Sunday Showcase Top Pop Songs In Nashville October 13, 1968

I wasn't living in Nashville in 1968. I was just a toddler in the Frayser neighborhood of Memphis. I would imagine that the number 1 song in Nashville from the October 13, 1968 Tennessean Sunday Showcase was probably the number 1 song in Memphis too. The Beatles were atop the charts with "Hey Jude" which was a juggernaut ending up as the best selling single on the Billboard Hot 100 of 1968 which makes sense as it is their longest running number 1 in the US. I like how the Top 10 is bookended with future 70's superstars Bee Gees whose "I've Gotta Get A Message To You" ended up 59th on the Top 100 for the year. Barry is wearing a gold medallion in the video....perhaps foreshadowing their disco ascendancy.