Pick of the Pops - September 1971

It's the things that happen during the writing of a poem that can make it worthwhile rather than just the first impetus to write it. I suspect it's the same with most projects. With A Perfect Day of Pop Radio, the playlist that would be the template for my pop music book, the brainwave was to have  Pick of the Pops in its customary R2 slot at 1pm and give over the two hours to September 1971, the greatest chart there ever was.

Following that with Sounds of the 70's at 3pm will admittedly make the afternoon a 70's ghetto but, in the words of Rod Stewart & the Faces as purloined by David Hepworth, there will be Never a Dull Moment which there won't be for me all day.

Several of these records are already on the list for the 70's show or others which frees up space in those places for more and I might even relax the rule about only one record per act in the day because those names involved are special ones.

So, played in reverse order of this chart which I don't think is any official BBC chart but is taken from Every Hit. com, an asterisk indicates we might not quite have time to play that one but otherwise, it's astonishing how good the hit parade was in those days or, being at the age when everything seemed great, maybe it's Post Ergo Propter Hoc, as it were. 

 

	1	Diana Ross	I'm Still Waiting
	2	The Tams	Hey Girl Don't Bother Me
	3	The New Seekers	Never Ending Song Of Love
	4	Dawn	What Are You Doing Sunday
	5	The Pioneers	Let Your Yeah Be Yeah
	6	Family	In My Own Time
	7	Buffy Sainte-Marie	Soldier Blue
	8	Carole King	It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move
	9	Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood	Did You Ever
	10	Curved Air	Back Street Luv
	11	George Harrison	Bangla Desh
	12	T Rex	Get It On
	13	The Supremes	Nathan Jones
	14	Atomic Rooster	Devil's Answer
	15	Curtis Mayfield	Move On Up
	16	New World	Tom-Tom Turnaround
	17	Gilbert O'Sullivan	We Will
	18	Hot Chocolate	I Believe (In Love)
	19	The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again
	20	James Taylor	You've Got A Friend
	21	Middle Of The Road	Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
	22	Elvis Presley	Heartbreak Hotel / Hound Dog
	23	St Cecilia	Leap Up And Down (Wave Your Knickers In The Air)
	24	Rod Stewart	Maggie May / Reason To Believe
	25	*Daniel Boone	Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
	26	*Ken Dodd	When Love Comes Round Again
	27	Slade	Get Down And Get With It
	28	Marmalade	Cousin Norman
	29	Shirley Bassey	For All We Know
	30	The Sweet	Co-Co