POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 5, 1974
1

Time In A Bottle

Jim Croce

—

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 1

2

The Joker

The Steve Miller Band

↑ 2

Peak: 1 • 20 wks • Prev: 4

3

Leave Me Alone (ruby Red Dress)

Helen Reddy

—

Peak: 3 • 16 wks • Prev: 3

4

The Most Beautiful Girl

Charlie Rich

↓ 2

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 2

5

Show And Tell

Al Wilson

↑ 3

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 8

6

Smokin' In The Boy's Room

Brownsville Station

↑ 3

Peak: 3 • 19 wks • Prev: 9

7

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

↓ 2

Peak: 2 • 17 wks • Prev: 5

8

Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up

Barry White

↑ 2

Peak: 7 • 18 wks • Prev: 10

9

Living For The City

Stevie Wonder

↑ 2

Peak: 8 • 17 wks • Prev: 11

10

I've Got To Use My Imagination

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 4

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 14

11

Top Of The World

Carpenters

↓ 4

Peak: 1 • 20 wks • Prev: 7

12

Helen Wheels

Paul McCartney And Wings

↑ 4

Peak: 10 • 13 wks • Prev: 16

13

Let Me Be There

Olivia Newton-John

↑ 4

Peak: 6 • 19 wks • Prev: 17

14

Hello It's Me

Todd Rundgren

↓ 8

Peak: 5 • 20 wks • Prev: 6

15

The Way We Were

Barbra Streisand

↑ 8

Peak: 1 • 23 wks • Prev: 23

16

You're Sixteen

Ringo Starr

↑ 11

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 27

17

Love's Theme

Love Unlimited Orchestra

↑ 4

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 21

18

Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)

Aretha Franklin

↑ 1

Peak: 3 • 21 wks • Prev: 19

19

When I Fall In Love/Are You Lonesome Tonight

Donny Osmond

↑ 6

Peak: 14 • 13 wks • Prev: 25

20

Me And Baby Brother

War

↑ 4

Peak: 15 • 15 wks • Prev: 24

21

If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)

The Staple Singers

↓ 9

Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 12

22

Rockin' Roll Baby

The Stylistics

↓ 7

Peak: 14 • 18 wks • Prev: 15

23

Just You 'n' Me

Chicago

↓ 10

Peak: 4 • 19 wks • Prev: 13

24

Livin' For You

Al Green

↑ 6

Peak: 19 • 11 wks • Prev: 30

25

MIND GAMES

John Lennon

↓ 7

Peak: 18 • 13 wks • Prev: 18

26

D'yer Mak'er

Led Zeppelin

↓ 6

Peak: 20 • 16 wks • Prev: 20

27

The Love I Lost (Part 1)

Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes

↓ 5

Peak: 7 • 18 wks • Prev: 22

28

My Music

Loggins & Messina

↓ 2

Peak: 16 • 13 wks • Prev: 26

29

Sister Mary Elephant (Shudd-Up!)

Cheech & Chong

↑ 6

Peak: 24 • 12 wks • Prev: 35

30

Spiders & Snakes

Jim Stafford

↑ 8

Peak: 3 • 23 wks • Prev: 38

31

Walk Like A Man

Grand Funk

↑ 5

Peak: 19 • 12 wks • Prev: 36

32

Photograph

Ringo Starr

↓ 4

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 28

33

Who's In The Strawberry Patch With Sally

Tony Orlando & Dawn

↓ 1

Peak: 27 • 12 wks • Prev: 32

34

Come Get To This

Marvin Gaye

↓ 1

Peak: 21 • 13 wks • Prev: 33

35

Space Race

Billy Preston

↓ 6

Peak: 4 • 18 wks • Prev: 29

36

Painted Ladies

Ian Thomas

↑ 1

Peak: 34 • 14 wks • Prev: 37

37

Jungle Boogie

Kool & The Gang

↑ 17

Peak: 4 • 22 wks • Prev: 54

38

I Got A Name

Jim Croce

↓ 4

Peak: 10 • 17 wks • Prev: 34

39

American Tune

Paul Simon

↑ 4

Peak: 35 • 10 wks • Prev: 43

40

If We Make It Through December

Merle Haggard

↑ 10

Peak: 28 • 11 wks • Prev: 50

41

I Can't Stand The Rain

Ann Peebles

↑ 1

Peak: 38 • 21 wks • Prev: 42

42

This Time I'm Gone For Good

Bobby "Blue" Bland

↑ 2

Peak: 42 • 13 wks • Prev: 44

43

Midnight Train To Georgia

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↓ 12

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 31

44

"Joy" Pt. I

Isaac Hayes

↑ 18

Peak: 30 • 9 wks • Prev: 62

45

Tell Her She's Lovely

El Chicano

—

Peak: 40 • 10 wks • Prev: 45

46

Let Your Hair Down

The Temptations

↑ 19

Peak: 27 • 9 wks • Prev: 65

47

I Love

Tom T. Hall

↑ 10

Peak: 12 • 16 wks • Prev: 57

48

Rock On

David Essex

↑ 4

Peak: 5 • 25 wks • Prev: 52

49

Let Me Serenade You

Three Dog Night

↓ 8

Peak: 17 • 12 wks • Prev: 41

50

Put Your Hands Together

The O'Jays

↑ 11

Peak: 10 • 16 wks • Prev: 61

51

Baby Come Close

Smokey Robinson

↑ 8

Peak: 27 • 16 wks • Prev: 59

52

Keep Your Head To The Sky

Earth, Wind & Fire

↑ 1

Peak: 52 • 11 wks • Prev: 53

53

The River Of Love

B.W. Stevenson

↑ 2

Peak: 53 • 7 wks • Prev: 55

54

Love Has No Pride

Linda Ronstadt

↑ 4

Peak: 51 • 11 wks • Prev: 58

55

Midnight Rider

Gregg Allman

↑ 17

Peak: 19 • 12 wks • Prev: 72

56

Jim Dandy

Black Oak Arkansas

↑ 10

Peak: 25 • 13 wks • Prev: 66

57

A Song I'd Like To Sing

Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge

↓ 8

Peak: 49 • 10 wks • Prev: 49

58

Some Guys Have All The Luck

The Persuaders

↓ 10

Peak: 39 • 11 wks • Prev: 48

59

I Found Sunshine

The Chi-lites

↓ 12

Peak: 47 • 10 wks • Prev: 47

60

Love Song

Anne Murray

↑ 10

Peak: 12 • 17 wks • Prev: 70

61

Showdown

Electric Light Orchestra

↑ 6

Peak: 53 • 18 wks • Prev: 67

62

A Fool Such As I

Bob Dylan

↑ 7

Peak: 55 • 7 wks • Prev: 69

63

I Wanna Know Your Name

The Intruders

↓ 3

Peak: 60 • 13 wks • Prev: 60

64

I Like To Live The Love

B.B. King

↑ 11

Peak: 28 • 16 wks • Prev: 75

65

Americans

Byron MacGregor

★ NEW

Peak: 4 • 12 wks

66

Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi Le Temps)

Frank Sinatra

↓ 3

Peak: 63 • 10 wks • Prev: 63

67

Hangin' Around

Edgar Winter Group

↑ 4

Peak: 65 • 7 wks • Prev: 71

68

Stoned To The Bone - Part 1

James Brown

↑ 10

Peak: 58 • 11 wks • Prev: 78

69

Last Kiss

Wednesday

↑ 5

Peak: 34 • 18 wks • Prev: 74

70

Last Time I Saw Him

Diana Ross

★ NEW

Peak: 14 • 14 wks

71

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

Jim Croce

↑ 6

Peak: 64 • 5 wks • Prev: 77

72

Please, Daddy

John Denver

↑ 8

Peak: 69 • 5 wks • Prev: 80

73

Smarty Pants

First Choice

↓ 17

Peak: 56 • 8 wks • Prev: 56

74

Teenage Lament '74

Alice Cooper

↑ 10

Peak: 48 • 8 wks • Prev: 84

75

Can This Be Real

Natural Four

★ NEW

Peak: 31 • 10 wks

76

Boogie Down

Eddie Kendricks

★ NEW

Peak: 2 • 18 wks

77

I Shall Sing

Garfunkel

↑ 10

Peak: 38 • 9 wks • Prev: 87

78

Ain't Got No Home

The Band

↓ 5

Peak: 73 • 7 wks • Prev: 73

79

Blue Collar

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

↓ 11

Peak: 68 • 6 wks • Prev: 68

80

Abra-Ca-Dabra

The De Franco Family

↑ 15

Peak: 32 • 12 wks • Prev: 95

81

Somewhere Between Love And Tomorrow

Roy Clark

↑ 4

Peak: 81 • 5 wks • Prev: 85

82

Wang Dang Doodle

The Pointer Sisters

↑ 6

Peak: 61 • 8 wks • Prev: 88

83

Raised On Robbery

Joni Mitchell

↑ 6

Peak: 65 • 8 wks • Prev: 89

84

One Tin Soldier, The Legend of Billy Jack

Coven

↑ 6

Peak: 26 • 18 wks • Prev: 90

85

Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Melanie

↓ 3

Peak: 82 • 4 wks • Prev: 82

86

You're So Unique

Billy Preston

★ NEW

Peak: 48 • 8 wks

87

My Sweet Lady

Cliff DeYoung

★ NEW

Peak: 17 • 15 wks

88

Trying To Hold On To My Woman

Lamont Dozier

↑ 4

Peak: 15 • 18 wks • Prev: 92

89

Flashback

The 5th Dimension

↑ 2

Peak: 82 • 9 wks • Prev: 91

90

Daddy What If

Bobby Bare

★ NEW

Peak: 41 • 8 wks

91

It May Be Winter Outside, (But In My Heart It's Spring)

Love Unlimited

↓ 8

Peak: 83 • 4 wks • Prev: 83

92

Star

Stealers Wheel

★ NEW

Peak: 29 • 14 wks

93

Last Kiss

J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers

↑ 4

Peak: 2 • 15 wks • Prev: 97

94

Life Is A Song Worth Singing

Johnny Mathis

↑ 5

Peak: 54 • 12 wks • Prev: 99

95

Can't Say Nothin'

Curtis Mayfield

↑ 5

Peak: 88 • 5 wks • Prev: 100

96

What It Comes Down To

The Isley Brothers

↑ 2

Peak: 55 • 11 wks • Prev: 98

97

This Is Your Song

Don Goodwin

↓ 11

Peak: 86 • 8 wks • Prev: 86

98

WOLD

Harry Chapin

★ NEW

Peak: 36 • 13 wks

99

Let Me Get To Know You

Paul Anka

★ NEW

Peak: 80 • 8 wks

100

Could You Ever Love Me Again

Gary & Dave

↓ 7

Peak: 92 • 4 wks • Prev: 93

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