July 4, 1969

10	1	Zager & Evans--In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
3	2	Three Dog Night--One
2	3	Beatles--Get Back
1	4	Elvis Presley--In the Ghetto/Any Day Now
6	5	Oliver--Good Morning Starshine
4	6	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Bad Moon Rising
17	7	Buchanan Brothers--Medicine Man
8	8	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Let Me
9	9	Tommy James & the Shondells--Crystal Blue Persuasion
12	10	Winstons--Color Him Father
7	11	Desmond Dekker & the Aces--Israelites
5	12	Henry Mancini & His Orchestra--Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet
11	13	Sonny Charles & the Checkmates, Ltd.--Black Pearl
27	14	Neil Diamond--Sweet Caroline
19	15	Marvin Gaye--Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
15	16	Kenny Rogers & the First Edition--Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
13	17	Blood, Sweat & Tears--Spinning Wheel
14	18	Turtles--You Don't Have to Walk in the Rain
20	19	Elephant's Memory--Crossroads of the Stepping Stones
31	20	Jr. Walker & the All-Stars--What Does it Take (To Win Your Love)
36	21	Charles Randolph Grean Sounde--Quentin's Theme
23	22	Joe Jeffrey Group--My Pledge of Love
34	23	Mama Cass--It's Getting Better
21	24	Tom Jones--Love Me Tonight
30	25	Mark Lindsay--First Hymn From Grand Terrace
35	26	Tony Joe White--Polk Salad Annie
38	27	Impressions--Choice of Colors
29	32	Monkees--Listen to the Band
37	34	Cat Mother & the All Night News Boys--Good Old Rock'n'Roll
42	35	Roy Clark--Yesterday, When I Was Young
44	36	Stevie Wonder--My Cherie Amour
47	37	Burt Bacharach--I'll Never Fall in Love Again
49	38	Shannon--Abergavenny
50	41	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--Abraham, Martin & John
---	42	Andy Kim--Baby, I Love You
---	43	Tom Jones--I'll Never Fall in Love Again
---	44	Box Tops--Soul Deep
48	45	Ray Stevens--Along Came Jones
46	46	Iron Butterfly--In the Time of Our Lives
---	47	Jackie DeShannon--Put a Little Love in Your Heart
---	48	Johnny Rivers--Muddy River
---	49	Crosby, Stills & Nash--Marrakesh Express
---	50	5th Dimension--Workin' On a Groovy Thing

It’s another week where the entertainment section was missing from the microfilm version of the newspaper, so I don’t have the survey, just what I can reconstruct from the “last week” column of the following week’s survey.  We’re missing seven titles that were on this week but fell off the following week.

This week’s debuts almost all made the Billboard top 40—the exception being Johnny Rivers’ almost-self-referential “Muddy River,” which peaked at number 41 nationally but will get to number nine here.  Also peaking at number nine here will be the Box Tops’ “Soul Deep,” which was number 18 in Billboard, while Andy Kim’s version of “Baby, I Love You” was number nine there and will reach number two here.  And I should point out that Tom Jones’ “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (6BB/5KJR) is not the same song as Burt Bacharach’s “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.”

June 27, 1969

1	1	Elvis Presley--In the Ghetto/Any Day Now
2	2	Beatles--Get Back
8	3	Three Dog Night--One
5	4	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Bad Moon Rising
6	5	Henry Mancini & His Orchestra--Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet
12	6	Oliver--Good Morning Starshine
3	7	Desmond Dekker & the Aces--Israelites
4	8	Paul Revere & the Raiders--Let Me
17	9	Tommy James & the Shondells--Crystal Blue Persuasion
25	10	Zager & Evans--In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
9	11	Sonny Charles & the Checkmates, Ltd.--Black Pearl
16	12	Winstons--Color Him Father
7	13	Blood, Sweat & Tears--Spinning Wheel
13	14	Turtles--You Don't Have to Walk in the Rain
18	15	Kenny Rogers & the First Edition--Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
14	16	Classics IV--Everyday With You Girl
27	17	Buchanan Brothers--Medicine Man
10	18	Mercy--Love (Can Make You Happy)
22	19	Marvin Gaye--Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
26	20	Elephant's Memory--Crossroads of the Stepping Stones
24	21	Tom Jones--Love Me Tonight
11	22	Tommy James & the Shondells--Sweet Cherry Wine
30	23	Joe Jeffrey Group--My Pledge of Love
15	24	Grass Roots--The River is Wide
19	25	Rascals--See
20	26	Merrilee Rush--Everyday Livin' Days
39	27	Neil Diamond--Sweet Caroline
35	28	Dick Hyman & His Electric Eclectics--The Minotaur
31	29	Monkees--Listen to the Band
46	30	Mark Lindsay--First Hymn From Grand Terrace
50	31	Jr. Walker & the All-Stars--What Does it Take (To Win Your Love)
32	32	5th Dimension--Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
23	33	Friends of Distinction--Grazing in the Grass
38	34	Mama Cass--It's Getting Better
48	35	Tony Joe White--Polk Salad Annie
---	36	Charles Randolph Grean Sounde--Quentin's Theme
40	37	Cat Mother & the All Night News Boys--Good Old Rock'n'Roll
49	38	Impressions--Choice of Colors
28	39	Mary Hopkin--Goodbye
34	40	Cowsills--Hair
42	41	Isley Brothers--I Turned You On
44	42	Roy Clark--Yesterday, When I Was Young
29	43	Guess Who--These Eyes
---	44	Stevie Wonder--My Cherie Amour
45	45	Cowsills--The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-Six-Six)
47	46	Iron Butterfly--In the Time of Our Lives
---	47	Burt Bacharach--I'll Never Fall in Love Again
---	48	Ray Stevens--Along Came Jones
---	49	Shannon--Abergavenny
---	50	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--Abraham, Martin & John

“I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1968 stage musical Promises, Promises.  Most of us know the big hit 1970 version by Dionne Warwick, but it had been released as a single in 1969 by Johnny Mathis (whose version reached number 35 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart) and by Burt himself, an orchestral/choral version that got to number 18 on the Easy Listening chart and number 93 on the Hot 100, and will get to number 32 here.

The week’s other debuts were all top 50 BB hits.  “Abergavenny,” by British pop singer Marty Wilde under the name Shannon, was a number 47 BB hit that will make it to number 15 here.  Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie Amour,” a number four national hit, will stop at number twelve.  The others will do about as well here as in Billboard.