Rod Stewart jumps into the #1 Spot this week as "Maggie May" climbs from #3 to #1 ... but the BIG mover this week in The Top Ten is "Yo Yo" by The Osmonds, which leaps from #21 to #6. (Will The Osmonds follow Donny into the top spot? Time will tell.)
Big mover honors within The Top 40 this week belong to"I've Found Someone Of My Own" (up from #36 to #25, a move of 11 places), "Trapped By A Thing Called Love" by Denise LaSalle (which moves from #39 to #27, up 12 spots), "Birds Of A Feather" by The Raiders (up 11 spots from #42 to #31), "Never My Love" by The Fifth Dimension (#53 to #33, a jump of TWENTY spots), "One Fine Morning" by Lighthouse (#47 to #37), "Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves" by Cher (up 24 spots from #63 to #39) and "Women's Love Rights" by Laura Lee (#55 to #40, a move of 15 places.)
Top debuts this week belong to James Taylor ("Long Ago And Far Away," new at #67), "What Are You Doing Sunday" by Dawn (#74), "Hot Pants" by Bobby Byrd (#83), "She's All I Got" (#85 for Freddie North) and "Inner City Blues," the latest for Marvin Gaye, which premiers at #86.
But one of the ones that caught my attention was "Questions 67 and 68" by Chicago, a reissue of their first single originally released in 1969. It topped out at #71 the first time around ... but now that the band has had six straight Top 40 Hits, Columbia is running this one back up the flagpole again.
Another one getting some attention is "Your Move" by a new group called Yes ... sort of a prog-rock band out of England that will do pretty well on the album charts ... and still score a few hit pop singles along the way, too.
This Week in 1971:
September 30th – Yes begins their first UK tour with Rick Wakeman on keyboards. (You'll find their first chart hit featured above)
Also on this date, Actress Jenna Elfman is born
October 1st – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida, sixteen years after Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California
Also on this date, pop singer Tiffany is born
