A Horse With No Name by America is at number three on the chart. Michael Jackson finds the number two position this week with Rockin' Robin. Lots of the Top 80 is beginning to fall into obscurity now, unplayed by radio and beloved only by antiquarians such as we.Roberta Flack is top over this week's song chart with The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
Today, I’ll bet “American Pie” gets more airplay than the rest of the Top 10 combined. The top of the chart is kind of a fizzle. The song was performed by The Stylistics. After a month at #1, it gave way for one week to “Brandy” by the Looking Glass (on this show at #12) before retaking #1 for two more weeks. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Where Is the Love Betcha by Golly Wow was the 18 song in 1972 in the R&B charts. The difference might have come down to the six weeks at #1 by “Alone Again (Naturally)” being non-consecutive. Both did 15 weeks in the Top 40 and 11 weeks in the Top 10 as well. “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”/Roberta FlackĬasey says the race at the top was very close, with both songs doing six weeks at #1 and 18 weeks on the Hot 100. “Alone Again (Naturally)”/Gilbert O’Sullivanġ.
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Casey says this is the longest record ever to hit #1, but the version he plays is about 30 seconds shorter than full length, starting with “bye bye Miss American Pie” and not “a long, long time ago.”Ģ. Will say again: 1972 was the last great year for soul music.ģ. “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right”/Luther Ingram By the Pop Annual method, it’s #5 for the year.Īnnouncer Larry Morgan introduces “Old Man” by running down Billboard‘s Top Five albums of 1972: Hot Rocks by the Rolling Stones (a compilation, in the year of Exile on Main Street), Teaser and the Firecat by Cat Stevens, American Pie, Tapestry, and at #1, Harvest.ġ9. Meanwhile, “I Can See Clearly Now” was #1 for a month, but that month was November 1972, so it doesn’t get year-end credit for its entire run. By that accounting, “Song Sung Blue” is #20 for the year, “Black and White” #21, “I Gotcha” #22, and “Slippin’ Into Darkness” #139, which seems like a better indication of their relative popularity. I prefer the system Joel Whitburn uses in his Pop Annual books: all of the #1s, ranked by weeks at peak, then weeks in the Top 10, Top 40, and Hot 100, followed by all of the #2s, and so on. We have seen previously how long chart runs can distort year-end rankings. “I Gotcha” peaked at #2, but thanks to nine weeks in the Top 10, it ranks higher than 13 of the songs to hit #1 in this year. “Slippin’ Into Darkness” peaked at #16 but rode the chart for 22 weeks, so it comes in higher. Casey also says that “Song Sung Blue” ranks #30 because of its relatively short (13-week) Hot 100 run. Hot Butter was assembled by Stan Free, who had played in Kingsley’s First Moog Quartet.Ĭasey says that “Song Sung Blue” is the first #1 hit to appear on the countdown, which it is not Three Dog Night’s “Black and White” was a #1 hit back at #66. This answers first letter of which starts with B and can be found at the end of A. The crossword clue possible answer is available in 6 letters. The names involved in “Popcorn” include synthesizer pioneer Gershon Kingsley, who wrote it and recorded it in 1969. This crossword clue ' By Golly, Wow' (1972 hit by the Stylistics) was discovered last seen in the Februat the New York Times Crossword.
Casey describes the process by which a studio group is created, without mentioning any names. It also has American Top 40 again, after my station dropped the repeats earlier this year.ģ2. The signal has had a number of different call letters and formats over the years ( its Wikipedia entry entertainingly describes them) today it’s running one of iHeart’s jockless national formats. It signed on in April 1972 as a FM competitor for AM giant WISM, licensed to suburban Sun Prairie. Before playing this, Casey name-checks affiliate stations including WYXE in Madison, Wisconsin. “My Ding-a-Ling” was Berry’s only #1, and his biggest hit since “You Never Can Tell” in 1964.Īs I mentioned in the earlier installment about this countdown, I was still buying 45s exclusively in 1972, and these were among them.ģ5. Nelson, meanwhile, hadn’t been in the Top 10 since 1964. It’s a streak that would not be broken until 1978, after his death. Elvis had made the Top 40 in each of the last 17 years. I’m hunkered down at home avoiding the pandemic and killing time by writing, so there’ll be a new post here every day this week, starting with some stuff about about the second part of American Top 40‘s Top 80 of 1972 countdown.įor four weeks in October and November 1972, these first-generation rock ‘n’ roll stars were in the Billboard Top 10 together.
(Pictured: the Staple Singers on The Midnight Special.
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