Haven Retro Combined Chart : 06.09.1969

[smokeyb]

A couple of big movers at the top of the chart sees David Bowie get his first retro number one, up from number 11.

Bobbie Gentry also jumps up from 14 to number 2, Mama Cass stays at 3, Creedance Clearwater move up to 4

and last week's number one Crosby Still & Nashdrops to 5.



The biggest climber is the Youngbloods who jump up 16 places to 24.



There are 3 new entries and 2 re-entries this week, the highest is the Temptations at 27.



The biggest faller is the Plastic Ono Band who fall 34 places.


06.09.1969 (Week # 36)


1 (11) David Bowie - Space Oddity - 94 points (34-15-12-11-1) 5 wks

2 (14) Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again - 87 points (14-2) 2 wks

3 (03) Mama Cass - It's Getting Better - 84 points (20-6-3-3) 4 wks

4 (05) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising - 83 points (31-11-5-7-10-6-14-29-x-26-10-5-4) 12 wks

5 (01) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express - 80 points (22-11-8-5-1-5) 6 wks

6 (04) Bee Gees - Don't Forget To Remember - 67 points (35-14-4-6) 4 wks

7 (02) Equals - Viva Bobby Joe - 65 points (14-7-4-3-2-7) 6 wks

8 (06) Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 - 64 points (29-27-30-26-13-12-14-17-30-12-6-4-6-8) 14 wks

9 (20) Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue - 61 points (27-21-20-9) 4 wks

10 (19) Humble Pie - Natural Born Bugie - 60 points (19-10) 2 wks

11 (12) Archies - Sugar, Sugar - 58 points (36-19-16-19-16-20-24-40-21-15-12-11) 12 wks

12 (10) Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay - 57 points (35-15-13-11-10-12) 6 wks

13 (07) Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline - 49 points (39-6-6-5-6-5-3-2-7-13) 10 wks

14 (08) Love Affair - Bringing On Back The Good Times - 45 points (40-8-5-3-2-1-8-14) 8 wks

15 (09) Marvin Gaye – Too Busy Thinking About My Baby - 39 points (35-30-34-23-11-10-13-22-20-23-33-x-21-10-10-7-9-9-15) 18 wks

16 (13) Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want - 36 points (36-19-13-8-9-13-13-16) 8 wks

17 (26) Box Tops - Soul Deep - 34 points (26-17) 2 wks

18 (24) Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime - 33 points (40-24-24-18) 4 wks

19 (18) Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad - 32 points (21-14-11-17-18-19) 6 wks

20 (32) Temptations - Cloud Nine - 32 points (32-20) 2 wks

21 (15) Tyrannosaurus Rex - King Of The Rumbling Spires - 32 points (25-17-16-15-21) 5 wks

22 (16) Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women - 30 points (3-2-1-1-1-1-7-16-22) 9 wks

23 (21) Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air - 28 points (7-3-1-1-1-1-3-4-6-16-19-21-23) 13 wks

24 (40) Youngbloods - Get Together - 26 points (40-39-40-24) 4 wks

25 (23) Move - Curly - 25 points (34-13-12-18-23-25) 6 wks

26 (17) Vanity Fare - Early In The Morning - 25 points (36-9-9-10-8-17-26) 7 wks

27 (NE) Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You - 22 points 1 wk

28 (36) Nick Drake - River Man - 21 points (36-28) 2 wks

29 (27) Dells – Love Is Blue/I Can Sing A Rainbow - 20 points (27-22-18-19-25-27-27-29) 8 wks

30 (22) Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town - 20 points (22-14-11-15-15-23-19-20-22-30) 10 wks

31 (29) Otis Redding – (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher - 19 points (30-29-29-31) 4 wks

32 (30) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi - 18 points (32-26-30-32) 4 wks

33 (33) Jerry Butler – What's The Use Of Breaking Up - 18 points (33-33) 2 wks

34 (31) Marvin Gaye – That’s The Way Love Is - 18 points (28-31-34) 3 wks

35 (35) Isaac Hayes – By The Time I Get To Phoenix - 17 points (35-35) 2 wks

36 (NE) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River - 16 points 1 wk

37 (38) Delfonics – You Got Yours And I'll Got Mine - 16 points (34-33-38-37) 4 wks

38 (28) Clodagh Rodgers - Goodnight Midnight - 16 points (35-18-17-33-24-30-28-38) 8 wks

39 (RE) Four Tops – What Is A Man - 15 points (21-27-27-26-25-17-9-5-5-5-8-17-16-16-18-33-31-x-39) 18 wks

40 (NE) Johnny Cash - Wanted Man - 15 points 1 wk

40 (RE) Tommy James & The Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion - 15 points (31-35-32-28-18-18-12-13-12-21-36-35-x-40) 13 wks



Dropped Out

48 (40) Robin Gibb - Saved By The Bell - 12 points (40-8-4-3-4-14-25-40)

58 (39) Marvin Gaye - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) - 9 points (34-39)

59 (25) Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance - 9 points (7-3-2-2-2-5-22-25)

60 (34) Who - I'm Free - 8 points (39-17-18-23-34)

63 (37) Tony Tribe - Red Red Wine - 7 points (30-25-16-23-36-37)

66 (40) Otis Redding – Free Me - 6 points (40-39-32-40)


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





I will leave this open until end of next week.

[smokeyb]

UK CHART 13.09.1969

1 (1) Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (6 wk) (# 1)
2 (2) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (5 wk) (# 2)
3 (5) Bee Gees - Don't Forget To Remember (5 wk) (#3)
4 (10) Humble Pie - Natural Born Bugie (4 wk) (#4)
5 (6) Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (8 wk) (#5)
6 (8) Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime (7 wk) (#6)
7 (7) Equals - Viva Bobby Joe (7 wk) (#6)
8 (4) Stevie Wonder - I Don't Know Why/My Cherie Amour (20 wk) (#4)
9 (3) Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (10 wk) (#1)
10 (9) Robin Gibb - Saved By The Bell (10 wk) (#2)
11 (14) Oliver - Good Morning Sunshine (6 wk) (#11)
12 (11) Joe Dolan - Make Me An Island (12 wk) (#3)
13 (13) The Move - Curly (8 wk) (#12)
14 (12) Vanity Fare - Early In The Morning (8 wk) (#8)
15 (17) Engelbert Humperdinck - I'm A Better Man (6 wk) (#15)
16 (28) Temptations - Cloud Nine (4 wk) (#16)
17 (30) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express (5 wk) (#17)
18 (20) Max Romeo - Wet Dream (16 wk) (#10)
19 (32) Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again (3 wk) (#19)
20 (19) Clodagh Rodgers - Goodnight Midnight (10 wk) (#4)
21 (15) Cilla Black - Conversations (10 wk) (# 7)
22 (16) Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance (10 wk) (#2)
23 (34) Isley Brothers - Put Yourself In My Place (3 wk) (#23)
24 (31) Box Tops - Soul Deep (4 wk) (#24)
25 (22) Ken Dodd - Tears Won't Wash Away My Heartache (7 wk) (#22)
26 (26) Mama Cass - It's Getting Better (5 wk) (#26)
27 (27) The Peddlers - Birth (4 wk) (#27)
28 (21) Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto (14 wk) (#2)
29 (24) Tommy Roe - Heather Honey (8 wk) (#24)
30 (NE) Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay (1 wk) (#30)
31 (29) Jim Reeves - When Two Worlds Collide (12 wk) (#17)
32 (18) Love Affair - Bringing On Back The Good Times (9 wk) (#9)
33 (40) Frank Sinatra - My Way (24 wk) (#5)
34 (NE) Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin - Throw Down A Line (1 wk) (#34)
35 (39) Karen Young - Nobody's Child (2 wk) (#35)
36 (35) Elvis Presley - Clean Up Your Own Back Yard (2 wk) (#35)
37 (25) Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir (8 wk) (#21)
38 (36) Chicken Shack - Tears In The Wind (2 wk) (#36)
39 (33) Jimmy Ruffin - I've Passed This Way Before (6 wk) (#33)
40 (38) Booker T & MG's - Soul Clap '69 (3 wk) (#35)
41 (47) Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (2 wk) (#41)
42 (RE) Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad (7 wk) (#32)
43 (42) Maazel & Philharmonic Orchestra - Thus Spake Zarathustra (7 wk) (#33)
44 (NE) Radah Krishna Temple - Hare Krishna Mantra (1 wk) (#44)
45 (23) Dells - Love Is Blue/I Can Sing A Rainbow (9 wk) (#15)
46 (NE) Foundations - Born To Live And Born To Die (1 wk) (#46)
47 (NE) Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade (1 wk) (#47)
48 (NE) Edwin Starr - 25 Miles (1 wk) (#48)
49 (NE) Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine (1 wk) (#49)
50 (45) Sounds Nice - Love At First Sight (2 wk) (#45)

USA chart for this week:

USA chart for this week

[smokeyb]

TOTP: 11-9-69:   Presenter: Pete Murray

(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525 (and charts)
(4) HUMBLE PIE – Natural Born Bugie  
(44) RADHA KRISHNA TEMPLE – Hare Krishna Mantra  
(NEW) SANDIE SHAW – Heaven Knows I’m Missing Him Now
(17) CROSBY, STILLS & NASH – Marrakesh Express
(19) BOBBIE GENTRY – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again  
(7) THE EQUALS – Viva Bobby Joe
(1) ZAGER & EVANS – In The Year 2525

Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525

[darkstar79]

01 Dells – Love Is Blue/I Can Sing A Rainbow (9 wks)
02 Otis Redding – (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher (5 wks)
03 Jerry Butler – What's The Use Of Breaking Up (3 wks)
04 The Emotions – The Best Part Of A Love Affair (1 wk)
05 Isaac Hayes – By The Time I Get To Phoenix (3 wks)
06 The Originals – Baby I’m For Real (1 wk)
07 The Delfonics – You Got Yours And I'll Got Mine (5 wks)
08 David Ruffin – I’ve Lost Everything I’ve Ever Loved (9 wks)
09 Martha Reeves And The Vandellas – Taking My Love (And Leaving Me) (1 wk)
10 James Brown – World (Part 1) (2 wks)

11 William Bell – Happy (6 wks)
12 The Four Tops – What Is A Man (20 wks)
13 Carla Thomas – I’ve Fallen In Love With You (4 wks)
14 Diana Ross, The Supremes & The Temptations – The Weight (1 wk)
15 Garland Green – Jealous Kind Of Fella (1 wk)
16 Winstons – Love Of The Common People (1 wk)
17 George Benson – My Woman's Good To Me (2 wks)
18 Jackie Wilson – Helpless (1 wk)
19 The Delfonics – Funny Feeling (15 wks)
20 Bobbie Gentry – I'll Never Fall In Love Again (3 wks)

21 Betty Everett – Maybe (1 wk)
22 Isley Brothers – Put Yourself In My Place (3 wks)
23 Funkadelic – I’ll Bet You (1 wk)
24 Isaac Hayes – Walk On By (4 wks)
25 Al Wilson – Lodi (5 wks)
26 Otis Redding – Free Me (7 wks)
27 The Moments – I Do (5 wks)
28 Marvin Gaye – That’s The Way Love Is (4 wks)
29 The Flirtations – South Carolina (8 wks)
30 The O’Jays – One Night Affair (6 wks)

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 2 ) Space Oddity - David Bowie < 1st #1 >
2 ( 1 ) Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan (#1[4])
3 ( 5 ) I Can't Get Next To You - Temptations
4 ( 12 ) Everybody's Talkin' - Nilsson
5 ( 4 ) Sugar Sugar - Archies (#4)
6 ( 3 ) Viva Bobby Joe - Equals (#2[2])
7 ( -- ) Penny Arcade - Roy Orbison
8 ( 10 ) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Bobbie Gentry
9 ( 8 ) Don't Forget To Remember - Bee Gees (#8)
10 ( 7 ) Get Together - Youngbloods (#5)

11 ( 6 ) Marrakesh Express - Crosby Stills & Nash (#3)
12 ( 21 ) Nobody's Child - Karen Young
13 ( 13 ) I'm Free - Who
14 ( 9 ) It's Getting Better - Mama Cass (#6)
15 ( -- ) I'm Gonna Make You Mine - Lou Christie
16 ( 11 ) I'd Wait A Million Years - Grass Roots (#9)
17 ( 18 ) Jean - Oliver
18 ( 16 ) Natural Born Bugie - Humble Pie (#16)
19 ( 29 ) What's The Use Of Breaking Up - Jerry Butler
20 ( 14 ) A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash (#10)

21 ( 19 ) Soul Deep - Box Tops (#19)
22 ( 24 ) Keem-O-Sabe - Electric Indian
23 ( 28 ) Put Yourself In My Place - Isley Brothers
24 ( 17 ) Commotion - Creedence Clearwater Revival (#12)
25 ( -- ) Born To Live Born To Die - Foundations
26 ( 15 ) Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond (#1[3])
27 ( 30 ) Hot Fun In The Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
28 ( 25 ) Birth - Peddlers (#25)
29 ( -- ) What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am - Bill Deal & The Rhondells
30 ( 22 ) Share Your Love With Me - Aretha Franklin (#17)

31 ( 20 ) Along Came Jones - Ray Stevens (#7)
32 ( -- ) That's The Way Love Is - Marvin Gaye
33 ( 40 ) Tears In The Wind - Chicken Shack
34 ( -- ) Throw Down A Line - Cliff Richard And Hank Marvin
35 ( 26 ) Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival (#22)
36 ( 23 ) Bring On Back The Good Times - Love Affair (#3)
37 ( 27 ) Thus Spake Zarathustra - Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor Lorin Maazel (#15)
38 ( 34 ) These Eyes - Guess Who (#30)
39 ( -- ) Nobody But You Babe - Clarence Reid
40 ( 31 ) King Of The Rumbling Spires - Tyrannosaurus Rex (#21)

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-- ( 32 ) Early In The Morning - Vanity Fare (#11)
-- ( 33 ) Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin And Serge Gainsbourg (#19)
-- ( 35 ) Curly - Move (#13)
-- ( 36 ) Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon (#23)
-- ( 37 ) Conversations - Cilla Black (#9)
-- ( 38 ) Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band (#4)
-- ( 39 ) Laughing - Guess Who (#26)

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-- ( -- ) When I Die - Motherlode
-- ( -- ) Hare Krishna Mantra - Radha Krishna Temple

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Not one of his biggest hits, but one of my favourite Roy Orbison hits. A rather jolly song - perhaps it's Roy Orbison singing it that makes it sound better than it would otherwise, but it's a guilty pleasure song.

[Whitneyfan]

01(01) Mama Cass - It's Getting Better
02(02) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
03(05) Bobbie Gentry – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
04(04) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express
05(03) Tyrannosaurus Rex - King Of The Rumbling Spires
06(07) The Box Tops - Soul Deep
07(06) Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525
08(21) Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
09(17) Isley Brothers – Put Yourself In My Place
10(12) Isaac Hayes – Walk On By

11(13) Humble Pie - Natural Born Bugie
12(24) Elvis Presley - Clean Up Your Own Back Yard
13(32) Karen Young - Nobody's Child
14(08) Vanity Fare - Early In The Morning
15(09) Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
16(45) David Bowie - Space Oddity
17(33) Chicken Shack - Tears In The Wind
18(26) Sounds Nice - Love At First Sight
19(10) The Temptations - Cloud Nine
20(11) Bee Gees - Don't Forget To Remember

23(--) Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin - Throw Down A Line
26(--) Radah Krishna Temple - Hare Krishna Mantra
27(--) Bob Dylan – Lay Lady Lay
29(--) Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine

31(--) Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade
32(--) Edwin Starr - 25 Miles
36(--) The Foundations - Born To Live Born To Die

[smokeyb]

1 (5) David Bowie - Space Oddity (2 wks)
2 (3) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express (5 wks)
3 (6) Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again (3 wks)
4 (1) Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (6 wks)
5 (2) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (5 wks)
6 (8) Humble Pie - Natural Born Bugie (4 wks)
7 (9) Mama Cass - It's Getting Better (5 wks)
8 (15) Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (2 wks)
9 (4) Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad (8 wks)
10 (7) The Move - Curly (8 wks)
11 (13) Bee Gees - Don't Forget To Remember (5 wks)
12 (14) Tony Tribe - Red Red Wine (6 wks)
13 (11) Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air (14 wks)
14 (17) Temptations - Cloud Nine (4 wks)
15 (30) Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay (2 wks)
16 (18) Box Tops - Soul Deep (4 wks)
17 (NE) Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine (1 wk)
18 (21) Isley Brothers - Put Yourself In My Place (3 wks)
19 (10) Equals - Viva Bobby Joe (7 wks)
20 (12) Love Affair - Bringing On Back The Good Times (9 wks)
21 (25) Karen Young - Nobody's Child (2 wks)
22 (NE) Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin - Throw Down A Line (1 wk)
23 (16) Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime (7 wks)
24 (NE) Radah Krishna Temple - Hare Krishna Mantra (1 wk)
25 (NE) Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade (1 wk)
26 (19) Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (8 wks)
27 (20) Tyrannosaurus Rex - King Of The Rumbling Spires (6 wks)
28 (22) Who - I'm Free (9 wks)
29 (23) Vanity Fare - Early In The Morning (8 wks)
30 (24) Jimmy Ruffin - I've Passed This Way Before (6 wks)

[o]

1 David Bowie - Space Oddity
2 Mama Cass - It's Getting Better
3 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express
4 Equals - Viva Bobby Joe
5 Bob Dylan – Lay lady lay
6 Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
7 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
8 Archies – Sugar sugar
9 Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad
10 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime
11 Tyrannosaurus Rex - King Of The Rumbling Spires
12 Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
13 Temptations - Cloud Nine
14 Box Tops - Soul Deep
15 Humble Pie - Natural Born Bugie
16 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
17 Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade
18 Otis Redding – (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher
19 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
20 Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

[popchartfreak]

6th August 1969

It's 3 weeks on top for Bobbie Gentry in the week my family left the UK, and my actual top fave track was In The Year 2525 (see shortening chart as I lose touch with new music). Dusty goes top 3 for the 2nd time, and The Temps get a second top 10. Nilsson takes Everybody's Talking back into the 20 again after a mighty leap to 11, and The O'Jays get a first top 20. Elvis leaps into the 30 with Suspicious Minds and The Monkees unexpectedly extend their massive run of top 40 chart entries over a 3-year period as Good Clean Fun climbs fast and the B side enters at 67 - the highest new one. The A side is Mike Nesmith in country-swing, the B is Micky Dolenz in skat mode a la Randy Scouse Git. 

James Brown gets his 2nd top 40, The Isley Brothers a 7th, as the Radha Krishna Temple enter, a Beatles-related off-the-wall UK hit, and one which I did get to hear at the time - a bit of a rarity. From this point on it's safer to assume I didn't get to hear them, and caught the big hits 5 years later on the Jimmy S*v*lle 5 Years Ago Sunday charts show rundown, and the minor ones probably just now! Andy Kim has Sugar, Sugar higher up, and some more Archies on the way, as he returns with another chart entry of his own: So Good Together at 71. Dionne Warwick covers the Righteous Brothers classic for some reason - it's not in the same league, but pleasant enough - Sandie Shaw returns with the inspiration for a future Morrissey Smiths' song, and rock-band Crow debut with a track that will be big in the USA in 1970. Never heard it before in my life. 


1 ( 1 ) I’LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Bobby Gentry # 1
2 ( 2 ) SPACE ODDITY David Bowie # 1
3 ( 9 ) AM I THE SAME GIRL Dusty Springfield # 3
4 ( 7 ) DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBER ME The Bee Gees # 4
5 ( 3 ) SOMETHING IN THE AIR Thunderclap Newman # 1
6 ( 4 ) IN THE YEAR 2525 (EXORDIUM AND TERMINUS) Zager & Evans # 1
7 ( 11 ) I CAN’T GET NEXT TO YOU The Temptations # 7
8 ( 8 ) CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION Tommy James & The Shondells # 1
9 ( 5 ) BRINGING ON BACK THE GOOD TIMES The Love Affair # 5
10 ( 10 ) LET ME BE THE MAN MY DADDY WAS The Chi-Lites # 10

11 ( 50 ) EVERYBODY’S TALKING Nilsson # 11
12 ( 6 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU MINE Lou Christie # 6
13 ( 12 ) EARLY IN THE MORNING Vanity Fare # 5
14 ( 14 ) RIVERMAN Nick Drake # 14
15 ( 13 ) SAVED BY THE BELL Robin Gibb # 1
16 ( 20 ) STREETS OF LONDON Ralph McTell # 16
17 ( 16 ) A WAY OF LIFE Family Dogg # 1
18 ( 15 ) SUGAR, SUGAR The Archies # 1
19 ( 19 ) HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME Sly & The Family Stone # 19
20 ( 26 ) ONE NIGHT AFFAIR The O’Jays # 20

21 ( 17 ) WHEN I DIE Motherlode # 17
22 ( 23 ) WALK ON BY Isaac Hayes # 22
23 ( 18 ) HONKY TONK WOMEN The Rolling Stones # 6
24 ( 46 ) SUSPICIOUS MINDS Elvis Presley # 24
25 ( 25 ) BREAKAWAY The Beach Boys # 1
26 ( 27 ) JE T’AIME..MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg # 26
27 ( 33 ) HERE I GO AGAIN Smokey Robinson & The Miracles # 27
28 ( 22 ) GIVE PEACE A CHANCE The Plastic Ono Band # 5
29 ( 21 ) GOODNIGHT MIDNIGHT Clodagh Rodgers # 10
30 ( 34 ) STRAIGHT AHEAD Young-Holt Unlimited # 30

31 ( 24 ) MOTHER AND JACK Robin Gibb # 15
32 ( 28 ) THE BALLAD OF JOHN & YOKO The Beatles # 1
33 ( 38 ) JIVE Bobby Darin # 33
34 ( 35 ) THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor Lorin Maazel # 34
35 ( 31 ) SWEET CAROLINE (GOOD TIMES NEVER SEEMED SO GOOD) Neil Diamond # 9
36 ( 43 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE The Isley Brothers # 36
37 ( 29 ) MARRAKESH EXPRESS Crosby, Stills & Nash # 8
38 ( 64 ) GOOD CLEAN FUN The Monkees # 38
39 ( 36 ) GOOD MORNING STARSHINE Oliver # 1
40 ( 56 ) WORLD PARTS 1 & 2 James Brown # 40

41 ( 42 ) THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS Marvin Gaye # 41
42 ( 30 ) THE TIME WILL COME The Whispers # 30
43 ( 37 ) SHARE YOUR LOVE WITH ME Aretha Franklin # 37
44 ( 41 ) BEHIND A PAINTED SMILE The Isley Brothers # 1
45 ( 59 ) GROOVIN’ WITH MR’ BLOE Wind featuring Tony Orlando # 45
46 ( 72 ) MAYBE Betty Everett # 46
47 ( 52 ) MY BALLOON’S GOING UP Archie Bell & The Drells # 47
48 ( 48 ) KEEM-O-SABE The Electric Indian # 48
49 ( 32 ) VIVA BOBBY JOE The Equals # 23
50 ( 66 ) MY WOMAN’S GOOD TO ME George Benson # 50

51 ( 65 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE The Winstons # 51
52 ( 40 ) ALL THE WAITING IS NOT IN VAIN Tyrone Davis # 40
53 ( 39 ) CURLY The Move # 39
54 ( 62 ) MAH NA MAH NA Piero Umiliano # 54
55 ( 71 ) THROW DOWN A LINE Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin # 55
56 ( 53 ) LISTEN TO THE BAND The Monkees # 3
57 ( 67 ) TRACY The Cuff Links featuring Ron Dante # 57
58 ( 54 ) IN THE GHETTO Elvis Presley # 1
59 ( 68 ) PENNY ARCADE Roy Orbison # 59
60 ( 57 ) OH HAPPY DAY The Edwin Hawkins Singers featuring Dorothy Combs Morrison # 1

61 ( 55 ) WHAT DOES IT TAKE (TO WIN YOUR LOVE) Junior Walker & The All Stars # 1
62 ( 69 ) ACE INSURANCE MAN Bobbie Gentry # 62
63 ( 51 ) RUBY DON’T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN Kenny Rogers & The First Edition # 6
64 ( 61 ) FIRST OF MAY The Bee Gees # 1
65 ( 73 ) BABY I’M FOR REAL The Originals # 65
66 ( 70 ) NOBODY’S CHILD Karen Young # 66
67 ( NEW ) MOMMY AND DADDY The Monkees # 67
68 ( 47 ) LAY LADY LAY Bob Dylan # 19
69 ( NEW ) HARE KRISHNA MANTRA Radha Krishna Temple # 69
70 ( 49 ) TRUE GRIT Glen Campbell # 16

71 ( NEW ) SO GOOD TOGETHER Andy Kim # 71
72 ( NEW ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ Dionne Warwick # 72
73 ( NEW ) HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISSING HIM NOW Sandie Shaw # 73
74 ( 74 ) I’LL BET YOU Funkadelic # 74
75 ( NEW ) EVIL WOMAN DON’T PLAY YOUR GAMES WITH ME Crow # 75



6th Sep Retro-Then

Snippets from my life that week: bought Adventure Comics 373 (Legion Of Super-Heroes) which was the second-most exciting thing of the week, after seeing the island of Gan in the Indian Ocean from the air, a tropical coral paradise of green in a sunny blue vast ocean, and then landing on the RAF stop-off in the VC-10. Hot, sunny, sherbet-orange drinks, giant fruit bats. Singapore was hot, humid. Very humid. The Cameron Hotel was a regular first stop-off for RAF families till they rented a house, I thought the Chinese ladies zipping about the place were girls cos they were as short as me. There were chit-chats everywhere (wall geckos catching insects). I found I am utterly lifelong irresistible - to mosquitos. Put me in a crowd of 100,000 and they can zero in on me and feast and I balloon and swell within seconds. Air-conditioning is a blessed relief on the equator. I felt shy and embarrassed at not being able to speak the local languages (though everyone spoke at least some English). Shark is tough to eat, and I was very uneasy about it being on the menu and never did it again (I was unaware what it was). I am vegetarian now and sharks are being decimated worldwide. 

1 ( 1 ) IN THE YEAR 2525 Zager And Evans
2 ( 2 ) EARLY IN THE MORNING Vanity Fayre
3 ( 3 ) DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER The Bee Gees
4 ( 14 ) HEATHER HONEY Tommy Roe
5 ( 5 ) VIVA BOBBY JOE The Equals
6 ( 4 ) MY CHERIE AMOUR Stevie Wonder
7 ( 6 ) SAVED BY THE BELL Robin Gibb
8 ( 8 ) MAKE ME AN ISLAND Joe Dolan
9 ( 13 ) BAD MOON RISING Creedence Clearwater Revival
10 ( 9 ) GOODNIGHT MIDNIGHT Clodagh Rodgers

11 ( 10 ) CONVERSATIONS Cilla Black
12 ( 11 ) HONKY TONK WOMEN The Rolling Stones
13 ( 16 ) GOOD MORNING STARSHINE Oliver
14 ( 12 ) GIVE PEACE A CHANCE Plastic Ono Band
15 ( NEW ) I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Bobbie Gentry

[Shireblogger]

1 [1] :: Creedence Clearwater Revival - BAD MOON RISING
2 [6] :: Johnny Cash - WANTED MAN {Live At San Quentin LP track}
3 [2] :: Marvin Gaye - TOO BUSY THINKING 'BOUT MY BABY
4 [3] :: Creedence Clearwater Revival - LODI {Bad Moon Rising B-side}
5 [5] :: Humble Pie - NATURAL BORN BUGIE
6 [7] :: Temptations - CLOUD NINE
7 [8] :: Box Tops - SOUL DEEP
8 [4] :: Marvin Gaye - THAT'S THE WAY LOVE IS
9 [10] :: Johnny Cash - SAN QUENTIN {A Boy Named Sue B-side}
10 [new] :: Edwin Starr - 25 MILES
11 [new] :: Bob Dylan - LAY LADY LAY
12 [15] :: David Bowie - SPACE ODDITY
13 [13] :: Johnny Cash - A BOY NAMED SUE
14 [19] :: Booker T & MGs - SOUL CLAP '69
15 [new] :: Radah Krishna Temple - HARE KRISHNA MANTRA
16 [9] :: Zager & Evans - IN THE YEAR 2525
17 [new] :: Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin - THROW DOWN A LINE
18 [11] :: Crosby, Stills & Nash - MARRAKESH EXPRESS
19 [16] :: Tyrannosaurus Rex - KING OF THE RUMBLING SPIRES
20 [20] :: Booker T & MGs - SLUM BABY


Brilliantly sampled by the Cookie Crew 20 years later...

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Please also freeze my chart for next week

[raliverpool]

13/09/1969

1 Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay (7wks 34-20-12-7-4-2-1)
2 Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (7wks 25-14-9-5-2-1-2)
3 Humble Pie - Natural Born Bugie (4wks 23-13-4-3)
4 Bee Gees - Don't Forget To Remember (4wks 17-11-7-4)
5 Nick Drake - River Man (6wks 29-19-14-10-6-5)
6 Youngbloods - Get Together (3wks 21-9-6)
7 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River (5wks 20-11-8-5-7)
8 Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes (3wks 25-16-8)
9 Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You (3wks 33-18-9)
10 Archies - Sugar Sugar (5wks 37-25-19-14-10)

11 Equals - Viva Bobbie Joe (5wks 27-21-15-12-11)
12 Mama Cass - It's Getting Better (7wks 29-21-16-13-12-11-12)
13 Move - Curly (7wks 30-19-14-10-9-10-13)
14 Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime (2wks 21-14)
15 Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' (2wks 20-15)
16 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (10wks 17-6-2-1-1-1-1-1-3-16)
17 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus (2wks 23-17)
18 Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again (1wk 18 NEW)
19 Isley Brothers - Put Yourself In My Place (1wk 19 NEW)
20 Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come (4wks 29-22-19-20)

21 Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (10wks 7-2-1-2-2-2-2-3-8-21)
22 Isaac Hayes - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (1wk 22 NEW)
23 Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog (1wk 23 NEW)
24 Almendra - Muchacha (Ojos de papel) (3wks 36-30-24)
25 Box Tops - Soul Deep (4wks 34-24-22-25)
26 Johnny Cash - Wanted Man (4wks 40-31-25-26)
27 Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline (9wks 22-11-5-4-4-4-5-13-27)
28 Jackie DeShannon - Put A Little Love In Your Heart (8wks 28-13-6-5-6-8-15-28)
29 Steppenwolf - The Pusher (4wks 37-30-26-29)
30 Grass Roots - I'd Wait A Million Years (5wks 30-26-23-24-30)

31 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (9wks 19-10-4-3-3-3-6-17-31)
32 Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me (1wk 32 NEW)
33 Lettermen - Hurts So Bad (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Steve Miller Band - Living In The USA (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Peddlers - Birth (3wks 40-32-35)
36 Three Dog Night - Easy To Be Hard (3wks 39-33-36)
37 Monkees - Good Clean Fun (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Kool and the Gang - Kool and the Gang (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Chicken Shack - Tears in the Wind (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Booker T & the MGs - Soul Clap '69 (1wk 40 NEW)

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Mark's Top 40 - 13.09.1969

1 (01) Love Affair - Bringing On Back The Good Times
2 (02) Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
3 (03) David Bowie - Space Oddity
4 (04) Bobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love Again
5 (09) Archies - Sugar, Sugar
6 (05) Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
7 (06) Mama Cass - It's Getting Better
8 (08) Marvin Gaye – Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
9 (07) Cilla Black - Conversations
10 (34) Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine
11 (35) Cuff Links - Tracy
12 (10) Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
13 (New) Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
14 (11) Dean Martin - Gentle On My Mind
15 (12) Frank Sinatra - My Way
16 (13) Creedance Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
17 (14) Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
18 (15) Bee Gees - Don't Forget To Remember
19 (16) Clodagh Rodgers - Goodnight Midnight
20 (17) Creedance Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
21 (18) Equals - Viva Bobby Joe
22 (19) Robin Gibb - Saved By The Bell
23 (21) Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
24 (22) Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad
25 (20) Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
26 (24) Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
27 (25) Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
28 (24) Beatles - Get Back
29 (27) Marmalade - Baby Make It Soon
30 (28) Beatles - The Ballad Of John & Yoko
31 (30) Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance
32 (32) Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
33 (33) Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
34 (23) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express
35 (31) Aretha Franklin - Share Your Love With Me
36 (36) Isley Brothers - Put Yourself In My Place
37 (29) Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You
38 (38) Four Tops – What Is A Man
39 (39) Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
40 (40) Diana Ross & The Supremes - No Matter What Sign You Are