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| Number 13: Dawn with Tony Orlando |
Marc Bolan's T. Rex continued its domination of the UK Top 20 this week in 1971 as the single Get It On completed its fourth and final week at the top of the chart.
The glam rock group remained at Number 1 on a relatively quiet listing with just two new discs managing to climb into the Top 20: the follow-up hit to Dawn's earlier Number 1 song, as well as the title tune to a controversial movie release of the era.
The Chart:
- 01 (01) T. Rex - Get It On
- 02 (02) The New Seekers - Never Ending Song of Love
- 03 (08) Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting
- 04 (04) Atomic Rooster - Devil's Answer
- 05 (11) Family - In My Own Time
- 06 (06) Lobo - Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
- 07 (07) New World - Tom-Tom Turnaround
- 08 (03) Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
- 09 (10) The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
- 10 (05) The Sweet - Co-Co
- 11 (09) Dave and Ansel Collins - Monkey Spanner
- 12 (15) St. Cecilia - Leap Up and Down (Wave Your Knickers in the Air)
- 13 (27) Dawn - What Are You Doing Sunday?
- 14 (13) Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel / Hound Dog
- 15 (12) Greyhound - Black and White
- 16 (14) The Move - Tonight
- 17 (17) Slade - Get Down and Get With It
- 18 (21) Buffy Sainte-Marie - Soldier Blue
- 19 (20) The Delfonics - La-La (Means I Love You)
- 20 (16) The Supremes and The Four Tops - River Deep, Mountain High
Intro image: By CBS Television [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
13: Dawn: What Are You Doing Sunday?
In the States, Tony Orlando's Dawn had seen a couple of minor hits (I Play & Sing and Summer Sand) since their Number 1 song Knock Three Times. In the UK, the big follow-up was What Are You Doing Sunday?, which entered the Twenty at Number 13 this week and would peak at an impressive Number 3. It fared less well at home though, barely scraping into the Billboard Top 40.
18: Buffy Sainte-Marie: Soldier Blue
The only time Canadian/American singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie managed a UK Top 20 hit was with this wonderful title tune to the contentious US film, Soldier Blue. The massacre of innocent Native Americans by the US Cavalry was not a popular theme in Vietnam War-era America and this was one of the main reasons the film sunk without trace in American theatres. As a result, this theme also flopped.
Not in the UK, though. Soldier Blue was the third most popular movie at the British box office in 1971, pushing Buffy Sainte-Marie's song to a peak of Number 7.
- 01 (01) How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? - The Bee Gees
- 02 (04) Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
- 03 (06) Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
- 04 (05) Draggin' the Line - Tommy James
- 05 (03) You've Got A Friend - James Taylor
- 06 (02) Indian Reservation - The Raiders
- 07 (08) Beginnings / Color My World - Chicago
- 08 (09) What the World Needs Now is Love/Abraham, Martin and John - Tom Clay
- 09 (10) Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
- 10 (15) Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
The UK Number 1 album this week:
- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - The Moody Blues
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