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It’s June, 1972

Written by

Thomas Scovell

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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.

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