Ry Singl * STAR Performer -LP's Registering Greatest Proportionate Upward Progress This Week
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Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY For Week Ending 12/6/69 _§ u ry Singl * STAR Performer -LP's registering greatest proportionate upward progress this week. Artist and /or Selection featured on "The Music Scene," ABC -TV Network This Last Weeks on This Last Weeks o. Week Week Title, Artist, Label, No. & Pub. Chart Week Week Title, Artist, Label, No. & Pub. Chart 1 1 OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE 9 37 27 SHIP IN THE BOTTLE 10 Merle Haggard & the Strangers, Capitol Stonewall Jackson, Columbia 4 -44576 2626 (Blue Book, BMI) (Gallico, BMI) 2 3 (I'M SO) AFRAID OF LOSING YOU 5 38 31 TAKE A LITTLE GOOD WILL HOME 6 Charley Pride, RCA 74 -0265 Bobby Goldsboro & Del Reeves, (Hill & Range /Blue Crest, BMI) United Artists 50591 (Passkey, BMI) 3 2 TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS 7 39 26 MY BIG IRON SKILLET 11 Glen Campbell, Capitol 2659 (Airfield/ Wanda Jackson, Capitol 2614 Campbell, ASCAP) (Party Time, BMI) 41 CAROLINA IN MY MIND 5 6 BABY BABY (I Know. You're a Lady) 5 40 George Hamilton IV, RCA 74 -0256 David Houston, Epic 5 -10539 (Gallico, BMI) (Apple, ASCAP) 7 YOUR TIME'S COMING 6 52 GOTTA GET TO OKLAHOMA ('Cause Faron Young, Mercury 72983 (Combine, BMI) thr California's Gettin' to Me) 5 Hagers, Capitol 2647 (Blue Book, BMI) 18 IF IT'S ALL THE SAME TO YOU 4 fir Bill Anderson & Jan Howard, Decca 32511 54 BROWNED -EYED HANDSOME MAN 2 (Moss -Rose, BMI) ittr Waylon Jennings, RCA 74 -0281 (Arc, BMI) 9 JUST SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW 7 Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner, 59 SIX WHITE HORSES 3 RCA 74 -0247 (Raydeem, SESAC) Tommy Cash, Epic 5 -10540 (Peer- Intl, BMI) 19 BIG IN VEGAS 4 72 ONEO MINUTE PAST ETERNITY 2 9ÌQ Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, Capitol 2646 J^ * Jerry Lee Lewis, Sun 1107 (Blue Book /Exbrook /Milke Curb, BMI) (Hi Lo /Gold Dust, BMI) 9 4 BACK IN THE ARMS OF LOVE 10 70 WINGS UPON YOUR HORNS. 2 June Stearns Jack Greene, Decca 32558 Loretta Lynn, Decca 32586 (Sure -Fire, BMI) (Blue Crest, BMI) 46 44 PUT YOUR LOVIN' WHERE YOUR 10 10 LITTLE BOY SAD 8 MOUTH IS 8 is not just the singer. Bill Phillips, Decca 32565 (Cedarwood, BMI) Peggy Little, Dot 17308 (Terrace, ASCAP) 11 13 YOU AND YOUR SWEET LOVE 5 47 34 TAKE TIME OFF 7 Connie Smith, RCA 74 -0258 (Stallion, BMI) Claude Gray, Decca 32566 (Tree, BMI) She's the song. 48 49 EVERY STEP OF THE WAY 3 YOU 11 12 8 I'D STILL BE MISSING Ferlin Husky, Capitol 2666 Warner Mack, Decca 32547 (Pageboy, (Green Grass, BMI) SESAC) 49 53 DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS 3 13 5 SHE EVEN WOKE ME UP TO SAY Freddy Weller, Columbia 4 -45007 GOODBYE 10 (Lowery 8M I) Jerry Lee Lewis, Smash 2244 (Acuff -Rose, BMI) 50 50 DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS 4 Penny DeHaven, Imperial 66421 (Lowery, BMI) 14 15 WHERE HAVE ALL THE AVERAGE PEOPLE GONE 8 69 A WORLD CALLED YOU 3 Roger Miller, Smash 2246 (Combine, BMI) David Rogers, Columbia 4 -45007 (Caramarf, BMI) song is a hit. et It, 42 BLISTERED /SEE RUBY FALL 3 And the Johnny Cash, Columbia 4 -45020 52 51 CALIFORNIA COTTON FIELDS 5 (Quartet /Bexhill, ASCAP /House of Cash, BMI) Dallas Frazier, RCA 74 -0259 It's "Drifting Too Far." (Blue Crest /Glad, BMI) 32 WISH I DIDN'T HAVE TO MISS YOU 4 top 20 53 45 GROOVY GRUBWORM 12 Already picked to hit the Jack Greene & Jeannie Seeley, Decca 32580 Harlow Wilcox, Plantation 28 by Billboard. (Tree, BMI) (Singleton, BMI) 17 11 TO SEE MY ANGEL CRY 12 54 39 NEW ORLEANS 8 They calledit "an exceptional, soulful Conway Twitty, Decca 732546 Anthony Armstrong Jones, Chart 66 -5033 performance... a sure -fire winner (Music City /Twitty Bird, BMI) (Rock Masters, BMI) 18 14 SUCH A FOOL 10 65 HE'D STILL LOVE ME 3 for top chart honors...a potent entry." Roy Drusky, Mercury 72964 Lynn Anderson, Chart 66 -5040 (Champion/Starday, BMI) (Gallico, BMI) 28 CAMELIA 3 56 61 RAINBOW GIRL 3 When you get way down deep Marty Robbins, Columbia 4 -45024 Bobby Lord, Decca 32578 (Contention, SESAC) into a sad song, when you (Weed Ville -Noma, BMI) 20 12 THERE WOULDN'T BE A LONELY 57 56 RUBEN JAMES 7 Kenny does, HEART IN TOWN 9 Rogers & the First Edition, become the song like June Reprise 0854 (Unart, BMI) Del Reeves, United Artists 50564 it's bound to hurt a little. Maybe (Rural Hill, ASCAP) 58 48 MY BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN BOY 8 Dolly Parton, RCA 74 -0243 (Owepar, having a hit will ease the pain. 35 SHE'S MINE /NO BLUES IS GOOD BMI) NEWS 4 59 62 LOVE AIN'T NEVER GONNA BE George Jones, Musicor 1381 NO BETTER 2 (Glad, BMI /Raydee, SESAC) Webb Pierce, Decca 32577 (Cedarwood, BMI) 22 16 SINCE I MET YOU BABY 14 "Drifting Too Ihi;." Sonny James, Capitol 2595 60 55 SUNDAY MORNIN' COMIN' DOWN 6 (Progressive, BMI) Ray Stevens, Monument 1163 (Combine, BMI) 23 25 LODI 7 Buddy Alan, Capitol 2653 (Jondora, BMI) 61 57 YOURS FOREVER 4 Wynn Stewart, Capitol 2657 (Central, BMI) Columbia Records 24 17 HONEY, I'M HOME 9 On Stan Hitchcock, Epic 5 -10525 ATLANTA GEORGIA STRAY 1 (Hall -Clement, BMI) Kenny Price, RCA 74 -0260 (Rustland, BMI) 25 21 SWEET THANG CISCO & 10 63 64 THE ONE MAN BAND 7 RCA 74 -0238 Nat Stuckey, Wooley, MGM 14085 (Channel, ASCAP) (Forrest Hills, BMI) Sheb 74 I FALL TO PIECES 2 29 I'LL NEVER BE FREE 7 Diana Trask, Dot 17316 (Tree, BMI) Johnny & Jonie Mosby, Capitol 2608 (Laurel, ASCAP) - RIGHT OR LEFT AT OAK STREET 1 Roy Dot 17324 (Attache, BMI) 27 20 I'D RATHER BE GONE 13 Clark, Hank Williams Jr., MGM 14077 66 60 DON'T MAKE LOVE 5 (Blue Book, BMI) Mac Curtis, Epic 5 -10530 (Blue Echo, BMI) 43 FRIEND, LOVER, WOMAN, WIFE . 5 67 66 I'M WALKIN' 4 Claude King, Columbia 4 -45015 Dave Peel, Chart 66 -5037 (Travis, BMI) (BnB, ASCAP) 68 68 NITTY GRITTY DIRT TOWN 5 40 GOD BLESS AMERICA AGAIN 4 Roger Sovine, Imperial 66398 Bobby Bare, RCA 74 -0264 (Return, BMI) (Cedarwood, BMI) 30 30 I'M GETTING TIRED OF BABYIN' YOU. 6 NOBODY'S FOOL 1 Peggy Sue, Decca 32571 (Sure -Fire, BMI) Jim Reeves, RCA 74 -0286 (Tuckahoe, BMI) 31 22 THE WAYS TO LOVE A MAN 15 i - THIS SONG DON'T CARE WHO Tammy Wynette, Epic 5 -10512 SINGS IT 1 ( Gallico, BMI) Ray Pennington, Monument 1170 46 APRIL'S FOOL 3 (Combine, BMI) itt Ray Price, Columbia 4 -45005 (Tree, BMI) - JOHNNY'S CASH & CHARLEY'S PRIDE. 1 47 WHEN YOU'RE HOT YOU'RE HOT 4 Mac Wiseman, RCA 74 -0283 ltr Porter Wagoner, RCA 74 -0267 (Jando, ASCAP) (Green Grass, BMI) 72 75 JOHNNY LET THE SUNSHINE IN 2 34 38 THINGS GO BETTER WITH LOVE/ David Ingles, Capitol 2648 (Topline, BMI) BACK SIDE OF DALLAS 10 73 73 THE GUN 2 Jeannie C. Riley, Plantation 29 Bob Luman, Epic 5 -10535 (Gallico, BMI) (Singleton, BMI /Hall -Clement, BMI) - HEARTBREAK AVENUE 1 35 24 HAUNTED HOUSE 12 Carl Smith, Columbia 4 -45031 Compton Brothers, Dot 17294 (Acuff -Rose, BMI) (Venice /B Flat, BMI) - THINKING ABOUT YOU BABY 1 36 23 GET RHYTHM 9 Billy Walker, Monument 1174 Johnny Cash, Sun 1103 (Hi -Lo, BMI) (Wilderness, BMI) 52 DECEMBER 6, 1969, BILLBOARD .