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| Number 20: Bruce Ruffin |
Tony Orlando and his group Dawn continued their residency as the best selling artists on the UK Top 20 this week in May 1971, as Knock Three Times completed its second week as the nation's Number 1 song.
The Chart:
- 01 (01) Dawn - Knock Three Times
- 02 (02) The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
- 03 (06) R. Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me
- 04 (04) Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
- 05 (03) Dave and Ansel Collins - Double Barrel
- 06 (05) Waldo De Los Rios - Mozart Symphony No. 40
- 07 (08) East Of Eden - Jig-A-Jig
- 08 (14) The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You
- 09 (16) McGuinness Flint - Malt and Barley Blues
- 10 (07) Diana Ross - Remember Me
- 11 (20) Free - My Brother Jake
- 12 (11) Séverine - Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue
- 13 (17) Gerry Monroe - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
- 14 (12) Sakkarin - Sugar, Sugar
- 15 (10) Andy Williams - (Where Do I Begin) Love Story
- 16 (24) The Arsenal First Team Squad - Good Old Arsenal
- 17 (09) T. Rex - Hot Love
- 18 (28) Neil Diamond - I Am...I Said
- 19 (19) Georgie Fame and Alan Price - Rosetta
- 20 (27) Bruce Ruffin - Rain
Image: Mad About You - The Anthology: Bruce Ruffin
16: The Arsenal First Team Squad: Good Old Arsenal
With the Arsenal football club completing the double of League Champions and FA Cup winners in the 1970/71 season, it seemed only natural that the team should go into the studio and record its version of Rule Britannia. Fans duly bought Good Old Arsenal and propelled it to a peak of Number 16 this week.
18: Neil Diamond: I Am...I Said
Making a steady climb into the Top 20 this week was what was about to be Neil Diamond's third consecutive UK Top 10 hit, the very personal I Am...I Said. As stated by AllMusic, it's "an impassioned statement of emotional turmoil, the song [was] very much in tune with the confessional singer/songwriter movement of the time..." Having already peaked at Number 4 in the States just weeks earlier, the track would go on to repeat that peak position in the UK.
20: Bruce Ruffin: Rain
Bruce Ruffin's Rain was the first of a brace of hits for the London-based Jamaican reggae singer. Originally written and recorded by José Feliciano in the late 1960s, Ruffin added a rocksteady beat to the song and saw the track scrape into the Top 20, eventually settling at a high of Number 19. Ruffin would return to the British charts a year later with his second and final hit, Mad About You.
The American Top 10 (May 22, 1971)
- 01 (01) Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
- 02 (02) Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson Five
- 03 (06) Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
- 04 (03) Put Your Hand in the Hand - Ocean
- 05 (05) Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
- 06 (12) Want Ads - Honey Cone
- 07 (07) Bridge Over Troubled Water - Aretha Franklin
- 08 (13) It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
- 09 (04) If - Bread
- 10 (10) Chick-A-Boom - Daddy Dewdrop
The Number 1 album this week:
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
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