Top 100 Songs of 1973

Below is a list from Billboard magazine’s Top ear-End Hot 100 songs for 1973. Chart © by Billboard, a part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. All Rights Reserved. Learn more about Billboard here.

Top 100 Songs of 1973

1 My Love – Paul McCartney and Wings

2 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree – Tony Orlando and Dawn

3 Killing Me Softly With His Song – Roberta Flack

4 Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye

5 Why Me – Kris Kristofferson

6 Will It Go Round in Circles – Billy Preston

7 The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia – Vicki Lawrence

8 Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy

9 Me and Mrs. Jones – Billy Paul

10 Frankenstein – The Edgar Winter Group

11 Drift Away – Dobie Gray

12 You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder

13 Half-Breed – Cher

14 Pillow Talk – Sylvia

15 We’re An American Band – Grand Funk Railroad

16 Wildflower – Skylark

17 Loves Me Like a Rock – Paul Simon

18 The Morning After – Maureen McGovern

19 Rocky Mountain High – John Denver

20 Stuck In the Middle With You – Stealers Wheel

21 Shambala – Three Dog Night

22 Love Train – The O’Jays

23 Keep On Truckin’, Pt. 1 – Eddie Kendricks

24 Dancing in the Moonlight – King Harvest

25 Danny’s Song – Anne Murray

26 Monster Mash – Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt Kickers

27 Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) – Gladys Knight and The Pips

28 Could It Be I’m Falling In Love – The Spinners

29 Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Knight and The Pips

More 61 Top Songs of 1973

51. 30.  Cover of the Rolling Stone – Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
    31.  Behind Closed Doors – Charlie Rich
    32.  Your Mama Don’t Dance – Loggins and Messina
    33.  Feelin’ Stronger Every Day – Chicago
    34.  The Cisco Kid – War
    35.  Live and Let Die – Wings
    36.  Oh, Babe What Would You Say – Hurricane Smith
    37.  I Believe In You (You Believe In Me) – Johnnie Taylor
    38.  Sing – The Carpenters
    39.  Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) – The Four Tops
    40.  Dueling Banjos – Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel
    41.  Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder
    42.  Here I Am (Come and Take Me) – Al Green
    43.  My Maria – B. W. Stevenson
    44.  Superfly – Curtis Mayfield
    45.  Get Down – Gilbert O’Sullivan
    46.  Last Song – Edward Bear
    47.  Reelin’ In the Years – Steely Dan
    48.  Hocus Pocus – Focus
    49.  Yesterday Once More – The Carpenters
    50.  Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – Bette Midler
    51.  Clair – Gilbert O’Sullivan
    52.  Do It Again – Steely Dan
    53.  Kodachrome – Paul Simon
    54.  Why Can’t We Live Together – Timmy Thomas
    55.  So Very Hard to Go – Tower Of Power
    56.  Do You Want to Dance? – Bette Midler
    57.  Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu – Johnny Rivers
    58.  Ramblin’ Man – The Allman Brothers Band
    59.  Masterpiece – The Temptations
    60.  Peaceful – Helen Reddy
    61.  One of a Kind (Love Affair) – The Spinners
    62.  Funny Face – Donna Fargo
    63.  Funky Worm – The Ohio Players
    64.  Angie – The Rolling Stones
    65. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) – The Blue Ridge Rangers
    66.  Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend – Lobo
    67.  Break Up to Make Up – The Stylistics
    68. Daisy A Day – Jud Strunk
    69.  Also Sprach Zarathustra – Deodato
    70.  Stir It Up – Johnny Nash
    71.  Money – Pink Floyd
    72.  Gypsy Man – War
    73.  The World Is a Ghetto – War
    74.  Yes We Can Can – The Pointer Sisters
    75.  Free Ride – The Edgar Winter Group
    76.  Space Oddity – David Bowie
    77.  It Never Rains In Southern California – Albert Hammond
    78.  The Twelfth of Never – Donny Osmond
    79.  Papa Was a Rolling Stone – The Temptations
    80. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce
    81. Crocodile Rock – Elton John
    82. You’re So Vain – Carly Simon
    83. Touch Me In the Morning – Diana Ross
    84. Playground In My Mind – Clint Holmes
    85. Brother Louie – Stories
    86. Little Willy – Sweet
    87. That Lady, Pts. 1 & 2 – The Isley Brothers
    88. Right Place, Wrong Time – Dr. John
    89. Superstition – Stevie Wonder
    90. I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby – Barry White
    91. Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose – Tony Orlando and Dawn
    92. Natural High – Bloodstone
    93. Diamond Girl – Seals and Crofts
    94. Long Train Running – The Doobie Brothers
    95. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) – George Harrison
    96. If You Want Me to Stay – Sly and The Family Stone
    97. Daddy’s Home – Jermaine Jackson
    98. I’m Doin’ Fine Now – New York City
    99. Daniel – Elton John
    100. Smoke On the Water – Deep Purple

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