Sly and the Family Stone hold on to the #1 spot for a FOURTH consecutive week with "Family Affair!" (I honestly did not see that one coming!)
"Have You Seen Her" falls from #2 to #4 ... and Melanie's "Brand New Key" jumps from #7 to #2 to become the most-likely next record to top the chart. (With only one more 1971 chart to go, this would need to happen next week in order for any of us to see it!!! lol)
Michael Jackson, David Cassidy, Three Dog Night and Sonny and Cher all continue to earn bullets this week within The Top Ten ...
And Don McLean's "American Pie" joins them this week, with a 14 point jump from #24 to #10.
Jonathan Edwards' "Sunshine" continues to impress, climbing ten spots from #28 to #18, while "Drowning In The Sea Of Love" by Joe Simon is up 15 places from #38 to #23.
But the big Top 40 winner this week has got to belong to The Jackson Five, as their latest, "Sugar Daddy," makes an amazing 44 point leap from #78 to #34. (And yet seriously, how many of you out there can sing a verse of THIS one???)
Here's a reminder:
Outside The Top 40, "It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)" by The Partridge Family makes a VERY impressive move of 29 notches, moving from #77 to #48 ... and Bob Dylan's "George Jackson" looks like it just might be his 11th Top 40 Hit, as it moves from #61 to #49.
Carly Simon is up eleven places (from #63 to #52) with her latest, "Anticipation" ... and the top debut this week belongs to John and Yoko with their soon-to-be Christmas chestnut, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over"), which premiers at #59.
Not far behind, debuting at #64, is "Levon" by Elton John, another Classic Rock Classic ... while Nilsson premiers at #86 with his reworking of a Badfinger tune, "Without You," a future #1 hit if there ever was one. (Stuck in between all of this is the theme to TV's #1 Hit Series "All In The Family" ... "Those Were The Days" by Archie and Edith Bunker (actually Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton), with their only chart hit ever, which debuts at #78. (Somehow I don't think this one will do as well as the same titled tune recorded by Mary Hopkin a couple of years ago!)
I always liked Heaven Bound's version of "Five Hundred Miles," a much bigger hit here in Chicago (#5) than it was nationally (#79) ... and "Don't Say You Don't Remember" by Beverly Bremers and "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin also make their chart debuts this week at #94 and #96 respectively.
Ahh, yes ...
Remember the days when you could hear a song like "Don't Say You Don't Remember" followed by Led Zeppelin coming out of your car radio when you were out cruisin' the streets at night?!?!?
As Archie and Edith just told us, "Those Were The Days!!!" (kk)
