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1973 Singles - Month By Month

JANUARY

• "Control Of Me" - Les Emerson (#51)
• "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (G) (#6)
• "Danny's Song" - Anne Murray (#7)
• "Dead Skunk" - Loudon Wainwright III (#16)
• "Don't Cross The River" - America (#35)
• "Dueling Banjos"- Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandel (G) (#2)
• "Hummingbird" - Seals & Crofts (#20)
• "I Got Ants In My Pants" - James Brown (#27)
• "Killing Me Softly With His Song" - Roberta Flack (G) (#1)
• "Little Willy" - The Sweet (G) (#3)
• "Love Train" - The O'Jays (G) (#1)
• "Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)" - Gladys Knight & the Pips (G) (#2)
• "Rosalie" - Sam Neely (#43)
• "Space Oddity" - David Bowie (#15)
• "Today I Started Loving You Again" - Bettye Swan (#46)

FEBRUARY

• "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)" - The Four Tops (G) (#4)
• "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" - Deodato (#2)
• "Aubrey" - Bread (#15)
• "Break Up To Make Up" - The Stylistics (G) (#5)
• "Call Me (Come Back Home)" - Al Green (G) (#10)
• "Drift Away" - Dobie Gray (G) (#5)
• "Funky Worm" - The Ohio Players (G) (#15)
• "I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)" - The Moody Blues (#12)
• "Masterpiece" - The Temptations (#7)
• "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" - Vicki Lawrence (G) (#1)
• "Sail On Sailor" - The Beach Boys (#79)
• "Sing" - Carpenters (G) (#3)
• "Stir It Up" - Johnny Nash (#12)
• "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree" - Dawn (G) (#1)
• "Wildflower" - Skylark (#9)

MARCH

• "Cisco Kid" - War (G) (#2)
• "Frankenstein" - The Edgar Winter Group (G) (#1)
• "Hearts Of Stone" - The Blue Ridge Rangers (#37)
• "Hocus Pocus" - Focus (#9)
• "If We Try" - Don McLean (#58)
• "Out Of The Question" - Gilbert O'Sullivan (#17)
• "Pillow Talk" - Sylvia (G) (#3)
• "Playground In My Mind" - Clint Holmes (G) (#2)
• "Reeling In The Years" - Steely Dan (#11)
• "The Right Thing To Do" - Carly Simon (#17)
• "Stuck In The Middle With You" - Stealer's Wheel (G) (#6)
• "Thinking Of You" - Loggins & Messina (#18)
• "The Twelfth Of Never" - Donny Osmond (G) (#8)
• "Will It Go Round In Circles" - Billy Preston (G) (#1)
• "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" - Stevie Wonder (G) (#1)

APRIL

• "And I Love You So" - Perry Como (#29)
• "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce (G) (#1)
• "Behind Closed Doors" - Charlie Rich (G) (#15)
• "Daniel" - Elton John (G) (#2)
• "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O'Dee" - Jerry Lee Lewis (#41)
• "Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation" - The Dells (G) (#34)
• "Leaving Me" - The Independents (G) (#21)
• "Long Train Runnin'" - The Doobie Brothers (#8)
• "My Love" - Paul McCartney & Wings (G) (#1)
• "Natural High" - Bloodstone (G) (#10)
• "One Of A Kind (Love Affair)" - The Spinners (G) (#11)
• "Right Place, Wrong Time" - Dr. John (#9)
• "Steamroller Blues" - Elvis Presley (#17)
• "Why Me" - Kris Kristofferson (G) (#16)
• "You Can't Always Get What You Want" - The Rolling Stones (#42)

MAY

• "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - Bette Midler (#8)
• "California Saga (On My Way To Sunny Californ-i-a)" - The Beach Boys (#84)
• "Diamond Girl" - Seals & Crofts (G) (#6)
• "Dueling Tubas" - Martin Mull (#92)
• "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" - George Harrison (G) (#1)
• "Hey You! Get Off My Mountain" - The Dramatics (#53)
• "Kodachrome" - Paul Simon (#2)
• "Money" - Pink Floyd (#13)
• "Monster Mash" (re-entry) - Bobby "Boris" Pickett (G) (#10)
• "Shambala" - Three Dog Night (G) (#3)
• "Smoke On The Water" - Deep Purple (G) (#4)
• "Swamp Witch" - Jim Stafford (#39)
• "What About Me" - Anne Murray (#64)
• "With A Child's Heart" - Michael Jackson (#50)
• "You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" - The Stylistics (#23)

JUNE

• "Are You Man Enough" - The Four Tops (#15)
• "Brother Louie" - The Stories (G) (#1)
• "Delta Dawn" - Helen Reddy (G) (#1)
• "Doing It To Death" - Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s (G) (#22)
• "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" - Chicago (#10)
• "Get Down" - Gilbert O'Sullivan (G) (#7)
• "How Can I Tell Her" - Lobo (#22)
• "I Believe In You (You Believe In Me)" - Johnnie Taylor (G) (#11)
• "I'll Always Love My Mama" - The Intruders (#36)
• "If You Want Me To Stay" - Sly & the Family Stone (G) (#12)
• "The Morning After" - Maureen McGovern (G) (#1)
• "Tequila Sunrise" - The Eagles (#64)
• "Touch Me In The Morning" - Diana Ross (G) (#1)
• "Watergate" - Dickie Goodman (#42)
• "Yesterday Once More" - Carpenters (G) (#2)

JULY

• "Angel" - Aretha Franklin (#20)
• "Bongo Rock" - The Incredible Bongo Band (#57)
• "Clouds" - David Gates (#47)
• "Didn't I" - Sylvia (#70)
• "Gypsy Man" - War (#8)
• "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)" - Al Green (G) (#10)
• "Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye (G) (#1)
• "Live And Let Die" - Wings (G) (#2)
• "A Million To One/Young Love" - Donny Osmond (#23)
• "My Maria" - B.W. Stevenson (#9)
• "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose?" - Dawn (G) (#3)
• "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)" - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen (#94)
• "Sylvia" - Focus (#89)
• "That Lady (Part 1)" - The Isley Brothers (G) (#6)
• "We're An American Band" - Grand Funk (G) (#1)

AUGUST

• "Ashes To Ashes" - The 5th Dimension (#52)
• "China Grove" - The Doobie Brothers (#15)
• "Ghetto Child" - The Spinners (#29)
• "Half-Breed" - Cher (G) (#1)
• "Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)" - The Temptations (#35)
• "Higher Ground" - Stevie Wonder (#4)
• "Keep On Truckin'" - Eddie Kendricks (G) (#1)
• "Loves Me Like A Rock" - Paul Simon (G) (#2)
• "Muskrat Love" - America (#67)
• "Ramblin' Man" - The Allman Brothers Band (#2)
• "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" - Elton John (G) (#12)
• "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy" - James Brown (#50)
• "Twistin' The Night Away" - Rod Stewart (#59)
• "You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" - Ray Price (#82)
• "You've Never Been This Far Before" - Conway Twitty (#22)

SEPTEMBER

• "All I Know" - Art Garfunkel (#9)
• "Angie" - The Rolling Stones (G) (#1)
• "Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces" - Cheech & Chong (#15)
• "Heartbeat - It's A Lovebeat" - The DeFranco Family (G) (#3)
• "Just You 'N' Me" - Chicago (G) (#4)
• "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - Bob Dylan (#12)
• "The Love I Lost (Part 1)" - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (G) (#7)
• "Midnight Train To Georgia" - Gladys Knight & the Pips (G) (#1)
• "The Most Beautiful Girl" - Charlie Rich (G) (#1)
• "Outlaw Man" - The Eagles (#59)
• "Paper Roses" - Marie Osmond (G) (#5)
• "Raised On Rock/For Ol' Times Sake" - Elvis Presley (#41)
• "Rubber Bullets" - 10cc (#73)
• "Space Race" - Billy Preston (G) (#4)
• "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" - Seals & Crofts (#21)

OCTOBER

• "Cheaper To Keep Her" - Johnnie Taylor (#15)
• "Corazon" - Carole King (#37)
• "Dream On" - Aerosmith (#6)
• "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John (G) (#2)
• "Hello, It's Me" - Todd Rundgren (#5)
• "I Got A Name" - Jim Croce (#10)
• "If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)" - The Staple Singers (G) (#9)
• "The Joker" - Steve Miller (G) (#1)
• "Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up" - Barry White (G) (#7)
• "Photograph" - Ringo Starr (G) (#1)
• "Rockin' Roll Baby" - The Stylistics (#14)
• "Show And Tell" - Al Wilson (G) (#1)
• "Smokin' In The Boys' Room" - Brownsville Station (G) (#3)
• "Top Of The World" - Carpenters (G) (#1)
• "You're A Special Part Of Me" - Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye (#12)

NOVEMBER

• "Come Get To This" - Marvin Gaye (#21)
• "Frisky" - Sly & the Family Stone (#79)
• "Helen Wheels" - Paul McCartney & Wings (#10)
• "I've Got To Use My Imagination" - Gladys Knight & the Pips (G) (#4)
• "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" - Helen Reddy (G) (#3)
• "Let Me Be There" - Olivia Newton-John (G) (#6)
• "Living For The City" - Stevie Wonder (#8)
• "Mind Games" - John Lennon (#18)
• "Rock On" - David Essex (G) (#5)
• "Smarty Pants" - First Choice (#56)
• "Spiders & Snakes" - Jim Stafford (G) (#3)
• "Time In A Bottle" - Jim Croce (G) (#1)
• "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" - Aretha Franklin (G) (#3)
• "The Way We Were" - Barbra Streisand (G) (#1)
• "Who's In The Strawberry Patch With Sally" - Dawn (#27)

DECEMBER

• "American Tune" - Paul Simon (#35)
• "Blue Collar" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive (#68)
• "A Fool Such As I" - Bob Dylan (#55)
• "Hangin' Around" - The Edgar Winter Group (#65)
• "I Love" - Tom T. Hall (#12)
• "It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring)" - Love Unlimited (#83)
• "Jim Dandy" - Black Oak Arkansas (#25)
• "Livin' For You" - Al Green (#19)
• "Love, Reign O'er Me" - The Who (#76)
• "A Love Song" - Anne Murray (#12)
• "Love's Theme" - The Love Unlimited Orchestra (G) (#1)
• "Showdown" - The Electric Light Orchestra (#53)
• "Stoned To The Bone" - James Brown (#58)
• "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" - Melanie (#82)
• "You're Sixteen" - Ringo Starr (G) (#1)

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