Jason’s Jukebox Volume 7

Jason Maloney reviews

JASON’S JUKEBOX
V o l u m e # 0 7 Chart Date: Week Ending 3rd March 1973 Online Date: 2nd March 2004

Slade: Greatest Hits Going straight in at Number One was once an extremely rare achievement; in the first 30 years of the UK Chart only a handful of acts managed the feat. Hard to believe in 2004, perhaps, when not one of the last 50 or so chart-toppers has climbed to the summit, but Slade‘s Cum On Feel The Noize was one of the earliest. Only Cliff Richard (in 1962 with The Young Ones) and The Beatles (courtesy of Get Back in 1969) had done it previously. It would be 1980 before an act other than Slade went in at #1.

Glam Rock was riding high elsewhere in top 10; Cum On Feel The Noize had dethroned Sweet‘s Blockbuster (now at #3), while Gary Glitter was on his way down to #6 with the former #2 hit Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah).

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Changing Faces:
The Very Best of
Rod Stewart & The Faces Whatever the year, whatever the week, Rod Stewart always seems to be around and it was no different in 1973. The Faces‘ Cindy Incidentally was stuck at #5, having climbed 12 places the week before, but it would find renewed impetus 7 days later to peak at #2. Meanwhile the debut hit for Thin Lizzy, Whisky In The Jar, dropped a place to #7.

Dave Edumnds, who had kicked off his chart career with the #1 I Hear You Knockin‘ in late 1970, moved up from #10 to #8 with Baby I Love You. This time he wouldn’t go all the way, #8 proving to be the single’s highest position.

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Elton John:
Greatest Hits 1970-2002 The Tamla Motown label had a quartet of singles on the chart, led by the Jackson Five‘s cover of Jackson Browne‘s Doctor My Eyes at #12. Close behind at #14, Stevie Wonder‘s classic Superstition was already in decline having peaked at a surprisingly low #11.

Songs on the Top 40 of March 3rd 1973 that have etched themselves into pop music history included Daniel by Elton John (tumbling 4 places to #11), Roberta Flack‘s Killing Me Softly With His Song (up 4 to #19), You’re So Vain from Carly Simon (plunging 13 to #25, albeit on its 12th week on the chart) and Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes‘ If You Don’t Know Me By Now (down 10 to #34).

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