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Top 100 Chart Hits of 1968

A COMPILATION OF THE YEAR'S BIGGEST HITS COMPILED FROM THE WEEKLY CASH BOX TOP 100 LIST. LIST IS COMPILED AS FOLLOWS: FOR EACH WEEK A SONG IS #1 IT RECEIVES 135 POINTS. EACH #2 SONG IS AWARDED 124 POINTS. #3 GETS 123#4 GETS 122 #5 GETS 121. #6 THRU # 10 GETS 115 to 111. #11 SONG GETS 90 POINTS AND SO ON DOWN THE LINE TIL #50 SONG WHICH GETS 51 POINTS. ONLY THE TOP FIFTY TITLES OF ANY GIVEN WEEK ARE INCLUDED IN THE SURVEY. SURVEY BEGINS WITH THE FIRST ISSUE IN JANUARY.

51. Indian Lake - Cowsills - MGM-Pocket Full Of Tunes BMI - Romeo

Best Artists of 1968 on Singles

A TABULATION OF ARTISTS WHO ACHIEVED GREATEST SUCCESS IN THE FIELD OF SINGLE RECORDS ACCORDING TO THE WEEKLY CASH BOX TOP 100 BEST SELLER LIST. NAMES LISTED BELOW ARE IN ORDER OF STRENGTH IN THEIR VARIOUS CATEGORIES BASED ON A WEIGHTED POINT SYSTEM WHICH GIVES CREDIT FOR LONGEVITY ON TOP 100 AS WELL AS HEIGHT ATTAINED ON CHART. TITLES WHICH APPEARED ON THE TOP 100 WERE USED FOR AN ARTIST'S TOTAL. THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL OF AN ARTIST'S HITS RESULTED IN THE POSITIONING OF A NAME.

14. Cowsills - MGM

Best Artists of 1968 on Albums

Top Vocal Groups
34. Cowsills - MGM

Million-Sellers

Cowsills The Rain, The Park & Other Things 1968

Top Records of the Past 20 Years 1967

#31 The Rain, The Park & Other Things - Cowsills - MGM

1968's Top Ten Month-By-Month

July
8. Indian lake - Cowsills - MGM

Bios of 1968 Leading Artists

COWSILLS-MGM

Established with the release of their first MGM single, "The Rain, the Park & Other Thing," the Cowsills have stayed in the sales forefront of an image of the clean-cut American family. The team consists of nine Cowsills, originally from Newport, R.I., who handle the on-stage and behind the scenes chores as road managers equipment handlers, writers and producers it addition to being performers.

The team's nucleus is made up of brothers Bill, Bob, Barry and John who are joined frequently by mother Barbara and other members of the family. Their biggest hit of this year was "Indian Lake." Plans are now being made to sell a television series for airing in the coming season, based on the group's first special, shown last November. Other hits this year included "Poor Baby" and "The Candy Kid," and the family also scored with an album, "Capt. Sad And His Ship Of Fools."

Argentina's Songs & Artists That Made The Top 10 Charts In 1968

Cowsills "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" MGM

CMA Awards Show TV Viewing Power

NASHVILLE-The Kraft Music Hall presentation of the Country Music Association Awards, aired on Nov. 20, walked off with an impressive Nielsen Rating of 20.9 placing it 30th on the list of shows for that rating spot, it was learned last week by the CMA.

The special, which copped a 32 share of the viewing audience, beat out such other specials as "Here's Peggy Fleming," "A Punt, A Pass And A Prayer," the Cowsills' "Family Thing" and "Comedy In The Year 2001." The latter special received only about half the ratings of the OMA show.

Producer Chet Hagan, in a letter to CMA, expressed feelings that the shows ratings could have been even higher had the network adhered to the original broadcasting date of Oct. 30, since a good deal of the substantial promotion for the show had been lost as a result of the air time switch. The originally scheduled time slot had been preempted by the airing of commentary on the then forthcoming presidential election.

Looking Ahead

The Candy Kid
(Pocket Full of Tunes - BMI)
The Cowsills MGM 14011)

Producers Of Top 100 Hits January Thru December 1968

Cowsill, Bill
c/o Akbestal
888 8th Ave.
New York, N.Y.

Cowsill, Bob
c/o Akbestal
888 8th Ave.
New York, N.Y.