1972

In order to help readers keep track of which songs have been reviewed on this blog, I'll keep this page updated as I add more posts. Just click on the date to see the full review:
1972
Updated August 25, 2012

  
January 1, 1972
  • T. Rex - "Bang a Gong (Get it On)"
  • Apollo 100 - "Joy"
  • Climax - "Precious and Few"
  • Faces - "Stay With Me"
  • Robert John - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
  • The 5th Dimension - "Together Let's Find Love"
  • Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey"
March 4, 1972
  • The Temptations - "Take a Look Around"
  • James Brown - "King Heroin"
  • Malo - "Suavecito"
  • Roberta Flack - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
  • Giorgio - "Son of My Father"
  • The Guess Who - "Heartbroken Bopper"
  • Mike Kennedy - "Louisiana"
  • Elton John - "Tiny Dancer"
  • Linda Ronstadt - "Rock Me On the Water"
  • Jerry Lee Lewis - "Chantilly Lace"
  • B.B. King - "Sweet Sixteen"
  • Laura Lee - "Since I Fell for You"
  • Scott English - "Brandy"
March 11, 1972
  • Michael Jackson - "Rockin' Robin"
  • Quincy Jones - "Money Runner"
  • Wings - "Give Ireland Back to the Irish"
  • Alice Cooper - "Be My Lover"
  • John Denver - "Everyday"
  • Dionne Warwick - "If We Only Have Love"
  • Chicory - "Son of My Father"
  • Bullet - "Willpower Weak, Temptation Strong"
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation - "The Candy Man"
  • The Sugar Bears - "You Are the One"
  • Kris Kristofferson - "Josie"
  • Harry Chapin - "Taxi"
 
March 18, 1972
  • Aretha Franklin - "Day Dreaming"
  • Jackson Browne - "Doctor My Eyes"
  • The Soul Children - "Hearsay"
  • Nilsson - "Jump Into the Fire"
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Nut Rocker"
  • Led Zeppelin - "Rock and Roll"
  • Canned Heat - "Rockin' With the King"
  • Jo Jo Gunne - "Run, Run, Run"
  • PG&E - "Thank God For You Baby"
  • Jerry Wallace - "To Get to You"
  • Don McLean - "Vincent"/"Castles in the Air"
April 15, 1972
  • Dr. John - "Iko Iko"
  • R. Dean Taylor - "Taos New Mexico"
  • Ken Loggins with Jim Messina - "Vahevala"
  • Jerry Garcia - "Sugaree"
  • David Bowie - "Changes"
  • Solomon Burke - "Love's STreet and Fool's Road"
  • Apollo 100 - "Mendelssohn's 4th (Second Movement)"
 
June 3, 1972
  • Luther Ingram - "(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"
  • The Stylistics - "People Make the World Go Round"
  • Aretha Franklin - "All the King's Horses"
  • The Eagles - "Take it Easy"
  • Alice Cooper - "School's Out"
  • Chris Hodge - "We're On Our Way"
  • Dennis Coffey - "Getting it On" b/w "Ride, Sally, Ride"
  • Jackie DeShannon - "Vanilla Olay"
  • Daniel Boone - "Beautiful Sunday"
June 17, 1972
  • Looking Glass - "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"
  • The Grass Roots - "The Runway"
  • Argent - "Hold Your Head Up"
  • Stories - "I'm Coming Home"
  • Paul McCartney & Wings - "Mary had a Little Lamb"/"Little Woman Love"
  • Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Alone Again (Naturally)"
  • Vigrass & Osbourne - "Men of Learning"
  • El Chicano - "Brown Eyed Girl"
  • Tommy James - "Cat's Eye in the Window"
July 1, 1972
  • Jim Croce - "You Don't Mess Around With Jim"
  • The Osmonds - "Hold Her Tight"
  • Mac Davis - "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me"
  • Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - "I Miss You (Part 1)"
  • Neil Young and Graham Nash - "War Song"
  • The Isley Brothers - "Pop That Thing"
  • The Raspberries - "Go All the Way"
  • Tanya Tucker - "Delta Dawn"
  • The Temptations - "Mother Nature"
  • Bob Seger - "If I Were a Carpenter"
  • The Partridge Family - "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"
  • David Bowie - "Starman"
 
July 29, 1972
  • Bread - "The Guitar Man"
  • Uriah Heep - "Easy Livin'"
  • The Bee Gees - "Run To Me"
  • Arlo Guthrie - "The City of New Orleans"
  • Joan Baez - "In the Quiet Morning"
  • Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You"
  • Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band - "Garden Party"
  • The Honey Cone - "Sittin' On a Time Bomb (Waitin' For the Hurt to Come)"
  • Three Dog Night - "Black & White"
  • Elton John - "Honky Cat"
  • Yes - "America"
  • Neil Diamond - "Play Me"
  • The Allman Brothers Band - "Melissa"
  • Jamestown Massacre - "Summer Sun"
  • Gallery - "I Believe in Music"
  • Graham Nash and David Crosby - "Southbound Train"
  • Lenny Welch - "A Sunday Kind of Love"
August 26, 1972


  • Bill Withers - "Use Me"
  • Leon Russell - "Tight Rope"
  • Bobby Womack and Peace - "Sweet Caroline"
  • Donny Osmond - "Why" b/w "Lonely Boy"
  • Rod Stewart - "You Wear it Well"
  • Emerson, Lake and Palmer - "From the Beginning"
  • Glen Campbell - "I Will Never Pass This Way Again"
  • The Dramatics - "Toast To the Fool"
  • Gladstone - "A Piece of Paper"
  • Sammi Smith - "I've Got to Have You"
  October 14, 1972
  • Betty Wright - "Baby Sitter"
  • National Lampoon - "Deteriorata"
  • The Stylistics - "I'm Stone in Love With You"
  • Bulldog - "No"
  • Jim Croce - "Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)"
  • The Temptations - "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
  • The Guess Who - "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon"
  • Austin Roberts - "Something's Wrong With Me"
October 21, 1972
  • America - "Ventura Highway"
  • Albert Hammond - "It Never Rains in Southern California"
  • Isaac Hayes - "Theme From The Men"
  • The Delegates - "Convention '72"
  • Donny Hathaway - "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know"
  • Melanie - "Together Alone"
  • Harry Chapin - "Sunday Morning Sunshine"
  • The Osmonds - "Crazy Horses"
  • Al Green - "You Ought To Be With Me"
  • Mouth and McNeil - "Hey, You Love"
  • Tower of Power - "Down to the Nightclub"
  • Joe Simon - "Misty Blue"
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation - "The People Tree"
  • The Raiders - "Song Seller"
  • Dennis Yost and the Classics IV - "What Am I Crying For"
  • The Supremes - "I Guess I'll Miss the Man"
  • Chicago - "Dialogue (Parts 1 and 2)"
  • The Isley Brothers - "Work to Do"
  • Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Clair"
  • The Jackson 5 - "Corner of the Sky"
  • King Harvest - "Dancing in the Moonlight"
  • The Heywoods - "Special Someone"
  • The Move - "Do Ya"
  • Van Morrison - "Redwood Tree"
  • Tony Cole - "Suite: Man and Woman"
November 25, 1972
  • The Raspberries - "I Wanna Be With You"
  • John Denver - "Rocky Mountain High"
  • Mac Davis - "Everybody Loves a Love Song"
  • Carole King - "Been to Canaan"
  • Rick Springfield - "What Would the Children Think"
  • David Bowie - "The Jean Genie"
  • Foghat - "I Just Want to Make Love to You"
  • Timmy Thomas - "Why Can't We Live Together"
  • Peter Skellern - "You're a Lady"
  • Simon & Garfunkel - "America"
  • Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - "You're a Lady"
  • Joey Heatherton - "I'm Sorry"
December 2, 1972
  • James Taylor - "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"
  • Delbert & Glen - "I Received a Letter"
  • Luther Ingram - "I'll Be Your Shelter (In Time of Storm)"
  • The Blue Ridge Rangers - "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
  • Lyn Collins - "Me and My Baby Got a Good Thing Going"
  • Hurricane Smith - "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say"
  • The Allman Brothers Band - "One Way Out"
  • Chuck Berry - "Reelin' & Rockin'"
  • Elvis Presley - "Separate Ways"
  • Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show - "The Cover of Rolling Stone"
  • The Chi-Lites - "We Need Order"
  • Joe Cocker - "Woman to Woman"
  • Carly Simon - "You're So Vain"
December 16, 1972
  • Marvin Gaye - "Trouble Man"
  • The Partridge Family - "Looking Through the Eyes of Love"
  • Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - "I Can't Stand to See You Cry"
  • The Doobie Brothers - "Jesus is Just Alright"
  • Edward Bear - "Last Song"
  • Ten Years After - "Choo Choo Mama"
  • Paul McCartney & Wings - "Hi, Hi, Hi"