POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 21, 1972
1

My Ding-A-Ling

Chuck Berry

↑ 6

Peak: 1 • 17 wks • Prev: 7

2

Use Me

Bill Withers

—

Peak: 2 • 12 wks • Prev: 2

3

Burning Love

Elvis Presley

↑ 1

Peak: 2 • 15 wks • Prev: 4

4

Everybody Plays The Fool

The Main Ingredient

↓ 1

Peak: 3 • 18 wks • Prev: 3

5

Nights In White Satin

The Moody Blues

↑ 3

Peak: 2 • 18 wks • Prev: 8

6

Ben

Michael Jackson

↓ 5

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 1

7

Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me

Mac Davis

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 6

8

Garden Party

Rick Nelson And The Stone Canyon Band

↑ 4

Peak: 6 • 19 wks • Prev: 12

9

Popcorn

Hot Butter

↑ 1

Peak: 9 • 18 wks • Prev: 10

10

Go All The Way

Raspberries

↓ 5

Peak: 5 • 18 wks • Prev: 5

11

Tight Rope

Leon Russell

↑ 4

Peak: 11 • 12 wks • Prev: 15

12

Freddie's Dead (Theme From "Superfly")

Curtis Mayfield

↑ 5

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 17

13

You Wear It Well

Rod Stewart

—

Peak: 13 • 10 wks • Prev: 13

14

Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues

Danny O'Keefe

↑ 4

Peak: 9 • 13 wks • Prev: 18

15

Why/Lonely Boy

Donny Osmond

↑ 1

Peak: 13 • 12 wks • Prev: 16

16

Speak To The Sky

Rick Springfield

↓ 2

Peak: 14 • 13 wks • Prev: 14

17

Listen To The Music

The Doobie Brothers

↑ 5

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 22

18

Get On The Good Foot-Part 1

James Brown

↑ 1

Peak: 18 • 14 wks • Prev: 19

19

The City Of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie

↑ 1

Peak: 18 • 16 wks • Prev: 20

20

I Can See Clearly Now

Johnny Nash

↑ 6

Peak: 1 • 20 wks • Prev: 26

21

If I Could Reach You

The 5th Dimension

↑ 7

Peak: 10 • 15 wks • Prev: 28

22

Witchy Woman

Eagles

↑ 5

Peak: 9 • 13 wks • Prev: 27

23

Starting All Over Again

Mel And Tim

↑ 2

Peak: 19 • 20 wks • Prev: 25

24

Don't Ever Be Lonely (A Poor Little Fool Like Me)

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

—

Peak: 23 • 11 wks • Prev: 24

25

Thunder And Lightning

Chi Coltrane

↑ 4

Peak: 17 • 13 wks • Prev: 29

26

I Believe In Music

Gallery

↑ 4

Peak: 22 • 16 wks • Prev: 30

27

I Am Woman

Helen Reddy

↑ 9

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 36

28

I'll Be Around

The Spinners

↑ 4

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 32

29

Midnight Rider

Joe Cocker and The Chris Stainton Band

↑ 2

Peak: 27 • 8 wks • Prev: 31

30

I'd Love You To Want Me

Lobo

↑ 5

Peak: 2 • 14 wks • Prev: 35

31

Loving You Just Crossed My Mind

Sam Neely

↑ 2

Peak: 29 • 12 wks • Prev: 33

32

Spaceman

Nilsson

↑ 7

Peak: 23 • 10 wks • Prev: 39

33

Black & White

Three Dog Night

↓ 12

Peak: 1 • 11 wks • Prev: 21

34

Summer Breeze

Seals & Crofts

↑ 16

Peak: 6 • 18 wks • Prev: 50

35

Back Stabbers

The O'Jays

↓ 26

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 9

36

Don't Do It

The Band

↑ 4

Peak: 34 • 11 wks • Prev: 40

37

Elected

Alice Cooper

↑ 11

Peak: 26 • 8 wks • Prev: 48

38

Rock Me Baby

David Cassidy

—

Peak: 38 • 8 wks • Prev: 38

39

American City Suite

Cashman & West

↑ 5

Peak: 27 • 11 wks • Prev: 44

40

From The Beginning

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

↑ 1

Peak: 39 • 11 wks • Prev: 41

41

Play Me

Neil Diamond

↓ 30

Peak: 11 • 11 wks • Prev: 11

42

Saturday In The Park

Chicago

↓ 19

Peak: 3 • 12 wks • Prev: 23

43

Geronimo's Cadillac

Michael Murphey

↓ 6

Peak: 37 • 13 wks • Prev: 37

44

If You Don't Know Me By Now

Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes

↑ 12

Peak: 3 • 17 wks • Prev: 56

45

A Piece Of Paper

Gladstone

↑ 1

Peak: 45 • 11 wks • Prev: 46

46

Don't Hide Your Love

Cher

↑ 1

Peak: 46 • 8 wks • Prev: 47

47

All The Young Dudes

Mott The Hoople

↑ 2

Peak: 37 • 11 wks • Prev: 49

48

That's How Love Goes

Jermaine Jackson

↑ 5

Peak: 46 • 11 wks • Prev: 53

49

Can't You Hear The Song?

Wayne Newton

↑ 3

Peak: 48 • 8 wks • Prev: 52

50

Slaughter

Billy Preston

↑ 1

Peak: 50 • 8 wks • Prev: 51

51

Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)

Jim Croce

↑ 27

Peak: 17 • 12 wks • Prev: 78

52

Rock 'N Roll Soul

Grand Funk Railroad

↑ 7

Peak: 29 • 13 wks • Prev: 59

53

(It's The Way) Nature Planned It

Four Tops

↑ 1

Peak: 53 • 9 wks • Prev: 54

54

Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

The Temptations

↑ 29

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 83

55

Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu

Johnny Rivers

↑ 20

Peak: 6 • 19 wks • Prev: 75

56

Poor Boy

Casey Kelly

↑ 11

Peak: 52 • 9 wks • Prev: 67

57

A Lonely Man/The Man & The Woman (The Boy & The Girl)

The Chi-lites

↑ 1

Peak: 57 • 5 wks • Prev: 58

58

Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)

Bobby Womack & Peace

↓ 3

Peak: 51 • 9 wks • Prev: 55

59

Funny Face

Donna Fargo

↑ 12

Peak: 5 • 20 wks • Prev: 71

60

Let It Rain

Eric Clapton

—

Peak: 48 • 13 wks • Prev: 60

61

Woman Don't Go Astray

King Floyd

↑ 2

Peak: 53 • 12 wks • Prev: 63

62

Guess Who/Them Changes

B.B. King

—

Peak: 62 • 11 wks • Prev: 62

63

Ventura Highway

America

★ NEW

Peak: 8 • 12 wks

64

I'll Make You Music

Beverly Bremers

↑ 4

Peak: 63 • 9 wks • Prev: 68

65

It Never Rains In Southern California

Albert Hammond

★ NEW

Peak: 5 • 16 wks

66

Colorado

Danny Holien

—

Peak: 66 • 8 wks • Prev: 66

67

Toast To The Fool

The Dramatics

↑ 2

Peak: 67 • 9 wks • Prev: 69

68

So Long Dixie

Blood, Sweat & Tears

↑ 4

Peak: 44 • 11 wks • Prev: 72

69

Man Sized Job

Denise LaSalle

↑ 12

Peak: 55 • 9 wks • Prev: 81

70

We Can Make It Together

Steve & Eydie Featuring The Osmonds

↑ 4

Peak: 68 • 10 wks • Prev: 74

71

I'm Stone In Love With You

The Stylistics

↑ 21

Peak: 10 • 13 wks • Prev: 92

72

Something's Wrong With Me

Austin Roberts

↑ 26

Peak: 12 • 15 wks • Prev: 98

73

Theme From The Men

Isaac Hayes

★ NEW

Peak: 38 • 9 wks

74

Sunny Days

Lighthouse

↑ 6

Peak: 34 • 12 wks • Prev: 80

75

If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair)

Laura Lee

↑ 9

Peak: 65 • 8 wks • Prev: 84

76

If You Let Me

Eddie Kendricks

↑ 1

Peak: 66 • 8 wks • Prev: 77

77

Guilty

Al Green

↑ 2

Peak: 69 • 7 wks • Prev: 79

78

Baby Sitter

Betty Wright

↑ 11

Peak: 46 • 10 wks • Prev: 89

79

Why Can't We Be Lovers

Holland-Dozier

↑ 11

Peak: 57 • 10 wks • Prev: 90

80

Convention '72

The Delegates

★ NEW

Peak: 8 • 8 wks

81

No

Bulldog

↑ 10

Peak: 44 • 15 wks • Prev: 91

82

Best Thing

Styx

—

Peak: 82 • 6 wks • Prev: 82

83

Wedding Song (There Is Love)

Petula Clark

↑ 4

Peak: 61 • 10 wks • Prev: 87

84

Dance, Dance, Dance

The New Seekers featuring Marty Kristian

↑ 1

Peak: 84 • 5 wks • Prev: 85

85

The Mosquito

The Doors

↑ 1

Peak: 85 • 4 wks • Prev: 86

86

Dinah Flo

Boz Scaggs

↑ 2

Peak: 86 • 4 wks • Prev: 88

87

I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know

Donny Hathaway

★ NEW

Peak: 60 • 6 wks

88

Together Alone

Melanie

★ NEW

Peak: 86 • 4 wks

89

Sunday Morning Sunshine

Harry Chapin

★ NEW

Peak: 75 • 6 wks

90

Crazy Horses

The Osmonds

★ NEW

Peak: 14 • 12 wks

91

You Ought To Be With Me

Al Green

★ NEW

Peak: 3 • 15 wks

92

Hey, You Love

Mouth & MacNeal

★ NEW

Peak: 87 • 3 wks

93

Deteriorata

National Lampoon

↑ 3

Peak: 91 • 4 wks • Prev: 96

94

Down To The Nightclub

Tower Of Power

★ NEW

Peak: 66 • 8 wks

95

Misty Blue

Joe Simon

★ NEW

Peak: 91 • 5 wks

96

The People Tree

Sammy Davis, Jr. with The Mike Curb Congregation

★ NEW

Peak: 92 • 5 wks

97

Runnin' Back To Saskatoon

The Guess Who

—

Peak: 96 • 3 wks • Prev: 97

98

Song Seller

The Raiders

★ NEW

Peak: 96 • 3 wks

99

What Am I Crying For?

Dennis Yost And The Classics IV

★ NEW

Peak: 39 • 13 wks

100

I Guess I'll Miss The Man

The Supremes

★ NEW

Peak: 85 • 7 wks

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