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
16 ( 10 ) EVERYBODY KNOWS The Dave Clark Five
17 ( NEW ) GREEN TAMBOURINE The Lemon Pipers
18 ( 13 ) LADY BIRD Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
19 ( 30 ) STAR COLLECTOR The Monkees
20 ( 11 ) WHEN YOU’RE GONE Brenda & The Tabulations

21 ( 29 ) I’M COMING HOME Tom Jones
22 ( NEW ) THE OTHER MAN’S GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Petula Clark
23 ( 15 ) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER David McWilliams
24 ( 25 ) ALL MY LOVE Cliff Richard
25 ( 20 ) I CAN SEE FOR MILES The Who
26 ( 18 ) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra
27 ( 19 ) (THEME FROM) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Dionne Warwick
28 ( 50 ) WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN Donovan
29 ( 23 ) WITHOUT HER Harry Nilsson
30 ( 47 ) WHAT’S IT GONNA BE Dusty Springfield

31 ( 21 ) THESE DAYS Nico
32 ( 27 ) BABY NOW THAT I’VE FOUND YOU The Foundations
33 ( 43 ) FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
34 ( 40 ) SUMMER RAIN Johnny Rivers
35 ( 26 ) (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN Aretha Franklin
36 ( 28 ) THE RAIN, THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills
37 ( 24 ) WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT GOOD-BYE Giant Sunflower
38 ( 33 ) SOMETHING’S GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART Gene Pitney
39 ( 48 ) IN AND OUT OF LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes
40 ( 22 ) I WAN’NA BE LIKE YOU Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman

41 ( 32 ) LOVE IS ALL AROUND The Troggs
42 ( 31 ) AUTUMN ALMANAC The Kinks
43 ( 34 ) I FEEL LOVE COMIN’ ON Felice Taylor
44 ( 35 ) NOBODY BUT ME The Human Beinz
45 ( 37 ) THE BARE NECESSITIES Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman
46 ( 38 ) REFLECTIONS Diana Ross & The Supremes
47 ( 39 ) EXCERPT FROM 'A TEENAGE OPERA' Keith West
48 ( 52 ) SARAH (LA FEMME QUI EST DANS MON LIT) Serge Reggiani
49 ( 41 ) FROM THE UNDERWORLD The Herd
50 ( 62 ) MR. BUS DRIVER Bruce Channel

51 ( 45 ) ODE TO BILLIE JOE Bobbie Gentry
52 ( 44 ) GET THE MESSAGE Brian Hyland
53 ( 63 ) THANK U VERY MUCH The Scaffold
54 ( 55 ) THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Julie Andrews
55 ( 36 ) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Dionne Warwick
56 ( 46 ) TO SIR WITH LOVE Lulu
57 ( 42 ) OOH I LOVE YOU The Dells
58 ( NEW ) BACK UP TRAIN Al Green & The Soul Mates
59 ( 64 ) HONEY CHILE Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
60 ( 53 ) JILL Gary Lewis & The Playboys

61 ( 49 ) SHE’S MY GIRL The Turtles
62 ( 58 ) ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles
63 ( 57 ) MATHILDE Scott Walker
64 ( 54 ) LET’S GO TO SAN FRANCISCO The Flowerpot Men
65 ( NEW ) I ONLY LIVE TO LOVE YOU Cilla Black
66 ( 66 ) CAN’T HELP BUT LOVE YOU The Standells
67 ( 68 ) SOMETHING’S MISSING The Five Stairsteps
68 ( 70 ) STORYBOOK CHILDREN Billy Vera & Judy Clay
69 ( 56 ) I SECOND THAT EMOTION Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
70 ( 59 ) TAKE A LOOK Aretha Franklin

71 ( 71 ) SAM Keith West
72 ( NEW ) HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH Traffic
73 ( 74 ) I’LL BE SWEETER TOMORROW (THAN I AM TODAY) The O’Jays
74 ( NEW ) DO UNTO OTHERS Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark LIndsey
75 ( NEW ) CARE OF CELL 44 The Zombies