October 25, 1968

1	1	Beatles--Hey Jude/Revolution
7	2	Steppenwolf--Magic Carpet Ride
2	3	Andy Kim--Shoot 'Em Up, Baby
8	4	Mary Hopkin--Those Were the Days
4	5	Bee Gees--I've Gotta Get a Message to You
3	6	Grass Roots--Midnight Confessions
6	7	Turtles--Elenore
10	8	Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus--Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)
14	9	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Cinderella Sunshine
20	10	Diana Ross & the Supremes--Love Child
5	11	Gary Puckett & the Union Gap--Over You
35	12	Dion--Abraham, Martin & John
27	13	Derek--Cinnamon
12	14	Max Frost & the Troopers--Shape of Things to Come
21	15	Monkees--Porpoise Song
11	16	Cream--White Room
15	17	Big Brother & the Holding Company--Piece of My Heart
13	18	Sajid Khan--Getting to Know You
9	19	Jimi Hendrix Experience--All Along the Watchtower
17	20	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Suzie Q. (Part One)
16	21	Iron Butterfly--In-a-Gadda-da-Vida
18	22	O.C. Smith--Little Green Apples
43	23	Ohio Express--Chewy Chewy
48	24	Glen Campbell--Wichita Lineman
26	25	O'Kaysions--Girl Watcher
32	26	Southwest F.O.B.--Smell of Incense
30	27	Vanilla Fudge--Take Me For a Little While
23	28	Avant-Garde--Naturally Stoned
25	29	Donovan--Lalena
33	30	Moody Blues--Ride My See-Saw
37	31	Johnny Nash--Hold Me Tight
24	32	Professor Morrison's Lollipop--You Got the Love
28	33	Clarence Carter--Slip Away
36	34	Magic Lanterns--Shame, Shame
34	35	Rejoice!--Golden Gate Park
19	36	Cowsills--Poor Baby
38	37	Bobby Russell--1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero
40	38	Bobby Goldsboro--The Straight Life
44	39	Engelbert Humperdinck--Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
46	40	Richard Harris--The Yard Went on Forever
---	41	Ray Stevens--The Great Escape
---	42	Dionne Warwick--Promises, Promises
47	43	Jose Feliciano--Hi-Heel Sneakers
49	44	Judy Collins--Both Sides Now
45	45	Jackie Lomax--The Eagle Laughs at You
---	46	Mama Cass--California Earthquake
50	47	Hollies--Listen to Me
---	48	B.J. Thomas--Hooked on a Feeling
---	49	Leapy Lee--Little Arrows
---	50	Rainy Daze--Make Me Laugh

Dion makes a big leap.

“Fire” by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown drops completely off the survey, after being number 22 last week, eleven the week before, and two the week before that.

Denver’s Rainy Daze return to the Fab 50 (remember “That Acapulco Gold” from early ’67?) with the hard-driving “Make Me Laugh,” which will stop at number 46 next week but did not make Billboard at all.  Ray Stevens continues his social commentary phase with “The Great Escape,” a number 114 Bubbling Under BB hit that will get to number 32 here.  “California Earthquake” by Mama Cass was a number 67 BB hit and will make it to number 37 here.  Leapy Lee was a British pop singer whose memorable “Little Arrows” got to number 16 in Billboard, and number eleven on their country chart; here it’ll go to number two, and it’s possible that the lack of a chart for December 27 and January 3 is what will keep it from number one.

RIP Paul Revere, whose Raiders move into the top ten here.