The criterion for these is fairly arbitrary. I limited myself to songs issued on 45's between about December 1970 and December 1971. Looking over the list, it seems to have been a good year for ballads and a poor one for hard rock, but that may simply reflect my mood. I compiled this mostly from memory, so there are doubtless some grevious errors. I would probably draw up a completely different selection tomorrow. 1. Groove Me  King Floyd 2. Maggie May  Rod Stewart 3. Let's Stay Together  Al Green 4. Do You Know What I Mean  Lee Michaels 5. Have You Seen Her  Chi-Lites 6. Want Ads  Honey Cone 7. Brown Sugar-Bitch  Rolling Stones 8. Nathan Jones  Supremes 9. What's Going On  Marvin Gaye 10. Where Did Our Love Go?  Donnie Elbert 11. Tired of Being Alone  Al Green 12. Never Can Say Goodbye  Isaac Hayes-Jackson 5 13. American Pie  Don McLean 14. Maggie  Redbone 15. Spanish Harlem  Aretha Franklin 16. Family Affair  Sly and the Family Stone 17. Remember Me  Diana Ross 18. Cool Aid  Paul Humphrey 19. Long Promised Road  Beach Boys 20. Don't Change on Me  Ray Charles 21. We Were Always Sweethearts  Boz Scaggs 22. I Like What You Give  Nolan 23. I Don't Blame You At All  Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 24. Wild Horses  Rolling Stones 25. Mercy Mercy Me  Marvin Gaye 26. Ain't No Sunshine  Bill Withers 27. Bring the Boys Home  Freda Payne 28. One Toke Over the Line  Brewer and Shipley 29. When I'm Dead and Gone  McGuiness Flint 30. You Are Everything  Stylistics 31. Mandolin Wind  Rod Stewart 32. Got to Be There  Michael Jackson 33. Get On Up, Get Into It, Get Involved  James Brown 34. Do Me Right  Detroit Emeralds 35. It Don't Come Easy  Ringo Starr 36. Mr. Big Stuff  Jean Knight 37. If I Were Your Woman  Gladys Knight and the Pips 38. Just My Imagination  Temptations 39. Life is a Carnival  Band 40. Tell Mama  Savoy Brown 41. Questions 67 and 68  Chicago 42. Stick-Up  Honey Cone 43. Giver More Power to the People  Chi-Lites 44. It's Too Late-I Feel the Earth Move  Carole King 45. If You Really Love Me  Stevie Wonder 46. Have You Ever Seen the Rain  Credence Clearwater Revival 47. Keep on Growing-Bell Bottom Blues  Derek and the Dominoes 48. Standing in the Grits Line  Don Covay 49. Don't It Make You Want to Go Home  Persuasions 50. Looking for a Love  J. Geils Band 51. Don't Pull Your Love  Sam and Dave 52. We Can Work it Out  Stevie Wonder 53. Maybe Tomorrow  Jackson 5 54. I Don't Want to Do Wrong  Gladys Knight and the Pips 55. Right on the Tip of My Tongue  Brenda and the Tabulations 56. You've Got a Friend  Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway 57. One Bad Apple  Osmonds 58. Wild Night  Van Morrison 59. Theme from Shaft  Isaac Hayes 60. Love the One You're With  Steve Stills 61. Mama's Pearl  Jackson 5 62. Mr. Bojangles  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 63. So Far Away  Carole King 64. Inner City Blues  Marvin Gaye 65. Anticipation  Carly Simon 66. I Really Don't Want to Know  Elvis Presley 67. Lowdown  Chicago 68. High Time We Went  Joe Cocker 69. Sunshine  Jonathon Edwards 70. Layla  Derek and the Dominoes 71. What is Life  George Harrison 72. Joy to the World  Three Dog Night 73. Amos Moses  Jerry Reed 74. Brand New Key  Melanie 75. Albert Flasher  Guess Who 76. I Am...I Said  Neil Diamond 77. Try Some, Buy Some  Ronnie Spector 78. Everybody's Everything  Santana 79. Won't Get Fooled Again  Who 80. Rock Steady-Oh Me Oh My  Aretha Franklin 81. Day After Day  Badfinger 82. Only You Know and I Know  Delaney and Bonnie 83. Free  Chicago 84. If You Could Read My Mind  Gordon Lightfoot 85. C'mon  Poco 86. Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll  Jeff Thomas-Crew 87. You're All I Need to Get By  Aretha Franklin 88. Sweet Hitch-hiker  Credence Clearwater Revival 89. George Jackson  Bob Dylan 90. Put Your Hand in the Hand  Anne Murray-Ocean 91. Behind Blues Eyes  Who 92. Yo Yo  Osmonds 93. Imagine  John Lennon 94. Absolutely Right  Five Man Electrical Band 95. Me and Bobby McGee  Janis Joplin 96. First I Look at the Purse  J. Geils Band 97. Rings  Cymarron 98. When You're Hot, You're Hot  Jerry Reed 99. I'm Leavin'  Elvis Presley