Apple Records rules the roost this week as Badfinger and Ringo Starr have the top two records on this KWBW chart from Hutchinson, Kansas.
"Suavecito" by Malo can again be found in The Top Ten, as can "Be My Lover" by Alice Cooper in The Top Twenty ... (how can these two records not have been bigger national hits???) ... but we also see some songs that you don't typically see on your Top 40 Countdowns as well ...
Songs like "Jambalaya" by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (at #13 ... and already showing as simply "The Dirt Band" years before they would switch over to that moniker), "What'd I Say" by Rare Earth (#22), Fanny's version of "Ain't That Peculiar" right behind it at #23 (I always LOVED their version of this song), "Louisiana" by Mike Kennedy, "Life And Breath" by Climax (their follow-up to "Precious And Few," still charting at #44), "Manhattan, Kansas" by Glen Campbell (I guess that one makes sense!), "Taos, New Mexico" by R. Dean Taylor (who had already left Indiana and was apparently on a city-to-city chart-sweep of his own!) and "Brother Tree" by The Rascals, a song that didn't even bubble-under on the national charts.
You'll also find a couple of our own recent discoveries listed here ... "Love Me Love Me Love" by Frank Mills and "One Good Woman" by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds ... as well as one of my all-time favorite Guess Who rockers, "Heartbroken Bopper," which is this week's #39 record. (I have always maintained that Steven Tyler and Aerosmith may have borrowed a little bit from this track in defining their overall sound!)
