The Monkees top both the album chart AND the singles chart this week with "More Of The Monkees", their second LP and their latest single "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You". "Somethin' Stupid" by Nancy and Frank Sinatra falls to #2 while "Happy Together" by The Turtles holds at #3. Tommy James and the Shondells are up a notch from #5 to #4 and The Supremes reach #5 with their latest, "The Happening".
New to The Top Ten this week are "Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley (up to #6 from #11) and "I'm A Man" by The Spencer Davis Group, which climbs from #13 to #10.
Other big movers this week include "Don't You Care" by The Buckinghams (#11, up from #18), "You Got What It Takes" by The Dave Clark Five (#12, up ten places from #22), "On A Carousel" by The Hollies (#16, up from #24), "Close Your Eyes" by Peaches and Herb (#19, up from #27), "Friday On My Mind" by The Easybeats (which climbs from #31 to #22), "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" by Neil Diamond (up from #36 to #23), "I Got Rhythm" by The Happenings (#25, up from #38), "When I Was Young" by Eric Burdon and the Animals (up from #41 to #26), "My Back Pages" by The Byrds (#30, up from #37) and "Release Me" by Engelbert Humperdinck, which leaps twenty places from #56 to #36. (That's the second week in a row this record has jumped twenty spots!).
CBS Television airs "The Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Special".
Actor Frank Overton (12 O'Clock High, To Kill A Mockingbird, The True Story Of Jesse James) dies of a heart attack at the age of 49.
