26 June 1971:
1 ( 1 ) It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move - Carole King < 5th week at #1 >2 ( 8 ) You've Got A Friend - James Taylor
3 ( 5 ) Co-Co - Sweet
4 ( 2 ) He's Gonna Step On You Again - John Kongos (#2[3])
5 ( 4 ) Lady Rose - Mungo Jerry (#4)
6 ( 3 ) Banner Man - Blue Mink (#3)
7 ( 7 ) Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle Of The Road
8 ( 17 ) Get Down And Get With It - Slade
9 ( 10 ) Don't Let It Die - Hurricane Smith
10 ( 6 ) Nathan Jones - Supremes (#5)
11 ( -- ) Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver
12 ( 15 ) When You Are A King - White Plains
13 ( -- ) Black And White - Greyhound
14 ( 16 ) Albert Flasher / Broken - Guess Who
15 ( 23 ) Leap Up And Down (Wave Your Knickers In The Air) - St Cecilia
16 ( 25 ) Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again - Fortunes
17 ( -- ) Never Ending Song Of Love - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
18 ( 14 ) When You're Hot You're Hot - Jerry Reed (#14)
19 ( 19 ) Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds
20 ( 9 ) Oh You Pretty Things - Peter Noone (#3)
21 ( 27 ) Mr Big Stuff - Jean Knight`
22 ( 11 ) I'm Gonna Run Away From You - Tami Lynn (#7)
23 ( -- ) Monkey Spanner - Dave And Ansel Collins
24 ( 13 ) Lazy Bones - Jonathan King (#11)
25 ( 12 ) Rainy Days And Mondays - Carpenters (#8)
26 ( 18 ) Double Lovin' - Osmonds (#18)
27 ( 31 ) Sooner Or Later - Grass Roots
28 ( -- ) Bring The Boys Home - Freda Payne
29 ( 22 ) That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon (#22)
30 ( 38 ) High Time We Want - Joe Cocker
31 ( 21 ) I Did What I Did For Maria - Tony Christie (#2[1])
32 ( 20 ) Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones (#1[4])
33 ( -- ) Get It On - Chase
34 ( 30 ) Funky Nassau - Beginning Of The End (#29)
35 ( 29 ) Lowdown - Chicago (#26)
36 ( 26 ) I'll Meet You Halfway - Partridge Family (#17)
37 ( 34 ) She's Not Just Another Woman - 8th Day (#34)
38 ( 24 ) Superstar - Murray Head (#4)
39 ( -- ) Draggin' The Line - Tommy James
40 ( 35 ) Right On The Tip Of My Tongue - Brenda And The Tabulations (#27)
-- ( 28 ) Malt And Barley Blues - McGuinness Flint (#2[2])
-- ( 32 ) I Don't Know How To Love Him - Helen Reddy (#13)
-- ( 33 ) Me And You And A Dog Named Boo - Lobo (#10)
-- ( 36 ) My Brother Jake - Free (#3)
-- ( 37 ) Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (#24)
-- ( 39 ) Don't Knock My Love - Wilson Pickett (#27)
-- ( 40 ) Give More Power To The People - Chi Lites (#18)
-- ( -- ) (And The) Pictures In The Sky - Medicine Head
-- ( -- ) Escape-ism - James Brown
Carole King now has composed both the top 2 and if James Taylor takes over next week she will have composed 2 number ones in a row.
James Taylor also got to #1 in the USA did Carole King and the last two NM #1s before her, so 4 in a row, whilst none of these songs made it to #1 in the UK, Brown Sugar coming the closest with a peak of #2. Joy To The World was #1 before that, and in the USA was #1 for 6 weeks, whilst in the UK it only peaked at #24. Carole King and James Taylor's hits both reached the top 10 in the UK (#6 and #4 respectively), both later in the year.
John Denver has already composed a song that reached NM #1, UK #2, US #1 (Leavin' On A Jet Plane) but now is entering with one of his best known songs that wasn't a UK hit for him.
Another of those reggae songs on Trojan enters with Greyhound, with yet another by Dave & Ansel Collins, the latter being the original "heavy heavy monster sound", although to me it sounds like an instrumental of "Monkey Man" in its main part.
New Seekers move over - we have the original of Never Ending Song Of Love charting. And yet another song by Freda Payne.
Chase chart with "Get It On" - this was a hit in the USA so that a different song of the same title released a bit later had to go through a slight name change to "Bang A Gong"... Actually that didn't chart in the USA until next year (but did chart, their only song to do so) but will be along here very soon.