1973
🔙 Backtrack — 1973
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
In 1973, a perfect afternoon didn't need much: Schoolhouse Rock!, a Laffy Taffy, a can of Hawaiian Punch, and nowhere important to be.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Scooby-Doo👕 tee →
- Super Friends👕 tee →
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- The Pink Panther Show
- Hong Kong Phooey
- The Jetsons
- The Flintstones
Billboard Year-End Hot 100
📊 Full chart →- 1
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak TreeDawn - 2
Bad, Bad Leroy BrownJim Croce - 3
Killing Me Softly with His SongRoberta Flack - 4
Let's Get It OnMarvin Gaye - 5
My LovePaul McCartney & Wings - 6
Why MeKris Kristofferson - 7
Crocodile RockElton John - 8
Will It Go Round in CirclesBilly Preston - 9
You're So VainCarly Simon - 10
Touch Me In the MorningDiana Ross - 11
The Night the Lights Went Out In GeorgiaVicki Lawrence - 12
Playground in My MindClint Holmes - 13
Brother LouieStories - 14
Delta DawnHelen Reddy - 15
Me and Mrs. JonesBilly Paul - 16
FrankensteinThe Edgar Winter Group - 17
Drift AwayDobie Gray - 18
Little WillySweet - 19
You Are the Sunshine of My LifeStevie Wonder - 20
Half-BreedCher - 21
That LadyThe Isley Brothers - 22
Pillow TalkSylvia - 23
We're An American BandGrand Funk Railroad - 24
Right Place Wrong TimeDr. John - 25
WildflowerSkylark
More from 1973
🎤 Big in 1973
🎚️ 1973 genres
🎬 Movies of 1973
All soundtracks →The soundtracks that scored 1973 — every song and where it played.
🎚️ Related vibes
All themes →Themed rooms that lean on the sound of 1973.
What does 1973 remind you of?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1973.
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🎵 1973 albums on vinyl
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📻 70s gear
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