September 7, 1973

 

FIRST TEN

Stories--Brother Louie

Helen Reddy--Delta Dawn*

Cher--Half-Breed*

Marvin Gaye--Let's Get it On

Wings--Live and Let Die

Paul Simon--Loves Me Like a Rock

Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando--Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose

Maureen McGovern--The Morning After

Diana Ross--Touch Me in the Morning

Grand Funk--We're an American Band*

SECOND TEN

Doobie Brothers--China Grove*

Gilbert O'Sullivan--Get Down

Today's People--He

Stevie Wonder--Higher Ground

Looking Glass--Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne

B.W. Stevenson--My Maria*

America--Muskrat Love

Joe Walsh--Rocky Mountain Way

Elton John--Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting

Sutherland Brothers & Quiver--(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway

AND

Art Garfunkel--All I Know(D)

Danny O'Keefe--Angel Spread Your Wings

Rolling Stones--Angie*

Jethro Tull--A Passion Play (Edit #10)

5th Dimension--Ashes to Ashes

Cheech & Chong--Basketball Jones*

Edgar Winter Group--Free Ride

Bette Midler--Friends(D)

DeFranco Family--Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat*

Skylark--I'll Have to Go Away

Chicago--Just You 'n' Me

Bob Dylan--Knockin' On Heaven's Door*

Osmonds--Let Me In*

Spirit--Mr. Skin*

Allman Brothers Band--Ramblin' Man

10cc--Rubber Bullets

Nino Tempo & the 5th Ave. Sax--Sister James(D)

Royal Guardsmen--Snoopy vs. the Red Baron

Bobby Goldsboro--Summer (The First Time)*

Isley Brothers--That Lady*(D)

Hudson & Landry--The Fate of the Mightiest Nation(D)

Charlie Rich-The Most Beautiful Girl(D)

Tower of Power--This Time it's Real(D)

Seals & Crofts--We May Never Pass This Way (Again)(D)

Painter--West Coast Woman(D)

Pointer Sisters--Yes We Can Can*

Conway Twitty--You've Never Been This Far Before

There’s one debut this week that did not make the Billboard chart at all: “The Fate of the Mightiest Nation” by comedy team Hudson & Landry, a serious spoken-word piece by one of the two, apparently Hudson, talking in vague terms about what seems to be the US under Nixon until you get to the end and (SPOILER ALERT) learn that he’s talking about the Roman Empire. It’ll spend two weeks here in the “And” category.

Also worth mentioning are “Sister James” by Nino Tempo (best known for his duets with his sister April Stevens) & the 5^th Ave. Sax, a near-instrumental that got to Number 53 nationally and will spend three weeks as an “And,” and “West Coast Woman” by Calgary rock group Painter, a Number 79 Billboard hit that will be an “And” for four weeks.

August 31, 1973

 

FIRST TEN

Stories--Brother Louie

Helen Reddy--Delta Dawn*

Gilbert O'Sullivan--Get Down

Marvin Gaye--Let's Get it On

Wings--Live and Let Die

Paul Simon--Loves Me Like a Rock

Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando--Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose

Maureen McGovern--The Morning After

Diana Ross--Touch Me in the Morning

Grand Funk--We're an American Band*

SECOND TEN

Doobie Brothers--China Grove*

Cher--Half-Breed*

Today's People--He*

Lobo--How Can I Tell Her

Looking Glass--Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne

B.W. Stevenson--My Maria

America--Muskrat Love

Joe Walsh--Rocky Mountain Way

Kris Kristofferson--Why Me

Sutherland Brothers & Quiver--(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway

AND

Danny O'Keefe--Angel Spread Your Wings(D)

Rolling Stones--Angie*(D)

Jethro Tull--A Passion Play (Edit #10)

5th Dimension--Ashes to Ashes(D)

Cheech & Chong--Basketball Jones

Stealers Wheel--Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine

Edgar Winter Group--Free Ride

DeFranco Family--Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat*

Stevie Wonder--Higher Ground

Skylark--I'll Have to Go Away(D)

Cross Country--In the Midnight Hour

Roberta Flack--Jesse

Chicago--Just You 'n' Me

Bob Dylan--Knockin' On Heaven's Door(D)

Osmonds--Let Me In(D)

Spirit--Mr. Skin(D)

Allman Brothers Band--Ramblin' Man

10cc--Rubber Bullets

Elton John--Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting

Royal Guardsmen--Snoopy vs. the Red Baron

Bobby Goldsboro--Summer (The First Time)*

Kenny Karen--That's Why You Remember

Charlie Rich-The Most Beautiful Girl(D)

Tower of Power--This Time it's Real(D)

Pink Floyd--Time

Pointer Sisters--Yes We Can Can

Conway Twitty--You've Never Been This Far Before

(D) Debuts * Super Hits The first ten are the same as last week but in a different order, as they’re now alphabetized by title rather  than artist. Seattle’s Danny O’Keefe will spend four weeks in the “And” category with “Angel Spread Your Wings,” a number 110 Billboard hit. Same with “I’ll Have to Go Away,” the follow-up to “Wildflower” by Skylark, which got to number 106 nationally. “Let Me In” by the Osmonds, a number 36 hit at Billboard, will spend one week in the First ten. “This Time it’s Real” by Tower of Power will spend three weeks as an “And;”  it made number 65 nationally. And number 92 Billboard hit “Mr. Skin” by Spirit will be on the survey for  11 weeks, three of them in the First ten, and its final week at number eight, as the format changes again.

August 24, 1973

 

TOP TEN

Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando--Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose*

Diana Ross--Touch Me in the Morning

Gilbert O'Sullivan--Get Down

Grand Funk--We're an American Band*

Helen Reddy--Delta Dawn*

Marvin Gaye--Let's Get it On

Maureen McGovern--The Morning After

Paul Simon--Loves Me Like a Rock*

Stories--Brother Louie

Wings--Live and Let Die

SECOND TEN

America--Muskrat Love

B.W. Stevenson--My Maria*

Chicago--Feelin' Stronger Every Day

Foster Sylvers--Misdemeanor

Kris Kristofferson--Why Me

Joe Walsh--Rocky Mountain Way

Looking Glass--Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne

Lobo--How Can I Tell Her

Sutherland Brothers & Quiver--(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway

War--Gypsy Man

AND

Al Green--Here I Am (Come and Take Me)(D)

Allman Brothers Band--Ramblin' Man*

Bobby Goldsboro--Summer (The First Time)*(D)

Chairmen of the Board--Finders Keepers(D)

Cheech & Chong--Don't Bug Me/Basketball Jones(D)

Cher--Half-Breed*

Chicago--Just You 'n' Me(D)

Conway Twitty--You've Never Been This Far Before*(D)

Cross Country--In the Midnight Hour(D)

DeFranco Family--Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat*(D)

Doobie Brothers--China Grove

Edgar Winter Group--Free Ride

Elton John--Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting

Kenny Karen--That's Why You Remember(D)

Jethro Tull--A Passion Play (Edit #10)(D)

Pink Floyd--Time(D)

Pointer Sisters--Yes We Can Can*(D)

Roberta Flack--Jesse(D)

Royal Guardsmen--Snoopy vs. the Red Baron(D)

Stealers Wheel--Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine

Stevie Wonder--Higher Ground

10cc--Rubber Bullets(D)

Today's People--He

 

(D) Debuts

* Super Hits

“KJR has instituted a new system of listing the top hits to replace the numbering system. The hits will be divided into the top 10, second 10 and the newcomers that appear destined for the top.”

“Finders Keepers” by the Chairmen of the Board, in its only week on the survey, was a number 59 national hit. Cheech and Chong’s “Don’t Bug Me,” the B-side of “Basketball Jones,” did not make Billboard at all; this is its only week on the survey, while “Basketball Jones” will hang around for seven weeks, spending three of them in the Second Ten. “That’s Why You Remember,” based on a Faygo soda jingle, by Canadian pop singer Kenny Karen, a number 82 Billboard hit, will spend one more week in the “And” category before disappearing.

Jethro Tull’s “A Passion Play (Edit #10)” will spend four weeks in the “And” category; it peaked at number 105 nationally. “Time” by Pink Floyd did not chart at all in Billboard and will spend two weeks here as an “And.” The Royal Guardsmen’s “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron,” from 1966, re-entered the playlists at KJR and a handful of other stations around this time, without re-entering the Billboard chart; apparently this was inspired by a cover version by a British ska band called the Hotshots that was a big hit in the UK this summer. It’ll be in the “And” category for three weeks. And “Rubber Bullets” by 10cc will spend five weeks as an “And;” it got to number 73 nationally.

August 17, 1973

 

1	1	Helen Reddy--Delta Dawn
2	2	Wings--Live and Let Die
5	3	Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando--Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose
3	4	Maureen McGovern--The Morning After
8	5	Grand Funk--We're an American Band
6	6	Gilbert O'Sullivan--Get Down
7	7	Chicago--Feelin' Stronger Every Day
4	8	Foster Sylvers--Misdemeanor
9	9	David Gates--Clouds
16	10	Paul Simon--Loves Me Like a Rock
10	11	War--Gypsy Man
18	12	Looking Glass--Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne
14	13	America--Muskrat Love
19	14	Kris Kristofferson--Why Me
11	15	Diana Ross--Touch Me in the Morning
24	16	Hues Corporation--Freedom For the Stallion
27	17	Marvin Gaye--Let's Get it On
13	18	Stories--Brother Louie
17	19	Lobo--How Can I Tell Her
20	20	Sly & the Family Stone--If You Want Me to Stay
22	21	Joe Walsh--Rocky Mountain Way
30	22	Cher--Half-Breed
26	23	Jerry Jeff Walker--L.A. Freeway
31	24	B.W. Stevenson--My Maria
25	25	Intruders--I'll Always Love My Mama (Part 1)
12	26	Donny Osmond--A Million to One/Young Love
15	27	Charlie Daniels--Uneasy Rider
36	28	Stevie Wonder--Higher Ground
35	29	Bobby Womack--Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out
21	30	John Denver--I'd Rather Be a Cowboy
32	31	Carole King--Believe in Humanity
34	32	Sutherland Brothers & Quiver--(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway
38	33	Today's People--He
---	34	Edgar Winter Group--Free Ride
---	35	Elton John--Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
40	36	Doobie Brothers--China Grove
37	37	Cat Stevens--The Hurt
23	38	Carpenters--Yesterday Once More
---	39	Stealers Wheel--Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine
---	40	Allman Brothers Band--Ramblin' Man

This week “Young Love,” the B-side of Donny Osmond’s “A Million to One,” is added to its listing. They’ll fall off next week.

The week’s debuts will all do similarly well here as nationally.