1972-01-12 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

1300/WMAK
SUPERHIT SURVEY

WEEK BEGINNING
January 12, 1972

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
1	1	Don McLean	American Pie (Parts I & II)	8
2	5	Climax	Precious And Few	7	Lead singer: Sonny Geraci, formerly of The Outsiders
3	3	Beverly Bremers	Don't Say You Don't Remember	7
4	2	Melanie	Brand New Key	9	There has to be more to this song than the obvious. (cont in Goodies)
5	7	Badfinger	Day After Day	6
6	4	The New Seekers	I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)	7	My late friend Pat McGeachy attended an international (cont in Goodies)
7	14	Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman	6
8	12	The Partridge Family	It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)	5
9	6	Jonathan Edwards	Sunshine	9
10	23	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	5
11	11	The Stylistics	You Are Everything	9
12	9	Donnie Elbert	Where Did Our Love Go	8	Holland-Dozier-Holland song originally recorded by the Supremes
13	13	Rare Earth	Hey Big Brother	8
14	21	Think	Once You Understand	4
15	17	The Honey Cone	One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I	5
16	8	Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band	Scorpio	10
17	30	Carly Simon	Anticipation	3	Aka “The Ketchup Song”
19	26	Charley Pride	Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'	4
20	20	Joe Simon	Drowning In The Sea Of Love	6
21	34	Nilsson	Without You	3
24	25	Redbone	The Witch Queen Of New Orleans	5
25	33	Apollo 100	Joy	3
26	29	The Jackson 5	Sugar Daddy	3
27	32	Faces	Stay With Me	3
30	HB	Carpenters	Hurting Each Other	1
31	35	The 5th Dimension	Together Let's Find Love	2
32	37	Scott English	Brandy	2	English wrote this song, renamed “Mandy” when popularized by Barry Manilow, so as not to confuse it with the Looking Glass song
33	36	The Addrisi Brothers	We've Got To Get It On Again	2	They wrote a few songs for the Association.
34	40	Robert John	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	2	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
35	38	Three Dog Night	Never Been To Spain	2	Another Hoyt Axton song from 3DN
36	39	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	Daisy Mae	2
37	HB	The Osmonds	He's The Light Of The World	1	Flip side of “Down by the Lazy River”; not “Brothers” since ‘70
38	--	Carole King	Sweet Seasons	1
39	HB	Trade Martin	I Can't Do It For You	1
40	--	The Congregation	Softly Whispering I Love You	1	In the US, billed as English Congregation. (Now) local boy Mike Curb Congregation recorded & released this later in the year

Survey notes: Survey missing; recreated from 1/19.
Songs at the missing chart position numbers are unknown.
Hitbounds: (unknown)
Feature Album: (unknown)

Cover: (unknown)

Song notes cont:
4. 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?]
6. Presbyterian gathering. The only 2 songs that everybody knew were:
(1) Amazing Grace” and (2) I’d Like to Teach the World…”
34. 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/