GET BACK
BEATLES WITH BILLY PRESTON
- LW: 1,
- Peak: 1,
- Weeks: 5
MY SENTIMENTAL FRIEND
HERMAN'S HERMITS
- LW: 2,
- Peak: 2,
- Weeks: 5
- LW: 3,
- Peak: 3,
- Weeks: 6
BEHIND A PAINTED SMILE
ISLEY BROTHERS
- LW: 7,
- Peak: 5,
- Weeks: 4
- LW: 6,
- Peak: 6,
- Weeks: 8
COME BACK AND SHAKE ME
CLODAGH RODGERS
- LW: 4,
- Peak: 3,
- Weeks: 9
- LW: 5,
- Peak: 2,
- Weeks: 8
- LW: 9,
- Peak: 9,
- Weeks: 4
- LW: 15,
- Peak: 10,
- Weeks: 4
- LW: 10,
- Peak: 4,
- Weeks: 10
ROAD RUNNER
JR WALKER AND THE ALL STARS
- LW: 12,
- Peak: 12,
- Weeks: 8
AQUARIUS/LET THE SUNSHINE IN
5TH DIMENSION
- LW: 23,
- Peak: 13,
- Weeks: 6
- LW: 19,
- Peak: 14,
- Weeks: 2
I'M LIVING IN SHAME
DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES
- LW: 21,
- Peak: 14,
- Weeks: 5
- LW: 13,
- Peak: 7,
- Weeks: 11
THE ISRAELITES
DESMOND DEKKER AND THE ACES
- LW: 8,
- Peak: 1,
- Weeks: 10
- LW: 27,
- Peak: 18,
- Weeks: 3
- LW: 14,
- Peak: 6,
- Weeks: 8
PASSING STRANGERS
SARAH VAUGHAN AND BILLY ECKSTINE
- LW: 20,
- Peak: 20,
- Weeks: 11
THE TRACKS OF MY TEARS
SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES
- LW: 30,
- Peak: 22,
- Weeks: 3
- LW: 16,
- Peak: 2,
- Weeks: 16
DICK-A-DUM-DUM (KING'S ROAD)
DES O'CONNOR
- LW: 28,
- Peak: 24,
- Weeks: 3
- LW: 18,
- Peak: 2,
- Weeks: 11
I'D RATHER GO BLIND
CHICKEN SHACK
- LW: 44,
- Peak: 26,
- Weeks: 3
TIME IS TIGHT
BOOKER T AND THE MG'S
- LW: 31,
- Peak: 27,
- Weeks: 4
SNAKE IN THE GRASS
DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK AND TICH
- LW: 35,
- Peak: 28,
- Weeks: 2
I DON'T KNOW WHY I LOVE YOU
STEVIE WONDER
- LW: 24,
- Peak: 14,
- Weeks: 10
- LW: 22,
- Peak: 22,
- Weeks: 7
- LW: 50,
- Peak: 31,
- Weeks: 2
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER
JACKIE WILSON
- LW: 39,
- Peak: 32,
- Weeks: 2
- LW: RE
- Peak: 33,
- Weeks: 2
THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND
NOEL HARRISON
- LW: 17,
- Peak: 8,
- Weeks: 13
YOU'VE MADE ME SO VERY HAPPY
BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS
- LW: 36,
- Peak: 35,
- Weeks: 4
- LW: 41,
- Peak: 36,
- Weeks: 2
- LW: 34,
- Peak: 30,
- Weeks: 6
- LW: 38,
- Peak: 38,
- Weeks: 2
OH HAPPY DAY
EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS
- LW: New
- Peak: 39,
- Weeks: 1
- LW: 36,
- Peak: 35,
- Weeks: 4
GIMME, GIMME, GOOD LOVING
CRAZY ELEPHANT
- LW: New
- Peak: 40,
- Weeks: 1
- LW: 46,
- Peak: 42,
- Weeks: 2
- LW: 47,
- Peak: 6,
- Weeks: 15
WHERE DO YOU GO TO (MY LOVELY)
PETER SARSTEDT
- LW: 42,
- Peak: 1,
- Weeks: 16
I CAN HEAR MUSIC
THE BEACH BOYS
- LW: 33,
- Peak: 10,
- Weeks: 13
WALK ON GILDED SPLINTERS
MARSHA HUNT
- LW: New
- Peak: 46,
- Weeks: 1
SANCTUS (FROM MISSA LUBA)
TROUBADOURS DU ROI BAUDOUIN
- LW: RE
- Peak: 34,
- Weeks: 5
- LW: 32,
- Peak: 3,
- Weeks: 12
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
MARVIN GAYE
- LW: 26,
- Peak: 1,
- Weeks: 15
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Institute for Music Research
No 39. The label of Buddah 201048 shows the artist is 'The Edwin Hawkins Singers'.
Neil Morgenstern
Get Back is by The Beatles with Billy Preston. Not "Preston". The lead singer from the Ordinary Boys has nothing to do with it.. (He wasn't born until 1982!)
Neil Morgenstern
Tied positions at #36, #40 and #47 suggests either sales were extremely low at the time or the sample of shops they used was very small (thus leading to the same number sampled) or some other means to compile the chart like combining two existing ones.
PD
Phil Davis
From their own "history of the charts" Neil -
<<1969 – the BBC and Record Retailer join forces to revolutionise the UK’s chart compilation process. The two organisations commission the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to compile the UK’s charts on their behalf – these are the first true industry-recognised charts and are referred to as the UK’s “official” charts for the first time.
These charts are initially compiled from a panel of 250 record shops, who log their sales by hand and submit their totals by post.>>
Their chart is in a mess from the beginning of 1969 with many instances of the same record occupying two separate positions on the chart, several records indicated as re-entries when they have been in the chart for weeks, and at least one week where there are 49 records in the 'top 50' chart and no obvious way of telling which record has been omitted. A sad case of a company pooling several charts together as one; calling themselves 'Official'; and making a complete mess of things in the process.