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Music History Events: Charts

January 26, 1974 Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen" hits #1 in America.

January 19, 1974 Al Wilson's "Show And Tell" hits #1.

January 12, 1974 Jim Croce's album You Don't Mess Around with Jim, the one with "Time In A Bottle" and "Operator," hits #1 in America three months after his death in a plane crash.

January 5, 1974 The Carpenters' compilation album The Singles 1969-1973 hits #1.

December 15, 1973 Charlie Rich's "The Most Beautiful Girl" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

December 1, 1973 The Carpenters "Top Of The World" hits #1 in America. The song is also a #1 Country hit for Lynn Anderson.

November 24, 1973 Ringo Starr's "Photograph" hits #1.

November 10, 1973 Elton John's album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road hits #1 in America, where it stays for eight weeks.

November 10, 1973 Eddie Kendricks' "Keep On Truckin'" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

October 27, 1973 Gladys Knight and the Pips' "Midnight Train To Georgia" hits #1 in America for the first of two weeks.

October 6, 1973 Cher's "Half-Breed" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

September 29, 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit #1 in America with "We're An American Band," a song about their adventures on tour, including encounters with "Sweet Connie" and "four young chiquitas in Omaha."

September 15, 1973 Helen Reddy's "Delta Dawn" hits #1 in America, where it stays for one week.

August 25, 1973 The Stories' "Brother Louie" hits #1 in the US for the first of two weeks.

August 18, 1973 Diana Ross' "Touch Me In The Morning" hits #1, where it stays for one week.

August 18, 1973 Jethro Tull's album A Passion Play hits #1 in America.

August 4, 1973 Maureen McGovern's "The Morning After (The Song From The Poseidon Adventure)" hits #1 in the US for the first of two weeks.

July 28, 1973 Chicago's Chicago VI LP hits #1 for the first of five weeks in the US.

July 21, 1973 Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," named for a fellow National Guard soldier who went AWOL but got caught when he came back for his paycheck, hits #1. Two months later, Croce dies in a plane crash.

July 7, 1973 Billy Preston's "Will It Go Round In Circles" hits #1 in America.

June 30, 1973 George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" dislodges Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love" from the #1 spot on the US singles charts.

June 23, 1973 George Harrison's album Living In The Material World hits #1 in America.

June 2, 1973 The Wings album Red Rose Speedway hits the top of the albums chart in the US and "My Love" starts a four-week run as the #1 single on the Hot 100.

May 26, 1973 The Edgar Winter Group's rock instrumental "Frankenstein," titled because it was such a monster to edit, hits #1 in America.

May 26, 1973 Despite breaking up three years earlier, The Beatles land the #1 album in America, the compilation The Beatles 1967-1970.

May 19, 1973 Stevie Wonder hits #1 in America with "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life," a song inspired by his wife (and sometimes co-writer) Syreeta Wright.

May 12, 1973 Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy goes to #1 in America.

April 21, 1973 Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree" hits #1 in the US. The song is based on a fictional newspaper story about a man returning from jail who asks his wife to tie a yellow handkerchief on the landmark oak tree in town if she still loves him.

April 21, 1973 Powered by a gnarly stage show and the tracks "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "Elected," Alice Cooper's album Billion Dollar Babies hits #1 in America (it hits the top spot in the UK three days later).

February 3, 1973 Elton John's reptilian rocker "Crocodile Rock" hits #1 in America for the first of three weeks, giving him his first chart-topper in that country.