September 29, 1967

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

Surprise!  Dusty Springfield’s “The Look of Love,” which had been on the survey from June 16 through July 21, suddenly resurfaces.  It’ll be number 47 again next week, and then re-vanish.  I have no idea what prompted its return.

Nancy Sinatra’s version of “Until It’s Time For You to Go” was the b-side of “Lightning’s Girl;” for some reason KJR elected to list the two sides separately instead of as a single entry.  “Until…” was not a BB hit, but here it’ll pass its a-side next week, replacing it at number three, where it’ll stay for a few weeks and then decline.  “What Are We Gonna Do,” a piece of mellow vocal harmony by Just Us, the guys who brought us “I Can’t Grow Peaches on a Cherry Tree” in ’66, also did not make Billboard; here it’ll peak next week at number 28.

Hugo Montenegro’s instrumental “For a Few Dollars More,” a version of a song from the movie of the same name, was only a number 102 hit in Billboard but will go to number 13 here.  Similarly, Gene & Tommy’s pop-folky “Richard & Me” was number 122 in BB and will peak at number 20 here.  Gene Pistilli and Tommy West were singer/songwriter/producers who would later hook up with Terry Cashman and record as Cashman, Pistilli and West and as the Buchanan Brothers; then Cashman and West recorded as Cashman and West (!), and produced all Jim Croce’s records, while Pistilli was one of the founding members of the Manhattan Transfer.  (Terry Cashman is also familiar to many as the “Talkin’ Baseball” guy.)

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Your Precious Love” peaked at number five in Billboard but will only get to number 15 here.