THE iNFOMAN 1974 SINGLES OF THE YEAR
(created 1975, corrected and expanded 1986/2003/2006)

  1. Roxy Music - All I want is you

  2. Dr Feelgood - Roxette/
    Route 66 (cover of Chuck Berry)

  3. Eno - Seven deadly Finns

  4. Richard and Linda Thompson - I want to see the bright lights tonight/
    When I get to the border

  5. Roxy Music - Streetlife

  6. Joni Mitchell - Free man in Paris/
    Car on the hill

  7. Roy Harper - Forever

  8. Don Covay - It's better to have (and don't need)

  9. Yvonne Fair - Funky music 'sho nuff turns me on

  10. Kevin Ayers - After the show

  11. Bobby Womack - Lookin' for a love

  12. Joni Mitchell - Help me

  13. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty dread

  14. Van Morrison - Caldonia (cover of Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five)

  15. Hatfield and the North - Let's eat (real soon)/
    Fitter Stokes has a bath

  16. Ace - How long

  17. Joni Mitchell - Raised on robbery

  18. Maria Muldaur - Midnight in the oasis

  19. Billy Swan - I can help

  20. George Harrison - Dark horse

  21. Artetha Franklin - Until you come back to me

  22. David Bowie - Rock'n'roll suicide

  23. Ronnie Lane - The poacher

  24. Abba - Waterloo

  25. 10cc - Silly love

  26. Neil Young - Walk on

  27. Ronnie Lane - How come

  28. Bob Dylan and the Band - It ain't me babe (Live)/
    All along the watchtower (Live)

  29. Bryan Ferry - Smoke gets in your eyes (cover of the Platters)

  30. Robert Wyatt - I'm a believer (cover of the Monkees)/
    Memories (cover of Soft Machine)

  31. Ronnie Lane - What went down (that night with you)

  32. Rolling Stones - It's only rock'n'roll (but I like it)

  33. Bryan Ferry - The "in" crowd (cover of Dobie Gray)/
    Chance meeting (cover of Roxy Music)

  34. Betty Wright - Secretary

  35. Eric Clapton - I shot the sheriff (cover of Bob Marley and the Wailers)

  36. Sir John Betjeman - A Shropshire lad/
    The cockney amorist

  37. Paul McCartney and Wings - Jet/
    Let me roll it

  38. Al Green - Take me to the river

  39. Bob Dylan - On a night like this/
    Forever young

  40. Brinsley Schwarz - I have cried my last tear

  41. David Bowie - Rebel rebel/
    Queen Bitch

  42. 10cc - The worst band in the world

  43. Ann Peebles - (You keep me) Hangin' on  (cover of Joe Simon)

  44. Chapman-Whitney - Roxianna

  45. Be-Bop Deluxe - Jet silver/
    Third floor heaven

  46. Brinsley Schwarz - (What's so funny about) Peace, love and understanding

  47. Can - Dizzy dizzy

  48. Kevin Ayers - The up song/
    Everybody's sometimes and some people's all the time blues

  49. Procol Harum - Nothing but the truth

  50. Man - Day and night

Bubbling under:-

  1. Georgie Fame - Ali shuffle

  2. Roger Ruskin Spear - On her doorstep last night

  3. Al Green - Sha la la (Make me happy)

  4. Horace Andy - Money money

  5. Labelle - Lady Marmalade

    This page was last updated on 18 April, 2006 .