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TOP
TEN |
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Dawn
Featuring Tony Orlando--Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose* |
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Diana
Ross--Touch Me in the Morning |
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Gilbert
O'Sullivan--Get Down |
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Grand
Funk--We're an American Band* |
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Helen
Reddy--Delta Dawn* |
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Marvin
Gaye--Let's Get it On |
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Maureen
McGovern--The Morning After |
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Paul
Simon--Loves Me Like a Rock* |
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Stories--Brother
Louie |
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Wings--Live
and Let Die |
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SECOND
TEN |
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America--Muskrat
Love |
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B.W.
Stevenson--My Maria* |
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Chicago--Feelin'
Stronger Every Day |
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Foster
Sylvers--Misdemeanor |
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Kris
Kristofferson--Why Me |
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Joe
Walsh--Rocky Mountain Way |
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Looking
Glass--Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne |
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Lobo--How
Can I Tell Her |
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Sutherland
Brothers & Quiver--(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway |
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War--Gypsy
Man |
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AND |
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Al Green--Here
I Am (Come and Take Me)(D) |
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Allman
Brothers Band--Ramblin' Man* |
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Bobby
Goldsboro--Summer (The First Time)*(D) |
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Chairmen
of the Board--Finders Keepers(D) |
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Cheech
& Chong--Don't Bug Me/Basketball Jones(D) |
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Cher--Half-Breed* |
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Chicago--Just
You 'n' Me(D) |
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Conway
Twitty--You've Never Been This Far Before*(D) |
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Cross
Country--In the Midnight Hour(D) |
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DeFranco
Family--Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat*(D) |
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Doobie
Brothers--China Grove |
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Edgar
Winter Group--Free Ride |
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Elton
John--Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting |
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Kenny
Karen--That's Why You Remember(D) |
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Jethro
Tull--A Passion Play (Edit #10)(D) |
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Pink
Floyd--Time(D) |
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Pointer
Sisters--Yes We Can Can*(D) |
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Roberta
Flack--Jesse(D) |
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Royal
Guardsmen--Snoopy vs. the Red Baron(D) |
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Stealers
Wheel--Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine |
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Stevie
Wonder--Higher Ground |
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10cc--Rubber
Bullets(D) |
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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.
