Rolling Stone Magazine Cover of the Week

August 10th 1968

The Rolling Stones album in question is

"Beggars Banquet."

Rolling Stone Magazine Cover of the Week

Today in Music History (March 11th)

March 11th 1968

Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for his single, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay". 

Today in Music History (August 23rd)

August 23rd 1969

Johnny Cash started a 4 week stay at the top of the Billboard album chart today in 1969 with "At San Quentin".  This was a follow up to his smash "Live at Folsom Prison" album from 1968 that topped the Billboard country album chart.

This album contained the smash single "A Boy Named Sue" which reached #1 on the Billboard country songs chart and #2 on the Hot 100.

Flashback

Top Cashbox Singles Chart  

Top 40

August 31, 1968

Flashback - Cashbox Top 40 Songs 1968

CASHBOX

Top 40 Songs

Week Ending August 17th 1968

Original vs Remake #31

Kentucky Woman

(written by Neil Diamond)

Neil Diamond
1967
Billboard Hot 100 - #22





Deep Purple
(from the album "Book of Taliesyn")
1968
Billboard Hot 100 - #38

Billboard #1 Album Spotlight - 1969

March 8th 1969

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
(5 non consecutive weeks at #1)
Spending 1 week at the top of Billboard 200 album chart at the end of 1968 it spent 4 more weeks at #1 in 1969.  Also the #1 country album of 1969 (20 weeks at #1) with at the time Glen Campbell's single, the title track "Wichita Lineman".  That single reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Hot Country Chart for one week in December of 1969.

#1 Song of the Week

This week's #1 hit, "Jumping Jack Flash" topped the Cashbox countdown on  July 20th of 1968 for 1 week  and hit the top of the UK charts in late June for 2 weeks.
It also peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.for 3 consecutive weeks.   It was held out of the top spot for 2 weeks by "This Guy's in Love With You" by Herb Alpert at #1 and at #2 "The Horse" by Cliff Nobles and Co.   The 3rd week saw "Grazing in the Grass" by Hugh Masekela at #1 and "Lady Willpower" by Gary Puckett at #2.

Jumping Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones

Here is the single version that topped the charts in 1968


Here is a live version from 1968

Original vs Remake #17

Our song this week is the #3 Hot 100 hit and a #1 hit in the UK in 1968,  "Mony Mony".  
The original hit the charts for Tommy James and the Shondells in the summer of '68 and topped the UK chart for 3 non consecutive weeks in August.

The most successful of the remakes came from an unlikely source in punk rocker Billy Idol.
His live version shot to the top in the fall and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in November of 1987.

One Hit Wonder of the Week

From August of 1968 here are The Amboy Dukes.  Founded and led by guitar legend Ted Nugent with John Farmer on vocals,  this was their only charting single.   
Reaching #16 on August 24th 1968 on the Billboard Hot 100.


Journey to the Center of the Mind

Original vs Remake #6

Tonight's song is the Beatles ode to Reggae with "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" from the 1968 classic

"The White Album". This song was not released in the United States until 1976, it did not chart in either the US or the UK.



The remake of this song by the group Marmalade was released also in 1968 in the UK and went straight to the #1 spot on the UK Top 40 and stayed for one week.

Your Classic Country Video of the Week

Glen Campbell and his smash hit "Wichita Lineman", which spent 2 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart in December of 1968.
This was his second #1 single on the country chart, his first was "I Wanna Live" , 3 weeks at the top in May of 1968.
This was from the album of the same name which spent 2 non consecutive weeks at the top of Billboards Album chart and also spent 20 weeks at the top of the Billboard Country Album Chart.