August 4, 1967

7	1	Bobby Vee--Come Back When You Grow Up
9	2	Bobbie Gentry--Ode to Billie Joe
6	3	Beatles--All You Need is Love/Baby You're a Rich Man
2	4	Monkees--Pleasant Valley Sunday
1	5	Doors--Light My Fire
3	6	Hollies--Carrie-Anne
5	7	Tremeloes--Silence is Golden
4	8	Van Morrison-Brown Eyed Girl
17	9	Jay & the Techniques--Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
8	10	Music Explosion--Little Bit o' Soul
10	11	Stevie Wonder--I Was Made to Love Her
13	12	Don & the Goodtimes--Happy and Me
20	13	Simon & Garfunkel--Fakin' It
32	14	Jim Valley--Try, Try, Try
16	15	Young Rascals--A Girl Like You
11	16	Beatles--Lovely Rita
12	17	Jefferson Airplane--White Rabbit
14	18	Neil Diamond--I Thank the Lord For the Night Time
34	19	Bunny Sigler--Let the Good Times Roll & Feel So Good
15	20	Bar-Kays--Soul Finger
19	21	Ian & Sylvia--Lovin' Sound
33	22	Frank Sinatra--The World We Knew (Over and Over)
22	23	Bee Gees--To Love Somebody
38	24	Moby Grape--Omaha
---	25	Diana Ross & the Supremes--Reflections
18	26	Scott McKenzie--San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
21	27	Aretha Franklin--Baby I Love You
24	28	Frankie Valli--Can't Take My Eyes Off You
26	29	Buckinghams--Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
27	30	Association--Windy
29	31	Merry-Go-Round--You're a Very Lovely Woman
37	32	Eric Burdon & the Animals--San Franciscan Nights
23	33	Janis Ian--Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)
---	34	Harpers Bizarre--Anything Goes
---	35	Donovan--There is a Mountain
43	36	James Brown--Cold Sweat - Part 1
49	37	Turtles--You Know What I Mean
25	38	Petula Clark--Don't Sleep in the Subway
---	39	Peter, Paul & Mary--I Dig Rock and Roll Music
---	40	Box Tops--The Letter
40	41	Sonny & Cher--It's the Little Things
47	42	Third Rail--Run, Run, Run
30	43	Crispian St. Peters--You Were On My Mind
---	44	Grass Roots--Things I Should Have Said
46	45	Roy Orbison--Cry Softly Lonely One
---	46	Beach Boys--Heroes and Villains
31	47	Fifth Estate--Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead
50	48	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--More Love
28	49	Dean Martin--In the Chapel in the Moonlight
36	50	Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart--Out & About

“Words” drops back off, leaving “Pleasant Valley Sunday” on its own.  “Words” will return for one week at the end of the month.

The week’s debuts were all top 50 Billboard hits.  Harpers Bizarre’s version of the old standard “Anything Goes” will get up to number nine here, versus its number 43 peak in BB.  Conversely, the Beach Boys’ “Heroes and Villains,” a number twelve BB hit, will peak here next week at number 35.

A personal aside: This was an important week for me, as I turned eight years old and got my own transistor radio as a gift.  I had never listened to Top 40 radio before--my parents were always tuned to easy listening KOMO--though I was a big Beatles and Monkees fan thanks to TV.  I can remember my dad saying, “Here, I’ll find a station you’ll like” and tuning it to 1300 KOL, KJR’s nearest competitor; I have no idea why he didn’t pick KJR.  Sticking up for the underdog, perhaps.  At any rate, my memory is that I didn’t touch the tuner dial for the next two years, until Johnny Cash and Hee Haw inspired me to start listening to country KAYO.  I didn’t become a regular KJR listener until 1973.

The songs at the two through five positions on this week’s survey all strongly remind me of the early days with my new radio, as do debuts “Anything Goes,” “The Letter” and “I Dig Rock and Roll Music.”  As an eight-year-old I took “I Dig Rock and Roll Music” at face value; it was years later that I heard the song and suddenly realized that they were being sarcastic.