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Saturday, October 16, 2021

WLS Top 30 for Week of October 11, 1971-- Part 5: 'So Far Away'

Fifty years ago in Chicago's WLS, 890 AM radio.

*  Means the song was climbing the chart.  The number after the artists is how high the song got on the Billboard Hot 100 National Chart.

10.  SO FAR AWAY / SMACKWATER JACK--  Carole King     #14     From that huge album "Tapestry."

9.  GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL--  Donny Osmond    #1  for three weeks.

8.  THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN--  Joan Baez        #3     This song always makes me sad.  Her only Top Ten ever.   She only had one other song in the Top 40, "Diamonds and Rust," but, oh what a voice.

7.  I'VE FOUND SOMEBODY OF MY OWN--  Free Movement    #5

6.  IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME--  Stevie Wonder     #8

5.  SUPERSTAR--  Carpenters   "Long Ago and So Far Away."

4.  YO YO--  Osmonds      #3     The white Jackson 5.

3.  SWEET CITY WOMAN--  Stampeders    #8

2.  DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN--  Lee Michaels    #6

1.  MAGGIE MAY / REASON TO BELIEVE--  Rod Stewart     #1  for five weeks

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Virgil Caine Is My Name And I Drive On The Danville Train."  Answer below.  --RoadDog


"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."  


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