This weekend (6/28-29) AT40-The 70's visits June 24, 1972. The playlist:
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can't wait for this one! Ree-Ree's "All the King's Horses" is a lost gem; the Wayne Newton is HFH cheeze personified. And ah lurves the Condoleeza Bros & Sister Rice, "Too Late To Turn Black Now" 
No argument on the Wayne Newton, but he's got serious cheeze competition, and it's topping the chart: Sammy Davis' Candy Man!?!? The mind boggles that it actually went #1.
I've never hated "Candy Man"; it's the only decent song from the overrated
Willy Wonka, and Sammy, pro that he was, gave it his all, getting a silk-purse-from-sow's-ear award from me. (The first time I heard it, I assumed it was an anti-drug metaphor!) Had it been released the previous summer (when the movie was in theaters), the song would've been guaranteed an Oscar nomination. But interesting trivia: Sammy and Wayne, both Vegas vets, were on the same label, MGM (Newton on their Chelsea subsid), hardly a world-beater in terms of chart domination -- their only consistent hitmakers were the Osmonds. And label chairman Mike Curb ended up Lieut. Governor of California.
This chart has indeed been a treat. Has Dave ever played Mouth & McNeil's delightful "How Do You Do?" We had 3 teen idols (Donny, MJ and David Cassidy) back-to-back-to-back at #s 28-27-26. And the ROTFL of the week, is Casey's story about how Karen Carpenter used to beat the crap out of the bullies who threatened brother Richard -- and was a better softball player than him to boot. Well, er... DUH!
Didn't Casey tell this story (about how Neil Diamond realized he could never be a doctor) in another year recently? And another bit o'trivia: Helen Reddy debuted on the Hot 100 with "I Am Woman" this week in 1972... and dropped out 3 weeks later. She would re-chart it in Sept., and finally hit #1 in December.
