Throwing back to the week of June 23, 1973, we find Paul McCartney & Wings holding on to the top spot with ‘My Love,’ featured here earlier this month.
Right behind is a one-hit wonder that spent 23 weeks on this chart but never made it higher than #2. ‘Playground in My Mind’ was recorded by Clint Holmes, an English-born entertainer who was raised in the States and has been a Las Vegas entertainer for most of his five-decade career.
This cutesy track was written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss (also producers of the song) and features Vance’s seven-year-old son on backing vocals.
And there’s no love to be found
I close my eyes and soon I find
I’m in a playground in my mind
Where the children laugh
And the children play
And we sing a song all day
My name is Michael
I’ve got a nickel
I’ve got a nickel shiny and new
I’m gonna buy me all kinds of candy
That’s what I’m gonna do
In the wonders that I find
In the playground in my mind
In a world that used to be
Close your eyes and follow me
Where the children laugh
And the children play
And we’ll sing a song all day
My girl is Cindy
When we get married
We’re gonna have a baby or two
We’re gonna let them visit their grandma
That’s what were gonna do
See the little children
Living in a world
That I left behind
Happy little children
In the playground in my mind
See the little children
See how they play so happy
In the playground in my mind
La la la la la la la la la…
Meet Me In Montauk 
I do remember this song. Interesting that the singer has spent his entire career in Las Vegas.
I was about to write that I had never heard the song, but then the chorus came on….