The Charts
Georgie Fame ‘The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde’
Love Affair ‘Everlasting Love’
Manfred Mann ‘The Mighty Quinn’
Esther & Abi Ofarim ‘Cinderella Rockefella’
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich ‘Legend Of Xanadu’
Beatles ”Lady Madonna’
Cliff Richard ‘Congratulations’
Louis Armstrong ‘What A Wonderful World / Cabaret’
Gary Puckett ‘Young Girl’ 22/5/1968
Rolling Stones ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’
Equals ‘Baby Come Back’
Des O’Connor ‘I Pretend’
Tommy James & The Shondells ‘Mony Mony
Crazy World of Arthur Brown ‘Fire’
Beach Boys ”Do It Again’
Bee Gees ‘I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You’
Beatles ‘Hey Jude’
Mary Hopkin ‘Those Were The Days’
Joe Cocker ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’
Hugo Montenegro Orchestra ‘The Good The Bad And The Ugly’
Scaffold ‘Lily The Pink’

Other maybe forgotten Artistes with hits in 1968 are; ,The Archies, Georgie Fame, The Foundations, Glen Campbell, Bobbie Goldsboro, Hermans Hermits, Deep Purple, Marvin Gay, Wilson Pickett, The Hollies, Eddie Floyd, The FourTops, The Doors, Gladys Knight, Canned Heat, Bobby Vee, Otis Redding, Bob Seger, Vanilla Fudge, Percy Sledge, The Monkees, The Ohio Express etc.

Films
Include….2001 A Space Odyssey, The Producers, Carry On Doctor, Barbarella, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Coogans Bluff, Girl on a Motorcycle, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Inspector Clouseau, Mayerling, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary’s Baby, Where Eagles Dare, Yellow Submarine and Confessions of a Psycho Cat (blow – missed that one !!)

What was on TV
Basil Brush, Dad’s Army, Hawaii-Five-0, Father Dear Father, Martin and Rowans Laugh-In, At last the 1948 Show with Marty Feldman, Tim Brook-Taylor and the Beatles brought us ‘The Magical Mystery Tour’.
A Colour TV Licence was introduced at £10 per year, the Black/White remaining at £5.

News and Events
Yuri Gagarin (35), first man in space, died in a plane crash
Prague Spring brings with it the hope of new political freedon in Czechoslovakia
The Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ first flew
Enoch Powell made his famous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech
The hit Musical ‘Hair’ opened
Apollo 8 circles the moon to send back the famous photo
The last Steam Train service left Liverpool to Carlisle
David Hemery won BBC’s Sportsview Personality of the Year
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