POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 28, 1972
1

My Ding-A-Ling

Chuck Berry

—

Peak: 1 • 17 wks • Prev: 1

2

Burning Love

Elvis Presley

↑ 1

Peak: 2 • 15 wks • Prev: 3

3

Nights In White Satin

The Moody Blues

↑ 2

Peak: 2 • 18 wks • Prev: 5

4

Use Me

Bill Withers

↓ 2

Peak: 2 • 12 wks • Prev: 2

5

I Can See Clearly Now

Johnny Nash

↑ 15

Peak: 1 • 20 wks • Prev: 20

6

Freddie's Dead (Theme From "Superfly")

Curtis Mayfield

↑ 6

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 12

7

Garden Party

Rick Nelson And The Stone Canyon Band

↑ 1

Peak: 6 • 19 wks • Prev: 8

8

Ben

Michael Jackson

↓ 2

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 6

9

Everybody Plays The Fool

The Main Ingredient

↓ 5

Peak: 3 • 18 wks • Prev: 4

10

Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues

Danny O'Keefe

↑ 4

Peak: 9 • 13 wks • Prev: 14

11

Tight Rope

Leon Russell

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Peak: 11 • 12 wks • Prev: 11

12

Listen To The Music

The Doobie Brothers

↑ 5

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 17

13

Why/Lonely Boy

Donny Osmond

↑ 2

Peak: 13 • 12 wks • Prev: 15

14

I'll Be Around

The Spinners

↑ 14

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 28

15

I'd Love You To Want Me

Lobo

↑ 15

Peak: 2 • 14 wks • Prev: 30

16

Witchy Woman

Eagles

↑ 6

Peak: 9 • 13 wks • Prev: 22

17

I Am Woman

Helen Reddy

↑ 10

Peak: 1 • 22 wks • Prev: 27

18

The City Of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie

↑ 1

Peak: 18 • 16 wks • Prev: 19

19

If I Could Reach You

The 5th Dimension

↑ 2

Peak: 10 • 15 wks • Prev: 21

20

Starting All Over Again

Mel And Tim

↑ 3

Peak: 19 • 20 wks • Prev: 23

21

Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me

Mac Davis

↓ 14

Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 7

22

Thunder And Lightning

Chi Coltrane

↑ 3

Peak: 17 • 13 wks • Prev: 25

23

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

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

↑ 1

Peak: 23 • 11 wks • Prev: 24

24

Popcorn

Hot Butter

↓ 15

Peak: 9 • 18 wks • Prev: 9

25

Spaceman

Nilsson

↑ 7

Peak: 23 • 10 wks • Prev: 32

26

I Believe In Music

Gallery

—

Peak: 22 • 16 wks • Prev: 26

27

Midnight Rider

Joe Cocker and The Chris Stainton Band

↑ 2

Peak: 27 • 8 wks • Prev: 29

28

Summer Breeze

Seals & Crofts

↑ 6

Peak: 6 • 18 wks • Prev: 34

29

You Wear It Well

Rod Stewart

↓ 16

Peak: 13 • 10 wks • Prev: 13

30

Loving You Just Crossed My Mind

Sam Neely

↑ 1

Peak: 29 • 12 wks • Prev: 31

31

Get On The Good Foot-Part 1

James Brown

↓ 13

Peak: 18 • 14 wks • Prev: 18

32

Elected

Alice Cooper

↑ 5

Peak: 26 • 8 wks • Prev: 37

33

Go All The Way

Raspberries

↓ 23

Peak: 5 • 18 wks • Prev: 10

34

American City Suite

Cashman & West

↑ 5

Peak: 27 • 11 wks • Prev: 39

35

Don't Do It

The Band

↑ 1

Peak: 34 • 11 wks • Prev: 36

36

If You Don't Know Me By Now

Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes

↑ 8

Peak: 3 • 17 wks • Prev: 44

37

Speak To The Sky

Rick Springfield

↓ 21

Peak: 14 • 13 wks • Prev: 16

38

Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

The Temptations

↑ 16

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 54

39

From The Beginning

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

↑ 1

Peak: 39 • 11 wks • Prev: 40

40

Back Stabbers

The O'Jays

↓ 5

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 35

41

All The Young Dudes

Mott The Hoople

↑ 6

Peak: 37 • 11 wks • Prev: 47

42

Ventura Highway

America

↑ 21

Peak: 8 • 12 wks • Prev: 63

43

Rock Me Baby

David Cassidy

↓ 5

Peak: 38 • 8 wks • Prev: 38

44

Rock 'N Roll Soul

Grand Funk Railroad

↑ 8

Peak: 29 • 13 wks • Prev: 52

45

A Piece Of Paper

Gladstone

—

Peak: 45 • 11 wks • Prev: 45

46

Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)

Jim Croce

↑ 5

Peak: 17 • 12 wks • Prev: 51

47

That's How Love Goes

Jermaine Jackson

↑ 1

Peak: 46 • 11 wks • Prev: 48

48

Can't You Hear The Song?

Wayne Newton

↑ 1

Peak: 48 • 8 wks • Prev: 49

49

Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu

Johnny Rivers

↑ 6

Peak: 6 • 19 wks • Prev: 55

50

It Never Rains In Southern California

Albert Hammond

↑ 15

Peak: 5 • 16 wks • Prev: 65

51

Funny Face

Donna Fargo

↑ 8

Peak: 5 • 20 wks • Prev: 59

52

Geronimo's Cadillac

Michael Murphey

↓ 9

Peak: 37 • 13 wks • Prev: 43

53

Poor Boy

Casey Kelly

↑ 3

Peak: 52 • 9 wks • Prev: 56

54

Don't Hide Your Love

Cher

↓ 8

Peak: 46 • 8 wks • Prev: 46

55

Something's Wrong With Me

Austin Roberts

↑ 17

Peak: 12 • 15 wks • Prev: 72

56

Slaughter

Billy Preston

↓ 6

Peak: 50 • 8 wks • Prev: 50

57

Convention '72

The Delegates

↑ 23

Peak: 8 • 8 wks • Prev: 80

58

Let It Rain

Eric Clapton

↑ 2

Peak: 48 • 13 wks • Prev: 60

59

You Ought To Be With Me

Al Green

↑ 32

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 91

60

I'm Stone In Love With You

The Stylistics

↑ 11

Peak: 10 • 13 wks • Prev: 71

61

Woman Don't Go Astray

King Floyd

—

Peak: 53 • 12 wks • Prev: 61

62

Baby Sitter

Betty Wright

↑ 16

Peak: 46 • 10 wks • Prev: 78

63

I'll Make You Music

Beverly Bremers

↑ 1

Peak: 63 • 9 wks • Prev: 64

64

(It's The Way) Nature Planned It

Four Tops

↓ 11

Peak: 53 • 9 wks • Prev: 53

65

Sunny Days

Lighthouse

↑ 9

Peak: 34 • 12 wks • Prev: 74

66

So Long Dixie

Blood, Sweat & Tears

↑ 2

Peak: 44 • 11 wks • Prev: 68

67

Man Sized Job

Denise LaSalle

↑ 2

Peak: 55 • 9 wks • Prev: 69

68

Theme From The Men

Isaac Hayes

↑ 5

Peak: 38 • 9 wks • Prev: 73

69

We Can Make It Together

Steve & Eydie Featuring The Osmonds

↑ 1

Peak: 68 • 10 wks • Prev: 70

70

Crazy Horses

The Osmonds

↑ 20

Peak: 14 • 12 wks • Prev: 90

71

I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know

Donny Hathaway

↑ 16

Peak: 60 • 6 wks • Prev: 87

72

Dialogue (Part I & II)

Chicago

★ NEW

Peak: 24 • 10 wks

73

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

Laura Lee

↑ 2

Peak: 65 • 8 wks • Prev: 75

74

If You Let Me

Eddie Kendricks

↑ 2

Peak: 66 • 8 wks • Prev: 76

75

Why Can't We Be Lovers

Holland-Dozier

↑ 4

Peak: 57 • 10 wks • Prev: 79

76

Guilty

Al Green

↑ 1

Peak: 69 • 7 wks • Prev: 77

77

Colorado

Danny Holien

↓ 11

Peak: 66 • 8 wks • Prev: 66

78

Wedding Song (There Is Love)

Petula Clark

↑ 5

Peak: 61 • 10 wks • Prev: 83

79

Guess Who/Them Changes

B.B. King

↓ 17

Peak: 62 • 11 wks • Prev: 62

80

No

Bulldog

↑ 1

Peak: 44 • 15 wks • Prev: 81

81

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

The Chi-lites

↓ 24

Peak: 57 • 5 wks • Prev: 57

82

Down To The Nightclub

Tower Of Power

↑ 12

Peak: 66 • 8 wks • Prev: 94

83

Work To Do

The Isley Brothers

★ NEW

Peak: 51 • 8 wks

84

What Am I Crying For?

Dennis Yost And The Classics IV

↑ 15

Peak: 39 • 13 wks • Prev: 99

85

Sunday Morning Sunshine

Harry Chapin

↑ 4

Peak: 75 • 6 wks • Prev: 89

86

Clair

Gilbert O'Sullivan

★ NEW

Peak: 2 • 16 wks

87

Together Alone

Melanie

↑ 1

Peak: 86 • 4 wks • Prev: 88

88

Corner Of The Sky

Jackson 5

★ NEW

Peak: 18 • 12 wks

89

Hey, You Love

Mouth & MacNeal

↑ 3

Peak: 87 • 3 wks • Prev: 92

90

Dancing In The Moonlight

King Harvest

★ NEW

Peak: 13 • 22 wks

91

Special Someone

The Heywoods

★ NEW

Peak: 64 • 8 wks

92

Misty Blue

Joe Simon

↑ 3

Peak: 91 • 5 wks • Prev: 95

93

Deteriorata

National Lampoon

—

Peak: 91 • 4 wks • Prev: 93

94

I Guess I'll Miss The Man

The Supremes

↑ 6

Peak: 85 • 7 wks • Prev: 100

95

The People Tree

Sammy Davis, Jr. with The Mike Curb Congregation

↑ 1

Peak: 92 • 5 wks • Prev: 96

96

Runnin' Back To Saskatoon

The Guess Who

↑ 1

Peak: 96 • 3 wks • Prev: 97

97

Song Seller

The Raiders

↑ 1

Peak: 96 • 3 wks • Prev: 98

98

Do Ya

The Move

★ NEW

Peak: 93 • 5 wks

99

Redwood Tree

Van Morrison

★ NEW

Peak: 98 • 2 wks

100

Suite: Man And Woman

Tony Cole

★ NEW

Peak: 97 • 4 wks

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