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

Saturday, April 15, 2023

WLS Top 23 for Week of April 12, 1973-- Part 4: ''Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree'

Fifty years ago is a real long time.  Right?

* Means the song was climbing the charts.  The number after the artist is how high the song got on the Billboard Hot 100 National Charts.

10,  BREAK UP TO MAKE UP--  Stylistics   #5    I'd forgotten about this one, but glad I was reminded.  A great belly-rubber.

9.  SING--  Carpenters    #3       Feeling down?  Listen to this song and let a smile be your guide.

8.  LOVE TRAIN--  O'Jays    #1

7.  DANNY'S SONG--  Anne Murray    #7

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I doubt that there has ever been six longer-titled songs in the Top Six at one time.  I started typing these three days ago.

6.  *TIE A YELLOW RIBBON 'ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE--  Dawn    #1

5.  ALSO SPRACH ZARATHISTRA--  Deodato     #2   Only Top 40.

4.  NEITHER ONE OF US (WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO SAY GOODBYE)--  Gladys Knight & the Pips    #2

3.  KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG--  Roberta Flack    #1   for five weeks

2.  *AIN'T NO WOMAN LIKE THE ONE I GOT--  Four Tops    #4

1.  *THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA--  Vickie Lawrence   #1   Her only-ever Top 40.

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Strumming My Pain With His Fingers, Singing My Life With His Words."


"Killing Me Softly With His Song"


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