Your favourites from this week in 1973: results of Top 20 singles poll

Thanks for your votes yesterday when we posted the Australian Top 20 from the week of 23 April 1973. Here are the results:

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1.. Nights in White Satin* – The Moody Blues – 252 votes
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2.. Space Oddity* – David Bowie – 232
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3.. You’re So Vain – Carly Simon – 228
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4.. Crocodile Rock – Elton John – 206
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5.. Killing Me Softly with His Song – Roberta Flack – 176
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6.. Your Mama Don’t Dance – The Bootleg Family Band – 169
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7.. I’d Love You to Want Me – Lobo – 154
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8.. Wig-Wam Bam – Sweet – 140
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9.. I Am Woman – Helen Reddy – 140
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10.. Dreams are Ten a Penny – Kincade – 130
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11.. Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend – Lobo – 122
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12.. Top of the World – The Carpenters – 120
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13.. Dueling Banjos – Eric Weiss and his Banjos – 115
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14.. Everything is Out of Season – Johnny Farnham – 112
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15.. Jambalaya (on the Bayou) – The Blue Ridge Rangers / John Fogerty – 108
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16.. Do You Want to Dance? – Bette Midler – 105
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17.. Part of the Union – Strawbs – 98
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18.. Dead Skunk – Loudon Wainwright III – 84
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19.. Last Song – Edward Bear – 68
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20.. Funny Face – Donna Fargo – 52
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*Nights in White Satin and Space Oddity were re-releases
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The Top 20 chart your votes were based on: 23 April 1973
1: Top of the World – The Carpenters
2: Killing Me Softly With His Song – Roberta Flack
3: Dueling Banjos – Eric Weiss and his Banjos
4: Funny Face – Donna Fargo
5: Last Song – Edward Bear
6: Crocodile Rock – Elton John
7: Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend – Lobo
8: You’re So Vain – Carly Simon
9: Everything is Out of Season – Johnny Farnham
10: Wig Wam Bam – Sweet
11: I’d Love You to Want Me – Lobo
12: Dreams are Ten a Penny – Kincade
13: I am Woman – Helen Reddy
14: Jambalaya (On the Bayou) – The Blue Ridge Rangers / John Fogerty
15: Space Oddity – David Bowie
16: Dead Skunk – Loudon Wainwright III
17: Your Mama Don’t Dance – The Bootleg Family Band
18: Do You Want to Dance? – Bette Midler
19: Nights in White Satin – The Moody Blues
20: Part of the Union – Strawbs
Chart source: Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book