The Top 10 Songs of 1973 (UK)

Written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown, Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Round the Ole Oak Tree) was a massive worldwide hit in 1973 for Dawn featuring Tony Orlando.

It reached Number One on both the US and UK charts for four weeks in April 1973, and Number One on the Australian charts for seven weeks from May to July 1973. It was the top selling song for the year 1973 in both the US and UK.

The song lists at Number 37 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.

Eye Level was selected by Thames Television in England to be the theme tune for the Netherlands based detective series, Van der Valk. The work was based on a Dutch nursery rhyme which Simon Park arranged for his own orchestra.

As a result of the popularity of the TV show, this instrumental became one of the biggest hits of 1973 in Great Britain.

Coming after their success on the British talent show Opportunity Knocks, Peters and Lee recorded the former French language song Welcome Home. It became the duo's one and only Number One song in the UK, spending a single week at the top in July 1973.

Block Buster! was written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and was The Sweet's sole UK Number One hit, along with becoming one of glam rock's biggest hits of 1973.

Released in January, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, and also made Number One in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Ireland. Outside Europe it fared less well, as it peaked at Number 29 in Australia and at Number 73 on the American Billboard Hot 100.

Written by band members Jim Lea and Noddy Holder, C*m on Feel the Noize was Slade's fourth Number One single in the UK and their first to enter the chart at Number One. Quite a rare feat at the time, as it was the first occasion this had happened since The Beatles with Get Back in 1969.

It went on to spend four weeks at the top of the chart in March 1973. Typical of Slade's releases at the time, it fared less well in the USA, where it would only peak at Number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Written by Gary Glitter with Mike Leander, I Love You Love Me Love was Glitter's second Number One song in the UK, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in November 1973. It was also the last of his four hits of 1973.

Written and produced by lead singer, Roy Wood, See My Baby Jive was the second single by Wood's band and their first to reach Number One in the UK, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May.

Although the follow-up, Angel Fingers, also topped the British charts, it did not sell enough copies to register as one of the top 10 songs of 1973.

Several of Wizzard's recordings are deeply indebted to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

Written by Gary Glitter and Mike Leander, I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am) was Glitter's first Number One single in the UK, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in July 1973.

The song is a Glam Rock anthem, and typical of Glitter's early Seventies output, based on a simple mid-tempo rhythm and loud chanted backing vocals.

Written by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster, The Twelfth of Never had previously been recorded successfully by the likes of Johnny Mathis and Cliff Richard.

During the era of Osmondmania, Donny Osmond recorded his version which reached the summit of the UK Charts for a single week in March.

Although the Osmonds were all over the music charts at this time, none of their other recordings managed to secure a spot in this list of the top 1973 hits.

Daydreamer was David Cassidy's second and final Number One single in the UK, spending three weeks at the top of the chart in October, 1973.

The song was a double-A side with a version of Harry Nilsson's Puppy Song on the reverse.