June 1972 on the Music Charts

  Continuing the series of hits -of-the-month, moving to June 1972.  Fifty years ago (Yikes!)

There were 4 weeks in June of 1972, and there were 61 songs that spent time in the Top 40.  That's a good bit more than the prior months of the year the rest of the year.  And over those 4 weeks, only 2 songs topped the charts: The The Staple Singers started the month at the top with "I'll Take You There", and the rest of the month was dominated by Sammy Davis Jr's "The Candy Man".  

Here's the top 10 songs of the month, ranked by average chart position over the 4 weeks of the month. 

• The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr. - 1.75
• I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers - 2.5
• Oh Girl - The Chi-lites - 4.5
• Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond - 5.25
• Nice To Be With You - Gallery - 5.75
• Sylvia's Mother - Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - 7.5
• Outa-Space - Billy Preston - 8.75
• (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All - The 5th Dimension - 9.25
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack - 9.75
• Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens - 11

Another so-so week at the top, but lots of good syuff bubbling up.

Meanwhile, Twenty (20) made their Top 40 debut. And time there's some great stuff headed up the charts that will be making an impact in July:

• (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right - Luther Ingram  - 19
• Too Late To Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose - 23
• Layla - Derek and The Dominos - 32
• Where Is The Love - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway - 33
• How Do You Do - Mouth and MacNeal - 34
• Conquistador - Procol Harum - 34
• How Can I Be Sure - David Cassidy - 35
• Take It Easy - Eagles - 35
• Too Young - Donny Osmond - 35
• Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton - 36
• Living In A House Divided - Cher - 37
• Immigration man - Graham Nash and David Crosby - 37
• Day By Day - Godspell - 37
• I Wanna Be Where You Are - Michael Jackson - 38
• Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) - Stevie Wonder - 38
• Long Haired Lover from Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond - 39
• Automatically Sunshine - The Supremes - 40
• All The Kings Horses - Aretha Franklin - 40
• Hot 'N' Nasty - Humble Pie - 40
• School's Out - Alice Cooper - 40