American Top 40 - 2/17/1973

Topping the charts this week in 1973:

1. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
2. You're So Vain -Carly Simon
3. Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith
4. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell
5. Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack
6. Do It Again - Steely Dan
7. Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - Spinners
8. Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend - Lobo
9. Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
10. Rocky Mountain High - John Denver

Crocodile Rock remains at #1.  Three Top-10 debuts this week: "Dueling Banjos",  "Killing Me Softly With His Song "and "Rocky Mountain High ".  Dropping out:  "Superstition", "The World is A Ghetto"and "Trouble Man "....

  And a bunch of Top 100 debuts, too many to list them all.  Notables include (w/ eventual peak in parenthesis):

• Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree - Tony Orlando and Dawn (1)
• Wildflower - Skylark (9)
• Call Me (Come Back Home) - Al Green (10)
• Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed (16)
• Bell Bottom Blues - Eric Clapton (78) (a re-release of the '71 Derek and The Dominos song)