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Top 20 Song Chart for August 21, 1971

LW TW       peak  
1 1   How Can You Mend A Broken Heart  
  Bee Gees
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3 2   Spanish Harlem 1  
  Aretha Franklin
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5 3   Take Me Home, Country Roads  
  John Denver With Fat City
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2 4   Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 2  
  Marvin Gaye
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4 5   What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin And John 4  
  Tom Clay
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9 6   Stick-Up 4  
  The Honey Cone
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13 7   Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get  
  The Dramatics
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12 8   Smiling Faces, Sometimes 1  
  The Undisputed Truth
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6 9   Draggin' The Line 4  
  Tommy James
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- 10   Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey 1  
  Paul & Linda McCartney
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14 11   Hot Pants Pt. 1 (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) 10  
  James Brown
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7 12   Signs 7  
  Five Man Electrical Band
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10 13   You've Got A Friend 1  
  James Taylor
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- 14   I Just Want To Celebrate 7  
  Rare Earth
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15 15   Ain't No Sunshine 5  
  Bill Withers
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11 16   Beginnings 11  
  Chicago
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- 17   Sweet Hitch-Hiker 14  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
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19 18   Riders On The Storm 14  
  The Doors
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18 19   Colour My World 18  
  Chicago
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- 20   Make It Funky (Part 1) 9  
  James Brown
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The number one song this week is How Can You Mend A Broken Heart by Bee Gees. Spanish Harlem by Aretha Franklin is at number two on the chart. John Denver With Fat City finds the third chart position this week with Take Me Home, Country Roads.


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