US #3 Hits (1972 and 1973)

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Which of these #3 hits from '72 and '73 is your favorite? Take your pick:

Poll Results

OptionVotes
The Spinners – "I'll Be Around" 10
The O'Jays – "Back Stabbers" 6
Chicago – "Saturday in the Park" 4
Al Green – "You Ought to Be with Me" 2
The Main Ingredient – "Everybody Plays the Fool" 2
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes – "If You Don't Know Me by Now" 2
Luther Ingram – "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" 2
The Stylistics – "Betcha by Golly, Wow" 2
Sylvia – "Pillow Talk" 1
DeFranco Family – "Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat" 1
Three Dog Night – "Shambala" 1
Sweet – "Little Willy" 1
Helen Reddy – "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" 1
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando – "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" 0
Barry White – "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" 0
Hurricane Smith – "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say" 0
Robert John – "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (Mbube)" 0
The Carpenters – "Sing" 0
Edward Bear – "Last Song" 0
Donny Osmond – "Puppy Love" 0
Al Green – "I'm Still in Love with You" 0
Climax – "Precious and Few" 0
Timmy Thomas – "Why Can't We Live Together" 0


Frontier Psychiatrist, Saturday, 1 March 2014 00:15 (eleven years ago)

Stylistics

Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 March 2014 00:32 (eleven years ago)

spinners

mookieproof, Saturday, 1 March 2014 00:33 (eleven years ago)

voted for Chicago, closely followed by the Spinners

Frontier Psychiatrist, Saturday, 1 March 2014 11:02 (eleven years ago)

spinners

g simmel, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:16 (eleven years ago)

"You Ought to Be with Me."

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:17 (eleven years ago)

O'Jays

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:18 (eleven years ago)

spinners

Brad C., Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:21 (eleven years ago)

spinners over al green ('i'm still in love w/ you') and timmy thomas but jesus christ was this impossible, the older i get the more i think i could listen to nothing but philly soul for the rest of my life

shoutout to tony defranco

balls, Saturday, 1 March 2014 18:37 (eleven years ago)

Hard to choose between the Philly Soul classics: Spinners, Stylistics, Harold Melvin, Barry White. Voting for the Spinners. Also have a special fondness for "Precious and Few".

jetfan, Sunday, 2 March 2014 01:17 (eleven years ago)

Should have mentioned the O'Jays in that previous post on Philly Soul. My 2nd pick.

jetfan, Sunday, 2 March 2014 01:18 (eleven years ago)

Can only be Luther Ingram.

μ thant (seandalai), Sunday, 2 March 2014 03:19 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 7 March 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

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

System, Saturday, 8 March 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

Top ten of 1972. Spike Lee otm about "Too Late to Turn Back Now" in BlacKkKlansman

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 April 2019 01:01 (six years ago)

i woulda voted "shambala" over "little willy" and "everybody plays the fool," but probably not over "too late to turn back now."

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 1 April 2019 01:16 (six years ago)

Serendipity: put "Shambala" on a CD earlier tonight (plus some other '72 songs) for tomorrow's entry music at my school.

clemenza, Monday, 1 April 2019 02:11 (six years ago)

Timmy Thomas – "Why Can't We Live Together"	0

What's the matter with you people?

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 1 April 2019 02:23 (six years ago)

i know right

budo jeru, Monday, 1 April 2019 02:56 (six years ago)

Can't remember if I voted in this or not. You only get one vote, so zero only means everyone found at least one better song, but if you want to read more than that into it, I'd be a little more shocked that "I'm Still in Love with You" got zero. Also much, much prefer "I'll Be Around" and "Betch by Golly Wow" to Timmy Thomas.

clemenza, Monday, 1 April 2019 03:42 (six years ago)

two years pass...

The hottest man of all time.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2021 03:01 (four years ago)


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