April 7, 1972

3	1	Roberta Flack--The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
2	2	America--A Horse With No Name
4	3	Dramatics--In the Rain
15	4	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen--Hot Rod Lincoln
1	5	Donny Osmond--Puppy Love
12	6	Stylistics--Betcha By Golly, Wow
5	7	Joe Tex--I Gotcha
10	8	Sonny & Cher--A Cowboy's Work is Never Done
7	9	Michael Jackson--Rockin' Robin
9	10	Sammy Davis, Jr.--The Candy Man
14	11	Wings--Give Ireland Back to the Irish
19	12	Aretha Franklin--Day Dreaming
26	13	Gallery--Nice to Be With You
6	14	Neil Young--Heart of Gold
28	15	Ringo Starr--Back Off Boogaloo
8	16	Frank Mills--Love Me, Love Me Love
22	17	Harry Chapin--Taxi
11	18	B.J. Thomas--Rock and Roll Lullaby
20	19	Three Dog Night--Family of Man
34	20	War--Slippin' Into Darkness
31	21	David Bowie--Changes
39	22	Malo--Suavecito
13	23	Cher--The Way of Love
25	24	Love Unlimited--Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love
30	25	Todd Rundgren--I Saw the Light
17	26	Chakachas--Jungle Fever
21	27	Temptations--Take a Look Around/Smooth Sailing
35	28	Badfinger--Baby Blue
16	29	Giorgio--Son of My Father
41	30	Cat Stevens--Morning Has Broken/I Want to Live in a Wigwam
18	31	Paul Simon--Mother and Child Reunion
---	32	Bread--Diary
23	33	Osmonds--Down By the Lazy River
37	34	Alice Cooper--Be My Lover
43	35	Jackson Browne--Doctor My Eyes
---	36	Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show--Sylvia's Mother
---	37	Don McLean--Vincent
46	38	Sugar Bears--You Are the One
27	39	Grass Roots--Glory Bound
24	40	Bobby Vinton--Every Day of My Life
---	41	Bang--Questions
29	42	Black Sabbath--Iron Man
---	43	Al Green--Look What You Done For Me
45	44	Richard Landis--Natural Causes (LP)
32	45	Mike Kennedy--Louisianna
49	46	Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band--Taurus
44	47	Yes--Roundabout
33	48	Scott English--Brandy
36	49	Bread--Everything I Own
---	50	April Wine--You Could Have Been a Lady

For this week only, Cat Stevens’ entry appears as “Morning Has Broken/flip.” The flip is “I Want to Live in a Wigwam,” which will disappear from the survey next week.

All six of the week’s debuts were Billboard Hot 100 hits, though just barely in the case of “Questions” by Philadelphia hard-rock trio Bang, which peaked at number 90 but will get to number 31 here. Three of the others will do a bit better here than nationally—Bread’s “Diary” (15BB/6KJR), “Sylvia’s Mother” by Dr. Hook (5/2), and Don McLean’s “Vincent” (12/3). That leaves two coming up short—“Look What You Done For Me” by Al Green (4/17) and Nova Scotia rock group April Wine’s only appearance on the Fab 50, “You Could Have Been a Lady” (32/47).