POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 5, 1968
1

Hey Jude

The Beatles

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Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 1

2

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Jeannie C. Riley

—

Peak: 1 • 13 wks • Prev: 2

3

Fire

The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

↑ 2

Peak: 2 • 13 wks • Prev: 5

4

Little Green Apples

O.C. Smith

↑ 16

Peak: 2 • 17 wks • Prev: 20

5

Girl Watcher

The O'Kaysions

↑ 4

Peak: 5 • 14 wks • Prev: 9

6

Slip Away

Clarence Carter

↑ 4

Peak: 6 • 16 wks • Prev: 10

7

People Got To Be Free

The Rascals

↓ 4

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 3

8

I've Gotta Get A Message To You

Bee Gees

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Peak: 8 • 13 wks • Prev: 8

9

1, 2, 3, Red Light

1910 Fruitgum Co.

↓ 2

Peak: 5 • 13 wks • Prev: 7

10

I Say A Little Prayer

Aretha Franklin

↑ 4

Peak: 10 • 11 wks • Prev: 14

11

Time Has Come Today

The Chambers Brothers

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Peak: 11 • 14 wks • Prev: 11

12

Revolution

The Beatles

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Peak: 12 • 11 wks • Prev: 12

13

The Fool On The Hill

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

↓ 7

Peak: 6 • 12 wks • Prev: 6

14

Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Part 1)

James Brown

↑ 7

Peak: 10 • 11 wks • Prev: 21

15

The House That Jack Built

Aretha Franklin

↓ 2

Peak: 6 • 9 wks • Prev: 13

16

Hush

Deep Purple

↓ 12

Peak: 4 • 10 wks • Prev: 4

17

Midnight Confessions

The Grass Roots

↑ 1

Peak: 5 • 15 wks • Prev: 18

18

My Special Angel

The Vogues

↑ 1

Peak: 7 • 10 wks • Prev: 19

19

Light My Fire

Jose Feliciano

↓ 2

Peak: 3 • 12 wks • Prev: 17

20

(The Lament Of The Cherokee) Indian Reservation

Don Fardon

↑ 8

Peak: 20 • 9 wks • Prev: 28

21

On The Road Again

Canned Heat

↓ 5

Peak: 16 • 11 wks • Prev: 16

22

You're All I Need To Get By

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

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Peak: 7 • 12 wks • Prev: 22

23

Born To Be Wild

Steppenwolf

↓ 8

Peak: 2 • 13 wks • Prev: 15

24

Piece Of My Heart

Big Brother And The Holding Company

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Peak: 12 • 12 wks • Prev: 24

25

Over You

Gary Puckett And The Union Gap

↑ 4

Peak: 7 • 11 wks • Prev: 29

26

Suzie Q. (Part One)

Creedence Clearwater Revival

↑ 1

Peak: 11 • 12 wks • Prev: 27

27

The Snake

Al Wilson

↑ 3

Peak: 27 • 10 wks • Prev: 30

28

Special Occasion

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

↓ 2

Peak: 26 • 9 wks • Prev: 26

29

Hey, Western Union Man

Jerry Butler

↑ 13

Peak: 16 • 13 wks • Prev: 42

30

Magic Bus

The Who

↓ 5

Peak: 25 • 9 wks • Prev: 25

31

All Along The Watchtower

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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Peak: 20 • 9 wks • Prev: 31

32

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Iron Butterfly

↑ 6

Peak: 30 • 17 wks • Prev: 38

33

Who Is Gonna Love Me?

Dionne Warwick

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Peak: 33 • 9 wks • Prev: 33

34

Baby, Come Back

The Equals

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Peak: 32 • 9 wks • Prev: 34

35

Hip City - Pt. 2

Jr. Walker & The All Stars

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Peak: 31 • 11 wks • Prev: 35

36

Shape Of Things To Come

Max Frost And The Troopers

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Peak: 22 • 12 wks • Prev: 36

37

Fool For You

The Impressions

↑ 24

Peak: 22 • 12 wks • Prev: 61

38

Hold Me Tight

Johnny Nash

↑ 21

Peak: 5 • 15 wks • Prev: 59

39

Help Yourself

Tom Jones

↑ 9

Peak: 35 • 8 wks • Prev: 48

40

Break Your Promise

The Delfonics

↑ 4

Peak: 35 • 10 wks • Prev: 44

41

I Wish It Would Rain

Gladys Knight And The Pips

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Peak: 41 • 10 wks • Prev: 41

42

I Met Her In Church

The Box Tops

↑ 1

Peak: 37 • 6 wks • Prev: 43

43

Brown Eyed Woman

Bill Medley

↑ 3

Peak: 43 • 11 wks • Prev: 46

44

Elenore

The Turtles

↑ 10

Peak: 6 • 12 wks • Prev: 54

45

Listen Here

Eddie Harris

—

Peak: 45 • 13 wks • Prev: 45

46

Shoot'em Up, Baby

Andy Kim

↑ 16

Peak: 31 • 10 wks • Prev: 62

47

Down On Me

Big Brother And The Holding Company

—

Peak: 43 • 8 wks • Prev: 47

48

Street Fighting Man

The Rolling Stones

↑ 8

Peak: 48 • 6 wks • Prev: 56

49

I Found A True Love

Wilson Pickett

—

Peak: 42 • 7 wks • Prev: 49

50

Chained

Marvin Gaye

↑ 2

Peak: 32 • 10 wks • Prev: 52

51

To Wait For Love

Herb Alpert

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Peak: 51 • 6 wks • Prev: 51

52

Poor Baby

The Cowsills

↑ 1

Peak: 44 • 6 wks • Prev: 53

53

Naturally Stoned

The Avant-Garde

↑ 4

Peak: 40 • 10 wks • Prev: 57

54

Those Were The Days

Mary Hopkin

↑ 16

Peak: 2 • 14 wks • Prev: 70

55

The Weight

Jackie DeShannon

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Peak: 55 • 8 wks • Prev: 55

56

Court Of Love

The Unifics

↑ 20

Peak: 25 • 9 wks • Prev: 76

57

I've Got Dreams To Remember

Otis Redding

↑ 12

Peak: 41 • 7 wks • Prev: 69

58

White Room

Cream

★ NEW

Peak: 6 • 11 wks

59

Do The Choo Choo

Archie Bell & The Drells

↑ 26

Peak: 44 • 7 wks • Prev: 85

60

Don't Change Your Love

Five Stairsteps & Cubie

↑ 15

Peak: 59 • 9 wks • Prev: 75

61

The Funky Judge

Bull & The Matadors

↑ 7

Peak: 39 • 14 wks • Prev: 68

62

Sweet Blindness

The 5th Dimension

↑ 27

Peak: 13 • 10 wks • Prev: 89

63

Fly Me To The Moon

Bobby Womack

↑ 3

Peak: 52 • 13 wks • Prev: 66

64

Gentle On My Mind

Glen Campbell

↑ 15

Peak: 39 • 16 wks • Prev: 79

65

Workin' On A Groovy Thing

Patti Drew

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Peak: 62 • 11 wks • Prev: 65

66

The Weight

The Band

↓ 3

Peak: 63 • 7 wks • Prev: 63

67

I Ain't Got To Love Nobody Else

The Masqueraders

↑ 21

Peak: 57 • 5 wks • Prev: 88

68

Horse Fever

Cliff Nobles & Co.

↑ 16

Peak: 68 • 5 wks • Prev: 84

69

Peace Of Mind

Nancy Wilson

↑ 31

Peak: 55 • 7 wks • Prev: 100

70

My Way Of Life

Frank Sinatra

↓ 6

Peak: 64 • 6 wks • Prev: 64

71

Bang-Shang-A-Lang

The Archies

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Peak: 22 • 13 wks • Prev: 71

72

Ice In The Sun

The Status Quo

—

Peak: 70 • 3 wks • Prev: 72

73

Lalena

Donovan

★ NEW

Peak: 33 • 6 wks

74

Puffin' On Down The Track

Hugh Masekela

↑ 16

Peak: 71 • 5 wks • Prev: 90

75

Message From Maria

Joe Simon

↑ 7

Peak: 75 • 4 wks • Prev: 82

76

Destination: Anywhere

The Marvelettes

★ NEW

Peak: 63 • 5 wks

77

Private Number

Judy Clay & William Bell

—

Peak: 75 • 6 wks • Prev: 77

78

That Kind Of Woman

Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts

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Peak: 76 • 6 wks • Prev: 78

79

I Love You Madly

Fantastic Four

↑ 12

Peak: 56 • 9 wks • Prev: 91

80

Oh Lord, Why Lord

Los Pop Tops

—

Peak: 78 • 4 wks • Prev: 80

81

For The Love Of Ivy

The Mamas & The Papas

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Peak: 81 • 5 wks • Prev: 81

82

There Was A Time

Gene Chandler

↑ 1

Peak: 82 • 3 wks • Prev: 83

83

Sweet Young Thing Like You

Ray Charles

↑ 3

Peak: 83 • 2 wks • Prev: 86

84

Take Me For A Little While

Vanilla Fudge

★ NEW

Peak: 38 • 8 wks

85

Alfie

Eivets Rednow

★ NEW

Peak: 66 • 6 wks

86

Magic Carpet Ride

Steppenwolf

★ NEW

Peak: 3 • 16 wks

87

Light My Fire

The Doors

—

Peak: 1 • 23 wks • Prev: 87

88

You Got The Love

Professor Morrison's Lollipop

★ NEW

Peak: 88 • 3 wks

89

Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)

Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus

★ NEW

Peak: 25 • 11 wks

90

You Put It On Me

B.B. King

★ NEW

Peak: 82 • 5 wks

91

San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)

Fever Tree

↑ 2

Peak: 91 • 6 wks • Prev: 93

92

The Biplane, Ever More

The Irish Rovers

—

Peak: 91 • 5 wks • Prev: 92

93

Up-Hard

Willie Mitchell

★ NEW

Peak: 91 • 4 wks

94

The Choice

The O'Jays

↑ 2

Peak: 94 • 3 wks • Prev: 96

95

Almost In Love

Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires

↑ 4

Peak: 95 • 2 wks • Prev: 99

96

Tomboy

Ronnie Dove

↑ 1

Peak: 96 • 3 wks • Prev: 97

97

Nitty Gritty

Ricardo Ray

★ NEW

Peak: 90 • 3 wks

98

I'm In A Different World

Four Tops

★ NEW

Peak: 51 • 6 wks

99

Smell Of Incense

Southwest F.O.B.

★ NEW

Peak: 56 • 5 wks

100

Sunday Sun

Neil Diamond

★ NEW

Peak: 68 • 5 wks

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