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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Poll: July 1971 Songs

  The latest poll I voted on was for songs from July 1971.  A month earlier we moved to Mannheim, Germany from North Carolina.  My Army Dad got stationed in Germany.  Even at 7 years old I was starting to hear songs that would stay with me for a lifetime.  AT40, which was on in Germany, helped.  


"It's Too Late", Carole King : 1
"Rainy Days And Mondays", Carpenters : 2
"It Don't Come Easy", Ringo Starr : 3
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver (with Fat City) : 4
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", Marvin Gaye : 5
"Wild Horses", Rolling Stones : 6
"I Feel The Earth Move", Carole King : 7
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again", Fortunes : 8
"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart", Bee Gees : 9
"Brown Sugar", Rolling Stones : 10
"Want Ads", Honey Cone : 11
"Treat Her Like A Lady", Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose : 12
"That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", Carly Simon : 13
"When You're Hot, You're Hot", Jerry Reed : 14
"Mr. Big Stuff", Jean Knight : 15
"Beginnings", Chicago : 16
"Funky Nassau", Beginning Of The End : 17
"Never Ending Song Of Love", Delaney & Bonnie & Friends : 18
"Sooner Or Later", Grass Roots : 19
"Hot Pants (She Got To Use...)", James Brown : 20
"Don't Pull Your Love", Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds : 21
"You've Got A Friend", James Taylor : 22
"She's Not Just Another Woman", 8th Day : 23
"Don't Knock My Love", Wilson Pickett : 24
"Draggin' The Line", Tommy James : 25
"I'll Meet You Halfway", Partridge Family : 26
"Signs", Five Man Electrical Band : 27
"Colour My World", Chicago : 28
"Bring The Boys Home", Freda Payne : 29
"You've Got A Friend", Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway : 30
"Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)", Raiders : 31
"Sweet And Innocent", Donny Osmond : 32
"Double Lovin'", Osmonds : 33
"Nathan Jones", Supremes : 34
"K-Jee", Nite-Liters : 35
"Spanish Harlem", Aretha Franklin : 36
"Love The One You're With", Isley Brothers : 37
"I Don't Want To Do Wrong", Gladys Knight & the Pips : 38
"Sweet Hitch-hiker", Creedence Clearwater Revival : 39
"Summer Sand", Dawn : 40
"Puppet Man", Tom Jones : 41
"What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin & John", Tom Clay (with the Blackberries) : 42