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Tony Orlando and Dawn had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the number one song of 1973. Stevie Wonder had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
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]
1 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 2 (U.S Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles) - 11 (Canada) - 14 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary) "All I Know" Art Garfunkel: August 1973: 9: n/a: 1 (Canada) 1 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 6 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 7 (Canada) - 17 (New Zealand) - 36 (Australia) "Alright Alright Alright" Mungo Jerry: June ...
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]
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1973 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring ten hit recordings from 1973. All tracks on the album reached the top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 , with eight of the songs going to No. 1 on the chart.