KKUA 69’s Top 20 – January 4, 1971

This week we pick up on our Throwback Thursday feature, this one from the annals of the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide Archive. This is a chart from 1971…the station was KKUA 690 on the AM radio dial. Remember when we used to listen to music on AM radio?

Back then Top 40 radio was fun. There were live DJs on every shift of a typical market leading, 24 hour radio station day. Back in 1971 KKUA was in fierce competition with KPOI at 1380 on the AM dial and an upcoming KGMQ FM at 93.1 on the stereo dial.

Hawaii Top 40 radio frequently played music that was either local in origin or mainstream top 40 hits that were not quite hits anywhere else in the nation. Take a look at this list (re-typed from one that was published in the Honolulu Advertiser).

KKUA HAS IT! OFFICIAL HAWAII TOP 20*

January 4, 1971

1. Knock Three Times	Dawn
2. Black Magic Woman	Santana
3. My Sweet Lord	George Harrison
4. Somebody’s Been Sleepin’	100 Proof Aged in Soul
5. Here is Happiness	Tokyo Happy Coats
6. Lola	The Kinks
7. Life is That Way	Jose Feliciano
8. No Matter What	Badfinger
9. Domino	Van Morrison
10. One Man Band	Three Dog Night
11. He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother	Neil Diamond
12. Pay To The Piper	Chairman of the Board
13. Gypsy Woman	Brian Hyland
14. Fire And Rain	James Taylor
15. Woodstock	Matthew’s Southern Comfort
16. Green Grass Starts to Grow	Dionne Warwick
17. Most of All	B.J. Thomas
18. Gypsy Queen	Gypsy
19. Love The One You’re With	Stephen Stills
20. Games	Redeye

 

* Previewed 3 – 6PM Mondays with Ron King
Dial 690 for all the Hits

For this post we are featuring Dionne Warwick‘s single “Green Grass Starts to Grow” which was at #16 on this chart. It was never a huge hit, but is a decent record. More than 40 years since its release I think it stills stands the test of time.

Bringing things up to the current century, Ms. Warwick will be in Honolulu this weekend playing at the Blue Note Club in Waikiki for three nights starting today through Sunday, May 5.