Friday, June 29, 2018

June 2, 1972

1
1
Mouth & MacNeal--How Do You Do?
4
2
Wayne Newton--Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
2
3
Jimmy Castor Bunch--Troglodyte (Cave Man)
12
4
Billy Preston--Outa-Space
6
5
5th Dimension--(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All
3
6
Chi-Lites--Oh Girl
7
7
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards--Amazing Grace
5
8
Staple Singers--I'll Take You There
9
9
Gallery--Nice to Be With You
23
10
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose--Too Late to Turn Back Now
10
11
Rolling Stones--Tumbling Dice/Sweet Black Angel
8
12
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show--Sylvia's Mother
25
13
Sailcat--Motorcycle Mama
20
14
Raiders--Powder Blue Mercedes Queen
17
15
Cher--Living in a House Divided
14
16
Neil Diamond--Song Sung Blue
26
17
Daniel Boone--Beautiful Sunday
13
18
Bread--Diary
19
19
Supremes--Automatically Sunshine
28
20
Gordon Lightfoot--Beautiful
18
21
Derek & the Dominoes--Layla
11
22
War--Slippin' Into Darkness
15
23
Carpenters--It's Going to Take Some Time
29
24
Beverly Bremers--We're Free
16
25
Don McLean--Vincent
32
26
Danyel Gerard--Butterfly
35
27
Creedence Clearwater Revival--Someday Never Comes
38
28
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway--Where is the Love
22
29
Mal--Mighty Mighty and Roly Poly
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30
Hollies--Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
31
31
Graham Nash & David Crosby--Immigration Man
33
32
Ranji--It's So Easy (To Be Bad)
34
33
America--I Need You
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34
Gilbert O'Sullivan--Alone Again (Naturally)
37
35
David Cassidy--How Can I Be Sure
21
36
Jackson Browne--Doctor My Eyes
39
37
Godspell--Day By Day
40
38
Stylistics--People Make the World Go Round
24
39
Todd Rundgren--I Saw the Light
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40
Michael Jackson--I Wanna Be Where You Are


The Rolling Stones entry, which was simply “Tumbling Dice” for the past seven weeks, is listed this week as “Stones L.P. – Tumbling Dice-Sweet Black Angel.”

B-side “Don Quixote” is dropped from the listing for Gordon Lightfoot’s “Beautiful,” though it will be back next week.

Only three debuts: The Hollies’ “Long Cool Woman,” which peaked at number two (for two weeks) in Billboard and will peak at number two (for one week) here; “Alone Again (Naturally)” by Gilbert O’Sullivan, which peaked at number one (for six weeks) in Billboard and will peak at number one (for one week) here; and Michael Jackson’s solo hit “I Wanna Be Where You Are,” number 16 in BB and number 25 at KJR.

It’s hard to imagine an odder assortment of records than the top three on this survey.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

May 26, 1972

7
1
Mouth & MacNeal--How Do You Do?
6
2
Jimmy Castor Bunch--Troglodyte (Cave Man)
1
3
Chi-Lites--Oh Girl
11
4
Wayne Newton--Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
5
5
Staple Singers--I'll Take You There
13
6
5th Dimension--(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All
16
7
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards--Amazing Grace
4
8
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show--Sylvia's Mother
3
9
Gallery--Nice to Be With You
10
10
Rolling Stones--Tumbling Dice
2
11
War--Slippin' Into Darkness
28
12
Billy Preston--Outa-Space
9
13
Bread--Diary
14
14
Neil Diamond--Song Sung Blue
17
15
Carpenters--It's Going to Take Some Time
8
16
Don McLean--Vincent
33
17
Cher--Living in a House Divided
21
18
Derek & the Dominoes--Layla
19
19
Supremes--Automatically Sunshine
24
20
Raiders--Powder Blue Mercedes Queen
20
21
Jackson Browne--Doctor My Eyes
23
22
Mal--Mighty Mighty and Roly Poly
48
23
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose--Too Late to Turn Back Now
12
24
Todd Rundgren--I Saw the Light
31
25
Sailcat--Motorcycle Mama
43
26
Daniel Boone--Beautiful Sunday
15
27
Roberta Flack--The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
38
28
Gordon Lightfoot--Don Quixote/Beautiful
34
29
Beverly Bremers--We're Free
18
30
Neil Young--Old Man
36
31
Graham Nash & David Crosby--Immigration Man
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32
Danyel Gerard--Butterfly
41
33
Ranji--It's So Easy (To Be Bad)
45
34
America--I Need You
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35
Creedence Clearwater Revival--Someday Never Comes
22
36
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen--Hot Rod Lincoln
42
37
David Cassidy--How Can I Be Sure
---
38
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway--Where is the Love
50
39
Godspell--Day By Day
---
40
Stylistics--People Make the World Go Round


Fourteen records drop off as four debut and the survey becomes the Fabulous 40.
For this week only, “Don Quixote” is listed ahead of “Beautiful” on the Gordon Lightfoot record.

Two of the four debuts, “People Make the World Go Round” by the Stylistics and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s final hit “Someday Never Comes,” were both number 25 Billboard hits that will peak at number 27 here. The Stylistics will remain on the survey for two weeks longer than CCR.

Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway’s soft soul duet “Where is the Love” will reach number one, whereas nationally it stopped at number five. French pop singer Danyel Gerard’s international hit “Butterfly,” which only got to number 78 in Billboard, will reach number 13 here.