March 8, 1968

16	1	Monkees--Valleri/Tapioca Tundra
1	2	Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra--Love is Blue
6	3	Bee Gees--Words
2	4	Fireballs--Bottle of Wine
8	5	Otis Redding--(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
4	6	Dionne Warwick--(Theme From) Valley of the Dolls
3	7	First Edition--Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
5	8	1910 Fruitgum Co.--Simon Says
10	9	Jon & Robin and the In Crowd--Dr. Jon (The Medicine Man)
17	10	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Too Much Talk
22	11	Box Tops--Cry Like a Baby
7	12	Phil Ochs--Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
21	13	Cream--Sunshine of Your Love
9	14	Georgie Fame--The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
15	15	Gene & Debbe--Playboy
32	16	Troggs--Love is All Around
14	17	Balloon Farm--A Question of Temperature
29	18	Petula Clark--Kiss Me Goodbye
24	19	Mouse & the Traps--L.O.V.E. Love
11	20	Electric Prunes--Everybody Knows You're Not in Love
19	21	Montanas--You've Got to Be Loved
35	22	Roger Miller--Little Green Apples
40	23	Billy Vera & Judy Clay--Country Girl - City Man
38	24	Blue Cheer--Summertime Blues
25	25	Manfred Mann--The Mighty Quinn
27	26	Sly & the Family Stone--Dance to the Music
36	27	Simon & Garfunkel--Scarborough Fair
12	28	American Breed--Bend Me, Shape Me
23	29	5th Dimension--Carpet Man
42	30	Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts--Angel of the Morning
31	31	Sagittarius--Another Time
---	32	Beatles--Lady Madonna
13	33	Herman's Hermits--I Can Take or Leave Your Loving
---	34	Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett--Young Girl
48	35	Aretha Franklin--(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone
50	36	Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra and Chorus--The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
30	37	Scaffold--Thank U Very Much
---	38	Percy Sledge--Take Time to Know Her
46	39	Tremeloes--Suddenly You Love Me
34	40	Turtles--Sound Asleep
28	41	Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood--Some Velvet Morning
---	42	Ventures--Flights of Fantasy
---	43	Mojo--New York City
---	44	Lemon Pipers--Rice is Nice
44	45	Will-O-Bees--It's Not Easy
18	46	O.C. Smith--The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
---	47	People--I Love You
---	48	Sam & Dave--I Thank You
33	49	Four Tops--Walk Away Renee
49	50	Bobby Vee--Maybe Just Today

The Monkees shoot up to number one.

“Love is Blue” is shown as by Paul Mauriat alone, as Claudine Longet disappears for this one week only.  She’ll be back next week.

The Association’s “Everything That Touches You” drops off the survey from way up at number 20.

There are two non-BB debuts this week: the Ventures’ “Flights of Fantasy,” which will get to number 25, and “New York City” by Mojo (the Mojo Men under a new name), which will peak next week at number 35 and drop off the survey.

The only other debut that will do significantly better here than nationally is “I Love You,” a psychedelic pop-rock cover of a Zombies song by San Jose band People; a number 14 BB hit, it’ll peak at number two here, just one of several songs that will be blocked out of the number one spot by a record that will debut next week…

Falling short of their Billboard peaks are Percy Sledge’s “Take Time to Know Her” (11BB/25KJR) and Sam & Dave’s “I Thank You” (9/45).  “I Love You” and “I Thank You” debut in consecutive spots.