December 5, 1969

1	1	Beatles--Something/Come Together
9	2	Led Zeppelin--Whole Lotta Love
2	3	Peter, Paul & Mary--Leaving on a Jet Plane
6	4	Neil Diamond--Holly Holy
3	5	R.B. Greaves--Take a Letter Maria
4	6	Creedence Clearwater Revival--Down on the Corner/Fortunate Son
12	7	Bobby Sherman--La La La (If I Had You)
18	8	Tommy Roe--Jam Up Jelly Tight
7	9	Savoy Brown--I'm Tired
5	10	Cuff Links--Tracy
8	11	Original Caste--One Tin Soldier
20	12	Glen Campbell--Try a Little Kindness
10	13	5th Dimension--Wedding Bell Blues
16	14	Jim Brady & the Sonics--Near My Soul
17	15	Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band--She Belongs to Me
11	16	Steam--Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
29	17	Diana Ross & the Supremes--Someday We'll Be Together
22	18	Bread--Could I
30	19	B.J. Thomas--Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
21	20	Ferrante & Teicher--Midnight Cowboy
25	21	Jimmy Cliff--Wonderful World, Beautiful People
28	22	Three Dog Night--Eli's Coming
14	23	Archies--Sugar, Sugar
27	24	Mark Lindsay--Arizona
26	25	Elvis Presley--Rubberneckin'/Don't Cry Daddy
38	26	Nightcrawlers--Little Black Egg
34	27	Poppy Family--Which Way You Goin' Billy?
36	28	Clique--I'll Hold Out My Hand
35	29	Bobby Gentry--Fancy
15	30	Elvis Presley--Suspicious Minds
23	31	Tommy Cash--Six White Horses
41	32	Flaming Ember--Mind, Body and Soul
40	33	Hollies--He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
19	34	Blood, Sweat & Tears--And When I Die
39	35	Grass Roots--Heaven Knows
42	36	Gladys Knight & the Pips--Friendship Train
33	37	Stevie Wonder--Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
45	38	James Gang--Funk #49
---	39	Shocking Blue--Venus
43	40	Berlin Philharmonic--"2001" A Space Odyssey
44	41	Dusty Springfield--A Brand New Me
---	42	Cuff Links--When Julie Comes Around
---	43	Gene Pitney--She Lets Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)
48	44	Mel & Tim--Backfield in Motion
---	45	Archies--Jingle Jangle
49	46	New Hope--Won't Find Better (Than Me)
46	47	Wilbert Harrison--Let's Work Together (Part 1)
50	48	Jackie DeShannon--Love Will Find a Way
---	49	Springfield Rifle--Start at the Bottom
---	50	Newbeats--Groovin' (Out on Life)

This week’s “suddenly overstaying its welcome” award goes to “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” which drops off from number 13.  Well, it is December after all.

One non-BB debut: Seattle’s Springfield Rifle, making their final appearance on the survey, with “Start at the Bottom,” which is starting not quite at the bottom at number 49 and will peak at number 37.  It’s included on a CD called The History of Northwest Rock Volume 3: Psychedelic Seattle, but I don’t hear anything at all psychedelic in it; it’s just a pop-rock song with horns and strings.

Three of the other debuts will do significantly better here than nationally.  The Cuff Links’ follow-up to “Tracy,” “When Julie Comes Around,” was a number 41 Billboard hit that will go to number nine here.  Gene Pitney’s “She Lets Her Hair Down,” number 89 nationally, will make it to number 18; another version, by the Tokens, debuted on the Hot 100 the same week as Pitney’s version and peaked at number 61, but we won’t see it here on the Fab 50.  And the Newbeats make their eighth and final appearance on the survey with “Groovin’ (Out on Life),” which will get to number 43, beating its number 82 BB peak.

Surprisingly, the Archies’ follow-up to “Sugar, Sugar,” “Jingle Jangle,” will stop at number 37 next week and then drop off; it was a number ten national hit.

This leaves only one debut unmentioned, so I’ll mention it—“Venus” will get to number one for one week, exactly as in Billboard.