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Music

The Top 20 Songs

1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando & Dawn 
2. Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce 
3. Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack 
4. Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye 
5. My Love, Paul McCartney & Wings 
6. Why Me, Kris Kristofferson 
7. Crocodile Rock, Elton John 
8. Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston 
9. You're So Vain, Carly Simon 
10. Touch Me In The Morning, Diana Ross 
11. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, Vicki Lawrence 
12. Playground In My Mind, Clint Holmes 
13. Brother Louie, Stories 
14. Delta Dawn, Helen Reddy 
15. Me And Mrs. Jones, Billy Paul 
16. Frankenstein, Edgar Winter Group 
17. Drift Away, Dobie Gray 
18. Little Willy, Sweet 
19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, Stevie Wonder 
20. Half Breed, Cher 

The Top 20 Albums

Movies

1973 Oscars

(for Best Films of 1972)

Best Picture - The Godfather

Best Actor - Marlon Brando, The Godfather

Best Actress - Liza Minelli, Cabaret

Best Supporting Actor - Joel Grey, Cabaret

Best Supporting Actress - Eileen Heckart, Butterflies are Free

Best Director - Bob Fosse, Cabaret

Best Screenplay Adaptation - Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather

Best Original Screenplay - Jeremy Larner, The Candidate

Best Song - "The Morning After," The Poseiden Adventure

Some of the best movies released in 1973...

The Exorcist

The Sting

American Grafitti

The Last Detail

Serpico

Paper Moon

Sports

Major Championships

Baseball

The "amazin' Mets" defied all odds in 1973 and climbed to the top of the National League despite finishing just over the .500 mark. With a less-than-stellar record of 82-79, New York managed to defeat a superior Cincinnati Reds team in a tight, five game championship series to earn their second ticket to the Fall Classic since their introduction in 1962. The defending world champion Oakland A's had also defeated "The Big Red Machine" in the previous year's Series and boasted the American League's top line-up with Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace and Deron Johnson. Jim "Catfish" Hunter had just finished another twenty win season with Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue in support.

A rejuvenated Oakland team came out swinging in Game 7 as the A's got two run shots from both Campaneris and Jackson in the third-inning. Series workhorse Ken Holtzman supported the home team's efforts with help from Rollie Fingers and Darold Knowles. In the end, it was a 5-2 victory and a second consecutive championship crown for the defending American Leaguers.

Future hall of famers in the 1973 World Series were Catfish Hunter (1-0), Rollie Fingers (0-1), Tom Seaver (0-1), Willie Mays (.286), and Reggie Jackson (.310).

Other Baseball Nuggets

On April 6, 1973, Ron Blomberg (a former autograph of the week selection) became the first designated hitter in American League history.

Eleven weeks after his untimely death in a plane crash, Pittsburgh Pirate legend Roberto Clemente was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame during a special election that superceded the five-year waiting period. Clemente was on a humanitarian mission to take supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua when the aircraft he was flying in went down off the coast of Puerto Rico. "The Great One" as he was called, was the first Latin American to be inducted into Cooperstown after receiving 93% of the four-hundred twenty-four ballots cast and his lifetime batting average of .317 is still the highest of any right-hander since World War II. (Baseball Almanac)

Football

The Top 10 College Teams...

Super Bowl VII

Fresh off their 1972 perfect season the Miami Dolphins score a back-to-back championship with a 14-7 win over the Washington Redskins.

Politics

January 27 - The Vietnam War ends with signing of peace pacts (and not a moment too soon... 2 days after I turn 18 and have to register for the draft! JB)

April 30 - President Richard Nixon accepts responsibility for Watergate on TV (but doesn't resign until the next year).

October 6 - Syrian and Egyptian forces attack Israel in the Yom Kippur war.

October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president. Gerald Ford is named his replacement and the next year becomes everyone's favorite president that nobody voted for!!

October 20 - Nixon wreaks havoc on the Justice Department firing the Watergate Special Prosecuter Archibald Cox and the Assistant Attorney General. The Attorney General himself Elliot Richardson resigns. (It didn't do any good... Nixon STILL has to resign... August 8, 1974.)

November 11 - Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire accord.

Richard Nixon and Vice Presidential hopeful Elvis Presley.

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