POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 29, 1972
1

American Pie (Parts I & II)

Don McLean

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Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 1

2

Brand New Key

Melanie

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Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 2

3

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

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Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 3

4

Sunshine

Jonathan Edwards

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Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 4

5

Day After Day

Badfinger

—

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 5

6

Clean Up Woman

Betty Wright

↑ 2

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 8

7

Scorpio

Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band

↓ 1

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 6

8

Never Been To Spain

Three Dog Night

↑ 3

Peak: 5 • 12 wks • Prev: 11

9

You Are Everything

The Stylistics

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Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 9

10

Sugar Daddy

Jackson 5

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Peak: 10 • 10 wks • Prev: 10

11

Drowning In The Sea Of Love

Joe Simon

↑ 1

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 12

12

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

The New Seekers

↓ 5

Peak: 7 • 11 wks • Prev: 7

13

Hurting Each Other

Carpenters

↑ 25

Peak: 2 • 12 wks • Prev: 38

14

Without You

Nilsson

↑ 7

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 21

15

Joy

Apollo featuring Tom Parker

↑ 20

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 35

16

Precious And Few

Climax

↑ 18

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 34

17

Anticipation

Carly Simon

↑ 1

Peak: 13 • 13 wks • Prev: 18

18

Family Affair

Sly & The Family Stone

↓ 4

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 14

19

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

The Hillside Singers

↓ 6

Peak: 13 • 12 wks • Prev: 13

20

It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)

The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones Featuring David Cassidy

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Peak: 20 • 8 wks • Prev: 20

21

Stay With Me

Faces

↑ 5

Peak: 17 • 10 wks • Prev: 26

22

Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'

Charley Pride

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Peak: 21 • 16 wks • Prev: 22

23

Black Dog

Led Zeppelin

↑ 4

Peak: 15 • 12 wks • Prev: 27

24

The Witch Queen Of New Orleans

Redbone

↑ 1

Peak: 21 • 17 wks • Prev: 25

25

Levon

Elton John

↑ 3

Peak: 24 • 10 wks • Prev: 28

26

Hey Girl/I Knew You When

Donny Osmond

↓ 10

Peak: 9 • 10 wks • Prev: 16

27

Fire And Water

Wilson Pickett

↑ 5

Peak: 24 • 11 wks • Prev: 32

28

Make Me The Woman That You Go Home To

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 2

Peak: 27 • 10 wks • Prev: 30

29

That's The Way I Feel About Cha

Bobby Womack & Peace

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Peak: 27 • 13 wks • Prev: 29

30

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I

The Honey Cone

↓ 13

Peak: 15 • 11 wks • Prev: 17

31

Got To Be There

Michael Jackson

↓ 16

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 15

32

Down By The Lazy River

The Osmonds

↑ 36

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 68

33

Don't Say You Don't Remember

Beverly Bremers

↑ 4

Peak: 15 • 16 wks • Prev: 37

34

Hey Big Brother

Rare Earth

↓ 15

Peak: 19 • 10 wks • Prev: 19

35

Once You Understand

Think

↓ 12

Peak: 23 • 10 wks • Prev: 23

36

Feeling Alright

Joe Cocker

↑ 7

Peak: 33 • 15 wks • Prev: 43

37

Bang A Gong (Get It On)

T. Rex

↑ 13

Peak: 10 • 15 wks • Prev: 50

38

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Robert John

↑ 11

Peak: 3 • 17 wks • Prev: 49

39

Together Let's Find Love

The 5th Dimension

↑ 6

Peak: 37 • 10 wks • Prev: 45

40

Floy Joy

The Supremes

↑ 8

Peak: 16 • 12 wks • Prev: 48

41

Ain't Understanding Mellow

Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager

↑ 12

Peak: 21 • 18 wks • Prev: 53

42

Daisy Mae

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

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Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 42

43

Those Were The Days

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

↑ 1

Peak: 43 • 9 wks • Prev: 44

44

White Lies, Blue Eyes

Bullet

↓ 4

Peak: 28 • 13 wks • Prev: 40

45

Looking For A Love

The J. Geils Band

↓ 6

Peak: 39 • 10 wks • Prev: 39

46

My Boy

Richard Harris

↓ 5

Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 41

47

Do The Funky Penguin Part I

Rufus Thomas

↑ 4

Peak: 44 • 10 wks • Prev: 51

48

Footstompin' Music

Grand Funk Railroad

↑ 16

Peak: 29 • 11 wks • Prev: 64

49

Tupelo Honey

Van Morrison

↑ 13

Peak: 47 • 8 wks • Prev: 62

50

You Want It, You Got It

Detroit Emeralds

↑ 5

Peak: 36 • 13 wks • Prev: 55

51

The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)

Free Movement

↑ 5

Peak: 50 • 10 wks • Prev: 56

52

Way Back Home

Jr. Walker & The All Stars

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Peak: 52 • 9 wks • Prev: 52

53

Me And Bobby McGee

Jerry Lee Lewis

↓ 6

Peak: 40 • 10 wks • Prev: 47

54

What Am I Living For

Ray Charles

↑ 7

Peak: 54 • 7 wks • Prev: 61

55

Son Of Shaft

The Bar-Kays

↑ 2

Peak: 53 • 10 wks • Prev: 57

56

Show Me How

The Emotions

↑ 3

Peak: 52 • 14 wks • Prev: 59

57

Jungle Fever

The Chakachas

↑ 16

Peak: 8 • 15 wks • Prev: 73

58

Ain't Nobody Home

B.B. King

↓ 12

Peak: 46 • 12 wks • Prev: 46

59

Under My Wheels

Alice Cooper

↑ 4

Peak: 59 • 8 wks • Prev: 63

60

Everything I Own

Bread

★ NEW

Peak: 5 • 13 wks

61

Softly Whispering I Love You

The English Congregation

↑ 16

Peak: 29 • 10 wks • Prev: 77

62

We've Got To Get It On Again

Addrisi Brothers

↑ 16

Peak: 25 • 12 wks • Prev: 78

63

Everybody Knows About My Good Thing Pt. 1

Little Johnny Taylor

↓ 3

Peak: 60 • 8 wks • Prev: 60

64

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

Ten Years After

↑ 5

Peak: 61 • 5 wks • Prev: 69

65

My World

Bee Gees

★ NEW

Peak: 16 • 8 wks

66

Pain (Part I)

Ohio Players

↑ 1

Peak: 64 • 8 wks • Prev: 67

67

Another Puff

Jerry Reed

↑ 3

Peak: 65 • 5 wks • Prev: 70

68

Love Gonna Pack Up (And Walk Out)

The Persuaders

↑ 13

Peak: 64 • 10 wks • Prev: 81

69

The Nickel Song

Melanie

↑ 18

Peak: 35 • 10 wks • Prev: 87

70

Move 'Em Out

Delaney & Bonnie

↑ 10

Peak: 59 • 5 wks • Prev: 80

71

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

Donnie Elbert

★ NEW

Peak: 22 • 9 wks

72

I Gotcha

Joe Tex

↑ 18

Peak: 2 • 21 wks • Prev: 90

73

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

Aretha Franklin

↑ 2

Peak: 73 • 4 wks • Prev: 75

74

Ajax Airlines

Hudson and Landry

↑ 9

Peak: 68 • 6 wks • Prev: 83

75

Slippin' Into Darkness

War

↑ 24

Peak: 16 • 22 wks • Prev: 99

76

Country Wine

The Raiders

★ NEW

Peak: 51 • 6 wks

77

Sweet Seasons

Carole King

★ NEW

Peak: 9 • 10 wks

78

Iron Man

Black Sabbath

★ NEW

Peak: 52 • 10 wks

79

Five Hundred Miles

Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti

↑ 3

Peak: 79 • 9 wks • Prev: 82

80

Until It's Time For You To Go

Elvis Presley

★ NEW

Peak: 40 • 9 wks

81

Keep Playin' That Rock 'N' Roll

Edgar Winter's White Trash

↑ 11

Peak: 70 • 11 wks • Prev: 92

82

The Way Of Love

Cher

★ NEW

Peak: 7 • 13 wks

83

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

Roberta Flack

↑ 1

Peak: 76 • 5 wks • Prev: 84

84

I Wrote A Simple Song

Billy Preston

↑ 2

Peak: 77 • 5 wks • Prev: 86

85

Music From Across The Way

James Last

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Peak: 84 • 4 wks • Prev: 85

86

Cry

Lynn Anderson

★ NEW

Peak: 71 • 5 wks

87

If I Could See The Light

The 8th Day

↓ 8

Peak: 79 • 4 wks • Prev: 79

88

Love Me, Love Me Love

Frank Mills

★ NEW

Peak: 46 • 9 wks

89

Ring The Living Bell

Melanie

★ NEW

Peak: 31 • 9 wks

90

Open The Door (Song For Judith)

Judy Collins

↑ 1

Peak: 90 • 7 wks • Prev: 91

91

Crazy Mama

J.J. Cale

★ NEW

Peak: 22 • 14 wks

92

Brian's Song

Michel Legrand

★ NEW

Peak: 56 • 8 wks

93

Gimme Some More

The JB's

↑ 2

Peak: 67 • 8 wks • Prev: 95

94

Standing In For Jody

Johnnie Taylor (The Soul Philosopher)

↑ 6

Peak: 74 • 7 wks • Prev: 100

95

Sweet Baby

Donnie Elbert

↑ 1

Peak: 92 • 4 wks • Prev: 96

96

(Oh Lord Won't You Buy Me A) Mercedes Benz

Goose Creek Symphony

★ NEW

Peak: 64 • 9 wks

97

Bedtime Story

Tammy Wynette

★ NEW

Peak: 86 • 4 wks

98

Every Day Of My Life

Bobby Vinton

★ NEW

Peak: 24 • 16 wks

99

Runaway/Happy Together

Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando

★ NEW

Peak: 79 • 4 wks

100

Diamonds Are Forever

Shirley Bassey

★ NEW

Peak: 57 • 9 wks

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