Sunday, February 03, 2013

Amercan Top 40 - 2/3/1973



Topping the charts this week in 1973:
  1. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
  2. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
  3. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
  4. Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
  5. Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins And Messina
  6. Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith
  7. Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye
  8. The World is A Ghetto - War
  9. Do It Again - Steely Dan
  10. Hi, Hi, Hi - Paul McCartney
Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" drops from #1, replaced by "Crocodile Rock".  Only 2 changes in the Top 10, with   "Do It Again", "Hi, Hi, Hi" entering and "Me And Mrs. Jones" and "Rockin' Pneumonia" dropping out....

  And a bunch of Top 100 debuts, with eventual peak in parenthesis:
  • Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) - Deodato (2)
  • Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got) - Four Tops (4)
  • I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) - Moody Blues (12)
  • Peaceful - Helen Reddy (12)
  • Aubrey - Bread (15)
  • Kissing My Love- Bill Withers (31)
  • Hello Hooray - Alice Cooper (35)
  • One Less Set Of Footsteps - Jim Croce (38)
  • Keep On Singing - Austin Roberts (50)
  • Follow Your Daughter Home - Guess Who (61)
  • Do It In The Name Of Love - Candi Staton (63)
  • Palace Guard - Ricky Nelson (72)
  • Wish That I Could Talk To You - Sylvers (77)
  • Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead (91)
  • Love Music - Raiders (97)

1 comment:

John Roberts said...

Can these really be 40 years old already?