May 4, 1973

1	1	Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando--Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree
2	2	Sweet--Little Willy
4	3	Donny Osmond--The Twelfth of Never
5	4	Clint Holmes--Playground in My Mind
3	5	Vicki Lawrence--The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
15	6	Edgar Winter Group--Frankenstein
8	7	Gilbert O'Sullivan--Out of the Question
10	8	Paul McCartney & Wings--My Love
17	9	Elton John--Daniel
14	10	Doobie Brothers--Long Train Runnin'
11	11	Raspberries--Let's Pretend
19	12	Edward Bear--Close Your Eyes
6	13	Stealer's Wheel--Stuck in the Middle With You
7	14	Roberta Flack--Killing Me Softly With His Song
12	15	Stevie Wonder--You Are the Sunshine of My Life
13	16	War--The Cisco Kid
24	17	Gunhill Road--Back When My Hair Was Short
9	18	Steely Dan--Reeling in the Years
25	19	Loggins & Messina--Thinking of You
18	20	Skylark--Wildflower
16	21	Carpenters--Sing
20	22	Gladys Knight & the Pips--Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)
32	23	Spinners--One of a Kind (Love Affair)
35	24	Dr. John--Right Place, Wrong Time
23	25	Dobie Gray--Drift Away
34	26	Barry White--I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby
27	27	Elvis Presley--Steamroller Blues
---	28	Jim Croce--Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
29	29	Hypnotics--Beware of the Stranger
40	30	Michael Jackson--With a Child's Heart
37	31	Sylvia--Pillow Talk
---	32	Barbara Fairchild--Teddy Bear Song
---	33	Albert Hammond--The Free Electric Band
38	34	New York City--I'm Doin' Fine Now
28	35	Helen Reddy--Peaceful
---	36	J. Geils Band--Give it to Me
36	37	Jud Strunk--Daisy a Day
---	38	Focus--Hocus Pocus
22	39	Carly Simon--The Right Thing to Do
---	40	Perry Como--And I Love You So

 

“You’re So Vain” finally drops off after 23 weeks on the survey.

Six debuts. Two will do significantly better here than nationally: Barbara Fairchild’s “Teddy Bear Song,” a number one country hit, got to number 32 in the pop Hot 100 and will make it to number five at KJR; and “Free Electric Band” by Albert Hammond, number 48 at Billboard, will hit number eleven here. “Hocus Pocus” by Dutch prog group Focus will come up short (9BB/34KJR), while the other three will perform pretty much the same here as elsewhere.