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.”