The Ultimate Averaged Chart - The BBC Chart Re-Imagined

[MrTibbs]

Thanks for that Brain, that's helpful.

[BrainDamageII]

I don't mind either way but I'm also aware lots of you like to study the chart in detail Brian

I prefer 2. If we like to have a good look at charts we can take our time. It's like reading a book, just because all the pages are there we don't have to look at the last page.

As I look at these charts as I compile them and listen to some of the songs as well while I do, I wonder where did it all go wrong, how has it been possible to go from this era of music to the offerings we have today.

I am sure you posted more last time I looked and I couldn't agree more with what you did say. I always hoped I wouldn't be the parent that said to their kids "What's this rubbish you are listening to" I do talk to the younger generation and I struggle to find anyone who likes all this mumble (c)rap.

MrTibbs my favourite topic, love it

[MrTibbs]

Thanks kjell. It's always encouraging and spurs me on when you guys tell me the chart is hitting the right notes. Pardon the pun.
Here is my dilemma. You say I'm going so fast it's making you dizzy lol when I post 2 charts a day.
I'm already working on June 1968, 9 months ahead of here so I'm well stocked up with charts, so tell me guys, do u want 1 chart per day or 2 ?, I don't mind either way but I'm also aware lots of you like to study the chart in detail, so over to u ? Advise me.

Brian

[kjell]

You’re going so fast that it almost makes me dizzy, I’m thoroughly impressed. Agree with your comments on Alan’s chart history, his updated version is the chart Bible. Understand your 300 MM dilemma. Mathematically it would seem right to not reduce that, but it can’t change much. However, your average chart is anyway the most accurate chart representation prior to when the official chart finally succeeded in reaching accuracy.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

There are 12 minor differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart and The Ultimate Averaged Chart.

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending September 9th 1967. Enjoy !

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending September 9th 1967								NME	MM	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC		TOP	30	Scored
2	1	The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck					1	1	1	1	16050
3	2	I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones					2	3	2	2	15315
1	3	San Francisco - Scott McKenzie					3	2	3	3	15180
11	4	Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - Keith West					4	5	4	4	14245
5	5	Even The Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes					5	6	5	6	13625
8	6	We Love You / Dandelion - The Rolling Stones					7	4	7	8	13355
4	7	The House That Jack Built - The Alan Price Set					6	7	6	5	13260
6	8	I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder					8	8	8	9	12220
7	9	Just Loving You - Anita Harris					9	9	9	7	11940
10	10	Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees					10	11	10	11	10950
13	11	Heroes And Villains - The Beach Boys					11	10	11	12	10815
15	12	Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces					12	12	12	10	10335
9	13	All You Need Is Love - The Beatles					13	13	13	13	9630
20	14	Let's Go To San Francisco - The Flowerpot Men					14	14	14	15	9010
19	15	The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard					15	21	15	14	7445
22	16	The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - The Jimi Hendrix Experience					16	15	21	18	6805
14	17	Up Up And Away - The Johnny Mann Singers					18	20	18	20	6385
NEW	18	Reflections - Diana Ross and The Supremes					20	17	20	23	6230
12	19	Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies					17	25	16	16	6225
17	20	Gin House - Amen Corner					19	24	17	17	6090
23	21	You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge					21	16	22	22	6015
16	22	Creeque Alley - The Mamas And Papas					22	22	19	19	5820
29	23	There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan					24	19	23	27	4740
18	24	It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr					23	23	24	21	4200
30	25	Hole In My Shoe - Traffic					27	17			2800
26	26	A Bad Night - Cat Stevens					25	26	26	26	2675
21	27	You Only Twice / Jackson - Nancy Sinatra					28	29	25	25	2410
24	28	There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck					26	27	27	24	2395
NEW	29	Black Velvet Band - The Dubliners					29	30	28	28	1205
28	30	Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas					30	28	30	30	935
		007 - Desmond Dekker							29	29	670

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

Traffic enter with the brilliant Hole In My Shoe. Rock On !

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending September 2nd 1967. Enjoy !

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending September 2nd 1967								NME	MM	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC		TOP	30	Scored
1	1	San Francisco - Scott McKenzie					1	1	2	1	15800
19	2	The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck					2	3	1	3	15480
2	3	I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones					3	2	3	2	15265
6	4	The House That Jack Built - The Alan Price Set					4	4	4	4	14445
5	5	Even The Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes					5	5	6	5	13660
3	6	I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder					6	6	5	8	13455
8	7	Just Loving You - Anita Harris					7	8	7	7	12640
20	8	We Love You / Dandelion - The Rolling Stones					8	7	8	10	12335
4	9	All You Need Is Love - The Beatles					9	9	10	6	11775
12	10	Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees					10	10	11	11	10900
15	11	Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - Keith West					11	13	9	12	10715
7	12	Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies					12	14	13	9	9770
25	13	Heroes And Villains - The Beach Boys					13	11	15	13	9530
9	14	Up Up And Away - The Johnny Mann Singers					14	15	12	14	9395
14	15	Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces					15	12	14	18	9155
11	16	Creeque Alley - The Mamas And Papas					16	17	17	15	7660
13	17	Gin House - Amen Corner					17	19	16	16	7425
10	18	It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr					18	16	19	17	7190
21	19	The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard					19	21	18	23	5930
NEW	20	Let's Go To San Francisco - The Flowerpot Men					21	21	20	25	5260
17	21	You Only Live Twice / Jackson - Nancy Sinatra					20	23	22	20	4785
NEW	22	The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - The Jimi Hendrix Experience					24	18	23		4600
28	23	You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge					22	20	25	22	4465
22	24	There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck					23	28	21	19	4120
16	25	She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles					25	26	27	21	2850
27	26	A Bad Night - Cat Stevens					27	30	24	26	2375
24	27	007 - Desmond Dekker					28	24	28	29	2320
18	28	Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas					26	29	26	24	2245
30	29	There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan					29	25	30		1450
NEW	30	Hole In My Shoe - Traffic					30	27			800
		Reflections - Diana Ross and The Supremes							29		500
		Alternate Title - The Monkees								27	340
		See Emily Play - Pink Floyd								28	255
		Time Seller - The Spencer Davis Group								30	85

[MrTibbs]

When I was down in the Newspaper Library copying charts a few years back, and was copying the Record Mirror itself, they themselves cited that as the reason in their paper, that costs of postage had become too expensive to continue with their own chart. Given what you say about postage not rising it well have been an excuse used at the time to change over to the RR chart.

[Splodj]

One thing he claims is that Record Mirror's charts were brought down by a postage price increase in 1961 that they could not afford but Melody Maker could. Was there a price increase in 1961? Historic postage rate sites indicate there were no increases between 1957 and 1965.

[Graham76man]

Yes I helped Alan Smith with some of the information for his Chart History.

[MrTibbs]

Yeah, Disc cut their sampling from around a hundred to between 30 and 50 to add to the MM tally. Alan Smith's Updated Chart History is an invaluable resource of chart information, well researched and authorative, and followed by many so that's why I tend to follow his evidence for my information and not speculative unreliable sources.

[Graham76man]

The answer to that Brian is that they raised the school leaving age from 15 to 16 in 1973 and that changed the youth culture. These days the kids are not earning money for themselves right past 18. And the record industry relied on that money.

The last few posts on Disc have opened up the debate on the figures Brian uses for shops taking part. He had 100 for Disc and we now find it was only 50. This does fit in with practices to stop hyping. Having 100 on the list, but only using 50. This way the Record Companies have to hype all 100 known shops. Much more expensive, but of course not impossible. I suspect also if you have to phone all the shops, it's much easier to phone the next on the list if one is engaged.
So Melody Maker used ALL the shops? And they changed the way it was calculated too. That explains a lot. Since I am way ahead of Brian in the 1967 charts. Should finish them in the next few weeks. When I have been looking at the charts of them all, I noticed after Disc lost it's chart that there was a change in the MM chart. In-fact I would say that even Record Retailer seems more realistic than MM. And that is based on the TOTP effect. The sales increases for the records after each show. MM can be two weeks late getting a record into the top 30 after a TOTP appearance.

[MrTibbs]

As I look at these charts as I compile them and listen to some of the songs as well while I do, I wonder where did it all go wrong, how has it been possible to go from this era of music to the offerings we have today.

[Splodj]

In any case, it is within Alan Smith's 250-280 range for the combined total.

If MM were confident that they had the largest sample, particularly now that Zebedee had sprung into action for them, I don't know why they didn't shout it from the rooftops.

[MrTibbs]

FYI, for this week, when Disc ceased compiling its own charts and started carrying the Melody Maker charts, Alan Smith says:

"When the M.M sample was joined by that of Disc from 19th August 1967, the combined sample came close to 300 returns!"

Alan Smith did a lot of research into numbers of store returns over the years hence why I chose to use his figures as the best available guide for the Ultimate Averaged Chart. As Alan stated and Robin and Splodj highlighted above MM were using up to 300 when Disc adopted the MM chart but I chose to continue with 250 as a high enough figure for MM as using a figure of 300 would overwhelm the joint 285 stores from NME and RR and therefore make the averaged chart MM dominant.

Brian

[Splodj]

In the same post, opening 'Updated chart history', he goes into more detail saying: "Disc cut their compiling to 30 to 50 phone calls which main compiler Fred Zebedee would combine with Melody Makers, 200 plus postal sample to make a combined chart of approximately 250-280 postal and phoned returns."

[RokinRobinOfLocksley]

FYI, for this week, when Disc ceased compiling its own charts and started carrying the Melody Maker charts, Alan Smith says:

"When the M.M sample was joined by that of Disc from 19th August 1967, the combined sample came close to 300 returns!"

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

The first Rolling Stones single I didn't really like debuts this week. It was a weak single by their standard.

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending August 26th 1967. Enjoy !

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending August 26th 1967								NME	MM	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC		TOP	30	Scored
1	1	San Francisco - Scott McKenzie					1	1	1	1	16050
3	2	I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones					2	2	2	2	15515
5	3	I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder					3	3	3	8	14555
2	4	All You Need Is Love - The Beatles					4	6	4	3	14130
10	5	Even The Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes					5	5	5	4	13995
9	6	The House That Jack Built - The Alan Price Set					6	4	6	5	13860
4	7	Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies					7	7	7	7	12840
7	8	Just Loving You - Anita Harris					8	8	8	6	12475
6	9	Up Up And Away - The Johnny Mann Singers					9	9	9	10	11685
8	10	It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr					11	10	10	13	10980
11	11	Creeque Alley - The Mamas And Papas					10	12	11	9	10670
22	12	Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees					12	11	12	11	10450
13	13	Gin House - Amen Corner					13	17	13	12	8915
21	14	Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces					14	15	15	14	8645
26	15	Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - Keith West					15	18	16	18	7455
12	16	She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles					16	20	17	15	7060
17	17	You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra					17	21	14	23	6930
18	18	Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas					18	19	19	21	6250
NEW	19	The Last Waltz - Engelbert Humperdinck					19	14	24	19	6170
NEW	20	We Love You / Dandelion - The Rolling Stones					20	13	26	17	6040
27	21	The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard					22	21	20	24	5345
16	22	There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck					21	24	22	16	4925
14	23	See Emily Play - Pink Floyd					23	26	18	27	4590
19	24	007 - Desmond Dekker					24	25	21	25	4210
NEW	25	Heroes And Villains - The Beach Boys					25	16	28	26	4175
15	26	Alternate Title - The Monkees					26	30	23	22	2965
24	27	A Bad Night - Cat Stevens					27		25	20	2435
28	28	You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge					28	23		28	1855
20	29	Let's Pretend - Lulu					29		27	29	1170
NEW	30	There Must Be A Way - Frankie Vaughan						28			600
		Jackson - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood						27
		Time Seller - The Spencer Davis Group					30		29		500
		The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - The Jimi Hendrix Experience						29			400
		A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum							30	30	335

[Graham76man]

Penny Valentine in Disc, review of Alan Price record:

The song is about an asylum.... And I had to laugh at the end, when he decides to join them in there because he's killed all the flowers in Tennessee. Perhaps HE was tired of Flowerpower too! ... Not one of his best.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

The BBC chart again with lots of ties including a joint #2.
There are 12 minor differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart and The Ultimate Averaged Chart.

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending August 19th 1967. Enjoy !

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending August 19th 1967								NME	MM	DISC	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	100	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC			TOP	30	Scored
1	1	San Francisco - Scott McKenzie					1	1	1	1	1	19050
2	2	All You Need Is Love - The Beatles					2=	3	2	3	2	18115
4	3	I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones					2=	2	3	2	3	18080
3	4	Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies					4	4	4	5	4	17045
6	5	I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder					5	6	5	4	5	16410
7	6	Up Up And Away - The Johnny Mann Singers					6	5	6	6	6	16075
8	7	Just Loving You - Anita Harris					7	7	7	8	7	15140
5	8	It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr					8	8	9	7	10	14285
19	9	The House That Jack Built - The Alan Price Set					9	11	8	10	9	13720
20	10	Even The Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes					10	9	10	12	8	13505
15	11	Creeque Alley - The Mamas And Papas					12	12	11	11	12	12415
9	12	She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles					11	10	15	9	11	12100
22	13	Gin House - Amen Corner					15	14	13	17	16	10575
10	14	See Emily Play - Pink Floyd					13=	18	14	14	13	10080
11	15	Alternate Title - The Monkees					13=	15	17	13	14	9945
12	16	There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck					16	13	16	15	21	9800
14	17	You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra					17	19	12	20	15	9610
18	18	Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas					18	17	18	16	18	8655
17	19	007 - Desmond Dekker					19	16	19	18	19	8320
13	20	Let's Pretend - Lulu					20	24	20	19	17	6540
NEW	21	Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces					22	20	24	22	20	5785
NEW	22	Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees					21	22	23	21	22	5565
16	23	A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum					23=	30	21	23	23	4180
29	24	A Bad Night - Cat Stevens					23=	21	25	27		3900
NEW	25	Time Seller - The Spencer Davis Group					26=	28	22	26	30	3435
NEW	26	Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - Keith West					25	25	28	24	25	3160
NEW	27	The Day I Met Marie - Cliff Richard						27	30	25	27	1990
NEW	28	You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge					28	23			28	1855
21	29	Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight and The Pips					29		27	29	26	1625
25	30	Trying To Forget - Jim Reeves					30	26			24	1595
		Jackson - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood						29
		Respect - Aretha Franklin					26=		26	28		1550
		Annabella - John Walker							29		29	670
		Marta / My World - The Bachelors								30		100

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

There are 14 minor differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart and The Ultimate Averaged Chart.

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending August 12th 1967. Enjoy !

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending August 12th 1967								NME	MM	DISC	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	100	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC			TOP	30	Scored
2	1	San Francisco - Scott McKenzie					1	1	1	1	1	19050
1	2	All You Need Is Love - The Beatles					2	2	2	2	2	18415
4	3	Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies					3	4	3	4	3	17480
7	4	I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones					4	3	5	3	4	17195
3	5	It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr					5	7	4	5	5	16360
9	6	I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder					6	5	7	6	7	15740
10	7	Up Up And Away - The Johnny Mann Singers					7	6	6	7	8	15605
14	8	Just Loving You - Anita Harris					9	8	8	9	11	14250
5	9	She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles					8	9	10	8	6	14075
8	10	See Emily Play - Pink Floyd					11	11	9	11	10	13285
6	11	Alternate Title - The Monkees					10	10	11	10	9	13170
11	12	There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck					12	12	12	12	13	11980
13	13	Let's Pretend - Lulu					13	14	14	13	14	10895
15	14	You Only Live Twice / Jackson - Nancy Sinatra					15	16	13	18	16	10075
21	15	Creeque Alley - The Mamas And Papas					14	13	19	15	12	9815
12	16	A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum					16	17	15	16	17	9490
18	17	007 - Desmond Dekker					17	15	16	17	19	9370
19	18	Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas					18	18	17	14	22	8565
NEW	19	The House That Jack Built - The Alan Price Set					20	20	21	21	20	6635
29	20	Even The Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes					19	19	23	23	15	6560
17	21	Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight and The Pips					21=	22	20	20	21	6500
28	22	Gin House - Amen Corner					21=	21	22	22	18	6255
16	23	Respect - Aretha Franklin					23	26	18	19	23	6130
25	24	Marta / My World - The Bachelors					24	23	24	25	24	4545
27	25	Trying To Forget - Jim Reeves					26	24	28	26		2650
24	26	Annabella - John Walker					25		25	27	25	2410
20	27	Groovin' - The Young Rascals					27		27	24	29	1870
26	28	Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw					28=		26	28	28	1805
NEW	29	A Bad Night - Cat Stevens					28=	27		29	26	1425
22	30	Carrie Anne - The Hollies						30	29			700
		Jackson - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood						25
		Seven Rooms Of Gloom - The Four Tops						29	30			650
		Time Seller - The Spencer Davis Group						28				600
		If I Were A Rich Man - Topol					30			30	27	440
		Tallyman - Jeff Beck									30	85

[MrTibbs]

I followed the same practise for this record as all others that had split sides on NME since I started with 1964.
I look at the averaged chart position for the main side then exclude NME and look at the averaged chart position from the other papers, whichever of the two gives the higher position is the one used. It is the only method to fairly determine which is the best averaged position for the record in total.
But for the record here, Jackson's chart position on NME did not affect the Ultimate Averaged Chart position in either method, it's averaged position remained the same in both methods.
It's NME chart position is listed separately to simply complete the chart positions for NME's Top 30.

[Splodj]

The normal system of omitting NME would not be applicable in this case as no other chart put the disc at a higher position.

[Graham76man]

You are not combining Nancy's - You Only Live Twice and Nancy and Lee's - Jackson on the NME chart? It's just a double A side, not two separate records. In the end it's just a flaw in NME's compilation, with some retailers putting down the Bond Theme and some putting down Jackson. It's unlikely that any shop put them both down in the top 50. Unless the person filling in the chart return was a bit thick?
I thought you had a way of putting them together without giving the record to greater shove up the chart?

It's a shame the record company didn't release both sides as separate singles. As this split clearly stopped the Bond Theme reaching the top ten. Even the Real Chart only had it at 12 though it stayed 23 weeks selling nearly 700K.

Some of the Pirate Radio stations clearly hated the Bond Theme, especially Radio London. Who always listed Jackson in it's made up top 40. But I think it's much better than Jackson! I suspect if the Record Company had known that the "Theme" would get some stick from the Pirates, they would have issued it separate.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

The most sublime, evocative song of the 'flower power' era is poised to capture #1, Scott McKenzie's San Francisco.
There are a massive 17 minor differences this week in chart positions between the BBC Chart and The Ultimate Averaged Chart.

Guys, Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending August 5th 1967. Enjoy !

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending August 5th 1967								NME	MM	DISC	RR	Total
Last	This		The Sound Survey				Stores	200	250	100	85	Points
Week	Week		The Top 30 Singles Chart				BBC			TOP	30	Scored
1	1	All You Need Is Love - The Beatles					1	1	1	2	1	18950
2	2	San Francisco - Scott McKenzie					2	2	2	1	2	18515
3	3	It Must Be Him - Vikki Carr					3	3	3	3	4	17695
9	4	Death Of A Clown - Dave Davies					4	4	4	9	3	16730
5	5	She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles					6	7	5	4	7	16040
4	6	Alternate Title - The Monkees					5	6	7	5	5	15810
20	7	I'll Never Fall In In Love Again - Tom Jones					7	4	8	6	6	15775
6	8	See Emily Play - Pink Floyd					9	9	6	10	9	14620
13	9	I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder					8	10	9	7	8	14055
10	10	Up Up And Away - The Johnny Mann Singers					10	8	10	8	11	13850
8	11	There Goes My Everything - Engelbert Humperdinck					11	11	12	11	12	12365
7	12	A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum					12	14	11	13	10	11985
11	13	Let's Pretend - Lulu					13	12	13	12	13	11730
19	14	Just Loving You - Anita Harris					14	13	14	14	14	10995
16	15	You Only Live Twice / Jackson - Nancy Sinatra					16	15	15	18	20	9435
12	16	Respect - Aretha Franklin					15	16	17	17	15	9260
15	17	Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight and The Pips					19	19	16	20	18	8355
25	18	007 - Desmond Dekker					17	18	19	16	19	8120
23	19	Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas					18	17	20	15	21	8000
14	20	Groovin' - The Young Rascals					20	23	18	21	16	7125
NEW	21	Creeque Alley - The Mamas And Papas					21	20	23	19	17	6590
17	22	Carrie Anne - The Hollies					23	21	26	25	26	4275
18	23	Seven Rooms Of Gloom - The Four Tops					26	26	21	27	28	4155
29	24	Annabella - John Walker					22	27	24	22	24	4045
27	25	Marta / My World - The Bachelors					24	29	22	26	22	3915
24	26	Tonight In Tokyo - Sandie Shaw					25	30	25	24	23	3080
NEW	27	Trying To Forget - Jim Reeves					27	27	27	23		2600
NEW	28	Gin House - Amen Corner					29	25		30	27	1640
NEW	29	Even The Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes					30	23				1600
21	30	If I Were A Rich Man - Topol					28		28	28	25	1560
		Jackson - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood						22
		Here Comes The Nice - The Small Faces							30	29	29	620
		Strange Brew - Cream							29			500
		Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark									30	85

[Graham76man]

Joe Brown reached 34 with his version at this time in 1967. The biggest hit for it would come a year later for Joe Cocker, of course the last big hitter on the 45 market was Wet Wet Wet.
John Barry's theme to You Only Live Twice did sell, but reached only reached 51.