May 25, 1973

 

3	1	Paul McCartney & Wings--My Love
2	2	Edgar Winter Group--Frankenstein
5	3	Elton John--Daniel
4	4	Doobie Brothers--Long Train Runnin'
1	5	Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando--Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree
11	6	Jim Croce--Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
7	7	Donny Osmond--The Twelfth of Never
8	8	Sweet--Little Willy
15	9	Barbara Fairchild--Teddy Bear Song
6	10	Clint Holmes--Playground in My Mind
9	11	Raspberries--Let's Pretend
19	12	Barry White--I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby
13	13	Dr. John--Right Place, Wrong Time
24	14	Tower of Power--So Very Hard to Go
16	15	Albert Hammond--The Free Electric Band
28	16	Bette Midler--Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
10	17	Edward Bear--Close Your Eyes
20	18	Michael Jackson--With a Child's Heart
31	19	Paul Simon--Kodachrome
12	20	Gilbert O'Sullivan--Out of the Question
21	21	New York City--I'm Doin' Fine Now
18	22	Spinners--One of a Kind (Love Affair)
23	23	Sylvia--Pillow Talk
29	24	Jim Stafford--Swamp Witch
35	25	George Harrison--Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
17	26	Loggins & Messina--Thinking of You
32	27	Three Dog Night--Shambala
40	28	Billy Preston--Will it Go Round in Circles
14	29	Gunhill Road--Back When My Hair Was Short
30	30	Ohio Players--Funky Worm
33	31	Alice Cooper--No More Mr. Nice Guy
36	32	Perry Como--And I Love You So
---	33	Deep Purple--Smoke on the Water
34	34	Focus--Hocus Pocus
37	35	Stylistics--You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
27	36	War--The Cisco Kid
---	37	Charlie Rich--Behind Closed Doors
---	38	Seals & Crofts--Diamond Girl
---	39	Carpenters--Yesterday Once More
---	40	Osmonds--Goin' Home

 

After six weeks at number one, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” finally falls to number five.

“Behind Closed Doors,” Charlie Rich’s big breakthrough hit after years in the music business, was a number 15 hit on the Hot 100 (and number one on the country chart) but will reach number three here. The Osmonds’ “Goin’ Home” will best its number 36 national peak and get to number 23. The other three debuts will do about the same here as nationally.