Paul Anka holds on for a second week in a row at the top of the chart but Eric Clapton is moving up quickly with his version of “I Shot The Sheriff”. Barry White has his third Top Ten song with “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” at #9. His biggest solo hit was also his first...”I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby” which peaked at #3, however as conductor of the Love Unlimited Orchestra he took the instrumental “Love’s Theme” all the way to number one. Helen Reddy scores her fourth Top Ten listing with the Paul Williams composition “You And Me Against The World” at #10. The Rubettes, a pop-rock group from London take their first chart hit into the Top 40 as “Sugar Baby Love” moves up to #37. Comedy duo Cheech & Chong have their third Top 40 outing as “Earache My Eye Featuring Alice Bowie” jumps from #47 to #39. This follows “Sister Mary Elephant” and their first hit “Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces”. Rockers Bad Company, like Barry White, “Can’t Get Enough” and make it to Top 40 at #40. The Osmonds turn to hit songwriter Johnny Bristol and debut on the Hot 100 at #83 with “Love Me For A Reason”. Bristol has his own smash going as “Hang On In There Baby” is now in the Top 20. Brownsville Station from Michigan are back and hit the chart at #85 with “Kings Of The Party”. Speaking of Kings, Carole debuts with her bouncy and lifting “Jazzman” at #86 and she enlists the help of saxophonist Tom Scott to keep the pace. Gordon Lightfoot follows up his number one record “Sundown” with another song about relationships as “Carefree Highway” starts at #88. Aretha Franklin tries her hand at a remake as “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” comes in at #89. The song was written by soulsters and husband and wife team Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. The most successful version was by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell and peaked at #8 in 1968. And Parliament is back on the chart at #90 with “Up For The Down Stroke”. The prolific funk congregation, which is also known by the name Funkadelic, which consists sometimes of as many as forty musicians and led by George Clinton, made the Top 20 once with “(I Wanna) Testify” in 1967. The number one album this week was “461 Ocean Blvd.” by Eric Clapton. Next week...two acts on one recording hit the Top 10. Two Swedish acts are back to back and one man takes two songs into the Top 40 at the same time...one new, one old. Happy Labor Day! As Mac Davis says, take time on Monday to “stop and smell the roses”!
Paul Anka holds on for a second week in a row at the top of the chart but Eric Clapton is moving up quickly with his version of “I Shot The Sheriff”. Barry White has his third Top Ten song with “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” at #9. His biggest solo hit was also his first...”I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby” which peaked at #3, however as conductor of the Love Unlimited Orchestra he took the instrumental “Love’s Theme” all the way to number one. Helen Reddy scores her fourth Top Ten listing with the Paul Williams composition “You And Me Against The World” at #10. The Rubettes, a pop-rock group from London take their first chart hit into the Top 40 as “Sugar Baby Love” moves up to #37. Comedy duo Cheech & Chong have their third Top 40 outing as “Earache My Eye Featuring Alice Bowie” jumps from #47 to #39. This follows “Sister Mary Elephant” and their first hit “Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces”. Rockers Bad Company, like Barry White, “Can’t Get Enough” and make it to Top 40 at #40. The Osmonds turn to hit songwriter Johnny Bristol and debut on the Hot 100 at #83 with “Love Me For A Reason”. Bristol has his own smash going as “Hang On In There Baby” is now in the Top 20. Brownsville Station from Michigan are back and hit the chart at #85 with “Kings Of The Party”. Speaking of Kings, Carole debuts with her bouncy and lifting “Jazzman” at #86 and she enlists the help of saxophonist Tom Scott to keep the pace. Gordon Lightfoot follows up his number one record “Sundown” with another song about relationships as “Carefree Highway” starts at #88. Aretha Franklin tries her hand at a remake as “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” comes in at #89. The song was written by soulsters and husband and wife team Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. The most successful version was by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell and peaked at #8 in 1968. And Parliament is back on the chart at #90 with “Up For The Down Stroke”. The prolific funk congregation, which is also known by the name Funkadelic, which consists sometimes of as many as forty musicians and led by George Clinton, made the Top 20 once with “(I Wanna) Testify” in 1967. The number one album this week was “461 Ocean Blvd.” by Eric Clapton. Next week...two acts on one recording hit the Top 10. Two Swedish acts are back to back and one man takes two songs into the Top 40 at the same time...one new, one old. Happy Labor Day! As Mac Davis says, take time on Monday to “stop and smell the roses”!
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