1969-05-21 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )
WMAK SUPER HIT SURVEY
Week Beginning (*MAY 21, 1969)
| TW | LW | | ARTIST | TITLE | WKS | NOTES |
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| 1 | 1 | | The Beatles With Billy Preston | Get Back | 5 | “A” side of #17 | | 2 | 22 | | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Bad Moon Rising | 3 | | | 3 | 2 | | Ray Stevens | Gitarzan | 9 | | | 4 | 10 | | Bill Deal & The Rhondels | I've Been Hurt | 4 | Survey: Rhondells | | 5 | 5 | | John Tipton | Spring | 6 | | | 6 | 3 | | The Cowsills | Hair | 9 | | | 7 | 11 | | Mercy | Love (Can Make You Happy) | 5 | | | 8 | 6 | | Donovan | Atlantis | 5 | This was actually the “B” side of a song titled “To Susan on the West Coast Waiting”, and anti-war song. (cont in Goodies) | | 9 | 12 | | Elvis Presley | In The Ghetto | 4 | | | 10 | 40 | | Henry Mancini And His Orchestra | Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet | 2 | | | 11 | 4 | | Crazy Elephant | Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' | 8 | | | 12 | 7 | | The 5th Dimension | Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) | 11 | | | 13 | 9 | | The Ventures | Hawaii Five-O | 6 | | | 14 | 8 | | The Isley Brothers | It's Your Thing | 10 | | | 15 | 17 | | The Edwin Hawkins' Singers Featuring Dorothy Combs Morrison | Oh Happy Day | 4 | | | 16 | 18 | | Andy Williams | Happy Heart | 5 | | | 17 | 21 | | The Beatles With Billy Preston | Don't Let Me Down | 5 | “B” side of #1 | | 18 | 24 | | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Time Is Tight | 3 | | | 19 | 15 | | Simon & Garfunkel | The Boxer | 6 | Chart movement: Spent 4-5 weeks on Top 40, never higher than #15 (cont in Goodies) | | 20 | 23 | | Glen Campbell | Where's The Playground Susie | 5 | Survey: “… Suzie” | | 21 | 25 | | The Flirtations | Nothing But A Heartache | 3 | | | 22 | 29 | | Marvin Gaye | Too Busy Thinking About My Baby | 3 | | | 23 | 30 | | Tommy Roe | Heather Honey | 3 | | | 24 | 16 | | Joe Simon | The Chokin' Kind | 8 | | | 25 | 26 | | Rhinoceros | Apricot Brandy | 3 | | | 26 | 32 | | The Guess Who | These Eyes | 3 | | | 27 | 33 | | The Merging Traffic | Bit By Bit | 3 | | | 28 | 34 | | The Temptations | Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down | 2 | | | 29 | 35 | | The Monkees | Listen To The Band | 2 | Mike Nesmith & (the group that was to become) Area Code 615 | | 30 | 36 | | Andy Kim | Baby, I Love You | 2 | | | 31 | 37 | | Perry Como | Seattle | 2 | | | 32 | 38 | | Bobby Vinton | The Days Of Sand And Shovels | 2 | | | 33 | 39 | | Ola & The Janglers | Let's Dance | 2 | | | 34 | -- | | 1910 Fruitgum Co. | Special Delivery | 1 | LW: EX | | 35 | PH | | Joe Odom | It's In Your Power | 1 | Survey: Odum (if correct, he could have been kin to me) | | 36 | -- | | The Newbeats | Thou Shalt Not Steal | 1 | LW: EX | | 37 | -- | | The Friends Of Distinction | Grazing In The Grass | 1 | (LW: blank) | | 38 | -- | | Paul Revere And The Raiders | Let Me | 1 | (LW: blank); Well, technically: …featuring Mark Lindsay. So unwieldy they became “The Raiders” by the time (cont in Goodies) | | 39 | -- | | Bobby Goldsboro | I'm A Drifter | 1 | LW: EX | | 40 | -- | | Dionne Warwick | The April Fools | 1 | LW: EX | | PH | | | Bobbie Gentry | Touch 'Em With Love | | |
Featured DJ: Allen Dennis 3—7 P.M.
Home of the all-americans
WHEN THE COMPLETE CAPITOL GOLD RECORDS
LIBRARY . . . . . THE TRACES TREASURE HUNT
STARTS MONDAY, MAY 26, ON WMAK.
Queries unanswered to our satisfaction: (1) The ENTIRE Capitol catalog?
(2) Win would you when it?
*Survey note: undated
Song notes cont
8.Neither you, nor I nor anyone ever heard of it, unless they bought the 45.
Similar to “Ode to Billie Joe” “B” side of “Mississippi Delta”. Ditto.
19. Compare that to Chicago: on WLS, it was #1, #2 WCFL.
38. “Indian Reservation” is released. (There’s actually more to the story,
but it’ll have to wait.)
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