Tmie Machine week three

Today is May 9th, 1972.  An Israeli strike force that included future Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu stormed a hijacked plane in Tel Aviv, saving all but one passenger and killing two out of four  Palestinian cretins.  In the meantime, further cretins at Mankato State University shut the entire city down for a day to protest the Vietnam War.  Funny how honor and privilege seem to part ways...

Welcome to yet another escapade in the new, slimmed down Time Machine, featuring the week that saw David Crosby and Graham Nash's Immigration Man and Jimmy Castor's Troglodyte (Cave Man) hit the charts.  This week, another humdrum top ten will be somewhat mollified by a look at the national charts, a four way battle for the "song I never knew" video, and "where do I gotta go to put up a picture at the end of the top ten?"   Hop in and let's find out!

Based on what is to come, I really think that I should start out with the top 40 debuts.  Annnnnd.... I have to fix a boo-boo there, as I left one off the list last week.  Back when Isaac Hayes and David Porter were running Stax Records, they had a hole to fill when top act Sam and Dave left them.  So they put together a group of 2 men and two women and christened them the Soul Children.  This group would sneak into the R&B top 10 three times, crossing over to the hot 100 each time.  Last week a song that peaked at 44 on Billboard made the Cashbox top 40- Hearsay, which moved 13 to come in at #36.  This was a song that got consideration for this week's video- but I thought them to be a lot like Sam and Dave (they did cover Hold On, I'm Coming) and went on to look for something a bit more unique.  They remain in the 40 this week (and thus won't be on You Peaked till at least next week!).

Now this week's 40 greets 5 songs...  At 40, up one, was another video contender.  Canadian-Cree Indian activist Buffy Sainte-Marie makes her one stand in the 40 with a song called Mister Can't You See.  Another pretty good contestant, but for me it was "Joan Baez with a tad more warble", so she too loses out.   Up ten spots to #38 is Dr Hook with Sylvia's Mother.  Sammy Davis cracks the 40 at 35, up 9, with Candy Man.  Up nine to 34 is another one I thought would have a video shot- until I heard it and said, Oh, yeah, I know this one!  That would be Run Run Run by Jo Jo Gunne, a band formed by future 50 Tracks judge Jay Ferguson and a bandmate after Spirit folded.  And the high debut, up 14 places, is the Rolling Stones with Tumbling Dice.

Is this what they meant in the line, "You've got to roll me?"


 

And all that neat fun sets the stage for my look at the local charts this week in 1972.  Now since we last did this three weeks ago on Volume Two's swan song, the consensus behind Roberta Flack and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face has broken up a bit.  She remains on top on LA's KHJ.  But among the top ten, I noticed one song not even in the main top 40- this week's #45 nationally, Todd Rundgren's I Saw The Light, was at #8.  And I thought, let's look and see how many other non t40s are in the local top tens. 

None of them at Chicago's WLS, where Roberta still holds the top spot.  But, across the street at WCFL, Jackson Browne's Doctor My Eyes is at the top.  And down the list is Buffy Ste. Marie (Technically in the top 40, but barely) at #9, and at #10 is the first single by Loggins and Messina- off what was supposed to be a Loggins solo record but ended up with the title Kenny Loggins With Jim Messina Sittin' In.  That single, # 89 nationally, is called Vahevala, and it gets the video this week.



Over in Minneapolis, WDGY has Joe Tex's I Gotcha at the top, closely followed by Hot Rod Lincoln.  That must be the station that played at Mankato State.  Cross town at KDWB- with the second to last chart I have access to there- Don McLean's Vincent sits atop the chart.  But whomever typed out the chart must have been a Mankato State grad as well- they have "East Blue" by Badfinger moving from 7 to 4, and "Tumbling Dices" from 16 to 10.

In Detroit, CKLW has Oh, Girl at the top, with a bit of an uncharted oddity at #10.  You see, once upon a time, there was this singer by the name (or sobriquet) of June Conquest.  While you make your jokes about "summer floozies", let me continue.  She first tried to make it in the music world in the early sixties, as a solo act once and once as a duet with a guy whose name is lost to posterity and went only by "The Demon".  Later, she signed with Curtis Mayfield's Windy C records in Chicago, where she had a local hit called What's This I See ( which was allegedly a hit in Chi-Town, but apparently not on WLS).  Finally, one day her manager tried to get her some recognition by singing a duet with Sam Cooke's brother L.C.- but he never showed.  In the studio was a background vocalist who'd never stepped to the forefront before.  They recorded the song in CLKW's top ten- called I Thank You- and while it didn't do much, it launched a new career.  Not for June, but for her partner that fateful day- Donny Hathaway.  I don't know if I Thank You- featuring June doing Amazing Grace in the second stanza as Donny sings between her lines- charted, but it hadn't hit on Cashbox the first month or so after this week.  Runner up on the video list, btw.  Donny sounds pretty good, June sounds... fair.

Donny and June

Finally, I check in at Pittsburgh's KQV.  Always the trend-buckers, they have Sammy Davis' Candy Man at the top.

This week's You Peaked is a paltry lot.  Gladys Knight's version of Help Me Make It Through The Night tumbles after stopping at 37... and after Sammi Smith had took it to #8.  And the inaugural video tune, Alice Cooper's Be My Lover, halted at 36 and has begun its fall, though still clinging to the 40 at #39.

Two songs enter the top ten... and that means that two take a dive.  Those are In The Rain (4 to 18) and Horse With No Name (8 to 20).

So three of the top four don't move... and all but one have gotten their picture posted.  According to Time Machine Law, each number one only gets the artist's picture put up one time.  Otherwise, come October and November of 1977, we'd be seeing a lot of this:

"You... light up my-yy life...."

and while the sight may not be terrible, after a while you'll curse me for the ear worm she brings.  So, once again, I'm going to mix up the top ten, just so's I can get the one who HASN'T been pictured in the top four to end the show.  Okay?  Let's do this!

Like a breath of fresh air in a stagnant room, Badfinger enters the top ten climbing from 14 to 9 with East Baby Blue.

Sonny and Cher, the epitome of "for better, for worse", climb one more spot to #6 with A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done.

Little Michael Jackson holds yet another week at #2 with Rockin' Robin.

Also up one spot, Aretha Franklin with Day Dreaming at 5.

The Staple Singers say, I'll Take You There, and they get two steps closer to doing just that, at #8.

I bet you probably guessed this... The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is STILL at #1.

Climbing a pair to #7, Al Green with Look What You've Done For Me.

The one mover in the top 4- The Stylistics' Betcha By Golly Wow, moving on up a notch to #4.

The other new debut, up just one, Three Dog Night's The Family Of Man at # 10.

And this week's picture winner- holding at #3 for a second week-

...Joe Tex with I Gotcha!!!


Hope you enjoyed the show!  See you next time!

And on the third day...

...he ceased to rest and posted something.  The barely-moving Mr. Martin is back to life today, and has a couple of things to share.

First, how about something neat?  A FB post gave out a website for the international space station that has an extremely neat live-streaming set of cameras on Mother Earth!  Check it out at (your link here) !  It is cool as crap!

Next up, I'd just like to say, where did Karen Richards find 16,704 idiots to vote for her in the primaries?  Now I will admit I am a registered independent and could not vote.  But I could have voted 8,000 times and not prevented the most dimwitted County Prosecutor since Eric Holder's youth from passing the primary hurdle.  I hope you all enjoy it when the next gang thug she gives a plea deal to robs you, rapes you, or sells your kid drugs.

As I told a co-worker, "I think she had a failed breast enhancement, and now just has the one boob between her ears."

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Finally, here's an 80 degree F trip to the hump'n'dump:

Scrappy meets Sam the yellow lab.  Sam and he got along great... until the same thought crossed their pea-brains simultaneously.  Scrappy tried the hump game first, but found it swiftly turned around on him.  As his owner peeled Sam off (just moments before Scrappy began to sing Something's Burning in soprano), Scrappy doubled back, and it was my turn to play peel the dog.  They were good for another 5 minutes or so before Sam initiated round two, with similar results.  Another five minutes, round three erupted.  This time, Scrappy was in no mood and turned with a growl and went into his "rearing stallion" pose.  Unfortunately for him, Sam was uncaring and tried to do it from the front instead.  Scrappy twisted his back leg under the weight and fell down, and Sam got taken home early.  No worries, Boofus is fine.

It was too hot after that to wander around...

Discovered my camera has a "take picture 10 seconds after detecting a face" button.  Too bad it didn't have a "tell stupid to smile" button.

Martin World News and stuff

You coulda just said no... didn't have to SLAM THE FRICKIN'DOOR on me like this, didja?

 

 

I have news bits AND walk pictures today, my friends.  But first, for our Mexican friends....

Somebody posted this on FB... and one commenter said, "???????????"  Seriously, dude?

Anyway, let's get on to the substantive crap:

ITEM:  This week, another Facebook friend has been posting a lot of those headlines that really should have been thought about before publishing, like, "Homeless man gets house arrest".  Well, I found one, courtesy of my friends at the BBC.  Now, I know this is a sad situation which shouldn't be made light of.  And yes, I realize that there is a "language barrier" between us and the UK.  But seriously, guys...

So, they managed to lose an entire search?  No wonder they couldn't find anyone!

All right, enough of the mirth.  When you consider that 600 local searchers were buried by a second landslide, it's not far off whichever way you read it.  Prayers going out for the survivors.

At the risk of being insensitive yet again, aren't you supposed to sleep UNDER the bridge?

Dad, she's cute... even if she's pooping...

ITEM:  Okay, so I know I have had the advantage of just going through an attempt to memorize the Periodic chart of the elements.  Still. an article titled Elementary, My Dear: 8 Elements You Never Heard Of on Live Science caught my eye.  And I can see most of them on Marc Lallanilla's list being somewhat anonymous- europium, scandium, tellurium, dysprosium.  And I get that I remember Antimony mainly because it somehow got the atomic symbol Sb, and Gallium from a comic book mentioning it.  And maybe you might have a wee problem connecting the element Beryllium to the gem Beryl. (You know, one of the October birthstones?).  But I went to Laurie, who is pretty much the perfect representative of what is and should be common knowledge, and she said without a doubt most people should know one name on the list.

Are you ready?

Argon?  Really?  The third most common gas in earth's atmosphere, used in light bulbs both incandescent and fluorescent, by welders, and dozens of other applications?  Well, you be the judge, I guess.

This is worthy of a MWN item itself.  Got up with a nice wet muddy butt.

Peek!

ITEM:  A friend sent me this one, which the headline is much funnier than the story.  From July of 2009....

Two Mexican Midget Wrestlers Killed by Fake Prostitutes


Of course, the clincher has to be the costumed name of one of the formerly mighty mites:

Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one of whom went by the name "La Parkita" — or "Little Death" — and wore a skeleton costume in the ring. The other was known as "Espectrito Jr."



Now probably going as "Little Dead."

ITEM:  Will there ever be an end to the stupidity in Brazil, as they build up towards their hosting of this year's World Cup and the 2016 Summer Games?  Guess not...

A Brazilian football fan has died after being hit by a toilet bowl thrown at the end of a Second Division match in the north-eastern city of Recife.

Paulo Ricardo Gomes da Silva was struck as clashes took place near one of the entrances to Arruda stadium.

Another three people were reportedly hurt as toilet bowls were ripped out of stadium facilities and hurled at rival fans below.

What exactly is it that makes a minority of soccer fans the biggest idiots in the world?   For example, there is another racial hoo-hah going on in Europe, as a black player was thrown a banana by opposing "fans".    Excuse me, but look at your team- where would your team be if you had no players of color?

Yeah.  Of course, the player had the right idea- he picked up the insulting fruit, peeled it, and ate it before the next play.  The only better thing he could have done was to send the "fan" up a condom large enough to wear over his head.

Have I mentioned we've got ducks everywhere?  Here's a pair at the Green Hole, where I don't believe we've EVER seen ducks...

...and another pair at the duck pond, where ironically, it's been a while since we've seen any.

ITEM:  Remember a few MWNs ago when I did the story about the Norwegian guy and his can of fermented fish being ready to explode?  Well, how about a whole FACTORY'S worth?  A gentleman named Hans-Erik Englund had a warehouse with 1,000 cans of Surstromming- rotten herring canned and left to ferment, a "delicacy" in Norway.  Stress:  had.

Yep, the building caught fire and all 1,000 cans blew sky high over the six-hour stink fest.


One of the cans flew over an outhouse roof, while another shot over the bay to a neighbour's house, Mr Englund said.


I'm wondering how long it will take the neighbor's property values to recover.  Next time you want to go to county council and bitch about your neighbor's new pig farm/ septic pit/ landfill going in, remember- it could be worse.

ITEM:  The latest thing in China?  Walking your cabbage.

The vegetables are being taken for walkies by teenagers in China as a way to get over depression and loneliness.
The youngsters are able to meet other people who also walk the green foods.
Chinese psychiatrist Wen Chao said: ‘The idea is simple – you feel as lonely and as simple as a cabbage, so you begin to act like one and befriend one.
‘And in that acceptance comes change.’

Need I add anything?

ITEM:  Define impaired?  Sure.  How about the guy driving high gets sideswiped by the drunk driver and calls the cops on him?

Malcolm Sidbury, 38, dialed 911 after Thomas Robbins, 57, glanced his car while attempting to pass him on the Taconic State Parkway in New York. Neither man stopped after the incident. When state police finally caught up with the pair, they ended up arresting both men after it became clear that they were both intoxicated.
Mr Sidbury was charged with driving while his ability was impaired by drugs while Robbins, whose blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit, was charged with driving while intoxicated, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.


Or how about this one? From the Island of St Vincent:

(Carlisle)Williams was arrested March 22 as he was going through Gate 5 at the Grenadines wharf, to board one of the boats that ply the St. Vincent-Grenadines route. A search of his person revealed the drug.

When cautioned, Williams told the police, "Officer, is my weed wey me does smoke to get appetite to eat and brisk up to do work.” 

 

 

(Translation:  He smokes the weed to get the munchies so he will eat and have enough energy to work.)

 

He gave a similar explanation when he appeared in Court on Monday.

When Chief Magistrate Sonya Young asked what type of work he did, Williams said he works when he gets employment.

He was fined $50 forthwith or two days in prison.

 

 

Look, Scrappy!  Daddy found a snail shell!

 

"Big deal."

ITEM:  And finally, from our friends in Australia:

 

 

 

One Sunshine Coast legal brothel, Scarlet Harem, is hoping to lure stressed workers away from computers and construction sites with its lunch offerings.
For a “limited time only” clients can get a deal which includes a hot pie and coke with their choice of a range of “services”.
The special launched this month has been advertised as “Pie, Coke ‘n’ Poke Lunchtime fun” and a “Lady for a Tradie Lunchtime Fun Meal Deal” promising “XXX Pleasures”.
The award-winning brothel has also extended its opening hours and is advertising “early bird” specials.
Madam of 13 years and businesswoman Paris Satine said visiting a bordello was a “different way to spend your lunchtime”.


I wonder if we can combine that concept with the Roach Coach delivery-at-work idea....

Sunday message: Judaizers and others distracted

The one thing that jumped out of my Bible reading this week is the simplicity of what God expects from us.  It is a simplicity that would have been lost on the Judaizers of Paul's day.  You see, they had the comfort of 1,000 years of ritual-  they didn't have to "think" or "search" to know God, He was written right into their rules and regulations.  And as time went on, men- some holy, some not so much- interpreted those rules and regulations FOR them, so that God became not someone you knew, but something you were taught, and knowing the lessons became far more important than the Being they were supposedly emanating from.  And some of them were good rules, and we strive to live by them yet today, like the Ten Commandments.  But just like today, the "tablet" became more important than the words it contained.  What do I mean, "Just like today"?  Well, think about the battles we are having over the Ten Commandments being posted in courtrooms, and Christmas scenes on "public property" (Quote marks indicating that Christians ARE also part of the public), and what have you- and then follow the simplicity of what God wants.

It starts out in Deuteronomy 11:22, where God outlines the three simple things He wanted from them, and wants from us- 
Deu 11:22 "If you carefully observe all of these commands that I'm giving you to do—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him..." #1, Love God.  #2 Walk in His ways, AKA obey.  #3 Cling to Him- come to Him as a child to a parent in all things.   Pretty simple, right?  Then came the next step, at Jesus' baptism:

Mat 3:16 When Jesus had been baptized, he immediately came up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens opened up for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.
Mat 3:17 Then a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him!"
And followed up at the Transfiguration:

Mat 17:5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And behold a voice out of the cloud which said, This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear Him. Okay, so now we have the fourth command- hear Jesus.  But what was it Jesus was saying?  He summed it up in the most famous verse of all:


Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

So now we have Jesus' game plan.  But how do we get on the winning side?  Paul, if you would:

Rom 10:9 Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

And that's all there is to it.  Simple, right?  After that, any discussion of how to do it, where to do it, with what words to do it SHOULD be secondary.


I have tried to convey this on a FB friend's Catholic posts, and for 95% per cent of it, it is well received.  But there is one- maybe two, different accounts but the same words- person, a modern day Judaizer if you will, that cannot conceive of thinking beyond the comfort zone of what "the Church Fathers" have taught him/her.  As a result, when they enter the conversation, I get a lot of:

-You are a heretic (and when you point out "Judge not lest ye be judged", he merely puts some scriptural polish on, "It ain't judging if I'm right.")

-You follow a 500 year old religion, while we date back to Peter (IOW, Martin Luther apparently was the first one to conceive of the Bible as something to be read and studied).

-If not for the Crusades, we'd all be speaking Arabic (as a historian, I really enjoy when he gets to this point and I can totally embarrass him- sad but true).

- Oh, and my favorite- Even when the Church had bad popes (i.e. guys that were holding orgies in the Basillica like Alexander VI), they could DO NO WRONG if speaking FOR THE CHURCH.  Uh, yeah, not real convinced on that one.


Not all of his arguments are so far off the deep end- for example, his taking, as the Church does of the wedding at Cana as the proof for going to Mary first (rather than noticing that Jesus TURNED HER DOWN, and then she said, "Do what HE tells you"; or questioning the logic of Jesus coming to earth as man to not only die for our sins, but to establish a woman as the best way to get God's attention).  I've said many times- I do not believe these to be salvational issues, and I believe you can be a Catholic and be saved...  scroll back up to John 3:16 and the part about WHOEVER believes in Him.  Or if that isn't good enough,  How about this:

Mar 9:38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out demons in Your name, and he does not follow us. And we forbade him, because he does not follow us.
Mar 9:39 But Jesus said, Do not forbid him. For there is no one who shall do a work of power in My name who can lightly speak evil of Me.
Mar 9:40 For he who is not against us is for us.
Mar 9:41 For whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, truly I say to you, He shall not lose his reward.

But, of course, the person in question would give a long drawn out explanation that boils down to 2 things:  You can't listen to the Bible because it was written by men;  You must get your truth from the Church Fathers, who were men who know better than you.


So he will continue to put up barriers.  You must believe in Child baptism.  You must confess to a priest.  You must believe that the wafer supernaturally becomes flesh.  You must not eat pork, you must be circumcised (Oops, how did THOSE get in there?)


But God didn't put up barriers.  Jesus said,

Mat 11:29 Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
Mat 11:30 For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light. Love.  Obey, Cling. Believe.  Confess.  All there is to it.

I want a new duck...

Here ya go!

Yep, it was time for a new toy.  One that might last a little longer...

 

 

 

 ...or maybe not.  So far, only it's head has been deflated. 

(PS- the mosaic on the TV stand conceived and constructed by Laurie, layout by Chris.)

 

 

 "But, Dad!  The fuzz calls to me for release..."

So next up was an evening walk.  There's a couple of doggies we run into often (twice tonight).  Master and leash are around the bend.

 

 

 Down at the creek, and Scrappy wanted me to go across..

 

 

 ...as you can see, I made it over the string of rocks on the left.

Scrappy finds some Jack-in-the-pulpit.

 

 

 See?  There's Jack.

 

 

 Something you don't see in the woods everyday- forks for a lift!

The river is now officially Waaaaaaay Down.

Remember last week when this would have been called "wading"?

I love watching the swallows gracefully dive bombing bugs.

And, from earlier in the week, goldfinch at the feeder.

Time Machine week 2

Today is May 2nd, 1972- the day J Edgar Hoover died.

No word on whether he was singing, "bye, bye, Miss American Pie" when his heart attack struck.


Welcome to week two of the leaner, meaner Time Machine-  the week that Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond, Old Man by Neil Young, Rocket Man by Elton John, Lean On Me by Bill Withers, and How Do You Do by Mouth and McNeil, and this one, enter the hot 100. 





This would be CCR's last top 40 single.


This week, a six degrees attaches a horse without a name to an Eskimo with a name, we get to play a little guessing game, and the top ten is out of order- literally!

I have to say I'm a little disappointed in our top ten this week- none of them are songs that would really grab me.  So I thought this week I'd do one of the "rotating features" in which I trip back in my mind's eye and try to guess off what I would have had as a top ten if I were doing a top ten back then.  What you get to do- if you want- is guess off which of these charted the highest THIS WEEK.  I will help you (if you have a good memory of last week's show or if you want to cheat) by saying that there IS one Cashbox top ten in my list.  Without further doo-doo, here's how I THINK I would have ranked 'em:

1- Baby Blue, Badfinger
2- Oh, Girl, Chi-Lites
3- Roundabout, Yes
4- Vincent, Don McLean
5- Suavecito, Malo
6- Doctor My Eyes, Jackson Browne
7- Heart Of Gold, Neil Young
8- Betcha By Golly Wow, Stylistics
9- You Could've Been A Lady, April Wine
10- Last Night (I Didn't Get To Sleep At All), 5th Dimension

Okay, so which one is the top tenner on both charts?  Guess now, because we'll very shortly be picking them off.

Next up, "You Peaked!"  And this week's songs on the way down include Dennis Coffey's Taurus (stopping at 13 last week), Honey Cone's The Day I Found Myself at 15- and for you AOR people out there, Led Zep's Rock And Roll at 42.

42?  That blows, dudes...

This week, we have six top 40 debuts.  Gallery, a soft-rock band out of Detroit, hits with a song arranged by the aforementioned Dennis Coffey- Nice To Be With You, which takes a 5 notch jump to 39.  Next up, the Song I Didn't Know Before, courtesy of the Isley Brothers:






IDK about you, but I kept hearing Want Ads in my mind.  The brothers land at 38, also up 5.

At 35, up 6 spots, the Canadian group April Wine with You Could've Been A Lady (and there goes one of your choices!).  Cat Stevens moves up 11 to # 34 with Morning Has Broken; At 31, up 17, is Love Unlimited (AKA Barry White's backup vocalists) with a BJ Thomas-like title- Walking In The Rain With The One I Love.  And finally, up 18 to the high debut of 29, the Jackson 5 with Little Bitty Pretty One.

Two songs will enter the top ten, so 2 bail out.  Falling are Heart Of Gold (there goes #2, falling from 9 to 12) and Roundabout (and there goes a third one, from 10 to 21).

So you have seven left to pick from.  Who will it be?  I will tell you this- it's the # 5 song.  So just to keep you guessing, what's say we scramble the top ten?

We'll start with the song at #8, since it is the six degrees victim this week.  America recorded A Horse With No Name (which drops from 5 to 8) at the Dorset home studio of Arthur Brown, whose Crazy World brought you- FIRE!!  (Ahem)  Anyway, before founding the Crazy World, Brown became the substitute lead singer for a band at the time called The Ramong Sound.  It was named after the former lead singer, Raymond "Ramong" Morrison, who was looking at a six-month engagement in prison.  He left after just a few weeks, and the Ramong Sound morphed eventually into the Foundations, whom you know for their big hits Baby Now That I Found You (#11, 1967) and Build Me Up, Buttercup (#3, 1968).  One of the co-writers on those hits was Mike d'Abo- the lead singer for Manfred Mann, on most of their big hits including- Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)!

So, a horse with no name, an Eskimo named Quinn... can this be far behind?

The Dramatics fall one notch to #4 with In The Rain.

Aretha climbs one to #6 with Day Dreaming.

Roberta Flack holds on to #1 with The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (see how cleverly I get out of putting her picture up twice?)

The Staple Singers come in at 10, up four spots, with I'll Take You There.

Up a notch to #7, a couple in need of a horse- Sonny and Cher with A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done.

Joe Tex moves a notch upwards to #3 with I Gotcha.

The second debut this week is Al Green's Look What You've Done For Me, sliding up 3 to land at #9.

And then there were two.  Have your guess in hand?

The #2 song again this week was Michael Jackson's Rockin' Robin.

And the winnah?  Well, Last Night was at 33, Doctor My Eyes at 19, Suavecito at 17, Vincent at 15, Oh, Girl at 13, Baby Blue at 14...

And at #5 on Cashbox, it's the song at #8 on my top ten....

...the Stylistics, up a notch to #5 with Betcha By Golly Wow!!!!!!


Did ya win? Oh, well, better luck next week- not that I'm going to confuse y'all THIS bad again....