Top 20 Song Chart for August 7, 1971 |
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart by Bee Gees is the number one song this week. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin Gaye is at number two on the chart. Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver With Fat City is at number three on the chart. |
| 3 | 1 | How Can You Mend A Broken Heart | ▲ |
| Bee Gees |
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| 4 | 2 | Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) | ▲ |
| Marvin Gaye |
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| 7 | 3 | Take Me Home, Country Roads | ▲ |
| John Denver With Fat City |
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| 9 | 4 | Draggin' The Line | ▲ |
| Tommy James |
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| 5 | 5 | Bring The Boys Home | ▲ |
| Freda Payne |
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| 1 | 6 | Don't Pull Your Love | 1 |
| Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds |
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| 13 | 7 | What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin And John | 4 |
| Tom Clay |
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| 2 | 8 | You've Got A Friend | 1 |
| James Taylor |
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| 10 | 9 | Sooner Or Later | ▲ |
| The Grass Roots |
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| 12 | 10 | Hot Pants Pt. 1 (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) | ▲ |
| James Brown |
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| 19 | 11 | Signs | 7 |
| Five Man Electrical Band |
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| 16 | 12 | Spanish Harlem | 1 |
| Aretha Franklin |
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| 18 | 13 | Stick-Up | 4 |
| The Honey Cone |
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| 15 | 14 | Beginnings | 11 |
| Chicago |
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| - | 15 | Smiling Faces, Sometimes | 1 |
| The Undisputed Truth |
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| - | 16 | Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get | 7 |
| The Dramatics |
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| 8 | 17 | Mr. Big Stuff | 4 |
| Jean Knight |
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| - | 18 | Colour My World | ▲ |
| Chicago |
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| - | 19 | Rings | ▲ |
| Cymarron |
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| 6 | 20 | Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) | 1 |
| Raiders |
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