Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.

Sunday, August 14, 2022

WLS Top 27 for Week of August 14, 1972-- Part 1: 'Guitar Man'

These were the Top 27 songs on the WLS Survey fifty years ago today.  

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

27.  *BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME--  Mac Davis     #1    Country makes the pop list.  Born in Lubbock, Texas.

26.  *BACK STABBERS--  O'Jays      #3      How much of a smoother intro can you get?   Their first hit.

25.  *BURNING LOVE--   Elvis Presley     #2      Always liked that "Hunka, Hunka."

24.  GONE--  Joey Heaterton    #24     I'd never heard it before.  Puts a pop spin to a 1957 Ferlin Husky song.  A really powerful voice.  From Long Island, New York.  Her only Top 40.

23.  *GUITAR MAN--  Bread     #11    Boy, that guitar  intro.  Bread was and still is a favorite group of mine.  Also went to #1 in Adult Contemporary.

22.  BABY LET ME TAKE YOU IN MY ARMS--   Detroit Emeralds      #24     I don't remember it.   R&B vocal trio fromLittle Rock, Arkansas.

21.  *BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY--  Daniel Boone      #13      A feel good song.  Takes me right back to college driving the old Ramblin Wreck around Athens, Georgia.

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Lord Almighty, I Feel My Temperature Rising."   Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Burning Love"


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