Thursday, April 28, 2011

American Top 40 - 4/28/1973


For todays review of the Top 40 (from this week in 1974), pointless stuff!

The Long and The Short Of It:
Longest song in the top 40 (time):  Hocus Pocus - Focus @ 6:41
Shortest Song in the top 40 (time): Thinking Of You - Loggins and Messina  @ 2:19

Longest song title in the top 40: Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight & The Pips

Shortest song title in the top 40: Sing - Carpenters


Longest Band/Singer in the top 40:  Gladys Knight & The Pips w/ Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
Shortest Band/Singer in the top 40: War w/ The Cisco Kid


Ups and  Downs
#1:  (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - B.J. Thomas

Highest debut (in the top 40):  Hijack - Herbie Mann (#34)

Biggest Mover (up):  My Love - Paul McCartney  (+26 spots)
Biggest Mover (down) : A Letter To Myself - Chi-Lites (-61+ spots, dropping off the charts from #40 )

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