Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.

Monday, March 15, 2021

WLS Top Ten for Week of March 15, 1971: 'What's Going On'

These were the Top Ten songs as well as debuts on Chicago's WLS 890 AM fifty years ago today.  The two top radio stations in Chicago were WLS and its rival, WCFL 1000 AM.

1.  DOESN'T SOMEBODY WANT TO BE WANTED--  Partridge Family

2.  ME AND BOBBY McGEE--  Janis Joplin

3.  SHE'S A LADY--  Tom Jones  Whenever I hear this song, I think about the time fraternity brother Tom Smith and I went down to Florida for Spring break in 1971.

4.  FOR ALL WE KNOW--  Carpenters

5.  JUST MY IMAGINATION--  Temptations

6.  WHAT'S GOING ON--  Marvin Gaye

7.  BLUE MONDAY--  Van Morrison

8.  ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE--  Brewer & Shipley

9.  LOVES, LINES, ANGLES & RHYMES--  Fifth Dimension

10.  MAMA'S PEARL--  Jackson Five

***********************************

DEBUTS

23.  ANOTHER DAY--  Paul McCartney

28.  WE CAN WORK IT OUT--  Stevie Wonder

29.  YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY--  Aretha Franklin

30.  EIGHTEEN--  Alice Cooper

HIT PARADE BOUND   I AM... I SAID--  Neil Diamond

Name That Tune (from the Above Songs):  "Drinks Another Coffee And She Finds It Hard To Stay Awake."  Answer below.  --RoadDog



"Another Day"


No comments: