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