Wow! I didn't see THAT one coming!!!
"Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In" leaps right past "Hair" to become the new #1 Record in Chicago ... a jump from #23 to #1 ... unheard of! ... pushing "Hair" into the #2 spot, which took an incredible leap of its own from #14 to #2! (Exciting stuff from the Spring of 1969!)
Tommy Roe's "Dizzy" falls to #5 after three weeks on top as "Traces" by The Classics IV" and "No, Not Much" by The Vogues hang on to their #3 and #4 spots respectively.
"It's Your Thing" by The Isley Brothers (#24 to #10) and "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (#30 to #14) continue their climb up the charts in rapid-speed fashion ... while a couple of last week's debuts seem to be a little slow out of the starting gate as "Sweet Cherry Wine" by Tommy James and the Shondells moves from #40 to #35 and "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" by The Peppermint Rainbow only manages of a move of two places from #39 to #37.
Meanwhile, Elvis has another new record on the charts as "Memories" (a song he featured on his NBC Television Special back in December) premiers at #38.
This Week in 1969:
March 19th - Glen Campbell performs "Let It Be Me" with Bobbie Gentry on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
March 20th – Not to be outdone by his bandmate and songwriting significant other, Paul McCartney (who married Linda Eastman the week before), John Lennon marries Yoko Ono, standing on a rock in Gibraltar (near Spain) – after a quick honeymoon by the Seine, they next drove from Paris to The Amsterdam Hilton, where they will begin their "official" (meaning very public) honeymoon five days later by staging a Bed-In For Peace at The Amsterdam Hilton Hotel.
Also on this date, David Bowie marries model Angela Barnett. Most folks agree that she was the subject of The Rolling Stones’ 1973 hit “Angie”
March 22nd – UCLA wins their third consecutive NCAA Basketball Championship by defeating Purdue University by a score of 92 to 72
March 23rd - Sly and
the Family Stone perform "Love City" and "Stand," Dionne
Warwick sings "This Girl's in Love with You" and Mason Williams performs
his hit "Classical Gas," all on The Ed Sullivan Show this evening.
