September 6, 1968

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

Arthur Brown, after moving up 34 spots last week, goes the rest of the way this week into the number one position.  But he won’t have time to get comfortable there, as the Beatles are breathing down his neck.  “Hey Jude” jumps 31 notches and picks up its b-side, “Revolution,” along the way.

Aretha Franklin’s “The House That Jack Built” is joined on the survey by its b-side, “I Say a Little Prayer,” which is listed first this week and will be listed by itself the next two before dropping off.

Only four debuts—all at the very bottom of the survey—so let’s run through them all.  Two will do almost exactly as well here as nationally: The Box Tops’ “I Met Her in Church” (37BB/35KJR) and Dionne Warwick’s “Who is Gonna Love Me?” (33/36).  Hippie-pop “Golden Gate Park” by hippie-pop Rejoice! was a number 96 Billboard hit that will make it to number 20 here.  And “Poor Baby” by the Cowsills was a number 44 BB hit that will get to number 19 here.