Garys Music Trivia - Sunday August 24, 2014 TODAY: The #1 R&B songs of 1971 TITLE - ARTIST - DATE REACHED #1 - WEEKS AT #1 - POP # Groove Me - King Floyd - 1/2 - (4) - 6* If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight & Pips - 1/23 - (1) - 9* (Do The) Push And Pull Part 1 - Rufus Thomas - 2/6 - (2) - 25* Jodys Got Your Girl And Gone - Johnnie Taylor - 2/20 - (2) - 28* Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - Temptations - 3/6 - (3) - 1* Whats Going On - Marvin Gaye - 3/27 - (5) - 2* Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5 - 5/1 - (3) - 2* Bridge Over Troubled Water - Aretha Franklin - 5/22 - (2) - 6* Want Ads - Honey Cone - 5/29 - (3) - 1* Dont Knock My Love - Part 1 - Wilson Pickett - 6/26 - (1) - 13* Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight - 7/3 - (5) - 2* ++ Hot Pants Part 1 (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants - James Brown - 8/7 - (1) - 15* Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye - 8/14 - (2) - 4* Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin - 8/28 - (3) - 2* Stick-Up - Honey Cone - 9/18 - (2) - 11* Make It Funky (Part 1) - James Brown - 10/2 - (2) - 22* Thin Line Between Love And Hate - Persuaders - 10/16 - (2) - 15* Trapped By A Thing Called Love - Denise LaSalle - 10/30 - (1) - 13* Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler - Marvin Gaye - 11/6 - (2) - 9* Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites - 11/20 - (2) - 3* Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone - 12/4 - (5) - 1* *Highest position of song reached on the Pop charts ++The #1 R&B song of the year for 1971 **As much as 1970 was the year for the Jackson 5, 1971 was the year for Marvin Gaye. From one LP, he achieved three #1 songs with all three songs breaking the Top 10 barrier on the pop charts. **Both James Brown and Aretha Franklin cracked the #1 R&B position twice in 1971 (Both Aretha songs were remakes from other others). Also to reach the top twice was the Honey Cone. **Three songs from this year hits #1 on both the R&B and Pop Charts: Just My Imagination, Want Ads and Family Affair. **My Top 3 of the year: 1) Family Affair; 2)Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology); 3)Thin Line between Love And Hate. If you think 1970 and 1971 were good years for R&B, wait for 1972. You aint seen nothin yet. Have a great Sunday and not to sound repetitive but all comments always welcomed....and appreciated :)
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 07:47:28 +0000