List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1973
Chart history

List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1973

Section Title: Chart history
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Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.

January 6	"Sweet Surrender"	Bread

January 13	"Been to Canaan"	Carole King

January 20	"You're So Vain"	Carly Simon

January 27

February 3	"Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend"	Lobo

February 10

February 17	"Dueling Banjos"	Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell

February 24

March 3	"Last Song"	Edward Bear

March 10

March 17	"Danny's Song"	Anne Murray

March 24

March 31	"Sing"	The Carpenters

April 7	"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"	Tony Orlando and Dawn

April 14	"Sing"	The Carpenters

April 21	"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"	Tony Orlando and Dawn

April 28	"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"	Stevie Wonder

May 5

May 12	"Daniel"	Elton John

May 19

May 26	"And I Love You So"	Perry Como

June 2	"My Love"	Paul McCartney and Wings

June 9

June 16

June 23	"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"	Bette Midler

June 30

July 7	"Yesterday Once More"	The Carpenters

July 14

July 21

July 28	"Touch Me in the Morning"	Diana Ross

August 4	"Delta Dawn"	Helen Reddy

August 11

August 18	"Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose"	Tony Orlando and Dawn

August 25

September 1

September 8	"Loves Me Like a Rock"	Paul Simon

September 15

September 22	"My Maria"	B. W. Stevenson

September 29	"I'm Coming Home"	Johnny Mathis

October 6	"All I Know"	Art Garfunkel

October 13

October 20

October 27

November 3	"Paper Roses"	Marie Osmond

November 10	"The Most Beautiful Girl"	Charlie Rich

November 17

November 24

December 1	"Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)"	Helen Reddy

December 8

December 15

December 22

December 29	"Time in a Bottle"	Jim Croce

Sentence(s)

"Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" was number 1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1973.

final_sentence: "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" was number 1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1973.