1960s best selling albums & singles in Brazil

8 November 1969 - Revista do Radio 1.051

1. País tropical – Wilson Simonal (Odeon)

2. Aquele abraço – Gilberto Gil (Philips)

3. O pequeno burguês – Martinho da Vila (RCA)

4. Good morning Starshine - Oliver (RCA)

5. The ballad of John and Yoko – The Beatles (Apple-Odeon)

6. Minha madrinha – Paulo Sérgio (Caravelle)

7. Será, será – Nelson Ned (Copacabana)

8. Aquarius / Let the sunshine in – The Fifth Dimension

9. Tomorrow tomorrow – The Bee Gees (Polydor)

10. I started a joke – The Bee Gees (Polydor)

Best selling albums in Sao Paulo - Revista do Radio

1. Martinho da Vila (RCA)

2. Elizeth Cardoso e Zimbro Trio no Sucata (Copacabana)

3. Canecão apresenta Maysa (Copacabana)

4. Samba & Cia – Miltinho (Odeon)

5. O despertar da montanha – Eudóxia de Barros

29 November 1969 - Ibope-Guanabara as published by Revista do Radio 1.054

1. País tropical – Wilson Simonal (Odeon)

2. Aquele abraço – Gilberto Gil (Philips)

3. Luciana - Eva (Odeon)

4. Love is all – Malcolm Roberts (Major-Minor-Fermata)

5. Eu disse adeus - Roberto Carlos (CBS)

6. Good morning starshine - Oliver (RCA)

7. Sugar sugar – The Archies (RCA)

8. The ballad of John and Yoko – The Beatles (Apple)

9. I started a joke – The Bee Gees (Polydor)

10. My sentimental friend – Herman’s Hermits (Odeon)

Best selling albums in Sao Paulo - Revista do Radio

1. Martinho da Vila (RCA)

2. Gilberto Gil (Philips)

3. Ao mestre Ataulfo com carinho (RCA Camden)

4. Noite Ilustrada (Continental)

5. Quando o amor se transforma em poesia – Wanderley Cardoso (Copacabana)

This 1969 review is incomplete due to the dearth of information we've got from the second semester of the year. Note that this here list is only partly true. Singles released in the earlier part of 1969 are in a higher position for the year due to the lop-sided flow of information.

1969 best-selling records in Brazil

Singles with most weeks at the #1 position (in Rio de Janeiro):

1. Those were the days - Mary Hopkin (Apple-Odeon) 9 wks at #1

2. Sentado à beira do caminho - Erasmo Carlos (RGE) 6 wks at #1
3. F... comme femme - Adamo (Odeon) 5 wks at #1
4. Zingara - Bobby Solo (Ricordi-Chantecler) 4 wks at #1
5. Tudo passará - Nelson Ned (Copacabana) 4 wks at #1

6. Bahia de todos os deuses - Elza Soares (Odeon) 3 wks at #1
7. I started a joke - Bee Gees (Polydor) 3 wks at #1
8. País tropical - Wilson Simonal (Odeon) 3 wks at #1
9. To sir with love - Lulu (Odeon) 2 wks at #1
10. Ob la di ob la da - The Tremeloes (CBS) 2 wks at #1

11. Hey Jude - The Beatles (Odeon)
12. Viu - Adriana (Equipe)
13. Bahia de todos os deuses - Escola de Samba Acadêmicos do Salgueiro (Castelinho)
14. Bahia de todos os deuses - Manoel Rosa (Bala)
15. Sou louca por você - Elizabeth (Caravelle)

16. Férias na India - Nilton Cesar (RCA)
17. O pequeno burguês - Martinho da Vila (RCA)
18. Aquele abraço - Gilberto Gil (Philips)
19. Sugar sugar - The Archies (RCA)

1969 Ibope best selling records in Sao Paulo-SP (January to April)

Singles with most weeks at the #1 position:

1. Those were the days - Mary Hopkin (Apple-Odeon) 8 wks at #1

2. To sir with love - Lulu (Odeon) 2 wks at #1

3. Zingara - Bobby Solo (Ricordi-Chantecler) 2 wks at #1

4. I started a joke - Bee Gees (Polydor) 2 wks at #1

5. Sou louca por você - Elizabeth (Caravelle) 1 wk at #1

Extended-plays (compactos-duplos) with most weeks at the #1 position:

1. O inimitavel - Roberto Carlos (CBS) 7 wks at #1

2. F... comme femme - Adamo (Odeon) 5 wks at #1

3. Do you want to dance? - Johnny Rivers (Liberty-RCA) 1 wk at #1

Albums with most weeks at the #1 position:

1. O inimitavel - Roberto Carlos (CBS) 16 wks at #12

1969 best selling songs according to Ariovaldo Skrapec (*)

1. Aquele abraço - Gilberto Gil (Philips)

2. Those were the days - Mary Hopkin (Apple-Odeon)

3. País tropical - Wilson Simonal (Odeon)

4. Sentado à beira do caminho - Erasmo Carlos (RGE)

5. Um rio que passou em minha vida - Paulinho da Viola (Odeon)

6. O pequeno burguês - Martinho da Vila (RCA)

7. Something - The Beatles (Apple-Odeon)

8. I started a joke - Bee Gees (Polydor)

9. Que pena - Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso (Philips)

10. F... come femme - Adamo (Odeon)

11. To sir with love - Lulu (Odeon)

12. Adeus solidão (Picking up pebbles) - Carmen Silva (RCA)

13. Só o ôme - Noriel Vilela (Copacabana)

14. Tudo passará - Nelson Ned (Copacabana)

15. Zingara - Bobby Solo (Ricordi-Chantecler)

16. Love is all - Malcolm Roberts (Fermata)

17. I’ve been hurt - Bill Deal & the Rhondels (Polydor)

18. Abraham, Martin and John - Moms Mobley (Mercury)

19. Georgia on my mind - The Uniques (Paula-Continental)

20. Proud Mary - Credence Clearwater Revival (RCA)

21. Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday - Stevie Wonder (Tamla-Ebrau)

22. The ballad of John & Yoko - The Beatles (Apple-Odeon)

23. Get back - The Beatles (Odeon)

24. Aquarius / Let the sunshine in - 5th Dimension (Soul City-RCA)

25. Je t’aime (Moi non plus) - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (Philips)

26. Eu disse adeus - Roberto Carlos (CBS)

27. Férias na India - Nilton Cesar (RCA)

28. Adeus ingrata - Claudio Fontana (Copacabana)

29. The boxer / Baby driver - Simon & Garfunkel (CBS)

30. Baby come back - The Equals (RCA)

31. Não há lugar nem céu bonito - Elizabeth (Caravelle)

32. 2001 / Don Quixote - Os Mutantes (Polydor)

33. Traces - Classics IV (RCA)

34. Good bye - Mary Hopkins (Apple-Odeon)

35. Uma lagrima (Una lacrima) - Paulo Henrique (RCA)

36. Casa de bamba - Martinho da Vila (RCA)

37. Stormy - Classics IV (RCA)

38. Não identificado - Gal Costa (Philips)

39. Casaco marrom - Evinha (Odeon)

40. Comunicação - Vanusa (RCA)

41. Aqui - Martinha (Copacabana)

42. Just a dream ago - Rita Moss (Dot-RGE)

43. You’ve made me so very happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears (CBS)

44. Cantiga por Luciana - Evinha (Odeon)

45. Stella - Fabio (RCA)

46. Mudando de conversa - Doris Monteiro (Odeon)

47. Minha menina - Mutantes & Jorge Ben (Polydor)

48. My cherie, amour - Stevie Wonder (Tamla-Rozenblit)

49. A time for us (from “Romeo & Juliet”) - Astrud Gilberto (Verve-Philips)

50. Charles, Anjo 45 - Caetano Veloso & Jorge Ben (Philips)

51. Crimson and clover - Tommy James & the Shondells (Roulette-RGE)

52. Custe o que custar - Roberto Carlos (CBS)

53. Sugar sugar - The Archies (RCA)

54. Atlantis - Donovan (CBS)

55. Daydream - Wallace Collection (Odeon)

56. Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimited (Brunswick-Chantecler)

57. Dizzy - Tommy Roe (ABC-Fermata)

58. Eu amo e não sou correspondida - Elizabeth (Caravelle)

59. Minha madrinha - Paulo Sérgio (Caravelle)

60. Eu vou sair para buscar você - Agnaldo Timóteo (Odeon)

61. Atrás do trio elétrico - Caetano Veloso (Philips)

62. Ti voglio tanto bene - Rossano (Philips)

63. Socorro, nosso amor está morrendo - Wanderley Cardoso (Copacabana)

64. Tomorrow, tomorrow - Bee Gees (Polydor)

65. Good morning, starshine - Oliver (RCA)

66. Love theme from “Romeo & Juliet” - Henry Mancini (RCA)

67. Cadê Teresa? - Originais do Samba e Jorge Ben (RCA)

68. Se você pensa - Roberto Carlos (CBS)

69. A festa dos seus 15 anos - Leno (CBS)

70. Back on my feet again - The Foundations (Pye-Musidisc)

71. Baby, now that I found you - The Foundations (Pye-Musidisc)

72. Crystal blue persuasion - Tommy James & the Shondells (Roulette-RGE)

73. Neon rainbow / Trains and boats and planes - Box Tops (Odeon)

74. Paixão de um homem - Waldik Soriano (Continental)

75. Hair - The Cowsills (MGM-Philips)

76. These eyes - Guess Who (RCA)

77. In the ghetto - Elvis Presley (RCA)

78. Spinning wheel - Blood, Sweat and Tears (CBS)

79. Honky tonky women - Rolling Stones (London)

80. Baby I love you - Andy Kim (Dot-Steed-Young)

81. What does it take? - Junior Walker & the All Stars (Tamla-Ebrau)

82. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond (MCA-Chantecler)

83. Suspicious mind - Elvis Presley (RCA)

84. Jean - Oliver (RCA)

85. Meu benzinho (Mendocino) - Waldirene (RCA)

86. Mendocino - Sir Douglas Quintet (Mercury-Philips)

87. P’ra que dinheiro? - Martinho da Vila (RCA)

88. First of May - Bee Gees (Polydor)

89. Lay lady lay - Bob Dylan (CBS)
90. Zucchero - Rita Pavone (Ricordi-Chantecler)

91. Ando meio desligado - Mutantes (Polydor)

92. Comment te dire adieu (It hurts to say goodbye) - Françoise Hardy (Philips)

93. Sinal fechado - Paulinho da Viola (Odeon)

94. Gimme gimme good lovin' - Crazy Elephant (Bell-Odeon)

95. Zazueira - Jorge Ben (Philips)

96. This magic moment - Jay & the Americans (UA-Copacabana)
97. Love me tonight - Tom Jones (London)

98. Indian giver - 1910 Fruitgum Co. (Buddah)

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(*) songs in bold type were not released as singles but extended-plays

(*) Ariovaldo Skrapec was a Sao Paulo record-collector I met in the late 1990s who - like myself - enjoyed collecting hit-parade-lists. He had his own private-hit-parade he had compiled through the years while he was growing up. As with all lists & compilations there is a bit of bias here and a few discrepancies there - especially when one knows that certain songs have never been released as a single so they couldn't possibly qualify to enter a best-selling-single-hit-parade. But apart from that, Ariovaldo's Hit Parade is as good as any so-called professional charts - the ones that were printed at music magazines or played as count-downs on radio stations!

Ariovaldo was a big fan of Italian rocker Rita Pavone as well as the Bee Gees among others. Ariovaldo had a weak heart and knew he lived on borrowed time. He had a final fatal heart-attack while riding home in a bus after having worked a full day on 16 August 2004. Everyone alighted at the bus last stop except Ariovaldo who remained in a sitting position for eternity.

In Ariovaldo Skrapec's list of 1969's best-selling-singles you will find Rita Pavone's 'Zucchero' at #90. That's what could be called 'wishful thinking' or a 'little tinkering' with the compilation process... but who cares? Here's to you, Ariovaldo... your listing is still stands after all these years.