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Billboard's Top Ten Hits - 40 Years Ago

tboat4

tboat4

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For the week ending April 14th, 1973

1. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia..............Vicki Lawrence
2. Neither One Of Us ..........................................Gladys Knight & The Pips
3. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree...........Dawn
4. Ain't No Woman (L:ike The One I Got) ..................The Four Tops
5. Sing................................................................The Carpenters
6. The Cisco Kid....................................................War
7. Danny's Song....................................................Anne Murray
8. Break Up To Make Up.........................................The Stylistics
9. Killing Me Softly With His Song..............................Roberta Flack
10. Call Me............................................................Al Green
 
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I was 16 at the time and NOT listening to any of these hits. I was enjoying Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Creedence, Cream, The Dead, etc.

Not saying they are bad, just weren't my style.
 
Too bad if you missed out on War's Cisco Kid... great song.
Actually, Danny's Song is a pretty good one, too - the version by its writer, Kenny Loggins, is (I'd opine) better than Anne Murray's better known version.
 
Sure was an interesting variety of music topping the charts then.

Sitting In, by Loggins and Messina is a great album.
 
mhardy6647 said:
Too bad if you missed out on War's Cisco Kid... great song.
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Always liked that song. Especially since it was true for me. When I was a little kid and living with my grand parents they lived in the fancy Santa Barbara equestrian community Hope Ranch. Duncan Rinaldo was our neighbor and I used to ride his horses. That area is still very exclusive, Alan Parsons lives there now IIRC.
 
"The Night...Georgia" was entirely too complicated for a Top-40 song. But I THINK I remember there were 2 versions of it, one that had another verse, that better explained the whole sorry mess..."Danny's Song"....Ah, Melissa...An unrequited love...I had it BAD for her, as only a 16-yr-old can be in love..Strange spring, that spring of '73...So long, long ago...It rained HARD all over East Tennessee, ESPECIALLY in Chattanooga...the water was over 1 lane of I-24, at the foot of Lookout Mtn-Normally a GOOD 20-40' BELOW the roadbed...Lovell Field, the airport, they had a pic of a 727 stuck out on an island in the middle of what looked like a huge lake...Naturally, McCallie was way upon the side of Missionary Ridge, WE had to go to school...I think TVA said '73 was a "1000-year" flood...
 
1973 was a big year for music... Later that year, you would see albums like Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions" and Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters", to name a few... I love early '70's classic-rock/pop. Al Green's one of my favorites... I love that guy... For what he does, there's none better.
 
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Spring of 73 I was 6 years old, and my love was a Corgi Batmobile. Either that, or the James Bond DB5. I do remember all of these songs, as there always seemed to be a radio playing somewhere in the house, and I have a brother 5 and a half years older.

I do remember thinking Bobby Sherman was pretty cool then. :)

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Gang-Twanger said:
1973 was a big year for music... Later that year, you would see albums like Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions" and Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters", to name a few...

I love Al Green... For what he does, there's none better.
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I have a mint copy of Al Green Let's Stay Together, and it is about as fine an album as I can think of.
 
I had the DB5, it was one of the big Corgi's with the pop-up bullet screen for the back window.
 
I had the Lincoln Lehmann-Petersen Limousine..it had an imitation Color TV in the back area..Man, I WISH I hadn't PLAYED w/my Corgis way back when..Matchbox half heartedly made a line of "Old" cars that were roughly equivalent to Corgis, but the Corgis were STILL better..
 
elcoholic said:
I had the DB5, it was one of the big Corgi's with the pop-up bullet screen for the back window.
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Nah, that wasn't the cool one. The early one, in the smaller scale with the wire wheels was where it was at. But not the real early one with the gold body. I never did understand why they did that.

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The one in the photo is the one I remember - my friend Jim had that one (the Batmobile, too). He'd been to the UK and had all kinds of cool stuff.

Come to think of it, it was he who introduced me to Who's Next when it was brand new...
 
Bigerik said:
Nah, that wasn't the cool one. The early one, in the smaller scale with the wire wheels was where it was at. But not the real early one with the gold body. I never did understand why they did that.

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That looks pretty much like what I had. What scale is that one? By bigger I meant bigger than Matchbox and Hot Wheels. Not real big, still close to, maybe a little under 1/32nd slot carts.
 
mhardy6647 said:
Too bad if you missed out on War's Cisco Kid... great song.
Actually, Danny's Song is a pretty good one, too - the version by its writer, Kenny Loggins, is (I'd opine) better than Anne Murray's better known version.
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I was still listening to am radio at that time but now those two would be my favs.Original Batmobile is still the best.
 
tboat4 said:
For the week ending April 14th, 1973

1. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia..............Vicki Lawrence
2. Neither One Of Us ..........................................Gladys Knight & The Pips
3. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree...........Dawn
4. Ain't No Woman (L:ike The One I Got) ..................The Four Tops
5. Sing................................................................The Carpenters
6. The Cisco Kid....................................................War
7. Danny's Song....................................................Anne Murray
8. Break Up To Make Up.........................................The Stylistics
9. Killing Me Softly With His Song..............................Roberta Flack
10. Call Me............................................................Al Green
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Holy ****. Am I that old? I love all those songs. I have all those songs as mp3s. Might even have all the albums. :D
 
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