Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1971

The Top Songs from 1971
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Sample
1	9	Led Zeppelin	Stairway to Heaven	Listen
2	20	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On	Listen
3	26	John Lennon	Imagine
4	63	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	Listen
5	103	Rod Stewart	Maggie May	Listen
6	110	T. Rex	Get It On (Bang a Gong)	Listen
7	121	The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again	Listen
8	126	Sly and the Family Stone	Family Affair	Listen
9	153	David Bowie	Changes
10	158	The Rolling Stones	Brown Sugar	Listen
11	242	Isaac Hayes	Theme from Shaft	Listen
12	278	Don McLean	American Pie	Listen
13	334	Carole King	It's Too Late	Listen
14	338	The Temptations	Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
15	350	Al Green	Tired of Being Alone	Listen
16	365	Janis Joplin	Me and Bobby McGee	Listen
17	389	David Bowie	Life on Mars
18	392	Led Zeppelin	Rock and Roll	Listen
19	429	The Rolling Stones	Wild Horses	Listen
20	483	The Doors	Riders on the Storm	Listen
21	673	Leonard Cohen	Famous Blue Raincoat	Listen
22	689	The Who	Baba O'Riley	Listen
23	698	The Staple Singers	Respect Yourself	Listen
24	797	Marvin Gaye	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	Listen
25	827	Nilsson	Without You	Listen
26	877	Bill Withers	Ain't No Sunshine	Listen
27	885	Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me	Listen
28	942	Dolly Parton	Coat of Many Colors	Listen
29	958	John Lennon	Jealous Guy
30	986	The Undisputed Truth	Smiling Faces Sometimes
31	1018	Carole King	You've Got a Friend	Listen
32	1063	Elton John	Tiny Dancer	Listen
33	1093	The Chi-Lites	Have You Seen Her	Listen
34	1096	Jethro Tull	Aqualung
35	1100	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Lively Up Yourself	Listen
36	1113	The Carpenters	Superstar
37	1175	The Rolling Stones	Sister Morphine	Listen
38	1190	Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman
39	1306	John Prine	Sam Stone	Listen
40	1340	Carole King	I Feel the Earth Move	Listen
41	1373	Alice Cooper	I'm Eighteen	Listen
42	1464	Led Zeppelin	Black Dog	Listen
43	1522	John Denver	Take Me Home, Country Roads
44	1695	Ringo Starr	It Don't Come Easy	Listen
45	1703	Van Morrison	Wild Night	Listen
46	1786	James Brown	Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got, To Get What She Wants)
47	1839	The Doors	L.A. Woman	Listen
48	1934	Joni Mitchell	A Case of You	Listen
49	2073	War	Slippin' Into Darkness	Listen
50	2160	Jean Knight	Mr. Big Stuff
51	2231	Loretta Lynn	One's on the Way
52	2266	Joe Simon	Drowning in the Sea of Love
53	2267	Three Dog Night	Joy to the World
54	2270	James Taylor	You've Got a Friend
55	2276	T. Rex	Jeepster	Listen
56	2351	The Beach Boys	Surf's Up	Listen
57	2459	Joni Mitchell	The Last Time I Saw Richard	Listen
58	2477	Carole King	Home Again	Listen
59	2580	Funkadelic	Maggot Brain	Listen
60	2586	Daddy Cool	Eagle Rock
61	2703	The Dramatics	Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
62	2772	Aretha Franklin	Spanish Harlem
63	2957	Aretha Franklin	Rock Steady	Listen
64	2971	John Kongos	He's Gonna Step on You Again
65	2975	Ike and Tina Turner	Proud Mary
66	2982	Led Zeppelin	The Battle of Evermore	Listen
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Junior Walker & The All-Stars	Way Back Home
		T. Rex	Hot Love
		Jethro Tull	Hymn 43
		George Harrison	Bangla-Desh	Listen
		Slade	Coz I Luv You
		John Prine	Hello in There	Listen
		John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
		Dave and Ansil Collins	Double Barrell
		Melanie	What Have They Done to My Song Ma
		Jerry Reed	Amos Moses
		Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	I Don't Blame You At All
		John Lennon	Oh Yoko!
		Joni Mitchell	River	Listen
		Led Zeppelin	When the Levee Breaks	Listen
		John Lennon	How Do You Sleep?
		Joni Mitchell	Carey	Listen
		Bob Marley and The Wailers	Trenchtown Rock	Listen
		Traffic	The Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys	Listen
		The Buoys	Timothy
		Yes	Roundabout	Listen
		Loudon Wainwright III	Motel Blues
		Diana Ross	Remember Me
		Shuggie Otis	Strawberry Letter 23
		The Persuaders	Thin Line Between Love and Hate
		The Beach Boys	Long Promised Road	Listen