So, this time...

...Let's try combining pictures and an M10 update!

A pretty spot at which to have a picnic along the river...

"Yeah, well, get the food out!"

The fourth member of our party- Li'l Woody...

So one thing I wanted to bring up this week is the subject of songs that drop from the top spot for a week or two (or more) and then return.  I have a reason for bringing it up, be patient!  I learned that in Martin Era 2.0 (1955-77), Cashbox totaled 19 of these occurrences- including getting double credit when they did a double flip (song a, song b, song a, song b), of which there were 3.  Billboard in that same period had 23, with three doubles.  But the reason I really wanted to dig into it is because this week, the M10 did it for the third time this year, and I wanted to see what the record was...

Obviously a male tree...

Watching a man in a boat

The most important thing I learned was, this isn't even an M10 record!  In 2017, you might say there was 3 times, and you might say 3 and a half- the classic example of the feat, where I had the Shacks and Strange Boy at the top for 3 weeks, followed by Melody's Echo Chamber and I'll Follow You for 3, then Strange Boy picked up one more week- hung over into 2017, as well as the three times it legit happened in 2017:
You're Better Than Ever by illuminatti hotties hopping Dent May's Take Me To Heaven;
The midst of the first Iron Ceiling, Mikaela Davis's Little Bird leaping over two weeks of Sunflower Bean's Twenty Two;
And directly afterward, Lucius hopping Alvvays and Not My Baby with their Eventually.

Those last two are Misty's hilarious reaction to that boat's wake!

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Billboard's record in a year was 4- including a double: in 1966, Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound Of Silence and the Beatles We Can Work It Out did the double flip; then it was the Fab Four again, with Paperback Writer leapfrogging Frank Sinatra's Strangers In The Night.  Finally, Winchester Cathedral by the New Vaudeville Band- a song that would also do a double on Cashbox, but with a different middle- jumped the Beach Boys and Good Vibrations.

A dip in the river, so to speak...

Next day, this blue jay spoiled a beautiful shot of him sitting on the top of a pine tree...

...though I didn't know his buddy photobombed him...

Cashbox had a couple of bigger records, and one of them showed up inside their set of 5 (with one double) in 1967.  The first that year was the Stones leapfrogging with Ruby Tuesday over the Supremes and Love Is Here And Now You're Gone; Then it was Ol' Blue Eyes again, with him and daughter Nancy and Something Stupid jumping the Monkees and A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You.  Then came another song that jumped songs on both charts- but it jumped two!  The Rascals and Groovin' jumped first the Happenings and I Got Rhythm and then 2 weeks worth of Aretha Franklin and Respect before landing at #1 on the other side.

Two songs jumped is impressive- but Olivia Newton-John topped that when I Honestly Love You spent 2 weeks at the top- with Andy Kim's Rock Me Gently, The Spinners and Dionne Warwicke's Then Came You,  AND Billy Preston's Nothing From Nothing in between the two!

This morning, the reds are coming out

At this point, I have to interrupt the jumper story with the story of our latest M10 debut.  Earlier this week, original member of the Four Seasons Tommy DeVito became the second of the four to pass away.  In one of the tributes I read, Tommy was credited with the lead guitar on a medley tune on the last lp he played on with the Seasons, 1970's Half And Half.  That song- eerily appropriate- becomes the M10 debut at #9:







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This pile is from whatever they harrowed the south field for...

The remaining M10:

10- The Flaming Lips drop 6 to 10 with Flowers Of Neptune 6...
8-Absofacto up 1 with Someone Else's Dream...
7- and holding for Anna Burch's Not So Bad...
6- Up 4 for America and Remembering...
5- Saintseneca slips 2 with In A Van...
4- Dropping from the top to #4 is Tennis and Need Your Love...
3- Dent May moves up 2 with Pour Another Round...
2- The Innocence Mission up 4 spots with On Your Side...

And the new/old #1....

(after some more pictures...)

He was playing with a black squirrel, and paused to pose

Unusually, no chipmunk hanging out at the bridge here...

 And, that leapfrogging #1- joining the earlier songs this year:  Real Estate's Paper Cup (over Anna Burch's Party's Over) and The Jayhawks with Bad Time (leaping the Explorer's Club and Didn't Want To Have To Do It)....

...Hazel English and Off My Mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next week, God willing, back to 1967!