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1
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1
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Peter, Paul & Mary--Leaving on a Jet Plane
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2
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2
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Led Zeppelin--Whole Lotta Love
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5
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3
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Tommy Roe--Jam Up Jelly Tight
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3
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4
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Beatles--Something/Come Together
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4
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5
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Bobby Sherman--La La La (If I Had You)
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7
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6
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B.J. Thomas--Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
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6
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7
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Creedence Clearwater Revival--Down on the Corner/Fortunate Son
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8
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8
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Neil Diamond--Holly Holy
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16
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9
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Elvis Presley--Rubberneckin'/Don't Cry Daddy
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15
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10
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Jimmy Cliff--Wonderful World, Beautiful People
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9
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11
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R.B. Greaves--Take a Letter Maria
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14
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12
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Diana Ross & the Supremes--Someday We'll Be Together
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17
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13
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Mark Lindsay--Arizona
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21
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14
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Shocking Blue--Venus
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24
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15
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Hollies--He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
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22
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16
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Bobby Gentry--Fancy
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25
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17
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Poppy Family--Which Way You Goin' Billy?
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27
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18
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Grass Roots--Heaven Knows
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10
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19
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Cuff Links--Tracy
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23
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20
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Nightcrawlers--Little Black Egg
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26
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21
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Gladys Knight & the Pips--Friendship Train
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12
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22
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Glen Campbell--Try a Little Kindness
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13
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23
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Jim Brady & the Sonics--Near My Soul
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32
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28
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Flaming Ember--Mind, Body and Soul
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41
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29
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New Hope--Won't Find Better (Than Me)
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36
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30
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Mel & Tim--Backfield in Motion
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31
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31
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Three Dog Night--Eli's Coming
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35
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32
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Gene Pitney--She Lets Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)
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46
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33
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Illusion--Together
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50
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34
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Engelbert Humperdinck--Winter World of Love
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40
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35
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Cuff Links--When Julie Comes Around
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42
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36
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Wilbert Harrison--Let's Work Together (Part 1)
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43
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40
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Guess Who--No Time
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41
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Eydie Gorme--Tonight I'll Say a Prayer
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42
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Tom Jones--Without Love (There is Nothing)
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45
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44
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Springfield Rifle--Start at the Bottom
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45
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Lulu--Oh Me Oh My I'm a Fool For You Baby
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47
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46
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Tommy James & the Shondells--She
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47
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Band--Up on Cripple Creek
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49
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48
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Newbeats--Groovin' (Out on Life)
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49
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Oliver--Sunday Mornin'
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50
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Fifth Avenue Band--One Way or the Other
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As mentioned last time, this survey was not published in the
newspaper, so I’ve filled in what I can from the “last week” column of the next
survey, but a number of holes exist.
One non-Billboard debut this week: “One Way or the Other,”
mellow blue-eyed soul by New York group the Fifth Avenue Band, which will peak
at number 44 here. Also worth mentioning
are two debuts that will not do as well in Seattle as nationally: “Without Love”
by Tom Jones (5BB/16KJR) and “Up On Cripple Creek” by the Band (25/46).
Next time we’ll have the 1969 year-end chart.
Here is Gene's ranking of the Fabulous 50 for the Year 1969!
ReplyDeleteFirst Number: Ranking
Second Number: Peak position and (weeks at peak)
Third Number: Weeks on survey
1 1 (6) 19 Rolling Stones--Honky Tonk Women
2 1 (3) 20 Archies--Sugar, Sugar
3 1 (8) 14 Beatles--Something/Come Together
4 1 (5) 14 Beatles--Get Back
5 1 (5) 15 Tommy Roe--Dizzy
6 1 (4) 18 Cowsills--Hair
7 1 (1) 16 Bobby Sherman--Little Woman
8 1 (8) 13 Tommy James & the Shondells--Crimson and Clover
9 1 (3) 14 Elvis Presley--In the Ghetto
10 2 (3) 17 5th Dimension--Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
11 2 (3) 16 Three Dog Night--One
12 1 (5) 12 Zager & Evans--In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
13 3 (3) 14 Tommy James & the Shondells--Sweet Cherry Wine
14 2 (1) 13 Foundations--Build Me Up Buttercup
15 2 (3) 13 Zombies--Time of the Season
16 2 (2) 13 Oliver--Jean
17 4 (5) 16 Perry Como--Seattle
18 2 (2) 13 Buchanan Brothers--Medicine Man
19 3 (1) 14 Creedence Clearwater Revival--Bad Moon Rising
20 1 (2) 12 Peter, Paul & Mary--Leaving on a Jet Plane
21 4 (2) 14 Three Dog Night--Easy to Be Hard
22 4 (1) 15 Paul Revere & the Raiders--Let Me
23 3 (3) 13 Elvis Presley--Suspicious Minds
24 2 (3) 12 Box Tops--Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March
25 3 (2) 14 Cuff Links--Tracy
26 2 (1) 13 Neil Diamond--Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
27 5 (1) 15 Tom Jones--I'll Never Fall in Love Again
28 3 (3) 11 Marvin Gaye--I Heard it Through the Grapevine
29 4 (3) 13 Mercy--Love (Can Make You Happy)
30 3 (1) 13 R.B. Greaves--Take a Letter Maria
31 4 (2) 13 New Colony Six--Things I'd Like to Say
32 3 (1) 12 Tommy Roe--Jack and Jill
33 2 (1) 11 Doors--Touch Me
34 5 (1) 15 Jackie DeShannon--Put a Little Love in Your Heart
35 3 (1) 12 Billy Joe Royal--Cherry Hill Park
36 3 (1) 13 Henry Mancini & His Orchestra--Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet
37 2 (2) 10 Andy Kim--Baby, I Love You
38 3 (1) 12 Tommy James & the Shondells--Crystal Blue Persuasion
39 4 (1) 13 Clique--Sugar on Sunday
40 5 (1) 13 Paul Revere & the Raiders--Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
41 4 (1) 13 Creedence Clearwater Revival--Proud Mary
42 2 (1) 10 Johnny Cash--A Boy Named Sue
43 6 (2) 13 Creedence Clearwater Revival--Green River
44 3 (1) 12 Smith--Baby It's You
45 4 (2) 12 5th Dimension--Wedding Bell Blues
46 5 (1) 16 Mama Cass--It's Getting Better
47 3 (1) 11 Desmond Dekker & the Aces--Israelites
48 4 (1) 13 Crow--Evil Woman Don't Play Your Games With Me
49 6 (1) 13 Neil Diamond--Sweet Caroline
50 3 (1) 9 Donovan--Atlantis
I didn't realize how distracting all those other statistics would be. Here is the ranking without the other statistics:
ReplyDelete1 Rolling Stones--Honky Tonk Women
2 Archies--Sugar, Sugar
3 Beatles--Something/Come Together
4 Beatles--Get Back
5 Tommy Roe--Dizzy
6 Cowsills--Hair
7 Bobby Sherman--Little Woman
8 Tommy James & the Shondells--Crimson and Clover
9 Elvis Presley--In the Ghetto
10 5th Dimension--Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
11 Three Dog Night--One
12 Zager & Evans--In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
13 Tommy James & the Shondells--Sweet Cherry Wine
14 Foundations--Build Me Up Buttercup
15 Zombies--Time of the Season
16 Oliver--Jean
17 Perry Como--Seattle
18 Buchanan Brothers--Medicine Man
19 Creedence Clearwater Revival--Bad Moon Rising
20 Peter, Paul & Mary--Leaving on a Jet Plane
21 Three Dog Night--Easy to Be Hard
22 Paul Revere & the Raiders--Let Me
23 Elvis Presley--Suspicious Minds
24 Box Tops--Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March
25 Cuff Links--Tracy
26 Neil Diamond--Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
27 Tom Jones--I'll Never Fall in Love Again
28 Marvin Gaye--I Heard it Through the Grapevine
29 Mercy--Love (Can Make You Happy)
30 R.B. Greaves--Take a Letter Maria
31 New Colony Six--Things I'd Like to Say
32 Tommy Roe--Jack and Jill
33 Doors--Touch Me
34 Jackie DeShannon--Put a Little Love in Your Heart
35 Billy Joe Royal--Cherry Hill Park
36 Henry Mancini & His Orchestra--Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet
37 Andy Kim--Baby, I Love You
38 Tommy James & the Shondells--Crystal Blue Persuasion
39 Clique--Sugar on Sunday
40 Paul Revere & the Raiders--Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
41 Creedence Clearwater Revival--Proud Mary
42 Johnny Cash--A Boy Named Sue
43 Creedence Clearwater Revival--Green River
44 Smith--Baby It's You
45 5th Dimension--Wedding Bell Blues
46 Mama Cass--It's Getting Better
47 Desmond Dekker & the Aces--Israelites
48 Crow--Evil Woman Don't Play Your Games With Me
49 Neil Diamond--Sweet Caroline
50 Donovan--Atlantis
To get this ranking, I first ranked all the songs of 1969 by three different measures. The first measure was the peak position for the year, further ranked by the number of weeks at that position. For example, a song that was #1 for two weeks is ranked above a song that was #1 for just one week. The second measure was the number of weeks on the survey, and the third measure was the average position on the survey. I gave Something/Come Together credit for the last two weeks of December and the first week of January, since it was such a big hit that will almost certainly be on the survey through early January. I also gave Leavin' on a Jet Plane credit for the last two weeks of December. I did a weighted average of these three rankings to get the final ranking, with a full weight to peak position, a three-quarters ranking to weeks on survey, and a 50% ranking to average position.
Thanks for bearing with me on this. I'm a retiree with way too much time on his hands and who was way too obsessed with KJR as a kid!
At first glance at the ones at the top, it looks pretty close to what KJR came up with...
DeleteThanks, Joey. I came up with the Excel spreadsheet to create full-year rankings after KJR published that awful 1966 year-end ranking. You pointed out how it omitted a lot of #1 and #2 songs while including songs that were only on the charts for a couple of week. I wanted to see what a sensible 1966 ranking would have looked like. With the 1969 full-year ranking coming out, I couldn't resist the temptation to dust off the Excel spreadsheet and see what it predicted for the 1969 ranking. I was a financial analyst for many years, so I love to crunch numbers. Thanks again for bearing with me on this.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for your interest! I'll get the year-end chart posted tonight.
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