1972-03-15 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

1300/WMAK
SUPERHIT SURVEY

WEEK BEGINNING
March 15, 1972

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
38	--	Badfinger	Baby Blue	1
40	--	Aretha Franklin	Day Dreaming	1
39	--	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	Hot Rod Lincoln	1
31	HB	Roberta Flack	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	1
36	HB	Jerry Wallace	To Get To You	1
35	HB	Three Dog Night	The Family Of Man	1
HB		Malo	Suavecito
HB		R. Dean Taylor	Taos New Mexico
37	39	Bobby Goldsboro	California Wine	2
30	38	The Dramatics	In The Rain	2
26	37	Yes	Roundabout	2
34	36	June Jackson	Little Dog Heaven	2	Twb June (J.J.) Jackson, not J.J. Jackson
33	35	Jackson Browne	Doctor My Eyes	2	Background vocals by Graham Nash & David Crosby. According to Crosby: “We’re musical junkies. We’ll sing with anyone.”
29	34	Quincy Jones	Money Runner	3
27	33	The Temptations	Take A Look Around	3
32	32	Dionne Warwick	If We Only Have Love	4
25	31	The Stylistics	Betcha By Golly, Wow	3
23	30	The Chakachas	Jungle Fever	4
18	26	J.J. Cale	Crazy Mama	4
21	24	Melanie	Ring The Living Bell	5
9	23	Michael Jackson	Rockin' Robin	3
14	22	Sonny & Cher	A Cowboys Work Is Never Done	4
10	20	Jerry Lee Lewis	Chantilly Lace	3	The Killer does the definitive version of the song. He died 36 days ago as I’m typing this
28	19	Nilsson	Without You	12
11	18	Joe Tex	I Gotcha	4
22	17	Carole King	Sweet Seasons	10
17	16	Sly & The Family Stone	Runnin' Away
24	15	Carpenters	Hurting Each Other	10
7	14	Giorgio	Son Of My Father	4
20	13	Frank Mills	Love Me, Love Me Love	9
19	12	Scott English	Brandy	11	English co-wrote this song, renamed “Mandy” when popularized by Barry Manilow, so as not to confuse it with the Looking Glass so
16	11	Donnie Elbert	I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
5	10	Donny Osmond	Puppy Love	5
4	9	Paul Simon	Mother And Child Reunion
13	8	B.J. Thomas	Rock And Roll Lullaby
2	7	Neil Young	Heart Of Gold	6
15	6	The Addrisi Brothers	We've Got To Get It On Again	11	They wrote a few songs for the Association.
12	5	Cher	The Way Of Love	9
8	4	Robert John	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	11	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
6	3	The Osmonds	Down By The Lazy River	8
3	2	Bread	Everything I Own
1	1	America	A Horse With No Name	5

Survey note:
No Feature Album

Donny has a song in Nashville’s top ten again this week!

Cover:
Lyrics of “A Horse with No Name”

Song note cont:
8. 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/