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It’s June, 1973

Written by

Thomas Scovell

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It’s nearly midway through 1973 in our journey through music history, let’s hear the sounds of June…

Songs of the month

  • [new] “And I Love You So” – Perry Como
  • [new] “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” – Jim Croce
  • [new] “Behind Closed Doors” – Charlie Rich
  • [new] “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” – Bette Midler
  • [new] “Daddy Could Swear I Declare” – Gladys Knight And The Pips
  • “Daniel” – Elton John
  • [new] “Diamond Girl” – Seals And Crofts
  • [new] “Doin’ It To Death” – Fred Wesley And The Jb’s
  • “Drift Away” – Dobie Gray
  • “Frankenstein” – Edgar Winter Group
  • “Funky Worm” – Ohio Players
  • [new] “Give It To Me” – J. Geils Band
  • [new] “Give Me Love Give Me Peace On Earth” – George Harrison
  • “Hocus Pocus” – Focus
  • “I’m Doin’ Fine Now” – New York City
  • “I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby” – Barry White
  • “It Sure Took A Long Long Time” – Lobo
  • [new] “Kodachrome” – Paul Simon
  • “Leaving Me” – Independents
  • “Little Willy” – Sweet
  • “Long Train Runnin’” – Doobie Brothers
  • [new] “Long Train Running” – Doobie Brothers
  • [new] “Money” – Pink Floyd
  • “My Love” – Paul Mccartney And Wings
  • [new] “Natural High” – Bloodstone
  • “No More Mr. Nice Guy” – Alice Cooper
  • “One Of A Kind” – Spinners
  • [new] “One Of A Time” – Spinners
  • “Pillow Talk” – Sylvia
  • “Playground In My Mind” – Clint Holmes
  • “Reeling In The Years” – Steely Dan
  • “Right Place Wrong Time” – Dr. John
  • [new] “Shambala” – Three Dog Night
  • [new] “Smoke On The Water” – Deep Purple
  • [new] “So Very Hard To Go” – Tower Of Power
  • “Steamroller Blues” – Elvis Presley
  • “Stuck In The Middle With You” – Stealers Wheel
  • “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia” – Vicki Lawrence
  • “The Right Thing To Do” – Carly Simon
  • “Thinking Of You” – Loggins And Messina
  • “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree” – Dawn
  • “Wildflower” – Skylark
  • “Will It Go Round In Circles” – Billy Preston
  • [new] “Yesterday Once More” – Carpenters
  • “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life” – Stevie Wonder
  • [new] “You’ll Never Get To Heaven” – Stylistics

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
A more usually boisterous intro from Sadie this week!

This month in history

On the 13th U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered a 60-day freeze on prices for all groceries and for gasoline, to be increased to no more than the price they were on June 8. The measures were the last under “Phase III” of his price control measures authorized under the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. Prices were allowed to rise again at 12:01 a.m. on August 13 with the beginning of “Phase IV”. And we thought we had inflation issues in today’s world…

Then on the 19th “The Rocky Horror Show”, premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in London for the first of 2,960 performances. It would be adapted to a cult film, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, in 1975.

And on the 24th Leonid Brezhnev became the first Soviet leader to address the American people on television. Brezhnev’s 47-minute speech was pre-recorded the afternoon before at President Nixon’s estate, and then broadcast the next evening at 6:00 p.m. in each of the U.S. time zones. Among other things, he declared that “Mankind has outgrown the rigid ‘cold war’ armor which it was once forced to wear. It wants to breathe freely and peacefully.” And…it still does!

What’d Sadie think?

Loved ’em

  • “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” – Jim Croce
  • “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” – Bette Midler
  • “Daddy Could Swear I Declare” – Gladys Knight And The Pips
  • “Long Train Running” – Doobie Brothers
  • “Money” – Pink Floyd
  • “Smoke On The Water” – Deep Purple
  • “Yesterday Once More” – Carpenters

Liked ’em

  • “And I Love You So” – Perry Como
  • “Behind Closed Doors” – Charlie Rich
  • “Diamond Girl” – Seals And Crofts
  • “Give It To Me” – J. Geils Band
  • “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” – George Harrison
  • “Kodachrome” – Paul Simon
  • “Natural High” – Bloodstone
  • “One Of A Time” – Spinners
  • “So Very Hard To Go” – Tower Of Power
  • “You’ll Never Get To Heaven” – Stylistics

Leave ’em

  • “Doin’ It To Death” – Fred Wesley And The Jb’s
  • “Shambala” – Three Dog Night

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

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