Chart Toppers June 7th 1975

Here are the other songs and albums topping the Billboard charts for the week ending 

June 7th 1975

#1 US Country Single
Window Up Above - Mickey Gilley
(1 week at #1)


#1 US Country Album
Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
(4th of 9 non consecutive weeks at #1)

#1 UK Single
Whispering Grass - Windsor Davies and Don Estelle
(1st of 3 consecutive weeks at #1)


#1 UK Album
The Best of the Stylistics - The Stylistics
(5th of 9 non consecutive weeks at #1)
The Best selling Album in the UK for 1975

#1 US Adult Contemporary Single
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain and Tennille
(1 week at #1)


#1 US Soul Single
Love Won't Let Me Wait - Major Harris
(1 week at #1)


#1 US Soul Album
Survival - O'Jays
(2 consecutive weeks at #1)

#1 Cashbox Single
Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
(1 Week at #1)

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 02/22/1975

Here are the songs and albums that topped the charts on Feb 22nd 1975


#1 UK Single
Make Me Smile - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel


#1 UK Album
On The Level - Status Quo

#1 Country Single
I Care - Tom T Hall



#1 Country Album
Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Rondstadt

#1 Adult Contemporary Single
Nightingale - Carole King


#1 Canadian Single
Mandy - Barry Manilow



#1 R & B Single
Lady Marmalade - Labelle


#1 R & B Album
Do It Til You're Satisfied - B.T. Express

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 01/08/1977

Here are the other Billboard Chart toppers for the week ending January 8th 1977

#1 Country Song 
Broken Down in Tiny Pieces - Billy "Crash" Craddock
(1 week at #1)


#1 Country Album
Greatest Hits Volume 2 - Conway Twitty
(1 week at #1)

#1 Easy Listening Song
Weekend in New England - Barry Manilow
(1 week at #1)


#1 R&B Song
Darlin' Darlin' Baby - The O'Jays
(1week at #1)


The #1 R&B Album
Dazz - Brick
(1 week at #1)

The #1 UK Single
When a Child is Born - Johnny Mathis
(2nd of 3 weeks at #1)


The #1 UK Album
A Day At the Races - Queen
(1 week at #1)

Original vs Remake #24

From 1972 Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes went to #3 on the Hot 100 and reached #1 on the R&B charts with "If You Don't Know Me By Now". Written and produced by music legends Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.

In 1986 the british group Simply Red had success with the song "Holding Back the Years", they reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the UK Charts, after 3 years of middling success they hit a veritable jackpot with the remake of "If You Don't Know Me By Now".  They reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary Charts, Australian Top 40, The Canadian Top 40 and New Zealand, while getting #2 again on the UK Top 100 singles chart.