September 22, 1967

1	1	Association--Never My Love
2	2	Box Tops--The Letter
5	3	Diana Ross & the Supremes--Reflections
3	4	Bill Cosby--Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright)
8	5	Wilson Pickett--Funky Broadway
16	6	Lulu--To Sir With Love
4	7	Bobby Vee--Come Back When You Grow Up
7	8	Hombres--Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out)
19	9	Nancy Sinatra--Lightning's Girl
10	10	Dino, Desi & Billy--Kitty Doyle
6	11	Peter, Paul & Mary--I Dig Rock and Roll Music
23	12	Mitch Ryder--What Now My Love
35	13	Soul Survivors--Expressway to Your Heart
22	14	Frankie Valli--I Make a Fool of Myself
12	15	Harpers Bizarre--Anything Goes
9	16	Paul Revere & the Raiders--I Had a Dream
13	17	Doors--Light My Fire
31	18	Young Rascals--How Can I Be Sure
25	19	Kingpins--Ode to Billie Joe
49	20	Bobby Vinton--Please Love Me Forever
27	21	Jackie Wilson--(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
---	22	Buckinghams--Hey Baby (They’re Playing Our Song)
17	23	Tommy James & the Shondells--Gettin' Together
24	24	Jimmie Rodgers--Child of Clay
11	25	Bobbie Gentry--Ode to Billie Joe
39	26	Rose Garden--Next Plane to London
14	27	Monkees--Pleasant Valley Sunday
---	28	Doors--People Are Strange
15	29	Neil Diamond--I Thank the Lord For the Night Time
34	30	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass--A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)
18	31	Jay & the Techniques--Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
32	32	Five Americans--Zip Code
---	33	Strawberry Alarm Clock--Incense and Peppermints
44	34	Vikki Carr--It Must be Him
---	35	Zal Yanovsky--As Long As You're Here
---	36	Aretha Franklin--A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)
47	37	Last Word--Can't Stop Loving You
---	38	Engelbert Humperdinck—The Last Waltz
21	39	Third Rail--Run, Run, Run
---	40	Cowsills--The Rain, the Park & Other Things
29	41	Eric Burdon & the Animals--San Franciscan Nights
26	42	Turtles--You Know What I Mean
33	43	Brenton Wood--Gimme Little Sign
---	44	Ohio Express--Beg, Borrow and Steal
45	45	Gary Lewis & the Playboys--Jill
48	46	Ray Charles--In the Heat of the Night
---	47	Challengers--Water Country
30	48	New Yorkers--Mr. Kirby
20	49	Grass Roots--Things I Should Have Said
42	50	Rolling Stones--We Love You

“Dandelion” dies off and floats away on the wind; “We Love You” continues alone.

The Challengers were a surf instrumental group that had evolved with the times; “Water Country,” a non-BB single, was pretty easy-listening, with horns and female la-la vocals.  It’ll go to number 44 next week and then fall off the survey.  Zal Yanovsky had recently left the Lovin’ Spoonful, of which he had been a founding member and the lead guitarist; his “As Long As You’re Here,” a lively, fairly Spoonfullish number, didn’t quite make the Hot 100, sticking at 101, but here it’ll get to number 25.  The other debuts were all top 30 in Billboard, and most will come very close to equaling here their performances there (12/13, 1/1, 25/23, 2/2, 29/23)—the exceptions are “People Are Strange” by the Doors (12BB/6KJR), and Aretha Franklin’s “A Natural Woman” (8/20).