February 16, 1968

3	1	Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra--Love is Blue
1	2	Dionne Warwick--(Theme From) Valley of the Dolls
9	3	Georgie Fame--The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
4	4	Fireballs--Bottle of Wine
5	5	First Edition--Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
10	6	1910 Fruitgum Co.--Simon Says
6	7	American Breed--Bend Me, Shape Me
12	8	Association--Everything That Touches You
2	9	Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart--I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite
14	10	Herman's Hermits--I Can Take or Leave Your Loving
16	11	Balloon Farm--A Question of Temperature
8	12	Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood--Some Velvet Morning
7	13	John Fred & His Playboy Band--Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)
29	14	Phil Ochs--Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
24	15	Bee Gees--Words
11	16	Lemon Pipers--Green Tambourine
21	17	Electric Prunes--Everybody Knows You're Not in Love
15	18	Classics IV--Spooky
17	19	Lettermen--Goin' Out of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off You
20	20	Aretha Franklin--Chain of Fools
18	21	Neil Diamond--New Orleans
23	22	Temptations--I Wish it Would Rain
25	23	Otis Redding--(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
28	24	Mills Brothers--Cab Driver
13	25	Hollies--Dear Eloise
19	26	Human Beinz--Nobody But Me
22	27	Henson Cargill--Skip a Rope
---	28	O.C. Smith--The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
---	29	5th Dimension--Carpet Man
26	30	Eric Burdon & the Animals--Monterey
---	31	Jon & Robin and the In Crowd--Dr. Jon (The Medicine Man)
35	32	Strawberry Alarm Clock--Tomorrow
34	33	Delfonics--La-La-Means I Love You
---	34	Montanas--You've Got to Be Loved
41	35	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Too Much Talk
---	36	Mouse & the Traps--L-O-V-E Love
44	37	Joe South--Birds of a Feather
27	38	Rolling Stones--She's a Rainbow
32	39	Cowsills--We Can Fly
---	40	Petula Clark--Kiss Me Goodbye
33	41	Four Tops--Walk Away Renee
36	42	Impressions--We're a Winner
38	43	Gene & Debbe--Playboy
40	44	Jim & Jean--People World
30	45	Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett--Woman, Woman
50	46	Scaffold--Thank U Very Much
47	47	Will-O-Bees--It's Not Easy
46	48	Parade--The Radio Song
---	49	Bill Cosby--Funky North Philly
---	50	Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts--Angel of the Morning

Eight debuts this week, and all but one will do at least a little better here than nationally—and the one exception is Seattle’s Merrilee Rush, whose breakout hit “Angel of the Morning” will do equally well (#7) on both charts.

The one non-BB hit is the gentle, kinda countryish pop-psych “L.O.V.E. Love” by Tyler Texas’ Mouse & the Traps, which’ll peak at number 19.  We saw Mouse on his own here about two years back with “A Public Execution.”  Also from Texas were Jon & Robin & the In Crowd (whom we have seen here once before and will see once again), whose “Dr. Jon (The Medicine Man)” was a number 87 BB hit that will climb to number nine here.  Bill Cosby’s parody of “Funky Broadway,” “Funky North Philly” (“the name of the staircase is funky funky staircase…”), will get to number 39 here, beating its number 91 Billboard peak.  British pop-rock group the Montanas had a number 58 BB hit with “You’ve Got to Be Loved,” but it’ll go to number 19 here.  And countryish easy listening/soul singer O.C. Smith’s “The Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp” will get to number 18 here, despite spending only four weeks on the survey; it peaked at number 40 in Billboard.