Mining the Charts: Billboard's Hits of the World supplement for Spring 1967

 

5 records from Ireland, a few from Holland and one from Norway.

British singers Millie Small and Jonathan King each hit in Singapore with records that didn't crack the New Music Express Top 50 in their homeland.

The b-side of Tommy Roe's 1966 hit Sweet Pea made the Top 10 in South Africa about a year later. And the South African Staccatos (not to be confused with the Canadian Staccatos) hit with a cover of the Bee Gees "Spicks and Specks". 

In New Zealand local bands the La De Da's hit with a cover of Bruce Channel's Hey Baby and Larry's Rebels with a cover of the Creation's Painter Man. Mr. Lee Grant had a crooner-version hit with a cover of Opportunity, which I believe was originally released in the summer of 1963 by Walter Jackson on Columbia and in early 1966 by Peter James on Reprise in the U.S. and later that year in the UK by Roger Cook's brother Jason Dene on Parlophone. 

Hits of the World - Spring 1967