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The American Top 40 replay this week on the 70’s on 7- from the week of April 10, 1971. 1971 had to have been the best year for music in the decade of the 70’s. This week features three of my Beatles- with Ringo the only one who was missing. Looking over my final grades 36 of the 40 I have given an A or B. You can’t let- One Bad Apple don’t spoil the whole bunch.
1 1 JUST MY IMAGINATION (Running Away With Me) –•– The Temptations (Gordy)-10 (2 weeks at #1) (1) A
2 5 WHAT’S GOING ON –•– Marvin Gaye (Tamla)-8 (2) A+
3 11 JOY TO THE WORLD –•– Three Dog Night (Dunhill)-5 (3) A-
4 4 SHE’S A LADY –•– Tom Jones (Parrot)-10 (2) A
5 3 FOR ALL WE KNOW –•– The Carpenters (A&M)-10 (3) B+
6 2 ME AND BOBBY McGEE –•– Janis Joplin (Columbia)-11 (1) A+
7 7 DOESN’T SOMEBODY WANT TO BE WANTED –•– The Partridge Family (Starring Shirley Jones and Featuring David Cassidy) (Bell)-9 (6) B+
8 10 ANOTHER DAY / OH WOMAN OH WHY –•– Paul McCartney (Apple)-6 (8)B
9 6 PROUD MARY –•– Ike and Tina Turner (Liberty)-11 (4) A+
10 16 ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE –•– Brewer and Shipley (Kama Sutra)-9 (10) B+
11 12 WILD WORLD –•– Cat Stevens (A&M)-9 (11) A
12 8 HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT –•– Sammi Smith (Mega)-13 (8) A+
13 9 (Where Do I Begin) LOVE STORY –•– Andy Williams (Columbia)-10 (9) C+
14 14 WHAT IS LIFE –•– George Harrison (Apple)-7 (10) A+
15 57 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE –•– Jackson 5 (Motown)-2 (15) A-
16 31 PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND –•– Ocean (Kama Sutra)-5 (16) A
17 21 NO LOVE AT ALL –•– B.J. Thomas (Scepter)-7 (17) B-
18 13 OYE COMO VA –•– Santana (Columbia)-8 (13) A
19 26 I AM…I SAID / DONE TOO SOON –•– Neil Diamond (Uni)-3 (19)A
20 15 TEMPTATION EYES –•– The Grass Roots (Dunhill)-16 (15) B
21 25 LOVE’S LINES, ANGLES AND RHYMES –•– The 5th Dimension (Bell)-7 (21) B
22 27 EIGHTEEN –•– Alice Cooper (Warner Brothers)-8 (22) A
23 23 BLUE MONEY –•– Van Morrison (Warner Brothers)-10 (23) A
24 32 WE CAN WORK IT OUT / NEVER DREAMED YOU’D LEAVE IN SUMMER –•– Stevie Wonder (Tamla)-5 (24) A
25 33 STAY AWHILE –•– The Bells (Polydor)-6 (25) B-
26 19 YOU’RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY –•– Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)-8 (19) A
27 28 HEAVY MAKES YOU HAPPY (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom) –•– The Staple Singers (Stax)-10 (27) A
28 39 IF –•– Bread (Elektra)-3 (28) B
29 29 SOUL POWER (Part 1) –•– James Brown (King)-7 (29) A
30 41 I PLAY AND SING –•– Dawn (Bell)-3 (30) C
31 22 CRIED LIKE A BABY –•– Bobby Sherman (Metromedia)-9 (16) D
32 34 DREAM BABY (How Long Must I Dream) –•– Glen Campbell (Capitol)-5 (32) B-
33 35 WHERE DID THEY GO, LORD / RAGS TO RICHES –•– Elvis Presley (RCA)-5 (33) B
34 18 ONE BAD APPLE –•– The Osmonds (MGM)-15 (1) F-
35 38 BABY LET ME KISS YOU –•– King Floyd (Chimneyville)-5 (35) B
36 17 AMOS MOSES –•– Jerry Reed (RCA)-24 (8) B+
37 20 FREE –•– Chicago (Columbia)-8 (20) B
38 47 FRIENDS –•– Elton John (Uni)-4 (38) B+
39 44 CHICK-A-BOOM (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It) –•– Daddy Dewdrop (Sunflower)-6 (39) B
40 73 POWER TO THE PEOPLE –•– John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band (Apple)-2 (40) A+
slicethelife 
This is pure gold. This looks like a greatest hits of the 70s album on one chart. Blue Money is one you don’t hear as much now.
Its hard to find a complaint about this Top 40 – it’s so good that One Bad Apple seemed more amusing to me than awful. Still F- it was no “Crazy Horses.”
You have to wonder…what would have happened if they followed that road a little more with Crazy Horses. Maybe a tad more respect in remembering them…I can hear their record company now…Don’t Mess with the Formula!
No question it was record company pressure- you are making money don’t fool around you will lose your audience… Interesting that the Jackson 5 were also in this Top 40. I wonder if there was a Top 40 in the first 5 years of the 70’s without having The Osmonds, Jackson’s or Tony Orlando and Dawn in it– seems like they were always there…
We joke about it but you are right…They were the constants…later Captain and Tennille slipped in the later half of the seventies. The Jacksons had a formula but their formula was good…it had soul.
Yes I agree on the Jacksons- they had good songwriters and musicians behind them- and talent too!.. The Osmonds- Jackson 5 ultra light..no calories…. Good point The Captain and Tennille seemed to it up when Tony Orlando and Dawn faded.
This is one hell of a top 40. Hard to choose favorites but my top choice is What is Life. Did you know the video with the girl in yellow is the winner of a contest that put out a call to make a video for this song? You’re right, that one bad apple could not spoil this bunch!
I can’t begin to select the best of this Top 40- so many standouts- I guess if I have to take one – “Me And Bobby McGee”- and I am not a Janis fan.