Meme It To Me One More Time

[billroper]

Via allisona, who somehow only listed 9 songs of the top ten of her high school graduation year, I present the top 11 tunes of 1973:

1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando and Dawn
2. Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce
3. Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack
4. Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye
5. My Love, Paul McCartney and Wings
6. Why Me, Kris Kristofferson
7. Crocodile Rock, Elton John
8. Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston
9. You're So Vain, Carly Simon
10. Touch Me In The Morning, Diana Ross
11. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, Vicki Lawrence

Actually, that's not such a bad bunch of songs. :) (You get them by typing into Google your graduation year +top 100 songs. Pick the list of your choice.)

Further down the list, we find Daniel by Elton John, We're an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad, Loves Me Like a Rock by Paul Simon, Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers, Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple, Feelin' Stronger Every Day by Chicago, and one of my favorites at number 51, The Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.

Ok, I think I can live with that.

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

8. Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston

And all this time I thought it was Willie go round in circles.

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Hee, you're right, I only managed to cut and paste nine of my top ten. I didn't even notice :).

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando and Dawn

Remember that one, it was on the radio all the time. IT may even have been on the radio on the home from the airport when we arrived in toronto.

[braider.livejournal.com]

Wow. I actually grew up singing the first of the songs, I know the second, and I know at least one other.

Oh, and that was the year I was born.

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

"Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers"

OK, that's interesting. I have distinct memories of that song from when I was in public school, which would have been about 10 years earlier. Misprint? Re-issue?

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

According to his autobiography, "Monster Mash: Half Dead in Hollywood: The True Story of Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Medley of His Greatest Hit." [Note the singular "hit"] "Monster Mash" was released in 1962 and reached number 1 in 8 weeks. Then it broke the top 10 in three different years and usually breaks the top 100 every three years.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Hey! You got better songs than I did! No fair! ;-)