Songs turning 50 in 2023

[Bob Juch]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1006148590741752
Feel old yet?

[Vandal]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1006148590741752
Feel old yet?

This link goes to a series of reels on Fbook, and none of them appear to be about old songs.

[BackInTex]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1006148590741752
Feel old yet?

This link goes to a series of reels on Fbook, and none of them appear to be about old songs.

Sometime the cut and paste technique is better. I’m surprised the King of C&P didn’t do that.

Billboard Top 100 - 1973

No. Title Artist(s)
1 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Tony Orlando and Dawn
2 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" Jim Croce
3 "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Roberta Flack
4 "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye
5 "My Love" Paul McCartney & Wings
6 "Why Me" Kris Kristofferson
7 "Crocodile Rock" Elton John
8 "Will It Go Round in Circles" Billy Preston
9 "You're So Vain" Carly Simon
10 "Touch Me in the Morning" Diana Ross
11 "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" Vicki Lawrence
12 "Playground in My Mind" Clint Holmes
13 "Brother Louie" Stories
14 "Delta Dawn" Helen Reddy
15 "Me and Mrs. Jones" Billy Paul
16 "Frankenstein" The Edgar Winter Group
17 "Drift Away" Dobie Gray
18 "Little Willy" Sweet
19 "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Stevie Wonder
20 "Half-Breed" Cher
21 "That Lady" The Isley Brothers
22 "Pillow Talk" Sylvia Robinson
23 "We're an American Band" Grand Funk Railroad
24 "Right Place Wrong Time" Dr. John
25 "Wildflower" Skylark
26 "Superstition" Stevie Wonder
27 "Loves Me Like a Rock" Paul Simon
28 "The Morning After" Maureen McGovern
29 "Rocky Mountain High" John Denver
30 "Stuck in the Middle with You" Stealers Wheel
31 "Shambala" Three Dog Night
32 "Love Train" The O'Jays
33 "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" Barry White
34 "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" Tony Orlando and Dawn
35 "Keep on Truckin'" Eddie Kendricks
36 "Danny's Song" Anne Murray
37 "Dancing in the Moonlight" King Harvest
38 "Monster Mash" Bobby 'Boris' Pickett
39 "Natural High" Bloodstone
40 "Diamond Girl" Seals and Crofts
41 "Long Train Runnin'" The Doobie Brothers
42 "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" George Harrison
43 "If You Want Me to Stay" Sly & the Family Stone
44 "Daddy's Home" Jermaine Jackson
45 "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" Gladys Knight & the Pips
46 "I'm Doin' Fine Now" New York City
47 "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" The Spinners
48 "Daniel" Elton John
49 "Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Knight & the Pips
50 "Smoke on the Water" Deep Purple
51 "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
52 "Behind Closed Doors" Charlie Rich
53 "Your Mama Don't Dance" Loggins and Messina
54 "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" Chicago
55 "The Cisco Kid" War
56 "Live and Let Die" Paul McCartney & Wings
57 "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?" Hurricane Smith
58 "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" Johnnie Taylor
59 "Sing" The Carpenters
60 "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" The Four Tops
61 "Dueling Banjos" Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
62 "Higher Ground" Stevie Wonder
63 "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" Al Green
64 "My Maria" B.W. Stevenson
65 "Superfly" Curtis Mayfield
66 "Last Song" Edward Bear
67 "Get Down" Gilbert O'Sullivan
68 "Reelin' in the Years" Steely Dan
69 "Hocus Pocus" Focus
70 "Yesterday Once More" The Carpenters
71 "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" Bette Midler
72 "Clair" Gilbert O'Sullivan
73 "Do It Again" Steely Dan
74 "Kodachrome" Paul Simon
75 "Why Can't We Live Together" Timmy Thomas
76 "Do You Wanna Dance?" Bette Midler
77 "So Very Hard to Go" Tower of Power
78 "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" Johnny Rivers
79 "Ramblin' Man" The Allman Brothers Band
80 "Masterpiece" The Temptations
81 "Peaceful" Helen Reddy
82 "One of a Kind (Love Affair)" The Spinners
83 "Funny Face" Donna Fargo
84 "Funky Worm" Ohio Players
85 "Angie" The Rolling Stones
86 "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" Blue Ridge Rangers
87 "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" Lobo
88 "Break Up to Make Up" The Stylistics
89 "Daisy a Day" Jud Strunk
90 "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" Deodato
91 "Stir It Up" Johnny Nash
92 "Money" Pink Floyd
93 "Gypsy Man" War
94 "The World Is a Ghetto"
95 "Yes We Can Can" The Pointer Sisters
96 "Free Ride" The Edgar Winter Group
97 "Space Oddity" David Bowie
98 "It Never Rains in Southern California" Albert Hammond
99 "The Twelfth of Never" Donny Osmond
100 "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" The

[silverscreenselect]

What's interesting about this is that I still remember at least the melody and a bit of the lyrics from most of them. Also, I'd guess that about two-thirds of these today are still popular in that they regularly show up in commercials and on TV and movie soundtracks.

[silverscreenselect]

I thought that "Monster Mash" had been released years earlier and it was in 1962. This was a 1973 re-release that made the top 100. From Wikipedia:

The record was re-released in the United Kingdom in 1973, where it peaked at number three in early October. In Canada, it reached number one on August 4, 1973. In the U.S., the record re-entered the Hot 100 on May 5, 1973, peaking at number ten on August 11. On the edition of September 15, 1973 of American Top 40, Casey Kasem mistakenly said that the record had accumulated 40 weeks on the Hot 100, which then would have been the all-time record, only for a listener to inform Kasem later that the record's three weeks on the Hot 100 in 1970 had been included in the 1973 run, thus reducing the total to 37 weeks. The 1970 reissue on the Parrot label (Parrot 348) was certified as a Gold record (for sales of over one million copies) on August 28, 1973. To celebrate the 1973 release, Bobby and the Crypt-Kickers toured Dallas and St. Louis around the 1973 Halloween holiday. On this tour, the Crypt-Kickers were composed of Brian Ray (now guitarist with Paul McCartney), drummer Brian Englund, keyboardist Don Chambers, singer Jean Ray, and others.

[Bob Juch]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1006148590741752
Feel old yet?

This link goes to a series of reels on Fbook, and none of them appear to be about old songs.

Humpf, it worked when I posted it. EFB must have changed the reel.