That's right ...
Every week we'll be featuring a Top 40 Chart from a different radio station from all over the country, representing the Biggest Hits of 1972 ... until we've covered all 50 states (assuming we can EVER find the chart we need for a Vermont station!!! An exhaustive search still hasn't produced anything for the desired week of August 14th ... so right now we'll take just about ANYTHING as long as it represents a Top 40 station in Vermont from 1972! Anybody able to help???)
Here's an example of what you can expect to see each week ...
This particular chart comes from WHB in Kansas City, Missouri ...
for the week of April 14th, 1972 ...
Teeny-Bop Pop rules this WHB Kansas City, Missouri Chart from April 14th, 1972 ...
Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson sit at the top of the heap with their remakes of "Puppy Love" and "Rockin' Robin" (flip-flopping those same #1 and #2 positions from the previous week.)
And then right behind these at #4 is Frank Mills with "Love Me, Love Me Love" (huh ???) ... a record that peaked at #46 in Billboard (and yet another track that I'm not familiar with due to it never making our Chicagoland charts.)
Badfinger makes a big jump this week with their latest, "Baby Blue," up eight points from #17 to #9. "Last Night I Didn't Get To Sleep At All" by The Fifth Dimension and "Suavecito" by Malo did even better than that ... they're both up TEN points from their previous week's position. And Ringo's up thirteen with "Back Off Boogaloo!!!"
In addition to Ringo, there's "Paul and Linda" (aka Wings) in The Top 20 again with "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" ... certainly not the way I remember history!
And how about "One Good Woman" by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds and "Step Out" by The Mamas and The Papas (in 1972?!?!) I had to download both of these tracks just to hear what they sounded like as neither ever made the charts (or the airwaves) here in Chicago. ("Step Out" peaked at #81 in Billboard during its three weeks on the chart ... incredibly it bubbled under for SEVEN weeks in Cash Box, ultimately peaking at #103. "One Good Woman" didn't fare any better, peaking at #99 in Record World, #110 in Cash Box and #113 in Billboard ... so I'm guessing that I'm not the only one hearing these tracks for the very first time today!) kk
Again, you've just gotta love a time when Andy Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Osmonds, The Jackson Five, Cat Stevens, Jackson Browne and Grand Funk Railroad can all share in the bottom ten positions on the chart!!!
