May 14, 1971

2	1	Raiders--Indian Reservation
1	2	Three Dog Night--Joy to the World
6	3	Ringo Starr--It Don't Come Easy
4	4	Bobby Sherman--The Drum
3	5	Lobo--Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
5	6	Ocean--Put Your Hand in the Hand
13	7	Partridge Family--I'll Meet You Halfway
10	8	Rolling Stones--Brown Sugar
7	9	Donny Osmond--Sweet and Innocent
8	10	Daddy Dewdrop--Chick-a-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)
21	11	Carpenters--Rainy Days and Mondays
9	12	Bread--If
19	13	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Power to the People
14	14	Neil Diamond--I Am…I Said
---	15	Carole King--Tapestry LP
20	16	Fuzz--I Love You For All Seasons
11	17	Helen Reddy/Yvonne Elliman--I Don't Know How to Love Him
35	18	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds--Don't Pull Your Love
34	19	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--I Don't Blame You at All
32	20	Supremes--Nathan Jones
12	21	Brotherhood of Man--Reach Out Your Hand
16	22	Aretha Franklin--Bridge Over Troubled Water
30	23	Jerry Reed--When You're Hot, You're Hot
15	24	Doors--Love Her Madly
17	25	Buoys--Timothy
22	26	Partridge Family--Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted
18	27	Ritchie Havens--Here Comes the Sun
31	28	Five Man Electrical Band--Signs
23	29	Nilsson--Me and My Arrow
28	30	Marvin Gaye--What's Going On
36	31	Seatrain--13 Questions
45	32	Norman Greenbaum--California Earthquake
25	33	Jackson Five--Never Can Say Goodbye
42	34	Honey Cone--Want Ads
24	35	Bells--Stay Awhile
29	36	Brewer & Shipley--One Toke Over the Line
27	37	Tom Jones--She's a Lady
26	38	Tin Tin--Toast and Marmalade For Tea
---	39	Osmonds--Double Lovin'
33	40	Janis Joplin--Me and Bobby McGee
41	41	Buddy Miles--Wholesale Love
47	42	Sha Na Na--Only One Song
38	43	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose--Treat Her Like a Lady
39	44	Joy of Cooking--Brownsville
48	45	Fortunes--Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again
50	46	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band--House at Pooh Corner
---	47	Sounds of Sunshine--Love Means (You Never Have to Say You're Sorry)
37	48	Bobby Sherman--Cried Like a Baby
40	49	R. Dean Taylor--Gotta See Jane
49	50	Matthews' Southern Comfort--Woodstock

Only three debuts this week. In May of 1970 we saw the first album to appear on the survey as a whole, the Beatles’ Let it Be, which peaked at number 17. Now we have the second—Carole King’s Tapestry, which debuts way up at number fifteen and will spend five weeks at number one. I guess its presence suggests that KJR was playing a variety of songs from it, but I’m not sure.

The other two debuts are the Osmonds’ “One Bad Apple” soundalike “Double Lovin’,” a number 14 BB hit that will peak at number 15, and big Easy Listening hit “Love Means (You Never Have to Say You’re Sorry)” by Sounds of Sunshine, which made number 39 on the Hot 100 and will go to number eight here.

There are five songs in the top twenty with the word "don't" in the title, including three consecutively.