Sunday, January 19, 2014

June 30, 1967


2
1
Music Explosion--Little Bit o' Soul
1
2
Association--Windy
5
3
Grass Roots--Let's Live For Today
3
4
Scott McKenzie--San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
8
5
Turtles--She'd Rather Be With Me
14
6
Doors--Light My Fire
7
7
Petula Clark--Don't Sleep in the Subway
4
8
Every Mother's Son--Come On Down to My Boat
10
9
Johnny Rivers--The Tracks of My Tears
11
10
Fifth Estate--Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead
19
11
Frankie Valli--Can't Take My Eyes Off You
30
12
Dusty Springfield--Look of Love
20
13
Hollies--Carrie-Anne
12
14
5th Dimension--Up - Up and Away
23
15
Janis Ian--Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)
21
16
Jefferson Airplane--White Rabbit
17
17
Beatles--Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
27
18
Four Seasons--C'mon Marianne
18
19
Jon & Robin & the In Crowd--Do It Again a Little Bit Slower
13
20
Sagittarius--My World Fell Down
25
21
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood--Jackson
31
22
Procol Harum--A Whiter Shade of Pale
32
23
Beatles--When I'm Sixty-Four
9
24
Tommy James & the Shondells--Mirage
38
25
American Breed--Step Out of Your Mind
35
26
Beatles--She's Leaving Home
15
27
Five Americans--Sound of Love
39
28
Ian & Sylvia--Lovin' Sound
6
29
Beatles--A Day in the Life
41
30
Engelbert Humperdinck--There Goes My Everything
43
31
Van Morrison-Brown Eyed Girl
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32
Stevie Wonder--I Was Made to Love Her
46
33
Dave Clark Five--You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
42
34
Sandy Posey--I Take it Back
16
35
Young Rascals--Groovin'
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36
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart--Out & About
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37
Buckinghams--Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
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38
Happenings--My Mammy
29
39
Ray Charles--Here We Go Again
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40
Dean Martin--In the Chapel in the Moonlight
26
41
Jefferson Airplane--Somebody to Love
36
42
Herman's Hermits--Don't Go Out Into the Rain (You're Going to Melt)
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43
Tommy James & the Shondells--I Like the Way
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44
Glen Campbell--Gentle on My Mind
22
45
Tommy James & the Shondells--I Think We're Alone Now
33
46
Spanky & Our Gang--Sunday Will Never Be the Same
44
47
Dionne Warwick--Alfie
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48
Tremeloes--Silence is Golden
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49
Yellow Balloon--Good Feelin' Time
47
50
Oscar Toney, Jr.--For Your Precious Love


Last week Tommy James had the number nine and 22 songs; this week they plunge to 24 and 45, but this is offset by the debut of a third one at number 43.  None of these are re-releases, b-sides or LP tracks—he’s just rapidly putting out new singles.

“A Day in the Life” drops from number six to number 29.

Just like last week, all the debuts were Hot 100 hits except for one that couldn’t quite crack the main chart and stalled at number 101.  I mentioned the Yellow Balloon in my post on the 3-10-67 survey; they were originally a studio group assembled to record the song of the same name.  When the song became successful, Don Grady (of My Three Sons and the Windupwatchband) was enlisted to assemble a band to record the rest of an album and play some shows.  “Good Feelin’ Time” was one of those songs, and it’ll peak here next week at number 47 and drop off the survey.

Of the other debuts, the only one to do noticeably better here than in BB is Glen Campbell’s “Gentle on My Mind,” which will reach number 33 versus 62 on the Hot 100 (and 30 on the Billboard Country chart).  In the fall of ’68 Glen’s weekly TV show will debut with “Gentle on My Mind” as the theme song, and the record will re-enter at BB, getting to number 39 pop and 44 country, but not re-charting at KJR.

A few of the debuts will fall short here of their national peaks: Stevie Wonder’s “I Was Made to Love Her” (2BB/10KJR), the Buckinghams’ “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” (5/25) and the Happenings’ version of the Al Jolson standard “My Mammy” (13/29).

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