December 23, 1966

1	1	Royal Guardsmen--Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
2	2	Monkees--I'm a Believer/(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
3	3	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Good Thing
7	4	Electric Prunes--I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
4	5	Nancy Sinatra--Sugar Town
5	6	Donovan--Mellow Yellow
6	7	Monkees--I Wanna Be Free
22	8	Nightcrawlers--The Little Black Egg
9	9	Beach Boys--Good Vibrations
10	10	Don Grady & the Windupwatchband--The Children of St. Monica
8	11	Lovin' Spoonful--Nashville Cats
11	12	Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Devil With a Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly
14	13	New Vaudeville Band--Winchester Cathedral
13	14	Music Machine--Talk Talk
12	15	Sandy Posey--Single Girl
15	16	Tommy Roe--It's Now Winter's Day
16	17	Mamas & Papas--Words of Love
17	18	Liverpool Five--Any Way That You Want Me
27	19	Tom Jones--Green, Green Grass of Home
19	20	Youngbloods--Grizzly Bear
29	21	Bobby Vinton--Coming Home Soldier
28	22	Emergency Exit--Maybe Too Late
31	23	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass--Mame
18	24	Supremes--You Keep Me Hangin' On
37	25	Petula Clark--Color My World
20	26	Herman's Hermits--East West
48	27	Kit & the Outlaws--Midnight Hour
21	28	Frank Sinatra--That's Life
---	29	Keith--98.6
24	30	Sopwith Camel--Hello Hello
35	31	Bobby Goldsboro--Blue Autumn
50	32	Peter & Gordon--Knight in Rusty Armor
---	33	Seekers--Georgy Girl
25	34	Aaron Neville--Tell it Like it is
26	35	James & Bobby Purify--I'm Your Puppet
30	36	Gary & the Hornets--Hi Hi Hazel
---	37	Pozo Seco Singers--Look What You've Done
39	38	Four Seasons--Tell it to the Rain
23	39	Hollies--Stop Stop Stop
32	40	Brian Hyland--Run, Run, Look and See
49	41	Bachelors--Walk With Faith in Your Heart
---	42	Seeds--Pushin' Too Hard
33	43	Simon & Garfunkel--A Hazy Shade of Winter
43	44	? & the Mysterians--I Need Somebody
34	45	Stevie Wonder--A Place in the Sun
45	46	Critters--Bad Misunderstanding
---	47	Bob Crewe Generation--Music to Watch Girls By
44	48	James Darren--All
38	49	Wilson Pickett--Mustang Sally
---	50	Thorndike Pickledish Choir--Ballad of Walter Wart (Brrriggett)

The b-side of the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer,” “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,” is added to its entry.

The top three records remain unchanged for the third week.  All will stay put a while longer.

“Ballad of Walter Wart” by the Thorndike Pickledish Choir, a novelty record that Bubbled Under at number 131 in Billboard, will oddly get up to number 21 here.  Oddly, because the Thorndike Pickledish Choir was actually Robert O. Smith, a DJ at KJR’s rival Seattle station KOL.  Even more oddly, the record never made KOL’s survey.

The other debuts this week were all Top 40 Billboard hits.  Punk classic “Pushin’ Too Hard” by L.A.’s Seeds peaked at number 36 in BB but will rise to number four here.  A couple of lighter records will not fare so well: the Seekers’ “Georgy Girl” (2BB/13KJR) and easy-listening instrumental “Music to Watch Girls By” by the Bob Crewe Generation (15BB/30KJR).

December 16, 1966

1	1	Royal Guardsmen--Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
2	2	Monkees--I'm a Believer
3	3	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Good Thing
6	4	Nancy Sinatra--Sugar Town
4	5	Donovan--Mellow Yellow
5	6	Monkees--I Wanna Be Free
11	7	Electric Prunes--I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
14	8	Lovin' Spoonful--Nashville Cats
7	9	Beach Boys--Good Vibrations
8	10	Don Grady & the Windupwatchband--The Children of St. Monica
10	11	Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Devil With a Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly
12	12	Sandy Posey--Single Girl
9	13	Music Machine--Talk Talk
13	14	New Vaudeville Band--Winchester Cathedral
18	15	Tommy Roe--It's Now Winter's Day
20	16	Mamas & Papas--Words of Love
19	17	Liverpool Five--Any Way That You Want Me
17	18	Supremes--You Keep Me Hangin' On
23	19	Youngbloods--Grizzly Bear
31	20	Herman's Hermits--East West
21	21	Frank Sinatra--That's Life
---	22	Nightcrawlers--The Little Black Egg
16	23	Hollies--Stop Stop Stop
28	24	Sopwith Camel--Hello Hello
35	25	Aaron Neville--Tell it Like it is
22	26	James & Bobby Purify--I'm Your Puppet
47	27	Tom Jones--Green, Green Grass of Home
---	28	Emergency Exit--Maybe Too Late
---	29	Bobby Vinton--Coming Home Soldier
24	30	Gary & the Hornets--Hi Hi Hazel
29	31	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass--Mame
27	32	Brian Hyland--Run, Run, Look and See
25	33	Simon & Garfunkel--A Hazy Shade of Winter
34	34	Stevie Wonder--A Place in the Sun
---	35	Bobby Goldsboro--Blue Autumn
32	36	Eddie Floyd--Knock on Wood
---	37	Petula Clark--Color My World
46	38	Wilson Pickett--Mustang Sally
---	39	Four Seasons--Tell it to the Rain
37	40	Outsiders--Help Me Girl
43	41	Martha & the Vandellas--I'm Ready For Love
26	42	Roger Williams--Born Free
44	43	? & the Mysterians--I Need Somebody
49	44	James Darren--All
45	45	Critters--Bad Misunderstanding
48	46	Dean Martin--(Open Up the Door) Let the Good Times in
15	47	Innocence--There's Got to Be a Word!
---	48	Kit & the Outlaws--Midnight Hour
---	49	Bachelors--Walk With Faith in Your Heart
---	50	Peter & Gordon--Knight in Rusty Armor

Bobby Goldsboro’s “Blue Autumn” returns to the survey after a week away.  “Undecided Man” is dropped from the entry for “Good Thing.”

One non-BB debut: Seattle band the Emergency Exit’s “Maybe Too Late,” which will peak at number 20.  Kit and the Outlaws, from the Dallas area, Bubbled Under at number 131 with their version of Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour” (for which they shortened the title); it will make it to number 25 here.  Florida band the Nightcrawlers only got up to number 85 in Billboard with their punky “The Little Black Egg,” but here it will rise quickly to number six.  The Bachelors, seeming a little anachronistic as an Irish folk group at the end of 1966, will peak next week at number 41 with “Walk With Faith in Your Heart,” which stalled at number 83 nationally.  And the Four Seasons’ “Tell it to the Rain,” which got up to number ten in Billboard, will only make it to number 29 in Seattle, though it seems like a record that would have done well here (and I don’t mean because it’s about rain).

A lot of songs with colors in the titles: Red Baron, Mellow Yellow, Blue Dress, Black Egg, Green Grass and Blue Autumn, plus “Color” and “Shade.”