I say, "what I Liked at the time", but what I mean is "what I liked of those records in the Top 30 Singles chart" because in those days I didn't count it as an "official" hit record unless it was in the UK charts. So, often my favourite record wasn't in the chart at all, and these can be seen listed as "Bub" or Bubbling Under the week they were peaking first. This explains why there are lots of high entries and sudden inexplicable drop-outs - such as Chairmen Of The Board's 2 week run at number one and nothing else. Fairly obviously if Id opened up my charts to accept records outside the chart, that record would have been number one for four weeks and Lt Pigeon would have peaked at 2 - or would it? I also loved the 10CC and Albert Hammond bubbling under records, so they would have been in the upper reaches for sure..

 

hey ho, lots of classics here anyway! Little know fact: Geordie had a singer called Brian Johnson. Yes, AC/DC, him.

JANUARY 1973

 

7th JANUARY

 

I'M ON MY WAY TO A BETTER PLACE Chairmen Of The Board 1 out 1 out

DESPERATE DAN Lieutenant Pigeon 2 1 2 1

HAPPY XMAS. WAR IS OVER John & Yoko 3 3 out out

SOLID GOLD EASY ACTION T.Rex 4 4 5 5

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 5 6 6 8

BALL PARK INCIDENT Wizzard 6 5 4 6

YOU'E SO VAIN Carly Simon 7 11 11 out

ALWAYS ON MY MIND Elvis Presley 8 7 7 9

LITTLE DRUMMER BOY Royal Scots Dragoons Guards Band 9 8 9 out

LOOKIN' THROUGH THE WINDOWS The Jackson 5 10 out out out

 

HI HI HI/C.MOON Wings 11 9 10 13

SHOTGUN WEDDING Roy C 12 12 14 16

GETTING A DRAG Lynsey De Paul 13 15 out out

CROCODILE ROCK Elton John 14 13 12 out

THE JEAN GENIE David Bowie 15 14 13 15

STAY WITH ME Blue Mink 16 16 17 out

KEEPER OF THE CASTLE The Four Tops 17 out out out

BEN Michael Jackson 18 19 19 out

LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL Little Jimmy Osmond 19 18 15 20

CRAZY HORSES The Osmonds 20 17 16 19

 

IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Albert Hammond Bub

JOHNNY DON'T DO IT 10CC Bub

DON'T DO THAT Geordie Bub

REGGAE CHRISTMAS Gable Hall School Choir Bub

 

14th JANUARY

 

BLOCKBUSTER The Sweet 2 3 2

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 10 8 10

GUDBYE T'JANE Slade 20 20 out

 

 

21st JANUARY

 

PAPER PLANE Status Quo 18 14

 

 

28th JANUARY

 

DO YOU WANNA TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter 3

PART OF THE UNION Strawbs 4

DANIEL Elton John 7

BIG CITY Dandy Livingstone 11

WISHING WELL Free 12

RELAY The Who 17

ME AND MRS JONES Billy Paul 18

 

John, It wasn't the best idea, but you can update these charts now in 2013. :)

All UK singles charts are available on UKMix forum in one thread. (My main source for retro charts)

 

For simple:

Top 50 for every week in 1973 : http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?...d&start=275

 

Most my favourites weren't in UK top 30 in that period of time, so I like only Lynsey De Paul's song.

Maybe she is # 1 my favourite singer from 70s, even better, than wonderful Dana and beautiful Mary Hopkin.

 

Edited March 1, 20169 yr by Electric Top 10

FEBRUARY 1973, and Glam rock really starts taking over big time in the singles charts.

 

4th FEB

 

BLOCKBUSTER The Sweet 1 2 5 4

DO YOU WANNA TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter 2 3 8 13

PART OF THE UNION The Strawbs 3 4 7 12

DANIEL Elton John 4 8 15 out

SOLID GOLD EASY ACTION T.Rex 5 out out out

BALL PARK INCIDENT Wizzard 6 7 12 out

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 7 out out out

BIG CITY Dandy Livingstone 8 out out out

ALWAYS ON MY MIND Elvis Presley 9 9 16 out

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 10 16 18 out

PAPER PLANE Status Quo 11 10 17 out

WISHING WELL Free 12 12 9 17

THE JEAN GENIE David Bowie 13 14 14 15

SHOTGUN WEDDING Roy C 14 out out out

ME AND MRS JONES Billy Paul 15 19 out out

HI HI HI/C MOON Wings 16 out out out

RELAY The Who 17 13 out out

CRAZY HORSES The Osmonds 18 18 out out

YOU'RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 19 15 20 out

LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL Little Jimmy Osmond 20 out out out

 

992 ARGUMENTS The O'Jays bub

 

 

11th FEB

 

BABY I LOVE YOU Dave Edmunds 1 1 1

SYLVIA Focus 5 2 3

HOCUS POCUS Focus 6 11 18

SUPERSTITION Stevie Wonder 11 4 10

ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN Electric Light Orchestra 20 6 11

 

 

18th FEB

 

TAKE ME GIRL I'M READY Junior Walker & The Allstars 3 2

HELLO HURRAY Alice Cooper 10 9

DOCTOR MY EYES The Jackson 5 13 14

CINDY INCIDENTALLY The Faces 19 8

 

 

25th FEB

 

LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE The Partridge Family 5

KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG Roberta Flack 6

IF IT WASN'T FOR THE REASON THAT I LOVED YOU Miki Anthony 7

FEEL THE NEED IN ME The Detroit Emeralds 16

TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS Olivia Newton-John 19

REELIN' AND ROCKIN' Chuck Berry 20

 

John, It wasn't the best idea, but you can update these charts now in 2013. :)

All UK singles charts are available on UKMix forum in one thread. (My main source for retro charts)

 

For simple:

Top 50 for every week in 1973 : http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?...d&start=275

 

Most my favourites weren't in UK top 30 in that period of time, so I like only Lynsey De Paul's song.

Maybe she is # 1 my favourite singer from 70s, even higher, than wonderful Dana and beautiful Mary Hopkin.

 

Elton, Elvis, Michael and Osmonds were OK.

 

Thanks Alex, thats a fabulous site, Ive bookmarked it as a favourite!

 

I sort of revisit old music charts by doing a year end Top 100 or 200 and comparing what I like now with what I liked at the time. I will probably run the two for 1973 at the end of the year just to compare... Yes it's sad though, as Middle Of The Road got robbed of a certain number one in my chart because it didn't make the singles charts!:)

 

I was a big fan of Lynsey and Mary, Lynsey especially as she was also a good songwriter:)

 

cheers

john

"Take Me Home The Country Roads" was my # 1.

Glam rock is so far from my music taste. :)

 

I will try to find some my favourites from non-UK charts (mostly from Netherlands and Ireland)

 

Middle Of The Road - Kailakee Kailako (August 1973)

Charts: Netherlands # 21, Switzerland # 5. Belgium # 26

 

Edited February 3, 201312 yr by AlexRange

http://www.dingsme.info/avatar8.jpgFEBRUARY 1973, and Glam rock really starts taking over big time in the singles charts.

"Take Me Home The Country Roads" was my # 1.

Glam rock is so far from my music taste. :)

 

I will try to find some my favourites from non-UK charts (mostly from Netherlands and Ireland)

 

Middle Of The Road - Kailakee Kailako (August 1973)

Charts: Netherlands # 21, Switzerland # 5. Belgium # 26

 

Thanks for the link Alex, that's a sweet song that one (and one I never knew at the time!)

 

cheers!

john

http://www.dingsme.info/avatar8.jpgDO YOU WANNA TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter 3

http://www.dingsme.info/avatar8.jpgDO YOU WANNA TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter 3

 

Once upon a time Gary Glitter was beloved of kids, made popular pop songs and he sold a couple of million records in 1973, these are facts...

These charts are what I liked at the time, so even though I didnt buy his records I sometimes liked the singles - no point trying to rewrite history and leave a blank in my charts, even if radio carefully picks charts that don't have Gary Glitter in them nowadays and he's a complete a*se.

 

cheers!

john

http://www.dingsme.info/avatar8.jpgJohn, It wasn't the best idea, but you can update these charts now in 2013.

http://www.dingsme.info/avatar8.jpgJohn, It wasn't the best idea, but you can update these charts now in 2013.

 

Thanks, yes, I seriously considered it after your suggestion, and I perfectly understand Glitter is a hate figure, and everyone would prefer not be reminded of him and apologies for that, but where does one draw the line? Pretend KLF's Doctorin The Tardis never happened? (Glitter song) Erase all Jonathan King songs from the charts too, and anything he produced? All Phil Spector records, classics and all, because he's a convicted cold-blooded killer? Michael jackson records because he was taken to court arrested by police and settled out of court before a verdict could be reached and which he obviously felt he would lose? Jerry Lee Lewis because he married a 14 year old? The Who because Townsend was "researching" kiddie porn sites? How about violence against women is that not a good enough reason to not list Chris Brown records? What if, for example, a member of whatever is someone's current favourite pop group turns out to be a paedophile in 20 years, does one try and rewrite history, deny they ever liked them and forget they ever sold records?

 

 

All it is, is a list of songs I liked as a child, in the order I liked them and wrote them down, not what I like now, and certainly in no way condones or supports anything that anyone in any of the charts has done or may yet do. And I still am happy to say Glitter got what he deserved, if anything he got off lightly...!

 

thanks for the suggestion though, appreciate it would probably be a very popular solution!

john

John, don't care about those 2 Internet bots.

They are not real peoples. :)

Some music from Netherlands charts:

 

My second favourite country in pop music after United Kingdom.

 

February 1973 :

 

Theo & Marjan - Hela Kom Met Me Mee Ja! (Netherlands # 17)

 

 

Middle Of The Road - Yellow Boomerang (Netherlands # 1)

 

 

Fourth # 1 for Middle Of The Road in Netherlands. They were very successful here.

Previous #1s were : Soley Soley, Sacramento, The Talk Of All The U.S.A. "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" was only on the second place.

Some music from Netherlands charts:

 

My second favourite country in pop music after United Kingdom.

 

February 1973 :

 

Theo & Marjan - Hela Kom Met Me Mee Ja! (Netherlands # 17)

 

 

Middle Of The Road - Yellow Boomerang (Netherlands # 1)

 

 

Fourth # 1 for Middle Of The Road in Netherlands. They were very successful here.

Previous #1s were : Soley Soley, Sacramento, The Talk Of All The U.S.A. "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" was only on the second place.

 

Thanks for your comments alex, and the video links. Ive always been partial to Dutch pop too, though i dont know that Theo & Marjan record, it's pleasantly oom pah pah singalong, and ive been in Dutch pubs and that's exactly the sort of record Ive heard in them:)

 

Yellow Boomerang I got to know when I bought Middle Of The Road hits cd, but didnt know it at the time, which is a shame!

 

cheers!

john

Yellow Boomerang I got to know when I bought Middle Of The Road hits cd, but didnt know it at the time, which is a shame!

 

I also found and bought CD with their hits in 2012.

 

http://www.booklooker.de/images/cover/user/0340/5032/Ym4wNTU4.jpg

 

Trackilist:

1. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

2. Yellow Boomerang

3. Soley Soley

4. Talk Of All The USA

5. Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum

6. Sacramento

7. Samson & Delilah

8. Bottoms Up

9. Kialakee Kialakoo

10. Union Silver

11. Rockin' Soul

12. On This Land

 

MARCH 1973 CHARTS:

 

a bit of glam a bit of soul a bit of MOR a bit of rock a bit of country, old-timers & new-timers, old songs & new songs.

 

The odd chart drop-outs, again, due them dropping prematurely out of the Top 30, otherwise they would have hung about weeks in the upper reaches. Note Geordie at 5 - who? that'll be Brian Johnson of AC/DC then in his glamrock days. Never talks about it, funnily...:)

 

MAR 2ND

 

CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE Slade 1 6 10 11 15

BABY I LOVE YOU Dave Edmunds 2 3 4 5 4

TAKE ME GIRL I'M READY Junior Walker & The All Stars 3 4 out out out

KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG Roberta Flack 4 9 11 12 21

IF IT WASN'T FOR THE REASON THAT I LOVED YOU Miki Anthony 5 out out out out

SYLVIA Focus 6 11 9 9 out

BLOCKBUSTER The Sweet 7 8 6 6 out

LOOKING THRU' THE EYES OF LOVE The Partridge Family/ David Cassidy 8 16 20 19 17

DOCTOR MY EYES The Jackson 5 9 12 13 17 18

CINDY INCIDENTALLY The Faces 10 out out out out

SUPERSTITION Stevie Wonder 11 18 17 out out

HELLO HURRAY Alice Cooper 12 19 out out out

HOCUS POCUS Focus 13 13 out out out

DO YOU WANT TO TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter 14 15 19 16 out

PART OF THE UNION The Strawbs 15 14 18 out out

FEEL THE NEED IN ME The Detroit Emeralds 16 10 3 4 6

THAT'S WHEN THE MUSIC TAKES ME Neil Sedaka 17 17 16 out 9

WISHING WELL Free 18 out out out out

ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN Electric Light Orchestra 19 out out out out

TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS Olivia Newton-John 20 out out out out

YOU ARE EVERYTHING The Pearls bub

REELIN' AND ROCKIN' Chuck Berry bub

I DON'T KNOW WHY Andy & David Williams bub

 

MAR 9TH

 

HEART OF STONE Kenny 1 2 3 10

WHY CAN'T WE LIVE TOGETHER Timmy Thomas 2 5 8 12

GONNA MAKE YOU AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE Jimmy Helms 5 8 13 11

20th CENTURY BOY T.Rex 6 7 10 8

NICE ONE CYRIL Cockeral Chorus 20 out out out

 

 

MAR 16TH

 

LOVE TRAIN The O'Jays 1 1 1

NEVER NEVER NEVER Shirley Bassey 12 14 20

THE LOOK OF LOVE Gladys Knight & The Pips 14 18 out

POWER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Cliff Richard 15 20 14

 

 

MAR 23RD

 

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE Dawn 2 3

PYJAMARAMA Roxy Music 7 7

 

 

MAR 30TH

 

CRAZY Mud 2

ALL BECAUSE OF YOU Geordie 5

TWEEDLEDEE Little Jimmy Osmond 13

PINBALL WIZARD/SEE ME FEEL ME The New Seekers 16

GET DOWN Gilbert O'Sullivan 19

 

 

"Pinball Wizard" is only one single by New Seekers, which I don't like.

Cliff's Eurovision song was good, but Ireland is my huge favourite in this year (Maxi - Do I Dream ?).

 

RTE had a wish to change "Do I Dream" lyrics, but Maxi's manager didn't it.

RTE sent Tina Reynolds, but she didn't have accreditation and couldn't be ESC participant.

Maxi was very nervous and her perfomance wasn't well.

"Pinball Wizard" is only one single by New Seekers, which I don't like.

Cliff's Eurovision song was good, but Ireland is my huge favourite in this year (Maxi - Do I Dream ?).

 

RTE had a wish to change "Do I Dream" lyrics, but Maxi's manager didn't it.

RTE sent Tina Reynolds, but she didn't have accreditation and couldn't be ESC participant.

Maxi was very nervous and her perfomance wasn't well.

 

Thanks Alex, The New Seekers wasnt their best single though Peter Doyle gave a good go at the vocals, and quite an odd single choice really. I still think Cliff's single is under-rated, it's fun, and I dont remember the Ireland entry at all, will have to check it out:)

 

cheers

john

APRIL 1973: All about glam pop n soul for me that year

 

6th April

 

LOVE TRAIN The O'Jays 1 1 1 4

CRAZY Mud 2 2 2 3

HELLO HELLO I'M BACK AGAIN Gary Glitter 3 3 4 15

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE Dawn 4 4 5 7

BABY I LOVE YOU Dave Edmunds 5

ALL BECAUSE OF YOU Geordie 6 5 6 12

FEEL THE NEED IN ME The Detroit Emeralds 7 6 9 9

PYJAMARAMA Roxy Music 8 9 11 17

20th CENTURY BOY T.Rex 9 10 12

THAT'S WHEN THE MUSIC TAKES ME Neil Sedaka 10

 

HEART OF STONE Kenny 11 11 13 16

GONNA MAKE YOU AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE Jimmy Helms 12 12

WHY CAN'T WE LIVE TOGETHER Timmy Thomas 13 13 15

GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU Argent 14 14 14 8

TWEEDLEDEE Little Jimmy Osmond 15 15 16 20

CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE Slade 16 16 17 19

POWER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Cliff Richard 17 17 19

DOCTOR MY EYES The Jackson 5 18

I'M A CLOWN David Cassidy 19 18 18 5

GET DOWN Gilbert O'Sullivan 20 19 20

KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG Roberta Flack 21 21 22

 

BAD WEATHER The Supremes BUB

ALL NIGHT Lynsey De Paul BUB

 

13th April new entries

 

THE RIGHT THING TO DO Carly Simon 7 7 11

DRIVE-IN SATURDAY David Bowie 8 8 10

GOOD GRIEF CHRISTINA Chicory Tip 20 10 2

 

EVERYDAY Don McLean BUB

SING The Carpenters BUB

 

 

20th april new entries

 

SEE MY BABY JIVE Wizzard 3 1

BROTHER LOUIE Hot Chocolate 21 13

 

NEVERTHELESS (I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU) The New Seekers/ Eve Graham BUB

 

 

27th april new entries

 

WAM BAM The Handley Family 6

WONDERFUL DREAM Anne-Marie David 14

MY LOVE Paul McCartney & Wings 18

 

MAY 1973 and The Sweet managed to briefly interrupt my Roy Wood adoration. Posters on the wall, the lot. That said, Middle Of The Road were excluded by chart rules (they didnt make the UK top 30) but had I allowed non-Top 30 records in the chart it's a safe bet that they would grabbed at least one week at the top as I was mad on it for a few weeks playing it over and over on my reel-to-reel tape recorder...

 

4th MAY

 

HELLRAISER The Sweet 1 2 2 2

SEE MY BABY JIVE Wizzard 2 1 1 1

GOOD GRIEF CHRISTINA Chicory Tip 3 3 4 11

CRAZY Mud 4 7 6 OUT

LOVE TRAIN The O'Jays 5 9 OUT OUT

I'M A CLOWN David Cassidy 6 10 7 OUT

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE Dawn 7 12 11 17

GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU Argent 8 OUT OUT OUT

COULD IT BE I'M FALLING IN LOVE The Detroit Spinners 9 6 8 9

DRIVE-IN SATURDAY David Bowie 10 14 12 16

 

THE RIGHT THING TO DO Carly Simon 11 11 OUT OUT

ALL BECAUSE OF YOU Geordie 12 15 14 OUT

BROTHER LOUIE Hot Chocolate 13 17 16 15

WONDERFUL DREAM Anne-Marie David 14 16 17 OUT

HELLO HELLO I'M BACK AGAIN Gary Glitter 15 18 19 18

HEART OF STONE Kenny 16 OUT OUT OUT

PYJAMARAMA Roxy Music 17 20 15 OUT

TWEEDLEDEE Little Jimmy Osmond 18 19 20 OUT

MY LOVE Paul McCartney & Wings 19 OUT OUT OUT

MEAN GIRL Status Quo 20 13 10 14

BESSAME MUCHO Apollo 100 BUB BUB BUB

 

11th MAY new entries

 

ONE AND ONE IS ONE Medecine Head 4 3 7

NO MORE MR NICE GUY Alice Cooper 5 9 13

BROKENDOWN ANGEL Nazereth 8 5 12

TALK OF THE USA Middle Of The Road BUB BUB BUB

 

18th MAY new entries

YOU WANT IT YOU GOT IT The Detroit Emeralds 13 8

2001 (ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA) Deodata 18 19

 

25th MAY new entries

 

CAN THE CAN Suzi Quatro 3

YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE Stevie Wonder 4

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Lou Reed 5

RUBBER BULLETS 10CC 6

WALKING IN THE RAIN The Partridge Family/ David Cassidy 10

ALBATROSS Fleetwood Mac 20

Edited May 4, 201312 yr by popchartfreak