December 12, 1969

3	1	Peter, Paul & Mary--Leaving on a Jet Plane
2	2	Led Zeppelin--Whole Lotta Love
1	3	Beatles--Something/Come Together
7	4	Bobby Sherman--La La La (If I Had You)
8	5	Tommy Roe--Jam Up Jelly Tight
6	6	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Down on the Corner/Fortunate Son
19	7	B.J. Thomas--Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
4	8	Neil Diamond--Holly Holy
5	9	R.B. Greaves--Take a Letter Maria
10	10	Cuff Links--Tracy
9	11	Savoy Brown--I'm Tired
12	12	Glen Campbell--Try a Little Kindness
14	13	Jim Brady & the Sonics--Near My Soul
17	14	Diana Ross & the Supremes--Someday We'll Be Together
21	15	Jimmy Cliff--Wonderful World, Beautiful People
25	16	Elvis Presley--Rubberneckin'/Don't Cry Daddy
24	17	Mark Lindsay--Arizona
11	18	Original Caste--One Tin Soldier
13	19	5th Dimension--Wedding Bell Blues
16	20	Steam--Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
39	21	Shocking Blue--Venus
29	22	Bobby Gentry--Fancy
26	23	Nightcrawlers--Little Black Egg
33	24	Hollies--He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
27	25	Poppy Family--Which Way You Goin' Billy?
36	26	Gladys Knight & the Pips--Friendship Train
35	27	Grass Roots--Heaven Knows
40	28	Berlin Philharmonic--"2001" A Space Odyssey
18	29	Bread--Could I
20	30	Ferrante & Teicher--Midnight Cowboy
22	31	Three Dog Night--Eli's Coming
32	32	Flaming Ember--Mind, Body and Soul
28	33	Clique--I'll Hold Out My Hand
23	34	Archies--Sugar, Sugar
43	35	Gene Pitney--She Lets Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)
44	36	Mel & Tim--Backfield in Motion
45	37	Archies--Jingle Jangle
31	38	Tommy Cash--Six White Horses
41	39	Dusty Springfield--A Brand New Me
42	40	Cuff Links--When Julie Comes Around
46	41	New Hope--Won't Find Better (Than Me)
47	42	Wilbert Harrison--Let's Work Together (Part 1)
---	43	Guess Who--No Time
48	44	Jackie DeShannon--Love Will Find a Way
49	45	Springfield Rifle--Start at the Bottom
---	46	Illusion--Together
---	47	Tommy James & the Shondells--She
34	48	Blood, Sweat & Tears--And When I Die
50	49	Newbeats--Groovin' (Out on Life)
---	50	Engelbert Humperdinck--Winter World of Love

This week’s “suddenly overstaying its welcome” award goes to Rick Nelson’s “She Belongs to Me,” which drops off the survey from number 15.

Only four debuts, so I’ll mention them all.  “No Time” by the Guess Who, number five in Billboard, will spend three weeks at number four here.  “Together” by New York band the Illusion, number 80 in Billboard, will get up to number 18.  “Winter World of Love” by Engelbert Humperdinck, number 16 BB, will peak at number 20.  “She” by Tommy James & the Shondells peaked at number 23 in Billboard.  It’s number 47 this week; the chart for next week, December 19, did not appear in the newspaper; on December 26 there was no regular chart, just the year-end chart; and on January 2 the record is listed as a two-sided hit with its b-side, “Loved One,” shown as the a-side, as it would be for the rest of its run on the survey.  I know that it was number 46 on December 19 from the January 2 survey, but I don’t know whether “She” was still showing as the a-side at that point.  What I’m getting at is that I’m not sure what peak position to credit “She” with: the number 47 I know it attained as an a-side, the number 46 it may have attained as an a-side, or the number 8 we will see it attain while listed as the b-side…

I find it amusing that “Winter World of Love” came just two weeks too late to coexist on the survey with “Hot Fun in the Summertime.”