#1 at KUPD/Phoenix: “Right Place, Wrong Time” by Dr. John, The Night Tripper. A line from this song gave Emerson, Lake & Palmer the title to their Brain Salad Surgery album later that year. (Another memorable phrase: “refried confusion.”) Dr. John knocks out of #1 Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away.” This song was a hit again in 2003 by Uncle Kracker (in a duet with Dobie Gray).
Paul McCartney is at #2 with “My Love,” from the #1 album Red Rose Speedway. The Beatles have the #2 album, 1967-1970, and its companion set, 1962-1966, is at #5. George Harrison’s Living In The Material World is the #18 album, while its single, “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” falls to #19.
Stevie Wonder‘s classic “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life” holds at #10. The Carpenters make the biggest jump with “Yesterday Once More” (#28 to #13). The pride of Cortez High, Alice Cooper, and his Phoenix bandmates drop to #27 with “No More Mr. Nice Guy” from the #9 album, Billion Dollar Babies.
Debuting at #22 is “Watergrate” by comedian Dickie Goodman, who had several political-themed novelty hits during the 1970s that used excerpts from the hits of the day. And new at #27: “Brother Louie” by the Stories, a future #1.
So many great LPs appear on this week’s KUPD Albums list. Aside from those mentioned above, there are:
- Led Zeppelin’s Houses Of The Holy (#4) featuring the future hit single “D’yer Mak’er” and the future classic rock radio staple “Over The Hills And Far Away“;
- Pink Floyd’s immortal Dark Side Of The Moon (#8), which included the soon-to-be hit single “Money” among many other radio hits;
- Deep Purple’s Made in Japan (#10) highlighted by the often-played-on-the-radio live version of their 1972 hit “Smoke On The Water“;
- David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane (#13) featuring the single “The Jean Genie” and the semi-spooky avant-garde title track;
- Elton John’s Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player (#17), which produced this week’s #6 single “Daniel” and its predecessor #1 hit, “Crocodile Rock“;
- Paul Simon’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (#19) featuring this week’s #21 single “Kodachrome” and the much acclaimed Vietnam-era lament “American Tune,” among others;
- Procol Harum’s Grand Hotel (#20) featuring the grandiose title track.