| Week | Billboard | Record World |
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| Jan 5 | Spectrum Billy Cobham |
Spectrum Billy Cobham |
| Jan 12 | ||
| Jan 19 | Head Hunters Herbie Hancock |
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| Jan 26 | ||
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| Feb 9 | Head Hunters Herbie Hancock |
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| May 4 | Street Lady Donald Byrd |
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| June 8 | Crosswinds Billy Cobham |
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| June 29 | Body Heat Quincy Jones |
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| Aug 3 | Head Hunters Herbie Hancock |
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| Aug 10 | Body Heat Quincy Jones |
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| Aug 17 | Body Heat Quincy Jones |
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| Nov 23 | Thrust Herbie Hancock |
Thrust Herbie Hancock |
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| Dec 7 | ||
| Dec 14 | Is It In Eddie Harris |
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| Dec 21 | Pieces of Dreams Stanley Turrentine |
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| Dec 28 | Pieces of Dreams Stanley Turrentine |
JAZZ LPS 
1974 is the beginning of My Favorite Decade in music and believe it or not, Hancock’s Head Hunters was one of the first jazz albums I ever owned. It was by accident though. I was buying a few used albums at either Al Bum’s or PDQ and when I got home, a copy of Head Hunters had been a stowaway in another album’s jacket. It got a few plays and I ended up picking it up on CD clearance priced from Columbia House just a few years later. The album or rather samples of songs from the album are myriad in hip hop. It was a happy accident that it came into my life.
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