Radio Caroline Top 40 album chart
April 1974


In April 1974 Radio Caroline introduced an album chart, updated monthly. The first one, as given by Andy Archer in his 1974 diary, is listed below.


Radio Caroline    Top 40 album chart    April 1974

no.



1

Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
2

What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
The Doobie Brothers
3

Starless And Bible Black
King Crimson
4

Buddha And The Chocolate Box
Cat Stevens
5

The Hoople
Mott the Hoople
6

Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
7

Live Rhymin'
Paul Simon
8

Now We Are Six
Steeleye Span
9

Slaughter On 10th Avenue
Mick Ronson
10

Chicago VII
Chicago
11

Todd
Todd Rundgren
12

That's A Plenty
The Pointer Sisters
13

Solar Fire
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
14

Band on the Run
Paul McCartney & Wings
15

The Best Of - Skeletons From The Closet
The Grateful Dead
16

Burn
Deep Purple
17

Beatles 1967-1970
The Beatles
18

Queen 2
Queen
19

Dream Kid
The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
20

Unborn Child
Seals & Crofts
21

Carolina County Ball
Elf
22

Hard Rope & Silken Twine
The Incredible String Band
23

Wild Tales
Graham Nash
24

The Free Story
Free
25

You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce
26

It's Too Late To Stop Now
Van Morrison
27

The Mountain Queen
Alquin
28

A New Life
The Marshall Tucker Band
29

Live Dates
Wishbone Ash
30

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
31

Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
32

Slow Dancer
Boz Scaggs
33

Happy Children
Osibisa
34

Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes
35

Love is the Message
M.F.S.B.
36

Home, Home On The Road
The New Riders of the Purple Sage
37
or
*
Let Me In Your Life
Heart Strings
Aretha Franklin
Linda Lewis
38

Moontan
Golden Earring
39

Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd
40

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath





* Andy listed number 37 as Let Me In Your Life by Linda Lewis but we have been unable to find a Linda Lewis LP of that name. Her 1974 release was called Heart Strings. However Aretha Franklin had just released an album called Let Me In Your Life. Could he have got the two confused?



Our thanks to Andy.
 
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The next album chart we have is an incomplete one from October 1974.


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