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Friday, August 19, 2022

WLS Top 27 for Week of August 14, 1972-- Part 3: 'Lean on Me'

Fifty  years ago this week these were the songs being played on Chicago powerhouse, 50,000 watt WLS, 890 AM.

*  Means the song was climbing the charts.  The number behind the artist is how high it got on the Billboard Hot 100 National Charts.

15.  COCONUT-  Nilsson    #8    Talk about your laid-back Beach Song!!  What do you put in the coconut?

14.  LEAN IN ME--  Bill Withers      #1      You just gotta love this song.  It takes me right back to the University of Georgia during junior year.   #1 for three weeks.

13.  *HOLD YOUR HEAD UP--  Argent      #5    That's as in Rod Argent, former members of the Zombies.  Their only Top 40.

12.  HOLD HER TIGHT--  Osmonds      #14     Never heard it before.  Pretty rockin' stuff.

11.  *HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WHOLE U.S.A.--  Donna Fargo    #11        From Andy Griffith's hometown, Mt. Airy, North Carolina.  Also where the famed Siamese Twins Chang and Eng Bunker lived and are buried.  A country song on the pop charts.  Her next song went all the way to #5.  Bet you can't name it (without looking it up.)

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "And Said, 'Doctor, Ain't There Nothin' I Can Take?' "  Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Coconut"


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