Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1973
The Top Songs from 1973

RankAll Time
Rank
ArtistSingleSample
1 196 Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird
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2 203 Gladys Knight and The Pips
Midnight Train to Georgia

3 280 Marvin Gaye
Let's Get It On
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4 286 Ann Peebles
I Can't Stand the Rain
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5 305 The Wailers
Get Up, Stand Up
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6 352 Stevie Wonder
Living for the City
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7 382 Aerosmith
Dream On

8 426 Iggy and The Stooges
Search and Destroy
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9 459 Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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10 530 The Wailers
I Shot the Sheriff
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11 567 Dolly Parton
Jolene

12 594 Roberta Flack
Killing Me Softly with His Song

13 638 New York Dolls
Personality Crisis
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14 671 T. Rex
20th Century Boy

15 744 Slade
Cum on Feel the Noize

16 818 Stevie Wonder
Higher Ground
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17 842 Bob Dylan
Knockin' on Heaven's Door

18 843 Billy Joel
Piano Man

19 873 Paul McCartney and Wings
Jet

20 956 Elton John
Candle in the Wind
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21 1026 The Eagles
Desperado
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22 1032 Charlie Rich
Behind Closed Doors
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23 1043 Dobie Gray
Drift Away

24 1135 The Isley Brothers
That Lady
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25 1147 The Incredible Bongo Band
Apache

26 1228 The Rolling Stones
Angie
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27 1231 Al Green
Call Me
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28 1335 Led Zeppelin
No Quarter
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29 1356 Elton John
Bennie and the Jets
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30 1419 The Allman Brothers Band
Ramblin' Man
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31 1469 Pink Floyd
Money
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32 1470 Aretha Franklin
Until You Come Back to Me

33 1503 The Allman Brothers Band
Jessica
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34 1564 Stealer's Wheel
Stuck in the Middle with You

35 1576 Al Green
Love and Happiness
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36 1591 The Who
5:15
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37 1598 Pink Floyd
Us and Them
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38 1646 Wings
Live and Let Die

39 1667 Steve Miller Band
The Joker

40 1821 Black Sabbath
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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41 1884 Grand Funk Railroad
We're an American Band
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42 1914 Sweet
Blockbuster

43 1936 Sly and the Family Stone
If You Want Me to Stay
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44 2042 Funkadelic
Cosmic Slop
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45 2217 Paul Simon
Kodachrome
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46 2231 Aretha Franklin
Angel

47 2243 Brian Eno
Cindy Tells Me
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48 2275 Genesis
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
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49 2399 Pink Floyd
Time
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50 2428 Roxy Music
Pyjamarama

51 2459 Edgar Winter Group
Free Ride

52 2495 Steely Dan
The Boston Rag
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53 2529 John Martyn
Solid Air
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54 2539 The Spinners
One of a Kind (Love Affair)
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55 2714 Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells
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56 2821 The Isley Brothers
Summer Breeze
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57 2824 Dr. John
Right Place, Wrong Time

58 2871 Roxy Music
Mother of Pearl
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59 2878 Stories
Brother Louie

60 2948 The O'Jays
For the Love of Money
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61 2987 Edgar Winter Group
Frankenstein

Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
The Doobie Brothers
Long Train Runnin'
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Kool and The Gang
Hollywood Swingin'

Gram Parsons
We'll Sweep out the Ashes in the Morning
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Mott the Hoople
Roll Away the Stone
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Jim Croce
Time in a Bottle

Bruce Springsteen
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
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Barry White
Never, Never Gonna Give You Up

The Wailers
Concrete Jungle
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Gram Parsons
She
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The Stylistics
Rockin' Roll Baby

Manu Dibango
Soul Makossa

The Intruders
I'll Always Love My Mama

Bloodstone
Natural High

First Choice
Smarty Pants

ZZ Top
La Grange
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Paul McCartney and Wings
Band on the Run

Gladys Knight and The Pips
Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First)

Roxy Music
Do the Strand
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Golden Earring
Radar Love

Ike and Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits

Dawn
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree

Stevie Wonder
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
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Sylvia
Pillow Talk

The Who
Love Reign O'er Me
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