May 12, 1972

1	1	War--Slippin' Into Darkness
4	2	Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show--Sylvia's Mother
9	3	Chi-Lites--Oh Girl
2	4	Gallery--Nice to Be With You
3	5	Don McLean--Vincent
8	6	Bread--Diary
5	7	Todd Rundgren--I Saw the Light
19	8	Neil Diamond--Song Sung Blue
6	9	Roberta Flack--The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
15	10	Neil Young--Old Man
27	11	Staple Singers--I'll Take You There
11	12	Jackson Browne--Doctor My Eyes
13	13	Rolling Stones--Tumbling Dice
25	14	Wayne Newton--Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
7	15	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen--Hot Rod Lincoln
33	16	Mouth & MacNeal--How Do You Do?
10	17	Stylistics--Betcha By Golly, Wow
38	18	Jimmy Castor Bunch--Troglodyte (Cave Man)
23	19	Carpenters--It's Going to Take Some Time
12	20	America--A Horse With No Name
18	21	Little Jimmy Osmond--Long Haired Lover From Liverpool
17	22	Al Green--Look What You Done For Me
32	23	5th Dimension--(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All
16	24	Aretha Franklin--Day Dreaming
14	25	Donny Osmond--Puppy Love
20	26	Sammy Davis, Jr.--The Candy Man
21	27	Harry Chapin--Taxi
45	28	Mal--Mighty Mighty and Roly Poly
26	29	Cat Stevens--Morning Has Broken
37	30	Carly Simon--Legend in Your Own Time
---	31	Royal Scots Dragoon Guards--Amazing Grace
22	32	June Jackson--Little Dog Heaven
40	33	Derek & the Dominoes--Layla
24	34	David Bowie--Changes
35	35	Supremes--Automatically Sunshine
41	36	Jo Jo Gunne--Run Run Run
28	37	Michael Jackson--Rockin' Robin
---	38	Raiders--Powder Blue Mercedes Queen
39	39	Moody Blues--Isn't Life Strange
42	40	Jerry Wallace--To Get to You
---	41	Cher--Living in a House Divided
31	42	Joe Tex--I Gotcha
---	43	Billy Preston--Outa-Space
36	44	Sugar Bears--You Are the One
34	45	Neil Young--Heart of Gold
---	46	Beverly Bremers--We're Free
44	47	Love Unlimited--Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love
29	48	Jackson Five--Little Bitty Pretty One
30	49	Dramatics--In the Rain
---	50	Ranji--It's So Easy (To Be Bad)

One of this week’s debuts only Bubbled Under the Hot 100—“It’s So Easy (To Be Bad)” by pop singer Ranji, a number 109 hit that will get to number 32 here. The others were all top 60 hits; worth mentioning are the Raiders’ “Powder Blue Mercedes Queen” (54BB/14KJR) and Beverly Bremers’ follow-up to “Don’t Say You Don’t Remember,” “We’re Free” (40/10). “Amazing Grace” by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards debuts up at number 31 and will get to number seven in two weeks, but will get no higher and will only spend six weeks on the survey.