Where Were You September 2, 1972?-- Part 2

It was the Summer of '72, 40 years ago and these were the songs on the radio, jukeboxes and in your record collection (albums, 45s and cassettes).

BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY--  DANIEL BOONE--  Yeah, I know what you're thinking, "What's next, Davy Crockett?"  This Daniel Boone is allegedly a distant relative of the more famous Daniel Boone.  His one and only hit making him a classic one-hit-wonder.  (This song always reminds me of tooling around Athens, Georgia, in my Ramblin' Wreck.)
ROCK AND ROLL, PART 2--  GARY GLITTER--  Instrumental and first of two hits.  (And, making sports fans happy all these years since.)

BACKSTABBERS--  O'JAYS--  Great Philadelphia soul.
BURNING LOVE--  ELVIS PRESLEY--  (A hunka-hunka...)

AMERICA--  YES--  New 45, kind of a strange release of the old Simon and Garfunkel chestnut.  This is the single edit that WCFL was all over 40 Labor Day weekends ago.  It was out just two weeks before the new Yes album was scheduled to arrive titled Close to the Edge.  It wasn't included in the album and the full length version was only ever available on an Atlantic Records sampler entitles The New Age of Atlantic.

LISTEN TO THE MUSIC--  DOOBIE BROTHERS--  An album that wasn't getting much radio play only a couple weeks ago by a group from San Jose, California, because their first album was pretty much a bust, but it wouldn't be too much longer before radio began to play the band's first hit, the one that would break them out.  The album, Toulouse Street.

Listenin' to the Music Right Now on WNCT Out of Greenville, NC.  --RoadDog