1969-04-05 — WKDA 1240 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

WKDA GOOD GUY SURVEY
NOW IN IT’S 13th CONSECUTIVE YEAR!

MIDDLE TENNESSEE RADIO & TELEVISION COUNCIL
    STATION OF THE YEAR
          1967-1968

WEEK OF APRIL 5, 1969

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
1	2	Tommy Roe	Dizzy		Chart movement: Starting 3/15, #1 and #2 swap places for 4 weeks
2	1	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Proud Mary	10	(see note #1)
3	18	Steppenwolf	Rock Me	6	(Chart movement: see note #10 4/19)
4	7	Glen Campbell	Galveston	6
5	3	The Zombies	Time Of The Season	10	2 years after it was recorded, a year after the band split. But it served as PR for Rod Argent’s (cont in Goodies)
6	9	Jerry Butler	Only The Strong Survive	4
7	12	Blood, Sweat & Tears	You've Made Me So Very Happy	6
8	14	The 5th Dimension	Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)	4
9	26	Ray Stevens	Gitarzan	3
10	11	The Temptations	Run Away Child, Running Wild	6
11	3	The Bubble Puppy	Hot Smoke & Sasafrass	10	Other than this song, spelled “sassafras”
13	13	Gary Puckett And The Union Gap	Don't Give In To Him	5	Survey: Union Gap
14	21	Paul Revere And The Raiders	Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon	7	… featuring Mark Lindsay (which was a little unwieldy). No wonder the last album was credited simply to (cont in Goodies)
15	25	The Cowsills	Hair	3
17	34	The Isley Brothers	It's Your Thing	3
19	6	The Neon Philharmonic	Morning Girl	8	Local guys Don Gant & Tupper Saussy with some studio musicians
21	32	Bobby Vinton	To Know You Is To Love You	2
22	23	Crazy Elephant	Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'	3	Another Kasenetz-Katz fake band. But this one comes with a funny back-story: (cont in Goodies)
27	29	Tommy James And The Shondells	Sweet Cherry Wine	3
28	33	The Beach Boys	I Can Hear Music	5
29	36	Billy Shields	I Was A Boy (When You Needed A Man)	2	Shields (the name misheard from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), was actually (cont in Goodies)
30	38	The Who	Pinball Wizard	2
31	40	The Ohio Express	Mercy	2	Another Kasenetz-Katz fake band. But this one comes with- no, that’s not right. (cont in Goodies)
32	--	Edwin Starr	Twenty-Five Miles	1	Born Charles Hatcher, Nashville native. Obviously no kin to R. Starkey
33	--	Mercy	Love (Can Make You Happy)	1	Survey: “Love”; plus, song title (#31) and artist same name
35	PH	John Tipton	Spring	1
36	--	The American Breed	Hunky Funky	1	On their way to becoming Rufus
39	--	The Arbors	The Letter	1

The official WKDA Good Guys Top 40 Survey is based on
telephone requests, record sales and WKDA’s evaluation
of other pertinent information.

Survey note: missing; recreated from 4/12. Songs at the missing position chart numbers are unknown.
PH: (unknown)

D.J. note: The next time d.j.’s are listed, a pretty big
shake-up. (3/1): Captain Midnight, Johnny K, Dave Allen,
Don Sullivan, D.J. Dan, Bruce Clark, Jonny Wailin
D.J. notes: “D.J. Dan” Hoffman
(5/24): Chuck Steele, Dave Allen, (mustachioed) Bruce Clark,
“the bearded” Bob Cole*, Al Adams, Don Sullivan,
Willie Eager (weekends?)
*unaccounted for on the am airwaves since 8/3/68,
whilst wreaking havoc on the fm sideChart notes: 

Chart notes: These songs move up after dropping the week before:
“Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon” (15-21-14); “It’s Your Thing (25-34-17); 
“I Can Hear Music” (23-33-28); “Pinball Wizard” (34-38-30)

Song notes cont
5. new band, Argent’s first album
14. The Raiders. (More-to-that-story another time/another place.)
29. Tony Orlando, then an executive at Columbia Records
31. This one features the vocals of Joey Levine, integral part of Super K Productions:
 singer, songwriter, producer.