Haven Retro Combined Chart : 27.10.1968

[smokeyb]

We have a new number 1 this week with Joe Cocker replacing the Beatles at the top with a Beatle track

from Sgt Pepper.

The Beatles swap order with them at number 2 and 3, Mary Hopkins slips to 4 and the Hollies are at 5.



There are 8 new entries this week, the highest is the Isley Brothers who enter at number 9.



The biggest climber this week is Nina Simone who jumps up 16 places to number 7.



The biggest faller is Jimmy James who drops 30 places.



27.10.1968 (Week # 43)


1 (04) Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends - 82 points (22-9-4-1) 4 wks

2 (03) Beatles - Revolution - 77 points (22-10-4-3-3-3-3-2) 8 wks

3 (01) Beatles - Hey Jude - 73 points (3-1-1-1-1-1-1-3) 8 wks

4 (02) Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days - 72 points (9-3-2-2-2-2-2-4) 8 wks

5 (06) Hollies - Listen To Me - 62 points (19-6-5) 3 wks

6 (05) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower - 55 points (40-18-10-5-5-6) 6 wks

7 (23) Nina Simone - Ain't Got No I Got Life - 55 points (23-7) 2 wks

8 (20) Bandwagon - Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartache - 51 points (20-8) 2 wks

9 (NE) Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine - 49 points 1 wk

10 (09) The Marbles - Only One Woman - 48 points (28-15-9-10) 4 wks

11 (NE) Barry Ryan - Eloise - 47 points 1 wk

12 (12) Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love - 46 points (34-31-31-32-34-x-34-12-12) 8 wks

13 (08) Band - The Weight - 46 points (11-4-4-4-8-13) 6 wks

14 (10) The Turtles - Elenore - 45 points (33-29-27-25-13-10-14) 7 wks

15 (07) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – You're All I Need To Get By - 45 points (27-27-21-21-16-12-17-13-20-26-14-6-7-15) 14 wks

16 (17) Diana Ross & The Supremes - Love Child - 44 points (24-17-16) 3 wks

17 (13) Cupid's Inspiration - My World - 41 points (19-17-13-17) 4 wks

18 (11) Easybeats - Good Times - 39 points (40-12-9-7-11-18) 6 wks

19 (24) Billie Davis - I Want You To Be My Baby - 33 points (24-19) 2 wks

20 (15) Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich - Wreck Of The Antoinette - 30 points (26-15-20) 3 wks

21 (18) Love Affair - A Day Without Love - 29 points (15-6-5-10-18-21) 6 wks

22 (27) Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. - 29 points (20-15-17-17-24-36-x-27-22) 8 wks

23 (14) Big Brother & The Holding Company – Piece Of My Heart - 28 points (37-19-8-11-14-23) 6 wks

24 (19) The Dave Clark Five – Red Balloon - 27 points (36-23-13-14-19-24) 6 wks

25 (26) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q - 27 points (35-26-25) 3 wks

26 (16) The Tremeloes - My Little Lady - 24 points (38-16-7-8-16-26) 6 wks

27 (NE) Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - 23 points 1 wk

28 (NE) Cream - White Room - 22 points 1 wk

29 (21) Mort Stevens & His Orchestra - Hawaii Five-O - 21 points (26-22-21-29) 4 wks

30 (28) The Four Tops – I'm In A Different World - 20 points (23-25-28-30) 4 wks

31 (25) Mama Cass - Dream A Little Dream Of Me - 18 points (40-39-22-18-17-13-8-9-10-11-13-14-11-16-25-31) 16 wks

32 (32) Deep Purple - Hush - 18 points (34-25-19-16-13-20-32-32-32) 9 wks

33 (29) The Delfonics – Break Your Promise - 18 points (26-32-36-26-23-25-27-28-29-33) 10 wks

34 (NE) Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman - 18 points 1 wk

35 (NE) Jackie Wilson - You Brought About A Change In Me - 18 points 1 wk

36 (34) Bobby Paris – Per-So-Nal-Ly - 17 points (26-28-30-34-34-36) 6 wks

37 (NE) Johnny Cash - Daddy Sang Bass - 17 points 1 wk

38 (33) Status Quo - Ice In The Sun - 16 points (19-10-4-5-6-7-18-30-33-38) 10 wks

39 (NE) Arthur Conley – Aunt Dora's Love Soul Shack - 16 points 1 wk

40 (31) Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man - 15 points (24-19-14-14-8-12-18-31-40) 9 wks

40 (38) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Keep On Loving Me Honey - 15 points (38-38-40) 3 wks



Dropped Out

43 (35) The Masquerades – I Ain't Got To Love Nobody Else - 13 points (30-32-36-35)

44 (37) The Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw - 13 points (40-37)

45 (39) Dylan And The Blazers – Funky Bull (Part 1) - 12 points (39-40-40-39)

46 (30) Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation - 11 points (29-30)

51 (22) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer - 8 points (10-3-1-1-1-2-3-5-6-12-22)

66 (36) Jimmy James & the Vagabonds - Red Red Wine - 3 points (29-21-36)

69 (40) Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida - 2 points (35-31-39-40)


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


I will leave this open until end of next week.

[smokeyb]

UK CHART 02.11.1968

1 (1) Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days (9 wk) (# 1)
2 (13) Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends (5 wk) (# 2)
3 (7) Hugo Montenegro - The Good The Bad & The Ugly (8 wk) (# 3)
4 (4) Leapy Lee - Little Arrows (11 wk) (# 2)
5 (12) Marbles - Only One Woman (6 wk) (# 5)
6 (10) Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire (7 wk) (# 6)
7 (2) Beatles - Hey Jude (9 wk) (# 1)
8 (3) The Casuals - Jesamine (12 wk) (# 2)
9 (5) Engelbert Humperdinck - Les Bicyclettes De Belsize (6 wk) (# 5)
10 (8) The Tremeloes - My Little Lady (7 wk) (# 6)
11 (6) Love Affair - A Day Without Love (8 wk) (# 6)
12 (11) The Hollies - Listen To Me (5 wk) (# 11)
13 (14) The Dave Clark Five - The Red Balloon (7 wk) (# 7)
14 (17) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Wreck Of The Antoinette (5 wk) (# 14)
15 (9) Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower (13 wk) (# 5)
16 (34) Barry Ryan - Eloise (2 wk) (#16)
17 (15) Mason Williams - Classical Gas (10 wk) (# 9)
18 (48) Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (2 wk) (#18)
19 (31) Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine (2 wk) (#19)
20 (24) The Bandwagon - Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache (3 wk) (# 20)
21 (37) Long John Baldry - Mexico (2 wk) (#21)
22 (16) Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight (13 wk) (# 5)
23 (26) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By (5 wk) (# 23)
24 (22) Cliff Richard - Marianne (6 wk) (# 22)
25 (18) Status Quo - Ice In The Sun (11 wk) (# 8)
26 (19) The Doors - Hello I Love You (10 wk) (# 15)
27 (32) Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. (3 wk) (# 27)
28 (25) Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love (4 wk) (# 25)
29 (49) Who - Magic Bus (2 wk) (#29)
30 (39) Marmalade - Wait For Me Mary-Anne (2 wk) (#30)
31 (21) The Band - The Weight (7 wk) (# 21)
32 (23) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer (13 wk) (# 4)
33 (38) The Locomotive - Rudi's In Love (3 wk) (# 33)
34 (46) Val Doonican - If I Knew Then What I Know Now (2 wk) (#34)
35 (45) Nina Simone - Ain't Got No - I Got Life (3 wk) (#35)
36 (27) Tom Jones - Help Yourself (16 wk) (# 5)
37 (50) Barron Knights - An Olympic Record (2 wk) (#37)
38 (20) Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You (13 wk) (# 1)
39 (40) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (17 wk) (# 7)
40 (35) Sly And The Family Sone - M'Lady (5 wk) (# 32)
41 (NE) The Turtles - Elenore (1 wk) (#41)
42 (33) Cupids Inspiration - My World (5 wk) (# 33)
43 (47) Four Tops - Yesterday's Dreams (11 wk) (# 23)
44 (28) Canned Heat - On The Road Again (15 wk) (# 8)
45 (36) Jimmy James & the Vagabonds - Red Red Wine (8 wk) (# 36)
46 (29) Mama Cass - Dream A Lttle Dream Of Me (12 wk) (# 11)
47 (NE) Malcolm Roberts - May I Have The Next Dream With You (1 wk) (#47)
48 (43) Des O'Connor - I Pretend (26 wk) (# 1)
49 (44) Elvis Presley - You'll Never Walk Alone (3 wk) (#44)
50 (NE) Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) (1 wk) (#50)

USA chart for this week:

www.umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=2&ChMonth=11&ChYear=1968&ChBand=&ChSong=

[Shireblogger]

1 [1] :: Bandwagon - BREAKIN' DOWN THE WALLS OF HEARTACHE
2 [3] :: Jackie Wilson - YOU BROUGHT ABOUT A CHANGE IN ME {For Once In My Life B-side}
3 [8] :: Isley Brothers - THIS OLD HEART OF MINE
4 [9] :: Ennio Morricone - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY
5 [2] :: Beatles - REVOLUTION {Hey Jude B-side}
6 [7] :: Nina Simone - AIN'T GOT NO, I GOT LIFE
7 [4] :: Johnny Cash - DADDY SANG BASS
8 [13] :: Ennio Morricone - THE ECSTASY OF GOLD
9 [new] :: The Turtles - ELENORE
10 [10] :: Jeannie C Riley - HARPER VALLEY P.T.A.
11 [5] :: Mort Stevens & His Orchestra - HAWAII FIVE-O
12 [new] :: Betty Everett - IT'S IN HIS KISS (THE SHOOP SHOOP SONG)
13 [6] :: The Band - THE WEIGHT
14 [new] :: Edwin Starr - 25 MILES
15 [12] :: Beatles - HEY JUDE
16 [11] :: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY
17 [20] :: Barry Ryan - ELOISE
18 [17] :: Aretha Franklin - I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER
19 [16] :: Jimi Hendrix - ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
20 [15] :: Long John Baldry - MEXICO


Can't remember if anyone has featured this Northern Soul stomper yet. Doesn't matter if they have; belting cuts like this (plus Jackie Wilson at #2 and Edwin Starr at #14) can't get too much exposure.

[Earl Purple]

Duplicating my post of 18 June 2017:

2 November 1968:

1 ( 1 ) Eloise - Barry Ryan < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 3 ) Elenore - Turtles
3 ( 2 ) With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker (#1[1])
4 ( 4 ) Ain't Got No I Got Life - Nina Simone
5 ( 7 ) White Room - Cream
6 ( 14 ) Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes
7 ( 6 ) I Want You To Be My Baby - Billie Davis (#6)
8 ( 9 ) Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartache - Bandwagon
9 ( 16 ) Wait For Me Mary-Anne - Marmalade
10 ( 18 ) Mexico - Long John Baldry

11 ( -- ) Abraham Martin & John - Dion
12 ( 13 ) Rudi's In Love - Locomotive
13 ( 5 ) Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin (#1[2])
14 ( 8 ) Piece Of My Heart - Big Brother & The Holding Company (#4)
15 ( 11 ) Wreck Of The Antoinette - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich (#9)
16 ( 10 ) Listen To Me - Hollies (#7)
17 ( 26 ) Sweet Blindness - 5th Dimension
18 ( 28 ) Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
19 ( -- ) Chewy Chewy - Ohio Express
20 ( 17 ) M'Lady - Sly And The Family Stone (#17)

21 ( 29 ) An Olympic Record - Barron Knights
22 ( 12 ) Revolution - Beatles (#3)
23 ( 22 ) I Met Her In Church - Box Tops (#22)
24 ( 15 ) All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Experience (#8)
25 ( 27 ) Shoot 'Em Up Baby - Andy Kim
26 ( 21 ) My World - Cupid's Inspiration (#21)
27 ( -- ) Gentle On My Mind - Glen Campbell
28 ( 20 ) Suzie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival (#17)
29 ( -- ) Bang-Shang-A-Lang - Archies
30 ( 19 ) My Little Lady - Tremeloes (#4)

31 ( 33 ) Keep On Lovin' Me Honey - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
32 ( 23 ) Heartache - Roy Orbison (#13)
33 ( -- ) May I Have The Next Dream With You - Malcolm Roberts
34 ( 30 ) Hey Western Union Man - Jerry Butler (#27)
35 ( 24 ) Shape Of Things To Come - Max Frost & The Troopers (#9)
36 ( -- ) Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor
37 ( 25 ) Hey Jude - Beatles (#1[2])
38 ( 31 ) Who Is Gonna Love Me - Dionne Warwick (#11)
39 ( 36 ) Les Bicyclettes De Belsize - Engelbert Humperdinck (#27)
40 ( 34 ) The Snake - Al Wilson (#18)

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-- ( 32 ) The Weight - Band (#7)
-- ( 35 ) Girl Watcher - O'Kaysions (#7)
-- ( 37 ) Red Balloon - Dave Clark Five (#20)
-- ( 38 ) I Get The Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson (#1[2])
-- ( 39 ) Indian Reservation - Don Fardon (#26)
-- ( 40 ) Say It Loud - James Brown (#23)

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I've mentioned Marvin Gaye just before and this week's highest entry is another song he would later make famous, at least in the UK, but Dion's version did reach #5 in the USA. This enters at #11 as the highest entry and looks set to be his biggest hit on this chart since "The Wanderer" reached #3 in January 1962. "Runaround Sue" also peaked on this chart at #3, the highest Dion has so far peaked, that hit near the end of 1961. Dion actually had a song on my playlist in 2016 but it didn't chart.

Glen Campbell's entry is a re-issue of a song that didn't make the US top 40 in 1967 and will be covered more successfully in the UK by Dean Martin.

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Video of one of last week's entries, just to point out that Steppenwolf did make more than just one song.

[smokeyb]

02-Nov-68
1 (1) Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends (5 wks)
2 (2) The Marbles - Only One Woman (6 wks)
3 (5) The Bandwagon - Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache (3 wks)
4 (15) Barry Ryan - Eloise (2 wks)
5 (3) Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love (4 wks)
6 (8) The Hollies - Listen To Me (5 wks)
7 (11) Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. (4 wks)
8 (6) Love Affair - A Day Without Love (8 wks)
9 (20) Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine (2 wks)
10 (22) Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (2 wks)
11 (9) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Wreck Of The Antoinette (5 wks)
12 (19) Nina Simone - Ain't Got No - I Got Life (3 wks)
13 (4) Beatles - Revolution (6 wks)
14 (17) Billie Davis - I Want You To Be My Baby (4 wks)
15 (NE) The Turtles - Elenore (1 wk)
16 (7) The Dave Clark Five - The Red Balloon (7 wks)
17 (27) Marmalade - Wait For Me Mary-Anne (2 wks)
18 (30) Who - Magic Bus (2 wks)
19 (12) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By (5 wks)
20 (10) The Band - The Weight (7 wks)
21 (24) Long John Baldry - Mexico (2 wks)
22 (26) The Locomotive - Rudi's In Love (3 wks)
23 (13) Cupids Inspiration - My World (5 wks)
24 (14) Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation (6 wks)
25 (NE) Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) (1 wk)
26 (16) The Tremeloes - My Little Lady (7 wks)
27 (18) Glen Campbell - Gentle On My mind (8 wks)
28 (21) Beatles - Hey Jude (9 wks)
29 (23) Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days (9 wks)
30 (25) Wilson Pickett - I'm A Midnight Mover (8 wks)

[o]

1 Easybeats – Good times
2 Beatles – Revolution
3 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
4 Deep Purple – Hush
5 Cream – Sunshine of your love
6 Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
7 Hollies – Listen to me
8 Status Quo – Ice in the sun
9 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q
10 Beatles - Hey Jude
11 Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
12 Rolling Stones – Street fighting man
13 Mort Stevens & His Orchestra - Hawaii Five-O
14 Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You
15 Mama Cass – Dream a little dream of me
16 Dave Clark Five – Red Balloon
17 Who - Magic bus
18 Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine
19 Nina Simone - Ain't Got No I Got Life Love Affair - A Day Without Love
20 Hugo Montenegro - The Good The Bad & The Ugly

[raliverpool]

2/11/1968

1 Beatles - Hey Jude (8wks 2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1)
2 Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (6wks 38-20-9-5-3-2)
3 Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends (3wks 17-8-3)
4 Monkees - Porpoise Song (3wks 25-12-4)
5 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q (6wks 30-17-8-6-4-5)
6 Easybeats - Good Times (8wks 40-24-11-4-2-2-2-6)
7 Turtles - Elenore (4wks 23-12-9-7)
8 Cream - White Room (3wks 24-13-8)
9 Diana Ross & The Supremes - Love Child (2wks 17-9)
10 Love Affair - A Day Without Love (6wks 17-9-7-7-7-10)

11 Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days (8wks 16-3-3-3-3-3-5-11)
12 Marbles - Only One Woman (5wks 33-22-18-14-12)
13 Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (2wks 21-13)
14 Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart (6wks 19-8-5-4-6-14)
15 Hollies - Listen To Me (5wks 39-21-11-10-15)
16 Barry Ryan - Eloise (1wk 16 NEW)
17 Bandwagon - Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache (2wks 22-17)
18 James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (Part 1) (6wks 35-21-15-10-11-18)
19 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Wreck Of The Antoinette (4wks 27-19-18-19)
20 Tremeloes - My Little Lady (6wks 34-27-18-13-15-20)

21 Locomotive - Rudi's In Love (3wks 35-23-21)
22 Van Morrison - Sweet Thing (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Donovan - Lalena (4wks 34-28-24-23)
24 Beatles - Revolution (8wks 24-5-2-2-4-8-16-24)
25 Nina Simone - Ain't Got No, I Got Life (1wk 25 NEW)
26 Jackie Lomax - Sour Milk Sea (3wks 37-30-26)
27 Dion - Abraham, Martin And John (1wk 27 NEW)

28 5th Dimension - Sweet Blindness (2wks 32-28)
29 Nina Simone - Do What You Gotta Do (2wks 36-29)
30 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Keep On Lovin' Me Honey (2wks 34-30)

31 OC Smith - Little Green Apples (7wks 30-22-16-14-15-20-31)
32 Max Frost & The Troopers - Shape Of Things To Come (5wks 29-20-21-25-32)
33 Jerry Butler - Hey, Western Union Man (4wks 33-29-29-33)
34 Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions (7wks 37-33-30-26-26-28-34)
35 Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida (9wks 35-20-9-6-5-6-9-19-35)
36 Long John Baldry - Mexico (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Marmalade - Wait For Me Marianne (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Don Fardon - (The Lament Of The Cherokee) Indian Reservation (7wks 31-18-13-13-16-26-39)

40 Zombies - Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) (1wk 40 NEW)

Dion DiMucci's folk rock tribute is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassination of King and that of Robert Kennedy in April and June 1968. It peaked at USA #4, Canada #1, & Australia #12; yet it flopped in the UK ... where Marvin Gaye's inferior cover version became a top ten hit (UK #9 in 1970).

[Whitneyfan]

01(04) Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
02(11) Nina Simone - Ain't Got No - I Got Life
03(01) The Band – The Weight
04(02) Marbles - Only One Woman
05(13) Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.
06(03) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By
07(23) Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine
08(05) The Beatles – Hey Jude
09(07) Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love
10(22) Mama Cass – California Earthquake

11(15) The Locomotive - Rudi's In Love
12(28) Barry Ryan – Eloise
13(10) Mama Cass - Dream A Lttle Dream Of Me
14(06) The Hollies – Listen To Me
15(08) Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days
16(14) Buffalo Springfield – On The Way Home
17(27) The Who - Magic Bus
18(09) Billie Davis - I Want You To Be My Baby
19(12) Cupid’s Inspiration - My World
20(31) Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

22(30) Marmalade - Wait For Me Mary-Anne
25(--) The Turtles – Elenore
26(33) Long John Baldry – Mexico

31(40) Val Doonican - If I Knew Then What I Know Now
32(45) Barron Knights - An Olympic Record
35(--) Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man

41(--) Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)
50(--) Malcolm Roberts - May I Have The Next Dream With You

[darkstar79]

01 The Four Tops – I'm In A Different World (5 wks)
02 The Isley Brothers – This Old Heart Of Mine (2 wks)
03 The Delfonics – Break Your Promise (11 wks)
04 Bobby Paris – Per-So-Nal-Ly (7 wks)
05 Arthur Conley – Aunt Dora's Love Soul Shack (2 wks)
06 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Keep On Loving Me Honey (4 wks)
07 The Supremes – Love Child (3 wks)
08 Clarence Carter – Too Weak To Fight (1 wk)
09 The Masquerades – I Ain't Got To Love Nobody Else (6 wks)
10 The Tremeloes – My Little Lady (2 wks)

11 Dylan And The Blazers – Funky Bull (Part 1) (6 wks)
12 Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man (1 wk)
13 Cupids Inspiration – My World (5 wks)
14 The Dells – Always Together (4 wks)
15 The Dave Clark Five – Red Balloon (7 wks)
16 Sam & Dave – Everybody Got To Believe In Somebody (1 wk)
17 Judy Collins – Both Sides Now (1 wk)
18 Percy Sledge – You're All Around Me (3 wks)
19 The Intruders – Slow Drag (1 wk)
20 Martha And The Vandellas – Sweet Darlin' (1 wk)

21 Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman (1 wk)
22 The Diplomats – I Can Give You Love (2 wks)
23 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – You're All I Need To Get By (15 wks)
24 Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer (13 wks)
25 Peaches & Herb – Let's Make A Promise (1 wk)
26 Little Carl Carlton – 40 Drums – 1 Guitar (4 wks)
27 Gene Chandler – There Was A Time (2 wks)
28 Otis Redding – I've Got Dreams To Remember (7 wks)
29 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days (9 wks)
30 The Marvelettes – Destination: Anywhere (7 wks)

[popchartfreak]

27th October 1968

It's a second week on top for the epic Barry Ryan, holding off a 5-way challenge from 5 other very deserving shoulda-been chart-toppers. Ennio meanwhile does as well as Hugo's cover did a few months back, with Judy Collins and The Ventures being held out of the top 10 by virtue of sheer brilliance above them. Mama Cass gets a second solo top 40, and Tammy Wynette grabs a first 7 years earlier than she did in my actual 1975 charts. 

In a quiet week for new releases worth charting, it became time to scour the album charts, hence a sudden mini-invasion of musicals extracts that deserve attention, notably Barbra Streisand's showtune stormer Don't Rain On My Parade from Funny Girl. saw it at the pictures in 1969/70 at one or other RAF cinema, and dad bought the 4-track EP containing this track in Singapore in 1970. I wasn't so fussed about the ballads, like People, but this one was a fabbie, and so in at 49.

Close behind at 53, Edwin Starr is back with his stonking 25 Miles - a future big part of the Cookie Crew's 1989 smash Got To Keep On. Betty Everett's oldie charts in the UK for some reason, a good 23 years or so before Cher blasted it into pieces, and 7 years before Linda Lewis did the definitive disco version of It's In His Kiss (note no Shoop Shoop's in that fab version). Ronnie Dyson debuts as one of the teenage leads in Hair, off Broadway, 3 years ahead of his own UK chart hit, and 1 year ahead of the US chart-topping superior version of Aquarius by The Fifth Dimension. Booker T & The MG's fancy up Hang 'Em High, much as Hugo Montenegro already did earlier in the year, giving Ennio Morricone a second chart song this week. Finally, it's Malcolm Roberts at 75, fort some reason I was a big fan of May I Have The Next Dream's 1930's stylee crooning at the time - as will be shown by the actual 1930's Donald Peers in 1969 which I also loved. Neither of them are tracks I would choose to play these days, but for old time's sake....in at 75. 


1 ( 1 ) ELOISE Barry Ryan
2 ( 3 ) WICHITA LINEMAN Glen Campbell
3 ( 2 ) LOVE CHILD Diana Ross & The Supremes
4 ( 5 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE (IS WEAK FOR YOU) The Isley Brothers
5 ( 10 ) THEME FROM THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Ennio Morricone
6 ( 9 ) AIN’T GOT NO...I GOT LIFE Nina Simone
7 ( 4 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles
8 ( 7 ) MY WORLD Cupid’s Inspiration
9 ( 6 ) ELENORE The Turtles
10 ( 8 ) RIDE MY SEE-SAW The Moody Blues

11 ( 22 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins
12 ( 27 ) HAWAII FIVE-0 The Ventures
13 ( 11 ) THOSE WERE THE DAYS Mary Hopkin
14 ( 13 ) REVOLUTION The Beatles
15 ( 17 ) ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN Dion
16 ( 14 ) LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
17 ( 15 ) I CLOSE MY EYES AND COUNT TO TEN Dusty Springfield
18 ( 21 ) I WANT YOU TO BE MY BABY Billie Davis
19 ( 12 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience
20 ( 19 ) DON’T GIVE UP Petula Clark

21 ( 18 ) ONLY ONE WOMAN The Marbles featuring Graham Bonnet
22 ( 29 ) BREAKIN’ DOWN THE WALLS OF HEARTACHE The Bandwagon
23 ( 16 ) WRECK OF THE “ANTOINETTE” Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
24 ( 23 ) I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER Aretha Franklin
25 ( 28 ) I’M IN A DIFFERENT WORLD The Four Tops
26 ( 25 ) EVERYBODY’S TALKIN’ Nilsson
27 ( 24 ) WITHOUT HER Jack Jones
28 ( 20 ) (THE LAMENT OF THE CHEROKEE) INDIAN RESERVATION Don Fardon
29 ( 26 ) MY LITTLE LADY The Tremeloes
30 ( 34 ) FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE Stevie Wonder

31 ( 35 ) MARIANNE Cliff Richard
32 ( 54 ) WAIT FOR ME MARIANNE Marmalade
33 ( 47 ) CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE Mama Cass
34 ( 37 ) BABY LET’S WAIT The Royal Guardsmen
35 ( 40 ) HOOKED ON A FEELING B. J. Thomas
36 ( 32 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash
37 ( 33 ) JESAMINE The Casuals
38 ( 44 ) RUDI’S IN LOVE The Locomotive
39 ( 42 ) LISTEN TO ME The Hollies
40 ( 56 ) STAND BY YOUR MAN Tammy Wynette

41 ( 31 ) SHAKE The Shadows Of Knight
42 ( 30 ) LALENA Donovan
43 ( 36 ) OVER YOU Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
44 ( 41 ) I’VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU The Bee Gees
45 ( 39 ) MARY IN THE MORNING Glen Campbell
46 ( 52 ) SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Max Frost & The Troopers
47 ( 43 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Jose Feliciano
48 ( 46 ) GOTTA SEE JANE R. Dean Taylor
49 ( NEW ) DON’T RAIN ON MY PARADE Barbra Streisand
50 ( 38 ) WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS Joe Cocker

51 ( 45 ) THE STRAIGHT LIFE Bobby Goldsboro
52 ( 60 ) THERE WAS A TIME Gene Chandler
53 ( NEW ) TWENTY FIVE MILES Edwin Starr
54 ( 49 ) HARPER VALLEY P.T.A Jeannie C. Riley
55 ( 65 ) MEXICO Long John Baldry
56 ( 57 ) HEARTACHE Roy Orbison
57 ( 53 ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys
58 ( 51 ) DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME Mama Cass
59 ( 64 ) SHAME SHAME The Magic Lanterns
60 ( 48 ) STREET FIGHTING MAN The Rolling Stones

61 ( 58 ) RAINBOW CHASER Nirvana
62 ( 59 ) TUESDAY AFTERNOON (FOREVER TUESDAY) The Moody Blues
63 ( 68 ) THE PORPOISE SONG The Monkees
64 ( 50 ) CHAINED Marvin Gaye
65 ( 63 ) THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU Herb Alpert
66 ( 71 ) PROMISES PROMISES Dionne Warwick
67 ( 55 ) A DAY WITHOUT LOVE The Love Affair
68 ( NEW ) IT’S IN HIS KISS (THE SHOOP SHOOP SONG) Betty Everett
69 ( NEW ) AQUARIUS (FROM “HAIR” ORIGINAL BROADWAY ALBUM) Ronnie Dyson
70 ( 72 ) WHO’S MAKING LOVE Johnny Taylor

71 ( NEW ) HANG ‘EM HIGH Booker T & The MG’s
72 ( 73 ) TOO WEAK TO FIGHT Clarence Carter
73 ( 61 ) NATURALLY STONED The Avant-Garde
74 ( 74 ) LET’S MAKE A PROMISE Peaches And Herb
75 ( NEW ) MAY I HAVE THE NEXT DREAM WITH YOU Malcolm Roberts


retro 70’s
1 ( 1 ) THOSE WERE THE DAYS Mary Hopkin
2 ( 2 ) JEZAMINE The Casuals
3 ( 4 ) ONLY ONE WOMAN The Marbles
4 ( 9 ) THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY Hugo Montenegro
5 ( 3 ) THE WRECK OF THE ANTOINETTE Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
6 ( 6 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Jose Feliciano
7 ( 5 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles
8 ( 7 ) LES BICYCLETTES DE BELSIZE Engelbert Humperdinck
9 ( 20 ) ELOISE Barry Ryan
10 ( 8 ) MY LITTLE LADY The Tremeloes

11 ( 16 ) WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS Joe Cocker
12 ( 19 ) MEXICO Long John Baldry
13 ( 12 ) GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU The Bee Gees
14 ( 10 ) THE RED BALLOON The Dave Clark 5
15 ( NEW ) BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS OF HEARTACHE The Bandwagon
16 ( 14 ) LADY WILLPOWER Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
17 ( NEW ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers
18 ( 13 ) HOLD ME TIGHT Johnny Nash
19 ( 11 ) LITTLE ARROWS Leapy Lee
20 ( 15 ) CLASSICAL GAS Mason Williams