December 3, 1971

2	1	Melanie--Brand New Key
1	2	Cher--Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
3	3	Lou Rawls--A Natural Man
7	4	Three Dog Night--An Old Fashioned Love Song
4	5	Freddie Hart--Easy Loving
13	6	Michael Jackson--Got to Be There
6	7	Grass Roots--Two Divided By Love
5	8	Bread--Baby I'm-a Want You
9	9	Sonny & Cher--All I Ever Need is You
14	10	Neil Diamond--Stones
25	11	Donny Osmond--Hey Girl/I Knew You When
8	12	David Cassidy--Cherish
11	13	Coven--One Tin Soldier
17	14	Sly & the Family Stone--Family Affair
10	15	Les Crane--Desiderata
12	16	Isaac Hayes--Theme From Shaft
15	17	Osmonds--Yo-Yo
26	18	Bullet--White Lies, Blue Eyes
16	19	Pop-Tops--Mammy Blue
18	20	Jerry Lee Lewis--Me and Bobby McGee
24	21	Ten Years After--I'd Love to Change the World
32	22	Chi-Lites--Have You Seen Her
31	23	Rod Stewart--(I Know) I'm Losing You
19	24	John Lennon--Imagine
36	25	Hillside Singers/New Seekers--I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
20	26	Road Home--Keep it in the Family
23	27	Kris Kristofferson--Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
39	28	Staple Singers--Respect Yourself
40	29	Poppy Family--No Good to Cry
41	30	Aretha Franklin--Rock Steady/Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)
21	31	Santana--Everybody's Everything
27	32	Donny Osmond--Go Away Little Girl
28	33	Rod Stewart--Maggie May
22	34	Peter Nero--Theme From "Summer of '42"
35	35	Denise LaSalle--Trapped By a Thing Called Love
30	36	Carpenters--Superstar/Bless the Beasts and Children
45	37	T. Rex--Bang a Gong (Get it On)
29	38	Marvin Gaye--Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
48	39	Don McLean--American Pie
---	40	Jonathan Edwards--Sunshine
---	41	Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band--Scorpio
49	42	Donnie Elbert--Where Did Our Love Go
33	43	Joan Baez--The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
34	44	Partridge Family--Brown Eyes (LP)
38	45	Partridge Family--Echo Valley 2-6809 (LP)
---	46	Climax--Precious and Few
---	47	John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band--Happy Xmas (War is Over)
---	48	Nilsson--Without You
37	49	Cat Stevens--Peace Train
---	50	Honey Cone--One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I

“Oh Me Oh My,” the b-side to Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady,” joins it on the survey. They’ll be listed jointly for the rest of their time on the survey; in Billboard they hit number nine and number 73.

The New Seekers’ version of “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” joins the Hillside Singers’ version as a combined listing. Together they’ll peak at number two here, while in Billboard they made it to number seven and number 13.

John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas” will get to number 19; it didn’t hit the BB Hot 100 because Christmas songs had their own chart (where it got to number three). The other debuts this week were all Billboard top 20, and mostly top ten. Two won’t do as well here as there: Dennis Coffey’s instrumental “Scorpio” (6BB/18KJR) and Honey Cone’s “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show” (15/35).