Thursday, August 20, 2020

April 6, 1973

 

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Vicki Lawrence--The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

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Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando--Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree

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Donny Osmond--The Twelfth of Never

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Sweet--Little Willy

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Roberta Flack--Killing Me Softly With His Song

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Stealer's Wheel--Stuck in the Middle With You

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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show--The Cover of "Rolling Stone"

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Steely Dan--Reeling in the Years

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Carpenters--Sing

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Dobie Gray--Drift Away

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Gladys Knight & the Pips--Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)

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Lou Reed--Walk on the Wild Side

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War--The Cisco Kid

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Clint Holmes--Playground in My Mind

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Stevie Wonder--You Are the Sunshine of My Life

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Carly Simon--You're So Vain

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David Bowie--Space Oddity

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O'Jays--Love Train

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Stylistics--Break Up to Make Up

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Raspberries--Let's Pretend

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Neil Diamond--"Cherry Cherry" from Hot August Night

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Skylark--Wildflower

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Jud Strunk--Daisy a Day

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Four Tops--Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)

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First Choice--Armed and Extremely Dangerous

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Carly Simon--The Right Thing to Do

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Blue Ridge Rangers--Hearts of Stone

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Johnny Nash--Stir it Up

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Mara Lynn Brown--Salty Tears

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Helen Reddy--Peaceful

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Gilbert O'Sullivan--Out of the Question

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Edward Bear--Close Your Eyes

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Temptations--Masterpiece

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Hypnotics--Beware of the Stranger

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Gunhill Road--Back When My Hair Was Short

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Brownsville Station--Let Your Yeah Be Yeah

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Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell--Dueling Banjos

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Paul McCartney & Wings--My Love

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Jermaine Jackson--Daddy's Home

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Elton John--Daniel

 

“Out of the Question” by Gilbert O’Sullivan, a number 17 Billboard hit, will get up to number seven here. Edward Bear’s “Close Your Eyes,” number 37 nationally, will make it to number ten in Seattle. And “Back When My Hair Was Short” by Gunhill Road will beat its number 40 BB peak by getting to number 13. The other two were huge everywhere.

R.I.P. Pat O'Day