| RECORD WORLD 1973 Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got) - Four Tops (#2) All I Know - Art Garfunkel (#7) Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001) - Deodato (#4) And I Love You So - Perry Como (#18) Angel - Aretha Franklin (#13) Angie - The Rolling Stones (#1) Are You Man Enough? - Four Tops (#16) Armed and Extremely Dangerous - First Choice (#28) Aubrey - Bread (#12) Back When My Hair Was Short - Gunhill Road (#34) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce (#1) Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces - Cheech & Chong (#20) Be - Neil Diamond (#31) Been to Canaan - Carole King (#17) Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich (#13) Believe in Humanity - Carole King (#28) Big City Miss Ruth Ann - Gallery (#21) Bitter Bad - Melanie (#33) Blue Suede Shoes - Johnny Rivers (#31) Boo Boo Don't Cha Be Blue - Tommy James (#39) Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Bette Midler (#5) Break Up to Make Up - The Stylistics (#6) Brother Louie - Stories (#2) Call Me (Come Back Home) - Al Green (#8) Cheaper to Keep Her - Johnnie Taylor (#20) Check It Out - Tavares (#39) China Grove - The Doobie Brothers (#10) The Cisco Kid - War (#1) Close Your Eyes - Edward Bear (#27) Clouds - David Gates (#33) Come Get to This - Marvin Gaye (#18) Control Of Me - Les Emerson (#37) Cook With Honey - Judy Collins (#32) Corazon - Carole King (#30) Could It Be I'm Falling in Love - Spinners (#1) The Cover of "Rolling Stone" - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show (#4) Crocodile Rock - Elton John (#1) D'yer Mak'er - Led Zeppelin (#15) Daddy Could Swear (I Declare) - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#19) Daddy's Home - Jermaine Jackson (#6) Daisy A Day - Jud Strunk (#11) Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest (#15) Daniel - Elton John (#2) Danny's Song - Anne Murray (#5) Daytime, Night-Time - Keith Hampshire (#32) Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III (#16) Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy (#1) Diamond Girl - Seals & Crofts (#6) Do It Again - Steely Dan (#8) Do You Want To Dance? - Bette Midler (#15) Doing It to Death - Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s (#24) Don't Cross the River - America (#26) Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend - Lobo (#6) Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight - James Taylor (#12) Dreidel - Don McLean (#21) Drift Away - Dobie Gray (#4) Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O'Dee - Jerry Lee Lewis (#33) Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell (#1) Ecstasy - Ohio Players (#37) Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine - Stealer's Wheel (#31) Feelin' Stronger Every Day - Chicago (#11) Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group (#1) Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond (#31) Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group (#9) Freedom For The Stallion - Hues Corporation (#36) Funky Worm - Ohio Players (#14) Funny Face - Donna Fargo (#6) Future Shock - Curtis Mayfield (#39) Get Down - Gilbert O'Sullivan (#4) Get It Together - The Jackson 5 (#36) Ghetto Child - Spinners (#27) Give It to Me - J. Geils Band (#22) Give Me Love - Give Me Peace on Earth - George Harrison (#1) Give Me Your Love - Barbara Mason (#20) Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation - The Dells (#21) Goin' Home - The Osmonds (#27) Good Morning, Heartache - Diana Ross (#28) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John (#1) Gypsy Man - War (#16) Half-Breed - Cher (#1) Hallelujah Day - The Jackson 5 (#31) Harry Hippie - Bobby Womack & Peace (#26) Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat - DeFranco Family featuring Tony DeFranco (#1) Hearts of Stone - Blue Ridge Rangers (#30) Hello Hooray - Alice Cooper (#26) Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren (#4) Here I Am (Come and Take Me) - Al Green (#10) Hey Girl (I Like Your Style) - The Temptations (#32) Hi, Hi, Hi - Paul McCartney & Wings (#7) Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder (#1) Hocus Pocus - Focus (#9) How Can I Tell Her - Lobo (#20) Hummingbird - Seals & Crofts (#16) The Hurt - Cat Stevens (#20) Hurts So Good - Millie Jackson (#26) I Believe In You (You Believe In Me) - Johnnie Taylor (#5) I Can Understand It - The New Birth (#32) I Can't Stand the Rain - Ann Peebles (#33) ( I Don't Want To Love You ) But You Got Me Anyway - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver (#21) I Got a Name - Jim Croce (#5) I Got Ants in My Pants (and I Want to Dance) (Part 1) - James Brown (#39) I Knew Jesus - Glen Campbell (#37) I Wanna Be with You - Raspberries (#7) I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In - Don Covay (#38) I'd Rather Be A Cowboy - John Denver (#33) I'll Always Love My Mama (Part 1) - The Intruders (#24) I'll Be Your Shelter (In Time of Storm) - Luther Ingram (#40) I'm Doin' Fine Now - New York City (#12) I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby - Barry White (#4) I'm Just A Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band) - The Moody Blues (#10) I'm Never Gonna Be Alone Anymore - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (#34) I've Got So Much to Give - Barry White (#34) If You Want Me to Stay - Sly & The Family Stone (#14) If You're Ready (Come Go with Me) - The Staple Singers (#8) In the Midnight Hour - Cross Country (#22) It Sure Took a Long, Long Time - Lobo (#34) Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Blue Ridge Rangers (#14) Jesse - Roberta Flack (#27) Jesus is Just Alright - The Doobie Brothers (#29) Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne - Looking Glass (#22) Just You 'N' Me - Chicago (#2) Keep On Singing - Austin Roberts (#35) Keep On Truckin' (Part 1) - Eddie Kendricks (#1) Keeper of the Castle - Four Tops (#10) Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack (#1) Kissing My Love - Bill Withers (#30) Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan (#11) Kodachrome - Paul Simon (#1) Last Song - Edward Bear (#2) Leaving Me - The Independents (#18) Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) - Helen Reddy (#1) Let Me In - The Osmonds (#27) Let Me Serenade You - Three Dog Night (#14) Let Us Love - Bill Withers (#39) Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye (#1) Let's Pretend - Raspberries (#14) A Letter to Myself - The Chi-Lites (#39) Little Willy - Sweet (#3) Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings (#1) Living in the Past - Jethro Tull (#14) Living Together, Growing Together - The 5th Dimension (#33) Looking Through the Eyes Of Love - The Partridge Family (#36) Long Train Runnin' - The Doobie Brothers (#9) The Love I Lost (Part 1) - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (#6) Love Is What You Make It - Grass Roots (#27) Love Jones - Brighter Side of Darkness (#8) Love Train - The O'Jays (#1) Loves Me Like a Rock - Paul Simon (#3) Mammy Blue - Stories (#38) Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes) - Aretha Franklin (#31) Masterpiece - The Temptations (#8) The Message - Cymande (#40) Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#1) A Million To One / Young Love- Donny Osmond (#23) Mind Games - John Lennon (#10) Misdemeanor - Foster Sylvers (#21) Money - Pink Floyd (#10) Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers (#10) The Morning After - Maureen McGovern (#1) The Most Beautiful Girl - Charlie Rich (#1) My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings (#1) My Maria - B.W. Stevenson (#8) My Music - Loggins & Messina (#22) Natural High - Bloodstone (#7) Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#1) Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up - Barry White (#9) Never Let You Go - Bloodstone (#35) The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence (#1) No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper (#19) Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out - Bobby Womack (#30) Nutbush City Limits - Ike & Tina Turner (#26) Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith (#3) One Less Set Of Footsteps - Jim Croce (Error #4 ....see note*) One Man Band (Plays All Alone) - Ronnie Dyson (#30) One of a Kind (Love Affair) - Spinners (#9) Ooh Baby - Gilbert O'Sullivan (#21) Out Of the Question - Gilbert O'Sullivan (#17) Over The Hills And Far Away - Led Zeppelin (#31) Paper Roses - Marie Osmond (#4) Peaceful - Helen Reddy (#11) Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles (#18) Pieces of April - Three Dog Night (#20) Photograph - Ringo Starr (#1) Pillow Talk - Sylvia (#3) Pinball Wizard / See Me, Feel Me - The New Seekers (#26) The Plastic Man - The Temptations (#28) Playground In My Mind - Clint Holmes (#2) Pretty Lady - Lighthouse (#33) Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band (#2) Reelin' & Rockin' - Chuck Berry (#29) Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan (#6) The Relay - The Who (#35) Remember (Christmas) - Nilsson (#40) Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John (#10) The Right Thing To Do - Carly Simon (#12) Rockin' Roll Baby - The Stylistics (#15) Rocky Mountain High - John Denver (#7) Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh (#16) Roll Over Beethoven - Electric Light Orchestra (#31) Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett (#32) Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John (#8) Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose - Dawn(#3) Separate Ways - Elvis Presley (#19) Shambala - Three Dog Night (#1) Sing - Carpenters (#4) Sitting - Cat Stevens (#18) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Blue Haze (#14) Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple (#2) So Very Hard To Go - Tower of Power (#15) Some Guys Have All the Luck - The Persuaders (#35) Soul Makossa - Afrique (#29) Soul Song - Joe Stampley (#29) Space Oddity - David Bowie (#10) Space Race - Billy Preston (#6) Steamroller Blues / Fool - Elvis Presley (#16) Step by Step - Joe Simon (#23) Stir It Up - Johnny Nash (#11) Stoned Out of My Mind - The Chi-Lites (#35) Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealers Wheel (#6) Summer (The First Time) - Bobby Goldsboro (#23) Super Fly Meets Shaft - John & Ernest (#38) Superfly - Curtis Mayfield (#6) Superman - Donna Fargo (#37) Superstition - Stevie Wonder (#1) Swamp Witch - Jim Stafford (#21) Sweet Charlie Babe - Jackie Moore (#24) Sweet Understanding Love - Four Tops (#28) Teddy Bear Song - Barbara Fairchild (#27) Tell Her She's Lovely - El Chicano (#28) Tequilla Sunrise - Eagles (#40) That Lady (Part 1) - The Isley Brothers (#6) Theme from "Cleopatra Jones" - Joe Simon with The Mainstreeters (#16) There It Is - Tyrone Davis (#33) There's No Me Without You - Manhattans (#33) Thinking of You - Loggins & Messina (#14) Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (#1) Time to Get Down - The O'Jays (#26) Top Of the World - Carpenters (#3) Touch Me In the Morning - Diana Ross (#1) Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye (#6) The Twelfth of Never - Donny Osmond (#6) Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels Band (#10) Walk On the Wild Side - Lou Reed (#17) We May Never Pass this Way Again - Seals & Crofts (#20) We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad (#1) What About Me - Anne Murray (#37) Where Peaceful Waters Flow - Gladys Knight & The Pips (#23) Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally - Tony Orlando & Dawn (#23) Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas (#2) Why Me - Kris Kristofferson (#19) Wildflower - Skylark (#8) Will It Go 'Round in Circles - Billy Preston (#3) With A Child's Heart - Michael Jackson (#37) The World Is a Ghetto - War (#9) Yes We Can Can - Pointer Sisters (#12) Yesterday Once More - Carpenters (#1) You Are the Sunshine Of My Life - Stevie Wonder (#1) You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones (#36) You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio - Joni Mitchell (#18) You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) - The Stylistics (#15) You're a Special Part of Me - Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye (#17) You're So Vain - Carly Simon (#1) You've Got To Take It (If You Want It ) - Main Ingredient (#37) You've Never Been This Far Before - Conway Twitty (#32) Young Love - Donny Osmond (#25) Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins & Messina (#5) * One Less Set Of Footsteps - Jim Croce - This record made the Top 40 in both Billboard & Cash Box. My sources list it with a #4 position in error, this record was not a top ten hit in RW (my sources prove otherwise) I gather it most likely was a top 40 hit in RW (14? 24? 34? 40?) BOLDFACE BLACK = TOP TEN BOLDFACE BLUE = DID NOT CHART BB TOP 40 (Top 40 hit in RW & CB) BOLDFACE RED = CHARTED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE RW TOP 40 (Sans BB-CB) These songs made the Billboard Top 40 but failed in RW: To Know You Is to Love You - B.B. King (#41) Cherry Cherry (Live)from "Hot August Night" - Neil Diamond (#44) Oh La De Da - The Staple Singers (#50) Friends / Chapel Of Love - Bette Midler (#51) Funky Stuff - Kool & The Gang (#51) One Less Set of Footsteps - Jim Croce (#??- 4 error) note: correct position unknown Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango (#NC) note: RW charted the version by Afrique |
| RECORD WORLD TOP FORTY 1973 |