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.