The Top 40 Singles of 1973

The Top 40 Singles of 1973:

1. "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree" - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (First chart appearance: 3/17/73; Highest position.: #1)
2. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce (6/2/73; #1)
3. "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John (12/23/72; #1)
4. "My Love" - Paul McCartney & Wings (4/28/73; #1)
5. "Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye (7/28/73; #1)
6. "Touch Me In The Morning" - Diana Ross (7/7/73; #1)
7. "Delta Dawn" - Helen Reddy (7/28/73; #1)
8. "Playground In My Mind" - Clint Holmes (5/5/73; #2)
9. "Killing Me Softly With His Song" - Roberta Flack (2/3/73; #1)
10. "Me And Mrs. Jones" - Billy Paul (11/18/72; #1)
11. "Will It Go Round In Circles" - Billy Preston (5/19/73; #1)
12. "Brother Louie" - Stories (7/14/73; #1)
13. "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" - Vicki Lawrence (3/17/73; #1)
14. "Drift Away" - Dobie Gray (3/31/73; #5)
15. "Half-Breed" - Cher (9/1/73; #1)
16. "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon (12/16/72; #1)
17. "Shambala" - Three Dog Night (6/2/73; #3)
18. "Love Train" - The O'Jays (1/27/73; #1)
19. "That Lady (Part 1)" - The Isley Brothers (8/18/73; #6)
20. "Why Me" - Kris Kristofferson (7/7/73; #16)
21. "Loves Me Like A Rock" - Paul Simon (8/18/73; #2)
22. "Pillow Talk" - Sylvia (4/21/73; #3)
23. "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" - Dawn (7/28/73; #3)
24. "Superstition" - Stevie Wonder (12/9/72; #1)
25. "Clair" - Gilbert O'Sullivan (7/1/72; #1)
26. "Rocky Mountain High" - John Denver (1/6/73; #9)
27. "Last Song" - Edward Bear (1/27/73; #3)
28. "Midnight Train To Georgia" - Gladys Knight and the Pips (9/15/73; #1)
29. "Frankenstein" - The Edgar Winter Group (4/21/73; #1)
30. "Stuck In The Middle With You" - Stealers Wheel (3/31/73; #1)
31. "Little Willy" - Sweet (3/17/73; #3)
32. "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" - Stevie Wonder (3/31/73; #1)
33. "Danny's Song" - Anne Murray (2/10/73; #7)
34. "We're An American Band" - Grand Funk (8/18/73; #1)
35. "Right Place Wrong Time" - Dr. John (5/12/73; #9)
36. "Wildflower" - Skylark (3/31/73; #9)
37. "The Morning After" - Maureen McGovern (7/14/73; #1)
38. "Rockin' Pneumonia -- Boogie Woogie Flu" - Johnny Rivers (11/11/72; #6)
39. "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say" - Hurricane Smith (12/23/72; #3)
40. "Natural High" - Bloodstone (6/9/73; #10)

The Top 40 Singles of 1972

The Top 40 Singles of 1972:

1. "American Pie - Parts I & II" - Don McLean (First chart appearance: 12/4/71; Highest position: #1)
2. "Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan (7/1/72; #1)
3. "Without You" - Nilsson (1/15/72; #1)
4. "Brand New Key" - Melanie (11/27/71; #1)
5. "I Gotcha" - Joe Tex (2/26/72; #2)
6. "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" - Wayne Newton (6/10/72; #4)
7. "Let's Stay Together" - Al Green (12/11/71; #1)
8. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - Roberta Flack (3/25/72; #1)
9. "Brandy" - Looking Glass (7/1/72; #1)
10. "Lean On Me" - Bill Withers (5/27/72; #1)
11. "If Loving You Is Wrong" - Luther Ingram (6/24/72; #3)
12. "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" - Mac Davis (8/5/72; #1)
13. "Heart Of Gold" - Neil Young (2/12/72; #1)
14. "The Candy Man" - Sammy Davis, Jr. (4/15/72; #1)
15. "Nice To Be With You" - Gallery (4/29/72; #4)
16. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - Robert John (1/29/72; #3)
17. "Slippin' Into Darkness" - War (4/1/72; #16)
18. "I'll Take You There" - The Staple Singers (4/15/72; #1)
19. "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)" - The Hollies (7/8/72; #2)
20. "A Horse With No Name" - America (3/4/72; #1)
21. "Outa Space" - Billy Preston (5/13/72; #2)
22. "Oh Girl" - Chi-Lites (4/15/72; #1)
23. "Song Sung Blue" - Neil Diamond (5/13/72; #1)
24. "Family Affair" - Sly and the Family Stone (11/13/71; #1)
25. "Rockin' Robin" - Michael Jackson (3/18/72; #2)
26. "My Ding-A-Ling" - Chuck Berry (9/9/72; #1)
27. "Back Stabbers" - The O'Jays (8/12/72; #3)
28. "Everybody Plays The Fool" - The Main Ingredient (9/2/72; #3)
29. "Last Night (I Didn't Get To Sleep At All)" - The 5th Dimension (4/22/72; #8)
30. "Betcha By Golly, Wow" - The Stylistics (3/11/72; #3)
31. "Precious And Few" - Climax (1/22/72; #3)
32. "Ben" - Michael Jackson (9/9/72; #1)
33. "Cherish" - David Cassidy (11/13/71; #9)
34. "How Do You Do?" - Mouth & MacNeal (6/17/72)
35. "I'm Still In Love With You" - Al Green (7/15/72; #3)
36. "Down By The Lazy River" - The Osmonds (1/29/72; #4)
37. "Scorpio" - Dennis Coffey (11/13/71; #6)
38. "Popcorn" - Hot Butter (8/19/72; #9)
39. "Go All The Way" - Raspberries (8/19/72; #5)
40. "Too Late To Turn Back Now" - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (6/17/72; #2)

The Best Hits of 1971 !!!

The Top 40 Singles of 1971:

1. "Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night (First chart appearance: 3/27/71; Highest position: #1)
2. "It's Too Late" - Carole King (5/22/71; #1)
3. "How Do You Mend A Broken Heart" - Bee Gees (7/3/71; #1)
4. "Indian Reservation" - The Raiders (5/29/71; #1)
5. "One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds (1/23/71; #1)
6. "Go Away Little Girl" - Donny Osmond (8/21/71; #1)
7. "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" - The Temptations (2/20/71; #1)
8. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" - John Denver with Fat City (6/26/71; #2)
9. "Maggie May" - Rod Stewart (8/28/71; #1)
10. "Knock Three Times" - Dawn (12/5/70; #1)
11. "Want Ads" - The Honey Cone (5/1/71; #1)
12. "Treat Her Like A Lady" - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (5/15/71; #3)
13. "She's A Lady" - Tom Jones (2/20/71; #2)
14. "Smiling Faces Sometimes" - The Undisputed Truth (7/31/71; #3)
15. "Me And Bobby McGee" - Janis Joplin (2/20/71; #1)
16. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - Joan Baez (8/28/71; #3)
17. "Signs" - Five Man Electrical Band (7/10/71; #3)
18. "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye (3/6/71; #2)
19. "You've Got A Friend" - James Taylor (6/19/71; #1)
20. "Tired Of Being Alone" - Al Green (8/21/71; #11)
21. "Ain't No Sunshine" - Bill Withers (8/14/71; #3)
22. "Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson (12/19/70; #3)
23. "Never Can Say Goodbye" - The Jackson 5 (4/10/71; #2)
24. "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" - Paul & Linda McCartney (8/21/71; #1)
25. "Draggin' The Line" - Tommy James (6/26/71; #4)
26. "Put Your Hand In The Hand" - Ocean (3/27/71; #2)
27. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Aretha Franklin (4/24/71; #6)
28. "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted" - The Partridge Family (2/20/71; #6)
29. "Temptation Eyes" - The Grass Roots (2/13/71; #15)
30. "Don't Pull Your Love" - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds (6/12/71; #4)
31. "Mr. Big Stuff" - Jean Knight (6/19/71; #2)
32. "Do You Know What I Mean?" - Lee Michaels (9/4/71; #6)
33. "It Don't Come Easy" - Ringo Starr (5/8/71; #4)
34. "Superstar" - Carpenters (9/11/71; #2)
35. "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" - Marvin Gaye (7/17/71; #4)
36. "I've Found Someone Of My Own" - The Free Movement (9/18/71; #5)
37. "Superstar" - Murray Head (5/8/71; #14)
38. "Amos Moses" - Jerry Reed (1/9/71; #8)
39. "For All We Know" - Carpenters (2/13/71; #3)
40. "Rainy Days And Mondays" - Carpenters (5/22/71; #2)

1971 Singles - Month By Month

Top Albums of 1971:

• All Things Must Pass - George Harrison *
• Chicago III - Chicago
• Close To You - Carpenters *
• Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart *
• Greatest Hits - Sly & The Family Stone *
• Jesus Christ Superstar - Soundtrack *
• Love Story - Soundtrack
• Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon - James Taylor
• The Partridge Family Album - The Partridge Family
• Pearl - Janis Joplin *
• Shaft - Soundtrack *
• Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones *
• Sweet Baby James - James Taylor *
• Tapestry - Carole King *
• Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens *

  
  

Top 40 hits of 1970

The Top 40 Singles of 1970:

1. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel (First chart appearance: 2/14/70; Highest position.: #1)
2. "American Woman" - The Guess Who (3/28/70; #1)
3. "Get Ready" - Rare Earth (4/4/70; #4)
4. "Band Of Gold" - Freda Payne (5/30/70; #3)
5. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" - B.J. Thomas (11/22/69; #1)
6. "ABC" - The Jackson 5 (3/21/70; #1)
7. "Let It Be" - The Beatles (3/21/70; #1)
8. "(They Long To Be) Close To You" - Carpenters (6/27/70; #1)
9. "Mama Told Me Not To Come" - Three Dog Night (6/6/70; #1)
10. "War" - Edwin Starr (7/25/70; #1)
11. "Spirit In The Sky" - Norman Greenbaum (3/7/70; #3)
12. "Make It With You" - Bread (7/11/70; #1)
13. "Venus" - The Shocking Blue (12/20/69; #1)
14. "Ball Of Confusion" - The Temptations (6/6/70; #3)
15. "Spill The Wine" - Eric Burdon & War (7/11/70; #3)
16. "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" - The Poppy Family (4/25/70; #2)
17. "Everything Is Beautiful" - Ray Stevens (4/18/70; #1)
18. "Lay Down" - Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers (5/16/70; #6)
19. "Candida" - Dawn (8/29/70; #3)
20. "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" - Sly & the Family Stone (1/10/70; #1)
21. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Diana Ross (8/15/70; #1)
22. "I'll Be There" - The Jackson 5 (9/19/70; #1)
23. "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)" - John Ono Lennon (3/7/70; #3)
24. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" - Stevie Wonder (7/4/70; #3)
25. "Hitchin' A Ride" - Vanity Fare (5/16/70; #5)
26. "Hey There Lonely Girl" - Eddie Holman (1/10/70; #2)
27. "I Want You Back" - The Jackson 5 (12/6/69; #1)
28. "Ride Captain Ride" - Blues Image (5/23/70; #4)
29. "Ooh Child" - The Five Stairsteps (6/20/70; #8)
30. "Something's Burning" - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (3/14/70; #11)
31. "All Right Now" - Free (9/5/70; #4)
32. "Love On A Two-Way Street" - The Moments (4/18/70; #3)
33. "Reflections Of My Life" - The Marmalade (4/4/70; #10)
34. "Julie, Do Ya Love Me" - Bobby Sherman (8/15/70; #5)
35. "Up Around The Bend" - Creedence Clearwater Revival (5/2/70; #4)
36. "Green-Eyed Lady" - Sugarloaf (9/19/70; #3)
37. "Turn Back The Hands Of Time" - Tyrone Davis (4/4/70; #3)
38. "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" - Edison Lighthouse (2/28/70; #5)
39. "The Rapper" - Jaggerz (2/14/70; #2)
40. "In The Summertime" - Mungo Jerry (7/25/70; #3)

Angie - The Rolling Stones

"Angie" is a song by rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup.

Recorded in November and December 1972, "Angie" was written primarily by Keith Richards. The song is an acoustic guitar driven ballad which tells of the end of a romance. The song is noted for its poignant lyrics concerning lost love and the grieving involved. Singer Mick Jagger gives a wrenching performance for the recording, while Stones-recording regular Nicky Hopkins plays the song's distinctive piano chords. The strings on the piece (as well as "Winter") were arranged by Nicky Harrison.

Released as a single in August 1973, "Angie" went straight to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and reached number five on the UK singles chart.

Questions about the song's origins have never ceased. Despite wide-ranging rumors that "Angie" was written by Jagger about a relationship he had with David Bowie's wife Angela, Jagger denies this. Richards claims to have come up with the title and chord sequence a year before production on the album began. In the liner notes to the compilation disc Jump Back, Richards says, "I'd recently had my daughter born, whose name was Angela, and the name was starting to ring around the house. 'Angie' just fitted."

The Rolling Stones have frequently performed the song in concert; it was included in set lists on their 1973, 1975 and 1976 tours, and on every tour since their 1982 European tour.^[1] Concert renditions have been released on the albums Stripped and Live Licks.

Two music videos were shot to promote the song.

In 2005 the German party CDU used the song for its election campaign for Angela Merkel; the Rolling Stones had not given Merkel permission to use the song.^[2]

Pink Floyd Reunion-Wish You Were Here

"Wish You Were Here" is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. The song's lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters' feelings of alienation from other people. Like most of the album, it refers to former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett and his breakdown. The main riff came to David Gilmour at home^{[citation needed]} while playing on an acoustic guitar, the riff became something which he continued to play in-between takes at Abbey Road Studios where it caught the attention of Roger Waters. They collaborated to complete the song, as Waters had already written some lyrics. In 2004, the song was ranked #316 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Composition

In the original album version, the song segues from "Have a Cigar" as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where "Wish You Were Here" is beginning. The radio was recorded from Gilmour's car radio.^[1] Gilmour performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through an old transistor radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though the guitarist was sitting in a room, playing along with the radio; it also contains a whine that slowly changes pitch—emulating the heterodyne between two drifting AM radio signals.

The intro riff is repeated several times and reprised when Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment. At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects (reminiscent of "One of These Days" from the 1971 album Meddle), and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

Other versions

"Wish You Were Here" later appeared as the 5th track on A Collection of Great Dance Songs (with the radio intro following the end of a heavily edited Shine On You Crazy Diamond) and as the 23rd track on the Echoes compilation (with the radio intro following "Arnold Layne", and at the end crossfading with "Jugband Blues").

A live recording included in the 1995 live album P*U*L*S*E was issued as a single/EP. As of 2006, this is the last single released by Pink Floyd to date (although promos of Echoes, The Wall Live and "Money" (2003 edit for the 30th Anniversary Issue of Dark Side of the Moon) have been released).

"Wish You Were Here" made its stage debut on the band's 1977 tour, which featured a performance of the entire album at every show. It was not played live by the band for nearly ten years after this, yet became a concert staple after its reappearance in 1987 — and was performed at nearly all subsequent Pink Floyd concerts. In the original 1977 concert performances, Gilmour would play his Fender Stratocaster instead of acoustic guitar whilst Snowy White played a 12-string Ovation acoustic guitar. At some of these shows (all of the US shows, notably), Mason tuned an actual transistor radio on stage to a local radio station, seguing into the pre-recorded bit from the album to start the song and Rick Wright would perform an extended piano coda as the wind effects played. When Pink Floyd were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame^[2], Gilmour and Wright (Mason was in the audience) performed the song with the assistance of their presenter Billy Corgan on rhythm guitar. In 2004, Waters and Eric Clapton performed the song at the Tsunami Aid concert, and in 2005's Live 8, Waters rejoined his former bandmates (albeit for this one-off show) in London to perform it, along with 3 other classic Pink Floyd songs.

Deep Purple - Child In Time

"Child in Time" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. Featured on their 1970 album In Rock, the song is 10 minutes and 18 seconds long.

Written by the band in 1969, it is said by the band members themselves to have been inspired by a riff featured in a song by Purple contemporaries It's a Beautiful Day, called "Bombay Calling"^[1]. The riff was played on violins and much faster in tempo.

"Child in Time" is an essentially simple composition, featuring an organ intro, three power chords, and a two minute long solo. Lyrically dark, Vocalist Ian Gillan utilizes his full vocal range and goes from quiet singing to loud, high-pitched, banshee-esque screaming. Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore comes in with a slow solo, which builds up to a fast-pace playing and then ends abruptly, with the whole song cycle starting over again. Blackmore is normally associated with playing a Fender Stratocaster, however, he played a Gibson ES-335 on the studio version of the song.

A staple of the Deep Purple live concerts in 1970–73, the song has not been featured regularly at concerts since the reunion of the line up in 1993. Gillan cites many personal reasons for leaving the song out, but it is likely that, given his advancing years, the song is becoming increasingly difficult to perform without sampled vocal backings. Its last appearance in Deep Purple's live set was at Harrogate in 2002. In that performance, high-pitched guitar was used to cover up Gillan's now-limited vocal range during the "screaming" parts. A similar technique is used on current live performances of "Space Truckin'".

Something in the air -Thunderclap Newman

"Something in the Air" is a song recorded by Thunderclap Newman. It was a UK #1 single for three weeks in July 1969. The song was later covered by The Mandrake Memorial (their final, non-LP single) in 1970, Fish and Promised Land in 1991, Tom Petty in 1993, Eurythmics in 1999, The Superjesus in 2001, Elbow and Wellwater Conspiracy in 2003, and Hayley Sanderson2006. Wilco has also been known to cover the song in their live shows. in

In 1969, Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, was the catalyst behind the formation of the band. The concept was to create a band to perform songs written by former Who roadie and drummer/singer John 'Speedy' Keen. Townshend produced the single, arranged the strings, played bass under the pseudonym Bijou Drains, and recruited eccentric GPO engineer and jazz pianist Andy 'Thunderclap' Newman (a friend from art college), and 15-year-old GlaswegianJimmy McCulloch.

Originally titled Revolution but later renamed to avoid confusion with the Beatles' 1968 song of that name, "Something in the Air" captured post-flower power rebellion, marrying McCulloch's sweeping acoustic and glowing electric guitars, Keen's powerful drumming and yearning falsetto, and Newman's felicitous piano solo.

The single reached No. 1 on the UK charts just three weeks after release, holding off Elvis Presley in the process. The scale of the song's success surprised everyone and there were no plans to promote Thunderclap Newman with live performances. Eventually a line-up - augmented by Jim Pitman-Avory on bass and McCulloch's elder brother Jack on drums - played a handful of gigs. Personal records say the band played live only five times, although Keen referred to a two-month tour, playing "everywhere". In the UK, a follow-up single, "Accidents", came out only in May 1970 and charted at No. 44 for a week. An album, Hollywood Dream, peaked in Billboard at No. 163. Thus, the song and the band were forever linked as a one hit wonder.

"Something in the Air" appeared on the soundtracks of the several films The Magic ChristianThe Strawberry Statement (1970) (which helped the single reach No. 25 in the United States) and later Kingpin (1996), Almost Famous (2000),The Dish (2000) ,and The Girl Next Door (2004). It also appeared on and was the title of the second disc in the Deluxe Edition of the Easy Rider soundtrack. (1969) and

"Something in the Air" has been used extensively in television, most notably on an advertisement for British Airways which featured PJ O'Rourke. More recently, a version of the song was used in the advertisements for the mobile phone service provider TalkTalk. (A similar advert for TalkTalk shown at the beginning of advert breaks during Big Brother features the opening bars). The song was also featured in the pilot episode of the American television show Aliens in America and in the third season episode Bad Earl of My Name Is Earl. A version of the song recorded by Ocean Colour Scene was previously used by telephone provider Ionica. In 2008, this song appeared in a Coca-Cola commercial in Taiwan.