1972-01-26 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

1300/WMAK
SUPERHIT SURVEY

WEEK BEGINNING
January 26, 1972

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
1	2	Badfinger	Day After Day	8
2	1	Climax	Precious And Few	9	Lead singer: Sonny Geraci, formerly of The Outsiders
3	8	Nilsson	Without You	5
4	5	Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman	8
6	7	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	7
7	3	Don McLean	American Pie - Part I	10
8	10	Charley Pride	Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'	6
9	4	Beverly Bremers	Don't Say You Don't Remember	9
10	13	Carly Simon	Anticipation	5	Aka “The Ketchup Song”
11	18	Apollo 100	Joy	5
12	21	Carpenters	Hurting Each Other	3
13	11	The Honey Cone	One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I	7
14	26	Three Dog Night	Never Been To Spain	4	Another Hoyt Axton song from 3DN
15	9	The New Seekers	I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)	9	My late friend Pat McGeachy attended an international (cont in Goodies)
16	20	Faces	Stay With Me	5
17	28	Robert John	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	4	Solomon Linda’s family FINALLY received some of the royalties due him 38 years AFTER he died. And then only because of a (cont i
18	22	Redbone	The Witch Queen Of New Orleans	7
19	31	The Addrisi Brothers	We've Got To Get It On Again	4	They wrote a few songs for the Association.
20	25	Scott English	Brandy	4	English wrote this song, renamed “Mandy” when popularized by Barry Manilow, so as not to confuse it with the Looking Glass song
21	29	The Osmonds	He's The Light Of The World	3	“B” side of #30; not “Brothers” since ’70. It is interesting that one side of the single is “Osmond Brothers”, other “Osmonds"
22	17	Donnie Elbert	Where Did Our Love Go	10	Holland-Dozier-Holland song originally recorded by the Supremes
23	16	Melanie	Brand New Key	11	There has to be more to this song than the obvious. (cont in Goodies)
24	24	The Jackson 5	Sugar Daddy	5
25	32	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	Daisy Mae	4
26	15	Rare Earth	Hey Big Brother	10
27	34	The Congregation	Softly Whispering I Love You	3	. In the US, billed as English Congregation. (Now) local boy Mike Curb Congregation recorded & released this later in the year.
28	30	The 5th Dimension	Together Let's Find Love	4
29	33	Carole King	Sweet Seasons	3
30	--	The Osmonds	Down By The Lazy River	1	"A" side of #21
31	35	Raiders	Country Wine	2
32	39	Frank Mills	Love Me, Love Me Love	2
33	37	Cher	The Way Of Love	2
34	40	T. Rex	Bang A Gong (Get It On)	2
35	38	The Supremes	Floy Joy	2
36	HB	The Bee Gees	My World	1
37	--	Rock Flowers	Number Wonderful	1	Created to advertise Mattel dolls, also called “Rock Flowers”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmVzMiJ5dc0
38	HB	The Free Movement	The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)	1
39	--	Grand Funk Railroad	Footstompin' Music	1	Reverted to “G.F. Railroad” after 3 albums billed as “Grand Funk”
40	--	Melanie	The Nickel Song	1
HB	--	Bread	Everything I Own
HB	--	B.J. Thomas	Rock And Roll Lullaby
HB	--	Paul Simon	Mother And Child Reunion

ALBUM CHARTS

TW	LW		ARTIST	ALBUM	WKS	NOTES
			Kenny Rogers And The First Edition	The Ballad Of Calico		Feature Album

Is this David Cassidy singing in the shower even?

Cover: 
America’s disc jockey of the year…
Scott Shannon.  Selected by “16-Spec” Magazine.

Song notes cont:
16.Presbyterian gathering. The only 2 songs that everybody knew were:
(1) Amazing Grace” and (2) I’d Like to Teach the World…”
17. Rolling Stone article by Rian Malan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/in-the-jungle
-inside-the-long-hidden-genealogy-of-the-lion-sleeps-tonight-108274/
23. If she’d written this when she was 15, ok.I mean this is
Melanie Safka. But compare “Candles in the Rain” -> “Lay Down”.
Maybe it is a euphemism for sex. My theory is that the key is
for a car. (1) You buy a new set of skates, the key is included.
(2) “Don’t drive no car…”; “… who don’t drive…” [a car?]