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Big news: ROCK THE BOAT
Billboard’s Hot 100/ Top 40
Chart #19
May 18, 1974
Number of singles reviewed this week 147!
last week 101
Record World:
PUZZLE- Motown M1302F
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE SOMEBODY [prod. by Bob Cullen] Horn rock with solid guitar tracks puts the sound pieces together for this band as they pound out their best effort to date. They'll be what they wanna be.
COMMODORES - MotownM1307F
MACHINE GUN [prod.by James Carmichael]
Nothin' really violent - just a funky instrumental goin' down here. It's aiming pointblank at the charts. Big bullseye!
The Motown Review:
Motown is #2!!!
The Jackson Five deliver another one for the team as
DANCING MACHINE moves up a notch to #2 just short of being the top single of the week. Stevie Wonder is bulleting, but not charging, up the Top 40, as
DON'T YOU WORRY 'BOUT A THING is #2 on the Soul chart just above
DANCING MACHINE at #3 [from #1]. Eddie Kendricks latest makes a big Hot 100 jump, while Diana Ross struggles without a bullet. No new tunes from the label break, but one departs giving the label six records on the Hot 100.
The Top 10:
#1:
Billboard:
THE STREAK week 1
Record Word:
THE STREAK week 1
Cash Box:
DANCING MACHINE - week 1
THE STREAK has barely been on the charts, six week in, and it's #1. Ray Stevens has successfully tapped into the craze that is sweeping the country. Four years ago exactly, Ray was #1 with
EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL. Philly replaces Philly as
TSOP by
MFSB drops to #11 from #8 and The Stylistics enter at #10 from #13 with
YOU MAKE ME FEEL BRAND NEW. Brits replace Brits as Paul McCartney and Band run up the chart with
BAND ON THE RUN to #7 from #14 while Mike Oldfield's
TUBULAR BELLS drops to #13 from#7.
The Top 40:
Motown:
Three 45s from Motown are on the Top 40:
^DANCING MACHINE - Jackson Five bullets to #2 from #3 from #5 from #8
^DON'T YOU WORRY 'BOUT A THING - Stevie Wonder bullets to #19 from #21 from #27 from #33
MY MISTAKE WAS TO LOVE YOU - Marvin Gaye & Diana Ross dips to #33 from #25 from #19 from #20
OFFS: none
Biggest mover in the Top 40, 16 ranks
SUNDOWN Gordon Lightfoot to #20 from #36
Just
2 breakthroughs, both U.S.,
2+Top 10 bound+, 1
PI related, 0 Motown, 0
by proxy, 0
Country
highest debut:
+BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU GOT+ - William DeVaughn #30 up
24 from #54 [One Hit Wonder]
+HOLLYWOOD SWINGIN'+ - Kool & The Gang #32 up 12 from #44 [3rd Top 40 hit]
The Hot 100:
7 debuts:
3 Top 40 bound, 2 first time to chart on the Hot 100, 2 Philly International related, 0 Motown, 1 by proxy, 0
Country
Highest debut:
3rd tier:
#
84 -
I'M GOMING HOME - Spinners
#87 -
LIVIN IN THE USA - Steve Miller Band
#
92 -
SIDESHOW - Blue Magic
#93 -
THE LONE RANGER -Oscar Brown Jr.
#96 -
COME MONDAY - Jimmy Buffett
#
98 - TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS - Bachman Turner Overdrive
#99 -
FOX HUNT - Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass
Motown:
debuts: none
2nd week:
^SON OF SAGITTARIUS - Eddie Kendricks - #55 up
19 from #74
2nd week : ^
SLEEPIN' - Diana Ross - #83 up
9 from #92
4th week:
^HELP YOURSELF - Undisputed Truth #72 up
14 from #86 from #90 from #97
10th week:
HEAVENLY - Temptations - OFF from #53 from #43, from #44, from #54, from #74 from #85 from #96
Offs: one
As former Temptation Eddie kendricks bullets up, The Temptations without him fall off the chart with a
HEAVENLY thud as they fail to reach the Top 40 with this their 32rd single to go Top 10 Soul.
A very good week for:
The Main Ingredient
Not since Billboard went through a period of adjusting new calculations for their chart rankings have records gone back up the chart once leaving their peak [except #1s] with
WHY ME by Kris Kristopherson being the wildest. This week,
JUST DON"T WANT TO BE LONELY goes up 3 places from the #18 spot it plunged to last week from #10. Now its at #15 as well as being at #7 in Record World.
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Marvin Gaye
Sets Concerts
LOS ANGELES -Because of the critical acclaim of his first commercial
concert appearance in six years last January in Oakland, Marvin Gaye has
agreed to a very limited number of concert appearances beginning May 17 at
the Forum in Los Angeles. The only other confirmed dates at this time are
two appearances in Kingston, Jamaica, May 21 and 23 as a part of the island's
annual Labor Day celebration. Gaye, who has become a superstar
with such recorded hits as "Let's Get It On," "What's Goin On" and "Keep Getting It On," to say nothing of "Inner City Blues," personally chose the Kingston
dates because of the festive occasion surrounding his appearance.
Motown Records is backing the appearances with a full schedule of radio
spots, in-store and window displays, and other special merchandising .
Rock the Boat'
Gets New Life
From Disco Play
By GARY COHEN
NEW YORK - RCA Records is the most recent label to enjoy the
power of the discotheque market. "Rock The Boat,"a single by the Hues Corporation, is experiencing a second life thanks to the strong play from NewYork and other city discos. As a result of the New York disco play, the record went to number 2 at WWRL and went on WABC at number 15, without being on any pop or r&b chart in the country. This week, the record has picked up other
key additions and debuts at 81 with a bullet on Record World's
pop chart, and 69 with a bullet on nr&b. Attesting to the power of the discos, RCA Records reported that the record sold 30,000 in New York before major radio airplay, and 15,000 without any N.Y. radio
airplay, with only disco play. Tom Cossie, RCA's director of promotion, reported that "Rock The Boat" was "the hottest breaking disco record in RCA's history."
an amazing claim by Tom Cossie when considering disco hasn't even offically happened yet.
Again this week The Sting soundtrack is Billboard's top selling LP. Scott Joplin would likely be thrilled to see his music riding so high [finally] while never imagining it would be applied so successfully as movie mood music.
Young Marvin Hamlisch's rendition of
THE ENTERTAINER is #3 on the Top 40, and is #1 Easy Listening.
Same could be said of Mike Oldfield who took two years to create
TUBULAR BELLS , never considering it as movie music much less for The Exorcist. But the rights were bought and the music parched and used [performed by Mystic Moods, not Mike Oldfield].
The young [age 19] composer's fate was sealed and
TUBULAR BELLS has been his cash cow ever since. It didn't do Richard Branson's new venture Virgin Records any harm either seeding the entrepreneur with money for future endeavors like Virgin Airlines, Virgin Records Chain, and Janet Jackson.
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Full-page ad for Eddie Kendricks single
, SON OF SAGITTARIUS , touting as his third million-selller.
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