1971: WABC New York Top 20 this week

We remember this week in 1971.  It was a pretty good list in the very early 1970′s.   

At # 16, Chicago and the “45″ version of “Beginnings”.  The LP version was actually released in 1968 in that great LP simply called “Chicago Transit Authority”.  The original version was very long, as I recall.

So here is the Top 20 at WABC New York:

  1. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart                            
                               The Bee Gees (Atco) 
  2. Draggin’ the Line – Tommy James (Roulette)                 
  3. You’ve Got a Friend – James Taylor (Warner Brothers)       
  4. Indian Reservation (The Lament of the                        
          Cherokee Reservation Indian) – The Raiders (Columbia)  
  5. Bring the Boys Home – Freda Payne (Invictus)                
  6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Marvin Gaye (Tamla)         
  7. Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver (RCA)            
  8. It’s Too Late – Carole King (Ode)                           
  9. Mr. Big Stuff – Jean Knight (Stax)                          
 10. Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got                       
            to Get What She Wants) Pt. 1 – James Brown (People)  
 11. Spanish Harlem – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)                
 12. Don’t Pull Your Love -                                       
                       Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds (Dunhill)  
 13. What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin & John -    
                                              Tom Clay (Mowest) 
 14. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get – The Dramatics (Volt)          
 15. K-Jee – The Nite-Liters (RCA)                              
 16. Beginnings – Chicago (Columbia)                            
 17. Signs – The Five Man Electrical Band (Lionel)              
 18. Sooner or Later – The Grass Roots (Dunhill)                
 19. Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers (Sussex)                  –
 20. Sweet Hitch-Hiker – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)