Hills Top 40 Pops & Best Selling LP's for January 18, 1971

On this date:

Winnie The Pooh Day

"I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" had its origins on January 18, 1971, in a London fog. Bill Backer, creative director on the Coca-Cola account for the McCann-Erickson advertising agency, was flying to London to meet up with Billy Davis, the music director on the Coca-Cola account, to write radio commercials with two successful British songwriters, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, to be recorded by the New Seekers, a popular British singing group.
 
On TV:

• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
• The Lucy Show
• Mayberry RFD
• The Doris Day Show
• The Carol Burnett Show

Top Movies:

• "Vanishing Point"starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger
• "Sometimes a Great Notion" directed by Paul Newman, starring Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick

Top Books:

• "The Exorcist"  by William P. Blatt
• "Wheels" by Arthur Haile
• "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth

AS FOR THE MUSIC -

"Knock Three Times" by Dawn scores top single, "The Partridge Family Album" beats out CCR's "Cosmo's Factory" for number one LP.

ALSO

The Bee Gees are lonely
Led Zeppelin sings about immigrants
Eric Clapton has something going on later in the evening
John Lennon sings about his mom


Remember Runt? Murray Head? Redeye?
They all have songs in the Top 40.

Here is the entire Hills Department Store Top 40 Pops and 10 Best Selling LP's for January 18, 1971 -

Tony Orlando & Dawn - "Knock Three Times" - early rare music video 

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Hills Department Store Top 40 Pops and 10 Best Selling LP's for March 22, 1971.

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