The Top 200 Songs of 1971 as voted by SHF Members

About 4 months ago we began digging deep into the music of 1971. From forum favorites to obscure artists from many different genres. We began with 575 songs released in 1971 and concluded this weekend with the Top 25.

I had a blast doing this and hope everyone enjoyed the trip back to 1971. I encourage everyone to post your personal Top 25 lists for 1971 and/or comment on this list. 1977 won the vote for the next year we will explore. Below are links to previous years we have done. And below that are the Top 200 Songs of 1971 as voted by Forum Members. Thanks again for your participation.

1966

The Top 125 Songs of 1966 as Voted by SHF Members - Discussion Thread

1979

The Top 150 Songs of 1979 as Voted By SHF Members (Discussion Thread)

1984

The Top 125 Songs of 1984 as Voted by SHF Members (Discussion Thread)

2002

Top 25 Albums & Songs of 2002 As Voted By SHF Members


Top 200 Songs of 1971

1) Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
2) Baba O'Riley - The Who
3) Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
4) Riders On the Storm - The Doors
5) What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
6) Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney
7) Life On Mars? - David Bowie
8) Roundabout - Yes
9) Maggie May - Rod Stewart
10) Day After Day - Badfinger
11) Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
12) Can't You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
13) It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
14) Changes - David Bowie
15) L.A. Woman - The Doors
16) Tiny Dancer - Elton John
17) Echoes - Pink Floyd
18) The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic
19) Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
20) Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
21) Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
22) Starship Trooper - Yes
23) When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
24) Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
25) Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
26) Baby Blue - Badfinger
27) Love Her Madly - The Doors
28) Aqualung - Jethro Tull
29) Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
30) Imagine - John Lennon
31) Stay With Me - Faces
32) Another Day - Paul McCartney
33) I've Seen All Good People - Yes
34) Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
35) Family Affair - Sly & the Family Stone
36) It's Too Late - Carole King
37) Jealous Guy - John Lennon
38) Let's Stay Together - Al Green
39) (Bang a Gong) Get It On - T. Rex
40) Yours Is No Disgrace - Yes
41) Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie
42) Bitch - The Rolling Stones
43) Bargain - The Who
44) Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
45) Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
46) American Pie - Don McLean
47) Long Distance Runaround/The Fish - Yes
48) Levon - Elton John
49) Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin
50) Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
51) Peace Train - Cat Stevens
52) Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
53) The Story In Your Eyes - Moody Blues
54) Too Many People - Paul McCartney
55) A Horse With No Name - America
56) Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
57) Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon
58) Madman Across the Water - Elton John
59) Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
60) Without You - Nilsson
61) I'd Love To Change the World - Ten Years After
62) Going To California - Led Zeppelin
63) One of These Days - Pink Floyd
64) Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations
65) Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
66) Vincent - Don McLean
67) Moonlight Mile - The Rolling Stones
68) Superstar - The Carpenters
69) Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones
70) Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters
71) Sway - The Rolling Stones
72) Cross-Eyed Mary - Jethro Tull
73) Walk Away - James Gang
74) Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye
75) Going Mobile - The Who
76) Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin
77) Statesboro Blues - The Allman Brothers
78) I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
79) Queen Bitch - David Bowie
80) Wild Night - Van Morrison
81) How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Bee Gees
82) So Far Away - Carole King
83) Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
84) Mandolin Wind - Rod Stewart
85) Under My Wheels - Alice Cooper
86) Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens
87) Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
88) Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites
89) (I Know I'm) Losing You - Rod Stewart
90) Sister Morphine - The Rolling Stones
91) Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
92) Hocus Pocus - Focus
93) You've Got a Friend - James Taylor
94) 10538 Overture - Electric Light Orchestra
95) Fearless - Pink Floyd
96) Hymn 43 - Jethro Tull
97) Sweet Hitch-Hiker - Creedence Clearwater Revival
98) Betcha By Golly Wow - The Stylistics
99) Coconut - Nilsson
100) Jeepster - T. Rex
101) Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
102) I Need You - America
103) Freedom - Jimi Hendrix
104) My Wife - The Who
105) Draggin' the Line - Tommy James
106) The Changeling - The Doors
107) Into the Void - Black Sabbath
108) Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots
109) If You Really Love Me - Stevie Wonder
110) Back Seat of My Car - Paul McCartney
111) An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night
112) Jump Into the Fire - Nilsson
113) My God - Jethro Tull
114) How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
115) Everybody's Everything - Santana
116) The Musical Box - Genesis
117) Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner
118) Slippin' Into Darkness - War
119) Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
120) The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) - The Doors
121) Monkberry Moon Delight - Paul McCartney
122) Reason To Believe - Rod Stewart
123) Angel - Jimi Hendrix
124) That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon
125) Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
126) Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5
127) I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
128) Getting In Tune - The Who
129) Power To the People - John Lennon
130) Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth
131) A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
132) California - Joni Mitchell
133) Hot Love - T. Rex
134) Baby I'm-A Want You - Bread
135) You've Got a Friend - Carole King
136) Anticipation - Carly Simon
137) Bangladesh - George Harrison
138) Blue - Joni Mitchell
139) Quicksand - David Bowie
140) Trench Town Rock - Bob Marley & the Wailers
141) 20th Century Man - The Kinks
142) Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Carole King
143) Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
144) I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth
145) No One To Depend On - Santana
146) Sandman - America
147) She's a Lady - Tom Jones
148) Chicago - Graham Nash
149) Ezy Ryder - Jimi Hendrix
150) Change Partners - Stephen Stills
151) Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
152) If - Bread
153) Willin' - Little Feat
154) Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
155) Fireball - Deep Purple
156) Let's See Action - The Who
157) Strange Kind of Woman - Deep Purple
158) Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
159) Carey - Joni Mitchell
160) Cosmic Dancer - T. Rex
161) Dolly Dagger - Jimi Hendrix
162) For All We Know - The Carpenters
163) I Don't Need No Doctor - Humble Pie
164) You Are Everything - The Stylistics
165) Me and My Arrow - Nilsson
166) Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
167) Never Been To Spain - Three Dog Night
168) Hurting Each Other - The Carpenters
169) Light Up Or Leave Me Alone - Traffic
170) Music Is Love - David Crosby
171) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
172) Move Over - Janis Joplin
173) Ballad of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper
174) Alcohol - The Kinks
175) Free - Chicago
176) The Wind - Cat Stevens
177) Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain
178) Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver
179) Cry Baby - Janis Joplin
180) Mambo Sun - T. Rex
181) Life Is a Carnival - The Band
182) Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin
183) Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
184) Sunshine - Jonathan Edwards
185) Brand New Key - Melanie
186) All Day Music - War
187) Crazy Mama - J. J. Cale
188) Only You Know and I Know - Delaney and Bonnie
189) Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
190) Indian Reservation (Cherokee People) - The Raiders
191) If Not For You - Olivia Newton-John
192) Rock and Roll Stew - Traffic
193) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
194) Diamonds are Forever - Shirley Bassey
195) City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman
196) Lowdown - Chicago
197) (You Caught Me) Smilin' - Sly & the Family Stone
198) Halo of Flies - Alice Cooper
199) Had Me a Real Good Time - Faces
200) Coat of Many Colors - Dolly Parton

 

Thank you for making all the effort!

 

Damn, that would would make one hell of a playlist!

 

Personal favourites of 1971
In no order.

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Riders On the Storm - The Doors
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney
Life On Mars? - David Bowie Roundabout - Yes
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Day After Day - Badfinger

It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
Changes - David Bowie
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Starship Trooper - Yes
Baby Blue - Badfinger
Love Her Madly - The Doors
Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
Imagine - John Lennon

Another Day - Paul McCartney
I've Seen All Good People - Yes
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
Family Affair - Sly & the Family Stone
It's Too Late - Carole King
Jealous Guy - John Lennon
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Bang a Gong) Get It On - T. Rex
Yours Is No Disgrace - Yes
Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie

Bitch - The Rolling Stones
American Pie - Don McLean
Long Distance Runaround/The Fish - Yes
Levon - Elton John
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
The Story In Your Eyes - Moody Blues
Too Many People - Paul McCartney
A Horse With No Name - America

Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Without You - Nilsson
Superstar - The Carpenters
Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters
I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
So Far Away - Carole King
Under My Wheels - Alice Cooper
Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites
Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
Hocus Pocus - Focus
You've Got a Friend - James Taylor
10538 Overture - Electric Light Orchestra
Betcha By Golly Wow - The Stylistics
Jeepster - T. Rex
My Wife - The Who
The Changeling - The Doors

Back Seat of My Car - Paul McCartney
The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) - The Doors
Monkberry Moon Delight - Paul McCartney
Angel - Jimi Hendrix
Power To the People - John Lennon
Hot Love - T. Rex
Baby I'm-A Want You - Bread
You've Got a Friend - Carole King

Bangladesh - George Harrison
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Quicksand - David Bowie
Chicago - Graham Nash
Ezy Ryder - Jimi Hendrix
Fireball - Deep Purple
Strange Kind of Woman - Deep Purple
Cosmic Dancer - T. Rex
Dolly Dagger - Jimi Hendrix
For All We Know - The Carpenters

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
Hurting Each Other - The Carpenters
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
Ballad of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper
Free - Chicago
The Wind - Cat Stevens
Mambo Sun - T. Rex
Life Is a Carnival - The Band
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron

 

Thanks for doing this.

jerol

 

Thank you for such a tremendous project.

 

I've been following all of your 1971 threads. Glad to see the final list. These are the ones I have ion my collection...

29) Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
39) (Bang A Gong) Get It On - T. Rex
50) Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) - The Hollies
64) Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations
68) Superstar - The Carpenters
70) Rainy Days And Mondays - The Carpenters
81) How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Bee Gees
100) Jeepster - T. Rex
101) Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
126) Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5
133) Hot Love - T. Rex
148) Chicago - Graham Nash
158) Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
160) Cosmic Dancer - T. Rex
162) For All We Know - The Carpenters
168) Hurting Each Other - The Carpenters
178) Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver
180) Mambo Sun - T. Rex
190) Indian Reservation (Cherokee People) - The Raiders
191) If Not For You - Olivia Newton-John


Darryl

 

Maggot Brain is one of the few surprises not getting regular classic rock or oldies play

 

Thank you for all the work. Great list.

 

I was surprised with how much I agreed with the final list. My personal list would have been pretty similar, except a few artists would have more songs higher up (The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Yes). Thanks for making all this happen.

 

So "Uncle Albert" finished ahead of "Low Spark." Well, there's no doubt that this was done here.

 

Great job and a lot of work. What a year! Seven songs from Who's Next ...and then "Let's See Action", which I'm unfamiliar with. Just looked on wiki and see it was a single released in the U.K.

 

Thank you @CupOfDreams for all of your hard work and great organization throughout! If someone completely unfamiliar with the music of 1971 were to listen to these 200 songs, I think they'd get a pretty good idea about the era--and have a great time too!

At your suggestion, here are my personal top 25 songs of the 1971. In parenthesis I put the spot it placed at on the SHF Top 200:
01. "Moonlight Mile" by the Rolling Stones (67)
02. "The Wind" by Cat Stevens (176)
03. "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart (9)
04. "Avalanche" by Leonard Cohen (Did Not Place)
05. "This Flight Tonight" by Joni Mitchell (DNP)
06. "The Musical Box" by Genesis (116)
07. "Riders on the Storm" by the Doors (4)
08. "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen (DNP)
09. "Day After Day" by Badfinger (10)
10. "Every Picture Tells a Story" by Rod Stewart (56)
11. "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by the Hollies (50)
12. "You Can Close Your Eyes" by James Taylor (DNP)
13. "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" by Carly Simon (124)
14. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by the Rolling Stones (12)
15. "Wild Night" by Van Morrison (80)
16. "Draggin' the Line" by Tommy James (105)
17. "I Shall Be Released" by Bob Dylan (DNP)
18. "American Pie" by Don McLean (46)
19. "Treat Her Like a Lady" by Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose (189)
20. "Oh My Love" by John Lennon (DNP)
21. "Loving Her Was Easier" by Kris Kristofferson (DNP)
22. "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green (38)
23. "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" by Cher (166)
24. "Changes" by David Bowie (14)
25. "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin (65)

Thanks again! I look forward to the 1977 polls.

 

My Top 20 in order (with the threads placings in brackets) is:
29) Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
1) Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
102) I Need You - America
110) Back Seat of My Car - Paul McCartney
81) How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Bee Gees
7) Life on Mars? - David Bowie
55) A Horse With No Name - America
86) Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens
127) I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
6) Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney
11) Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
131) A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
51) Peace Train - Cat Stevens
14) Changes - David Bowie
60) Without You - Nilsson
66) Vincent - Don McLean
25) Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
112) Jump Into the Fire - Nilsson
121) Monkberry Moon Delight - Paul McCartney
21) Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin

Ten other tracks I love that I believe weren't listed (forgive me if they were):
Autumn - Falling
Davy Jones - Girl
Fortunes - Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Don't Pull Your Love
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr. Bojangles
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle
Slade - Coz I Luv You
The Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
Tony Christie - Amarillo
Bee Gees - My World

And finally a bunch of album tracks from artists/albums not listed that I would always have in my fave tracks of 1971:
Bridget St John - The Pebble & The Man (LP: “Songs For The Gentle Man”)
Bruce Cockburn - One Day I Walk (LP: “High Winds, White Sky”)
Colin Blunstone - She Loves The Way They Love Her (LP: “One Year”)
Crazy Horse - I Don't Want To Talk About It (LP: “Crazy Horse”)
Danny O'Keefe - Covered Wagon (LP: “Danny O'Keefe”)
David Crosby - I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here (LP: “If I Could Only Remember My Name”)
David Wiffen - Driving Wheel (LP: “David Wiffen”)
Donovan - Celia of The Seals (LP: “HMS Donovan”)
Gene Clark - For a Spanish Guitar (LP: “White Light”)
Graham Nash - Chicago (LP: “Songs For Beginners”)
Grin - Like Rain (LP: “Grin”)
Ian Matthews - If You Saw Thro' My Eyes (LP: “If You Saw Thro' My Eyes”)
Jim Post - Colorado Exile (LP: “Colorado Exile”)
Leonard Cohen - Joan of Arc (LP: “Songs of Love and Hate”)
Magna Carta - The Bridge at Knaresborough Town (LP: “Songs From Wasties Orchard”)
Marvin Welch & Farrar - Lady of The Morning (LP: “Second Opinion”)
Mike Nesmith - Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care) (LP: “Nevada Fighter”)
Murray McLauchlan - Child’s Song (LP: “Songs From The Street”)
New Riders of The Purple Sage - New Riders of The Purple Sage
Nilsson - Think About Your Troubles (LP: “The Point “)
Ralph McTell - Old Brown Dog (LP: “You, Well Meaning, Brought Me Here”)
Rick Nelson - Gypsy Pilot (LP: “Rudy The Fifth”)
Sandy Denny - Late November (LP: “The Northstar Grassman & The Ravens”)
Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith (LP: “Please To See The King”)
Stephen Stills - Change Partners (LP: “Stephen Stills 2”)
Steve Tilston - I Really Wanted You (LP: “An Acoustic Confusion”)
The Byrds - Tiffany Queen (LP: “Farther Along”)
The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Remaster)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles (LP: “Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy”)
Tim Hardin - Bird on a Wire (LP: “Bird on a Wire”)
Tony Kosinec - Come and Go (LP: “Bad Girl Songs”)
Wishbone Ash - Vas Dis (LP: “Pilgrimage”)

 

My eyes got tired (!), so I might be off, but this is what I tallied:
The Who - 8 songs
The Rolling Stones - 8
Led Zeppelin - 7
R. Stewart/Faces - 7
Yes - 6
The Doors - 5
Carole King - 5
David Bowie - 5
P. McCartney - 5
J. Lennon - 5
Jethro Tull - 5

I think those are the top but didn't count every artist (Carpenters had 4, by the way). So 66 of the 200 songs (exactly 1/3) accounted for by eleven acts).

 

As for omissions for me personally, if I take myself back to 1971 when I was 12/13 yrs old, I'm certain I would have included at least one Grand Funk Railroad song in my Top 25. And something from Uriah Heep.

All these years later? The Grand Funk contenders would have been Country Road or Comfort Me, both from Survival. And no, they wouldn't come close to cracking the Top 25 now. On the other hand, Uriah Heep "Look at Yourself " or "July Morning" (both from Look at Yourself) might get in even now. Probably just one as the competition is incredible.

 

That isn't nearly as surprising as Ringo coming in at #13.

 

A toast to @CupOfDreams ! Well done, as was said above.
1977 is next, yes? Can't wait.

 

Righteous list. Reference material.

 

Here are ten of my favorite singles released in 1971, or appearing on albums released in 1971, which didn't make the list:

She’s Not Just Another Woman - 8th Day
Don’t Knock My Love - Wilson Pickett
High Time We Went - Joe Cocker
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) - Stylistics
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - Dramatics
Maybe Tomorrow - Jackson 5
Slippin’ Into Darkness - War
Runnin’ Away - Sly & Family Stone
In The Rain - Dramatics

 

Here are some of my favorite album tracks that I didn't see on list:

Half Moon - Janis Joplin
(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree - ZZ Top
Brown Sugar - ZZ Top
An Hour In The Shower - Chicago
Happy 'Cause I'm Going Home - Chicago
Right Now, Right Now - Al Green
Are You Lonely For Me Baby - Al Green
Home Again - Carole King
Smackwater Jack - Carole King
At the Chime of a City Clock - Nick Drake
Poor Boy - Nick Drake
One Of These Things First - Nick Drake
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Long Ago And Far Away - James Taylor
I Got The Blues - Rolling Stones
Simple Sister - Procol Harum
Stranger In A Strange Land - Leon Russell
Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll - Long John Baldry
Seems Like A Long Time - Rod Stewart
That's All Right - Rod Stewart
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Rod Stewart
Grandma's Hands - Bill Withers
Little Green - Joni Mitchell
River - Joni Mitchell
The Last Time I Saw Richard - Joni Mitchell
Stormy Monday - Allman Brothers Band
Hot 'Lanta - Allman Brothers Band
Tell Mama - Savoy Brown
Bad Weather - Poco
If I Laugh - Cat Stevens
How Can I Tell You - Cat Stevens
Everything's Coming Our Way - Santana
For The Last Time - Rory Gallagher
I Fall Apart - Rory Gallagher
Just Like A Baby - Sly & The Family Stone
Illegal Smile - John Prine
Hello In There - John Prine
Sam Stone - John Prine
Razor Face - Elton John
Holiday Inn - Elton John
Runnin' Blue - Boz Scaggs

And here are a few of my favorite reggae singles released in 1971:

Johnny Too Bad - Slickers
54-46 Was My Number - Maytals
Sitting In Limbo - Jimmy Cliff
Draw Your Brakes - Scotty

 

As far as 45's go, in my collection from this Top 200 are #1 (as you can guess, it was edited way down - which B.T.W., is how I like it), 3, 4, 6 / 54, 8, 9 / 122, 10, 13, 14, 26, 27, 30 - 32, 35, 36 / 78, 38, 39, 44, 45, 48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 60, 61, 64, 65, 68, 70, 80, 82, 86, 88, 91, 93, 97, 98, 101, 102, 105, 115, 117 (though I don't play it - it's a CBS Pitman pressing), 118, 126 (likewise CBS Pitman, not played), 127, 129, 130, 134, 137, 143, 145, 147, 162 (another "non-play" from CBS Pitman), 163, 164, 166, 168, 171, 175, 178 (with string overdubs, from 1974), 183 - 186, 189, 190, 196 and 197. Y'all can figure out from there the percentage from this list.

 

Try Spotify playlist: 1971 - Never a Dull Moment

Pop music definitely needs more mandolin

 

I see now that this is on the list. I would replace this with: "Thin Line Between Love And Hate" by The Persuaders or perhaps "Footstompin' Music" or "Upsetter" by Grand Funk Railroad from the album E Pluribus Funk since as mentioned earlier there were no GFR songs voted onto the 1971 list.

 

That was a great year for music.....and there wasn't anything released by Bob Dylan or Neil Young!