1972-02-09 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

1300/WMAK
SUPERHIT SURVEY

WEEK BEGINNING
February 9, 1972

TW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
1	Nilsson	Without You	7
2	Carpenters	Hurting Each Other	5
3	Apollo 100	Joy	7
4	Three Dog Night	Never Been To Spain	6	Another Hoyt Axton song from 3DN
5	The Partridge Family	It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)
6	Climax	Precious And Few	11	Lead singer: Sonny Geraci, formerly of The Outsiders
7	Badfinger	Day After Day	10
8	Robert John	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	6	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
9	Scott English	Brandy	6	English co-wrote this song, renamed “Mandy” when popularized by Barry Manilow, so as not to confuse it with the Looking Glass so
10	Redbone	The Witch Queen Of New Orleans	9
11	Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman	10
12	Carly Simon	Anticipation	7	Aka “The Ketchup Song”
13	The Addrisi Brothers	We've Got To Get It On Again	6	They wrote a few songs for the Association.
14	The Osmonds	Down By The Lazy River	3
15	Charley Pride	Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'	8
16	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	9
17	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	Daisy Mae	6
18	The Congregation	Softly Whispering I Love You	5	. In the US, billed as English Congregation. (Now) local boy Mike Curb Congregation recorded & released this later in the year.
19	Cher	The Way Of Love	4
20	Carole King	Sweet Seasons	5
21	The Bee Gees	My World	3
22	T. Rex	Bang A Gong (Get It On)	4
23	Frank Mills	Love Me, Love Me Love	4
24	Bread	Everything I Own
29	Rock Flowers	Number Wonderful	3	Band created to advertise Mattel dolls, also called “Rock Flowers”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmVzMiJ5dc0
30	Melanie	The Nickel Song	3
31	B.J. Thomas	Rock And Roll Lullaby
32	Grand Funk Railroad	Footstompin' Music	3
33	Sly & The Family Stone	Runnin' Away
34	Rod Stewart	Handbags And Gladrags
35	Paul Simon	Mother And Child Reunion
36	Donnie Elbert	I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
37	Michel LeGrand	Brian's Song
39	Shirley Bassey	Diamonds Are Forever
40	Neil Young	Heart Of Gold

Survey notes: Survey missing; recreated from 2/16.
Songs at the missing chart position numbers are unknown.
Hitbounds: (unknown)
Feature Album: (unknown)
Cover: (unknown)

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/