{"id":1953,"date":"2015-01-16T21:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T05:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:45:20","slug":"music-friday-1973-billboard-hot-100-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-1973-billboard-hot-100-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; 1973 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-1973-billboard-hot-100-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; 1973 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>Welcome to this week&#8217;s Music Friday installment in the project to determine my peak music year. \u00a0We are in the home stretch, since starting at 1965 we are now up to the year 1973 with only two more years to go after this. \u00a0An initial observation &#8211; as we plow forward from the 60&#8217;s into the 1970&#8217;s, I&#8217;m feeling less personal attachent to the music in the BillBoard Hot 100 chart. \u00a0One reason for this may be that at this time in my life I was in high school and though I was still exposed to the popular music through the magic of AM Radio (what we had in cars in those days), most of my serious music fare was consumed through my (and my friends&#8217;) growing personal music collections and the burgeoning free form FM radio format. \u00a0There was little common ground between the AM and FM playlists of the day, and the culture I was part of at that time was more in touch with the FM genre. \u00a0So, like I said &#8211; an observation.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/archive\/charts\/1973\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 1973 BillBoard Hot 100<\/a>. \u00a0This year is similar to 1972 in that it&#8217;s a bit of a smorgasbord, though lighter on the bubblegum and with only a little weirdness. \u00a0And still, three solo Beatles managed to crack #1 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_McCartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul McCartney<\/a> with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vx5QxoWCG-I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Love<\/a>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ringo_Starr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Harrison<\/a> with<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/s-KAvPbO8JY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Give Me Love<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ringo_Starr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ringo Starr<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3MubU8qHutY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Photograph<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Another interesting tidbit is that with the exception of only five songs, none of the #1&#8217;s spent more than two consecutive weeks at the top spot. \u00a0And of those five songs, three spent 4 weeks apiece at the top, and two spent three weeks apiece there. \u00a0And finally, no artist or group had multiple #1 songs that year. \u00a0So there was no easy obvious runaway &#8220;winner&#8221; this year, and I could easily call it a three way tie much like I called 1972 a four way tie. \u00a0Perhaps we&#8217;ll take a poll of the comments? \u00a0Of course that would require you, dear reader, to leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Here I will present the three songs that spent four weeks apiece at #1, and you can choose your favorite from among them. \u00a0First is by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roberta_Flack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roberta Flack<\/a>, <em>Killing Me Softly<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k4A5XuMz_Tw?si=Ud2Org6M59xj9bMu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next is the bubblegum entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Orlando_and_Dawn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Orlando &amp; Dawn<\/a> with <em>Tie A Yellow Ribbon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yGBw4pmR5ro\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_McCartney_and_Wings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul McCartney &amp; Wings<\/a> with <em>My Love<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vx5QxoWCG-I\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nice mullet, McCartney. \u00a0The last offering is the only song of the three that I could say I really like, being a Beatle and McCartney fan. \u00a0But it&#8217;s nowhere near my favorite McCartney tune. \u00a0Even the other songs aren&#8217;t horrible, they just aren&#8217;t for me. \u00a0Safe Bet: \u00a01973 is NOT my peak music year. \u00a0That&#8217;s all for now &#8211; thanks for watching&#8230;err&#8230;reading. \u00a0Listening! \u00a0Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket. \u00a0See \u00a0you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Welcome to this week&#8217;s Music Friday installment in the project to determine my peak music year. \u00a0We are in the home stretch, since starting at 1965 we are now up to the year 1973 with only two more years to go after this. \u00a0An&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}