Haven Retro Combined Chart : 18.08.1968

[smokeyb]

It's a third straight week at the top for the Kinks, keeping the Beach Boys at number 2.

Aretha moves up to number 3, Canned Heat are at 4 and the Bee Gees are up to 5.



There are 4 new entries and 1 re-entry this week, the highest is the Casuals at 15.



The biggest climber is Bee Gees, Johnny Nash and Jose Feliciano who all move up 10 places.



The biggest faller is Cupid's Inspiration who drop 23 places.


18.08.1968 (Week # 33)


1 (01) The Kinks – Days - 111 points (9-3-1-1-1) 5 wks

2 (02) Beach Boys – Do It Again - 94 points (11-4-2-2) 4 wks

3 (10) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer - 80 points (10-3) 2 wks

4 (05) Canned Heat - On The Road Again - 78 points (12-8-5-4) 4 wks

5 (15) The Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You - 70 points (39-15-5) 3 wks

6 (07) Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild - 66 points (26-18-11-7-6) 5 wks

7 (04) Tom Jones - Help Yourself - 64 points (11-5-3-4-7) 5 wks

8 (03) Dusty Springfield – I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - 61 points (13-4-2-2-3-8) 6 wks

9 (09) Otis Redding – Hard To Handle - 60 points (13-9-9) 3 wks

10 (08) Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling - 59 points (35-20-13-10-8-10) 6 wks

11 (06) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning - 55 points (25-7-7-6-6-11) 6 wks

12 (22) Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight - 47 points (22-12) 2 wks

13 (17) Mama Cass - Dream A Little Dream Of Me - 44 points (40-39-22-18-17-13) 6 wks

14 (23) Amen Corner  - High In The Sky - 35 points (23-14) 2 wks

15 (NE) The Casuals - Jesamine - 35 points 1 wk

16 (13) Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl - 33 points (31-20-13-16) 4 wks

17 (14) Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad - 33 points (19-12-14-17) 4 wks

18 (NE) Moody Blues - Voices In The Sky - 30 points 1 wk

19 (11) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire - 30 points (18-5-1-1-1-5-11-19) 8 wks

20 (12) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music - 29 points (18-10-6-7-12-20) 6 wks

21 (21) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – You're All I Need To Get By - 28 points (27-27-21-21) 4 wks

22 (20) The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Tuesday) - 27 points (40-28-20-22) 4 wks

23 (18) Doors - Hello I Love You - 20 points (16-16-14-18-23) 5 wks

24 (25) Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' - 20 points (33-25-24) 3 wks

25 (26) The Temptations – Please Return Your Love To Me - 19 points (29-29-26-25) 4 wks

26 (19) Mason Williams - Classical Gas - 19 points (35-30-25-33-28-23-20-16-19-26) 10 wks

27 (37) Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire - 19 points (35-33-36-36-37-37-27) 7 wks

28 (31) Booker T & the MGs  - Soul Limbo - 18 points (40-31-28) 3 wks

29 (32) Al Wilson – The Snake - 18 points (40-32-29) 3 wks

30 (16) Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson - 18 points (18-10-10-7-9-8-8-10-14-16-6-3-4-9-16-30) 16 wks

31 (24) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho - 18 points (27-16-13-14-15-24-31) 7 wks

32 (30) The Four Tops – Great Soul Ballad (Yesterday's Dreams) - 17 points (30-31-33-32-30-32) 6 wks

33 (34) Jay & The Techniques – Singles Game - 16 points (36-34-33) 3 wks

34 (NE) Simon & Garfunkel - America - 16 points 1 wk

35 (27) Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues - 16 points (24-20-12-17-21-27-35) 7 wks

36 (35) Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony - 15 points (29-29-34-22-16-16-12-14-10-4-2-4-9-11-19-21-24-35-36) 19 wks

37 (RE) Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower - 15 points (39-40-23-21-24-39-x-37) 7 wks

38 (33) Petula Clark - Don't Give Up - 15 points (38-32-30-33-38) 5 wks

39 (36) The Toys – Sealed With A Kiss - 14 points (38-36-39) 3 wks

40 (38) Four Jacks And A Jill – Mister Nico - 13 points (40-38-40) 3 wks

40 (29) Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles - 13 points (26-26-29-40) 4 wks

40 (28) Roy Orbison - Walk On - 13 points (39-25-28-40) 4 wks

40 (NE) Showstoppers - Shake Your Mini - 13 points 1 wk



Dropped Out

48 (39) Rascals  - People Got To Be Free - 9 points (39)

63 (40) Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone - 4 points (8-5-3-3-5-9-17-40)


Thanks to Earl Purple raliverpool Whitneyfan smokeyb Shireblogger popchartfreak o & darkstar79 .



I will leave this open until end of next week.

[smokeyb]

UK CHART 25.08.1968

1 (2) Tommy James & The Shondelles - Mony Mony (12 wk)
2 (1) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire (9 wk)
3 (3) Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You (8 wk)
4 (11) Beach Boys - Do It Again (5 wk)
5 (9) Tom Jones - Help Yourself (6 wk)
6 (4) Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (7 wk)
7 (13) Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You (3 wk)
8 (8) Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl (6 wk)
9 (17) Amen Corner - High In The Sky (4 wk)
10 (7) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (7 wk)
11 (6) Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (7 wk)
12 (5) Des O'Connor - I Pretend (16 wk)
13 (14) Bruce Channel - Keep On (9 wk)
14 (12) The Kinks - Days (6 wk)
15 (10) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho (8 wk)
16 (27) Canned Heat - On The Road Again (5 wk)
17 (26) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer (3 wk)
18 (18) Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy (12 wk)
19 (20) Small Faces - The Universal (7 wk)
20 (38) Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight (3 wk)
21 (16) Equals - Baby Come Back (16 wk)
22 (21) O C Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp (13 wk)
23 (24) Otis Redding - Hard To Handle (4 wk)
24 (23) Elvis Presley - Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby (6 wk)
25 (22) R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane (10 wk)
26 (19) Pigmeat Markham - Here Comes The Judge (6 wk)
27 (15) Richard Harris - MacArthur Park (9 wk)
28 (50) Mama Cass - Dream A Lttle Dream Of Me (2 wk)
29 (36) Moody Blues - Voices In The Sky (3 wk)
30 (34) Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower (3 wk)
31 (33) The Nice - America (7 wk)
32 (39) Fleetwood Mac - I Need Your Love So Bad (6 wk)
33 (25) Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack (11 wk)
34 (29) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning (7 wk)
35 (32) Shorty Long - Here Comes The Judge (6 wk)
36 (46) Anita Harris - Dream A Little Dream Of Me (2 wk)
37 (28) Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone (10 wk)
38 (49) The Casuals - Jesamine (2 wk)
39 (NE) The Equals - Laurel And Hardy (1 wk)
40 (37) Ray Charles - Eleanor Rigby (4 wk)
41 (NE) Four Tops - Yesterday's Dreams (1 wk)
42 (43) Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderfull World (29 wk)
43 (31) John Rowles - Hush Not A Word To Mary (10 wk)
44 (35) Sue Nicholls - Where Will You Be (8 wk)
45 (41) Vince Hill - Importance Of Your Love (9 wk)
46 (47) Grapefruit - C'mon Marianne (2 wk)
47 (NE) Leapy Lee - Little Arrows (1 wk)
48 (45) Don Partridge - Blue Eyes (13 wk)
49 (40) Roy Orbison - Walk On (5 wk)
50 (NE) Status Quo - Ice In The Sun (1 wk)

USA chart for this week:

www.umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=24&ChMonth=08&ChYear=1968&ChBand=&ChSong=

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 5 ) Jesamine - Casuals < 1st #1 >
2 ( 1 ) Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf (#1[4])
3 ( 2 ) Hard To Handle - Otis Redding (#2[1])
4 ( 3 ) Soul Limbo - Booker T & the MGs (#3)
5 ( 6 ) High In The Sky - Amen Corner
6 ( 8 ) Voices In The Sky - Moody Blues
7 ( 10 ) Hold Me Tight - Johnny Nash
8 ( 4 ) Days - Kinks (#2[2])
9 ( 13 ) You're All I Need To Get By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
10 ( 7 ) On The Road Again - Canned Heat (#5)

11 ( -- ) Little Arrows - Leapy Lee
12 ( 9 ) Do It Again - Beach Boys (#7)
13 ( -- ) Ice In The Sun - Status Quo
14 ( 18 ) I've Gotta Get A Message To You - Bee Gees
15 ( 12 ) Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Mama Cass (#11)
16 ( 19 ) 1 2 3 Red Light - 1910 Fruitgum Co
17 ( -- ) Hush - Deep Purple
18 ( 16 ) I Can't Stop Dancing - Archie Bell & The Drells (#16)
19 ( 11 ) Help Yourself - Tom Jones (#4)
20 ( 14 ) Walk On - Roy Orbison (#12)

21 ( 15 ) People Got To Be Free - Rascals (#13)
22 ( 21 ) Alice Long (You're Still My Favourite Girlfriend) - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (#21)
23 ( 28 ) Love Makes A Woman - Barbara Acklin
24 ( 25 ) Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife - Glen Campbell
25 ( 17 ) Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac (#9)
26 ( 23 ) Journey To The Center Of The Mind - Amboy Dukes (#22)
27 ( 38 ) You Met Your Match - Stevie Wonder
28 ( 26 ) Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby - Elvis Presley (#24)
29 ( 40 ) Slip Away - Clarence Carter
30 ( -- ) Laurel And Hardy - Equals

31 ( 22 ) Sunshine Girl - Herman's Hermits (#14)
32 ( -- ) The Fool On The Hill - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
33 ( 33 ) Don't Take It So Hard - Paul Revere & The Raiders (#30)
34 ( 35 ) Grazing In The Grass - Hugh Masekela (#35)
35 ( 20 ) Hello I Love You - Doors (#2[2])
36 ( -- ) Don't Give Up - Petula Clark
37 ( 29 ) The Universal - Small Faces (#21)
38 ( 34 ) Some Things You Never Get Used To - Diana Ross And The Supremes (#28)
39 ( 32 ) America - Nice (#17)
40 ( -- ) Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) - Moody Blues

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-- ( 24 ) Classical Gas - Mason Williams (#7)
-- ( 27 ) Folsom Prison Blues (Live) - Johnny Cash (#3)
-- ( 30 ) My Name Is Jack - Manfred Mann (#1[4])
-- ( 31 ) I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - Dusty Springfield (#16)
-- ( 36 ) Last Night In Soho - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#15)
-- ( 37 ) Keep On - Bruce Channel (#4)
-- ( 39 ) It Should Have Been Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#10)

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-- ( -- ) The House That Jack Built - Aretha Franklin
-- ( -- ) Yesterday's Dreams - Four Tops

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This chart was compiled on 4th June 2017 and is posted on the date Aretha Franklin died but she has a single that doesn't enter, however I'm not adjusting it simply because she died. She has had many hits in my chart in the 1960s but "The House That Jack Built" isn't one of them. It isn't a cover of Alan Price Set.

In any case, you may well know this song, especially as Kula Shaker also got to #2 with a cover of it, but it was written by Joe South. He wrote one other very famous hit too - Rose Garden which was a hit for Lyn Anderson.
And also had one fairly big hit of his own with Games People Play. The "na na na na" bit in this song is definitely "stolen" from the Beatles "A Day In The Life" but I don't know if Joe South ever paid any royalties for using it.

[smokeyb]

1 (16) The Casuals - Jesamine (2 wks)
2 (4) Canned Heat - On The Road Again (5 wks)
3 (7) Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You (3 wks)
4 (3) Beach Boys - Do It Again (5 wks)
5 (6) Amen Corner - High In The Sky (4 wks)
6 (1) The Kinks - Days (6 wks)
7 (11) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer (3 wks)
8 (2) Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (6 wks)
9 (12) Moody Blues - Voices In The Sky (3 wks)
10 (13) Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower (3 wks)
11 (19) Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight (3 wks)
12 (5) Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl (5 wks)
13 (9) Fleetwood Mac - I Need Your Love So Bad (6 wks)
14 (10) Otis Redding - Hard To Handle (4 wks)
15 (8) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning (7 wks)
16 (20) Mama Cass - Dream A Lttle Dream Of Me (2 wks)
17 (29) Doors - Hello I Love You (2 wks)
18 (14) Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (7 wks)
19 (30) Mason Williams - Classical Gas (2 wks)
20 (25) Grapefruit - C'Mon Marianne (2 wks)
21 (NE) Leapy Lee - Little Arrows (1 wk)
22 (15) Tom Jones - Help Yourself (6 wks)
23 (NE) Four Tops - Yesterday's Dreams (1 wk)
24 (17) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire (9 wks)
25 (18) Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone (10 wks)
26 (21) Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack (11 wks)
27 (22) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (7 wks)
28 (NE) Status Quo - Ice In The Sun (1 wk)
29 (NE) Deep Purple - Hush (1 wk)
30 (24) R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane (10 wks) 

[raliverpool]

24/08/1968

1 Kinks - Days (5wks 33-11-4-1-1)
2 Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (5wks 31-12-5-2-2)
3 Mama Cass with The Mamas & The Papas - Dream A Little Dream Of Me (5wks 14-9-6-4-3)
4 Simon & Garfunkel - America (3wks 25-9-4)
5 Harry Nilsson - One (3wks 29-15-5)
6 Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire (8wks 28-15-6-4-2-1-3-6)
7 Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling (6wks 34-23-15-11-7-7)
8 Mason Williams - Classical Gas (6wks 33-13-8-7-6-8)
9 Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You (3wks 32-16-9)
10 Fleetwood Mac - I Need Your Love So Bad (3wks 33-20-10)

11 Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire (4wks 32-23-14-11)
12 Beach Boys - Do It Again (4wks 19-15-13-12)
13 Doors - Love Street (4wks 27-14-12-13)
14 Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (7wks 28-21-11-7-8-11-14)
15 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By (2wks 27-15)
16 Tom Jones - Help Yourself (5wks 17-10-9-10-16)
17 Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles (7wks 24-10-1-1-3-8-17)
18 Doors - Hello, I Love You (7wks 23-8-5-3-2-5-18)
19 Amen Corner - High In The Sky (2wks 31-19)
20 Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight (1wk 20 NEW)

21 Aretha Franklin - The House That Jack Built (1wk 21 NEW)

22 Barbara Acklin - Love Makes A Woman (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (3wks 26-21-23)
24 Al Wilson - The Snake (2wks 39-24)
25 Rascals - People Got To Be Free (4wks 20-16-18-25)
26 Clarence Carter - Slip Away (1wk 26 NEW)
27 Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B (5wks 35-22-17-19-27)
28 Moody Blues - Voices In The Sky (2wks 36-28)
29 Booker T & The MG's - Soul Limbo (4wks 31-24-23-29)
30 Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (2wks 35-30)

31 Canned Heat - On The Road Again (2wks 40-31)
32 Merle Haggard - Mama Tried (3wks 36-30-32)
33 Archie Bell and The Drells - I Can't Stop Dancing (2wks 32-33)
34 Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind (4wks 28-27-28-34)
35 Small Faces - The Universal (7wks 29-15-9-6-10-17-35)
36 PP Arnold - Angel Of The Morning (6wks 37-30-24-19-25-36)
37 Stevie Wonder - You Met Your Match (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Nice - America (5wks 34-26-20-24-38)
39 Temptations - Please Return Your Love To Me (1wk 39 NEW)

40 Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (8wks 27-17-7-3-4-12-26-40)

RIP Queen Of Soul. This gritty uptempo Atlantic records R&B track was written by Bobby Lance and Fran Robbins. It reached USA #7 (R&B #2).

[darkstar79]

01 Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer (3 wks)
02 Aretha Franklin – The House That Jack Built (3 wks)
03 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – You're All I Need To Get By (5 wks)
04 The Delfonics – Break Your Promise (1 wk)
05 The Temptations – Please Return Your Love To Me (5 wks)
06 Tom Jones - Help Yourself (6 wks)
07 Jay & The Techniques – Singles Game (4 wks)
08 The Four Tops – Great Soul Ballad (7 wks)
09 The Toys – Sealed With A Kiss (5 wks)
10 Four Jacks And A Jill – Mister Nico (4 wks)

11 Otis Redding – Hard To Handle (7 wks)
12 Bobby Womack – Fly Me To The Moon (4 wks)
13 Four Tops – Yesterday's Dreams (1 wk)
14 Martha & The Vandellas – I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playin' (4 wks)
15 Dionne Warwick – (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me (1 wk)
16 Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers – I'm Your Man (6 wks)
17 Sly & The Family Stone – Dance To The Music (7 wks)
18 The Platters – Hard To Get A Thing Called Love (1 wk)
19 Dusty Springfield – I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (7 wks)
20 Leapy Lee – Little Arrows (1 wk)

21 Gladys Knight – I Wish It Would Rain (1 wk)
22 Sly & The Family Stone – M'Lady (4 wks)
23 Dionne Warwick – Who Is Going To Love Me (1 wk)
24 Smokey Robinson And The Miracles – Special Occasion (3 wks)
25 Pigmeat Markham – Here Comes The Judge (6 wks)
26 The Kinks – Days (6 wks)
27 The Impressions – I Loved And I Lost (7 wks)
28 Otis Redding – Amen (8 wks)
29 The Intruders – Love Is Like A Baseball Game (8 wks)
30 Glen Campbell – Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife (9 wks)

[Whitneyfan]

01(01) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
02(14) Mama Cass - Dream A Lttle Dream Of Me
03(13) Moody Blues - Voices In The Sky
04(03) Al Wilson – The Snake
05(02) Jackie Wilson – I Get The Sweetest Feeling
06(04) Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild
07(06) Otis Redding – Hard To Handle
08(05) Canned Heat - On The Road Again
09(12) Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You
10(15) Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight

11(08) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning
12(07) Fleetwood Mac – Need Your Love So Bad
13(16) Amen Corner – High In The Sky
14(10) Tom Jones – Help Yourself
15(09) Beach Boys - Do It Again
16(11) The Kinks – Days
17(24) Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower
18(--) Status Quo - Ice In The Sun
19(--) Leapy Lee - Little Arrows
20(--) Four Tops - Yesterday's Dreams

24(38) Grapefruit - C'mon Marianne
25(40) The Casuals – Jesamine
29(--) The Equals - Laurel And Hardy

[Shireblogger]

1 [2] :: Aretha Franklin - I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER
2 [3] :: Bee Gees - I'VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU
3 [1] :: Kinks - DAYS
4 [4] :: P.P. Arnold - ANGEL OF THE MORNING
5 [6] :: Johnny Nash - HOLD ME TIGHT
6 [5] :: Johnny Cash - FOLSOM PRISON BLUES
7 [7] :: Beach Boys - DO IT AGAIN
8 [new] :: Jeff Beck Group - I AIN'T SUPERSTITIOUS {Truth LP track}
9 [new] :: Creedence Clearwater Revival - SUZIE Q
10 [new] :: James Brown - SAY IT LOUD, I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD
11 [8] :: Showstoppers - SHAKE YOUR MINI
12 [9] :: Simon & Garfunkel - A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER {Bookends LP track}
13 [new] :: Status Quo - ICE IN THE SUN
14 [14] :: Union Gap ft Gary Puckett - LADY WILLPOWER
15 [13] :: Tom Jones - HELP YOURSELF
16 [12] :: Jackie Wilson - I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING
17 [16] :: Byrds - YOU AIN'T GOIN' NOWHERE
18 [new] :: Aretha Franklin - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT {I Say A Little Prayer B-side}
19 [11] :: Hugo Montenegro - HANG 'EM HIGH {from the film soundtrack}
20 [10] :: Canned Heat - ON THE ROAD AGAIN

A trio of non-hits enter at #8, #9 and #10 this week. The vocalist on this clip is, of course, ex-Steampacket, ex-Shotgun Express, ex-failed solo artist, Rod Stewart. It would be another 3 years before he was to score a bona fide hit single.

[popchartfreak]

17th August 1968

It's 2 weeks on top for the late great Aretha, keeping the Bacharach-David songs totalling 5 as another Herb Alpert new entry joins the previous one, with 2 Dionne's climbing. Marty Wilde climbs into the top 5 as songwriter of Jesamine, and enters belatedly at 14 with huge 10-year-old-me fave Abergavenny, from earlier in the year but as a flop everywhere it wasn't flagged in the Spring, so here it is now. His most charming record I think. Another late new entry for Boyce & Hart, Monkees-songwriters and an act in thier own right, with the theme tune to a minor little film fave I saw in the RAF Swinderby camp cinema. Back in those days every RAF base had it's own cinema, operated by RAF staff in the evenings, and Saturday mornings. Films that had been and gone in the main town cinemas, or never got a major release, did the rounds a year or two or three later, around 4 or 5 films a week. That's how I got to see Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, a 1968 follow-up to teen-movie The Trouble With Angels. That's also how I got to see Olivia Newton-John's cheesy brit sci-fi musical film Toomorrow years earlier than Grease, which wasn't her movie debut at all!

Don Fardon enters my top 10 2 years earlier than the UK, and Jeannie C. Riley a few months early, and Leapy Lee debuts inside the 40 with Little Arrows, an early pop success for songwriter, and future pop star, Albert Hammond, and Mike Hazlewood, with many a classic song to come over the next decade or so. I saw Albert the other year in concert, very enjoyable hearing that back catalogue. The Grass Roots go top 40 with a US hit goodie, and a minor US hit enters at 55 for Avant-Garde, a bit of a period weird-ey, but one I liked when I first heard it yesterday, even nicking a bit of the James Bond theme strings.

Well-known pop-rock entries for Status Quo, The Band, and The Rolling Stones, just beating new ones from The Sweet Inspirations (Whitney's mom back again, this time covering Unchained Melody) and Lou Rawls, who still had 8 years to wait for his brilliant UK hit. 

1 ( 1 ) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Aretha Franklin
2 ( 2 ) EVERYBODY’S TALKIN’ Nilsson
3 ( 3 ) LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
4 ( 4 ) I CLOSE MY EYES AND COUNT TO TEN Dusty Springfield
5 ( 7 ) JESAMINE The Casuals
6 ( 6 ) DON’T GIVE UP Petula Clark
7 ( 12 ) (THE LAMENT OF THE CHEROKEE) INDIAN RESERVATION Don Fardon
8 ( 8 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash
9 ( 5 ) I’VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU The Bee Gees
10 ( 18 ) HARPER VALLEY P.T.A Jeannie C. Riley

11 ( 9 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Jose Feliciano
12 ( 10 ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys
13 ( 11 ) DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME Mama Cass
14 ( NEW ) ABERGAVENNY Marty Wilde
15 ( 14 ) GOTTA SEE JANE R. Dean Taylor
16 ( 16 ) THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Andy Williams
17 ( 13 ) TUESDAY AFTERNOON (FOREVER TUESDAY) The Moody Blues
18 ( 23 ) YOU’RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
19 ( 17 ) CLASSICAL GAS Mason Williams
20 ( 29 ) HIGH IN THE SKY Amen Corner

21 ( 15 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson
22 ( 31 ) PRIVATE NUMBER Judy Clay & William Bell
23 ( 19 ) I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD Fleetwood Mac
24 ( 21 ) LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER The O’Jays
25 ( 20 ) YESTERDAY HAS GONE Cupid’s Inspiration
26 ( 22 ) WALK ON Roy Orbison
27 ( 25 ) RAINBOW CHASER Nirvana
28 ( 36 ) ANGEL OF THE MORNING Billie Davis
29 ( 24 ) BORN TO BE WILD Steppenwolf
30 ( 40 ) QUANDO QUANDO QUANDO Engelbert Humperdinck

31 ( 27 ) HELP YOURSELF Tom Jones
32 ( 28 ) THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU Herb Alpert
33 ( 26 ) MR. BUSINESSMAN Ray Stevens
34 ( 33 ) MY NAME IS JACK Manfred Mann
35 ( 30 ) I THINK IT’S GOING TO RAIN TODAY Randy Newman
36 ( 63 ) WHO IS GOING TO LOVE ME Dionne Warwick
37 ( NEW ) LITTLE ARROWS Leapy Lee
38 ( 35 ) KEEP ON Bruce Channel
39 ( 34 ) LADY WILLPOWER Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
40 ( 48 ) MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS The Grass Roots

41 ( 32 ) HALFWAY TO PARADISE Bobby Vinton
42 ( 38 ) VENUS Johnny Mathis
43 ( 37 ) FIRE The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
44 ( 44 ) YESTERDAY’S DREAMS The Four Tops
45 ( 43 ) A MAN WITHOUT LOVE Engelbert Humperdinck
46 ( 46 ) ON THE ROAD AGAIN Canned Heat
47 ( 42 ) STONED SOUL PICNIC The 5th Dimension
48 ( 47 ) WHITE HORSES Jackie
49 ( 55 ) LADY MADONNA Fats Domino
50 ( 50 ) MAGIC BUS The Who

51 ( 41 ) SAVE THE COUNTRY Laura Nyro
52 ( 59 ) VOICES IN THE SKY The Moody Blues
53 ( 51 ) THIS WHEEL’S ON FIRE Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity
54 ( 73 ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN Gladys Knight & The Pips
55 ( NEW ) NATURALLY STONED The Avant-Garde
56 ( 56 ) I CAN’T DANCE TO THAT MUSIC YOU’RE PLAYING Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
57 ( NEW ) ICE IN THE SUN Status Quo
58 ( 39 ) SUNSHINE GIRL Herman’s Hermits
59 ( 66 ) M’LADY Sly & The Family Stone
60 ( 67 ) (THERE’S) ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE (TO REMIND ME) Dionne Warwick

61 ( NEW ) THE WEIGHT The Band
62 ( NEW ) STREET FIGHTING MAN The Rolling Stones
63 ( 60 ) ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY Glen Campbell
64 ( 61 ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells
65 ( 62 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
66 ( 68 ) BREAK YOUR PROMISE The Delfonics
67 ( 64 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
68 ( 69 ) DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME Anita Harris
69 ( 71 ) SPECIAL OCCASION Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
70 ( 58 ) MACARTHUR PARK Richard Harris

71 ( NEW ) TO WAIT FOR LOVE Herb Alpert
72 ( NEW ) WHERE ANGELS GO, TROUBLE FOLLOWS Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
73 ( 75 ) SHOOT ‘EM UP BABY Andy Kim
74 ( NEW ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Sweet Inspirations
75 ( NEW ) DOWN HERE ON THE GROUND Lou Rawls

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1 Canned Heat – On the road again
2 Beach Boys – Do it again
3 Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling
4 Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
5 Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
6 Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
7 Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You
8 The Kinks - Days
9 PP Arnold – Angel of the morning
10 Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
11 Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs Robinson
12 Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
13 Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl
14 Mama Cass – Dream a little dream of me
15 Status Quo – Ice in the sun
16 Roy Orbison - Walk On
17 Doors - Hello I Love You
18 Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
19 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
20 Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire