Use this thread to list your favorite hit songs from 1972.

Here are some to consider:

Back Stabbers - The O'Jays
The Cover of Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
Doctor My Eyes - JACKSON BROWNE
Family Affair - Sly & the Family Stone
Freddie's Dead - CURTIS MAYFIELD
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Paul Simon
Garden Party - Rick Nelson
Get on the Good Foot - JAMES BROWN
Got the All Overs for You (All Over Me) - Freddie Hart and the Heartbeats
The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
A Horse with No Name - America


I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
I'm Still in Love with You - AL GREEN This song is mandatory requirement
(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't want to Be right - Luther Ingram
If You Don't Know Me by Now - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

Lean on Me - BILL WITHERS
Let's Stay Together - AL Green
Love Train - The O'Jays
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - Vickie Lawerance
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - The Temptations


Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Take It Easy - Eagles
Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing - James Brown
There It Is - James Brown



Ventura Highway - AMERICA
You Don't Mess Around with Jim - Jim Croce
You're So Vain - Carly Simon

I'm Still in Love with You - AL GREEN This song is mandatory requirement


LOL, it's not mandatory requirement in MY collection. I hate Al Green. :lol:

I Need You- America (I love this song and America! )

1972 was the year that I was exposed to what I thought at the time was the greatest song I had ever heard in my life. I was only 8 years old and being a naive little kid I really didn't know any better. My grandparents owned a restaurant and the song was on the jukebox and in position A-1. I had never heard of the singer before so I had no clue about his contributions to music history prior to that one song. I know one thing and that is I wasted many quarters in that jukebox playing it over and over again. The song of course was 'My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry and sadly it was the only #1 song of his career.

I Need You- America (I love this song and America! )

Aside from A Horse With No Name, other hits I like from America are Ventura Highway, Tin Man, and Sister Golden Hair.

Aside from A Horse With No Name, other hits I like from America are Ventura Highway, Tin Man, and Sister Golden Hair.


America was a great group! I have a greatest hits CD of them! ;)

All the songs from that year were great ! Good list going on here! ;) :wave:

1972 was an interesting year for top 40 music. The different genres all scored with hits on the charts. Rock, soft rock, country, soul, it was a diverse year for top 40 with a mixture of everything. About two years later in '74 is when the disco genre started coming around.

1972 was an interesting year for top 40 music. The different genres all scored with hits on the charts. Rock, soft rock, country, soul, it was a diverse year for top 40 with a mixture of everything. About two years later in '74 is when the disco genre started coming around.


Yes! The early 70's was such a good time for all types of music. I love songs from every genre from back than! ;)


I like disco now. Back than I didn't .It was like you had to choose. Rock or Disco,you couldn't like both! :D Now hearing some old disco songs ,I'm l like hey I like that tune! ;)

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