POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 15, 1972
1

American Pie (Parts I & II)

Don McLean

↑ 1

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 2

2

Brand New Key

Melanie

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 1

3

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

↑ 1

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 4

4

Sunshine

Jonathan Edwards

↑ 3

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 7

5

Family Affair

Sly & The Family Stone

↓ 2

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 3

6

Scorpio

Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band

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Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 6

7

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

The New Seekers

↑ 1

Peak: 7 • 11 wks • Prev: 8

8

Got To Be There

Michael Jackson

↓ 3

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 5

9

Hey Girl/I Knew You When

Donny Osmond

↑ 1

Peak: 9 • 10 wks • Prev: 10

10

Clean Up Woman

Betty Wright

↑ 3

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 13

11

You Are Everything

The Stylistics

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Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 11

12

Sugar Daddy

Jackson 5

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Peak: 10 • 10 wks • Prev: 12

13

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

The Hillside Singers

↑ 1

Peak: 13 • 12 wks • Prev: 14

14

Day After Day

Badfinger

↑ 2

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 16

15

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I

The Honey Cone

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Peak: 15 • 11 wks • Prev: 15

16

Drowning In The Sea Of Love

Joe Simon

↑ 1

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 17

17

Cherish

David Cassidy

↓ 8

Peak: 9 • 12 wks • Prev: 9

18

Never Been To Spain

Three Dog Night

↑ 6

Peak: 5 • 12 wks • Prev: 24

19

An Old Fashioned Love Song

Three Dog Night

↓ 1

Peak: 4 • 11 wks • Prev: 18

20

Hey Big Brother

Rare Earth

↑ 2

Peak: 19 • 10 wks • Prev: 22

21

It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)

The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones Featuring David Cassidy

↑ 4

Peak: 20 • 8 wks • Prev: 25

22

Anticipation

Carly Simon

↑ 1

Peak: 13 • 13 wks • Prev: 23

23

Once You Understand

Think

↑ 3

Peak: 23 • 10 wks • Prev: 26

24

All I Ever Need Is You

Sonny & Cher

↓ 4

Peak: 7 • 15 wks • Prev: 20

25

Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'

Charley Pride

↑ 2

Peak: 21 • 16 wks • Prev: 27

26

Have You Seen Her

The Chi-lites

↓ 7

Peak: 3 • 14 wks • Prev: 19

27

The Witch Queen Of New Orleans

Redbone

↑ 2

Peak: 21 • 17 wks • Prev: 29

28

White Lies, Blue Eyes

Bullet

↑ 2

Peak: 28 • 13 wks • Prev: 30

29

Respect Yourself

The Staple Singers

↓ 8

Peak: 12 • 14 wks • Prev: 21

30

Levon

Elton John

↑ 5

Peak: 24 • 10 wks • Prev: 35

31

That's The Way I Feel About Cha

Bobby Womack & Peace

↑ 6

Peak: 27 • 13 wks • Prev: 37

32

Make Me The Woman That You Go Home To

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 6

Peak: 27 • 10 wks • Prev: 38

33

Black Dog

Led Zeppelin

↑ 9

Peak: 15 • 12 wks • Prev: 42

34

An American Trilogy

Mickey Newbury

↓ 6

Peak: 26 • 11 wks • Prev: 28

35

Stay With Me

Faces

↑ 11

Peak: 17 • 10 wks • Prev: 46

36

Without You

Nilsson

↑ 18

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 54

37

Fire And Water

Wilson Pickett

↑ 14

Peak: 24 • 11 wks • Prev: 51

38

George Jackson

Bob Dylan

↓ 5

Peak: 33 • 8 wks • Prev: 33

39

Looking For A Love

The J. Geils Band

↑ 9

Peak: 39 • 10 wks • Prev: 48

40

Me And Bobby McGee

Jerry Lee Lewis

↑ 3

Peak: 40 • 10 wks • Prev: 43

41

My Boy

Richard Harris

↑ 6

Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 47

42

(I Know) I'm Losing You

Rod Stewart With Faces

↓ 1

Peak: 24 • 9 wks • Prev: 41

43

Precious And Few

Climax

↑ 24

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 67

44

Those Were The Days

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

↑ 13

Peak: 43 • 9 wks • Prev: 57

45

Behind Blue Eyes

The Who

↓ 1

Peak: 34 • 11 wks • Prev: 44

46

Don't Say You Don't Remember

Beverly Bremers

↑ 10

Peak: 15 • 16 wks • Prev: 56

47

Hallelujah

Sweathog

↓ 2

Peak: 33 • 10 wks • Prev: 45

48

Ain't Nobody Home

B.B. King

↑ 5

Peak: 46 • 12 wks • Prev: 53

49

Joy

Apollo featuring Tom Parker

↑ 41

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 90

50

Sour Suite

The Guess Who

↑ 2

Peak: 50 • 9 wks • Prev: 52

51

Daisy Mae

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

↑ 8

Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 59

52

Can I Get A Witness

Lee Michaels

↓ 3

Peak: 39 • 9 wks • Prev: 49

53

Nothing To Hide

Tommy James

↓ 3

Peak: 41 • 9 wks • Prev: 50

54

Bang A Gong (Get It On)

T. Rex

↑ 28

Peak: 10 • 15 wks • Prev: 82

55

Feeling Alright

Joe Cocker

↑ 30

Peak: 33 • 15 wks • Prev: 85

56

Friends With You

John Denver

↓ 1

Peak: 47 • 11 wks • Prev: 55

57

Together Let's Find Love

The 5th Dimension

↑ 23

Peak: 37 • 10 wks • Prev: 80

58

Carolyn

Merle Haggard And The Strangers

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Peak: 58 • 7 wks • Prev: 58

59

Show Me How

The Emotions

↑ 7

Peak: 52 • 14 wks • Prev: 66

60

Everybody Knows About My Good Thing Pt. 1

Little Johnny Taylor

↑ 3

Peak: 60 • 8 wks • Prev: 63

61

The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)

Free Movement

↑ 12

Peak: 50 • 10 wks • Prev: 73

62

No Sad Song

Helen Reddy

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Peak: 62 • 8 wks • Prev: 62

63

Devil You

Stampeders

↓ 2

Peak: 61 • 7 wks • Prev: 61

64

Take It Slow (Out In The Country)

Lighthouse

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Peak: 64 • 7 wks • Prev: 64

65

Satisfaction

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

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Peak: 49 • 9 wks • Prev: 65

66

What Am I Living For

Ray Charles

↑ 6

Peak: 54 • 7 wks • Prev: 72

67

Superstar/Bless The Beasts And Children

Carpenters

↑ 1

Peak: 2 • 21 wks • Prev: 68

68

Way Back Home

Jr. Walker & The All Stars

↑ 2

Peak: 52 • 9 wks • Prev: 70

69

Pretty As You Feel

Jefferson Airplane

↓ 9

Peak: 60 • 10 wks • Prev: 60

70

Tupelo Honey

Van Morrison

↑ 19

Peak: 47 • 8 wks • Prev: 89

71

Under My Wheels

Alice Cooper

↑ 8

Peak: 59 • 8 wks • Prev: 79

72

You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth

The Undisputed Truth

↑ 2

Peak: 72 • 6 wks • Prev: 74

73

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Robert John

↑ 11

Peak: 3 • 17 wks • Prev: 84

74

Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N Roll You

Ten Years After

★ NEW

Peak: 61 • 5 wks

75

Floy Joy

The Supremes

↑ 23

Peak: 16 • 12 wks • Prev: 98

76

Hurting Each Other

Carpenters

★ NEW

Peak: 2 • 12 wks

77

Keep On Keeping On

N.F. Porter

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Peak: 77 • 6 wks • Prev: 77

78

Truckin'

Grateful Dead

↓ 9

Peak: 64 • 8 wks • Prev: 69

79

After All This Time

Merry Clayton

↓ 8

Peak: 71 • 7 wks • Prev: 71

80

Another Puff

Jerry Reed

↑ 3

Peak: 65 • 5 wks • Prev: 83

81

Ain't Understanding Mellow

Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager

↑ 5

Peak: 21 • 18 wks • Prev: 86

82

Do The Funky Penguin Part I

Rufus Thomas

↑ 6

Peak: 44 • 10 wks • Prev: 88

83

Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)

Aretha Franklin

★ NEW

Peak: 73 • 4 wks

84

You Want It, You Got It

Detroit Emeralds

↑ 8

Peak: 36 • 13 wks • Prev: 92

85

Son Of Shaft

The Bar-Kays

↑ 6

Peak: 53 • 10 wks • Prev: 91

86

Love Gonna Pack Up (And Walk Out)

The Persuaders

↑ 9

Peak: 64 • 10 wks • Prev: 95

87

Five Hundred Miles

Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti

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Peak: 79 • 9 wks • Prev: 87

88

Pain (Part I)

Ohio Players

↑ 5

Peak: 64 • 8 wks • Prev: 93

89

If I Could See The Light

The 8th Day

↑ 7

Peak: 79 • 4 wks • Prev: 96

90

Footstompin' Music

Grand Funk Railroad

↑ 9

Peak: 29 • 11 wks • Prev: 99

91

Jungle Fever

The Chakachas

★ NEW

Peak: 8 • 15 wks

92

So Many People

Chase

↓ 11

Peak: 81 • 5 wks • Prev: 81

93

Open The Door (Song For Judith)

Judy Collins

↑ 1

Peak: 90 • 7 wks • Prev: 94

94

Keep Playin' That Rock 'N' Roll

Edgar Winter's White Trash

↑ 3

Peak: 70 • 11 wks • Prev: 97

95

Music From Across The Way

James Last

★ NEW

Peak: 84 • 4 wks

96

Rock & Roll Stew...Part 1

Traffic

★ NEW

Peak: 93 • 2 wks

97

Get Up And Get Down

The Dramatics

↓ 19

Peak: 78 • 7 wks • Prev: 78

98

Love Potion Number Nine

The Coasters

↓ 22

Peak: 76 • 6 wks • Prev: 76

99

Ajax Airlines

Hudson and Landry

★ NEW

Peak: 68 • 6 wks

100

The Road We Didn't Take

Freda Payne

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Peak: 100 • 2 wks • Prev: 100

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