UK TOP 40 POLL 21/07/1973

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
03. David Bowie - Life On Mars	16
37. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light	7
21. Chairmen Of The Board - Finders Keepers	2
06. The Osmonds - Going Home	2
19. Mott The Hoople - Honaloochie Boogie	1
01. Peters And Lee - Welcome Home	1
23. George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)	1
26. The Carpenters - Yesterday Once More	1
27. Diana Ross - Touch Me In The Morning	1
32. Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You	1
38. Junior Campbell - Sweet Illusion	1
39. Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More Baby	1
16. Wings - Live And Let Die	1
40. Free - All Right Now	1
02. Gary Glitter - I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)	1
13. 10cc - Rubber Bullets	1
04. Slade - Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me	1
12. Clifford T Ward - Gaye	1
30. The Jackson Five - Hallelujah Day	0
31. Al Martino - Spanish Eyes {1973}	0
07. Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting	0
33. Suzi Quatro - Can The Can	0
34. Nazareth - Bad Bad Boy	0
35. The Stylistics - Peek-A-Boo	0
36. The Partridge Family - Walking In The Rain	0
05. Mungo Jerry - Alright Alright Alright	0
29. T.Rex - Groover	0
28. Albert Hammond - The Free Electric Band	0
08. Dave Edmunds - Born To Be With You	0
15. Sylvia - Pillow Talk	0
17. Linda Lewis - Rock-A-Doodle-Doo	0
18. Joe Simon - Step By Step	0
20. Perry Como - And I Love You So	0
11. Blue Mink - Randy	0
22. Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree	0
10. Hot Shots - Snoopy Versus The Red Baron	0
24. Geordie - Can You Do It	0
25. Mud - Hypnosis	0
09. Paul Simon - Take Me To The Mardi Gras	0
14. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross	0

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

Correct answer is 37, btw.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

omgg

― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

1. David Bowie - Life On Mars

2. Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
3. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light

― dubmill, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

Hard to beat "Life On Mars" here.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 01:39 (seventeen years ago)

lotsa great songs - but "i saw the light" wins.

― nonightsweats, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

32. Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
37. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
39. Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More Baby

― Lasers of the New School (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 06:49 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light

― Lasers of the New School (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 06:50 (seventeen years ago)

My shortlist: Life On Mars, Live And Let Die, Honaloochie Boogie, Touch Me In The Morning, I Saw The Light. Has to be Todd, though.

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

Hellova great chart list though!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:29 (seventeen years ago)

Agree. Without wishing to sound like an old get, how many of this week's chart will be this memorable 35 years on, even to one of a more impressionable age than me?

Went for Life on Mars. Second place a tie between Suzi Quattro and Free.

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

You sound like an old get.

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

Nice chart, with a Stroke's dad at number 28 too! Went for Free.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:53 (seventeen years ago)

The complete absence of props for "Finders Keepers" is distressing.

CHAIRMEN:

― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 12:30 (seventeen years ago)

Kinda long after the fact for "Life On Mars" to have been a single, wasn't it? I've only heard barely half of these...the very idea of a band actually covering "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" and having an actual hit with it, blows my mind.

My choice: "Pillow Talk"

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)

Between Clifford T, Todd R & Mott The H for me. As I'm feeling slightly melancholic today, we'll go with Gaye. A tray of nice things I upset.

― harveyw, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

why is albatross on the charts in 73?

― creator of 2008's most successful meme (velko), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

And why is "All Right Now"? Didn't that come out in 1970?

Voting for Mott.

― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

and WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK WITH THAT FUCKING GARY GLITTER AD? THAT SHIT'S CREEPING ME OUT.

― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

no King Harvest - Dancing In The Moonlight included :-(

― Lasers of the New School (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

The bonus re: "Life On Mars?" was that it was b/w "The Man Who Sold The World". I think this is the first single I ever bought (although in my memory -- and I can't confirm this online anywhere -- the bizarre "Laughing Gnome" was also on the B-side). Anyway, voted for it, but what a lot of good stuff that year!

And this: WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK WITH THAT FUCKING GARY GLITTER AD? THAT SHIT'S CREEPING ME OUT.

Anyone?

― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

Well, Gary Glitter was fairly famously old for a pop star by the standards of those days (pushing 30 in 1973). The offer cut-off age was 23.

― dubmill, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:42 (seventeen years ago)

And the ad in question is from the 1980s...

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

1. David Bowie - Life On Mars
2. Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
3. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light

Yes, but reverse 2 & 3 !!

― billstevejim, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:09 (seventeen years ago)

Also Hunky Dory was released in '71.. wtf.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

Were any charting singles in 1973 actually from that year?

― billstevejim, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

Well, Gary Glitter was fairly famously old for a pop star by the standards of those days (pushing 30 in 1973). The offer cut-off age was 23.

I know...it's the fact that he's a known/convicted pedophile that raises the WTF?! factor for that ad (but yeah, he wasn't a convicted pedophile at the time of the ad).

― Sara Sara Sara, Thursday, 20 November 2008 03:31 (seventeen years ago)

Life On Mars

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 November 2008 04:27 (seventeen years ago)

I Saw the Light >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything else on here

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 20 November 2008 04:36 (seventeen years ago)

I'd never heard Todd Rundgren before, but I've just heard that tune and it's smashing. I'd've gone for that had I known. Should I check out his other stuff now?

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 23 November 2008 11:10 (seventeen years ago)

Junior Campbell's "Sweet Illusion" is a total banger, by the way.

― Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 November 2008 12:37 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 24 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

UPSET!

― i am truley sorry for your lots (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

blimey!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 09:32 (seventeen years ago)

Ismael, you should definitely hear Something/Anything?, the album "I Saw the Light" is from.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

On reflection I'd still probably have gone for Free, but thanks for the tip, I shall check it out

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

No videos found for “todd rundgren carousel burned down” :(

― i am truley sorry for your lots (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

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