March 7, 1969

6	1	Tommy Roe--Dizzy
2	2	Zombies--Time of the Season
1	3	Tommy James & the Shondells--Crimson and Clover
4	4	Perry Como--Seattle
8	5	New Colony Six--Things I'd Like to Say
5	6	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
3	7	Foundations--Build Me Up Buttercup
9	8	Flirtations--Nothing But a Heartache
7	9	Box Tops--Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March
17	10	Steppenwolf--Rock Me
10	11	Bards--Tunesmith
32	12	Glen Campbell--Galveston
22	13	Neon Philharmonic--Morning Girl
11	14	Turtles--You Showed Me
28	15	Classics IV--Traces
12	16	Marvin Gaye--I Heard it Through the Grapevine
15	17	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Proud Mary
23	18	Dionne Warwick--This Girl's in Love With You
16	19	Three Dog Night--Try a Little Tenderness
19	20	Diana Ross and the Supremes--I'm Livin' in Shame
27	21	1910 Fruitgum Co.--Indian Giver
37	22	Neil Diamond--Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
14	23	Doors--Touch Me
44	26	Cowsills--Hair
13	27	Jay & the Americans--This Magic Moment
24	29	Joe South--Games People Play
42	32	Arbors--The Letter
30	33	Johnny Rivers--These Are Not My People
39	34	Spirit--I Got a Line on You
41	35	Bubble Puppy--Hot Smoke & Sasafrass
48	36	Frankie Laine--You Gave Me a Mountain
40	37	John Wilkinson--July, You're a Woman
---	39	Gary Puckett & the Union Gap--Don't Give in to Him
49	40	Blood, Sweat & Tears--You've Made Me So Very Happy
43	42	Vogues--No, Not Much
---	44	5th Dimension--Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
50	45	Beach Boys--I Can Hear Music
---	47	David Ruffin--My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)
---	48	Rhinoceros--Apricot Brandy
---	49	Iron Butterfly--Soul Experience
---	50	Sugar & Spice--The Cruel War

Another week where the survey was missing from the microfilmed version of the newspaper.  All of this week’s positions come from the “last week” column of the March 14 survey, so we’re missing the songs that are in their final week this week.

“Galveston” makes a significant jump.

One of the debuts did not make Billboard: “The Cruel War,” a cover of a Peter, Paul & Mary song, by Sugar & Spice, a band from Winnipeg with female vocalists.  It was a big hit in their home town, and did well in some other Canadian cities; here it’ll get to number 45.

Rhinoceros was a Los Angeles band that included former members of Iron Butterfly, the Electric Flag, the Daily Flash and the Mothers of Invention.  Their “Apricot Brandy” was a rocking instrumental that peaked nationally at number 46, but here it’ll just miss the top ten, spending two weeks at number eleven.  Speaking of Iron Butterfly, their follow-up to “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida,” “Soul Experience,” will make it to number eight here, despite being only a number 75 national hit.  And conversely, “My Whole World Ended” by newly-solo former Temptation David Ruffin, a number nine BB hit, will only get to number 41.