Rolling Stone Magazine Cover of the Week

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE 

COVER OF THE WEEK 

DECEMBER 2nd 1976

(Linda Ronstadt) 

 

Flashback - Billboard Album Chart (March 26th 1977)

Billboard Album Chart

Top 50

Week Ending March 26th 1977

Casey Kasem's American Top 40 The 70s - Feb 25th 2012

AT40 the 70s this week February 22nd 1975


The Top 20 Singles

20 - Express - B.T. Express
19 - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You - Sugarloaf
18 - Roll on Down the Highway - Bachman Turner Overdrive
17 - Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
16 - I'm A Woman - Maria Muldaur
15 - Can't Get It Out of My Head - ELO
14 - Lady - Styx
13 - Sweet Surrender - John Denver
12 - Fire - Ohio Players
11 - Look in My Eyes Pretty  Woman - Tony Orlando and Dawn
10 - Nightingale - Carole King
9  -  Number Nine Dream - John Lennon
8  -  You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt
7  -  My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli
6  -  Lonely People - America
5  -  Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John
4  -  Black Water - Doobie Brothers
3  -  Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk
2  -  Best of My Love - Eagles
1  -  Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band
(1 week at #1)


The Top 20 Albums

20 - It'll Shine When it Shines - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
19 - Perfect Angel - Minnie Ripperton
18 - Souvenirs - Dan Fogelberg
17 - So What - Joe Walsh
16 - Prime Time - Tony Orlando and Dawn
15 - Greatest Hits - Three Dog Night
14 - Fire - Ohio Players
13 - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits - The Doobie Brothers
12 - Phoebe Snow - Phoebe Snow
11 - Dark Horse - George Harrison
10 - All The Girls in the World Beware - Grand Funk
9  -  II - Barry Manilow
8  -  Rufusized - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
7  -  Empty Sky - Elton John
6  -  Do It (Til Your Satisfied) - B.T. Express
5  -  War Child - Jethro Tull
4  -  Miles of Aisles - Joni Mitchell
3  -  Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Rondstadt
2  -  Blood On the Tracks - Bob Dylan
1  -  AWB - Average White Band
(1 week at #1)

Side one
"You Got It" (Roger Ball, Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart) – 3:36
"Got the Love" (Roger Ball, Robbie McIntosh, Hamish Stuart) – 3:52
"Pick Up the Pieces" (Average White Band, Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart) – 3:59
"Person to Person" (Average White Band, Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart) – 3:39
"Work to Do" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) – 4:25

Side two
"Nothing You Can Do" (Alan Gorrie, Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart) – 4:08
"Just Wanna Love You Tonight" (Roger Ball, Alan Gorrie) – 3:58
"Keepin' It to Myself" (Alan Gorrie) – 4:01
"I Just Can't Give You Up" (Hamish Stuart) – 3:30
"There's Always Someone Waiting" (Alan Gorrie) – 5:35

Original vs Remake #16

Today's remake looks at the 1972 hit from the Rolling Stones "Tumbling Dice". 
The original Rolling Stones version would reach #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the UK Top 40 chart.  Although there is rehearsal footage of the Stones singing the song at Montreaux, as usual its hard to understand any of the lyrics and not as good as the single released from the classic LP "Exile on Main Street"



In 1977 Linda Rondstadt was still riding a wave of chart success and decided to release her cover version of "Tumbling Dice" as a B side to "I Will Never Marry".
She and her band had done the song as a sound check for her concerts but no one knew the words.  She contacted Mick Jagger and ask him to write them down and on his suggestion that she sing more rock oriented songs she started using this more in her concerts.
Her version reached #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 but still gets plenty of airplay on "classic hit" radio today.