So 1968! Just another piece of evidence supporting my theory that the most interesting things happen lower than then the Billboard 40!
Here's to You by Hamilton Camp was one of my favorite songs at the time, but although it was a hit in Los Angeles, it only "bubbled under" the Bilboard Hot Hundred, reaching #118 in April, 1968.
My World Fell Down by Sagittarius is one of my favorite songs from 1967, but it only reached #70 in the early summer of that year.
In November, 1966, Smashed! Blocked! by John's Children was a hit in Los Angeles, but nowhere else--it didn't even "bubble under" the Hot Hundred. To me, it was downright shocking as well as mystifying because it was so different from most everything else on Top 40 radio.
Also in the late fall of 1966, Chris Clark's Love's Gone Bad, released on a Motown subsidiary failed to make the Hot Hundred, but it reached #41 on the R & B charts.