POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 8, 1972
1

Brand New Key

Melanie

—

Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 1

2

American Pie (Parts I & II)

Don McLean

—

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 2

3

Family Affair

Sly & The Family Stone

—

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 3

4

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

↑ 10

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 14

5

Got To Be There

Michael Jackson

—

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 5

6

Scorpio

Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band

↑ 1

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 7

7

Sunshine

Jonathan Edwards

↑ 1

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 8

8

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

The New Seekers

↑ 4

Peak: 7 • 11 wks • Prev: 12

9

Cherish

David Cassidy

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Peak: 9 • 12 wks • Prev: 9

10

Hey Girl/I Knew You When

Donny Osmond

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Peak: 9 • 10 wks • Prev: 10

11

You Are Everything

The Stylistics

↑ 2

Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 13

12

Sugar Daddy

Jackson 5

↑ 9

Peak: 10 • 10 wks • Prev: 21

13

Clean Up Woman

Betty Wright

↑ 6

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 19

14

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

The Hillside Singers

↑ 2

Peak: 13 • 12 wks • Prev: 16

15

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I

The Honey Cone

↑ 5

Peak: 15 • 11 wks • Prev: 20

16

Day After Day

Badfinger

↑ 1

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 17

17

Drowning In The Sea Of Love

Joe Simon

↑ 1

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 18

18

An Old Fashioned Love Song

Three Dog Night

↓ 14

Peak: 4 • 11 wks • Prev: 4

19

Have You Seen Her

The Chi-lites

↓ 13

Peak: 3 • 14 wks • Prev: 6

20

All I Ever Need Is You

Sonny & Cher

↓ 9

Peak: 7 • 15 wks • Prev: 11

21

Respect Yourself

The Staple Singers

↓ 6

Peak: 12 • 14 wks • Prev: 15

22

Hey Big Brother

Rare Earth

↑ 6

Peak: 19 • 10 wks • Prev: 28

23

Anticipation

Carly Simon

↑ 13

Peak: 13 • 13 wks • Prev: 36

24

Never Been To Spain

Three Dog Night

↑ 19

Peak: 5 • 12 wks • Prev: 43

25

It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)

The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones Featuring David Cassidy

↑ 12

Peak: 20 • 8 wks • Prev: 37

26

Once You Understand

Think

↑ 6

Peak: 23 • 10 wks • Prev: 32

27

Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'

Charley Pride

↑ 6

Peak: 21 • 16 wks • Prev: 33

28

An American Trilogy

Mickey Newbury

↓ 2

Peak: 26 • 11 wks • Prev: 26

29

The Witch Queen Of New Orleans

Redbone

↑ 16

Peak: 21 • 17 wks • Prev: 45

30

White Lies, Blue Eyes

Bullet

↑ 8

Peak: 28 • 13 wks • Prev: 38

31

Theme From Shaft

Isaac Hayes

↓ 8

Peak: 1 • 13 wks • Prev: 23

32

Where Did Our Love Go

Donnie Elbert

↓ 10

Peak: 15 • 13 wks • Prev: 22

33

George Jackson

Bob Dylan

↑ 2

Peak: 33 • 8 wks • Prev: 35

34

Baby I'm - A Want You

Bread

↓ 10

Peak: 3 • 12 wks • Prev: 24

35

Levon

Elton John

↑ 5

Peak: 24 • 10 wks • Prev: 40

36

Stones/Crunchy Granola Suite

Neil Diamond

↓ 9

Peak: 14 • 9 wks • Prev: 27

37

That's The Way I Feel About Cha

Bobby Womack & Peace

↑ 11

Peak: 27 • 13 wks • Prev: 48

38

Make Me The Woman That You Go Home To

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 8

Peak: 27 • 10 wks • Prev: 46

39

Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)

The Temptations

↓ 9

Peak: 18 • 10 wks • Prev: 30

40

Theme From "Summer Of '42"

Peter Nero

↓ 9

Peak: 21 • 13 wks • Prev: 31

41

(I Know) I'm Losing You

Rod Stewart With Faces

↓ 12

Peak: 24 • 9 wks • Prev: 29

42

Black Dog

Led Zeppelin

↑ 13

Peak: 15 • 12 wks • Prev: 55

43

Me And Bobby McGee

Jerry Lee Lewis

↑ 1

Peak: 40 • 10 wks • Prev: 44

44

Behind Blue Eyes

The Who

↓ 5

Peak: 34 • 11 wks • Prev: 39

45

Hallelujah

Sweathog

↓ 11

Peak: 33 • 10 wks • Prev: 34

46

Stay With Me

Faces

↑ 10

Peak: 17 • 10 wks • Prev: 56

47

My Boy

Richard Harris

↑ 3

Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 50

48

Looking For A Love

The J. Geils Band

↑ 3

Peak: 39 • 10 wks • Prev: 51

49

Can I Get A Witness

Lee Michaels

↓ 7

Peak: 39 • 9 wks • Prev: 42

50

Nothing To Hide

Tommy James

↓ 9

Peak: 41 • 9 wks • Prev: 41

51

Fire And Water

Wilson Pickett

↑ 15

Peak: 24 • 11 wks • Prev: 66

52

Sour Suite

The Guess Who

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Peak: 50 • 9 wks • Prev: 52

53

Ain't Nobody Home

B.B. King

↑ 1

Peak: 46 • 12 wks • Prev: 54

54

Without You

Nilsson

↑ 14

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 68

55

Friends With You

John Denver

↓ 2

Peak: 47 • 11 wks • Prev: 53

56

Don't Say You Don't Remember

Beverly Bremers

↑ 11

Peak: 15 • 16 wks • Prev: 67

57

Those Were The Days

Carroll O'Connor And Jean Stapleton (As The Bunkers)

↑ 1

Peak: 43 • 9 wks • Prev: 58

58

Carolyn

Merle Haggard And The Strangers

↑ 1

Peak: 58 • 7 wks • Prev: 59

59

Daisy Mae

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

↑ 3

Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 62

60

Pretty As You Feel

Jefferson Airplane

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Peak: 60 • 10 wks • Prev: 60

61

Devil You

Stampeders

—

Peak: 61 • 7 wks • Prev: 61

62

No Sad Song

Helen Reddy

↑ 1

Peak: 62 • 8 wks • Prev: 63

63

Everybody Knows About My Good Thing Pt. 1

Little Johnny Taylor

↑ 1

Peak: 60 • 8 wks • Prev: 64

64

Take It Slow (Out In The Country)

Lighthouse

↑ 1

Peak: 64 • 7 wks • Prev: 65

65

Satisfaction

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

↓ 16

Peak: 49 • 9 wks • Prev: 49

66

Show Me How

The Emotions

↑ 10

Peak: 52 • 14 wks • Prev: 76

67

Precious And Few

Climax

↑ 14

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 81

68

Superstar/Bless The Beasts And Children

Carpenters

↑ 5

Peak: 2 • 21 wks • Prev: 73

69

Truckin'

Grateful Dead

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Peak: 64 • 8 wks • Prev: 69

70

Way Back Home

Jr. Walker & The All Stars

↑ 4

Peak: 52 • 9 wks • Prev: 74

71

After All This Time

Merry Clayton

↑ 1

Peak: 71 • 7 wks • Prev: 72

72

What Am I Living For

Ray Charles

↑ 8

Peak: 54 • 7 wks • Prev: 80

73

The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)

Free Movement

↑ 4

Peak: 50 • 10 wks • Prev: 77

74

You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth

The Undisputed Truth

↑ 9

Peak: 72 • 6 wks • Prev: 83

75

Tightrope Ride

The Doors

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Peak: 71 • 7 wks • Prev: 75

76

Love Potion Number Nine

The Coasters

↑ 2

Peak: 76 • 6 wks • Prev: 78

77

Keep On Keeping On

N.F. Porter

↑ 2

Peak: 77 • 6 wks • Prev: 79

78

Get Up And Get Down

The Dramatics

↑ 7

Peak: 78 • 7 wks • Prev: 85

79

Under My Wheels

Alice Cooper

↑ 7

Peak: 59 • 8 wks • Prev: 86

80

Together Let's Find Love

The 5th Dimension

↑ 10

Peak: 37 • 10 wks • Prev: 90

81

So Many People

Chase

↑ 1

Peak: 81 • 5 wks • Prev: 82

82

Bang A Gong (Get It On)

T. Rex

↑ 5

Peak: 10 • 15 wks • Prev: 87

83

Another Puff

Jerry Reed

★ NEW

Peak: 65 • 5 wks

84

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Robert John

↑ 5

Peak: 3 • 17 wks • Prev: 89

85

Feeling Alright

Joe Cocker

★ NEW

Peak: 33 • 15 wks

86

Ain't Understanding Mellow

Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager

↑ 6

Peak: 21 • 18 wks • Prev: 92

87

Five Hundred Miles

Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti

↑ 1

Peak: 79 • 9 wks • Prev: 88

88

Do The Funky Penguin Part I

Rufus Thomas

↑ 7

Peak: 44 • 10 wks • Prev: 95

89

Tupelo Honey

Van Morrison

↑ 10

Peak: 47 • 8 wks • Prev: 99

90

Joy

Apollo featuring Tom Parker

↑ 10

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 100

91

Son Of Shaft

The Bar-Kays

—

Peak: 53 • 10 wks • Prev: 91

92

You Want It, You Got It

Detroit Emeralds

★ NEW

Peak: 36 • 13 wks

93

Pain (Part I)

Ohio Players

↑ 5

Peak: 64 • 8 wks • Prev: 98

94

Open The Door (Song For Judith)

Judy Collins

—

Peak: 90 • 7 wks • Prev: 94

95

Love Gonna Pack Up (And Walk Out)

The Persuaders

↑ 1

Peak: 64 • 10 wks • Prev: 96

96

If I Could See The Light

The 8th Day

★ NEW

Peak: 79 • 4 wks

97

Keep Playin' That Rock 'N' Roll

Edgar Winter's White Trash

—

Peak: 70 • 11 wks • Prev: 97

98

Floy Joy

The Supremes

★ NEW

Peak: 16 • 12 wks

99

Footstompin' Music

Grand Funk Railroad

★ NEW

Peak: 29 • 11 wks

100

The Road We Didn't Take

Freda Payne

★ NEW

Peak: 100 • 2 wks

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