Hit Songs of 1973 – Review

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Here are the top 10 songs of 1973.

First are the hits as listed in Billboard magazine:

  1. “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” – Tony Orlando and Dawn
  2. “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” – Jim Croce
  3. “Killing Me Softly with His Song” – Roberta Flack
  4. “Let’s Get It On” – Marvin Gaye
  5. “My Love” – Paul McCartney and Wings
  6. “Why Me” – Kris Kristofferson
  7. “Crocodile Rock” – Elton John (his first hit)
  8. “Will It Go Round in Circles” – Billy Preston
  9. “You’re So Vain” – Carly Simon (her first hit)
  10. “Touch Me in the Morning” – Diana Ross

This link will take you to the list of the Top 100 of 1973 from Billboard.

Then Cash Box says that these are their top 10:

  1. “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” – Tony Orlando and Dawn
  2. “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” – Jim Croce
  3. “Delta Dawn” – Helen Reddy
  4. “Crocodile Rock” – Elton John
  5. “Touch Me in the Morning” – Diana Ross
  6. My Love” – Paul McCartney and Wings
  7. “You’re So Vain” – Carly Simon
  8. “Playground in My Mind” – Clint Holmes
  9. “Me and Mrs. Jones” – Billy Paul
  10. “Shambala” – Three Dog Night

This link will take you to the Top 100 of 1973 on Cash Box.

I don’t remember the Kris Kristofferson song “Why Me” and it didn’t even make the top 100 songs of 1973 on the Cash Box year end chart. So how was it at #6 on the Billboard chart?