The Ultimate Averaged Chart - The BBC Chart Re-Imagined

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending 24th December 1966 for your interest.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending December 24th 1966								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	Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones					1	1	1	1	1	19050
3	2	Morningtown Ride - The Seekers					2	2	3	2	2	18165
6	3	Sunshine Superman - Donovan					4	4	2	4	4	17645
2	4	What Would I Be - Val Doonican					3	3	4	3	3	17530
8	5	You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes					6	7	5	6	8	15755
9	6	Dead End Street - The Kinks					5	8	7	5	5	15410
7	7	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin					7	6	6	7	12	15265
4	8	My Mind's Eye - The Small Faces					8	5	8	9	10	14935
14	9	Save Me - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich					9	10	9	8	6	14125
11	10	Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats					10	9	12	11	7	13190
5	11	Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys					11	12	11	10	9	12770
16	12	If Every Day Was Like Christmas - Elvis Presley					12	11	10	12	13	12680
25	13	In The Country - Cliff Richard					15	14	13	14	21	10450
10	14	Gimme Some Loving - The Spencer Davis Group					13	15	16	13	11	10450
23	15	Happy Jack - The Who					14	13	15	16	17	10290
12	16	Just One Smile - Gene Pitney					16	16	14	17	16	9925
NEW	17	AnyWay That You Want me - The Troggs					18	17	17	21	25	7810
17	18	Distant Drums - Jim Reeves					17	20	22	19	14	7095
19	19	Walk With Faith In Your Heart - The Bachelors					23	17	19	25	23	7080
22	20	Under New Management - The Barron Knights					20=	19	21	20	20	6935
20	21	There Won't Be Many Coming Home - Roy Orbison					22	23	18	22	18	6855
13	22	Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann					20=	22	20	23	15	6710
15	23	Holy Cow - Lee Dorsey					18	21	23	15	19	6620
18	24	Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops					24	26	25	18	22	4565
29	25	Pamela Pamela - Wayne Fontana					29	25	24			2950
28	26	Call Her Your Sweetheart - Frank Ifield					25	24	28	24		2850
21	27	High Time - Paul Jones					26	27		26	24	1895
NEW	28	(I Know) I'm Losing You - The Temptations					30=		26			1250
NEW	29	Deadlier Than The Male - The Walker Brothers					30=	30	27			1200
NEW	30	Heart - Rita Pavona					30=	28	29			1100
		Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) - Otis Redding					28	29		29	27	940
		Somewhere My Love - The Mike Sammes Singers					27			27	26	825
		I'm Ready For Love - Martha and The Vandellas					30=			28	29	470
		If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin									28	255
		Island In The Sun - The Righteous Brothers							30			250
		Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett								30		100
		Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band									30	85

[MrTibbs]

Before I wind up 1966 tomorrow guys is this still a worthwhile project ? Want me to continue ?

[RokinRobinOfLocksley]

The Easybeats and Spencer Davis both add up to 39 BBC points...

[ACA]

Fortunately the charts I wrote down in the sixties now agree with the BBC charts. I don't know and don't recall why the initial weeks don't. As commented before I didn't catch then that there were many joint positions, but according to my scripts, there seem to no rules of playing order. On December 17th, the Easybeats were played before Spencer Davis and Donovan before Jimmy Ruffin.

Sixties music will always stand for me as outstanding, because it formed my life in music, and I will also look forward to your future lists. It helps keeping things alive.

Anders

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending 17th December 1966 for your interest.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending December 17th 1966								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	Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones					1	1	1	1	1	19050
2	2	What Would I Be - Val Doonican					2	2	2	2	2	18415
7	3	Morningtown Ride - The Seekers					3	3	3	3	3	17780
4	4	My Mind's Eye - The Small Faces					4	5	5	6	4	16495
3	5	Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys					5	4	6	9	5	16060
22	6	Sunshine Superman - Donovan					6=	7	4	5	13	15680
12	7	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin					6=	6	9	4	10	14985
13	8	You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes					9	7	8	8	9	14720
8	9	Dead End Street - The Kinks					8	10	7	7	7	14640
5	10	Gimme Some Loving - The Spencer Davis Group					10=	9	12	10	8	13205
11	11	Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats					10=	11	11	11	6	13125
6	12	Just One Smile - Gene Pitney					12	12	10	17	11	12150
9	13	Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann					13	15	13	13	12	11115
28	14	Save Me - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich					15	14	14	16	17	10340
10	15	Holy Cow - Lee Dorsey					14	16	15	12	15	10260
17	16	If Every Day Was Like Christmas - Elvis Presley					16	13	18	15	16	9725
15	17	Distant Drums - Jim Reeves					17	17	16	18	14	9295
14	18	Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops					18	24	17	14	18	7705
21	19	Walk With Faith In Your Heart - The Bachelors					19	18	20	22	22	7015
18	20	There Won't Be Many Coming Home - Roy Orbison					21	22	19	25	19	6420
16	21	High Time - Paul Jones					20	23	22	19	20	5985
NEW	22	Under New Management - The Barron Knights					22	19	25	24	21	5450
NEW	23	Happy Jack - The Who					23	25	21	23	30	4585
25	24	Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) - Otis Redding					26	26	26	21	27	3590
NEW	25	In The Country - Cliff Richard					27	20		20		3300
24	26	White Cliffs Of Dover - The Righteous Brothers					25		23	27	24	2995
20	27	If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin					24		24		23	2430
NEW	28	Call Her Your Sweetheart - Frank Ifield					28	21		29		2200
NEW	29	Pamela Pamela - Wayne Fontana					30	28	27	26		2100
26	30	Somewhere My Love - The Mike Sammes Singers					29		29	28	25	1310
		Anyway That You Want Me - The Troggs						27		30		900
		I'm Ready For Love - Martha and The Vandellas							28			750
		Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies							30		26	675
		Think Sometimes About Me - Sandie Shaw						29				400
		A Love Like Yours - Ike and Tina Turner									28	255
		Deadlier Than The Male - The Walker Brothers						30				200
		Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band									29	170

[MrTibbs]

Yip, that confirms the copy i have is titled wrongly. I will amend guys thanks.

[Splodj]

It is listed as The Rockin' Vickers in the original Disc and Music Echo chart which you can see at 1960smusicmagazines.com.

[MrTibbs]

Guys I've checked this out again with my copy of the Disc Top 50 and they definitely list it as by Herman's Hermits ?? Import sales ?

[Splodj]

Yup, Herman's Hermits version of 'Dandy' went to number 5 in Billboard but was not released in the UK.

[BrainDamageII]

Dandy - Herman's Hermits

I know doesn't make any difference to top 30 but this was 'The Rockin' Vickers'

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers ! Just in from work. But wait no more !

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending 10th December 1966 for your interest.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending December 10th 1966								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	Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones					1	1	1	1	1	19050
5	2	What Would I Be - Val Doonican					2	2	2	2	3	18330
2	3	Good Vibarations - The Beach Boys					3	3	3	3	2	17865
6	4	My Mind's Eye - The Small Faces					4	4	4	4	4	17145
3	5	Gimme Some Loving - The Spencer Davis Group					5	6	6	5	5	16060
8	6	Just One Smile - Gene Pitney					6	7	5	6	8	15755
14	7	Morningtown Ride - The Seekers					7	5	7	9	6	15525
15	8	Dead End Street - The Kinks					8	8	8	10	11	14150
4	9	Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann					9	12	11	7	7	13240
7	10	Holy Cow - Lee Dorsey					11=	11	9	12	10	13185
11	11	Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats					11=	10	10	13	9	13120
13	12	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin					10	9	12	8	12	13065
22	13	You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes					13	12	14	11	15	11410
9	14	Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops					14	14	13	14	13	11130
12	15	Distant Drums - Jim Reeves					15	15	15	16	14	10145
10	16	High Time - Paul Jones					16	19	16	15	16	9025
NEW	17	If Every Day Was Like Christmas - Elvis Presley					17	20	18	20	20	7485
29	18	There Won't Be Many Coming Home - Roy Orbison					20	16	21	21	26	6925
17	19	Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies					18=	26	17	19	19	6720
16	20	If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin					18=	28	19	17	17	6190
NEW	21	Walk With Faith In Your Heart - The Bachelors					23=	18	24	24	30	5135
NEW	22	Sunshine Superman - Donovan					23=	17	26	22		4950
19	23	A Love Like Yours - Ike and Tina Turner					21	24	25	23	18	4805
23	24	White Cliffs Of Dover - The Righteous Brothers					25	27	20		21	4400
28	25	Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) - Otis Redding					22	21	30	18	23	4230
27	26	Somewhere My Love - The Mike Sammes Singers					26		22		22	3015
18	27	Help Me Girl - Eric Burdon and The Animals					30		23	27	24	2995
NEW	28	Save Me - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich					29	22		28		2100
21	29	I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs					27		28	25	25	1860
20	30	A Fool Am I - Cilla Black					28		27	26	27	1840
		Think Sometimes About Me - Sandie Shaw						25	29			1700
		I'm Ready For Love - Martha and The Vandellas						23				1600
		It's Love - Ken Dodd						29				400
		Guantanamera - The Sandpipers									28	255
		East West - Herman's Hermits						30				200
		Dandy - The Rockin' Vickers								29		200
		Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band									29	170
		Heart - Rita Pavone								30		100

[MrTibbs]

Apologies Bob. It should be October 29th. I made the change earlier but for some reason it didn't save. I have corrected this now. Thanks for getting back to me on this.

[BobPatience]

Guys, as it has been proved (thanks to Splodj's discovery of the Pick Of The Pops radio show from the time) that the BBC manuscript for 26th October was an error in placing both The Troggs and Jim Reeves at joint #2 I have gone back to that BBC chart of 26th October on here and amended the BBC chart accordingly, placing The Troggs at #2 and Jim Reeves at #3, to ensure that an accurate record of all charts is maintained here.

I am a bit confused. I see neither a chart dated October 26th (though I presume that is the BBC date for the w/e 29th chart) nor a broken tie of the Reeves and Troggs records.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending 3rd December 1966 for your interest.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending December 3rd 1966								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
3	1	Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones					1	1	1	1	1	19050
1	2	Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys					2	2	2	2	2	18415
2	3	Gimme Some Loving - The Spencer Davis Group					3	3	3	3	3	17780
4	4	Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann					4=	5	5	4	5	16610
7	5	What Would I Be - Val Doonican					4=	4	6	5	4	16545
10	6	My Mind's Eye - The Small Faces					7	6	4	9	8	15905
6	7	Holy Cow - Lee Dorsey					6	7	7	6	6	15425
13	8	Just One Smile - Gene Pitney					8	8	8	7	9	14620
5	9	Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops					9	9	9	8	7	14240
8	10	High Time - Paul Jones					10	12	10	12	10	12735
17	11	Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats					11	15	11	11	11	11900
12	12	Distant Drums - Jim Reeves					13	13	13	13	12	11515
18	13	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin					12	10	17	10	14	11245
27	14	Morningtown Ride - The Seekers					15	11	12	21	18	10855
28	15	Dead End Street - The Kinks					14	14	14	16	16	10425
11	16	If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin					16	18	15	14	15	9660
9	17	Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies					17	17	16	19	13	9280
16	18	Help Me Girl - Eric Burdon and The Animals					19	21	18	17	20	7585
20	19	A Love Like Yours - Ike and Tina Turner					18	19	22	15	17	7440
14	20	A Fool Am I - Cilla Black					20	22	19	20	21	6750
15	21	I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs					21	20	20	24	19	6670
NEW	22	You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes					22	16	23	18	29	6470
25	23	White Cliffs Of Dover - The Righteous Brothers					23	29	21	22	25	4310
21	24	Guantanamera - The Sandpipers					24	26	25	23	24	3895
19	25	No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits					25	23	27	26	23	3780
22	26	Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band					26	27	24	27	26	3375
24	27	Somewhere My Love - The Mike Sammes Singers					27		26	25	22	2615
NEW	28	Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) - Otis Redding					28	24	29	28	28	2455
NEW	29	There Won't Be Many Coming Home - Roy Orbison					29	25		30		1300
23	30	Time Drags By - Cliff Richard					30		28		27	1090
		Think Sometimes About Me - Sandie Shaw						28	30	29		1050
		Under New Management - The Barron Knights						30				200
		Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations									30	85

[MrTibbs]

Guys, as it has been proved (thanks to Splodj's discovery of the Pick Of The Pops radio show from the time) that the BBC manuscript for 26th October was an error in placing both The Troggs and Jim Reeves at joint #2 I have gone back to that BBC chart of 26th October on here and amended the BBC chart accordingly, placing The Troggs at #2 and Jim Reeves at #3, to ensure that an accurate record of all charts is maintained here.

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers !

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending 26th November 1966 for your interest.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending November 26th 1966								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	Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys					1	1	1	1	1	19050
3	2	Gimme Some Loving - The Spencer Davis Group					2	3	2	2	2	18215
7	3	Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones					3	2	3	4	3	17880
2	4	Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann					4	4	4	3	5	17160
4	5	Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops					5	5	5	5	4	16595
8	6	Holy Cow - Lee Dorsey					6	7	6	6	7	15590
12	7	What Would I Be - Val Doonican					7	6	7	7	9	15270
6	8	High Time - Paul Jones					8	8	8	8	6	14775
5	9	Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies					9	10	9	10	8	13755
22	10	My Mind's Eye - The Small Faces					11	9	10	13	15	12810
13	11	If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin					10	13	11	11	10	12385
10	12	Distant Drums - Jim Reeves					12	11	12	12	12	12265
19	13	Just One Smile - Gene Pitney					13	12	14	9	13	11780
9	14	A Fool Am I - Cilla Black					15	15	13	14	20	10335
11	15	I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs					14	16	16	18	11	9750
18	16	Help Me Girl - Eric Burdon and The Animals					16	21	15	15	14	9045
25	17	Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats					17	17	17	20	17	8590
26	18	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin					18	14	23	16	21	7750
14	19	No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits					20	22	18	19	18	7355
20	20	A Love Like Yours - Ike and Tina Turner					19	20	22	17	16	7125
17	21	Guantanamera - The Sandpipers					21	18	21	21	19	7120
15	22	Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band					22	19	20	25	22	6515
16	23	Time Drags By - Cliff Richard					23	24	19	23	23	5880
28	24	Somewhere My Love - The Mike Sammes Singers					24	23	25	24	25	4310
29	25	White Cliffs Of Dover - The Righteous Brothers					25	26	24	22	28	3905
21	26	I've Got You Under My Skin - The Four Seasons					26	28	27	27	26	2425
NEW	27	Morningtown Ride - The Seekers					28	25	28	29		2150
NEW	28	Dead End Street - The Kinks					29	26	29			1500
27	29	All That I Am - Elvis Presley							26		30	1335
24	30	Bend It - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich					27			26	24	1095
		Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations					30			28	27	640
		It's Love - Ken Dodd						29				400
		Ride On Baby - Chris Farlowe							30			250
		Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) - Otis Redding						30				200
		All I See Is You - Dusty Springfield									29	170
		Marble Breaks Iron Bends - Peter Fenton								30		100

[MrTibbs]

Greetings Pop Pickers ! Just in from work hence why running late posting.

Here is the next Ultimate Averaged Chart for Week Ending 19th November 1966 for your interest.

The Ultimate Averaged Chart - Week Ending November 19th 1966								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	Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys					1	1	1	1	1	19050
4	2	Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann					2	3	2	3	2	18115
5	3	Gimme Some Loving - The Spencer Davis Group					3	2	3	2	4	17995
1	4	Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops					4	4	4	4	3	17230
3	5	Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies					6	5	5	6	7	16240
6	6	High Time - Paul Jones					5	6	6	5	5	16060
25	7	Green Green Grass Of Home - Tom Jones					8	7	8	13	10	14135
15	8	Holy Cow - Lee Dorsey					7	10	11	8	6	13625
13	9	A Fool Am I - Cilla Black					11	12	7	10	13	13430
8	10	Distant Drums - Jim Reeves					10	8	12	9	11	13250
7	11	I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs					9	11	13	7	8	12855
23	12	What Would I Be - Val Doonican					13	9	9	15	16	12775
10	13	If I Were A Carpenter - Bobby Darin					12	13	10	11	9	12720
9	14	No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits					14	15	15	14	12	10515
12	15	Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band					15	14	16	12	14	10495
11	16	Time Drags By - Cliff Richard					16	16	14	19	18	9555
14	17	Guantanamera - The Sandpipers					17	18	17	20	15	8560
18	18	Help Me Girl - Eric Burdon and The Animals					18	19	18	17	17	8240
NEW	19	Just One Smile - Gene Pitney					19	17	19	16	28	7555
21	20	A Love Like Yours - Ike and Tina Turner					20	21	23	18	21	6150
17	21	I've Got You Under My Skin - The Four Seasons					21	27	21	21	22	5065
NEW	22	My Mind's Eye - The Small Faces					23	20	25	22	29	4770
19	23	Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations					24	23	24	23	25	4660
16	24	Bend It - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich					22		20	24	19	4470
NEW	25	Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats					25	29	22	26	20	4085
NEW	26	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin					26	22		25	24	2995
20	27	All That I Am - Elvis Presley					28	26	26	30	27	2690
29	28	Somewhere My Love - The Mike Sammes Singers					27	28	27	28	26	2325
NEW	29	White Cliffs Of Dover - The Righteous Brothers					29	24	29	27		2300
30	30	Ride On Baby - Chris Farlowe						25	30	29		1650
		All I See Is You - Dusty Springfield					30		28		23	1430
		Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) - Otis Redding						30				200
		Ready Steady Who (EP[) - The Who						30				200
		Lady Godiva - Peter and Gordon									30	85

[Splodj]

Just a little info looking forward. On August 27th 1967 I have expanded my notes to a Top 30 and the program was extended by half an hour. (4 to 5,30pm) By 1st October 1967 my notes say that it's now a 2-hour program. (4 to 6pm).

The 90 minute POTP on 27-Aug-67 was a strange inbetweeny show. It was the first to feature a Top 30, and the last to play the complete Top 10. (A complete Top 20 was played when the show went to 2 hours.)

[Splodj]

Which indicates that he was speaking from memory, and not reading from a script as some claim.

I remember listening to the 6-Nov-66 POTP, because in the competition at the end he invited listeners to write in saying what they thought would be at number one next week. The mid-week NME chart in the Sunday newspapers that day had the Beach Boys at number one, but then when the end of week NME chart came out the Four Tops had reverted back to the top!

This was the end of the run I mentioned before where the NME matched RR for number ones. Not only did they lag MM in making the Beach Boys number one, but they had lagged MM and Disc making the Small Faces and Four Tops number one.

[RokinRobinOfLocksley]

Excellent detective work, Splodj !! I went back and checked all 5 of my different BBC files, and they all showed both "Distant Drums" and "I Can't Control Myself" at #2, however none of them had the " = " sign beside them, indicating a tie. So it would appear that all the Dave/Trevor BBC files have typos here, and "Distant Drums" was indeed #3 this week 29 Oct 1966 per the POTP audio file.

Occasionally the Dave/Trevor BBC files make note of what records were actually played for a given week when there were discrepancies and/or later corrections. Maybe they hadn't heard this particular audio tape per their last BBC revision.

Also, although Fluff says NME, Melody Maker, and RR were used this week (between records #10 and #9), implying Disc was omitted, the BBC numbers don't work out that way. Disc must have been included as well, otherwise several other chart positions would have been thrown off and they are not.

Groovy fab gear keen !!

[MrTibbs]

Factoring in the Store Returns is making a world of difference to the original BBC charts. It keeps their principle of averaging intact yet breaks ties, smoothes out anomalies, and corrects errors made in the original calculations giving us a much more robust chart.

[MrTibbs]

Interesting Splodj. The BBC chart file does mention that Alan Freeman didn't always refer to ties on occasion when presenting the shows, then again it could be an error on the print copy. That is the most likely reason given the obvious point difference between the records which meant they couldn't have tied.

[ACA]

Yeah Splodj, I heard that, thanks for the finding, and what's also interesting is that the 12th November BBC chart is identical to my notes from the 13th, thus maybe here's the turning point! Only comment is that Spencer Davis lost out again, this time to Paul Jones, and I haven't been aware that there was another joint position!
So maybe the highest position from the week before kept the lead when decided which track to play first.

[Splodj]

... and if you listen carefully to Alan Freeman's link between numbers 10 (Who) and 9 (Stones) you can hear him mention the constituent charts that make up the BBC one.

[Splodj]

Brian,

On Mixcloud there is a poor quality recording of POTP from 30-Oct-66. It seems that the BBC Top 3 agrees with yours - in other words, they do not have a tie for number 2.

https://www.mixcloud.com/peteseaton/...reeman-301066/