August 30, 1968

1	1	1910 Fruitgum Co.--1, 2, 3, Red Light
5	2	Rascals--People Got to Be Free
4	3	Ohio Express--Down at Lulu's
3	4	Doors--Hello, I Love You
2	5	Steppenwolf--Born to Be Wild
18	6	Ricky Page--Harper Valley PTA
10	7	Dino, Desi & Billy--Tell Someone You Love Them
8	8	B.J. Thomas--The Eyes of a New York Woman
14	9	Canned Heat--On the Road Again
11	10	Deep Purple--Hush
7	11	Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart--Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend)
15	12	Beach Boys--Do It Again
17	13	Chambers Brothers--Time Has Come Today
48	14	Crazy World of Arthur Brown--Fire
9	15	Vogues--Turn Around, Look at Me
12	16	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Don't Take it So Hard
13	17	Gary Puckett & the Union Gap--Lady Willpower
19	18	Cream--Sunshine of Your Love
24	19	Al Wilson--The Snake
6	20	Bobby Goldsboro--Autumn of My Life
25	21	Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66--The Fool on the Hill
26	22	Association--Six Man Band
32	23	Lulu--Morning Dew
45	24	Larry Marks--L.A. Break Down (And Take Me In)
31	25	Bee Gees--I've Gotta Get a Message to You
21	26	Vanilla Fudge--You Keep Me Hanging On
27	27	Mama Cass With the Mamas & the Papas--Dream a Little Dream of Me
16	28	Gary Lewis & the Playboys--Sealed With a Kiss
28	29	Flavor--Sally Had a Party
38	30	Who--Magic Bus
35	31	Nilsson--Everybody's Talkin'
36	32	Aretha Franklin--The House That Jack Built
34	33	Spirit--Mechanical World
37	34	Don Fardon--(The Lament of the Cherokee) Indian Reservation
40	35	Professor Morrison's Lollipop--You Got the Love
22	36	Bobby Vinton--Halfway to Paradise
50	37	Band--The Weight
41	38	Colours--Love Heals
39	39	Love Society--Do You Wanna Dance
---	40	Beatles--Hey Jude
49	41	Vogues--My Special Angel
---	42	Max Frost & the Troopers--Shape of Things to Come
23	43	Amboy Dukes--Journey to the Center of the Mind
---	44	Grass Roots--Midnight Confessions
---	45	Herb Alpert--To Wait For Love
---	46	Barry Goldberg Reunion--Hole in My Pocket
---	47	Iron Butterfly--In-a-Gadda-da-Vida
---	48	Bobby Paris--Per-so-nal-ly
---	49	Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts--That Kind of Woman
---	50	Big Brother & the Holding Company--Piece of My Heart

Arthur Brown burns his way up the survey.

It seems odd how low “Hey Jude” debuts, but don’t worry, it will make up for it next week.

Two of the nine debuts only Bubbled Under at Billboard.  The kinda bluesy, kinda psychedelic “Hole in My Pocket” by the Barry Goldberg Reunion was number 103 there, but will make it to number 25 here.  And the soulful pop-rock “Per-so-nal-ly” by Bobby Paris will beat its number 129 BB showing by getting to number 33.

Max Frost & the Troopers were a fictional group featured in the movie Wild in the Streets; “Shape of Things to Come” was a surprisingly tough and ominous record that made it up to number 22 in Billboard and will get to number eight here.  The short, single version of “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida” was only a number 30 national hit, but it will gradually creep up to number 13 here.  And “That Kind of Woman” by Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts, a number 76 BB hit, will go to number 31 here—not as much of a difference as I would have guessed for one of Seattle’s biggest 1968 stars.