Sunday, January 27, 2013

American Top 40, 1/27/1973


Topping the charts this week in 1973:
  1.  Superstition - Stevie Wonder
  2. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
  3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
  4. Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins & Messina
  5. Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
  6. Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
  7. Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith
  8. Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye
  9. Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu - Johnny Rivers
  10. The World Is A Ghetto - War
Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" takes over #1, displacing "You're So Vain".  Only 1 new song in the Top 10, with "The World Is A Ghetto" replacing "Superfly"

  And a bunch of notable Top 100 debuts:
  • Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack
  • Space Oddity - David Bowie
  • Don't Cross The River - America
  • Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight And The Pips
  • Dead Skunk - Louden Wainwright III

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