| TW | LW | | ARTIST | TITLE | WKS | NOTES |
|---|
| HB | | | B.J. Thomas | Mighty Clouds Of Joy | | |
| HB | | | Chicago | Beginnings | | |
| HB | | | Stephen Stills | Change Partners | | |
| 40 | -- | | Freda Payne | Bring The Boys Home | 1 | |
| 39 | -- | | Chase | Get It On | 1 | |
| 38 | HB | | Lulu | Everybody's Got To Clap | 1 | |
| 37 | -- | | Cymarron | Rings | 1 | |
| 36 | HB | | The Bee Gees | How Can You Mend A Broken Heart | 1 | |
| 35 | 39 | | Gary Wright | Stand For Our Rights | 2 | |
| 34 | 30 | | Donny Osmond | Sweet And Innocent | 11 | The R&B group, not the sunshine pop group formerly the Sons of Liberty from Cadiz, OH. |
| 33 | HB | | Dawn | Summer Sand | 1 | |
| 32 | 38 | | The Bells | I Love You Lady Dawn | 2 | |
| 31 | 33 | | P.P.F. Past-Present-Future | Bones To Bones | | #1 on WKDA-FM (night-time?) survey for 4/17/71. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emxlIiIARm0 |
| 30 | 40 | | Isaac Hayes | Never Can Say Goodbye | 4 | |
| 29 | 37 | | Davy Jones | Rainy Jane | 2 | |
| 28 | 36 | | Delaney & Bonnie & Friends | Never Ending Song Of Love | | “Friends” included some real heavyweights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motel_Shot |
| 27 | 32 | | The Beginning Of The End | Funky Nassau-Part I | | |
| 26 | 35 | | Ocean | Deep Enough For Me | 2 | |
| 25 | 34 | | The Stylistics | Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) | | |
| 24 | 18 | | Ringo Starr | It Don't Come Easy | 8 | |
| 23 | 24 | | John Denver | Take Me Home, Country Roads | | Fat City: Husband & wife *Bill Danoff & *Taffy Nivert who wrote the song, which Denver adapted (cont in Goodies) |
| 22 | 11 | | The Supremes | Nathan Jones | | |
| 21 | 23 | | Dave And Ansil Collins | Double Barrel | | |
| 20 | 26 | | The 8th Day | She's Not Just Another Woman | | The R&B group, not the sunshine pop group formerly the Sons of Liberty from Cadiz, OH. |
| 19 | 21 | | The Guess Who | Albert Flasher | | |
| 18 | 14 | | The Osmonds | Double Lovin' | 6 | |
| 17 | 31 | | Tommy James | Draggin' The Line | | |
| 16 | 29 | | Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds | Don't Pull Your Love | 5 | |
| 15 | 12 | | The Honey Cone | Want Ads | 8 | |
| 14 | 16 | | Tom Jones | Puppet Man | | |
| 13 | 15 | | Richie Havens | Here Comes The Sun | 10 | |
| 12 | 8 | | Carly Simon | That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be | 5 | |
| 11 | 19 | | James Taylor | You've Got A Friend | | Song Carole King wrote for JT as response to “Fire & Rain” |
| 10 | 10 | | The Grass Roots | Sooner Or Later | 4 | |
| 9 | 7 | | The Rolling Stones | Brown Sugar | 8 | |
| 8 | 9 | | The Partridge Family | I'll Meet You Halfway | 6 | |
| 7 | 5 | | Paul Humphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists | Cool Aid | 8 | |
| 6 | 6 | | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose | Treat Her Like A Lady | 9 | |
| 5 | 13 | | Sounds Of Sunshine | Love Means (You Never Have To Say You're Sorry) | | |
| 4 | 2 | | Carpenters | Rainy Days And Mondays | 6 | |
| 3 | 3 | | Raiders | Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) | 7 | Well, 1 Raider, anyway. This was to be a Mark Lindsay solo record. Until Paul Revere crisscrossed the country promoting it. |
| 2 | 4 | | P-Nut Gallery | Do You Know What Time It Is? | 4 | |
| 1 | 1 | | Carole King | It's Too Late | 7 | |