Sly and the Family Stone leap into The Top Ten from #13 to #4 this week ... this seems like a sure thing to go all the way to #1.
Speaking of #1, Tommy James and the Shondells enjoy their third week in the top spot on WLS' Hit Parade Chart ... and Elvis Presley earns his first Top Ten Record on WlS since 1965's "Crying In The Chapel" as "If I Can Dream" climbs from #11 to #9.
The Bee Gees are also hot with their latest ... "I Started A Joke" moves up seven spaces from #14 to #7. Meanwhile, The Turtles go from #40 to #10 in just three short weeks as "You Showed Me" cracks The Top Ten this week in Chicagoland.
Creedence Clearwater Revival premier at #34 with a song that will soon be a '60's classic, "Proud Mary." And look at Nazz this week, debuting at #40 with the original version of "Hello It's Me."
Also this week in 1969 ...
January 22nd - Roy Clark makes a guest appearance on The
Beverly Hillbillies, portraying "Cousin Roy"
Also on January 22nd – At a late night recording
session that doesn’t end until 4 am the next morning, Elvis records “Suspicious
Minds,” a song that will be one of the biggest hits of his career.
January 24th – New Jersey is still determined to keep John and Yoko’s “Two Virgins” album out of the public eye. Today, state prosecutors issue a warning to record dealers that they will be charged with distribution of pornography if they are caught selling the LP. (Years later, John Lennon would describe the unflattering photo, showing the couple totally nude, full frontal on the front of the LP cover, and totally nude from the backside on the back of the LP cover, as “two slightly overweight ex-junkies.”) Despite the ban, “Two Virgins” still managed to climb to #124 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart. (It never charted at all in Great Britain where it is believed that only 5000 copies were ever pressed and distributed.)
January 24th – New Jersey is still determined to keep John and Yoko’s “Two Virgins” album out of the public eye. Today, state prosecutors issue a warning to record dealers that they will be charged with distribution of pornography if they are caught selling the LP. (Years later, John Lennon would describe the unflattering photo, showing the couple totally nude, full frontal on the front of the LP cover, and totally nude from the backside on the back of the LP cover, as “two slightly overweight ex-junkies.”) Despite the ban, “Two Virgins” still managed to climb to #124 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart. (It never charted at all in Great Britain where it is believed that only 5000 copies were ever pressed and distributed.)
January 26th - Tommy James
and the Shondells perform their #1 Hit "Crimson And Clover" (along with "Mony,
Mony") on The Ed Sullivan Show
