February 9, 1968

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

All the week’s debuts will do better here than they did in Billboard, except for the Delfonics’ “La-La-Means I Love You” (4BB/17KJR).  Folksinger/songwriter Phil Ochs’ “Outside of a Small Circle of Friends” is an extreme example, as it will get up to number seven here but was only number 118 in Billboard.  The Parade was a studio-only group of Southern California songwriter-singers backed by studio musicians whom we saw here once before with “Sunshine Girl;” their “The Radio Song” was the second-biggest of their only two hits, making it to number 127 in BB while it’ll peak at number 32 here.  Joe South’s “Birds of a Feather” stopped at number 106 at Billboard but will go to number 37 here next week, then drop off; he put out a second version in 1969 which did slightly better at BB, number 96, but will not appear at KJR, though we’ll encounter the song again, by Paul Revere and the Raiders, when we get to 1971.

Speaking of the Raiders, their “Too Much Talk” is the only one of the debuts besides the Delfonics that was a sizeable Billboard hit; it was number 19 there and will reach number ten here.  Folk duo Jim & Jean, whom we saw here in March 1967 with “What’s That Got to Do With Me,” will get no higher than this week’s number 40 spot with “People World,” but it was only number 94 in Billboard.  The Will-O-Bees, a clean-cut male-male-female New York pop/folk vocal trio, had a number 95 national hit with ‘It’s Not Easy,” which will make it to number 44 here.  And “Thank U Very Much” by British band the Scaffold, featuring Paul McCartney’s brother, will best its number 69 BB peak by reaching number 29.