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Chart #6
FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Good week for Motown. One new song enters the Top 10 , a Motowner, and of this week's five debuting singles, the biggest , a high one this week - coming in at #25, is also a release from the label.
There are five Motown songs on the Top 40 compared to six last week. One new Motown record enters while two drop out.

The Top 10:

Can't knock it : Three times at #1, Dawn's KNOCK THREE TIMES. Right at the door loudly, ONE BAD APPLE , the Osmonds at #2, a giant inner Top Ten leap of seven spots from #9.
Women trading places: Gladys Knight and Barbra Streisand swap out: dropping one to #11 from #10 is STONEY END , while IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN nudges into the top 10 , at #10 from #11. Both songs have women composers: Pam Sawyer and Gloria Jones [[with producer Clay McMurray) from the Motown camp and Laura Nyro penning the Streisand remake of STONEY END.
The other songs within the Top Ten are all doing a little downward shuffle with only Dave Edmond's I HEAR YOU KNOCKING gaining slight upward momentum , #7 to #6.

The Top 40:

Leapfrogging again: Diana Ross' REMEMBER ME up three to #16 from #19 jumps over Rare Earth's BORN TO WANDER which doesn't , staying put at #17, same as last week.
MAMA'S PEARL by The Jackson Five premiers on the Top 40 chart at #25 from #47.
Heavy falling out, five more spots: The Supremes STONED LOVE from #21 to #26

Biggest Mover:

Up 13 notches from #25 to #12
WATCHING SCOTTY GROW- Bobby Goldsboro

Off the chart:
from Motown:

RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH The Four Tops and The Supremes
THE TEARS OF A CLOWN Smokey Robinson and The Miracles. This will be Smokey's final #1 in his career , The Miracles will return to hit it without him.

Top 40 Debuts::
One from Motown:
MAMA'S PEARL- The Jackson Five #25

THEME FROM LOVE STORY- Henry Mancini #30
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN/HEY TONIGHT- Creedence Clearwater Revival #32
DON'T LET THE GREEN GRASS FOOL YOU -Wilson Pickett #39
YOUR TIME TO CRY - Joe Simon #40

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More about STONEY END, Streisand's first hit of the seventies. The song, written by 20 year old Laura Nyro, was originally released as a single by MOD SQUAD hot property, Peggy Lipton , but failed to make the Hot 100. The song caught the attention of rising star producer Richard Perry whose uptempo version put Streisand back on the top 40 for the first time in six years and its Babs second time to make the Top 10 [[#6) since her first charter, The Supremes favored PEOPLE, #5 from 1964.
This will help establish Richard Perry as a hot hot producer and he'll soon be doing big projects with names like Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr, Nillson , Carly Simon, and Diana Ross , as well as Martha Reeves.
This is Perry's first production to reach the Top 10, his previous biggest success was Tiny Tim's TIPTOE THROUGH THE TULIPS which reached #17.



Laura Nyro also assisted in the success of the female inclusive group, The Fifth Dimension , writing the songs STONED SOUL PICNIC, SAVE THE COUNTRY, and WEDDING BELL BLUES. Laura Nyro died in 1997 from ovarian cancer at age 49 , the same age her mother died of the same condition. Just before her death she was able to assemble her own collective package which was released shortly before her passing. One of the songs she chose is her rendition of Gaye's THE BELLS.


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Occasionally when space allows, we'll look at oddities on the Hot 100 that never make it to the Top 40.
This week at #80 peaking four weeks ago at #73, is a song that's going to slip away unnoticed, MIXED UP GUY [[ or MIXED-UP GUY as printed on the record's label) by Californian Joey Scarbury.
He won't reappear on the Hot 100 for the entirety of the seventies, not charting again for another ten years. But perseverance pays off, by the end of the 1970's he'll hook up with a guy named Mike Post. Post is creating a theme song [[again) for a new TV series and Scarbury gets chosen to sing it. A 45 is made from it and it takes off , thus giving him his one big hit of his long career, THEME FROM THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO [[BELIEVE IT OR NOT) will be a #2 hit in 1981. It will be Scarbury's only charting single making him a one-hit wonder. He was 26 at the time , thus MIXED UP GUY was recorded when he was just 16:



MIXED UP GUY is an Al Kapps [[Cap , Kaps etc.) guided record , he's already quite a prolific producer and he's about to share some big successes with a string of charters with a certain dark haired lady.

MIXED-UP GUY was written by Jimmy Webb who'll soon be working on an album project with The Supremes. Scarbury was discovered by Webb's father when Scarbury was 14.