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Billboard SPECIAL SURVEY for Week Ending 5/17/75

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* Star Performer -LPs registering proportionate upward progress this week.

TITLE -Artist, Label B Number (Distributing Label)

BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS -Freddy Fender, ABC/Dot Soso 2020

1 REUNION -B.1. Thomas, ABC ABDP 858

11 AN EVENING WITH JOHN DENVER, RCA CPL20165

15 LINDA ON MY MIND -Conway Twitty, MCA 469

9 9 BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears, Unded Artists 081A390

7 8 WOLF CREEK PASS -C.W. McCall, MGM M3G 4989

4 11 I'M JESSI COLTER -lessi Colter, Capitol ST 11363

8 6 12 HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW -Olivia Newton -John, MCA 2133

9 8 21 HEART LIKE A WHEEL -Linda Ronstadt, Cap.tol ST 11358

10 12 9 FREDDIE HART'S GREATEST HITS, Capitol ST 11347

11 11 10 OUT OF HAND -Gary Stewart, RCA APLI 0900

12 10 12 BACK TO THE COUNTRY- Loretta Lynn, MCA 471

13 15 10 THE BARGAIN STORE -Dolly Parton, RCA APL 0950

14 14 21 SONGS OF FOX HOLLOW -Tom T. Hall, Mercury SRM 1 500 )Phonogram)

15 13 23 CITY LIGHTS- Mickey Gilley, Playboy PB 403

23 15 A LEGEND IN MY TIME -Ronnie Milsap, RCA APLI 0846

25 3 MICKEY'S MOVIN' ON- Mickey Gilley, Playboy PB 405

18 18 43 BACK HOME AGAIN -John Denver, RCA CPI 0548

19 20 PAIR OF FIVES (Banjos That Is) -Roy Clark & Buck Trent, ABC /Dot DOSD 2015

35 PHONE CALL FROM GOD -Jerry Jordan, MCA 473

32 4 THE LAST FAREWELL & OTHER HITS -Roger Whittaker, RCA APL 10855

22 19 10 BARROOMS TO BEDROOMS -David Wills, Epic NE 33353 (Columbia)

23 26 4 SMOKEY MOUNTAIN MEMORIES -Mel Street, GRT 8004 (Chess /Janus)

24 16 BOOGIE WOOGIE COUNTRY MAN -Jerry Lee Lewis, Mercury SRM 11030 ( Phonogram)

14 ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD -Mac Davis, Columbia PC 32927

3 SINCERELY- Brenda Lee, MCA 417

N CO CERT- Chatley Pride, Chet Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton, Jerry eed, Gary Stewart, RCA CPL2 1014

28 22 13 IT WAS ALWAYS SO EASY (To Find An Unhappy Woman) -Moe Bandy, GRC 10007

29 31 3 A LITTLE BIT SOUTH OF SASKATOON -Sonny James, Columbia KC 33428

'At 1=1* GREATEST HITS -Charlie Rich, RCA APLI.0857

31 24 7 JOE STAMPLEY -Epic KE 33356 (Columbia)

33 THE RAMBLIN' MAN -Waylon Jennings, RCA APLI 0734

33 18 BARBI DOLL -Barbi Benton, Playboy PB 404

34 2 LOIS JOHNSON, 20th Century r 0698

35 21 5 SOUTHBOUND -Hoyt Anton, ABM SP 4510 * 11=10 KEEP MOVIN' ON -Merle Haggard, Capitol ST 11365 37 29 7 TAMMY'S GREATEST HITS, Vol. 3 -Tammy Wynette, Epic KE 33396 (Columbia)

38 36 6 CHARLIE MY BOY -Charlie McCoy, Monument KZ 33384 (Epic /Columbia)

( 1=1 HARD TIME HUNGRYS -Bobby Bare, RCA APLI 0906 40 42 8 PIECES OF SKY - Emmylou Harris, Reprise 0698 (Warner Bros.)

41 8 WHO'S SORRY NOW -Marie Osmond, MGM M3G 4979

42 15 PROMISED LAND -Elvis Presley, RCA APLI-0873

43 10 GREATEST HITS -Tanya Tucker, Columbia KC 33355

New a single 44 4 VASSAR CLEMENTS, Mercury SRM1 1022 ( Phonogram)

(MR -1230) 45 YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND ABC DOSO Eink -Don Williams, /Dot 2021 troth her recent 46 47 3 WRITER ME A LETTER -Bobby G. Rice, GRT 8003 (Chess /Janus) album "Gather Me' 47 50 29 SONGS ABOUT LADIES & LOVE- Johnny Rodriguez, Mercury SRM -1 -1012 (M PS -609) ( Phonogram)

48 2 I'M HAVING YOUR BABY -Sunday Sharpe, United Artists DA LA 362 G

49 3 DON'T LET THE GOOD TIMES FOOL YOU -Melba Montgomery, Produced by Elektra 760598 Clarence Selman 5 GREATEST HITS -Jerry Wallace, MGM M3G 4990 "Gather Me'. written by Gene Dobbins /Tony Austin Full Swing Music (ASCAP) BILLBOARD MEANS MUSIC ON MEGA RECORDS & TAPES BUSINESS ALL OVER THE GLOBE

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