Playlist by Algernon
Without you – Nilsson
American Pie – Don McLean
Boppin’ the blues – Blackfeather
The first time ever I saw your face – Roberta Flack
Brand new key – Melanie
Most people I know think that I’m crazy – Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs
Silvia’s mother – Dr Hook
Long cool woman in a black dress – The Hollies
Ernie (The fastest milkman in the west) – Benny Hill
Horse with no name – America
Hurting each other – The Carpenters
Baby don’t get hooked on me – Mac Davis
Burning love – Elvis Presley
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Well this one is definitely a defining 1972 song but not played on the charts:
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So much resonance with this year, don’t you think.
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1972 was the year I seriously added to my collection and continued to do so for some years. Not sure what year it came out (without physically checking) but I think Hot August Night qualifies. There was a lot happening. This collection is an nice snapshot.
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It was released in December 1972 in the US, so it would have been some time in 1973.
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Not sure The Angels were about in 1972. I saw them as The Keystone Angels at the Scout Jamboree in Adelaide 1973-4, they were awful. But given time.
The list was drawn from the most popular charts of that year, hence the mixed bag of styles. There were a few from The Osmonds which I simply cannot bring myself to putting in any list, well apart from Crazy Horses.
I that Benny Hill wasn’t exactly PC then, but I’ve always liked Ernie. Agree that Burning Love wasn’t exactly Elvis’s best, that he was still going and was popular though. Some still think he’s alive, the same some that think that the moon landing was a hoax.
I find that those falling off the perch seem to be getting younger or maybe I’m getting older. When they drop off in their 60’s.
This is a good selection of the year I think.
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Mixed list. Take on board your comments.
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Thanks, as always, Algy.
It takes my breath away to realise this was 50 bloody years ago !!!
In ’72 I was in first year at Sydney Uni and I have to say that I looked a lot more like the members of Dr Hook than the fashionistas above.
And the Aussie pub bands were really pumping ! Blackfeather, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Angels, Rose Tattoo and the contrasting soft pop of Melanie and the Carpenters and the Hollies, Don Maclean’s iconic American Pie. And the earnest songs of Roberta Flack and Janice Ian…. I learned the truth at 17.
Elvis was still alive but only just – Burning Love just isn’t in the class of Viva Las Vegas.
And the very dated and incredibly non-PC Benny Hill who was never the less a big thing back then.
I think we were spoiled for choice. And I am always shocked when one of the great band members and musos of my youth falls off the perch… and the obituary says they were in their late 70s or 80s …. and I rediscover that I too am old.
These guys were our local pub band – at the Annandale in 72-73 – Leyroy’s Layabouts … mind you they were a lot better when we were all young and full of Carlton Draught 🙂
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