The Ultimate Averaged Chart - The BBC Chart Re-Imagined

[MrTibbs]

Engelbert won't go top ten again and he will only make the top twenty twice more. Tom will have to wait till the end of 1971 for another top ten hit and Cliff 1973 so yeah the old guard are indeed struggling.

Many ballads will continue to chart however, some good and some awful. By the end of 1970 though the wind of change will shape the chart with the birth of glam rock.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending October 3rd 1970

Here are all '' the uppers, the downers, the just hanging 'arounders ''

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending October 3rd 1970							NME	MM	BMRB	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey			Stores	200	250	175	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart					TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Band Of Gold - Freda Payne					1	1	1	18750
4	2	You Can Get It If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker					2	3	2	17875
2	3	Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles					5	2	4	17175
7	4	Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom					3	6	3	16750
3	5	Give Me Just A Little More Time - The Chairmen Of The Board					4	4	6	16525
13	6	Black Night - Deep Purple					6	5	5	16050
10	7	Which Way You Goin' Billy - The Poppy Family					7	7	7	15000
9	8	Love Is Life - Hot Chocolate					10	10	10	13125
5	9	Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night					14	8	12	12475
6	10	Make It With You - Bread					11	9	16	12125
25	11	Paranoid - Black Sabbath					17	11	8	11825
8	12	The Wonder Of You - Elvis Presley					15	12	9	11800
16	13	Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross					9	14	13	11800
18	14	(They Long To Be) Close To You - The Carpenters					8	15	14	11575
14	15	Strange Band / The Weaver's Answer - Family					16	13	11	11000
11	16	Wild World - Jimmy Cliff					13	16	17	9800
12	17	Don't Play That Song - Aretha Franklin					12	17	18	9575
23	18	Me And My Life - The Tremeloes					18	18	15	8650
17	19	It's So Easy - Andy Williams					20	21	19	6800
20	20	Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves and The Vandellas					19	22	21	6400
24	21	As Long As I Can See The Light - Creedence Clearwater Revival					21	20	23	6150
26	22	Black Pearl - Horace Faith					22	23	20	5725
15	23	25 Or 6 To 4 - Chicago					22	19	27	5500
NEW	24	Our World - Blue Mink					24	26	24	3875
NEW	25	Ball Of Confusion - The Temptations					25	25	26	3575
22	26	Something - Shirley Bassey					26	28	25	2800
30	27	Sweetheart - Engelbert Humperdinck					27		22	2375
21	28	Rainbow - The Marmalade						24		1750
19	29	Sweet Inspiration - Johnny Johnson and The Bandwagon						27	28	1525
27	30	I Ain't Got Time Anymore - Cliff Richard					30	29		700
B		Still Water (Love) - The Four Tops					28			600
B		Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort					29			400
B		Gasolene Alley Bred - The Hollies							29	350
B		Ruby Tuesday - Melanie						30		250
B		My Way - Frank Sinatra							30	175
28		I (Who Have Nothing) - Tom Jones
29		Neanderthal Man - Hotlegs

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending October 10th 1970

Here are all '' the uppers, the downers, the just hanging 'arounders ''

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending October 10th 1970							NME	MM	BMRB	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey			Stores	200	250	175	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart					TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Band Of Gold - Freda Payne					1	1	1	18750
2	2	You Can Get It If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker					3	2	2	17925
6	3	Black Night - Deep Purple					2	3	3	17700
4	4	Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom					4	4	5	16700
11	5	Paranoid - Black Sabbath					6	5	4	16225
13	6	Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross					8	6	7	15050
7	7	Which Way You Goin' Billy - The Poppy Family					5	7	10	14875
14	8	(They Long To Be) Close To You - The Carpenters					7	10	6	14425
5	9	Give Me Just A Little More Time - The Chairmen Of The Board					9	8	9	14000
18	10	Me And My Life - The Tremeloes					10	11	8	13225
3	11	Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles					11	9	12	12825
15	12	Strange Band / The Weaver's Answer - Family					12	12	15	11350
8	13	Love Is Life - Hot Chocolate					13	13	17	10550
17	14	Don't Play That Song - Aretha Franklin					14	15	13	10550
12	15	The Wonder Of You - Elvis Presley					16	17	11	10000
22	16	Black Pearl - Horace Faith					15	16	14	9925
10	17	Make It With You - Bread					17	14	20	8975
25	18	Ball Of Confusion - The Temptations					18	20	16	7975
9	19	Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night					21	18	18	7525
24	20	Our World - Blue Mink					22	22	19	6150
21	21	As Long As I Can See The Light - Creedence Clearwater Revival					23	21	21	5850
NEW	22	Gasolene Alley Bred - The Hollies					18	25	23	5500
16	23	Wild World - Jimmy Cliff					24	19	25	5450
20	24	Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves and The Vandellas					26	23	22	4575
NEW	25	Still Water (Love) - The Four Tops					20	27	27	3900
19	26	It's So Easy - Andy Williams					28	24	30	2525
NEW	27	Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort					27	30	24	2275
NEW	28	Patches - Clarence Carter					25	29		1700
NEW	29	Ruby Tuesday - Melanie						26	29	1600
23	30	25 Or 6 To 4 - Chicago					29	28		1150
27		Sweetheart - Engelbert Humperdinck							26	875
26		Something - Shirley Bassey							28	525
B		Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine - James Brown					30			200
29		Sweet Inspiration - Johnny Johnson and The Bandwagon
30		I Ain't Got Time Anymore - Cliff Richard
28		Rainbow - The Marmalade

[MrTibbs]

The above top twenty contains 9 records that went top three in America including 5 that went to #1. A further US top three hit is in the bottom ten.

[braindeadpj]

On the 3rd October chart, it looks like you neglected to put a score for The Marmalade track Rainbow (no.24 in MM) which would have been 1750 points placing them at 28 and shifting the other tracks down.

[MrTibbs]

Ah ! I see what has gone wrong there. For some reason that row didn't have a calculation formula in it so therefore didn't follow through with a point allocation. I have corrected that and will amend 3rd October and subsequent chart positions on the 10th. Well spotted brain and thanks as I like 100% accuracy in all calculations.

Both weeks now amended.

[MrTibbs]

I never thought I would understand the elementary errors Tony Jasper made in his Top Twenty book but I now realise first hand how easy it is to mispresent numbers when you are dealing with so many of them in front of you. There comes a point on a spreadsheet they kinda just merge on the screen and even with checks afterwards you sometimes can't see what is in front of your eyes, the old can't see the woods for the trees saying.

You guys fresh eyes can therefore pick up what I sometimes can't see in front of me. So keep up the good work I really do appreciate your picking up on the odd number that slips through the net to keep The Ultimate Average Chart error free.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending October 17th 1970

Here are all '' the uppers, the downers, the just hanging 'arounders ''

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending October 17th 1970							NME	MM	BMRB	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey			Stores	200	250	175	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart					TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Band Of Gold - Freda Payne					1	1	1	18750
3	2	Black Night - Deep Purple					2	2	2	18125
2	3	You Can Get If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker					3	3	3	17500
5	4	Paranoid - Black Sabbath					4	4	5	16700
4	5	Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom					7	5	7	15500
8	6	(They Long To Be) Close To You - The Carpenters					5	6	8	15475
6	7	Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross					6	7	6	15375
10	8	Me And My Life - The Tremeloes					8	8	4	15075
18	9	Ball Of Confusion - The Temptations					11	9	10	13175
7	10	Which Way You Goin' Billy - The Poppy Family					12	10	9	12900
16	11	Black Pearl - Horace Faith					10	11	13	12350
28	12	Patches - Clarence Carter					13	15	14	10575
12	13	Strange Band / The Weaver's Answer - Family					18	13	12	10425
27	14	Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort					15	17	11	10200
9	15	Give Me Just A Little More Time - The Chairmen Of The Board					16	12	18	10025
25	16	Still Water (Love) - The Four Tops					9	18	20	9575
22	17	Gasolene Alley Bred - The Hollies					13	19	19	8700
11	18	Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles					20	16	16	8575
15	19	The Wonder Of You - Elvis Presley					19	20	17	7600
14	20	Don't Play That Song - Aretha Franklin					17	14	29	7400
29	21	Ruby Tuesday - Melanie					21	22	21	6000
20	22	Our World - Blue Mink					23	21	24	5325
21	23	As Long As I Can See The Light - Creedence Clearwater Revival					25	24	23	4350
17	24	Make It With You - Bread					24	23	26	4275
NEW	25	The Tips Of My Fingers - Des O'Connor					30	30	15	3250
19	26	Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night						26	22	2825
13	27	Love Is Life - Hot Chocolate					28	25	27	2800
NEW	28	Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine - James Brown					22	29		2300
24	29	Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves and The Vandellas					26	27		2000
NEW	30	The Witch - The Rattles							25	1050
B		War - Edwin Starr					27			800
23		Wild World - Jimmy Cliff						28		750
B		New World In The Morning - Roger Whittaker							28	525
26		It's So Easy - Andy Williams					29			400
X		Everything A Man Could Ever Need - Glen Campbell					30			200
B		My Way - Frank Sinatra							30	175
30		25 Or 6 To 4 - Chicago

[brian05]

Welcome back Frank Sinatra.

B My Way - Frank Sinatra 30

[MrTibbs]

Welcome back Frank Sinatra.

B My Way - Frank Sinatra 30

Yeah Brian and it will go Top 20 again

[Robbie]

Great song in at number 30 on the UAC - 'The Witch' by The Rattles. Also a classic by James Brown in at number 28.

[Splodj]

Also a classic by James Brown in at number 28.

I acquired this track when I bought a Vileda mop, on a free cassette called 'Bop While You Mop'.

[MrTibbs]

LMAO

[Robbie]

I acquired this track when I bought a Vileda mop, on a free cassette called 'Bop While You Mop'.

I had to look up what a Vileda mop was (apart from knowing it would be a mop!).

Is this the cassette you got for free? https://www.discogs.com/Various-Bop-...elease/5617449

Interesting music to clean the kitchen to...

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending October 24th 1970

Here are all '' the uppers, the downers, the just hanging 'arounders ''

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending October 24th 1970							NME	MM	BMRB	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey			Stores	200	250	175	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart					TOP	30	Scored
1	1	Band Of Gold - Freda Payne					1	1	1	18750
2	2	Black Night - Deep Purple					2	2	2	18125
6	3	(They Long To Be) Close To You - The Carpenters					3	4	6	16725
4	4	Paranoid - Black Sabbath					7	3	5	16350
8	5	Me And My Life - The Tremeloes					5	6	4	16175
12	6	Patches - Clarence Carter					5	10	3	15350
14	7	Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort					4	8	10	14825
7	8	Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross					8	7	7	14800
3	9	You Can Get It If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker					10	5	8	14725
9	10	Ball Of Confusion - The Temptations					11	9	9	13350
5	11	Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom					9	11	11	12900
11	12	Black Pearl - Horace Faith					12	12	15	11350
16	13	Still Water (Love) - The Four Tops					13	13	13	11250
10	14	Which Way You Goin' Billy - The Poppy Family					15	14	12	10775
17	15	Gasolene Alley Bred - The Hollies					16	15	14	9975
21	16	Ruby Tuesday - Melanie					14	16	18	9425
25	17	The Tips Of My Fingers - Des O'Connor					17	18	19	8150
13	18	Strange Band / The Weaver's Answer - Family					18	17	23	7500
15	19	Give Me Just A Little More Time - The Chairmen Of The Board					19	19	21	7150
22	20	Our World - Blue Mink					24	20	17	6600
NEW	21	War - Edwin Starr					20	26	16	6075
30	22	The Witch - The Rattles					25	24	22	4525
NEW	23	New World In The Morning - Roger Whittaker					22	25	24	4525
18	24	Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles					27	21	25	4350
19	25	The Wonder Of You - Elvis Presley					29	23	20	4325
20	26	Don't Play That Song - Aretha Franklin					22	22		4050
NEW	27	It's Wonderful - Jimmy Ruffin					26	27	27	2700
28	28	Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine - James Brown					20	29		2700
23	29	As Long As I Can See The Light - Creedence Clearwater Revival						28	29	1100
29	30	Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves and The Vandellas							26	875
B		Indian Reservation - Don Fardon					28			600
B		My Way - Frank Sinatra							28	525
X		Pretty Woman - Juicy Lucy					29			400
24		Make It With You - Bread						30		250
26		Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night							30	175
27		Love Is Life - Hot Chocolate

[MrTibbs]

Aside from those I mentioned a few posts back there are some absolute gems on this week's chart that I bought at the time, Freda Payne, Deep Purple, Carpenters, Black Sabbath, Tremeloes, Clarence Carter, Matthew's Southern Comfort, Diana Ross, Desmond Dekker, Temptations, and that's just the ones from the top ten.

What a year !

[Splodj]

Is this the cassette you got for free?

Yes. I phoned them for a widget replacement and they said they would be happy to post one to me, and it arrived with the cassette.

[Metalweb]

Interesting random selection of tracks on that cassette!

Was the James Brown track the first hit to contain the word "sex" in the title? I can't think of an earlier one. Can't imagine it got a lot of airplay....

[Graham76man]

I was thinking that too. But it is not on the banned list.

[Graham76man]

The Don Fardon (from England actually) record would probably be banned these days for having so much false information. For a start the Cherokee were never on reservations! Cherokee people have never lived in tipis, nor do they use the term "papoose". And finally singing that they may some day "return" is at odds with fact that these Cherokee Nations still exist.

I lived for a long time in the belief that Matthews Southern Comfort was the name of brand of whiskey and was based on that! But It is based on Ian Matthew (Fairport Convention) and "Southern Comfort" by the Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia, Matthews favourite record.
Southern Comfort, however is an American fruit-flavored whiskey liqueur with fruit and spice accents. The brand was originally created by bartender Martin Wilkes Heron in New Orleans in 1874, and originally used whiskey as the base spirit.
Your guess is as good as mine if either Ian Matthews or Ian and Sylvia were fond of the drink!

[MrTibbs]

Interesting random selection of tracks on that cassette!

Was the James Brown track the first hit to contain the word "sex" in the title? I can't think of an earlier one. Can't imagine it got a lot of airplay....

I'm not sure about the BBC but I do remember Radio Luxembourg playing it in their chart show.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending October 31st 1970

Here are all '' the uppers, the downers, the just hanging 'arounders ''

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending October 31st 1970							NME	MM	BMRB	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey			Stores	200	250	175	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart					TOP	30	Scored
2	1	Black Night - Deep Purple					1	1	5	18050
6	2	Patches - Clarence Carter					2	3	2	17875
7	3	Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort					3	4	1	17600
1	4	Band Of Gold - Freda Payne					4	2	3	17550
5	5	Me And My Life - The Tremeloes					5	6	4	16175
4	6	Paranoid - Black Sabbath					6	5	6	15875
10	7	Ball Of Confusion - The Temptations					8	8	7	14550
3	8	(They Long To Be) Close To You - The Carpenters					7	7	11	14300
8	9	Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross					10	10	9	13300
13	10	Still Water (Love) - The Four Tops					11	11	10	12675
9	11	You Can Get It If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker					13	9	12	12425
16	12	Ruby Tuesday - Melanie					9	12	13	12300
11	13	Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom					15	13	8	11725
21	14	War - Edwin Starr					12	14	15	10850
15	15	Gasolene Alley Bred - The Hollies					14	15	16	10025
22	16	The Witch - The Rattles					18	18	14	8825
17	17	The Tips Of My Fingers - Des O'Connor					17	17	17	8750
12	18	Black Pearl - Horace Faith					16	16	21	8500
27	19	It's Wonderful - Jimmy Ruffin					18	20	18	7625
14	20	Which Way You Goin' Billy - The Poppy Family					20	19	22	6775
NEW	21	Indian Reservation - Don Fardon					21	23	19	6100
23	22	New World In The Morning - Roger Whittaker					22	22	20	5975
18	23	Strange Band / The Weaver's Answer - Family					23	24		3350
25	24	The Wonder Of You - Elvis Presley						25	23	2900
NEW	25	Heaven Is Here - Julie Felix					28	27	25	2650
NEW	26	Julie Do Ya Love Me - White Plains					26	28	26	2625
20	27	Our World - Blue Mink						21		2500
NEW	28	San Bernadino - Christie					25		24	2425
19	29	Give Me Just A Little More Time - The Chairmen Of The Board					27	26	30	2225
28	30	Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine - James Brown					24	29		1900
B		Snowbird - Anne Murray							27	700
B		My Way - Frank Sinatra							28	525
26		Don't Play That Song - Aretha Franklin					29			400
30		Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves and The Vandellas							29	350
B		Ride A White Swan - T. Rex						30		250
B		Think About Your Children - Mary Hopkin					30			200
24		Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
29		As Long As I Can See The Light - Creedence Clearwater Revival

[MrTibbs]

Deep Purple goes to #1 but plummets to #5 on BMRB yet next week it will go back up to #3. Strange.

[Splodj]

Was the James Brown track the first hit to contain the word "sex" in the title? I can't think of an earlier one. Can't imagine it got a lot of airplay....

As it never made the BMRB Top 30, I suppose the BBC could just ignore it without offIcially banning it.

[Splodj]

Although the Popscene POTP thread says that Freeman did play the James Brown record this week (POTP 1-Nov). Another non-chart track he played was Jagger's 'Memo from Turner' which I thought would do better

[Graham76man]

Deep Purple goes to #1 but plummets to #5 on BMRB yet next week it will go back up to #3. Strange.

Not really although Deep Purple had been top for two weeks before that chart date, it fell from 1 to 8 that week, though the following week climb is unexplained as it went down to 13. For that to happen twice it was clearly getting no coverage on TV and records above were!
I suspect that it's presence at number one on the other charts is down to the reduced number of shops (with both down to 100) taking part and both papers were turning into or had turned into "Rock" papers by this time.

The White Plains track is credited to featuring Pete Nelson. Though even on compilation albums today he's not credited. Another version by Bobby Sherman was lagging behind the record by a good distance. It stalled at 42.
Just to show you how bad all three charts were at this time, the Move single "When Alice Comes Back To The Farm" was already at 20 and would reach number 11, without a single chart appearance in the others or even being a breaker. It even got a Top of The Pops appearance! It wasn't that they were some new group either!

The previous week the Beatles single Let It Be had made the BMRB top 50 again for a week. I couldn't find any reason this would return, no TV slots etc. It wasn't in the top 100 that week, though it did come back in this week at 83 lasting two more weeks, simply on the basis it was displayed in top 50 record shops the following week.

[brian05]

The previous week the Beatles single Let It Be had made the BMRB top 50 again for a week. I couldn't find any reason this would return, no TV slots etc. It wasn't in the top 100 that week, though it did come back in this week at 83 lasting two more weeks, simply on the basis it was displayed in top 50 record shops the following week.

The Let It Be and Abbey Road albums were still in the Top 40 album chart at this date. Probably motivated some to buy the single. Perhaps it was played on Two Way Family Favourites.