1972-02-23 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

1300/WMAK
SUPERHIT SURVEY

WEEK BEGINNING
February 23, 1972

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
1	5	The Osmonds	Down By The Lazy River	5
2	1	Carpenters	Hurting Each Other	7
3	3	Robert John	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	8	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
4	6	Scott English	Brandy	8	English co-wrote this song, renamed “Mandy” when popularized by Barry Manilow, so as not to confuse it with the Looking Glass so
5	2	Nilsson	Without You	9
6	11	Bread	Everything I Own
7	4	Apollo 100	Joy	9
8	9	The Addrisi Brothers	We've Got To Get It On Again	8	They wrote a few songs for the Association.
9	7	Three Dog Night	Never Been To Spain	8	Another Hoyt Axton song from TDN
10	15	Frank Mills	Love Me, Love Me Love	6
11	16	Cher	The Way Of Love	6
12	10	Redbone	The Witch Queen Of New Orleans	11
13	20	B.J. Thomas	Rock And Roll Lullaby
14	14	The Bee Gees	My World	5
15	13	The Congregation	Softly Whispering I Love You	7	In the US, billed as English Congregation. (Now) local boy Mike Curb Congregation recorded & released this later in the year.
16	17	Carole King	Sweet Seasons	7
17	8	The Partridge Family	It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)
18	21	Melanie	The Nickel Song	5
19	37	America	A Horse With No Name	2
20	12	Climax	Precious And Few	13	Lead singer: Sonny Geraci, formerly of The Outsiders
21	28	Donnie Elbert	I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
22	31	Rod Stewart	Handbags And Gladrags
23	29	Paul Simon	Mother And Child Reunion
24	33	Sly & The Family Stone	Runnin' Away
25	30	Michel LeGrand	Brian's Song	3
26	27	Grand Funk Railroad	Footstompin' Music	5
27	35	Neil Young	Heart Of Gold	3
29	36	David Cassidy	Could It Be Forever	2
30	18	Badfinger	Day After Day	12
31	34	Shirley Bassey	Diamonds Are Forever	3
32	40	Donny Osmond	Puppy Love	2
33	38	Melanie	Ring The Living Bell	2
34	--	Joe Tex	I Gotcha	1
35	39	Terry Black And Laurel Ward	Goin' Down (On The Road To L.A.)	2	Met in the Toronto cast of “Hair”, later married.
36	HB	Sonny & Cher	A Cowboys Work Is Never Done	1
37	--	The Chakachas	Jungle Fever	1
38	HB	Giorgio	Son Of My Father	1
39	HB	Dionne Warwick	If We Only Have Love	1
40	--	J.J. Cale	Crazy Mama	1
HB		Michael Jackson	Rockin' Robin
HB		Jerry Lee Lewis	Chantilly Lace		The Killer does the definitive version of the song. He died 32 days ago as I’m typing this
HB		Quincy Jones	Money Runner		Altho honey might have been more fun

ALBUM CHARTS

TW	LW		ARTIST	ALBUM	WKS	NOTES
			Neil Young	Harvest		Feature Album

Believe it or not, this is the first gold record of
Melanie’s career. “Brank New Key.” Presenting the
record is Tony Martell (center) of Famous Music,
to Melanie and her husband, Peter Schekeryk.
Note: Another example that record sales and
quality songs are sometimes mutually exclusive.

Cover: 
WMAK’s dapper John Young and friend on stage
at Auditorium.
My guess: supposed to read (at) Municipal (…)
Anyone recognize John’s friend? I’m serious.

Song note cont:
3. 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/