May 10, 1968

1	1	Bobby Goldsboro--Honey
5	2	Friend & Lover--Reach Out of the Darkness
3	3	Irish Rovers--The Unicorn
12	4	Fever Tree--San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)
2	5	People--I Love You
15	6	Rascals--A Beautiful Morning
17	7	Simon & Garfunkel--Mrs. Robinson
6	8	Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett--Young Girl
27	9	Ohio Express--Yummy Yummy Yummy
4	10	Troggs--Love is All Around
10	11	Roosters--Love Machine
18	12	Dionne Warwick--Do You Know the Way to San Jose
21	13	Archie Bell & the Drells--Tighten Up
7	14	Flatt & Scruggs--Theme From Bonnie & Clyde
16	15	Tom Jones--Delilah
31	16	Herb Alpert--This Guy's in Love With You
8	17	Beatles--Lady Madonna
22	18	Spanky & Our Gang--Like to Get to Know You
33	19	Bobby Vee--My Girl/Hey Girl
20	20	Ray Stevens--Unwind
19	21	Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts--Angel of the Morning
9	22	Box Tops--Cry Like a Baby
14	23	Hollies--Jennifer Eccles
11	24	Blue Cheer--Summertime Blues
23	25	Doors--The Unknown Soldier
39	26	Wilson Pickett--She's Lookin' Good
13	27	Gene & Debbe--Playboy
30	28	Patti Page--Gentle on My Mind
29	29	Johnny Rivers--Look to Your Soul
40	30	Intruders--Cowboys to Girls
50	31	Tommy James & the Shondells--Mony Mony
47	32	Richard Harris--MacArthur Park
24	33	Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra and Chorus--The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
45	34	Andy Kim--How'd We Ever Get This Way
26	35	Beach Boys--Friends
35	36	Willie Mitchell--Soul Serenade
41	37	Engelbert Humperdinck--A Man Without Love (Quando M'innamoro)
43	38	Stevie Wonder--Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
28	39	Norro Wilson--Mama McCluskie
25	40	Manfred Mann--The Mighty Quinn
37	41	New Colony Six--I Will Always Think About You
34	42	Bobby Vinton--Take Good Care of My Baby
36	43	Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart--Goodbye Baby (I Don't Want to See You Cry)
---	44	Otis Redding--The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)
---	45	December's Children--Backwards and Forwards
---	46	Herman's Hermits--Sleepy Joe
---	47	Lemon Pipers--Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade)
---	48	Four Tops--If I Were a Carpenter
32	49	Four Jacks & a Jill--Master Jack
---	50	Cliff Nobles & Co.--The Horse

“Reach Out of the Darkness” and “I Love You” reverse positions—interesting to me because I always associate those two records with one another for some reason.

With “Yummy Yummy Yummy” charging toward the top of the chart, Andy Kim moving up, Boyce & Hart hanging around, and some more debuting, the classic bubblegum era is definitely underway, especially in Seattle.  The Lemon Pipers’ “Jelly Jungle” is a perfect example of bubblegum-psych; it only got to number 51 in Billboard but will make it up to number 14 here.  Herman’s Hermits continue their KJR success with the music hall/bubblegum “Sleepy Joe,” 61 at Billboard but 21 here (it’ll fall off the survey next week but it’ll be back).  Before I bought the record I was expecting “Backwards and Forwards” by December’s Children to be more pop-psych, but it’s actually kind of soulful bubblegum—it only Bubbled Under at Billboard, at number 123, while here it’ll go to number 41 next week and then vanish.

Soul instrumental “The Horse” by Cliff Nobles & Co. was a number two BB hit; here it will only get as high as number 30, though it will spend eleven weeks on the survey.