Ranking the 27 #1 Billboard Hits of 1973 . From best to worst.
- “Superstition”- Stevie Wonder
- “Midnight Train To Georgia”- Gladys Knight and The Pips
- “Let’s Get It On”- Marvin Gaye
- “Photograph”- Ringo Starr
- “You’re So Vain”- Carly Simon
- “Give Me Love {Give Me Peace On Earth}- George Harrison
- “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life”-Stevie Wonder
- “Love Train”- The O’Jays
- “Will It Go Round In Circles’- Billy Preston
- “Time In A Bottle” -Jim Croce
- “Brother Louie”- The Stories
- “We’re An American Band”- Grand Funk
- “Angie”- The Rolling Stones
- “Killing Me Softly With His Song”- Roberta Flack
- “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”- Jim Croce
- “Frankenstein”- The Edgar Winter Band
- “Half-Breed”- Cher
- “Keep On Truckin’-Eddie Kendricks
- “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”- Vicki Lawrence
- “Delta Dawn”- Helen Reddy
- “The Most Beautiful Girl”- Charlie Rich
- “Top Of The World”- The Carpenters
- “Crocodile Rock”- Elton John
- “My Love”- Paul McCartney and Wings
- “Touch Me In The Morning”- Diana Ross
- “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree”- Tony Orlando and Dawn
- “The Morning After”- Maureen McGovern
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I know I’ve committed to this before, but music was so wonderfully diverse back in the day.
I miss those days.
Great memories of youthful days in America. I listen to Supertition just recently here on the radio. Indeed that music is for the memories nothing like that today.
I agree!
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A lot of good ones there! ‘Angie’ & ‘Midnight Train to GA’ neck & neck for top billing to me
You and I share the same top 3, and those were also the only 1973 #1’s that Tom Breihan at Stereogum gave a 10/10, so I think they are pretty universally acknowledged to be the best #1’s of 1973.
My personal list would be:
1. Let’s Get It On
2. Midnight Train to Georgia
3. Superstition
4. Time in a Bottle
5. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
6. The Most Beautiful Girl
7. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
8. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
9. Crocodile Rock
10. Love Train
11. Killing Me Softly with His Song
12. Photograph
13. You’re So Vain
14. Angie
15. Top of the World
16. Frankenstein
17. Will It Go Round in Circles
18. Keep on Truckin’
19. We’re an American Band
20. Touch Me in the Morning
21. Brother Louie
22. The Morning After
23. Delta Dawn
24. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
25. My Love
26. Half-Breed
27. Tie a Yellow Ribbon
A fantastic year for #1’s. I personally think only 1978 tops it among 70s years, though my love for 1978 might have a lot to do with my fondness for the disco-era Gibb brothers.
Pretty solid year- I should have added that it was very difficult to rank the songs after the first few.
I like the whole list…all of them.