Author: Thomas Scovell

Only two weeks till xmas! Which is typically when we get some downtime and do some upgrades to 4xlife – if any listeners have suggestions, please do email. In the meanwhile listen to the tunes of November, 1972…

Songs of the month

• [new] “American City Suite” – Cashman And West
• “Ben” – Michael Jackson
• “Burning Love” – Elvis Presley
• [new] “Clair” – Gilbert O’sullivan
• [new] “Convention ’72” – Delegates
• [new] “Corner Of The Sky” – Jackson 5
• [new] “Crazy Horses” – Osmonds
• [new] “Dialogue” – Chicago
• [new] “Elected” – Alice Cooper
• “Everybody Plays The Fool” – Main Ingredient
• “Freddie’s Dead” – Curtis Mayfield
• [new] “Funny Face” – Donna Fargo
• “Garden Party” – Rick Nelson
• “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” – Danny O’keefe
• “I Am Woman” – Helen Reddy
• “I Believe In Music” – Gallery
• “I Can See Clearly Now” – Johnny Nash
• “I’d Love You To Want Me” – Lobo
• “I’ll Be Around” – Spinners
• [new] “I’m Stone In Love With You” – Stylistics
• “If I Could Reach You” – 5Th Dimension
• [new] “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” – Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes
• [new] “It Never Rains In Southern California” – Albert Hammond
• “Listen To The Music” – Doobie Brothers
• “Loving You Just Crossed My Mind” – Sam Neely
• [new] “Me And Mrs. Jones” – Billy Paul
• “My Ding-A-Ling” – Chuck Berry
• “Nights In White Satin” – Moody Blues
• [new] “Operator” – Jim Croce
• [new] “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” – Temptations
• [new] “Rock N Roll Soul” – Grand Funk Railroad
• [new] “Rockin’ Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu” – Johnny Rivers
• [new] “Something’s Wrong With Me” – Austin Roberts
• “Space Man” – Nilsson
• “Starting All Over Again” – Mel And Tim
• “Summer Breeze” – Seals And Crofts
• [new] “Sweet Surrender” – Bread
• “The City Of New Orleans” – Arlo Guthrie
• “Thunder And Lightning” – Chi Coltrane
• “Tight Rope” – Leon Russell
• “Use Me” – Bill Withers
• [new] “Ventura Highway” – America
• “Why” – Donny Osmond
• “Witchy Woman” – Eagles
• [new] “You Ought To Be With Me” – Al Green

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

This month in history

On the 1st the groundbreaking, made-for-television film, “That Certain Summer” appeared as the ABC Wednesday Night Movie. Actors Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen addressed the, then very, controversial topic, portraying an adult gay couple in the Golden Globe winning movie.

On the 8th HBO (Home Box Office), the first “pay cable” television channel, was launched in the United States. The first evening of programming was a National Hockey League (NHL) game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks from Madison Square Garden (part of a long-term agreement to broadcast sports events based at the Manhattan arena), followed by the film “Sometimes a Great Notion”, and was broadcast to a massive 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Each household paid an additional $6.00 per month to Service Electric Cable TV for the service.

And on the 29th Atari, Inc. released the seminal arcade version of Pong, the first such game to achieve commercial success.

What’d Sadie think?

It’s a month dominated by a single song, Johnny Nash’s, “I Can See Clearly Now”.  And a month of real classics, check them out…

Loved ’em

• “Funny Face” – Donna Fargo
• “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” – Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes
• “It Never Rains In Southern California” – Albert Hammond
• “Me And Mrs. Jones” – Billy Paul
• “Operator” – Jim Croce
• “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” – Temptations
• “Ventura Highway” – America
• “You Ought To Be With Me” – Al Green

Liked ’em

• “Clair” – Gilbert O’sullivan
• “Corner Of The Sky” – Jackson 5
• “Crazy Horses” – Osmonds
• “Dialogue” – Chicago
• “Elected” – Alice Cooper
• “I’m Stone In Love With You” – Stylistics
• “Rock N Roll Soul” – Grand Funk Railroad
• “Rockin’ Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu” – Johnny Rivers
• “Something’s Wrong With Me” – Austin Roberts
• “Sweet Surrender” – Bread

Leave ’em

• “American City Suite” – Cashman And West
• “Convention ’72” – Delegates

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

It’s nearly December here in 2025 and our Xmas tree is due to be delivered tomorrow. No festive songs on the charts of October, 1972 – but let’s hear what they sound like…

Songs of the month

• “Alone Again Naturally” – Gilbert O’sullivan
• “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” – Mac Davis
• “Backstabbers” – O’jays
• “Beautiful Sunday” – Daniel Boone
• “Ben” – Michael Jackson
• “Black And White” – Three Dog Night
• “Burning Love” – Elvis Presley
• “Don’t Ever Be Lonely” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• “Everybody Plays The Fool” – Main Ingredient
• “Freddie’s Dead” – Curtis Mayfield
• “Garden Party” – Rick Nelson
• “Get On The Good Foot” – James Brown
• “Go All The Way” – Raspberries
• “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” – Danny O’keefe
• “Honky Cat” – Elton John
• [new] “I Am Woman” – Helen Reddy
• [new] “I Believe In Music” – Gallery
• [new] “I Can See Clearly Now” – Johnny Nash
• [new] “I’d Love You To Want Me” – Lobo
• [new] “I’ll Be Around” – Spinners
• [new] “If I Could Reach You” – 5Th Dimension
• [new] “Listen To The Music” – Doobie Brothers
• [new] “Loving You Just Crossed My Mind” – Sam Neely
• [new] “Midnight Rider” – Joe Cocker
• “My Ding-A-Ling” – Chuck Berry
• “Nights In White Satin” – Moody Blues
• “Play Me” – Neil Diamond
• “Popcorn” – Hot Butter
• “Saturday In The Park” – Chicago
• [new] “Space Man” – Nilsson
• “Speak To The Sky” – Rick Springfield
• “Starting All Over Again” – Mel And Tim
• [new] “Summer Breeze” – Seals And Crofts
• “The City Of New Orleans” – Arlo Guthrie
• [new] “Thunder And Lightning” – Chi Coltrane
• [new] “Tight Rope” – Leon Russell
• “Use Me” – Bill Withers
• “Why” – Donny Osmond
• [new] “Witchy Woman” – Eagles
• “You Wear It Well” – Rod Stewart

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

This month in history

On the 14th “Last Tango in Paris”, an X-rated film starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, premiered at the New York Film Festival. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, it would become the seventh highest-grossing film of 1973 after its general release on despite being limited to moviegoers 17 and older.

And then on the 16th the British soap opera Emmerdale Farm, later simply Emmerdale, broadcast its first episode.

And on the 28th the Airbus A300, the first wide-body twin engine airliner, made its first test flight, taking off from and landing at the Toulouse–Blagnac Airport in France, and flown for 85 minutes by pilot Max Fischl and co-pilot Bernard Ziegler. The popular carrier, capable of carrying up to 247 passengers, would be introduced to commercial service on May 23, 1974.

What’d Sadie think?

A week at the top for “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” by Mac Davis before Michael Jackson’s “Ben” has a week, and then novelty song”My Ding-A-Ling” – Chuck Berry takes it for the rest of the month.

Sadie was particularly liking Neil Diamond’s “Play Me” this week which resulted in some very cute family sing-alongs. And yes, of course, she loved “My Ding-A-Ling”..the less said about the dance moves to that one the better!

Loved ’em

• “I Am Woman” – Helen Reddy
• “I Can See Clearly Now” – Johnny Nash
• “Listen To The Music” – Doobie Brothers
• “Summer Breeze” – Seals And Crofts
• “Witchy Woman” – Eagles

Liked ’em

• “I Believe In Music” – Gallery
• “I’d Love You To Want Me” – Lobo
• “I’ll Be Around” – Spinners
• “Loving You Just Crossed My Mind” – Sam Neely
• “Midnight Rider” – Joe Cocker
• “Space Man” – Nilsson
• “Thunder And Lightning” – Chi Coltrane
• “Tight Rope” – Leon Russell

Leave ’em

• “If I Could Reach You” – 5Th Dimension

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

It’s feeling a lot like summer in Tāmaki  Makaurau of November 2025, let’s slide back to hear how things were in September of 1972…

Songs of the month

• “Alone Again Naturally” – Gilbert O’sullivan
• “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” – Mac Davis
• “Baby Let Me Take You” – Detroit Emeralds
• “Backstabbers” – O’jays
• “Beautiful Sunday” – Daniel Boone
• [new] “Ben” – Michael Jackson
• “Black And White” – Three Dog Night
• “Brandy” – Looking Glass
• [new] “Burning Love” – Elvis Presley
• “Coconut” – Nilsson
• “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast” – Wayne Newton
• [new] “Don’t Ever Be Lonely” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• [new] “Everybody Plays The Fool” – Main Ingredient
• [new] “Freddie’s Dead” – Curtis Mayfield
• [new] “Garden Party” – Rick Nelson
• [new] “Get On The Good Foot” – James Brown
• “Go All The Way” – Raspberries
• [new] “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” – Danny O’keefe
• “Goodbye To Love” – Carpenters
• “Guitar Man” – Bread
• “Happiest Girl In The Whole Usa” – Donna Fargo
• “Hold Your Head Up” – Argent
• [new] “Honky Cat” – Elton John
• “I Don’t Want To Be Right” – Luther Ingram
• “I’m Still In Love With You” – Al Green
• “Join Together” – Who
• “Long Cool Woman” – Hollies
• “Lookin’ Through The Windows” – Jackson 5
• “Motorcycle Mama” – Sailcat
• [new] “My Ding-A-Ling” – Chuck Berry
• [new] “Nights In White Satin” – Moody Blues
• [new] “Play Me” – Neil Diamond
• [new] “Pop That Thang” – Isley Brothers
• [new] “Popcorn” – Hot Butter
• “Power Of Love” – Joe Simon
• “Rock N Roll” – Gary Glitter
• [new] “Run To Me” – Bee Gees
• “Saturday In The Park” – Chicago
• “Sealed With A Kiss” – Bobby Vinton
• “Small Beginnings” – Flash
• [new] “Speak To The Sky” – Rick Springfield
• [new] “Starting All Over Again” – Mel And Tim
• [new] “The City Of New Orleans” – Arlo Guthrie
• [new] “Tightrope” – Leon Russell
• [new] “Use Me” – Bill Withers
• [new] “Why” – Donny Osmond
• “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” – Jim Croce
• [new] “You Wear It Well” – Rod Stewart
• [new] “You’re Still A Young Man” – Tower Of Power

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

This month in history

It’s a big month for classic TV… on the 8th the British situation comedy “Are You Being Served?”, about employees of a department store, was first broadcast, running until 1985. Oh the innuendo!

Then across the pond the next day “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” was launched on US TV.

And a few days later, “The Waltons”, based on producer Earl Hamner’s reminiscences of his rural childhood, began a ten-season run on CBS. The setting was the fictional “Jefferson County, Virginia” in the 1930s.

What’d Sadie think?

“Alone Again Naturally” by Gilbert O’sullivan gets two weeks at the top before Three Dog Night take it with Black And White” for a week. Then we round out the month with two weeks of “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” by Mac Davis at number one.

Loved ’em

• “Ben” – Michael Jackson
• “Everybody Plays The Fool” – Main Ingredient
• “Freddie’s Dead” – Curtis Mayfield
• “Garden Party” – Rick Nelson
• “Nights In White Satin” – Moody Blues
• “Pop That Thang” – Isley Brothers
• “Popcorn” – Hot Butter
• “The City Of New Orleans” – Arlo Guthrie

“Popcorn” is notable as an early piece of electronica on the charts, being composed on the Moog synthesiser – the original version being from 1969 by german composer Gershon Kingsley, but this being the one that popularised the track.

Liked ’em

• “Burning Love” – Elvis Presley
• “Don’t Ever Be Lonely” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• “Get On The Good Foot” – James Brown
• “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” – Danny O’keefe
• “Honky Cat” – Elton John
• “My Ding-A-Ling” – Chuck Berry
• “Play Me” – Neil Diamond
• “Starting All Over Again” – Mel And Tim
• “Tightrope” – Leon Russell
• “Use Me” – Bill Withers
• “You Wear It Well” – Rod Stewart

Leave ’em

• “Run To Me” – Bee Gees
• “Speak To The Sky” – Rick Springfield
• “Why” – Donny Osmond

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

It’s a nice round 48 years before Sadie is born so let’s hear the sounds of August 1972, with no delay….

Songs of the month

• “Alone Again Naturally” – Gilbert O’sullivan
• [new] “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” – Mac Davis
• [new] “Baby Let Me Take You” – Detroit Emeralds
• [new] “Backstabbers” – O’jays
• [new] “Beautiful Sunday” – Daniel Boone
• [new] “Black And White” – Three Dog Night
• “Brandy” – Looking Glass
• [new] “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” – Partridge Family
• “Coconut” – Nilsson
• “Conquistador” – Procol Harum
• “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast” – Wayne Newton
• “Day By Day” – Godspell
• [new] “Don’t You Mess Around With Jim” – Jim Croce
• [new] “Go All The Way” – Raspberries
• “Gone” – Joey Heatherton
• “Goodbye To Love” – Carpenters
• [new] “Guitar Man” – Bread
• “Happiest Girl In The Whole Usa” – Donna Fargo
• [new] “Happy” – Rolling Stones
• “Hold Her Tight” – Osmonds
• “Hold Your Head Up” – Argent
• “How Do You Do” – Mouth And Macneal
• “I Don’t Want To Be Right” – Luther Ingram
• “I’m Still In Love With You” – Al Green
• [new] “Join Together” – Who
• “Layla” – Derek And The Dominos
• “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers
• “Long Cool Woman” – Hollies
• [new] “Looking Through The Windows” – Jackson 5
• “Motorcycle Mama” – Sailcat
• “Outa Space / I Wrote A Simple Song” – Billy Preston
• “People Make The World Go Round” – Stylistics
• [new] “Power Of Love” – Joe Simon
• [new] “Rock & Roll” – Gary Glitter
• “Rocket Man” – Elton John
• [new] “Saturday In The Park” – Chicago
• “School’s Out” – Alice Cooper
• “Sealed With A Kiss” – Bobby Vinton
• [new] “Small Beginnings” – Flash
• “Take It Easy” – Eagles
• “Too Late To Turn Back Now” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• “Too Young” – Donny Osmond
• “Where Is The Love” – Roberta Flack And Donny Hathaway
• “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” – Jim Croce

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

This month in history

On the first of the month, “Bug Suspect Got Campaign Funds”, the first article in the famous Watergate investigative series by reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, appeared on the front page of The Washington Post.

Then on the 19th “The Midnight Special” was shown for the first time on USA television, beginning at 1:00 in the morning on most NBC stations. NBC’s experiment, aiming an early morning program at the 18- to 35-year-old audience that might stay up late on Friday nights, proved a success, and the rock concert series ran until 1981.

And on the 26th the 1972 Summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany, with the parade starting at 3:00 local time, and were declared open at 4:25 in the afternoon. The games featured 8,005 athletes from 122 nations.

What’d Sadie think?

It’s three weeks at the top for”Alone Again Naturally” by Gilbert O’sullivan before “Brandy” by Looking Glass has a week at number one.

But the real winner of the past couple of week’s is “Coconut” by Henry Nilsson which Sadie has been requesting on repeating and singing spontaneously. She’s even requested a coconut so she can make herself a drink.

Loved ’em

• “Guitar Man” – Bread
• “Happy” – Rolling Stones
• “Join Together” – Who
• “Power Of Love” – Joe Simon
• “Saturday In The Park” – Chicago

Liked ’em

• “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” – Mac Davis
• “Baby Let Me Take You” – Detroit Emeralds
• “Backstabbers” – O’jays
• “Beautiful Sunday” – Daniel Boone
• “Black And White” – Three Dog Night
• “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” – Partridge Family
• “Go All The Way” – Raspberries
• “Guitar Man” – Bread
• “Looking Through The Windows” – Jackson 5
• “Rock & Roll” – Gary Glitter
• “Small Beginnings” – Flash

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

We’re midway through 1972 in our journey through pop music, so let’s hear the sounds of July…

Songs of the month

• [new] “All The King’s Horses” – Aretha Franklin
• [new] “Alone Again Naturally” – Gilbert O’sullivan
• “Amazing Grace” – Royal Scot Dragoon Guards Band
• [new] “Brandy” – Looking Glass
• [new] “Coconut” – Nilsson
• [new] “Conquistador” – Procol Harum
• “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast” – Wayne Newton
• [new] “Day By Day” – Godspell
• [new] “Gone” – Joey Heatherton
• [new] “Goodbye To Love” – Carpenters
• [new] “Happiest Girl In The Whole Usa” – Donna Fargo
• [new] “Hold Her Tight” – Osmonds
• [new] “Hold Your Head Up” – Argent
• “How Can I Be Sure” – David Cassidy
• “How Do You Do” – Mouth And Macneal
• “I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All” – 5Th Dimension
• “I Don’t Want To Be Right” – Luther Ingram
• “I Need You” – America
• “I Wanna Be Where You Are” – Michael Jackson
• “I’ll Take You There” – Staple Singers
• [new] “I’m Still In Love With You” – Al Green
• “I’ve Been Lonely For So Long” – Frederick Knight
• “Layla” – Derek And The Dominos
• “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers
• “Living In A House Divided” – Cher
• [new] “Long Cool Woman” – Hollies
• [new] “Mary Had A Little Lamb” – Wings
• “Morning Has Broken” – Cat Stevens
• [new] “Motorcycle Mama” – Sailcat
• “Nice To Be With You” – Gallery
• “Oh Girl” – Chi-Lites
• “Outa Space / I Wrote A Simple Song” – Billy Preston
• [new] “People Make The World Go Round” – Stylistics
• “Rocket Man” – Elton John
• [new] “School’s Out” – Alice Cooper
• [new] “Sealed With A Kiss” – Bobby Vinton
• “Song Sung Blue” – Neil Diamond
• “Sylvia’s Mother” – Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show
• [new] “Take It Easy” – Eagles
• “The Candyman” – Sammy Davis Jr.
• “Too Late To Turn Back Now” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• “Too Young” – Donny Osmond
• “Troglodyte” – Jimmy Castor Bunch
• [new] “Where Is The Love” – Roberta Flack And Donny Hathaway
• [new] “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” – Jim Croce

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

This month in history

On the 1st Gloria Steinem published the first issue of
Ms. magazine, with Wonder Woman on the cover and the title “Wonder Woman For President”. Steinem wanted to lobby DC comics to display Wonder Woman as a feminist hero because she felt that new images of Wonder Woman in the 1960s objectified her. By including Wonder Woman on the cover of Ms., Steinem was able to encourage Dick Giordano to reinstate Wonder Woman’s truth lasso, bracelets, and her origin story.

Then on the 10th the MK-ULTRA program of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, testing drugs for mind control on unsuspecting people, was terminated after 19 years by the CIA. The existence of the project would not be revealed publicly until 1977 hearings by a U.S. Senate investigative committee

And on the 11th the long anticipated chess match between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, and United States champion Bobby Fischer, began in Iceland at Reykjavík, nine days and seven minutes after the original start date.

What’d Sadie think?

It’s a week at the top for “Song Sung Blue” by Neil Diamond before July is dominated by Bill Withers and “Lean On Me”.

Loved ’em

It’s mid-term for Sadie, but we’d already introduced her to Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” the end of her first term of Primary School last month, so its great to hear it on the charts this month.

• “Alone Again Naturally” – Gilbert O’sullivan
• “Goodbye To Love” – Carpenters
• “I’m Still In Love With You” – Al Green
• “People Make The World Go Round” – Stylistics
• “School’s Out” – Alice Cooper
• “Take It Easy” – Eagles
• “Where Is The Love” – Roberta Flack And Donny Hathaway
• “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” – Jim Croce

Liked ’em

• “All The King’s Horses” – Aretha Franklin
• “Brandy” – Looking Glass
• “Coconut” – Nilsson
• “Conquistador” – Procol Harum
• “Gone” – Joey Heatherton
• “Happiest Girl In The Whole Usa” – Donna Fargo
• “Hold Her Tight” – Osmonds
• “Hold Your Head Up” – Argent
• “Long Cool Woman” – Hollies
• “Mary Had A Little Lamb” – Wings
• “Motorcycle Mama” – Sailcat
• “Sealed With A Kiss” – Bobby Vinton

Leave ’em

• “Day By Day” – Godspell

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

It’s 48 years and 2 months before Sadie is born and 4 years and 8 months before Thomas is, which is a nice digital symmetry to lead us into the songs of June, 1972…

Songs of the month

• [new] “Amazing Grace” – Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band
• “Ask Me What You Want” – Millie Jackson
• “Betcha By Golly Wow” – Stylistics
• [new] “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast” – Wayne Newton
• “Diary” – Bread
• “Hot Rod Lincoln” – Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen
• [new] “How Can I Be Sure” – David Cassidy
• “How Do You Do” – Mouth And Macneal
• “I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All” – 5Th Dimension
• [new] “I Don’t Want To Be Right” – Luther Ingram
• “I Gotcha” – Joe Tex
• [new] “I Need You” – America
• “I Saw The Light” – Todd Rundgren
• [new] “I Wanna Be Where You Are” – Michael Jackson
• “I’ll Take You There” – Staple Singers
• [new] “I’ve Been Lonely For So Long” – Frederick Knight
• [new] “Isn’t Life Strange” – Moody Blues
• “It’s Going To Take Some Time” – Carpenters
• [new] “Last Night I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All” – 5Th Dimension
• “Layla” – Derek And The Dominos
• [new] “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers
• “Little Bitty Pretty One” – Jackson 5
• “Living In A House Divided” – Cher
• “Look What You’ve Done For Me” – Al Green
• “Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard” – Paul Simon
• “Morning Has Broken” – Cat Stevens
• “Nice To Be With You” – Gallery
• “Oh Girl” – Chi-Lites
• “Outa Space / I Wrote A Simple Song” – Billy Preston
• [new] “Rocket Man” – Elton John
• “Slippin’ Into Darkness” – War
• [new] “Someday Never Comes” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “Song Sung Blue” – Neil Diamond
• “Sylvia’s Mother” – Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show
• “Taxi” – Harry Chapin
• [new] “The Candyman” – Sammy Davis Jr.
• “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” – Roberta Flack
• [new] “Too Late To Turn Back Now” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
• [new] “Too Young” – Donny Osmond
• “Troglodyte” – Jimmy Castor Bunch
• “Tumbling Dice” – Rolling Stones
• “Walkin’ In The Rain With The One I Love” – Love Unlimited

[new] = New to the chart this week.

You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.

This month in history

On the 7th the 1950s nostalgia musical Grease began the first of 3,388 performances on Broadway, running until April 13, 1980.

Then on the 15th Dougal Robertson, his wife, three children, and a family friend, were sailing on their yacht Lucette, when the boat was attacked and sunk by orca whales. The six survived 38 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean, then on an inflatable liferaft, then on a dinghy. Robertson wrote about the experience in a book, Survive the Savage Sea, later made into a 1991 film.

And at the end of the month on the 30th, for the first time, a leap second was observed. The National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado, stopped the clock at 23:59:59 GMT (4:59 pm local time), adding 23:59:60 before moving over to 0h 0m 0s.

What’d Sadie think?

Number one for the first week is “I’ll Take You There” by Staple Singers before three weeks for newcomer “The Candyman” by Sammy Davis Jr.

Loved ’em

• “I Don’t Want To Be Right” – Luther Ingram
• “I Need You” – America
• “Last Night I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All” – 5Th Dimension
• “Lean On Me” – Bill Withers
• “Rocket Man” – Elton John
• “Too Late To Turn Back Now” – Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose

Liked ’em

• “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast” – Wayne Newton
• “How Can I Be Sure” – David Cassidy
• “I Wanna Be Where You Are” – Michael Jackson
• “I’ve Been Lonely For So Long” – Frederick Knight
• “Someday Never Comes” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• “The Candyman” – Sammy Davis Jr.
• “Too Young” – Donny Osmond

Leave ’em

• “Isn’t Life Strange” – Moody Blues

Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.