April 18, 1969

1	1	Cowsills--Hair
3	2	5th Dimension--Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
4	3	Donovan--Atlantis
2	4	Tommy Roe--Dizzy
13	5	Tommy James & the Shondells--Sweet Cherry Wine
6	6	Perry Como--Seattle
5	7	Neil Diamond--Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
7	8	Beach Boys--I Can Hear Music
8	9	Iron Butterfly--Soul Experience
9	10	Booker T. & the MG's--Time is Tight
17	11	Ventures--Hawaii Five-O
10	12	Blood, Sweat & Tears--You've Made Me So Very Happy
12	13	Glen Campbell--Galveston
16	14	Bubble Puppy--Hot Smoke & Sasafrass
11	15	Zombies--Time of the Season
21	16	Foundations--In the Bad, Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)
27	17	Ohio Express--Mercy
35	18	Simon & Garfunkel--The Boxer
18	19	Gary Puckett & the Union Gap--Don't Give in to Him
---	20	Beatles--Get Back
22	21	Shango--Day After Day (It's Slippin' Away)
24	22	Bobby Vinton--To Know You is to Love You
37	23	Ray Stevens--Gitarzan
38	24	Mercy--Love (Can Make You Happy)
15	25	Rhinoceros--Apricot Brandy
25	26	B.J. Thomas--It's Only Love
14	27	New Colony Six--Things I'd Like to Say
19	28	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
34	29	Cream--Badge
43	30	Gary Lewis & the Playboys--Rhythm of the Rain
46	31	Who--Pinball Wizard
44	32	Guess Who--These Eyes
49	33	Sly & the Family Stone--Stand!
32	34	Eternity's Children--The Sidewalks of the Ghetto
39	35	Elyse Weinberg--Oh, Deed I Do
---	36	Glen Campbell--Where's the Playground Susie
48	37	Isley Brothers--It's Your Thing
---	38	Day is Done--Peter, Paul & Mary
40	39	Andy Williams/Petula Clark--Happy Heart
42	40	Jerry Butler--Only the Strong Survive
45	41	Checkmates, Ltd.--Love is All I Have to Give
47	42	Led Zeppelin--Good Times Bad Times
---	43	Mary Hopkin--Goodbye
---	44	Box Tops--I Shall Be Released
50	45	Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band--Do Your Thing
---	46	Vogues--Earth Angel
---	47	Merrilee Rush--Everyday Livin' Days
---	48	Sixth Day Creation--Cherry Pie
---	49	Three Dog Night--One
---	50	Joe Simon--The Chokin' Kind

The top ten stays almost the same, with one arriving, one leaving, and the others all within two spots of where they were last week.

The Beatles jump in with the highest debut we’ve seen in a while.

Of the ten debuts, one did not make Billboard: the pop-psych “Cherry Pie” by Cincinnati’s Sixth Day Creation, which will drop off the survey next week.  Merrilee Rush’s “Everyday Livin’ Days” will rise to number nine, but in BB it only made it to number 130.  Most of the others will do about as well here as elsewhere, the exceptions being the Box Tops’ “I Shall Be Released” (67BB/32KJR) and Joe Simon’s “The Chokin’ Kind” (13/40).

“Get Back” and “Day is Done” were both big favorites of nine-year-old me.