UK Music Chart: September 25, 1971 Featuring Jethro Tull

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Hey Girl, Don't Bother Me from soul vocal group The Tams continued its grip on the Number 1 spot for a second week on this date in 1971.

Below them, four records took giant leaps up the chart as tracks by CCS, Marmalade, Middle of the Road and Rod Stewart made their debuts in the Top 10.

However, it was a quiet week for new entries to the listing, with just two discs managing to break into the Top 20.

The Tams at Number 1

The Chart:

01 (01) The Tams - Hey Girl, Don't Bother Me
02 (03) Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Did You Ever?
03 (11) Rod Stewart - Maggie May
04 (16) Middle of the Road - Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum
05 (05) The Supremes - Nathan Jones
06 (18) CCS - Tap Turns on the Water
07 (17) Marmalade - Cousin Norman
08 (08) Hot Chocolate - I Believe (In Love)
09 (12) James Taylor - You've Got a Friend
10 (02) Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting
11 (04) Curved Air - Back Street Luv
12 (09) Buffy Sainte-Marie - Soldier Blue
13 (15) Shirley Bassey - For All We Know
14 (07) The New Seekers - Never Ending Song of Love
15 (06) Carole King - It's Too Late
16 (10) Dawn - What Are You Doing Sunday?
17 (21) Daniel Boone - Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast
18 (13) The Pioneers - Let Your Yeah Be Yeah
19 (25) Jethro Tull - Life is a Long Song / Up the Pool
20 (14) Family - In My Own Time

*Previous week in brackets; Climbers denoted in red; New entries in bold

17: Daniel Boone: Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast

Although devotees of 1970s music may be more familiar with Daniel Boone's later hit song, Beautiful Sunday, in fact Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast was the record that became the singer's debut hit single. However, this was not the first time he had appeared on the chart.

Daniel Boone had briefly scraped into the UK Top 40 in 1963 under the name (Peter) Lee Stirling as part of the Birmingham group The Bruisers. Their record, Blue Girl, peaked at Number 31 and, chartwise, the band then disappeared. Later, Stirling reinvented himself as Daniel Boone and took this song to Number 17.

It was covered in the States by the dreadful Wayne Newton, who managed a Top 5 placing in the Billboard Hot 100 with his version.

19: Jethro Tull: Life is a Long Song

Several Ian Anderson compositions appeared on this five-track Jethro Tull EP (or perhaps, maxi single) with the wonderful Life is a Long Song as the featured lead song. Sharing top billing on the A-Side (although not receiving as much airplay) was Anderson's excellent ode to Blackpool, Up the 'Pool.

The other three tracks making up the B-Side were Doctor Bogenbroom, For Later and Nursie.

All five of them were included on the band's upcoming compilation album, Living in the Past.

Jethro Tull: Up the 'Pool