POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 31, 1968
1

People Got To Be Free

The Rascals

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Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 1

2

Born To Be Wild

Steppenwolf

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Peak: 2 • 13 wks • Prev: 2

3

Light My Fire

Jose Feliciano

↑ 1

Peak: 3 • 12 wks • Prev: 4

4

Hello, I Love You

The Doors

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 12 wks • Prev: 3

5

Sunshine Of Your Love

Cream

↑ 1

Peak: 5 • 26 wks • Prev: 6

6

You Keep Me Hangin' On

The Vanilla Fudge

↑ 5

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 11

7

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Jeannie C. Riley

↑ 74

Peak: 1 • 13 wks • Prev: 81

8

You're All I Need To Get By

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

↑ 7

Peak: 7 • 12 wks • Prev: 15

9

I Can't Stop Dancing

Archie Bell & The Drells

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Peak: 9 • 10 wks • Prev: 9

10

Stay In My Corner

The Dells

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Peak: 10 • 13 wks • Prev: 10

11

Turn Around, Look At Me

The Vogues

↓ 4

Peak: 7 • 15 wks • Prev: 7

12

1, 2, 3, Red Light

1910 Fruitgum Co.

↑ 10

Peak: 5 • 13 wks • Prev: 22

13

Classical Gas

Mason Williams

↓ 8

Peak: 2 • 14 wks • Prev: 5

14

Hush

Deep Purple

↑ 24

Peak: 4 • 10 wks • Prev: 38

15

Love Makes A Woman

Barbara Acklin

↑ 2

Peak: 15 • 12 wks • Prev: 17

16

Journey To The Center Of The Mind

The Amboy Dukes

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Peak: 16 • 12 wks • Prev: 16

17

Soul-Limbo

Booker T. & The MG's

↑ 1

Peak: 17 • 10 wks • Prev: 18

18

The Fool On The Hill

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

↑ 14

Peak: 6 • 12 wks • Prev: 32

19

Sealed With A Kiss

Gary Lewis And The Playboys

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Peak: 19 • 14 wks • Prev: 19

20

The House That Jack Built

Aretha Franklin

↑ 1

Peak: 6 • 9 wks • Prev: 21

21

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Mama Cass With The Mamas & The Papas

↓ 9

Peak: 12 • 11 wks • Prev: 12

22

Stoned Soul Picnic

The 5th Dimension

↓ 14

Peak: 3 • 16 wks • Prev: 8

23

Hurdy Gurdy Man

Donovan

↓ 9

Peak: 5 • 12 wks • Prev: 14

24

Do It Again

The Beach Boys

↑ 7

Peak: 20 • 10 wks • Prev: 31

25

I Say A Little Prayer

Aretha Franklin

↑ 14

Peak: 10 • 11 wks • Prev: 39

26

Please Return Your Love To Me

The Temptations

↑ 2

Peak: 26 • 7 wks • Prev: 28

27

Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend)

Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart

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Peak: 27 • 10 wks • Prev: 27

28

Pictures Of Matchstick Men

The Status Quo

↓ 3

Peak: 12 • 17 wks • Prev: 25

29

Slip Away

Clarence Carter

↓ 5

Peak: 6 • 16 wks • Prev: 24

30

Halfway To Paradise

Bobby Vinton

↓ 7

Peak: 23 • 7 wks • Prev: 23

31

Lady Willpower

Gary Puckett And The Union Gap

↓ 18

Peak: 2 • 13 wks • Prev: 13

32

Magic Bus

The Who

↑ 25

Peak: 25 • 9 wks • Prev: 57

33

Mr. Businessman

Ray Stevens

↑ 17

Peak: 28 • 7 wks • Prev: 50

34

The Eyes Of A New York Woman

B.J. Thomas

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Peak: 28 • 14 wks • Prev: 34

35

I Get The Sweetest Feeling

Jackie Wilson

↑ 7

Peak: 34 • 8 wks • Prev: 42

36

Down At Lulu's

Ohio Express

↑ 7

Peak: 33 • 9 wks • Prev: 43

37

Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)

The Moody Blues

↑ 3

Peak: 24 • 11 wks • Prev: 40

38

(Love Is Like A) Baseball Game

The Intruders

↓ 12

Peak: 26 • 9 wks • Prev: 26

39

Special Occasion

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

↑ 20

Peak: 26 • 9 wks • Prev: 59

40

You Met Your Match

Stevie Wonder

↓ 5

Peak: 35 • 7 wks • Prev: 35

41

I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)

Eddie Floyd

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Peak: 40 • 9 wks • Prev: 41

42

I've Gotta Get A Message To You

Bee Gees

↑ 26

Peak: 8 • 13 wks • Prev: 68

43

Give A Damn

Spanky And Our Gang

↑ 10

Peak: 43 • 8 wks • Prev: 53

44

I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playin'

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

↑ 25

Peak: 42 • 8 wks • Prev: 69

45

And Suddenly

The Cherry People

↑ 3

Peak: 45 • 8 wks • Prev: 48

46

On The Road Again

Canned Heat

↑ 26

Peak: 16 • 11 wks • Prev: 72

47

Don't Give Up

Petula Clark

↓ 10

Peak: 37 • 7 wks • Prev: 37

48

Sky Pilot (Part One)

Eric Burdon & The Animals

↓ 19

Peak: 14 • 14 wks • Prev: 29

49

Brown Eyed Woman

Bill Medley

↑ 11

Peak: 43 • 11 wks • Prev: 60

50

Hip City - Pt. 2

Jr. Walker & The All Stars

↑ 20

Peak: 31 • 11 wks • Prev: 70

51

Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do

Betty Wright

↑ 1

Peak: 33 • 8 wks • Prev: 52

52

Keep The One You Got

Joe Tex

↑ 6

Peak: 52 • 5 wks • Prev: 58

53

Who Is Gonna Love Me?

Dionne Warwick

↑ 43

Peak: 33 • 9 wks • Prev: 96

54

Understanding

Ray Charles

↓ 8

Peak: 46 • 12 wks • Prev: 46

55

Can't You Find Another Way (Of Doing It)

Sam & Dave

↓ 1

Peak: 54 • 6 wks • Prev: 54

56

I Guess I'll Have To Cry, Cry, Cry

James Brown And The Famous Flames

↓ 1

Peak: 55 • 6 wks • Prev: 55

57

Six Man Band

The Association

↑ 32

Peak: 47 • 6 wks • Prev: 89

58

I Wish It Would Rain

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 26

Peak: 41 • 10 wks • Prev: 84

59

Morning Dew

Lulu

↑ 7

Peak: 52 • 8 wks • Prev: 66

60

Girl Watcher

The O'Kaysions

↑ 11

Peak: 5 • 14 wks • Prev: 71

61

I Loved And I Lost

The Impressions

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Peak: 61 • 8 wks • Prev: 61

62

Listen Here

Eddie Harris

↑ 5

Peak: 45 • 13 wks • Prev: 67

63

To Wait For Love

Herb Alpert

★ NEW

Peak: 51 • 6 wks

64

Sudden Stop

Percy Sledge

↓ 1

Peak: 63 • 5 wks • Prev: 63

65

The Snake

Al Wilson

↑ 15

Peak: 27 • 10 wks • Prev: 80

66

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

↑ 26

Peak: 30 • 17 wks • Prev: 92

67

Help Yourself

Tom Jones

★ NEW

Peak: 35 • 8 wks

68

The Weight

Jackie DeShannon

↑ 32

Peak: 55 • 8 wks • Prev: 100

69

Little Green Apples

O.C. Smith

↑ 9

Peak: 2 • 17 wks • Prev: 78

70

Workin' On A Groovy Thing

Patti Drew

↑ 7

Peak: 62 • 11 wks • Prev: 77

71

Time Has Come Today

The Chambers Brothers

↑ 20

Peak: 11 • 14 wks • Prev: 91

72

(The Lament Of The Cherokee) Indian Reservation

Don Fardon

★ NEW

Peak: 20 • 9 wks

73

God Bless Our Love

The Ballads

↓ 8

Peak: 65 • 7 wks • Prev: 65

74

Midnight Confessions

The Grass Roots

★ NEW

Peak: 5 • 15 wks

75

Barefoot In Baltimore

Strawberry Alarm Clock

★ NEW

Peak: 67 • 4 wks

76

Down On Me

Big Brother And The Holding Company

★ NEW

Peak: 43 • 8 wks

77

Unchained Melody

The Sweet Inspirations

★ NEW

Peak: 73 • 5 wks

78

My Way Of Life

Frank Sinatra

★ NEW

Peak: 64 • 6 wks

79

Down Here On The Ground

Lou Rawls

★ NEW

Peak: 69 • 5 wks

80

Piece Of My Heart

Big Brother And The Holding Company

★ NEW

Peak: 12 • 12 wks

81

Private Number

Judy Clay & William Bell

★ NEW

Peak: 75 • 6 wks

82

Fly Me To The Moon

Bobby Womack

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Peak: 52 • 13 wks • Prev: 82

83

Hey, Western Union Man

Jerry Butler

★ NEW

Peak: 16 • 13 wks

84

The Weight

The Band

★ NEW

Peak: 63 • 7 wks

85

(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me

Dionne Warwick

★ NEW

Peak: 65 • 5 wks

86

Break Your Promise

The Delfonics

★ NEW

Peak: 35 • 10 wks

87

Do What You Gotta Do

Bobby Vee

★ NEW

Peak: 83 • 4 wks

88

Don't Change Your Love

Five Stairsteps & Cubie

↑ 2

Peak: 59 • 9 wks • Prev: 90

89

That Kind Of Woman

Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts

★ NEW

Peak: 76 • 6 wks

90

The Mule

The James Boys

★ NEW

Peak: 82 • 4 wks

91

Light My Fire

The Doors

★ NEW

Peak: 1 • 23 wks

92

Tell Someone You Love Them

Dino, Desi & Billy

↑ 3

Peak: 92 • 4 wks • Prev: 95

93

The Funky Judge

Bull & The Matadors

↑ 5

Peak: 39 • 14 wks • Prev: 98

94

The Woman I Love

B.B. King

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Peak: 94 • 3 wks • Prev: 94

95

Bring Back Those Rockabye Baby Days

Tiny Tim

↑ 2

Peak: 95 • 2 wks • Prev: 97

96

Help Yourself (To All Of My Lovin')

James & Bobby Purify

★ NEW

Peak: 94 • 3 wks

97

If Love Is In Your Heart

Friend And Lover

★ NEW

Peak: 86 • 2 wks

98

Since You've Been Gone

Ramsey Lewis

★ NEW

Peak: 98 • 2 wks

99

She's About A Mover

Otis Clay

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Peak: 97 • 3 wks • Prev: 99

100

Naturally Stoned

The Avant-Garde

★ NEW

Peak: 40 • 10 wks

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