My first ever proper birthday chart, because the last time 31 March fell on a Saturday I wasn't born yet.
31 March 1973:
1 ( 1 ) 20th Century Boy - T Rex < 2nd week at #1 >2 ( 4 ) Get Down - Gilbert O'Sullivan
3 ( 2 ) Cum On Feel The Noize - Slade (#1[2])
4 ( 3 ) Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree - Dawn (#3)
5 ( 7 ) Power To All Our Friends - Cliff Richard
6 ( 12 ) I Am A Clown - David Cassidy
7 ( -- ) Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
8 ( 8 ) The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
9 ( 5 ) Sing - Carpenters (#5)
10 ( 6 ) Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse - Jimmy Helms (#3)
11 ( 11 ) Pyjamarama - Roxy Music
12 ( 20 ) God Gave Rock And Roll To You - Argent
13 ( -- ) You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - Stevie Wonder
14 ( 9 ) That's When The Music Takes Me - Neil Sedaka (#9)
15 ( 16 ) All Because Of You - Geordie
16 ( -- ) Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
17 ( 10 ) Part Of The Union - Strawbs (#1[4])
18 ( 15 ) Nice One Cyril - Cockerel Chorus (#14)
19 ( 23 ) One Less Set Of Footsteps - Jim Croce
20 ( 13 ) Love Train - O'Jays (#3)
21 ( 18 ) Never Never Never - Shirley Bassey (#17)
22 ( 24 ) Masterpiece - Temptations
23 ( 21 ) Crazy - Mud (#21)
24 ( -- ) Drift Away - Dobie Gray
25 ( 14 ) The Cover Of Rolling Stone - Dr Hook (#2[3])
26 ( -- ) The Right Thing To Do - Carly Simon
27 ( 17 ) How Could We Dare To Be Wrong - Colin Blunstone (#10)
28 ( 35 ) Daisy A Day - Jud Strunk
29 ( -- ) Tweedle Dee - Little Jimmy Osmond
30 ( 31 ) Cook With Honey - Judy Collins
31 ( 25 ) Heart Of Stone - Kenny (#25)
32 ( 28 ) Heaven Is My Woman's Love - Val Doonican (#28)
33 ( 38 ) The Cisco Kid - War
34 ( 19 ) Cindy Incidentally - Faces (#6)
35 ( -- ) Good Grief Christina - Chicory Tip
36 ( 26 ) Big City Miss Ruth Ann - Gallery (#16)
37 ( 22 ) Step Into A Dream - White Plains (#8)
38 ( 29 ) Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III (#21)
39 ( 27 ) Feel The Need In Me - Detroit Emeralds (#7)
40 ( 33 ) California Saga - Beach Boys (#29)
-- ( 30 ) Avenues And Alleyways - Tony Christie (#5)
-- ( 32 ) Hello Hooray - Alice Cooper (#13)
-- ( 34 ) Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got) - Four Tops (#23)
-- ( 36 ) Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy (#3)
-- ( 37 ) By The Devil - Blue Mink (#33)
-- ( 39 ) Don't Cross The River - America (#28)
-- ( 40 ) I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) - Moody Blues (#16)
-- ( -- ) Amanda - Stuart Gillies
-- ( -- ) Wildflower - Skylark
A debut in my chart for Lou Reed as Velvet Underground never had any hits (due to the fact I only draw from the UK singles chart and US top 40 singles and they didn't have any hits in those).
Actually it was only around 2000-2001 when there was Napster / Audiogalaxy etc that I downloaded some Velvet Underground songs to find out what all the fuss was about because I'd heard about them and how they'd influenced all the more modern indie pop-rock but didn't know any of their songs.
Of course all that led to what we have now where the music is available legally, and that enables me to get to listen to all the songs on these playlists legally without having to buy them.
I was familiar with many of the 1973 hits anyway, a few from the time, a few from my "certain DJ"'s old record club in when I started in 1983, 1973 was one of the years he was covering at the time. At the time I didn't even think it was the best of the old years, I thought 1967 was.
In any case the highest 3 entries here are clearly all classics. Stevie Wonder seems to be releasing some of his best songs at the same time others are. Stealers Wheel song is a classic and features Gerry Rafferty on lead vocal.
Dobie Gray is a song I was fairly familiar with and this enters a bit above Carly Simon who had a huge hit with "You're So Vain".
Little Jimmy Osmond's song is a cover of a 1955 US hit by Georgia Gibbs. In my 1956 chart topic she had 2 hits in my chart. Had I gone back to the start of 1955 she'd probably have charted with it and then I may not have charted Little Jimmy's version.
Chicory Tip did more songs than just "Son Of My Father", and they get an entry lower down.