POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 12, 1974
1

The Joker

The Steve Miller Band

↑ 1

Peak: 1 • 20 wks • Prev: 2

2

Time In A Bottle

Jim Croce

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 1

3

Show And Tell

Al Wilson

↑ 2

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 5

4

Smokin' In The Boy's Room

Brownsville Station

↑ 2

Peak: 3 • 19 wks • Prev: 6

5

I've Got To Use My Imagination

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 5

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 10

6

You're Sixteen

Ringo Starr

↑ 10

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 16

7

Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up

Barry White

↑ 1

Peak: 7 • 18 wks • Prev: 8

8

Living For The City

Stevie Wonder

↑ 1

Peak: 8 • 17 wks • Prev: 9

9

Let Me Be There

Olivia Newton-John

↑ 4

Peak: 6 • 19 wks • Prev: 13

10

Helen Wheels

Paul McCartney And Wings

↑ 2

Peak: 10 • 13 wks • Prev: 12

11

The Way We Were

Barbra Streisand

↑ 4

Peak: 1 • 23 wks • Prev: 15

12

The Most Beautiful Girl

Charlie Rich

↓ 8

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 4

13

Love's Theme

Love Unlimited Orchestra

↑ 4

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 17

14

Leave Me Alone (ruby Red Dress)

Helen Reddy

↓ 11

Peak: 3 • 16 wks • Prev: 3

15

When I Fall In Love/Are You Lonesome Tonight

Donny Osmond

↑ 4

Peak: 14 • 13 wks • Prev: 19

16

Me And Baby Brother

War

↑ 4

Peak: 15 • 15 wks • Prev: 20

17

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

Aretha Franklin

↑ 1

Peak: 3 • 21 wks • Prev: 18

18

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John

↓ 11

Peak: 2 • 17 wks • Prev: 7

19

Top Of The World

Carpenters

↓ 8

Peak: 1 • 20 wks • Prev: 11

20

Hello It's Me

Todd Rundgren

↓ 6

Peak: 5 • 20 wks • Prev: 14

21

Livin' For You

Al Green

↑ 3

Peak: 19 • 11 wks • Prev: 24

22

Spiders & Snakes

Jim Stafford

↑ 8

Peak: 3 • 23 wks • Prev: 30

23

Walk Like A Man

Grand Funk

↑ 8

Peak: 19 • 12 wks • Prev: 31

24

If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)

The Staple Singers

↓ 3

Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 21

25

Sister Mary Elephant (Shudd-Up!)

Cheech & Chong

↑ 4

Peak: 24 • 12 wks • Prev: 29

26

Just You 'n' Me

Chicago

↓ 3

Peak: 4 • 19 wks • Prev: 23

27

Rockin' Roll Baby

The Stylistics

↓ 5

Peak: 14 • 18 wks • Prev: 22

28

Jungle Boogie

Kool & The Gang

↑ 9

Peak: 4 • 22 wks • Prev: 37

29

MIND GAMES

John Lennon

↓ 4

Peak: 18 • 13 wks • Prev: 25

30

D'yer Mak'er

Led Zeppelin

↓ 4

Peak: 20 • 16 wks • Prev: 26

31

My Music

Loggins & Messina

↓ 3

Peak: 16 • 13 wks • Prev: 28

32

If We Make It Through December

Merle Haggard

↑ 8

Peak: 28 • 11 wks • Prev: 40

33

Americans

Byron MacGregor

↑ 32

Peak: 4 • 12 wks • Prev: 65

34

Painted Ladies

Ian Thomas

↑ 2

Peak: 34 • 14 wks • Prev: 36

35

American Tune

Paul Simon

↑ 4

Peak: 35 • 10 wks • Prev: 39

36

"Joy" Pt. I

Isaac Hayes

↑ 8

Peak: 30 • 9 wks • Prev: 44

37

Who's In The Strawberry Patch With Sally

Tony Orlando & Dawn

↓ 4

Peak: 27 • 12 wks • Prev: 33

38

Let Your Hair Down

The Temptations

↑ 8

Peak: 27 • 9 wks • Prev: 46

39

Put Your Hands Together

The O'Jays

↑ 11

Peak: 10 • 16 wks • Prev: 50

40

Rock On

David Essex

↑ 8

Peak: 5 • 25 wks • Prev: 48

41

I Love

Tom T. Hall

↑ 6

Peak: 12 • 16 wks • Prev: 47

42

This Time I'm Gone For Good

Bobby "Blue" Bland

—

Peak: 42 • 13 wks • Prev: 42

43

The Love I Lost (Part 1)

Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes

↓ 16

Peak: 7 • 18 wks • Prev: 27

44

Midnight Rider

Gregg Allman

↑ 11

Peak: 19 • 12 wks • Prev: 55

45

Photograph

Ringo Starr

↓ 13

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 32

46

Jim Dandy

Black Oak Arkansas

↑ 10

Peak: 25 • 13 wks • Prev: 56

47

I Can't Stand The Rain

Ann Peebles

↓ 6

Peak: 38 • 21 wks • Prev: 41

48

Baby Come Close

Smokey Robinson

↑ 3

Peak: 27 • 16 wks • Prev: 51

49

Come Get To This

Marvin Gaye

↓ 15

Peak: 21 • 13 wks • Prev: 34

50

Love Song

Anne Murray

↑ 10

Peak: 12 • 17 wks • Prev: 60

51

Love Has No Pride

Linda Ronstadt

↑ 3

Peak: 51 • 11 wks • Prev: 54

52

I Got A Name

Jim Croce

↓ 14

Peak: 10 • 17 wks • Prev: 38

53

Keep Your Head To The Sky

Earth, Wind & Fire

↓ 1

Peak: 52 • 11 wks • Prev: 52

54

Tell Her She's Lovely

El Chicano

↓ 9

Peak: 40 • 10 wks • Prev: 45

55

A Fool Such As I

Bob Dylan

↑ 7

Peak: 55 • 7 wks • Prev: 62

56

Last Time I Saw Him

Diana Ross

↑ 14

Peak: 14 • 14 wks • Prev: 70

57

Showdown

Electric Light Orchestra

↑ 4

Peak: 53 • 18 wks • Prev: 61

58

I Like To Live The Love

B.B. King

↑ 6

Peak: 28 • 16 wks • Prev: 64

59

Space Race

Billy Preston

↓ 24

Peak: 4 • 18 wks • Prev: 35

60

The River Of Love

B.W. Stevenson

↓ 7

Peak: 53 • 7 wks • Prev: 53

61

Stoned To The Bone - Part 1

James Brown

↑ 7

Peak: 58 • 11 wks • Prev: 68

62

Boogie Down

Eddie Kendricks

↑ 14

Peak: 2 • 18 wks • Prev: 76

63

Last Kiss

Wednesday

↑ 6

Peak: 34 • 18 wks • Prev: 69

64

Teenage Lament '74

Alice Cooper

↑ 10

Peak: 48 • 8 wks • Prev: 74

65

Hangin' Around

Edgar Winter Group

↑ 2

Peak: 65 • 7 wks • Prev: 67

66

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

Jim Croce

↑ 5

Peak: 64 • 5 wks • Prev: 71

67

I Shall Sing

Garfunkel

↑ 10

Peak: 38 • 9 wks • Prev: 77

68

Can This Be Real

Natural Four

↑ 7

Peak: 31 • 10 wks • Prev: 75

69

Please, Daddy

John Denver

↑ 3

Peak: 69 • 5 wks • Prev: 72

70

Abra-Ca-Dabra

The De Franco Family

↑ 10

Peak: 32 • 12 wks • Prev: 80

71

A Song I'd Like To Sing

Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge

↓ 14

Peak: 49 • 10 wks • Prev: 57

72

I Wanna Know Your Name

The Intruders

↓ 9

Peak: 60 • 13 wks • Prev: 63

73

Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi Le Temps)

Frank Sinatra

↓ 7

Peak: 63 • 10 wks • Prev: 66

74

You're So Unique

Billy Preston

↑ 12

Peak: 48 • 8 wks • Prev: 86

75

Raised On Robbery

Joni Mitchell

↑ 8

Peak: 65 • 8 wks • Prev: 83

76

My Sweet Lady

Cliff DeYoung

↑ 11

Peak: 17 • 15 wks • Prev: 87

77

Wang Dang Doodle

The Pointer Sisters

↑ 5

Peak: 61 • 8 wks • Prev: 82

78

Let Me Serenade You

Three Dog Night

↓ 29

Peak: 17 • 12 wks • Prev: 49

79

I Found Sunshine

The Chi-lites

↓ 20

Peak: 47 • 10 wks • Prev: 59

80

Daddy What If

Bobby Bare

↑ 10

Peak: 41 • 8 wks • Prev: 90

81

One Tin Soldier, The Legend of Billy Jack

Coven

↑ 3

Peak: 26 • 18 wks • Prev: 84

82

Some Guys Have All The Luck

The Persuaders

↓ 24

Peak: 39 • 11 wks • Prev: 58

83

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (heartbreaker)

The Rolling Stones

★ NEW

Peak: 15 • 11 wks

84

Trying To Hold On To My Woman

Lamont Dozier

↑ 4

Peak: 15 • 18 wks • Prev: 88

85

Come And Get Your Love

Redbone

★ NEW

Peak: 5 • 23 wks

86

Flashback

The 5th Dimension

↑ 3

Peak: 82 • 9 wks • Prev: 89

87

Star

Stealers Wheel

↑ 5

Peak: 29 • 14 wks • Prev: 92

88

What It Comes Down To

The Isley Brothers

↑ 8

Peak: 55 • 11 wks • Prev: 96

89

Life Is A Song Worth Singing

Johnny Mathis

↑ 5

Peak: 54 • 12 wks • Prev: 94

90

Eres Tu (Touch The Wind)

Mocedades

★ NEW

Peak: 9 • 17 wks

91

WOLD

Harry Chapin

↑ 7

Peak: 36 • 13 wks • Prev: 98

92

Last Kiss

J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers

↑ 1

Peak: 2 • 15 wks • Prev: 93

93

Can't Say Nothin'

Curtis Mayfield

↑ 2

Peak: 88 • 5 wks • Prev: 95

94

Let Me Get To Know You

Paul Anka

↑ 5

Peak: 80 • 8 wks • Prev: 99

95

This Is Your Song

Don Goodwin

↑ 2

Peak: 86 • 8 wks • Prev: 97

96

Somewhere Between Love And Tomorrow

Roy Clark

↓ 15

Peak: 81 • 5 wks • Prev: 81

97

Meadows

Joe Walsh

★ NEW

Peak: 89 • 4 wks

98

The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)

Gordon Sinclair

★ NEW

Peak: 24 • 7 wks

99

Seasons In The Sun

Terry Jacks

★ NEW

Peak: 1 • 21 wks

100

Sexy Mama

Moments

★ NEW

Peak: 17 • 13 wks

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