It’s a mere 6 years till my own birth…yikes! Let’s hear what February, 1971 sounded like quick smart!
Songs of the month
- “Amazing Grace” – Judy Collins
- [new] “Amos Moses” – Jerry Reed
- “Black Magic Woman” – Santana
- “Born To Wander” – Rare Earth
- [new] “Doesn’t Somebody Want To Be Wanted” – Partridge Family
- [new] “Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You” – Wilson Pickett
- [new] “For All We Know” – Carpenters
- “For The Good Times” – Ray Price
- “Groove Me” – King Floyd
- [new] “Have You Ever Seen The Rain / Hey Tonight” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- [new] “Help Me Make It Through The Night” – Sammi Smith
- “I Hear You Knockin’” – Dave Edmunds
- “I Really Don’t Want To Know” – Elvis Presley
- “I Think I Love You” – Partridge Family
- “If I Were Your Woman” – Gladys Knight & The Pips
- “If You Could Read My Mind” – Gordon Lightfoot
- “Immigrant Song” – Led Zeppelin
- “It’s Impossible” – Perry Como
- [new] “Jody’s Got Your Girl And Gone” – Johnnie Taylor
- [new] “Just My Imagination” – Temptations
- “Knock Three Times” – Dawn
- [new] “Let Your Love Go” – Bread
- “Lonely Days” – Bee Gees
- “Love The One You’re With” – Stephen Stills
- [new] “Mamma’s Pearl” – Jackson Five
- [new] “Me And Bobbie Mcgee” – Janis Joplin
- “Mr. Bojangles” – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- “My Sweet Lord / Isn’t It A Pity” – George Harrison
- “One Bad Apple” – Osmonds
- “One Less Bell To Answer” – 5Th Dimension
- [new] “Precious Precious” – Jackie Moore
- [new] “Proud Mary” – Ike & Tina Turner
- [new] “Push And Pull” – Rufus Thomas
- “Remember Me” – Diana Ross
- “Rose Garden” – Lynn Anderson
- [new] “She’s A Lady” – Tom Jones
- “Stoned Love” – Supremes
- “Stoney End” – Barbra Streisand
- [new] “Sweet Mary” – Wadsworth Mansion
- [new] “Temptation Eyes” – Grass Roots
- [new] “Theme From Love Story” – Henry Mancini
- “Watching Scotty Grow” – Bobby Goldsboro
- “We Gotta Get You A Woman” – Runt
- “Your Song” – Elton John
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
This month in history
On the 5th the first performance of the musical Grease took place at the Kingston Mines Theater in Chicago. The show would move to New York City and become a long-running hit on Broadway and a popular film.
On February the 10th, banks in the UK closed at 3:30 p.m. in order to rewrite all 25,000,000 bank accounts in the nation in preparation for Decimal Day, not reopening until the following Monday. As a reporter pointed out to non-Britons, “The old currency, the most complicated in the world, divided the pound into 20 shillings and the shilling into 12 pence…”
And on the 16th, in what was later dubbed the “fuddle duddle incident”, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was accused of mouthing obscenities at Opposition MPs in the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa. News reports tastefully reported that MPs sitting across from Trudeau had “accused him of mouthing a two-word expression commonly translated without profanity to mean ‘get lost’” and that “The prime minister later told reporters that he had said ‘fuddle-duddle or something like that’.”
What’d Sadie think?
It’s one more week at the top for “Knock Three Times” by Dawn before”One Bad Apple” by Osmonds takes the spot for three weeks.
Loved ’em
- “For All We Know” – Carpenters
- “Have You Ever Seen The Rain / Hey Tonight” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- “Just My Imagination” – Temptations
- “Me And Bobbie Mcgee” – Janis Joplin
- “Precious Precious” – Jackie Moore
Liked ’em
- “Amos Moses” – Jerry Reed
- “Doesn’t Somebody Want To Be Wanted” – Partridge Family
- “Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You” – Wilson Pickett
- “Help Me Make It Through The Night” – Sammi Smith
- “Jody’s Got Your Girl And Gone” – Johnnie Taylor
- “Let Your Love Go” – Bread
- “Mamma’s Pearl” – Jackson Five
- “Proud Mary” – Ike & Tina Turner
- “Push And Pull” – Rufus Thomas
- “She’s A Lady” – Tom Jones
- “Sweet Mary” – Wadsworth Mansion
- “Temptation Eyes” – Grass Roots
- “Theme From Love Story” – Henry Mancini
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.