60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
10/12/66 – Denny Laine leaves The Moody Blues (To say the group has gone another direction since their original inception as a blues band would be quite the understatement!) He’ll land on his feet five years later when Paul McCartney recruits him to join his new band, Wings
And the hits … (and the lists!) … just keep on comin’!!!
The Musicradio WABC Top 100 of 1971
Courtesy of the WABC Musicradio 77 Internet Web Site
www.musicradio77.com
1 "Joy to the World" Three Dog Night
2 "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds
3 "Maggie May" Rod Stewart
4 "It's Too Late" Carole King
5 "Knock Three Times" Dawn
6 "Indian Reservation" The Raiders
7 "Shaft" Isaac Hayes
8 "Want Ads" Honey Cone
9 "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
10 "Just My Imagination" The Temptations
11 "Never Can Say Goodbye" The Jackson Five
12 "Rose Garden" Lynn Anderson
13 "Jesus Christ Superstar" Murray Head
14 "Gypsies; Tramps & Thieves" Cher
15 "Mr. Big Stuff" Jean Knight
16 "Superstar" The Carpenters
17 "Go Away Little Girl" Donny Osmond
18 "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" Paul McCartney
19 "Treat Her Like a Lady" Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
20 "Spanish Harlem" Aretha Franklin
21 "Mama's Pearl" The Jackson Five
22 "Have You Seen Her" The Chi-lites
23 "Yo Yo" The Osmonds
24 "One Less Bell to Answer" The Fifth Dimension
25 "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" The Bee Gees
26 "Put Your Hand in The Hand" Ocean
27 "I Feel the Earth Move" Carole King
28 "Don't Pull Your Love" Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
29 "My Sweet Lord" George Harrison
30 "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" The Partridge Family
31 "Rainy Day's and Monday's" The Carpenters
32 "Stay Awhile" Bells
33 "Family Affair" Sly and the Family Stone
34 "Proud Mary" Ike and Tina Turner
35 "Stick Up" Honey Cone
36 "Lonely Days" The Bee Gees
37 "For All We Know" The Carpenters
38 "Brown Sugar" The Rolling Stones
39 "Imagine" John Lennon
40 "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" Joan Baez
41 "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" Marvin Gaye
42 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Aretha Franklin
43 "Take Me Home Country Roads" John Denver
44 "Got To Be There" Michael Jackson
45 "It Don't Come Easy" Ringo Starr
46 "She's a Lady" Tom Jones
47 "Bring the Boys Home" Freda Payne
48 "I Think I Love You" The Partridge Family
49 "You've Got a Friend" James Taylor
50 "Ain't No Sunshine" Bill Withers
51 "It's Impossible" Perry Como
52 "Love Story" Andy Williams
53 "Smiling Faces Sometimes" The Undisputed Truth
54 "Hot Pants" James Brown
55 "Chick a Boom" Daddy Dewdrop
56 "I Am, I Said" Neil Diamond
57 "Stoned Love" The Supremes
58 "Me and Bobby McGee" Janis Joplin
59 "Baby I'm a Want You" Bread
60 "Do You Know What I Mean" Lee Michaels
61 "What the World Needs Now is Love" Tom Clay
62 "Sweet and Innocent" Donny Osmond
63 "Mr. Bojangles" Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
64 "Draggin' the Line" Tommy James
65 "Reason to Believe" Rod Stewart
66 "Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
67 "Free" Chicago
68 "Immigrant Song" Led Zeppelin
69 "Story in Your Eyes" The Moody Blues
70 "Peace Train" Cat Stevens
71 "Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You" Wilson Pickett
72 "Scorpio" Dennis Coffey
73 "Love the One You're With" Isley Brothers
74 "Black Magic Woman" Santana
75 "What You See is What You Get" The Dramatics
76 "Your Song" Elton John
77 "If I Were Your Woman" Gladys Knight and the Pips
78 "I've Found Someone of My Own" Free Movement
79 "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" The Persuaders
80 "That's the Way I've Always Heard it Should Be" Carly Simon
81 "She's Not Just Another Woman" Eighth Day
82 "Pay to the Piper" Chairmen of the Board
83 "Trapped By a Thing Called Love" Denise La Salle
84 "Make it Funky" James Brown
85 "Cherish" David Cassidy
86 "Hymn 43" Jethro Tull
87 "Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who
88 "Funky Nassau" Beginning of the End
89 "Brand New Key" Melanie
90 "Rock Steady" Aretha Franklin
91 "Stoney End" Barbra Streisand
92 "Inner City Blues" Marvin Gaye
93 "If You Could Read My Mind" Gordon Lightfoot
94 "All I Ever Need is You" Sonny and Cher
95 "Another Day" Paul McCartney
96 "River Deep, Mountain High" The Supremes and The Four Tops
97 "American Pie" Don McLean
98 "Signs" Five Man Electrical Band
99 "If You Really Love Me" Stevie Wonder
100 "Sweet City Woman" The Stampeders
Thanks to John Pulimia for this one!!! (kk)
Hi Kent,
I’m very much enjoying all the attention to the “1971” lists that you are publishing on your blogspot.
For the past six years I’ve been putting together video compilations of my own “lists,” starting with my Top 65 of 1965 and, since I turned 71 last month, now my Top 71 of 1971. Since I’m living in The Netherlands (Europe) but also lived in the US early 80’s for some 1.5 year, my list is a mix of tracks that you will know and tracks that you probably have never heard before. But, L.A. Goodbye ends up much higher in my list than in the WLS list 😉
I’m attaching the list of my Top 71 of 1971 for you to see which tracks you are familiar with and how many you are not familiar with.
Kind regards
Ben Meijering
There are quite a few titles here that I’m not familiar with, for sure … but still some great tracks on this list. Thanks for sending, Ben! (kk)
The official Aerosmith poster for their two Hollywood Bowl gigs. The band is promising “more surprises” to come … this is starting to sound like one of those all-day shows they used to hold in the ‘70’s!!! (kk)
The first “surprise guest” will be Guns n’ Roses … more to follow! (kk)
Here’s another one of those “The Monkees were the first boy band” articles … this one sent in by Tom Cuddy …
https://www.salon.com/2026/09/25/the-monkees-was-our-first-boy-band/
Tom also sent us this article on Sheryl Crow … and the current state of the music business …
Sheryl Crow says she’s 'losing a ton of money' with her latest album as she reflects on fame, cancer and ageing out of radio
(actually, she said a “shit-ton of money” … but this is a family show) …
This, too, from Tom Cuddy …
A new PBS special celebrating the music of Jimmy Webb, featuring vocal interpretations by Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, Ashley Campbell (Glen’s daughter, who had a few major hits, thanks to Mr. Webb), Ryan Shaw, Sheléa and Jimmy Webb himself.
It airs October 30th.
“Up, Up and Away” – Jimmy Webb
“The Worst That Could Happen” – Ryan Shaw
“The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” – Ryan Shaw
“All I Know” – Ashley Campbell
“Shattered” – Sheléa
“Still Within the Sound of My Voice” – Ryan Shaw and Sheléa
“If These Walls Could Speak” – Lyle Lovett
“By the Time I Get to Phoenix” – Vince Gill
“Galveston” – Lyle Lovett
“Wichita Lineman” – Vince Gill
“The Highwayman” – Jimmy Webb, Lyle Lovett, Vince Gill and Ashley Campbell
“Didn’t We” – Jimmy Webb
“MacArthur Park” – Sheléa
“Adios” – Jimmy Webb and Ashley Campbell
“If You See Me Getting Smaller, I’m Leaving” – Jimmy Webb
kk ...
Cousin Brucie interviewed Joey Dee on his program Saturday Night.
Joey Talked About His Book. "THE PEPPERMINT TWIST CHRONICLES" ... My True Story Of Sex + R & R + Jimi Hendrix, Fighting Racism & The Mob.
It's A Tell All Book About The Beatles, The FBI, Joe Pesci, Dick Clark & More.
Joe Pesci's First Movie Was "HEY LETS TWIST."
Joey Dee Danced The Twist With Judy Garland + Marilyn Monroe & Others.
Morris Levy Never Gave Him Any Royalties.
He Announced That Frankie Valli & Felix Cavaliere Will Be Recording Together Soon.
Joey Said His Favorite Of All His Recordings Is "WHAT KIND OF LOVE IS THIS?"
That's Also My Favorite.
FB
I talked to Joey just about a year ago ... we discussed running some in-depth features spotlighting some of the chapters of his book ... Joey seemed to like the idea but was heading out for a short tour and was supposed to get back to me once he got back home. He was going to send me a copy of the book so we could pick out which stories we wanted to follow-up on ... but it never happened. (It's supposed to be a REALLY good book ... in a Tommy James sort of way.)
I met Joey's son Ronnie when John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band performed at The Arcada Theatre last year. (Ronnie is an AMAZING sax player!)
I'll have to follow up with them again next month when John & Company return to Chicago for a gig at The Des Plaines Theatre on November 14th, backing up John Waite ... get your tickets here:
Timmy sent us this photo of Shotgun Kelly being inducted into The Radio Hall Of Fame …
Actually, we love ol' Shotgun Tom ... so congratulations again on this milestone achievement ... along with another nod to one of our radio favorites, Fred Winston! (kk)
Speaking of which, another "Final Reminder" to tune in to WLS Unwound this evening from 7-9 pm Central Time to catch some lively conversation between Fred, newsman Lyle Dean, host Scott Childers and WLS Jock Jeff Davis ... WLSAM.com (kk)
https://ramp247.com/programming/wls-gets-unwound-again-on-sunday/