{"id":1927,"date":"2015-01-01T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T07:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2015-01-01T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T07:33:10","slug":"music-friday-1971-billboard-hot-100-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-1971-billboard-hot-100-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; 1971 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-1971-billboard-hot-100-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; 1971 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the latest installment in my quest to determine my &#8220;peak music year&#8221;. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about you may want to take a few minutes \u00a0in the wayback machine and read these previous posts for context:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1683\" target=\"_blank\">What Does My Taste In Music Say About Me?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1801\" target=\"_blank\">Music Friday 1965 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1826\" target=\"_blank\">Music Friday 1966 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1841\" target=\"_blank\">Music Friday 1967 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1850\" target=\"_blank\">Music Friday 1968 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1884\" target=\"_blank\">Music Friday 1969 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1914\" target=\"_blank\">Music Friday 1970 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All caught up? \u00a0Good. \u00a0Let&#8217;s now embark on our analysis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/archive\/charts\/1971\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\">1971 BillBoard Hot 100<\/a>. \u00a0As you may remember from the earlier posts, the charts from 1965 through 1969 tended to be dominated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Beatles\" target=\"_blank\">The Beatles.<\/a> \u00a0They did also appear on, but did not dominate, the 1970 chart. \u00a01971 is the first chart in the post-Beatles era, the band having broken up in 1970. \u00a0We do see, however, the appearance of two former Beatles &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_McCartney\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Harrison\" target=\"_blank\">George Harrison<\/a> on the chart; \u00a0Harrison for three weeks at #1 (<em>My Sweet Lord\/Isn&#8217;t It A Pity<\/em>) and McCartney for one week at #1 (<em>Uncle Albert\/Admiral Halsey<\/em>). \u00a0That observation aside, 1971 seems to be a year of confusion, with an odd mixture of rock and roll with counterculture overtones, moderate to extreme bubblegum pop and a few I&#8217;m not sure what the hell to call this weirdness one hit wonders. \u00a0You can click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/archive\/charts\/1971\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\">here to see the chart for yourself.<\/a> \u00a0I suppose in hindsight that the times were somewhat turbulent and the chart may be a refection of the fact that America was searching for it&#8217;s soul in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>Since I do not see a clear runaway winner this year, I&#8217;m going for the group that had the song with the longest stretch at #1, six weeks, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Dog_Night\" target=\"_blank\">Three Dog Night<\/a> with <em>Joy To The World:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pMHZh5XlOVA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a tune that is more commercial than counterculture and maybe even flirts modestly with bubblegum. \u00a0It seems to be ultimately a kind of effervescent, uplifting and non-controversial song that may have been just what the coutry was looking for. \u00a0Or I have a good imagination. \u00a0No matter. \u00a0So 1971 was a stange music year, and most likely not my peak music year. \u00a0In fact there really isn&#8217;t a song in the bunch that excites me enough to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> and find a video to embed. \u00a0I mean, there are a few notables in there, but this is after all a project to determine <em><strong>My<\/strong><\/em> peak music year not everybody else&#8217;s. \u00a0So your mileage may vary. \u00a0If you&#8217;re a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Orlando_and_Dawn\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Orlando &amp; Dawn <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Osmonds\" target=\"_blank\">The Osmonds<\/a> then 1971 may be your peak music year. \u00a0But I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet It&#8217;s time for the latest installment in my quest to determine my &#8220;peak music year&#8221;. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about you may want to take a few minutes \u00a0in the wayback machine and read these previous posts for context: What Does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}