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War had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1973. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 29, 1973, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 25, 1972 through November 17, 1973.
Head Hunters is the twelfth studio album by American pianist, keyboardist and composer Herbie Hancock, released October 26, 1973, on Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in the evening at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co. in San Francisco , California .
There were a total of 105 singles that were in the Top 10 (97 of those peaked in 1973, four had peaked in late 1972, and four would peak in early 1974). Stevie Wonder, Elton John, The Carpenters, Paul McCartney and Wings, Jim Croce, War, and Al Green each had three top-ten hits in 1973, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.
Hancock had grown dissatisfied with his prior band, Mwandishi, and wanted to make a band with a stronger funk component. [1] He chose the name of the group, "Headhunters", while doing Buddhist chanting. [1] The name pleased him because it made a triple reference to the jungle, to intellectual concerns, and to sexual activity. [1]
The longest running number one single of 1973 is "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Roberta Flack which stayed at the top spot for five non-consecutive weeks. That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as Carly Simon , Elton John , The O'Jays , Vicki Lawrence , The Edgar Winter Group , Wings , Jim Croce , Maureen McGovern ...
At Columbia, Hancock had his best commercial results, gaining immediate success with Head Hunters (1973), an R&B-oriented jazz album with strong funk influences. It peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 [4] and became the best-selling jazz album for a period of time.
The Kentucky Headhunters have released ten studio albums, three compilations, and twenty-three singles. Their highest-peaking single is a cover of the Don Gibson song "Oh Lonesome Me," which the band took to number eight on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in 1990.
In 2008, for the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100, Billboard magazine compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing songs on the chart over the 50 years, along with the best-performing artists. [1] In 2013, Billboard revised the rankings for the chart's 55th anniversary edition. [2] In 2015, Billboard revised the rankings again. [3]