Original vs Remake #30

Delta Dawn

(Larry Collins and Alex Harvey)

1972

Tanya Tucker

#6 on the Billboard Country Chart

1973

Helen Reddy

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Canadian Singles Chart, 

Cashbox Top 40, Australia and New Zealand,

#1 on the Billboard AC/Easy Listening Chart

Chart Toppers March 31st 1973

Here are the songs and albums that topped the various Billboard and Cashbox charts this week in 1973


UK #1 Single
Twelfth of Never - Donny Osmond


Billboard #1 Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary
Sing - The Carpenters



Billboard #1 Country Single
Keep Me in Mind - Lynn Anderson


Billboard #1 Country Album
Deliverance/Dueling Banjos - Soundtrack

Billboard #1 Soul Single
Neither One of Us Wants to be the First To Say Goodbye - Gladys Knight and the Pips


Billboard #1 Soul Album
WattStax - Soundtrack

Australian #1 Single
You're So Vain - Carly Simon


Cashbox #1 Single
Love Train - O'Jays

Chart Toppers 01/12/1974

Here are the other Billboard Chart Toppers for the week ending January 12th 1974


#1 UK Single
Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
(5th of 5 consecutive weeks at #1)


#1 UK Album
Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
(2 consecutive weeks at #1)

#1 Adult Contemporary
The Way We Were - Barbara Streisand
(1st of 2 consecutive weeks at #1)


#1 Country Single
If We Make it Through December - Merle Haggard
(4th of 4 consecutive weeks at #1)



#1 Country Album
Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich
(10th of 22 non consecutive weeks at #1)

#1 R & B Single
Until You Come Back To Me - Aretha Franklin
(1 week at #1)


#1 R & B Album
Imagination - Gladys Knight and the Pips
(5th of 7 consecutive weeks at #1)

Chart Toppers 01/14/1984

Here are the #1's on the other Billboard Charts for the week ending January 14th 1984

#1 Adult Contemporary
Read'em and Weep - Barry Manilow
(4th of 6 consecutive weeks at #1)


#1 UK Singles
Pipes of Peace - Paul McCartney
(1st of 2 consecutive weeks at #1)


#1 UK Albums
No Parlez - Paul Young
(5th of 5 non consecutive weeks at #1)

#1 Country Singles
Slow Burn - TG Sheppard
(1 week at #1)


#1 Country Albums
Eyes That See in the Dark - Kenny Rogers
(12th of 16 consecutive weeks at #1)

#1 R&B Singles
Time Will Reveal - DeBarge
(5th of 5 consecutive weeks at #1)


#1 R&B Albums
Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
(8th of 23 non consecutive weeks at #1)