AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK’S (BARRY KOWAL) TOP SINGLES FOR 1972*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc
No.Song-Artist-Peak Month 1-POPCORN-HOT BUTTER-NOVEMBER 1072 2-PUPPY LOVE-DONNY OSMOND-August 974 3-WITHOUT YOU/GOTTA GET UP-NILSSON-April 966 4-AMERICAN PIE-DON McLEAN-March 934 5-THE RANGER'S WALTZ-MOM & DADS-March 878 6-IMAGINE-JOHN LENNON-January 786 7-BOPPIN' THE BLUES-BLACKFEATHER-October 776 8-DADDY DON'T YOU WALK SO FAST-Wayne Newton-September 760 9-THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE-Roberta Flack-June 708 10-CHERISH-David Cassidy-January 692 11-Brand New Key-Melanie-February 666 12-Empty Chairs-Don McLean-March 664 13-Amazing Grace-Pipes & Drums & The Military Band Of The Royal Scots-June 658 14-Day By Day-Colleen Hewett & Judy Stone-January 648 15-Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me-Mac Davis-November 640 16-Long Haired Lover From Liverpool-Little Jimmy Osmond-August 634 17-Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy-The Aztecs-April 622 18-Alone Again(Naturally)-Gilbert O'Sullivan-July 614 19-Long Cool Woman In a Black Dress-Hollies-September 606 20-Sylvia's Mother-Dr.Hook-July 600 21-Breaking Up Is Hard To Do-Partridge Family-October 592 22-Hurting Each Other-Carpenters-June 578 23-Rock And Roll Part II/Part I-Gary Glitter-September 562 24-A Horse With No Name-America-May 554 25-Desiderata(Child Of The Universe)-Les Crane-January 548 26-Ernie(The Fastest Milkman In The West)-Benny Hill-February 538 27-Morning Has Broken/I Want To Live In A Wigwam-Cat Stevens-May 524 28-Burning Love-Elvis Presley-November 518 29-The Candy Man-Sammy Davis,Jr.-August 508 30-Run To Me/Road To Alaska-Bee Gees-October 496 31-My World/On Time-Bee Gees-March 486 32-How Do You Do-Jigsaw-June 468 33-Song Sung Blue-Neil Diamond-July 450 34-The Redback On The Toilet Seat-Slim Newton-August 438 35-Joy-Apollo 100-April 434 36-Garden Party-Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon Band-November 412 37-The Promised Land-Dave Edmunds-October 410 38-Sealed With A Kiss-Bobby Vinton-December 400 39-Nice To Be With You-Gallery-July 400 40-Sugar Me-Lynsey De Paul-November 398 41-Vincent/Castles In The Air-Don McLean-June 390 42-Captain Zero-The Mixtures-February 390 43-Rock Me Baby-Johnny Farnham-November 386 44-(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All-Fifth Dimension-August 384 45-Kings Of The World-Mississippi-November 376 46-Marshall's Portable Music Machine-Robin Jolley-July 370 47-Conquistador-Procol Harum-September 368 48-Mother And Child Reunion-Paul Simon-May 360 49-So Tough-Johnny O'Keefe-October 344 50-Day After Day-Badfinger-April 330 51-Coz I Luv You-Slade-March 328 52-Theme From "Shaft"-Isaac Hayes-February 302 53-Baby I'm-A Want You-Bread-February 276 54-Take Me Back 'Ome-Slade-September 270 55-Beautiful Sunday-Daniel Boone-August 254 56-It's Four In The Morning-Faron Young-July 236 57-Crazy Mama-J.J. Cale-May 236 58-Everything I Own-Bread-June 218 59-I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing-New Seekers-March 214 60-Superman/Take Me Back-Alison McCallum-April 210 61-Black Dog-Led Zeppelin-March 198 62-(Is This The Way To)Amarillo-Tony Christie-March 188 63-Oh,Babe What Would You Say-Hurricane Smith-October 176 64-Softly Whispering I Love You-The Congregation-May 146 65-Rocket Man/Tiny Dancer-Elton John-August 140 66-Freedom Come,Freedom Go-Fortunes-January 138 67-Brandy (You???re A Fine Girl)-Looking Glass-October 118 68-Metal Guru-T.Rex-August 116 69-You Wear It Well-Rod Stewart-November 108 70-Too Young-Donny Osmond-November 106 71-Here Come The Aussies-The Australian Cricket Team 1972-September 106 72-Live With Friends-Russell Morris-May 104 73-Gypsy Queen-Country Radio-August 80 74-Could It Be Forever-David Cassidy-June 74 75-Troglodyte (Cave Man)-Jimmy Castor Bunch-August 72 76-Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day-Gilbert O???Sullivan-September 68 77-There Are Too Many Saviours On My Cross (Ulster 1972)-Richard Harris-December 38 78-Children Of The Revolution-T Rex-December 36 79-A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done-Sonny & Cher-May 36 80-Shame And Scandal-Johnny Chester & Jigsaw-April 36 81-Brandy-Scott English-May 36 82-Go All The Way-Raspberries-November 34 83-Back Off Boogaloo-Ringo Starr-June 34 84-Heart Of Gold-Neil Young-May 34 * The data used in compilation of this list are the charts found in The Australian Top 20 Book (1940-2006) by David Kent.