Caroline Countdown of Sound
24th February 1973

This was the third Top 40 chart broadcast in 1973 on the Dutch language daytime pop service of Radio Caroline.
 
We don't have the full list but the information we do have comes from a recording made by Maurice Bokkebroek (later to become the Radio Mi Amigo studio engineer) which was shared on the Radiotrefpunt (radio meeting point) forum by ‘Albatrosstudio’. Our thanks to both of them. The recording only covered the first half-hour of the show and another 16 minute segment near the end.
 
Can anyone fill in the gaps?

Radio Caroline    Countdown of Sound    24th February 1973
presented by Peter Brian
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Do You Want To Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)
 Gary Glitter
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Daniel
 Elton John
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Pardon Me Sir
 Joe Cocker
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Go Like Elijah
 Chi Coltrane
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Paper Plane
 Status Quo
32
Botch-A-Me (Ba Ba Baciami Piccina)
 Daisy Dynamite
33
Septembre Noir, Decembre Blanc *
 Les Poppys
34
Superstition
 Stevie Wonder
35
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
 The Temptations
36
Love Train
 The O'Jays
37
Crazy Horses
 The Osmonds
38
Donna
 10cc
39
Looking Thru The Eyes of Love
 The Partridge Family starring David Cassidy
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Rock Me Baby
 David Cassidy





* Les Poppys were a group of French children who had a massive hit in Holland in 1971 called Non, Non, Rien N'a Change. Wikipedia claims that “in The Netherlands ... they sold more records than the Beatles”. This track was released as a single in France in 1972 but not, as far as we know, in Holland, Belgium or the UK.

By way of comparison, the Top 50 used by the Dutch service of Radio Northsea International for the same week is here.
 
The links from the songs on this page lead to the Amazon MP3 Store where you can hear short audio clips of the tracks and customers in the UK can buy downloads. Please see this note.
 
There are a number of other offshore charts listed on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Full details here.
 
The Caroline Countdown for two weeks previously is here.

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