1971-05-12 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

1300/WMAK
SUPERHIT SURVEY

WEEK BEGINNING
May 12, 1971

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
1	1	Three Dog Night	Joy To The World	11	The first verse was originally a “dummy” verse Hoyt Axton wrote to work on the melody. It stuck. #1 song of the year.
2	19	The Rolling Stones	Brown Sugar	3
3	9	Jerry Reed	When You're Hot, You're Hot	4
4	4	The Bells	Stay Awhile	9	Chart movement: 7-7-3-3-4-4
5	3	Daddy Dewdrop	Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)	10
6	6	The Jackson 5	Never Can Say Goodbye	8
7	8	Donny Osmond	Sweet And Innocent	6
8	5	Neil Diamond	I Am...I Said	9
9	7	Lobo	Me And You And A Dog Named Boo	7
10	2	Bread	If	8
11	10	Ocean	Put Your Hand In The Hand	12	Written by Gene McClellan, who also wrote “Snowbird”
12	12	Richie Havens	Here Comes The Sun	5
13	23	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	Treat Her Like A Lady	4
14	26	The Honey Cone	Want Ads	3
15	32	Ringo Starr	It Don't Come Easy	3
16	16	The Doors	Love Her Madly	8
17	11	Aretha Franklin	Bridge Over Troubled Water	5
18	18	Matthews' Southern Comfort	Woodstock	6
19	27	Paul Humphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists	Cool Aid	3
23	25	Bobby Goldsboro	And I Love You So	3
24	17	Stevie Wonder	We Can Work It Out	8
25	30	Raiders	Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)	2	Well, 1 Raider, anyway. This was to be a Mark Lindsay solo record. Until Paul Revere crisscrossed the country promoting it.
26	28	Brenda & The Tabulations	Right On The Tip Of My Tongue	4
29	34	Bobby Sherman	The Drum	2
31	37	Runt - Todd Rundgren	Be Nice To Me	2	Here’s the mnemonic: ’68-’69: Nazz, ’70-’71 Runt, ’72 on Toddy R. (Utopia ’77-’85)
33	HB	The Partridge Family	I'll Meet You Halfway	1
34	38	Carole King	It's Too Late	2
35	40	The Fortunes	Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again	2
36	HB	The Osmonds	Double Lovin'	1
38	HB	Carpenters	Rainy Days And Mondays	1
39	--	Five Man Electrical Band	Signs	1
40	--	Janis Joplin	Cry Baby	1

Survey notes: Survey missing; recreated from 4/21.
Songs at the missing chart position numbers are unknown.
HB: (unknown)
FA: (unknown)

Cover: (unknown)