Haven Retro Combined Chart : 13.07.1968

[smokeyb]

A new number 1 this week for the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, R Dean Taylor remains at 2

Cupid's Inspiration stay at 3, the Rolling Stones drop to 4 and Manfred Mann slip to 5.



There are 6 new entries this week, the highest is Dusty Springfield at number 13.



The biggest climber is Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich who jump 11 places to number 16.



The biggest faller is the Equals who drop right of the chart from 28.



13.07.1968 (Week # 28)


1 (05) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire - 101 points (18-5-1) 3 wks

2 (02) R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane - 80 points (16-3-2-2) 4 wks

3 (03) Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone - 74 points (8-5-3-3) 4 wks

4 (01) Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash - 71 points (5-1-1-1-1-1-4) 7 wks

5 (04) Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack - 64 points (15-5-2-4-5) 5 wks

6 (16) Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson - 60 points (18-10-10-7-9-8-8-10-14-16-6) 11 wks

7 (08) Bruce Channel – Keep On - 59 points (16-8-7) 3 wks

8 (06) Richard Harris - Macarthur Park - 52 points (39-16-10-11-9-9-6-6-8) 9 wks

9 (07) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - 50 points (25-23-21-x-14-7-7-7-9) 8 wks

10 (10) Equals - Baby Come Back - 45 points (16-6-3-1-1-2-5-11-11-10-10) 11 wks

11 (09) Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony - 40 points (29-29-34-22-16-16-12-14-10-4-2-4-9-11) 14 wks

12 (15) Monkees - D.W. Washburn - 40 points (26-15-12) 3 wks

13 (NE) Dusty Springfield – I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - 37 points 1 wk

14 (14) Byrds - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - 34 points (24-12-13-12-14-14) 6 wks

15 (18) Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You - 33 points (28-20-13-9-11-12-15-18-15) 9 wks

16 (27) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Might In Soho - 32 points (27-16) 2 wks

17 (12) Gene Chandler – Nothing Can Stop Me - 30 points (28-22-17-13-12-17) 6 wks

18 (NE) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music - 29 points 1 wk

19 (11) Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man - 28 points (14-7-6-8-11-19) 6 wks

20 (24) Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues - 26 points (24-20) 2 wks

21 (17) Glen Campbell – Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife - 26 points (22-17-21) 3 wks

22 (20) Marmalade - Lovin' Things - 24 points (30-17-13-18-19-20-22) 7 wks

23 (13) Aretha Franklin – Think - 23 points (37-10-6-4-2-3-9-13-23) 9 wks

24 (21) Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower - 23 points (39-40-23-21-24) 5 wks

25 (NE) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning - 22 points 1 wk

26 (23) Who - Dogs - 22 points (40-23-26) 3 wks

27 (36) Tammy Wynette – D-I-V-O-R-C-E - 22 points (36-27) 2 wks

28 (33) Mason Williams - Classical Gas - 22 points (35-30-25-33-28) 5 wks

29 (29) Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie & Clyde - 20 points (40-31-27-29-29) 5 wks

30 (NE) The Four Tops – Great Soul Ballad - 20 points 1 wk

31 (31) Friend & Lover - Reach Out Of The Darkness - 19 points (42-x-33-31-31) 4 wks

32 (22) Tyrannosaurus Rex - Debora - 18 points (13-4-5-3-6-10-14-17-22-32) 10 wks

33 (35) Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire - 18 points (35-33) 2 wks

34 (36) Gene Pitney - She's A Heartbreaker - 17 points (36-34) 2 wks

35 (NE) Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling - 17 points 1 wk

36 (36) John Rowles - Hush Not A Word To Mary - 16 points (36-36) 2 wks

37 (30) The Delfonics – I'm Sorry - 15 points (29-25-23-27-27-23-25-26-26-28-30-37) 12 wks

38 (25) Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose - 15 points (32-19-19-7-4-2-3-3-4-10-25-38) 12 wks

39 (36) Association - Time For Livin' - 15 points (19-17-21-29-36-39) 6 wks

40 (NE) Mama Cass - Dream A Little Dream Of Me - 15 points 1 wk



Dropped Out

43 (26) O.C Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp - 13 points (30-34-38-35-33-19-19-21-26)

44 (19) Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts - Angel Of The Morning - 12 points (22-18-16-20-20-19)

45 (34) Temptations - I Could Never Love Another - 11 points (23-25-34-34)

53 (32) Ohio Express -Yummy Yummy Yummy - 9 points (33-31-29-28-32-32-32)

54 (36) Lulu - Boy - 9 points (29-23-37-36)

56 (36) Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser - 9 points (32-13-7-5-6-15-36-36)

77 (36) Lesley Gore – He Gives Me Love (La La La) - 3 points (37-36-37-39-36)

- (28) Equals - Hold Me Closer - 0 points (39-35-34-28-30-38-x-28)


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




I will leave this open until end of next week.

[smokeyb]

UK CHART 20.07.1968

1 (1) Equals - Baby Come Back (11 wk)
2 (2) O C Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp (8 wk)
3 (3) Des O'Connor - I Pretend (11 wk)
4 (4) Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone (5 wk)
5 (9) Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy (7 wk)
6 (11) Tommy James & The Shondelles - Mony Mony (7 wk)
7 (12) Richard Harris - MacArthur Park (4 wk)
8 (18) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire (4 wk)
9 (5) Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash (8 wk)
10 (8) Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack (6 wk)
11 (10) Don Partridge - Blue Eyes (8 wk)
12 (14) John Rowles - Hush Not A Word To Mary (5 wk)
13 (15) Esther And Abi Ofarim - One More Dance (5 wk)
14 (7) Marmalade - Lovin' Things (9 wk)
15 (13) Gary Puckett & Union Gap - Young Girl (14 wk)
16 (28) Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You (3 wk)
17 (42) Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (2 wk)
18 (23) R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane (5 wk)
19 (24) Sue Nicholls - Where Will You Be (3 wk)
20 (6) Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (8 wk)
21 (17) Monkees - DW Washburn (4 wk)
22 (31) Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (2 wk)
23 (37) Small Faces - The Universal (2 wk)
24 (30) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho (3 wk)
25 (20) Bobby Goldsboro - Honey (14 wk)
26 (16) Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger & the Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire (14 wk)
27 (47) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (2 wk)
28 (NE) Tom Jones - Help Yourself (1 wk)
29 (22) Bruce Channel - Keep On (4 wk)
30 (29) Cliff Richard - I'll Love You Forever Today (4 wk)
31 (NE) Pigmeat Markham - Here Comes The Judge (1 wk)
32 (32) Vince Hill - Importance Of Your Love (4 wk)
33 (21) Engelbert Humperdinck - A Man Without Love (13 wk)
34 (27) Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderfull World (24 wk)
35 (35) Diana Ross & Supremes - Some Things You Never Get Used To (3 wk)
36 (40) The Nice - America (2 wk)
37 (19) Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose (10 wk)
38 (NE) Shorty Long - Here Comes The Judge (1 wk)
39 (26) Lulu - Boy (7 wk)
40 (25) The Who - Dogs (5 wk)
41 (34) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (6 wk)
42 (NE) The Kinks - Days (1 wk)
43 (NE) Robert John - If You Don't Want My Love (1 wk)
44 (NE) Fleetwood Mac - I Need Your Love So Bad (1 wk)
45 (NE) Elvis Presley - Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby (1 wk)
46 (39) Aretha Franklin - Think (9 wk)
47 (38) New Generation - Smokey Blues Away (4 wk)
48 (NE) Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl (1 wk)
49 (45) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning (2 wk)
50 (44) Louis Armstrong - Sunshine Of Love (4 wk)

USA chart for this week:

www.umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=20&ChMonth=07&ChYear=1968&ChBand=&ChSong=

[smokeyb]

1 (1) Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack (6 wks)
2 (2) Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone (5 wks)
3 (3) R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane (5 wks)
4 (6) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire (4 wks)
5 (5) Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (5 wks)
6 (16) Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (2 wks)
7 (4) Richard Harris - McArthur Park (5 wks)
8 (13) Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You (3 wks)
9 (14) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho (3 wks)
10 (9) Monkees - DW Washburn (4 wks)
11 (8) Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash (8 wks)
12 (18) Glen Campbell – Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife (3 wks)
13 (15) Who - Dogs (3 wks)
14 (20) Small Faces - The Universal (2 wks)
15 (22) The Nice - America (2 wks)
16 (10) Marmalade - Lovin' Things (9 wks)
17 (26) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning (2 wks)
18 (27) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (2 wks)
19 (7) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (6 wks)
20 (11) Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (8 wks)
21 (NE) Tom Jones - Help Yourself (1 wk)
22 (NE) The Kinks - Days (1 wk)
23 (17) Tommy James & The Shondelles - Mony Mony (7 wks)
24 (NE) Fleetwood Mac - I Need Your Love So Bad (1 wk)
25 (19) Tyrannosaurus Rex - Debora (11 wks)
26 (21) Association - Time For Livin' (9 wks)
27 (23) O C Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp (8 wks)
28 (12) Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy (7 wks)
29 (NE) Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl (1 wk)
30 (NE) Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (1 wk)

[Earl Purple]

As I mentioned previously, the UK new entries at #31 and #38 this week are not the same song.

[o]

1 Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
2 Simon and Garfunkel – Mrs Robinson
3 Donovan – Hurdy gurdy man
4 Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire
5 Association – Time for living
6 Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
7 PP Arnold – Angel of the morning
8 Aretha Franklin – Think
9 The Kinks - Days
10 Julie Driscoll – This wheel’s on fire
11 Equals – Baby come back
12 Gene Chandler – Nothing can stop me
13 Otis Redding – Happy song
14 Procol Harum - Quite Rightly So
15 Tyrannosaurus Rex - Debora
16 Rolling Stones – Jumpin Jack Flash
17 Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose
18 Who – Dogs
19 Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
20 Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl

[darkstar79]

01 Tom Jones - Help Yourself (1 wk)
02 The Four Tops – Great Soul Ballad (2 wks)
03 Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers – I'm Your Man (1 wk)
04 Sly & The Family Stone – Dance To The Music (2 wks)
05 Glen Campbell – Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife (4 wks)
06 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (6 wks)
07 Bruce Channel – Keep On (4 wks)
08 Otis Redding – Hard To Handle (2 wks)
09 Dusty Springfield – I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (2 wks)
10 Cupids Inspiration – Yesterday Has Gone (5 wks)

11 The Kinks – Days (1 wk)
12 The Delfonics – I'm Sorry
13 The Temptations - I Could Never Love Another (6 wks)
14 Pigmeat Markham – Here Comes The Judge (1 wk)
15 The Impressions – I Loved And I Lost (2 wks)
16 The Intruders – Love Is Like A Baseball Game (3 wks)
17 Otis Redding – Amen (3 wks)
18 The Dells – Stay In My Corner (4 wks)
19 Wilson Pickett – I'm A Midnight Mover (5 wks)
20 Sly & The Family Stone – Life (3 wks)

21 The Vibrations – Love In The There Hills (5 wks)
22 Aretha Franklin – You Send Me (6 wks)
23 Martha & The Vandellas – Forget Me Not (6 wks)
24 Vivian Reed – Yours Until Tomorrow (6 wks)
25 Lesley Gore – He Gives Me Love (La La La) (7 wks)
26 Diana Ross & the Supremes – Some Things You Never Get Used To (7 wks)
27 Gene Chandler – Nothing Can Stop Me (7 wks)
28 David McWilliams – Days of Pearly Spencer (8 wks)
29 The Jive Five - Sugar (Don't Take Away My Candy) (8 wks)
30 Aretha Franklin – Think (10 wks)

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 1 ) My Name Is Jack - Manfred Mann < 4th week at #1 >

2 ( 7 ) Hello I Love You - Doors
3 ( 3 ) Folsom Prison Blues (Live) - Johnny Cash
4 ( 2 ) D.W. Washburn - Monkees (#2[2])
5 ( 4 ) Keep On - Bruce Channel (#4)
6 ( -- ) Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
7 ( 13 ) Classical Gas - Mason Williams
8 ( -- ) Days - Kinks
9 ( 8 ) Fire - Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (#8)

10 ( 11 ) It Should Have Been Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips

11 ( 5 ) Gotta See Jane - R Dean Taylor (#4)
12 ( -- ) Help Yourself - Tom Jones
13 ( 10 ) Indian Lake - Cowsills (#10)
14 ( 6 ) Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones (#1[2])
15 ( 16 ) Last Night In Soho - Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich
16 ( 9 ) Angel Of The Morning - Merilee Rush & The Turnabouts (#4)
17 ( 25 ) I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - Dusty Springfield
18 ( 26 ) America - Nice
19 ( -- ) Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac

20 ( 12 ) Boy - Lulu (#6)

21 ( 20 ) The Sunshine Of Love - Louis Armstrong (#20)
22 ( 14 ) Marjorine - Joe Cocker (#8)
23 ( -- ) Sunshine Girl - Herman's Hermits
24 ( 17 ) You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Byrds (#14)
25 ( 15 ) Macarthur Park - Richard Harris (#1[1])
26 ( 35 ) The Universal - Small Faces
27 ( 19 ) Here Comes The Judge - Shorty Long (#15)
28 ( 31 ) Some Things You Never Get Used To - Diana Ross And The Supremes
29 ( 22 ) Yesterday Has Gone - Cupid's Inspiration (#20)

30 ( 27 ) Importance Of Your Love - Vince Hill (#27)

31 ( 37 ) Don't Take It So Hard - Paul Revere & The Raiders
32 ( 21 ) Face It Girl It's Over - Nancy Wilson (#17)
33 ( 18 ) Think - Aretha Franklin (#3)
34 ( 24 ) Dogs - Who (#22)
35 ( 23 ) Anyone For Tennis - Cream (#12)
36 ( 29 ) Lady Willpower - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (#27)
37 ( 32 ) One More Dance - Esther & Abi Ofarim (#31)
38 ( -- ) Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby - Elvis Presley
39 ( 36 ) Grazing In The Grass - Hugh Masekela (#35)

40 ( 28 ) How'd We Ever Get This Way - Andy Kim (#10)

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-- ( 30 ) Mrs Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel (#1[2])
-- ( 33 ) Choo Choo Train - Box Tops (#22)
-- ( 34 ) This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert (#6)
-- ( 38 ) Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan (#16)
-- ( 39 ) Where Is Tomorrow - Cilla Black (#29)

-- ( 40 ) Time For Livin' - Association (#11)

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-- ( -- ) If You Don't Want My Love - Robert John

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In the UK it wasn't a hit until 1969 when "Easy Rider" came out but it was a US hit a year earlier, where it peaked at #2.

[raliverpool]

20/07/1968

1 Friend & Lover - Reach Out Of The Darkness (8wks 34-18-12-9-5-4-2-1)
2 Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie & Clyde (7wks 21-8-4-3-3-1-2)
3 Gene Pitney - She's A Heartbreaker (5wks 25-13-8-4-3)
4 Equals - Baby Come Back (10wks 26-20-15-12-10-10-7-5-3-4)
5 Tammy Wynette - DIVORCE (5wks 30-23-16-10-5)
6 Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire (3wks 28-15-6)
7 Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (3wks 27-17-7)
8 Doors - Hello, I Love You (2wks 23-8)
9 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower (5wks 23-14-10-9-9)
10 Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles (2wks 24-10)

11 Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (5wks 33-22-13-11-11)
12 Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina (4wks 34-24-16-12)
13 Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack (5wks 22-10-7-7-13)
14 Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (8wks 19-2-1-1-1-1-6-14)
15 Small Faces - The Universal (2wks 29-15)
16 Randy Newman - I Think It's Going to Rain Today (4wks 35-23-18-16)
17 Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass (4wks 24-17-14-17)
18 R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane (3wks 30-21-18)
19 5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic (4wks 26-21-19-19)
20 Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (5wks 29-20-15-13-20)

21 Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten (2wks 28-21)
22 Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You (9wks 32-13-3-2-2-2-2-5-22)
23 Marmalade - Lovin' Things (8wks 38-22-15-12-9-6-8-23)
24 Who - Dogs (5wks 32-19-11-12-24)
25 Otis Redding - Hard To Handle (2wks 26-25)
26 Pink Floyd - Corporal Clegg (2wks 36-26)
27 Bruce Channel - Keep On (2wks 31-27)
28 Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone (4wks 28-19-20-28)
29 Small Faces - Son Of A Baker (1wk 29 NEW)

30 Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho (2wks 35-30)

31 Silver Apples - Oscillations (2wks 38-31)
32 Cowsills - Indian Lake (3wks 31-27-32)
33 Mason Williams - Classical Gas (1wk 33 NEW)
34 Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling (1wk 34 NEW)
35 Vogues - Turn Around, Look at Me (2wks 30-35)
36 Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Let's Make The Water Turn Black (1wk 36 NEW)
37 PP Arnold - Angel Of The Morning (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Wilson Pickett - I'm a Midnight Mover (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Sly & The Family Stone - Life (1wk 39 NEW)
40 Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (8wks 37-19-11-8-6-12-25-40)

The progressive psychedelic rock track culled from the UK #1 album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.

[Whitneyfan]

01(02) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire
02(01) R Dean Taylor - Gotta See Jane
03(14) Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
04(22) P.P. Arnold - Angel Of The Morning
05(04) Cupid's Inspiration - Yesterday Has Gone
06(13) A New Generation - Smokey Blues Away
07(09) Bruce Channel – Keep On
08(03) Richard Harris – MacArthur Park
09(05) John Rowles - Hush Not A Word To Mary
10(27) Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten

11(06) The Byrds – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
12(07) Gene Chandler – Nothing Can Stop Me
13(15) Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You
14(10) Tammy Wynette – D-I-V-O-R-C-E
15(08) O.C. Smith - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
16(11) Esther And Abi Ofarim - One More Dance
17(12) The Monkees – D.W. Washburn
18(35) Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
19(25) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Last Night In Soho
20(--) The Kinks – Days

25(--) Fleetwood Mac – Need Your Love So Bad
26(--) Tom Jones – Help Yourself
27(43) The Nice – America
29(42) Small Faces - The Universal
30(--) Jackie Wilson – I Get The Sweetest Feeling

31(--) Elvis Presley - Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby
33(--) Robert John - If You Don't Want My Love
39(--) Herman's Hermits - Sunshine Girl
40(--) Al Wilson – The Snake

42(--) Shorty Long - Here Comes The Judge
50(--) Pigmeat Markham - Here Comes The Judge

[Shireblogger]

1 [new] :: Johnny Cash - FOLSOM PRISON BLUES
2 [1] :: P.P. Arnold - ANGEL OF THE MORNING
3 [3] :: Simon & Garfunkel - MRS ROBINSON
4 [2] :: Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - FIRE
5 [new] :: Kinks - DAYS
6 [8] :: Jackie Wilson - I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING
7 [6] :: Byrds - YOU AIN'T GOIN' NOWHERE
8 [12] :: Sly & The Family Stone - DANCE TO THE MUSIC
9 [new] :: Tom Jones - HELP YOURSELF
10 [10] :: Richard Harris - MACARTHUR PARK
11 [5] :: Tommy James & The Shondelles - MONY MONY
12 [7] :: Rolling Stones - JUMPIN' JACK FLASH
13 [11] :: R Dean Taylor - GOTTA SEE JANE
14 [13] :: Aretha Franklin - THINK
15 [9] :: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING
16 [4] :: Equals - BABY COME BACK
17 [15] :: Small Faces - THE UNIVERSAL
18 [16] :: The Nice - AMERICA
19 [new] :: Sam & Dave - YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN TO ME
20 [new] :: Herman's Hermits - SUNSHINE GIRL


It bubbled under the Record Retailer chart for one solitary week in the middle of July 1968. But it goes straight in at #1 on my list.

[popchartfreak]

Great Soul Ballad is the same song as Yesterday's Dreams for The Four Tops (I think!) if it comes to adding points together (wouldnt want it to underperform cos it's a goodie)

[popchartfreak]

13th July 1968

It's a first week on top for Dusty Springfield's most fabulous vocal performance and melodramatic song - in my very first retro chart compiled when I got hold of a book of charts in the 70's - Sept 1968 was my starting point - Dusty was still hanging in the UK charts and so started off at 2 before dropping out as she fell out of the UK charts (strictly based on the UK charts in those days). Most likely she would have had a good 5 chart-toppers by this point had I started earlier. Rival girliepop chanteuse Petula is back again with another of her classic Hatch/Trent tunes in at 4, quite probably my all-time fave of hers give or take Downtown or in recent years the fab cool Cut Copy which topped my chart a few years back. An obsession of mine from Singapore reel-to-reel days, Don't Give Up is all sweeping strings and stirring melody.

Jackie Wilson enters my top 10 with the ever-recurrent classic, The Moody Blues get a 2nd top 10 with one I didn't know until recently, and one of The Beach Boys best late-60's post-Brian tracks is in at 22, Do It Again, nostalgia slipping in for the old surfer days. Tom Jones is also back again with another goodie, at 32, Help Yourself was upbeat and jolly and ol Tom flung 'em out with ease those days. Big climbs into the 40 for The Four Tops, The Toys and P. P. Arnold replacing the original Angel Of the Morning.

A Fleetwood Mac blues classic enters at 42, a future Kirsty MacColl hit enters at 46 for The Kinks - remarkably a record I don't associate with 1968 at all, just don't recall it being around then. One I very much DO associate with the Summer of '68 is Sunshine Girl at 48 for Herman's Hermits. There was an alternate playground version which ran rampant in the Junior School and area I lived in at the time. It went "Sunshine Girl I'm Looking down your bra, I see 2 round things, I wonder what they are, will you invite me, to squeeze them tightly - not bloody likely, my Sunshine Girl!" You had to be 10 years old, I guess.....

Some fab James Brown, some fab Bill Medley, some good Archie Bell, some good Ray Stevens, and some decent enough Bobby Vancouver, Nancy Sinatra & The Rascals bring them all back into my charts. That leaves a debut from Flavor. Who? No idea but they sound like Spencer Davis' Gimme Some Lovin' morphed with bubblegum, and that's a reasonable reason to chart it. 

1 ( 2 ) I CLOSE MY EYES AND COUNT TO TEN Dusty Springfield
2 ( 1 ) LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
3 ( 3 ) LIGHT MY FIRE Jose Feliciano
4 ( NEW ) DON’T GIVE UP Petula Clark
5 ( 6 ) DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME Mama Cass
6 ( 5 ) GOTTA SEE JANE R. Dean Taylor
7 ( 4 ) YESTERDAY HAS GONE Cupid’s Inspiration
8 ( 8 ) KEEP ON Bruce Channel
9 ( 17 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson
10 ( 23 ) TUESDAY AFTERNOON (FOREVER TUESDAY) The Moody Blues

11 ( 7 ) CLASSICAL GAS Mason Williams
12 ( 13 ) WALK ON Roy Orbison
13 ( 18 ) BORN TO BE WILD Steppenwolf
14 ( 15 ) SAVE THE COUNTRY Laura Nyro
15 ( 12 ) RAINBOW CHASER Nirvana
16 ( 11 ) MY NAME IS JACK Manfred Mann
17 ( 10 ) LADY WILLPOWER Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
18 ( 9 ) FIRE The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
19 ( 14 ) STONED SOUL PICNIC The 5th Dimension
20 ( 19 ) THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU Herb Alpert

21 ( 16 ) DREAMS OF THE EVERYDAY HOUSEWIFE Glen Campbell
22 ( NEW ) DO IT AGAIN The Beach Boys
23 ( 20 ) VENUS Johnny Mathis
24 ( 22 ) MACARTHUR PARK Richard Harris
25 ( 21 ) JUMPING JACK FLASH The Rolling Stones
26 ( 30 ) SOUL LIMBO Booker T. & The MG’s
27 ( 25 ) A MAN WITHOUT LOVE Engelbert Humperdinck
28 ( 24 ) THIS WHEEL’S ON FIRE Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity
29 ( 34 ) MR. BOJANGLES Jerry Jeff Walker
30 ( 28 ) WHITE HORSES Jackie

31 ( 26 ) NEXT Scott Walker
32 ( NEW ) HELP YOURSELF Tom Jones
33 ( 38 ) FORGET ME NOT Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
34 ( 29 ) STONED SOUL PICNIC Laura Nyro
35 ( 62 ) YESTERDAY’S DREAMS The Four Tops
36 ( 27 ) (WE’LL BE) UNITED Peaches & Herb
37 ( 39 ) LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER The O’Jays
38 ( 58 ) ANGEL OF THE MORNING P.P. Arnold
39 ( 52 ) SEALED WITH A KISS The Toys
40 ( 35 ) ELUSIVE BUTTERFLY Glen Campbell

41 ( 36 ) SUNDOWN, SUNDOWN Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
42 ( NEW ) I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD Fleetwood Mac
43 ( 40 ) MONY MONY Tommy James & The Shondells
44 ( 64 ) I LOVED AND I LOST The Impressions featuring Curtis Mayfield
45 ( 33 ) ANGEL OF THE MORNING Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts
46 ( NEW ) DAYS The Kinks
47 ( 32 ) BLUE EYES Don Partridge
48 ( NEW ) SUNSHINE GIRL Herman’s Hermits
49 ( 31 ) IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME Gladys Knight & The Pips
50 ( 48 ) THE LEGEND OF XANADU Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

51 ( 49 ) VALLERI The Monkees
52 ( 68 ) HALFWAY TO PARADISE Bobby Vinton
53 ( 59 ) I THINK IT’S GOING TO RAIN TODAY Randy Newman
54 ( 37 ) A MINHA MENINA Os Mutantes
55 ( 56 ) I’VE NEVER FOUND A GIRL (TO LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO) Eddie Floyd
56 ( 66 ) LIFE Sly & The Family Stone
57 ( 67 ) TWO-BIT MANCHILD Neil Diamond
58 ( 46 ) RAINBOW VALLEY The Love Affair featuring Sue Glover
59 ( NEW ) I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO CRY, CRY, CRY James Brown & The Famous Flames
60 ( 54 ) ALONE AGAIN OR Love

61 ( 60 ) SOME VELVET MORNING Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
62 ( 42 ) BOY Lulu
63 ( NEW ) BROWN EYED WOMAN Bill Medley
64 ( 75 ) YOU MET YOUR MATCH Stevie Wonder
65 ( 41 ) THE EYES OF A NEW YORK WOMAN B. J. Thomas
66 ( 70 ) 1, 2, 3 RED LIGHT 1910 Fruitgum Co.
67 ( 51 ) REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS Friend & Lover
68 ( NEW ) I CAN’T STOP DANCING Archie Bell & The Drells
69 ( NEW ) FUNNY MAN Ray Stevens
70 ( 72 ) HARD TO HANDLE Otis Redding

71 ( NEW ) I AM YOUR MAN Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
72 ( 43 ) HANG ‘EM HIGH Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus
73 ( NEW ) SALLY HAD A PARTY Flavor
74 ( NEW ) HAPPY Nancy Sinatra
75 ( NEW ) PEOPLE GOT TO FREE The Rascals