“A month in a life” – June 1968

All tracks released in June 1968 unless otherwise indicated

* : new entry Record Retailer chart

NR Title Artist/Group Chart
1 The hottest day of the year Barry Booth & his Orchestra
2 The dreamer Morgan-James
3 I see the morning Penny Peeps
4 Anyone for tennis (05/68) Cream *
5 Gotta see Jane (05/68) R. Dean Taylor *
6 MacArthur Park Richard Harris *
7 Travelling circus Epics
8 Happiness is Kim & Kelly Braden
9 Where is tomorrow Cilla Black *
10 I think it's going to rain Lynn & Graham McCarthy
11 Brooklyn roads Neil Diamond
12 Hang-ups Bobby Hatfield
13 I can't make it alone Bill Medley
14 Nothing can stop me (RR – 1965) (04/68) Gene Chandler *
15 Never give you up Jerry Butler
16 Open up your soul Erma Franklin
17 Here I am baby Marvelettes
18 It should have been me Gladys Knight & Pips
19 Baby I need your lovin' Svante
20 You've gotta believe it Sharon Tandy
21 I'm sorry Delfonics
22 Hush…not a word to Mary John Rowles *
23 The shelter of your arms Brian Keith
24 Woman you took my life Kevin Johnson
25 I've got my eyes on you Barry Noble
26 Goodbye Barry Ryan
27 D.W. Washburn Monkees *
28 Without her Jack Jones
29 Dreams of the everyday housewife Chris Gantry
30 Soul coaxing Norrie Paramor & his Orchestra
31 I'll keep holding on Brass Tacks
32 Yummy yummy yummy (05/68) Ohio Express *
33 Indian lake Cowsills
34 May I take a giant step (into your heart) 1910 Fruitgum Company
35 He's got everything Butterflies
36 On a day like this Gulliver's People
37 Loving cup Fortunes
38 Smokey blues away (05/68) New Generation *
39 Nevertheless Eclection
40 You ought to meet my baby David & Jonathan
41 Love is all it should be Dorian Gray
42 In the shade of your love Decision
43 Choo choo train Box Tops
44 Keep on (05/68) Bruce Channel *
45 Boy (05/08) Lulu *
46 Un-mundo Buffalo Springfield
47 Love really changed me Spooky Tooth
48 Dogs Who *
49 I can't quit her Blood, Sweat & Tears
50 Gotta get away New York Public Library
51 Haze woman Anan
52 Fire Crazy World of Arthur Brown *
53 Mony, Mony (05/68) Tommy James & Shondells *
54 Baby don't cry Sundae Times
55 Jumpin' Jack flash (05/68) Rolling Stones # 1
56 Baby make your own sweet music Jay & Techniques
57 This old heart of mine (is weak for you) Donnie Elbert
58 I.O.U. (a lifetime of love) Fashions
59 The importance of your love (05/68) Vince Hill *
60 Quando m'innamoro (05/68) Sandpipers *
61 One more dance Esther & Abi Ofarim *
62 Elvira Madigan – theme James Last
63 As long as there's love Settlers
64 What have they done to Hazel Ray Ennis & Blue Jeans
65 I've got my eyes on you Jason Cord
66 Woman woman Richard Barnes
67 What's good about goodbye Steve Montgomery
68 My name is Jack Manfred Mann *
69 Fairy tales can come true San Francisco Earthquake
70 Tip toe thru' the tulips Tiny Tim
71 The sunshine of love Louis Armstrong *
72 The look of love Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
73 All my life is you Bobby Bennett
74 I've just lost somebody Golden Earrings
75 You didn't have to be so nice Glass Menagerie
76 Yesterday has gone (05/68) Cupid's Inspiration *
77 Young girl (03/68) Gary Puckett & Union Gap # 1
78 Eyes of a New York woman B.J. Thomas
79 Love grows Gene Pitney
80 I love you People
81 Summer of our love Two of Each
82 Now (05/68) Val Doonican *
83 Morning in your eyes Frank Ifield
84 I'll love you forever today Cliff Richard *
85 Safe in my garden Mama's & Papa's
86 Sometimes you just can't win Mouse & Traps
87 You ain't going nowhere (05/68) Byrds *
88 My life (is in your hands) Paper Dolls
89 Yester love Smokey Robinson & Miracles
90 Soul thing Tony Newman
91 Ain't nothing like the real thing (05/68) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell *
92 I could never love another (after loving you) (05/68) Temptations *
93 Love in them there hills Vibrations
94 The horse Cliff Nobles & Co

“A month in a life” – May 1968

All tracks released in May 1968 unless otherwise indicated

* : new entry Record Retailer chart

NR Title Artist/Group Chart
1 With the sun in my eyes Schadel
2 Smile girl for me Cat's Eyes
3 Rainbow chaser (03/68) Nirvana *
4 Better by far Terry Reid
5 Everyday Kevin Westlake & Gary Farr
6 Travellin' song Pentangle
7 You ain't going nowhere Paul McNeill & Linda Peters
8 You outside Dave Justin
9 There's nobody I'd sooner love Pinkerton's
10 A winter's tale Genesis
11 I've never seen love like this Orpheus
12 Take me along T.I.M.E.
13 I will always think about you New Colony Six
14 This world is my world Bystanders
15 I wanna live Glen Campbell
16 Friends Beach Boys *
17 Rice is nice (04/68) Lemon Pipers *
18 Angel of the morning Merrilee Rush & Turnabouts
19 Why say goodbye Marian Montgomery
20 Kiss tomorrow goodbye Ethna Campbell
21 Something bad on my mind Timi Yuro
22 I'll never leave you Nicole Croisille & T. & B.
23 I can't fool my heart Dallas Boys
24 My year is a day Beloved Ones (Les Irresistibles)
25 Mary Jane Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
26 Dedicated music man Mortimer
27 Someday girl Moon
28 Time for livin' Association *
29 A step in the right direction Montanas
30 Tracy took a trip Executives (Executive)
31 Drive my car Rainbow Ffolly
32 Marjorine (03/68) Joe Cocker *
33 I shall be released Boz
34 Love you forever Focal Point
35 Hurdy gurdy man Donovan *
36 Part of my past Simon Dupree & Big Sound
37 Deborah (04/68) Tyrannosaurus Rex *
38 What a day Contrasts
39 Little one Episode
40 The good guys in the white hats Mike Sedgewick
41 Baby, what I mean Spiral Starecase
42 El el Israel High Windows
43 Baby you're so right for me Satin Bells
44 The happy song Otis Redding *
45 Think Aretha Franklin *
46 Tighten up Archie Bell & Drells
47 Hold on Radiants
48 Don't lead me on Exotics
49 Young girl (03/68) Gary Puckett & Union Gap # 1
50 One in a million Giles, Giles & Fripp
51 Sleepy Joe (04/68) Herman's Hermits *
52 Blue eyes Don Partridge *
53 Baby make your own sweet music Johnny Johnson & Bandwagon
54 Any old time you're lonely and sad (04/68) Foundations *
55 Abergavenny Marty Wilde
56 Keep on loving me Guy Fletcher
57 Pretty red balloons Rosetta Hightower
58 Never my love Johnny Mann Singers
59 When we were young (04/68) Solomon King *
60 Face it girl, it's over Nancy Wilson
61 The words of Bartholomew Wayne Fontana
62 It's my time (04/68) Everly Brothers *
63 Do you know the way to San Jose (04/68) Dionne Warwick *
64 I pretend (04/68) Des O'Connor *
65 Why say goodbye Connie Francis
66 Play the drama to the end Clodagh Rodgers
67 The music played Matt Monro
68 Joanna (04/68) Scott Walker *
69 Tribute to a king William Bell *
70 You keep me hangin' on Joe Simon
71 Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day (04/68) Stevie Wonder *
72 She's looking good Wilson Pickett
73 The son of Hickory Holler's tramp (04/68) O.C. Smith *
74 Reach out of the darkness Friend & Lover
75 Wear it on our face Dells
76 The end of the road Idle Race
77 As for marionettes Mariane
78 (Something about) Suburbia Tim Andrews
79 Ragamuffin Squibby & Reflections
80 Black day in july Gordon Lightfoot
81 This side of heaven David McWilliams
82 Helule helule Tremeloes *
83 Disappear Mob
84 Baby come back (Re-issue – 1967) Equals *
85 Jumpin' Jack flash Rolling Stones *
86 10,000 words in a cardboard box Aquarian Age
87 The muffin man World of Oz
88 Lovin' things (04/68) Marmalade *
89 How'd we ever get this way Andy Kim
90 What a wonderful world (01/68) Louis Armstrong # 1
91 Cabaret (01/68) Louis Armstrong # 1
92 U.S. male Elvis Presley *
93 Soul coaxing (03/68) Raymond Lefevre Orchestra *

“A month in a life” – April 1968

All tracks released in April 1968 unless otherwise indicated

* : new entry Record Retailer chart

NR Title Artist/Group Chart
1 I almost called your name Kathy Kirby
2 One more chance Mike Richmond
3 Marianne Sergio Endrigo
4 Colours of the rainbow Medium
5 Honey Bobby Goldsboro *
6 What a wonderful world (01/68) Louis Armstrong # 1
7 Somewhere in the country (03/68) Gene Pitney *
8 If you change your mind Johnny Hackett
9 Do I figure in your life Dave Berry
10 A beautiful morning Rascals
11 Think of you baby Liz Christian
12 In the shelter of your heart O'Hara's Playboys
13 Elusive face My Dear Watson
14 Young girl Precious Few
15 Rainbow David Garrick
16 When I reach the top Rockin' Berries
17 Rainbow valley Love Affair *
18 When you lose the one you love Patrick Dane & Mark 7
19 Help me Sons & Lovers
20 House for sale Val McKenna
21 Ebenezer Sight & Sound
22 Rock around the clock (RR – 1955) (03/68) Bill Haley & Comets *
23 The drifter Don Charles
24 Rainbow woman Lee Hazlewood
25 In need of a friend Cowsills
26 Don't you be ashamed Billy Joe Royal
27 Daybreak Gloomys
28 Wonder boy Kinks *
29 Springtime of our years Gary Ashton
30 A man without love Engelbert Humperdinck *
31 You just gave me heaven Johnny Dumar
32 What's wrong with you Chanters
33 This thing called love Webs
34 I'm gonna make you love me Madeline Bell
35 Take time to know her Percy Sledge
36 When she touches me McFarthing Kissoon
37 Forever came today Diana Ross & Supremes *
38 At the top of the stairs Formations
39 For whom the bell tolls (03/68) Simon Dupree & Big Sound *
40 Mr Carpenter Fox
41 Midway down Creation
42 A girl called Fantasy Selofane
43 Solid gold mountain Tangerine Peel
44 She's a rainbow Glass Menagerie
45 Lady Madonna (03/68) Beatles # 1
46 Why must it be this way Hobby Shop [aka Roger James Four]
47 Shilo William E. Kimber
48 Me Zion de Gallier
49 The last goodbye Chris Farlowe
50 Lazy Sunday Small Faces *
51 Peggy Sue (RR – 1957) (03/68) Buddy Holly *
52 Turn on your lovelight Human Beinz
53 Naughty boy Simon's Secrets
54 I don't ever wanna be kicked by you Stockingtops
55 Feel like a clown Ranee & Ray
56 Like to get to know you Spanky & Our Gang
57 With a little help from my friends Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
58 This wheel's on fire Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity *
59 What a way to die Ola
60 Things ain't what they used to be anymore Grapevine
61 Everyone can see Scrugg
62 People people Oliver Norman
63 Silly grin Family Dogg
64 Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) Fuzz Face
65 I don't want our loving to die Herd *
66 Bring a little lovin' Los Bravos
67 C'mon everybody Gene & Gents
68 Summertime blues (RR – 1958) Eddie Cochran *
69 Quite rightly so (03/68) Procol Harum *
70 Black magic woman (03/68) Fleetwood Mac *
71 Time of the season Zombies
72 Hello how are you (03/68) Easybeats *
73 Think of you baby Elastic Band
74 Open your hands Sarolta
75 Time Cliff Aungier
76 Julie Peter & Wolves
77 Our corner of the night Barbra Streisand
78 White horses (03/68) Jacky (aka Jackie Lee) *
79 La La La (He gives me love) Massiel *
80 Young girl (03/68) Gary Puckett & Union Gap *
81 Sunny and me Douglas Good & Ginny Plenty
82 Congratulations (03/68) Cliff Richard # 1
83 Don't run away Sandie Shaw
84 It's so easy Wishful Thinking
85 So fine Ike & Tina Turner
86 Take me in your arms (rock me a little while) Isley Brothers
87 Funky street (03/68) Arthur Conley *
88 In the midnight hour Mirettes
89 Girls girls girls Chuck Jackson
90 If you can want (03/68) Smokey Robinson & Miracles *
91 Looking for a fox Clarence Carter
92 Red red wine Neil Diamond
93 Days of my life Seekers
94 What can I do Gilbert (O'Sullivan)
95 Sherry don't go Lettermen
96 Callow la vita (The red balloon) Raymond Froggatt
97 Soul serenade (03/68) Willie Mitchell *

“A month in a life” – March 1968

All tracks released in March 1968 unless otherwise indicated

* : new entry Record Retailer chart

NR Title Artist/Group Chart
1 21st Summer Household
2 Little green apples Roger Miller *
3 Kiss me goodbye (02/68) Petula Clark *
4 Chance of a lifetime Pat McGeegan
5 I'll walk alone Maggie Fitzgibbon
6 And you were there Ken Dodd
7 In time Lena Martell
8 It's your day today (01/68) P.J. Proby *
9 One Nilsson
10 I've been loving you Elton John
11 When you were with me Choir
12 Ice man Ice
13 Colour sergeant Lilywhite West Coast Consortium
14 Morning glory days Pleasure Fair
15 Dream seller Simon
16 I can't let Maggie go Honeybus *
17 Don't you believe it Geoff Turton (aka Jefferson)
18 The radio song Parade
19 It's raining outside (Mangwane mpubele) Group 2
20 Lady Madonna Beatles # 1
21 Rumours Kippington Lodge
22 Blueberry blue Sun Dragon
23 Congratulations Cliff Richard *
24 Simon says (02/68) 1910 Fruitgum Company *
25 Cry like a baby Boxtops *
26 I'm a train Colors of Love
27 After tea Spencer Davis group
28 Little man with a stick Penny Peeps
29 No face, no name and no number (02/68) Traffic *
30 What a woman does John Bromley
31 Cherish Ruth
32 Burning spear Soulful Strings
33 I thank you (02/68) Sam & Dave *
34 Since you've been gone Aretha Franklin *
35 The end of our road Gladys Knight & Pips
36 Goin' to a happening Tommy Neal
37 I wish it would rain (02/68) Temptations *
38 That did it Bobby Bland
39 If I were a carpenter Four Tops *
40 I'll say forever my love Jimmy Ruffin
41 Long story Rudy Mills
42 I've got you on my mind (02/68) Dorian Gray *
43 Something here in my heart (02/68) Paper Dolls *
44 Baby you got it Brenton Wood
45 Strawberry shortcake Jay & Techniques
46 Andmoreagain Love
47 Umbrella 14
48 You've gotta be with me Onyx
49 Black veils of melancholy Status Quo
50 The fox has gone to ground Bamboo Shoot
51 Father's name is Dad Fire
52 All along the watchtower Nashville Teens
53 The legend of Xanadu (02/68) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich # 1
54 Valleri Monkees *
55 Hang up city Berkeley Kites
56 A lovely way to say goodnight Symbols
57 Loving or losing you Penny Lane
58 Can't keep you out of my heart Vince Hill
59 Time time Monique Leyrac
60 Scarborough fair (Canticle) Simon & Garfunkel
61 Valley of the dolls – theme (02/68) Dionne Warwick *
62 First spring rain We ugly dogs (aka Cantebury music festival)
63 Jumbo Bee Gees *
64 Just dropped in (to see what condition………) First Edition
65 Mission impossible Lalo Schifrin Orchestra
66 Move Jess & James
67 Ain't nothing but a houseparty (02/68) Showstoppers *
68 Quittin' time Big Maybelle
69 Green light American Breed
70 A question of temperature Balloon Farm
71 Get out now Tommy James & Shondells
72 I can show you Rupert's people
73 Big city lights (and country boy Bill) Shevells
74 Jennifer Eccles Hollies *
75 Nobody knows it Plastic Penny
76 Utterly simple Smoke
77 Suzanne Leonard Cohen
78 If I only had time (02/68) John Rowles *
79 What's yesterday Tony Bruno
80 L'important c'est la rose Gilbert Becaud
81 You don't know me Nancy Wilson
82 I don't want to hurt you anymore Tony Christie
83 Until Johnny Tudor
84 Can't take my eyes off you Andy Williams *
85 Cinderella Rockefella (02/68) Esther & Abi Ofarim # 1
86 Master Jack Four Jacks & a Jill
87 Look here comes the sun Sunshine Company
88 Captain of your ship Reparata & Delrons *
89 Birds of a feather Joe South
90 I can't forget Barry Noble
91 Do you remember Scaffold *
92 One day soon Matt Monro
93 Little miss understood Rod Stewart
94 That's when I see the blues (Pretty brown eyes) Jim Reeves *
95 Step inside love Cilla Black *
96 Never my love Hans Christian
97 Where the rainbow ends Tony Hiller Orchestra

“A month in a life” – Feb 1968

All tracks released in February 1968 unless otherwise indicated

* : new entry Record Retailer chart

NR Title Artist/Group Chart
1 Through my door 14
2 Epitaph to you Andy Forray
3 Sadie and her magic mr. Galahad A New Generation
4 River to another day Love Sculpture
5 Love is blue Jeff Beck *
6 Cinderella rockefella Esther & Abi Ofarim # 1
7 Once I had a dream Jon Britten
8 Nevertheless Frankie Vaughan *
9 My world is slipping away Connie Francis
10 To each his own Frankie Laine
11 Wise to the ways of the world Don Paul
12 Green tambourine (01/68) Lemon Pipers *
13 Ring the changes David Walker
14 Do you believe in magic Kaplan
15 You go your way Guys
16 Fire brigade (01/68) Move *
17 Think I care Paupers
18 Everything that touches you Association
19 Spooky Gary Walker & Rain
20 Up the junction Manfred Mann
21 Magic spectacles Nerve
22 Little girl Troggs *
23 Jennifer Juniper Donovan *
24 If I had a ribbon bow Fairport Convention
25 Do you believe (love is built on a dream) Peter Janes
26 Everybody knows you're not in love Electric Prunes
27 Delilah Tom Jones *
28 Some sweet day Frank Ifield
29 No one can break a heart like you Dave Clark Five *
30 Hold back the daybreak Long John Baldry
31 Sweet inspiration Sweet Inspirations
32 Cross my heart Billy Stewart
33 Pick up the pieces Carla Thomas
34 Ooh baby Deon Jackson
35 My girl (RR – 1965) Otis Redding *
36 Sockin' 1-2-3-4 John Roberts
37 I am the man for you baby Edwin Starr
38 I can't give back the love I feel for you Rita Wright
39 Earthquake Bobbi Lynn
40 Everlasting love (12/67) Love affair # 1
41 Bend me, shape me American Breed *
42 Blessed are the lonely Mindbenders
43 Blamin's not hard to do Pic Nic
44 Won't you turn the lights down low Gerry Dane
45 Sha la la la lee Symon & Pi
46 Of all the little girls Villiers & Gold
47 Portable people Ten Years After
48 Sky pilot – part 1 Eric Burdon & Animals *
49 Cabaret (*) (01/68} Louis Armstrong *
50 That's all right Brenda Lee
51 Rosie (01/68) Don Partridge *
52 Carpet man Fifth dimension
53 Breaking up a dream Ways & Means
54 Dear Delilah (01/68) Grapefruit *
55 Tomorrow Strawberry Alarm Clock
56 Renaissance fair Human Instinct
57 Expecting to fly Buffalo Springfield
58 So it goes Anders 'n' Poncia
59 Just for you Dave Mason
60 Playboy Gene & Debbe
61 Today (01/68) Sandie Shaw *
62 Images of you Mike Lennox
63 The silent sun Genesis
64 Another time Sagittarius
65 What a wonderful world (*) (01/68) Louis Armstrong *
66 You're the only one Val Doonican *
67 This is my life Shirley Bassey
68 When Jezamine goes Bystanders
69 Adios amor Casuals
70 Too much love Bobby Hanna
71 Dock of the bay Otis Redding *
72 A lasting love Otis Clay
73 Whatcha gonna do about it Jeanette Simpson
74 Stop that train Keith & Tex
75 Mighty quinn (01/68) Manfred Mann # 1
76 Running in the water Kytes
77 Sunshine day Jethro Tull (as Jethro Toe)
78 Early pearly morning Orange Bicycle
79 Sing me a love song Glories
80 California my way Treetops
81 I saw the light Tom Carlile & Craftsmen
82 Guitar man Elvis Presley *
83 The legend of Xanadu Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich *
84 We can fly Cowsills
85 Spooky Classics IV *
86 Sunday mornin' Spanky & Our Gang
87 Fool on the hill Sharon Tandy
88 It's not easy Will-o-Bees
89 Lovely city Cat Stevens
90 Me, the peaceful heart Lulu *
91 I get so excited Equals *
92 Friday kind of Monday Johnny Farnham
93 Green tambourine (01/68) Sun Dragon *
94 Love is blue (01/68) Paul Mauriat Orchestra *