My Top 100 Singles of 1971
1. Al Green - "Tired Of Being Alone"
2. T. Rex - "Get It On (Bang A Gong)"
3. Elton John - "Your Song"
4. Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”
5. Curtis Mayfield - "Move On Up"
6. The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
7. Isaac Hayes - "Theme From Shaft"
8. Yes – “I’ve Seen All Good People”/"Your Move"
9. Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues (Make Me
Wanna Holler)"
10. David Bowie - "Changes"
11. Johnny Cash - "Man In Black"
12. Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine"
13. The Allman Brothers Band - "Whipping
Post (live)"
14. Ike & Tina Turner - "Proud
Mary"
15. The Doors - "L.A. Woman"
16. Rod Stewart - "Maggie May"
17. Elton John - "Levon"
18. Badfinger – “Day After Day”
19. Led Zeppelin - "Black Dog"
20. Carole King - "I Feel The Earth
Move"
21. The Rolling Stones - "Brown Sugar"
22. Stevie Wonder - "If You Really Love
Me"
23. Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On"
24. Black Sabbath - "Iron Man"
25. Van Morrison - "Domino"
26. Brewer & Shipley - "One Toke Over
The Line"
27. The Doors - "Riders On The Storm"
28. The Carpenters - "Superstar"
29. John Denver - "Take Me Home, Country
Roads"
30. Ringo Starr - "It Don't Come Easy"
31. David Bowie - "Life On
Mars?"
32. The Temptations - "Just My Imagination
(Running Away With Me)"
33. Carole King - "It's Too Late"
34. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have
You Ever Seen The Rain?"
35. Stevie Wonder - "Never Dreamed You'd
Leave in Summer"
36. Van Morrison – “Wild Night”
37. Jethro Tull – “Locomotive Breath”
38. Bee Gees - "How Can You Mend A Broken
Heart"
39. Led Zeppelin - "Stairway To
Heaven"
40. Rod Stewart – “Reason To Believe”
41. Melanie - "Brand New Key"
42. James Gang – “Walk Away”
43. The Dramatics - "Whatcha See Is Whatcha
Get"
44. Al Green - "I Can't Get Next To
You"
45. The Chi-Lites - "Have You Seen
Her"
46. Harry Nilsson - "Without You”
47. Derek And the Dominoes - "Bell Bottom
Blues"
48. George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"
49. Dolly Parton – “Coat Of Many Colors”
50. Bill Withers - "Grandma's Hands"
51. Jean Knight - "Mr. Big Stuff"
52. Led Zeppelin - "When The Levee
Breaks"
53. The Rolling Stones - "Can't You Hear Me
Knocking"
54. Freda Payne – “Bring The Boys Home”
55. Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – “Only
You Know And I Know”
56. Aretha Franklin - "Rock Steady"
57. The Kinks – “20th Century Man”
58. Santana - "Oye Como Va"
59. John Lennon - "Happy Xmas (War Is
Over)"
60. The Who - "Bargain"
61. Charley Pride – “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’”
62. Three Dog Night - "Joy To The
World"
63. Marvin Gaye - "Mercy Mercy Me (The
Ecology)"
64. Funkadelic - "Can You Get To That"
65. Sammi Smith – “Help Me Make It Through The
Night”
66. Dolly Parton – “Joshua”
67. Stevie Wonder - "We Can Work It
Out"
68. Led Zeppelin - "Rock and Roll"
69. King Floyd - "Groove Me"
70. The Doors - "Love Her Madly"
71. Tom Jones - "She's A Lady"
72. The Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"
73. Lee Michaels – “Do You Know What I Mean?”
74. The Band – “The Shape I’m In”
75. James Taylor - "You've Got A
Friend"
76. The 5th Dimension – “Never My
Love”
77. Joni Mitchell - "California"
78. The Free Movement – “I’ve Found Someone of
My Own”
79. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Hey
Tonight"
80. Michael Jackson – “Got To Be There”
81. The Rolling Stones - "Wild Horses"
82. Chicago – “Beginnings”
83. Santana – “Everybody’s Everything”
84. Carly Simon – “That’s The Way I’ve Always
Heard It Should Be”
85. Janis Joplin - "Me And Bobby
McGee"
86. The Kinks – “God’s Children”
87. Bread – “If”
88. Cat Stevens – “Moonshadow”
89. Badfinger – “Baby Blue”
90. Leonard Cohen – “Avalanche”
91. George Harrison - "What Is Life"
92. The Who – “Going Mobile”
93. Tommy James – “Draggin’ The Line”
94. John Lennon - "Imagine"
95. The Band – “Life Is A Carnival”
96. T. Rex - "Hot Love"
97. Elvis Presley – “I’m Leavin’”
98. Led Zeppelin - "Misty Mountain
Hop"
99. Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – “Never
Ending Song of Love”
100. Cher – “Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves”
I try to be more or less proper with songs that were singles and/or charted. but this is the peak AOR era. So there's a lot of enormously ubiquitous classic rock songs that weren't really charting hits at the time, especially from Led Zeppelin IV, Who's Next, and Sticky Fingers that I felt I needed to represent, even if they may not have become radio stapes until some time after 1971.
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