#1 Hit on this Day - 1971

[KirtFalcon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_6KqP7K0g

[cheaptrick77]

♫ The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age ;)

 

 

 

Billboard Magazine's Top 20 Pop Singles

For the week of October 2, 1971

 

01. MAGGIE MAY/REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart

02. GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Donny Osmond

03. THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez

04. SUPERSTAR - Carpenters

05. AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Bill Withers

06. UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul & Linda McCartney

07. SPANISH HARLEM - Aretha Franklin

08. SMILING FACES SOMETIMES - Undisputed Truth

09. YO-YO - Osmonds

10. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN - Lee Michaels

11. STICK-UP - Honey Cone

12. IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME - Stevie Wonder

13. I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING - Partridge Family

14. SWEET CITY WOMAN - Stampeders

15. TIRED OF BEING ALONE - Al Green

16. SO FAR AWAY - Carole King

17. I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE - Rare Earth

18. WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET - Dramatics

19. RAIN DANCE - Guess Who

20. CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP - Mac and Katie Kissoon

[KirtFalcon]

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Music has really gone downhill since those days. That's a great list of songs.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo

[Stoney]

01. MAGGIE MAY/REASON TO BELIEVE - Rod Stewart

03. THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Joan Baez

14. SWEET CITY WOMAN - Stampeders

 

The only songs I know.

[cheaptrick77]

I'll say it again ... the worst song on the above 10-2-1971 Top 20 list is still better than ANY song on this week's Top 20.

 

 

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R.I.P. Karen :(

[Wild74]

R.I.P. Karen

 

She had so much more music to make, what a loss