All Topics  
1972 in music

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

1972 in music
 
 
  Topics 1972 in music Topic Home




following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1972.




See also: Hot 100 No.






Discussion
Ask a question about '1972 in music'
Start a new discussion about '1972 in music'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Events

  • January 17 - Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis, Tennessee

    Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
     is renamed "Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     Blvd"
  • January 20 - Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd

    Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
     debuts Dark Side of the Moon during a performance at The Dome, in Brighton, but due to technical difficulties, is halted during the song 'Money'. Dark Side of the Moon would be played in its entirety the next night. It would be a full year before the album was released.
  • January 26 - First Sunbury Music Festival
    Sunbury Music Festival

    The Sunbury Pop Festival was an Australian rock music festival held on a private farm in Sunbury, Victoria staged annually on the Australia Day long weekend from 1972 to 1975, attracting up to 45,000 patrons each year....
     held in Sunbury, Victoria
    Sunbury, Victoria

    Sunbury is a satellite city, located 41 km north-west of Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, in the state of Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Areas of Victoria is the City of Hume....
  • January 31 - Over 40,000 mourners file past Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson

    Mahalia Jackson was an United States gospel music singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre, and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music"....
    's open casket to pay their respects in Chicago's Great Salem Baptist Church.
  • February 8 - Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
    's concert at London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    's Royal Albert Hall
    Royal Albert Hall

    The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
     is canceled because of Zappa's obscene lyrics
  • February 9 - Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
    's new band, Wings
    Wings (band)

    Wings was a rock music group formed in August 1971 by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The group was the only "permanent" group that any of the former members of the Beatles joined after their break-up....
    , make their live debut at the University of Nottingham
    University of Nottingham

    The University of Nottingham is a public, co-educational institution of higher learning in the city of Nottingham, England. Nottingham, which has campuses in the United Kingdom and Asia, is the fifth largest university in the UK , and is a member of the Russell Group, Universitas 21, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Europ...
     in England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  • February 13 - Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
    's concert in Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
     is canceled when government officials won't let them off the airplane because of their long hair
  • February 14 - "Steppenwolf
    Steppenwolf (band)

    Steppenwolf is a Canada/United States rock music band that helped establish heavy metal music in the late 1960s along with bands like Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly....
     Day" is declared in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  • Mid February - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     and Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
     cohost an entire week on The Mike Douglas Show
    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show was an United States daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that ran from 1961 to 1982....
    .
  • February 15 - The United States gives federal Copyright
    Copyright

    Copyright is a form of intellectual property which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation; after which time the work is said to enter the public domain....
     protection to sound recordings. Prior to this, phonograph records were only protected at state level, and not in all states.
  • February 19 - Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
    's single "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" (which was inspired by the "Bloody Sunday" massacre in Ireland on January 30, 1972) is banned by the BBC. The controversy caused by the banning only increases the song's popularity and it ends up in the Top 20 in England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    .
  • February 23 - Elvis
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     and Priscilla Presley
    Priscilla Presley

    Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is an United States actress and businesswoman. She is the ex-wife of singer and actor Elvis Presley, and the mother of singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley....
     separate
  • February 29 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
    's U.S. immigration visa expires, beginning his three-and-a-half year fight to remain in the country.
  • March 15 - L.A. disc jockey Robert W. Morgan
    Robert W. Morgan

    Robert W. Morgan was a renowned disc jockey who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1999. He did most of his work in Los Angeles, California at stations such as KHJ , where he was known as one of the "boss jocks" that dominated the Top 40 market in Southern California during the late 1960s....
     played Donny Osmond
    Donny Osmond

    Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an United States singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author....
    's "Puppy Love" non-stop for 90 minutes. The cops were called, but no arrests were made.
  • March 31 - Official Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
     fan club closes down.
  • April 2 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     and Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
     hold a press conference in New York
    New York

    The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
    . The Lennons discuss their appeal of the US Immigration Department's decision to deport John
  • April 16 - Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
     make their live debut at the Fox and Greyhound pub in Park Lane, Croydon, England
  • April 28 - Wishbone Ash
    Wishbone Ash

    Wishbone Ash are a United Kingdom Rock music band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s with their distinctive mellow sound, and popular records including Wishbone Ash , Argus , There's the Rub and New England ....
     release their third album, Argus
    Argus (album)

    Argus is the third album by the rock band Wishbone Ash. It is the most popular Wishbone Ash album and widely considered the greatest by fans and reviewers....
     which is named album of the year by readers of Sounds
    Sounds (magazine)

    Sounds was a United Kingdom music newspaper, published weekly from October 10, 1970 – April 6, 1991. It was well known initially for giving away posters in the centre of the paper and later for covering Heavy Metal music and Oi! music in its late 1970s-early 1980s heyday....
     and Melody Maker
    Melody Maker

    Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was 1926 in music as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 in British music it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express....
    , ahead of albums by more widely-known artists such as David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
     and Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
    .
  • April 29 - New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
     mayor John Lindsay
    John Lindsay

    John Vliet Lindsay was an United States politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1965 and as Mayor of New York of New York City from 1966 to 1973....
     announces that he is supporting John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     and Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono

    , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
     in their fight to remain in the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  • May 2 - Stone the Crows
    Stone the Crows

    Stone The Crows was a blues musical ensemble formed in Glasgow in late 1969....
     lead guitarist Les Harvey
    Leslie Harvey

    Leslie Harvey was a guitarist in several Scottish bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, most notably Stone the Crows- previously known as 'Power'....
     is electrocuted on stage during a show in Swansea
    Swansea

    Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....
    , Wales
    Wales

    native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
     after touching a poorly connected microphone. Harvey died in a hospital a few hours later. The band's lead singer, Maggie Bell
    Maggie Bell

    Maggie Bell is a Scottish people rock music and blues-rock singer. Vocally regarded by some as Britain's answer to Janis Joplin....
    , who had been Harvey's longtime girlfriend, was also hospitalized. Bell collapsed on stage after the incident.
  • May 8 - Billy Preston
    Billy Preston

    William Everett "Billy" Preston was an United States soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little...
     becomes the first rock performer to headline at New York
    New York

    The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
    's Radio City Music Hall
    Radio City Music Hall

    Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
  • June 3
    • The Opryland USA
      Opryland USA

      Opryland USA was a amusement park located in Nashville, Tennessee. It operated from 1972 until 1997. During the late 1980s nearly 2.5 million people visited the park annually....
       country music theme park opens in Nashville, Tennessee
      Nashville, Tennessee

      Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
      .
    • The Rolling Stones
      The Rolling Stones

      The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
       open their North American tour in Vancouver, Canada.
  • June 10 - Elvis does the first of four concerts in the Madison Square Garden
    Madison Square Garden

    Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
    . He sells out all the shows in one day.
  • July 22 - The Eagles
    Eagles

    The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
     release their self-titled debut album.
  • July 24 - Bobby Ramirez, the drummer for Edgar Winter
    Edgar Winter

    Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock music....
    's White Trash, is beaten to death in a Chicago bar fight, reportedly because his hair was too long.
  • August 5 - Clive Davis
    Clive Davis

    Clive Jay Davis is an American record producer, executive and a leading music executive. He has won multiple Grammy awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
     signs Aerosmith
    Aerosmith

    Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
     to Columbia Records
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
     at Max's Kansas City
    Max's Kansas City

    Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South, between 17th and 18th Streets, in New York City that was a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s....
     in New York, NY.
  • October 12 - Diana Ross
    Diana Ross

    Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
     has her acting debut in the wildly successful film Lady Sings the Blues and garners her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
  • November 26 - Family
    Family (band)

    Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
    , touring North America as the warmup act for Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
    , play their last concert on U.S. soil in St. Petersburg, Florida
    St. Petersburg, Florida

    St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and European vacationers, as well as a politically important swing state in U.S....
    .
  • Herbert Howells
    Herbert Howells

    Herbert Norman Howells Order of the Companions of Honour was an English composer, organ , and teacher....
     becomes a Companion of Honour.


Also in 1972

  • June - Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
     reunite briefly to perform live at Madison Square Garden
    Madison Square Garden

    Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
     in New York City for a campaign benefit for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern
    George McGovern

    George Stanley McGovern, is a former United States United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, and Democratic Party President of the United States nominee....
    .
  • June - Founding member Roy Wood
    Roy Wood

    Roy Wood is an England singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the musical bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard....
     exits the Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
     line-up just as the band scores its first hit single.
  • Sammy Davis Jr. makes a guest appearance on the television show All in the Family
    All in the Family

    All in the Family is an United States situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979....
  • Billy Ray Hearn founds Myrrh Records
    Myrrh Records

    Myrrh Records, also known as Myrrh Worship, is a Christian music record label. According to Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, the label was instrumental in developing a popular following for Contemporary Christian music as the label that first published music by Barry McGuire, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Randy Matthews and Nancy Honey...
    .
  • Joseph Hoo Kim
    Joseph Hoo Kim

    Joseph 'Jo Jo' Hoo Kim is a Jamaican reggae record producer.Born into a Chinese Jamaican family, Joseph Hoo Kim was the oldest of four brothers , who during the 1960s were involved in the jukebox and slot machine industry....
     founds Channel One Studios
    Channel One Studios

    Channel One is a recording studio in Maxfield Avenue, West Kingston, Jamaica. The studio was built by the Joseph Hoo Kim in 1972, and has had a profound influence on the development of reggae music....
     in Kingston, Jamaica
    Kingston, Jamaica

    Kingston is the Capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbor protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island....


Albums released

  • The Academy in Peril
    The Academy in Peril

    The Academy in Peril is a 1972_in_music album by John Cale. Like his previous release, the Terry Riley collaboration Church of Anthrax, it is mostly instrumental....
     - John Cale
    John Cale

    John Davies Cale , better known as John Cale, is a Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock & roll band The Velvet Underground....
  • Ace
    Ace (album)

    Ace was the first solo album by Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, released in 1972.Its origins come from an offer by the Dead's Warner Bros....
     - Bob Weir
    Bob Weir

    Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead , together with other former members of the Grateful Dead....
  • Aerie
    Aerie (album)

    Aerie is an album by United States singer-songwriter John Denver, released in 1972....
     - John Denver
    John Denver

    John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  • Album III
    Album III

    Album III, as its title indicates, is the third full album from Loudon Wainwright III. It was originally released in 1972 on Columbia Records....
     - Loudon Wainwright III
    Loudon Wainwright III

    Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is an United States songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, and the former husband of folk singer Kate McGarrigle....
  • All Directions
    All Directions

    All Directions is a 1972 album by The Temptations for the Gordy label, produced by Norman Whitfield....
     - The Temptations
    The Temptations

    The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
  • All the Young Dudes
    All the Young Dudes

    All the Young Dudes is an album by Mott the Hoople, released in 1972. Their initial album for the Columbia Records label, it was a turning point for the then-struggling British band....
     - Mott the Hoople
    Mott the Hoople

    Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
  • All Together Now
    All Together Now

    All Together Now could refer to:*"All Together Now ", a song by The Beatles from Yellow Submarine*"All Together Now " a film following the creation of Cirque du Soleil/The Beatles' Love...
     - Argent
    Argent (band)

    Argent were an England Rock music Musical ensemble founded in 1969 by keyboardist Rod Argent, formerly of The Zombies.The first three demo from Argent, recorded in the autumn of 1968 featured Mac MacLeod on bass guitar....
  • Amazing Grace
    Amazing Grace (album)

    Amazing Grace is the fifth album by the United Kingdom rock band Spiritualized, so named to indicate its considerable gospel music influence....
     - Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  • America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
    America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song

    America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song is a concept album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972 . As its title suggests, it comprises a number of tracks dedicated to the topic of United States history, not unlike several of Cash's other Americana albums....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • America Eats Its Young
    America Eats Its Young

    America Eats Its Young is a 1972 in music double album by Funkadelic. This was the first album to include the whole of the House Guests, including Bootsy Collins, Catfish Collins, Chicken Gunnels, Rob McCollough and Kash Waddy....
     - Funkadelic
    Funkadelic

    Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Parliament , both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  • An Anthology
    An Anthology

    An Anthology is the second, and most extensive compilation album, eighth album in total, released by Casablanca Records for Angel in 1992. It covers songs from all their albums from 1975-1980....
     - Duane Allman
    Duane Allman

    Howard Duane Allman was an United States lead guitarist, co-founder of the Southern rock group the Allman Brothers Band, and respected session musician....
  • Argus
    Argus (album)

    Argus is the third album by the rock band Wishbone Ash. It is the most popular Wishbone Ash album and widely considered the greatest by fans and reviewers....
     - Wishbone Ash
    Wishbone Ash

    Wishbone Ash are a United Kingdom Rock music band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s with their distinctive mellow sound, and popular records including Wishbone Ash , Argus , There's the Rub and New England ....
  • Attica Blues
    Attica Blues

    Attica Blues are a UK trip-hop band, who made their debut releases on the Mo' Wax label. Taking their name from an Attica Blues , the band have also provided remixes for Ultra Nat?, Sneaker Pimps, Silent Poets and DJ Krush....
     - Archie Shepp
    Archie Shepp

    Archie Shepp is a prominent American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentrism music of the late 1960s which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African Race , as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries,...
  • Aztec Two-Step - Aztec Two-Step
    Aztec Two-Step

    Aztec Two-Step is an American folk music band formed by Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman in 1971. The band was named after a line from the poem "A Coney Island of the Mind" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti....
  • Back To Front
    Back To Front (Gilbert O'Sullivan album)

    Back to Front is a 1972 album by singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan....
     - Gilbert O'Sullivan
    Gilbert O'Sullivan

    Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish people singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hit record "Alone Again ", "Clair " and "Get Down". His unusual image - Shorts, flat cap and Bowl cut Hairstyle - helped to launch the successful international career of the performer....
  • Ballad About Violins - Sofia Rotaru
    Sofia Rotaru

    Sofia Rotaru is a Russian, Ukraine, Moldovans and USSR Pop music singer-songwriter, musician, dancer, record producer, film producer, actress, business woman, and author....
  • The Ballad of Calico
    The Ballad of Calico

    The Ballad of Calico was the eighth studio album by The First Edition and released as Reprise Records 6476. It reached #118 on the albums chart and produced one single, "School Teacher" which reach #91....
     - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
  • Bandstand
    Bandstand (album)

    Bandstand is the sixth studio album from the British progressive rock band Family . Released in 1972, it was the second and last album to chart in the United States....
     - Family
    Family (band)

    Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
  • Bare Trees
    Bare Trees

    Bare Trees is a studio album by Great Britain rock music band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1972 . This is their last album to feature Danny Kirwan, who was fired during the tour to support this album....
     - Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac

    Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  • BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
    BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (Nazareth album)

    BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a live album by rock band Nazareth , recorded in 1972....
     - Nazareth
    Nazareth (band)

    Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  • Be Altitude: Respect Yourself
    Be Altitude: Respect Yourself

    Be Altitude: Respect Yourself is a 1972 rhythm and blues album by The Staple Singers. It includes the hit songs "I'll Take You There" and "Respect Yourself"....
     - The Staple Singers
    The Staple Singers

    The Staple Singers were an United States Gospel music, soul music, and R&B singing group. Pops Staples , the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha , Pervis , Yvonne , and Mavis Staples ....
  • Ben
    Ben (album)

    Ben was the second full-length solo album by United States singer Michael Jackson, released in August 1972, seven months after his debut Got to Be There....
     Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • The Best of Top of the Pops '72
    The Best of Top of the Pops '72

    The Best of Top of the Pops '72 is a 1972 compilation album released by the Top of the Poppers, who were well-known for their cover-versions of popular songs during the 1970s....
     - Top of the Poppers
  • Black Sabbath, Vol. 4
    Black Sabbath, Vol. 4

    Black Sabbath Vol. 4 is the fourth album by the British heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, released in 1972. The album was originally to be titled Snowblind, after one of several songs referring to cocaine use, and features several Sabbath classics, such as "Tomorrow's Dream," "Snowblind," "Supernaut" and "Changes."...
     - Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath

    Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  • Bolan Boogie
    Bolan Boogie

    Bolan Boogie is a compilation album released by T. Rex in 1972.After Marc Bolan had left Fly Records Records to form his own label distributed through EMI, his further label Fly Records released this "best of..." compilation with recent A an B sides which the majority from haven't been on an album before....
     - T. Rex
  • Boot Power - Mungo Jerry
    Mungo Jerry

    Mungo Jerry are an England folk/classic rock band whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset....
  • Border Lord
    Border Lord

    Border Lord is the third album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1972 on Monument Records....
     - Kris Kristofferson
    Kris Kristofferson

    Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
  • Burgers
    Burgers (album)

    Burgers is the third album by Hot Tuna, the Folk rock off-shoot of Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, and Papa John Creach....
     - Hot Tuna
    Hot Tuna

    Hot Tuna is an United States blues-rock band, formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. They play acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs....
  • Burning Love
    Burning Love and Hits from His Movies, Volume 2

    Burning Love and Hits From His Movies, Volume 2 is a compilation album by Elvis Presley. The album was released on November 1, 1972 on RCA's subidiary label, RCA Camden....
     - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Bustin' Out
    Bustin' Out

    Bustin' Out is the second album by United States country rock band Pure Prairie League, released in 1972 . It features the hit song "Amie," which is segued into by "Falling In and Out of Love" ....
     - Pure Prairie League
    Pure Prairie League

    Pure Prairie League is an United states country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio, Ohio with Craig Fuller, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call....
  • Can't Buy a Thrill
    Can't Buy a Thrill

    Can't Buy a Thrill is the first album by Steely Dan. Originally released in 1972 in music, the album was a huge success. It went gold album, and then platinum, peaking at #17 on the charts....
     - Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  • Captain Beyond
    Captain Beyond (album)

    Captain Beyond, the first album by Captain Beyond, was released in 1972, and featured former members of Iron Butterfly, Deep Purple, Johnny Winter, and Rick Derringer....
     - Captain Beyond
    Captain Beyond

    Captain Beyond was an United States of America Rock music rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971....
  • Caravanserai
    Caravanserai (album)

    Caravanserai is an album by Santana released in October 1972. It marked a major turning point in Carlos Santana's career as it was a sharp departure from his critically acclaimed first three albums....
     - Santana
    Carlos Santana

    Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
  • Carl and the Passions - "So Tough" - The Beach Boys
    The Beach Boys

    The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
  • Carney
    Carney (Leon Russell album)

    Carney is Leon Russell's 3rd solo studio album, and the first one to contain a hit single . All songs composed by Russell....
     - Leon Russell
    Leon Russell

    Leon Russell is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.First known mostly as a session musician, Russell has played with artists as varied as Jerry Lee Lewis, Phil Spector, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Elton John, BB King, Freddie King, Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman...
  • Carnival in Babylon
    Carnival in Babylon

    Carnival in Babylon is an Gramophone record by Germany rock artists Amon D??l II which was released in 1972. It was recorded at the Bavaria Studio and remixed at Studio 70 ....
     - Amon Düül II
    Amon Düül II

    Amon D??l II is a Germany rock music. The group is generally considered to be one of the founders of the German rock music scene and a seminal influence on the development of Krautrock....
  • Catch Bull at Four
    Catch Bull at Four

    Catch Bull at Four is an album by Cat Stevens. It was Stevens' most successful album in the United States, holding the top spot on Billboard s chart for three consecutive weeks....
     - Cat Stevens
    Cat Stevens

    Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a Great Britain musician of Greek Cypriot and Sweden ancestry. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent Religious conversion to Islam....
  • Cherish
    Cherish (album)

    Cherish was the debut solo album of The Partridge Family star, David Cassidy. It was released in 1972 and produced by Wes Farrell on Bell Records....
     - David Cassidy
    David Cassidy

    David Bruce Cassidy is an United States prolific character actor of stage, singer and guitarist. He is best known for his role as Shirley Jones's eldest son, Keith Partridge, in the 1970s Musical film/sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974 He enjoyed a successful pop career in the 1970s, and still performs today....
  • Chicago V
    Chicago V

    Chicago V is the fifth album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1972. It is notable for being the group's first single full-length release, after having released three consecutive double albums and a box set of live material....
     - Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  • Close to the Edge
    Close to the Edge

    Close to the Edge is the fifth album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Yes ....
     - Yes
    Yes (band)

    Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  • Cluster II
    Cluster II

    Cluster II is the second full-length album by Germany electronic music outfit Cluster and their first album with the band reduced to a duo....
     - Cluster
    Cluster (band)

    Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
  • Cold Blue Excursion
    Cold Blue Excursion

    Cold Blue Excursion was a solo album recorded by Ray Dorset, leader of Mungo Jerry. The majority of the group?s songs at the time were good-time blues, skiffle and rock?n?roll, and these songs on the solo album, written by him during the previous seven years, were designed to show his versatility as a songwriter away from the confines of...
     - Ray Dorset
    Ray Dorset

    Ray Dorset is a English people guitarist, singer, songwriter and founder of the skiffle music band , Mungo Jerry.In 1968 he formed the group Good Earth, which also included Colin Earl on keyboard instrument, Dave Hutchins on bass guitar, and Ray Bowerman on drum kit....
  • Come from the Shadows
    Come from the Shadows

    Come From the Shadows was a 1972 album by Joan Baez. After recording for the independent label Vanguard Records for more than a decade, Baez signed with A&M Records, and attempted to point her career in a slightly more "commercial" direction ....
     - Joan Baez
    Joan Baez

    Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  • The Concert For Bangla Desh
    The Concert for Bangla Desh

    The Concert for Bangladesh is a live album triple album and double DVD by George Harrison and celebrity friends performed in aid of the homeless Bengali refugees of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War....
     - George Harrison
    George Harrison

    George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
  • Crossings
    Crossings (album)

    Crossings is the twelfth album by jazz piano Herbie Hancock, released in 1972. It is the second album in his Mwandishi period, which saw him experimenting in electronics....
     - Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock

    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
  • Demons and Wizards - Uriah Heep
    Uriah Heep (band)

    Uriah Heep are an English people rock music band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice , a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
  • Dingly Dell
    Dingly Dell

    Dingly Dell is a 1972 album by England rock music band Lindisfarne ....
     - Lindisfarne
    Lindisfarne (band)

    Lindisfarne were a British folk music/rock music group of the 1970s, fronted by singer/songwriter Alan Hull. Their music combined a strong sense of yearning, often for home, with an even stronger sense of fun....
  • The Divine Miss M
    The Divine Miss M (album)

    The Divine Miss M is the debut album by American female Singing Bette Midler, released in 1972 on the Atlantic Records label. The title of the album refers to Midler's famous stage persona....
     - Bette Midler
    Bette Midler

    Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
     (debut)
  • Doremi Fasol Latido
    Doremi Fasol Latido

    Doremi Fasol Latido is the third studio album from Hawkwind released in 1972. It reached #14 on the UK album charts....
     - Hawkwind
    Hawkwind

    Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
  • Drama - Maria Bethânia
    Maria Bethânia

    Maria Beth?nia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Beth?nia, is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opini?o" ....
  • Dr. John's Gumbo
    Dr. John's Gumbo

    Dr. John's Gumbo is the fifth album by New Orleans R&B artist Dr. John, a tribute to the music of his native city. The album is a collection of cover song of New Orleans classics, played by a major figure in the city's music....
     - Dr. John
    Dr. John

    Dr. John is the stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. , a pianist, singer, and songwriter, whose music spans, and often combines, blues, boogie woogie, and rock and roll....
  • Eagles
    Eagles (album)

    Eagles is the debut album by the American rock band Eagles, released in 1972 in music. In 2003, the album was ranked number 374 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     - Eagles
    Eagles

    The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
     (debut)
  • Eat a Peach
    Eat a Peach

    Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by the United States Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band; it was the last to include founding member and lead slide guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident while the album was being recorded....
     - The Allman Brothers Band
    The Allman Brothers Band

    The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, Georgia . The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman ....
  • Ege Bamyasi
    Ege Bamyasi

    Ege Bamyasi is the third studio album by the Germany experimental rock band Can which was originally released as an LP album in 1972 by United Artists Records....
     - Can
    Can (band)

    Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
  • Ella Loves Cole
    Ella Loves Cole

    'Ella Loves Cole' is a 1972 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald.This was Fitzgerald's first album of songs dedicated to a single composer since 1964's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook, and her second collection of songs by Cole Porter, her first being the memorable 1956 album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songb...
     - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden
    Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden

    Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden was a live musical album recorded by Elvis Presley and released in June 1972 by RCA Records. Recorded at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on Saturday June 10, 1972, the concert, and the subsequent album, were promoted as being Presley's first live concerts in the Big Apple since...
     (live) - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Elvis Now
    Elvis Now

    Elvis Now is a Gold Album-selling Elvis Presley album from 1972.Despite the "now" in the title, the tracks on this album were recorded anywhere from one to three years before its release....
     - Elvis Presley
  • Emergency Ward - Nina Simone
    Nina Simone

    Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist....
  • Europe '72
    Europe '72

    Europe '72 is a 1972 live album triple album of performances by the Grateful Dead, recorded during their tour of Western Europe in early 1972....
     - The Grateful Dead
  • Everybody's in Show-Biz
    Everybody's in Show-Biz

    Everybody's in Show-Biz is a 1972 double album released by the England rock group, The Kinks. The album's first disc features studio recordings, while the second disc documents a two-night Carnegie Hall stand....
     - The Kinks
    The Kinks

    The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  • Exercises
    Exercises

    Exercises is the second studio album by the Scotland rock band Nazareth. Its style is described as "blues-tinged hardrock" . The song "Glencoe massacre" is about a real incident, the Massacre of Glencoe....
     - Nazareth
    Nazareth (band)

    Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  • Exile on Main St.
    Exile on Main St.

    Exile on Main St. is an album by the English rock music band The Rolling Stones. Released as a double album?and drawing on influences from rock & roll, blues, country music and soul music?Exile was initially greeted with lukewarm reviews, but is now widely considered the band's finest work and one of the defining masterpieces of the r...
     - The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  • Expectations
    Expectations (Keith Jarrett album)

    Expectations is a 1971 recording by piano, saxophone and composer Keith Jarrett, released on Columbia Records. The recording features, in addition to Jarrett, tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Sam Brown, percussionist Airto Moreira, and a brass section and a string section whose members...
     - Keith Jarret
  • Faro Annie - John Renbourn
    John Renbourn

    John Renbourn is an England guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle , although he maintained a solo career both before, during and after that band's existence ....
  • Faust So Far
    Faust So Far

    Faust So Far is a 1972 album by Germany krautrock group Faust . It has a slightly more commercial sound than their first album, with both "Rainy Day for Sunshine Girl" and "No Harm" being free-form rock-outs based on simple rhythms....
     - Faust
    Faust (band)

    Faust is a Germany krautrock band, originally comprising Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Herv? P?ron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunter W?sthoff, working with producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner....
  • First Take - Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
  • Floy Joy
    Floy Joy

    Floy Joy is a 1972 album released by The Supremes on the Motown label. This was the only Supremes album solely produced and arranged by Smokey Robinson and included the top 20 hit, "Floy Joy " and the top 40 hit, "Automatically Sunshine."...
     - The Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  • Focus III
    Focus III

    Focus III is a Double album-Gramophone record by progressive rock band Focus , which was released in 1972. It includes "Sylvia", a worldwide hit that reached #4 on the UK charts and #33 on the US charts....
     - Focus
    Focus (band)

    Focus is a Netherlands progressive rock band. It was founded by classically trained organ /flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969. It is most famous for the songs "Hocus Pocus " and "Sylvia"....
  • For the Roses
    For the Roses

    For the Roses is a 1972 album by Joni Mitchell, between her two biggest commercial and critical successes - Blue and Court and Spark....
     - Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  • Foxtrot
    Foxtrot (album)

    Foxtrot is the fourth studio album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Genesis and the second from the band lineup which included Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Steve Hackett....
     - Genesis
    Genesis (band)

    Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  • Free to Be... You and Me - Marlo Thomas
    Marlo Thomas

    Margaret Julia ?Marlo? Thomas Donahue is an United States actor, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Girl in the 1960s....
     & Friends
  • Free Will
    Free will

    The question of free will is whether, and in what sense, rational agents exercise control over their actions and decisions. Addressing this question requires understanding the relationship between freedom and Causality, and determining whether the laws of nature are causally deterministic....
     - Gil Scott-Heron
    Gil Scott-Heron

    Gil Scott-Heron is an United States poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson ....
  • Fresh - The Raspberries
    The Raspberries

    Raspberries are a power pop/rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, United States. They had a brief run of success in the 1970s with Beatleesque songs, recalling the heyday of the 1960's "British Invasion"....
  • Full House
    Full House (album)

    Full House, released in 1970, is the fifth album by folk rock group Fairport Convention and was their first album without a female vocalist, as Sandy Denny had left to form Fotheringay....
     - The J. Geils Band
  • Garcia
    Garcia (album)

    Garcia is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's first solo album, released in 1972.Warner Bros. Records, offered the Grateful Dead the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and Garcia was released during the same time as Bob Weir's Ace and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder ....
     - Jerry Garcia
    Jerry Garcia

    Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group....
  • Genesis Live
    Genesis Live

    'Genesis Live' is the first live album released by progressive rock group Genesis in 1973 in music.The band had no plans to release a live album at the time, but were persuaded by their label, Charisma Records, to release Genesis Live as a budget-priced title to mark time while the band recorded the album Selling England by the Pou...
     – Genesis
    Genesis (band)

    Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  • Garden in the City
    Garden in the City

    Garden In The City is a Melanie Safka album released by Buddha Records in 1972. Although marketed as an album of new recordings it was actually a compilation of 'leftover' songs from Melanie's time at that label and released after she left to form her own label....
     - Melanie
    Melanie

    Melanie is a feminine given name derived from the Greek language ?e?a??a or melaina, meaning "black, dark". It was the name of a 5th century saint venerated by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches....
  • Get on the Good Foot
    Get on the Good Foot

    "Get on the Good Foot" is a funk song performed by James Brown. It was released in 1972 in music as a two-part Single and became a #1 R&B hit....
     - James Brown
    James Brown

    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  • Give It Up - Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
  • Give Tomorrow's Children One More Chance - Ocean
    Ocean (band)

    Ocean was a gospel rock band formed in 1970 in London, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. They are best known for their million-selling 1971 single "Put Your Hand in the Hand", penned by Gene MacLellan....
  • Go Away Little Girl
    Go Away Little Girl

    "Go Away, Little Girl" is a popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.In late 1962, Steve Lawrence released the original recording of this song....
     - The Lawrence Welk Orchestra
    Lawrence Welk

    Lawrence Welk was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award....
  • A Good Feelin' to Know - Poco
    Poco

    Poco is an United States country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968....
  • Got My Own Bag of Tricks - Bo Diddley
    Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  • Got to Be There
    Got to Be There

    Got to Be There was the solo debut album by then-adolescent Michael Jackson, released on Motown Records, January 24, 1972 .It includes the Got to Be There , which was released in the fall of 1971 as Jackson's debut solo single....
     Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • Graham Nash David Crosby
    Graham Nash David Crosby

    Graham Nash/David Crosby is the first album by the partnership of the David Crosby and Graham Nash subset of the Crosby, Stills & Nash collective, unsurprisingly known as Crosby & Nash....
     - Crosby & Nash
    Crosby & Nash

    The musical team of David Crosby and Graham Nash perform as a duo during Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young hiatuses....
  • The Grand Wazoo
    The Grand Wazoo

    The Grand Wazoo is a 1972 jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa. Composed and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence following his assault in London, the album, along with its "twin brother" Waka/Jawaka, represent Zappa's foray into big band Fusion , the logical progression from Hot Rats, which used a much smaller lineup....
     - Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  • Greetings from L.A.
    Greetings from L.A.

    Greetings from L.A. is the seventh album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released in 1972. It was recorded at Far Out Studios in Hollywood, California....
     - Tim Buckley
    Tim Buckley

    Timothy Charles Buckley III was an experimental vocalist and musician who incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul music, and avant-garde rock in a career spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  • The Harder They Come
    The Harder They Come

    The Harder They Come is a 1972 in film List of Jamaican films crime film directed by Perry Henzell.It stars reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who plays Ivanhoe Martin, a character based on Rhyging, a real-life Jamaican criminal who achieved fame in the 1940s....
     - Jimmy Cliff
    Jimmy Cliff

    Jimmy Cliff Jamaican Order of Merit is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician. He is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Sittin' in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "Many Rivers to Cross" from the The Harder They Come to The Harder They Come which helped popularize reggae across the world; and for his cover...
  • Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (album)

    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes is a 1972 album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. It was their debut album and was originally titled I Miss You, but the album was renamed and and given a new cover after the success of the single "If You Don't Know Me by Now" to spotlight the group....
     - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an USA singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul music, R&B, doo-wop, and disco....
     (debut)
  • Harvest
    Harvest (album)

    Harvest is an album by Neil Young, which was the best-selling album of 1972. The album featured several high calibre guests, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, David Crosby and James Taylor....
     - Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • He Touched Me
    He Touched Me

    He Touched Me was a 1972 gospel music album by Elvis Presley which sold over 1 million copies in the US alone and earned Presley his second of three Grammy Awards....
     - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Heads and Tales
    Heads and Tales

    Heads & Tales is the first studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. . "Taxi" went to #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart....
     - Harry Chapin
    Harry Chapin

    Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer and songwriter known for folk rock songs such as "Taxi ," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World H...
  • Heavy Cream
    Heavy Cream

    Heavy Cream is a compilation album Cream released. It is a rare double album, that has never been released on CD. With 22 tracks, it's one of the most comprehensive collections in the catalogue....
     - Cream
    Cream (band)

    Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
  • Hendrix in the West
    Hendrix in the West

    Hendrix in the West was a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in January 1972 by Polydor Records, and later in February by Reprise Records....
     - Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

    James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
  • Hobo's Lullaby
    Hobo's Lullaby

    "Hobo's Lullaby" is a song written by Goebel Reeves, and famously performed by various people including folk music singer Woody Guthrie, his son Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, and Ramblin' Jack Eliot....
     - Arlo Guthrie
    Arlo Guthrie

    Arlo Davy Guthrie is an United States folk music singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings protest song against social injustice....
  • Hogwash - The Groundhogs
    The Groundhogs

    The Groundhogs were a British blues band founded in late 1963, which toured extensively in the 1960s and continued in existence sporadically to the present day....
  • Homecoming
    Homecoming (album)

    Homecoming is a 1972 album by America . Steel-string guitar-based, with a more pronounced electric guitar and Keyboard instrument section than previous releases, Homecoming helped launch the career of America, and includes one of their best known hits, "Ventura Highway"....
     - America
    America (band)

    America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972....
  • Home Free
    Home Free

    Home Free is the debut album by the late United States singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1972 ."Home Free" has been certified Platinum by the RIAA for certified sales of 1,000,000 copies, but as a re-issue, not during the original release, which had lukewarm success....
     - Dan Fogelberg
    Dan Fogelberg

    Daniel Grayling Fogelberg was an United States singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk music, pop music, European classical music, jazz, and bluegrass music....
  • Honky Chateau
    Honky Château

    Honky Ch?teau is the fifth studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1972 in music. In 2003, the album was ranked number 357 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • Hot August Night - Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • I Am
    I am (Pete Townshend album)

    I Am is a collaboration concept album by Pete Townshend and friends pressed in 1972. The album includes the original version of "Baba O'Riley" played by Townshend alone without lyrics, which, at 9:48, is almost twice as long as the augmented version which opens Who's Next....
     - Pete Townshend
    Pete Townshend

    Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend , is an English rock and roll guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career....
  • If 4
    If 4

    If 4 is the fourth album released by the England jazz rock band If . It was first issued in 1972 and the last album to feature the original recording line-up....
     (aka Waterfall) - If
    If (band)

    If was a progressive rock band formed in United Kingdom in 1969. In the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada....
  • I Can See Clearly Now
    I Can See Clearly Now

    "I Can See Clearly Now" is a song written and recorded by Johnny Nash. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972....
     - Johnny Nash
    Johnny Nash

    Johnny Nash is an African-American popular music singer-songwriter, best known for his unexpected 1972 comeback chart-topper, "I Can See Clearly Now"....
  • I'm Still in Love with You
    I'm Still in Love with You (Al Green album)

    I'm Still in Love With You is an album released in 1972 by Al Green .In 2003, the album was ranked number 285 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     - Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • In Concert
    In Concert (Janis Joplin album)

    In Concert is a live album by Janis Joplin. It was released in 1972 after Joplin's death as a double album-Gramophone record. The first record contains performances with Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the second with the Full Tilt Boogie Band....
     - Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin

    Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
  • Infinite - Kazumi Watanabe
    Kazumi Watanabe

    Kazumi Watanabe was born on October 14, 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a jazz fusion and instrumental rock guitarist and composer. He has been chosen Best Jazzman 24 times in a row by Swing Journal's annual poll....
  • International Superstar
    International Superstar

    International Superstar is an double album compilation album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972 . It is a combination of previously released material, including hit singles like "A Thing Called Love" and "The One on the Right Is on the Left", and new material....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Into the Purple Valley
    Into the Purple Valley

    Into the Purple Valley is the second album by roots rock legend Ry Cooder, released in 1971 ....
     - Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder

    Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer.He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in the American American folk music, and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries....
  • I Sing the Body Electric
    I Sing the Body Electric (album)

    I Sing the Body Electric is the second album released by Weather Report from 1972 in music. The album includes two new members of the band: percussionist Dom Um Rom?o and drummer Eric Gravatt....
     - Weather Report
    Weather Report

    Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
  • Jackson Browne
    Jackson Browne (album)

    Jackson Browne is the self-titled debut album of singer Jackson Browne....
     - Jackson Browne
    Jackson Browne

    Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  • Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72
    Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72

    Jazz at Santa Monica '72 is a 1972 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a jazz trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan, and the Count Basie Orchestra....
     - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Jeff Beck Group - Jeff Beck
    Jeff Beck

    Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
  • Jesus Was a Capricorn
    Jesus Was a Capricorn

    Jesus Was a Capricorn is the fourth album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1972 on Monument Records. The album cover pictures Kristofferson and his soon-to-be wife Rita Coolidge....
     - Kris Kristofferson
    Kris Kristofferson

    Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
  • John Renbourn
    John Renbourn (album)

    John Renbourn is the debut album by John Renbourn....
     - John Renbourn
    John Renbourn

    John Renbourn is an England guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle , although he maintained a solo career both before, during and after that band's existence ....
  • The Johnny Cash Family Christmas
    The Johnny Cash Family Christmas

    The Johnny Cash Family Christmas is a Christmas album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972 . It is Cash's second Christmas album, the first one being the 1963 release entitled The Christmas Spirit....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Journey Through the Past
    Journey Through the Past

    Journey Through the Past is a soundtrack album by Neil Young.Released in December 1972, the album features music also by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffalo Springfield, The Stray Gators, The Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation Orchestra & Chorus and The Beach Boys....
     - Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • Just Another Band From L.A.
    Just Another Band from L.A.

    Just Another Band from L.A. is a live album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1972 . It was recorded live in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA....
     - Frank Zappa and the Mothers
  • Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
    Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds

    'Kapt. Kopter and the Twirly Birds' is a 1972 rock album by Randy California.The album was created after the breakup of Spirit . The band's fourth LP, Twelve Dreams of Dr....
     - Randy California
    Randy California

    Randy California was a guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the original members of the rock group Spirit , formed in 1967.Randy was born into a musical family in Los Angeles, and spent his early years studying varied styles at the family's Los Angeles folk club,...
  • Keeper of the Castle
    Keeper of the Castle

    Keeper of the Castle is an album by R&B group The Four Tops....
     - Four Tops
    Four Tops

    The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, and showtunes....
  • The "Killer" Rocks On - Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  • The Kink Kronikles
    The Kink Kronikles

    The Kink Kronikles is a USA compilation double album of singles, B-sides, album tracks and previously unreleased tracks recorded by The Kinks between 1966 and 1970....
    - The Kinks
    The Kinks

    The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  • La Población
    La Población (album)

    La Poblaci?n is a music album recorded by V?ctor Jara and released in 1972. It was recorded in homage of the struggle of people living in the poorest working class districts of Santiago de Chile, sometimes referred to as ?shanty towns?....
     - Víctor Jara
    Víctor Jara

    V?ctor Lidio Jara Mart?nez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. A distinguished theatre director, he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre, directing a broad array of works from locally produced Chilean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of...
  • Lady Sings the Blues - Diana Ross
    Diana Ross

    Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
  • The Lady’s Not For Sale
    The Lady’s Not For Sale

    The Lady's Not For Sale is a 1972 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label....
     - Rita Coolidge
    Rita Coolidge

    Rita Coolidge is a Grammy Award winning United States singing. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States and Scotland descent....
  • Last Autumn's Dream
    Last Autumn's Dream (album)

    Last Autumn's Dream is the third studio album by British band Jade_Warrior_%28band%29. The album was well received, and yielded two singles, in A Winter's Tale and The Demon Trucker....
     - Jade Warrior
    Jade Warrior (band)

    Jade Warrior are a British music group that were formed in 1970, evolving out of the band July. The founding members were Tony Duhig , Jon Field and Glyn Havard ....
  • Last of the Red Hot Burritos - The Flying Burrito Brothers
    The Flying Burrito Brothers

    The Flying Burrito Brothers was an early country rock band, best known for its influential debut album, 1969's The Gilded Palace of Sin. Although the group is most often mentioned in connection with country rock legends Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, the group underwent many personnel changes....
  • Let My Children Hear Music
    Let My Children Hear Music

    Let My Children Hear Music is a 1972 jazz album by Charles Mingus. In the original liner notes, Mingus described it as "the best album I have ever made"....
     - Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus

    Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
  • Let's Stay Together
    Let's Stay Together

    Let's Stay Together may refer to:*Let's Stay Together , a 1972 album by Al Green*Let's Stay Together , a song by Al Green from the album of the same name and covered by Tina Turner in 1984 on the album Private Dancer...
     - Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • Light as a Feather
    Light as a Feather

    Light as a Feather is the second studio album of jazz fusion band Return to Forever, led by keyboardist Chick Corea.The second and last album by the first line-up of Return to Forever was recorded in the same year eight months later....
     - Return to Forever
    Return to Forever

    Return to Forever was the name of a jazz fusion band founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. The band cycled through many members, with only consistent band mate of Corea's bassist Stanley Clarke....
  • A Little Bit of Paul Davis - Paul Davis
    Paul Davis (singer)

    Paul Davis was an United States singer, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul music, country music and pop music, and he wrote many memorable country music hits....
  • Live at Max's Kansas City
    Live at Max's Kansas City

    Live at Max's Kansas City is a live album by The Velvet Underground. It was originally released on May 30, 1972 by Cotillion Records, a record label of Atlantic Records....
     - The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
  • Live at the Paramount - The Guess Who
    The Guess Who

    The Guess Who is a Canada rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there....
  • Live in Japan
    Live in Japan (Chicago album)

    Live in Japan is a 1975 live album by American rock band Chicago . It was recorded over the course of 3 days at the Osaka Festival Hall on the band's tour in support of Chicago V in 1972....
     - Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  • Live in Tokyo
    Live in Tokyo (Weather Report album)

    Live in Tokyo is Weather Report first live album released. It was recorded on January 13, 1972. It was one of five sold out concerts played in Japan during January 1972....
     - Weather Report
    Weather Report

    Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
  • Live Cream Volume II
    Live Cream Volume II

    Live Cream Volume II is a live compilation album by Cream released in 1972. This album contains six tracks recorded at various performances in 1968....
     - Cream
    Cream (band)

    Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
  • Living
    Living (album)

    Living is the second album by Ireland musician Paddy Casey, it was released on October 17, 2003. It was re-released with a bonus disc featuring B-sides and live tracks on November 26, 2004....
     - Judy Collins
    Judy Collins

    Judith Marjorie Collins is an United States folk singer and pop standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her soprano; for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism....
  • Living in the Past
    Living in the Past (album)

    For other uses, see Living in the Past .Living in the Past is a double album quasi-greatest-hits collection by Jethro Tull which contains album tracks, unreleased songs, and a number of singles and b-sides that had initially only appeared as British releases before being compiled on Living in the Past for the first time in the...
     - Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  • Loggins and Messina
    Loggins and Messina (album)

    Loggins and Messina is the second album by singer/songwriters Loggins and Messina, released in 1972 in music.Following on the success of their first album, this album built on the strengths of their debut outing....
     - Loggins and Messina
    Loggins and Messina

    Loggins and Messina were an United States rock music-pop music duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina who achieved their success in the early to mid 1970s....
  • The London Chuck Berry Sessions
    The London Chuck Berry Sessions

    is a Chuck Berry album which was released in 1972 under Chess Records. Side one of the album consisted of studio recordings, while side two featured three extended live performances recorded at the Lanchester Arts Festival in Coventry, England....
     - Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry

    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  • Lonesome Crow
    Lonesome Crow

    Lonesome Crow is the debut album of the Germany hard rock/heavy metal music band Scorpions produced by Conny Plank and released in 1972....
     - Scorpions
    Scorpions (band)

    Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
  • Long John Silver
    Long John Silver (album)

    Long John Silver is Jefferson Airplane's last studio album of all new material until 1989. It was recorded in 1972 in music. It peaked at #20 in America....
     - Jefferson Airplane
    Jefferson Airplane

    Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  • Lou Reed
    Lou Reed (album)

    Lou Reed is Lou Reed's 1972 debut solo album, released two years after he left The Velvet Underground. The album comprises eight new recordings of then-unreleased Velvet Underground songs, plus two new songs, "Going Down" and "Berlin" ....
     - Lou Reed
    Lou Reed

    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
  • Machine Head
    Machine Head (album)

    Machine Head is the sixth Deep Purple studio album. It was recorded at the Grand Hotel Montreux in December 1971 with the The Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, and released in March 1972....
     - Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  • Made In Japan
    Made in Japan (album)

    Made in Japan is a live album by England rock band Deep Purple, released in December 1972 in all of Europe and in May 1973 in the US. The album was recorded live over three nights during 15-17 August 1972 in Osaka and at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, hence the name of the album....
     - Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  • Madman Across the Water
    Madman Across the Water

    Madman Across the Water is the fourth studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1971. The title song, "Madman Across the Water", was set to be released on Elton John's previous album Tumbleweed Connection....
     - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • The Magician's Birthday
    The Magician's Birthday

    The Magician's Birthday is the fifth album released by British Rock music band Uriah Heep .The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, the front of which was designed by Roger Dean ....
     - Uriah Heep
    Uriah Heep (band)

    Uriah Heep are an English people rock music band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice , a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
  • Mardi Gras
    Mardi Gras (album)

    Mardi Gras is the seventh and final studio album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1972 . The group broke up after this album was released....
     - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • Mark, Don and Mel: 1969–71 - Grand Funk Railroad
    Grand Funk Railroad

    Grand Funk Railroad is an United States Rock music band. The Grand Funk Railroad lineup was highly popular during the 1970s, selling over 25 million records, selling out arenas worldwide and being awarded four RIAA gold albums in 1970, the most for any American group that year....
  • Manassas
    Manassas (album)

    'Manassas' is the 1972 debut double album from Stephen Stills' band of the same name.The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart....
     - Stephen Stills
    Stephen Stills

    Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash ....
     and Manassas
  • Mandrill Is - Mandrill
    Mandrill (band)

    Mandrill is a funk band formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1968. The band was formed by three brothers: Carlos Wilson , Lou Wilson and Ric Wilson ....
  • A Meeting of the Times - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
    Rahsaan Roland Kirk

    Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an United States jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was perhaps best known for his vitality on stage, where virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting and his famous ability to play a number of instruments simultaneously....
  • Moods
    Moods (album)

    Moods is a studio album performed by Neil Diamond. It was released in 1972. All songs on the album were written by Neil Diamond. This album contained the second of his number one songs, Song Sung Blue, and was something of a follow up in style to the highly experimental Tap Root Manuscript that was released earlier and, not completely co...
     - Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • More Hot Rocks - The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  • The Moviegoer
    The Moviegoer (album)

    The Moviegoer is a 1972 album by Scott Walker . Produced by Johnny Franz and engineered by Peter J. Olliff. Features orchestra directed by Robert Cornford....
     - Scott Walker
    Scott Walker (singer)

    Scott Walker is the stage name of the American musician Noel Scott Engel , former lead singer with The Walker Brothers. He has been living in England since the 1960s, and continues to release new solo material....
  • Moving Waves
    Moving Waves

    Moving Waves is the 1971 second album by the Dutch band Focus . It includes the hit "Hocus Pocus " which features yodelling and operatic falsetto from Thijs van Leer combined with Jan Akkerman's Heavy metal music guitar....
     - Focus
    Focus (band)

    Focus is a Netherlands progressive rock band. It was founded by classically trained organ /flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969. It is most famous for the songs "Hocus Pocus " and "Sylvia"....
  • Music of My Mind
    Music of My Mind

    Music of My Mind is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on March 3, 1972 . It was the first of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life....
     - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • Neither One of Us - Gladys Knight & the Pips
    Gladys Knight & the Pips

    Gladys Knight & the Pips were an R&B/soul music musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia" ....
  • Nervous on the Road
    Nervous on the Road

    Nervous on the Road is a pub rock album by Brinsley Schwarz, released in 1972....
     - Brinsley Schwarz
    Brinsley Schwarz

    Brinsley Schwarz were a 1970s English people Pub rock band, named after their guitarist Brinsley Schwarz . With Nick Lowe on bass and vocals, keyboardist Bob Andrews and drummer Billy Rankin, the band had evolved into its most well-known form by 1969 after achieving some success as Kippington Lodge....
  • Neu!
    Neu! (album)

    Neu! is the debut album by Krautrock band Neu!.It was recorded in December 1971 at Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios, Hamburg, Germany, mixed at Star-Musik Studio, Hamburg, Germany, and released in 1972 by Brain Records....
     - Neu!
    Neu!

    Neu! was a Germany Musical band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from Kraftwerk in the early 1970s. Though the band had minimal commercial success during its existence, Neu! are retrospectively considered one of the founding fathers of Krautrock and a significant influence on artists including Public Image Ltd., Jo...
  • Never a Dull Moment - Rod Stewart
    Rod Stewart

    Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
  • No Answer - Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  • No Secrets - Carly Simon
    Carly Simon

    Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  • #1 Record - Big Star
  • 'Ot 'N' Sweaty
    'Ot 'N' Sweaty

    'Ot 'N' Sweaty is an album by the second lineup of American Rock music supergroup Cactus released in 1972. Original members Jim McCarty and Rusty Day already were absent, and former bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice joined by Werner Fritzschings on guitar, Duane Hitchings on keyboards and Peter French on vocals....
     - Cactus
    Cactus (band)

    Cactus is an United States hard rock band with a Supergroup status from their start in 1970....
  • Obscured by Clouds
    Obscured by Clouds

    Obscured by Clouds is a rock album by Pink Floyd based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vall?e , by Barbet Schroeder. Some copies of the album refer to the film by its alternate English title, The Valley....
     - Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd

    Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  • Olympia 71
    Olympia 71

    Track listing* Non* Chanter les voix* Hene matov* Tout au plus* Toutes les femmes du monde* Les choses de l'amour* Ils ont chang? ma chanson...
     - Dalida
    Dalida

    Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  • One Man Dog
    One Man Dog

    One Man Dog is singer-songwriter James Taylor's fourth album. Released in 1972, it features the hit "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight", which rose as high as number 14 on the Billboard magazine charts on January 13, 1973....
     - James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  • On Record
    On Record

    On Record is the second album by Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1972. ...
     - April Wine
  • On The Corner
    On the Corner

    On the Corner is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in June and July 1972 and released later that year on Columbia Records....
     - Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  • Paul Simon
    Paul Simon (album)

    Paul Simon is a 1972 album by Paul Simon, released about two years after he split up with longtime musical partner Art Garfunkel. It was originally released on Columbia Records, but is now on the Warner Bros....
     - Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • Phoenix
    Phoenix (Grand Funk Railroad album)

    Phoenix is Grand Funk Railroad's sixth studio album, and was released in September 1972 by Capitol Records. It was produced by Grand Funk and marks the band's first album not produced by Terry Knight....
     - Grand Funk Railroad
    Grand Funk Railroad

    Grand Funk Railroad is an United States Rock music band. The Grand Funk Railroad lineup was highly popular during the 1970s, selling over 25 million records, selling out arenas worldwide and being awarded four RIAA gold albums in 1970, the most for any American group that year....
  • Pictures at an Exhibition
    Pictures at an Exhibition (album)

    Pictures at an Exhibition is an album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971 as a live album and re-released in 2001 as a remastered edition including both live and studio versions of Modest Mussorgsky classical piece Pictures at an Exhibition....
     - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer

    Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
  • Piledriver - Status Quo
    Status Quo

    Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  • Pink Moon
    Pink Moon

    Pink Moon is the third and final album by United Kingdom musician Nick Drake. It was recorded at midnight in 2 two-hour sessions, over two days in October 1971, featuring only Nick Drake's vocals and guitar, as well as some piano later overdubbed by Drake on the title track....
     - Nick Drake
    Nick Drake

    Nicholas Rodney Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, and saxophone....
  • Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
    Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

    Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, by the UK band Procol Harum, was released in 1972; it was recorded at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 18 November 1971....
     - Procol Harum
    Procol Harum

    Procol Harum are a United Kingdom Rock music band, formed in the 1960s, which built an important foundation for what would become progressive rock, or perhaps more closely, symphonic rock....
  • Prologue
    Prologue (Renaissance album)

    Prologue was a 1972 album by progressive rock band Renaissance ....
     - Renaissance
    Renaissance (band)

    Renaissance were an England progressive rock band, most notable for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights"....
  • Pure Prairie League
    Pure Prairie League

    Pure Prairie League is an United states country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio, Ohio with Craig Fuller, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call....
     - Pure Prairie League
    Pure Prairie League

    Pure Prairie League is an United states country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio, Ohio with Craig Fuller, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call....
  • Raspberries
    Raspberries (album)

    Raspberries is the debut album from The Raspberries, released in 1972 .The American version of this LP carried a scratch'n'sniff sticker impregnated with a soft fruit perfume....
     - The Raspberries
    The Raspberries

    Raspberries are a power pop/rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, United States. They had a brief run of success in the 1970s with Beatleesque songs, recalling the heyday of the 1960's "British Invasion"....
  • The Real Thing
    The Real Thing (Taj Mahal album)

    The Real Thing is a 1971 in music live album by Taj Mahal . It was recorded on February 13, 1971 at the Fillmore East in New York City and features Taj Mahal backed by a band that includes four tuba players....
     - Taj Mahal
    Taj Mahal

    The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Empire list of Mughal emperors Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal....
  • Really
    Really

    Really is the second album by J. J. Cale. It was released in 1972....
     - J. J. Cale
  • Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden
    Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden

    Recall The Beginning...A Journey from Eden is the seventh album by United States Rock music band Steve Miller Band, released in 1972. Like his previous album, Rock Love, this album did not meet with much success, either....
     - Steve Miller Band
    Steve Miller Band

    Steve Miller Band is an American rock music band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals....
  • Return to Forever
    Return to Forever (album)

    Return to Forever is a jazz fusion album by Chick Corea, simultaneously functioning as the debut album by the Return to Forever. Unlike later albums by the group, it was released by the ECM label and produced by Manfred Eicher....
     - Return to Forever
    Return to Forever

    Return to Forever was the name of a jazz fusion band founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. The band cycled through many members, with only consistent band mate of Corea's bassist Stanley Clarke....
  • Reunion: Live at Madison Square Garden - Dion and the Belmonts
    Dion and the Belmonts

    Dion and the Belmonts were a leading United States vocal group of the late 1950s. The group formed when Dion DiMucci joined The Belmonts - Carlo Mastrangelo, Freddie Milano, and Angelo D'Aleo - in late 1957....
  • Rhymes and Reasons
    Rhymes and Reasons

    Rhymes And Reasons is a 1972 album by Carole King....
     - Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  • Rio Grande Mud
    Rio Grande Mud

    Rio Grande Mud is the second album by United States blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 1972 .The Rio Grande, from where the album name derives, is the river that forms the border of Mexico and Texas....
     - ZZ Top
    ZZ Top

    ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....
  • The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

    The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is a 1972 concept album by England rock musician David Bowie. It peaked at number five in the United Kingdom and number 75 in the United States on the Billboard Music Charts....
     - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • Roadwork
    Roadwork (album)

    Roadwork is a live album by vocalist/keyboardist/saxophonist Edgar Winter and White Trash, the powerful r&b revue he worked with in 1971-2. It was released as a Double album Gramophone record in 1972....
     - Edgar Winter's White Trash
    Edgar Winter's White Trash

    Edgar Winter's White Trash may refer to:* Edgar Winter's White Trash , 1970s rock band* Edgar Winter's White Trash , their first album...
  • Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
    Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway

    Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway is an album between Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. It is their first of two albums recorded by the duo....
     -Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
     & Donny Hathaway
    Donny Hathaway

    Donny Edward Hathaway was an Grammy Award-winning United States soul music musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto " , Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His collaborations with Roberta Flack took him to the top of the charts and won him the Grammy Awa...
  • Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages (album)

    Rock of Ages: The Band in Concert is The Band's fifth album. A live album chronicling their show at New York City's Palladium on December 31, 1971, it combines several of their hits with enthusiastic covers of songs originally performed by the likes of Marvin Gaye and Chuck Willis and features a wild organ improvisation by organist Garth...
     - The Band
    The Band

    The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
  • Rock Me Baby
    Rock Me Baby

    Rock Me Baby was an United States television series. It is a comedy / drama that debuted on September 15, 2003 on UPN. Rock Me Baby stars actor and comedian Dan Cortese as Jimmy Cox, co-host of a popular Denver radio show with his best friend, Carl, played by Carl Anthony Payne II....
     - David Cassidy
    David Cassidy

    David Bruce Cassidy is an United States prolific character actor of stage, singer and guitarist. He is best known for his role as Shirley Jones's eldest son, Keith Partridge, in the 1970s Musical film/sitcom The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974 He enjoyed a successful pop career in the 1970s, and still performs today....
  • Rockin'
    Rockin'

    Rockin' is an album released in 1972 in music by the Canada rock band The Guess Who....
     - The Guess Who
    The Guess Who

    The Guess Who is a Canada rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there....
  • Rockpile
    Rockpile

    Rockpile were a United Kingdom rock and roll group of the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for their strong rockabilly and power pop influences, and as a foundational influence on new wave music....
     - Dave Edmunds
    Dave Edmunds

    Dave Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with pub rock and New Wave music, and had numerous popular chart-topper in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll....
  • Rocky Mountain High
    Rocky Mountain High (album)

    Rocky Mountain High is United States singer-songwriter John Denver's first top 10 album, propelled by the single "Rocky Mountain High."...
     - John Denver
    John Denver

    John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  • Round 2 - The Stylistics
    The Stylistics

    The Stylistics were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul musical ensemble of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and comprised lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn....
  • Roy Orbison Sings
    Roy Orbison Sings

    Roy Orbison Sings is a record album recorded by Roy Orbison on the MGM Records label and released in May 1972....
     - Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  • Roxy Music
    Roxy Music (album)

    Roxy Music is the debut album by art rock band Roxy Music, released in June 1972. It was generally well-received by contemporary critics and made #10 in the UK charts....
     - Roxy Music
    Roxy Music

    Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
  • Sail Away
    Sail Away (Randy Newman album)

    Sail Away is a 1972 album by Randy Newman. In 2003, the album was ranked number 321 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     - Randy Newman
    Randy Newman

    Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
  • Sailin' Shoes
    Sailin' Shoes

    'Sailin' Shoes' was the second studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1972. It is notable for several reasons.First, it introduced the work of Neon Park to the group, with his design of a sailing shoe of a cake swinging on a tree swing that adorned the front cover, which seems to be an allusion to by painter...
     - Little Feat
    Little Feat

    Little Feat is an United States Rock music formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboard player Bill Payne in 1969 in music in Los Angeles, California....
  • Saint Dominic's Preview
    Saint Dominic's Preview

    Saint Dominic's Preview is an album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1972 . The diversity of the material on the album highlighted the skill with which Morrison could fuse Celtic folk, R&B, blues, jazz and the singer-songwriter genre....
     - Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
  • Sanctuary
    Sanctuary (album)

    Sanctuary is the tenth album by American rock music band The J. Geils Band, released in 1978 ....
     - Dion DiMucci
  • Sandy
    Sandy (Sandy Denny album)

    Sandy is the second solo album by Sandy Denny, recorded in 1972 after her three albums with Fairport Convention, and one album with Fotheringay....
     - Sandy Denny
    Sandy Denny

    Sandy Denny, born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny , was an England singer and songwriter who has been described by Allmusic's Richie Unterberger as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer"....
  • School's Out
    School's Out (album)

    School's Out is an album released by Alice Cooper in 1972. The album's title track has remained a staple song in Alice Cooper's live setlist and receives regular airplay on many "Classic Rock" radio stations....
     - Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  • Scraps
    Scraps (album)

    Scraps is an album by the rock band NRBQ, released in 1972 by Kama Sutra Records, which later released their next album, "Workshop." It was not originally released on Rounder....
     - NRBQ
    NRBQ

    NRBQ is an American rock music band founded in 1967. They are known for their live performances, containing a high degree of spontaneity and levity, and blending rock, pop and jazz styles of the 1950s and '60s....
  • Screaming Target
    Screaming Target

    Screaming Target is the debut album by Jamaican deejay Big Youth. It was recorded and originally released in 1972 on the Gussie and Jaguar labels in Jamaica....
     - Big Youth
    Big Youth

    Manley Augustus Buchanan , better known as Big Youth , is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s....
  • Seven Separate Fools
    Seven Separate Fools

    Seven Separate Fools is the eighth album by United States rock music band Three Dog Night, released in 1972 ....
     - Three Dog Night
    Three Dog Night

    Three Dog Night is an United States rock band, best known for their music from 1968?1975. They were still making live appearances and recordings in 2008....
  • Seventh Sojourn
    Seventh Sojourn

    Seventh Sojourn, released in 1972, was the seventh album released by The Moody Blues' psychedelic era line-up.In Seventh Sojourn, The Moody Blues replaced the Mellotron with a keyboard called the Chamberlin, a device similar to the Mellotron created by the original inventor of the device, Harry Chamberlin....
     - The Moody Blues
    The Moody Blues

    The Moody Blues are an England band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressi...
  • Shades of a Blue Orphanage
    Shades of a Blue Orphanage

    Shades of a Blue Orphanage is the second studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1972. .The title is a combination of the members' previous bands: Shades of Blue and Orphanage....
     - Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by Bass guitar, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak " and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regula...
  • Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits - Simon & Garfunkel
  • Sittin' In
    Sittin' In

    Sittin' In is the first album by singer-songwriters Loggins and Messina, released in 1971.It began as a solo album by Kenny Loggins; Jim Messina was with Columbia Records, serving as an independent producer when he met Loggins....
     - Loggins and Messina
    Loggins and Messina

    Loggins and Messina were an United States rock music-pop music duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina who achieved their success in the early to mid 1970s....
  • Skies of America
    Skies of America

    Skies of America is a 1972 album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The album is one of Coleman's first experiments in writing and performing third stream music; he had earlier done arranging work for Alice Coltrane's album Universal Consciousness....
     - Ornette Coleman
    Ornette Coleman

    Ornette Coleman is an United States saxophoneist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
  • Slade Alive!
    Slade Alive!

    Slade Alive! was a live album released by the United Kingdom glam rock/hard rock band Slade. The album was released on March 24, 1972, and reached No....
     - Slade
    Slade

    Slade are an England glam rock band. Slade were one of the most recognizable acts of the glam rock movement and were, at their peak, the most commercially popular band in the UK....
  • Slayed?
    Slayed?

    Slayed? is the third studio album by the United Kingdom glam rock/hard rock group Slade. It was released on November 1, 1972, and reached No....
     - Slade
    Slade

    Slade are an England glam rock band. Slade were one of the most recognizable acts of the glam rock movement and were, at their peak, the most commercially popular band in the UK....
  • The Slider
    The Slider

    The Slider is a glam rock album by T. Rex , released in 1972. It was the first album released on Bolan's new founded EMI label distributed through EMI....
     - T. Rex
    T.Rex (band)

    'T.Rex' were an English rock music band fronted by guitarist, singer and songwriter Marc Bolan. Formed as 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' in 1960s London, the folk rock group's debut album My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair......
  • Sloppy Seconds
    Sloppy Seconds

    Sloppy Seconds is a Ramones-influenced Punk rock band from Indianapolis that started in the mid-1980s. With such underground hits as "Come Back, Traci" , "I Want 'em Dead", and "So Fucked up", the band prefers to sing about such topics as pornography, classic horror movies, old TV shows, comic books, alcohol, being fat, and getting drunk....
     - Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
  • Small Talk at 125th & Lenox
    Small Talk at 125th & Lenox

    A New Black Poet - Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, commonly referred to as Small Talk at 125th & Lenox, is the debut album of Soul music poet Gil Scott-Heron, released in 1970 on Flying Dutchman Records....
     - Gil Scott-Heron
    Gil Scott-Heron

    Gil Scott-Heron is an United States poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson ....
  • Smokin' O.P.'s
    Smokin' O.P.'s

    Smokin' O.P.'s is an album by United States rock and roll singer/songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1972 . The album was reissued on CD by Capitol Records in 2005....
     - Bob Seger
    Bob Seger

    Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
  • Sniper and Other Love Songs
    Sniper and Other Love Songs

    Sniper and Other Love Songs is the second studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. The album's title song is a vaguely fictionalised account of Charles Whitman's shootings from the University of Texas at Austin Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin in August 1966....
     - Harry Chapin
    Harry Chapin

    Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer and songwriter known for folk rock songs such as "Taxi ," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World H...
  • Solomon's Seal
    Solomon's Seal (album)

    Solomon's Seal was an album recorded in 1972 by folk-rock band Pentangle : Terry Cox, Bert Jansch, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn and Danny Thompson....
     - Pentangle
    Pentangle (band)

    Pentangle are a United Kingdom folk rock band. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version have been active since the early 1980s....
  • Something/Anything?
    Something/Anything?

    Something/Anything?, released in 1972, is Todd Rundgren's third solo album. His best-selling album, it is often regarded as the singer-songwriter's magnum opus....
     - Todd Rundgren
    Todd Rundgren

    Todd Harry Rundgren , is an United States musician, singer-songwriter and record producer....
  • Some Time In New York City
    Some Time in New York City

    Some Time in New York City was released in 1972 and is John Lennon's third post-Beatles album, fifth with Yoko Ono and, third with producer Phil Spector....
     - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  • Son of Schmilsson
    Son of Schmilsson

    Son of Schmilsson is an album by Harry Nilsson. Nilsson was being pressured to produce a follow-up album similar to his 1971 breakthrough, Nilsson Schmilsson, but, instead, he cut a more eccentric album....
     - Harry Nilsson
    Harry Nilsson

    Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
  • A Song for You - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • Sort Of
    Sort Of

    Sort Of is the debut album of the avant-garde progressive rock band Slapp Happy....
     - Slapp Happy
    Slapp Happy

    Slapp Happy was a Germany/England avant-pop group consisting of Anthony Moore , Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause . They formed in Germany in 1972, moved to England in 1974 where they merged with Henry Cow, but the merger ended soon afterwards and Slapp Happy split up....
  • Space Is the Place
    Space Is the Place

    Space Is the Place is an 82-minute film made in 1972 in film and released in 1974 in film.It was produced by Jim Newman , directed by John Coney, written by Joshua Smith and features Sun Ra and his Arkestra....
     - Sun Ra
    Sun Ra

    Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  • Spinners
    Spinners (album)

    Spinners is an album recorded by The Spinners and released in 1972 by Atlantic Records. The album, the group's first after leaving Motown Records for Atlantic, includes their first U.S....
     - The Spinners
  • Squawk
    Squawk (album)

    Squawk is Budgie 's second album. Released in September 1972, this recording was certified Music recording sales certification in 1973. Cover art by Roger Dean...
     - Budgie
    Budgie (band)

    Budgie are a Wales Rock music band from Cardiff, South Glamorgan. They are widely considered as one of the first Heavy metal music bands and a seminal influence to many acts of that scene, with fast, heavy rock being played as early as 1971, preceding other influential bands such as Judas Priest....
  • Standing Ovation - Gladys Knight & the Pips
    Gladys Knight & the Pips

    Gladys Knight & the Pips were an R&B/soul music musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia" ....
  • Henry the Human Fly
    Henry the Human Fly

    Henry the Human Fly was the first solo album by British people singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard Thompson. It was originally released in Britain in April 1972 on the Island label....
     - Richard Thompson
  • Still Bill
    Still Bill

    Still Bill is the second studio album by American Soul music musician Bill Withers, released in 1972 by Sussex Records. It includes two hit singles: "Lean on Me ", which is number 205 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and went to number 1 on the Billboard Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts in summer of...
     - Bill Withers
    Bill Withers

    Bill Withers is an United States singer-songwriter and hall-of-fame songwriter who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Ain't No Sunshine," "Use Me ," "Lovely Day ," "Lean on Me ", "Grandma's Hands", and "Just the Two of Us "....
  • Stoneground Words
    Stoneground Words

    Stoneground Words is an album released by Melanie Safka in 1972. It contains the singles 'Together Alone' and 'Do You Believe'....
     - Melanie
    Melanie Safka

    Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an United States singer-songwriter.Usually known professionally as Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Lay Down " and "What They Done To My Song Ma"....
  • Strike It Rich - Dan Hicks
    Dan Hicks

    Dan Hicks is the name of:*Dan Hicks , singer and musician*Dan Hicks , sportscaster*Dan Hicks , British historical archaeologist*Dan Hicks , American actor...
     and his Hot Licks
  • Styx
    Styx (album)

    Styx is the self-titled debut album by Styx , released in 1972 . It was reissued in 1980 under the title Styx I with new artwork....
     - Styx
    Styx (band)

    Styx is an American Rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Mr. Roboto", "Babe ", "Lady ", "Blue Collar Man" and "The Best of Times ." Styx is the first band to have four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the RIAA....
     (debut)
  • Suite for Late Summer - Dion DiMucci
  • Summer Breeze
    Summer Breeze (album)

    Summer Breeze is a 1972 album by the United States soft rock band Seals and Crofts. It was a major commercial breakthrough for the group, and peaked at #7 on the billboard album chart....
     - Seals and Crofts
    Seals and Crofts

    Seals and Crofts are Jim Seals and Dash Crofts . The soft rock duo was one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970's. They are best-known for their Chart-toppers "Summer Breeze " and "Diamond Girl ." Seals' younger brother, Dan Seals is also well known as one half of the successful soft rock band in the same time period,...
  • Sunday Morning Coming Down
    Sunday Morning Coming Down (album)

    Sunday Morning Coming Down is a Johnny Cash album, released in 1972.This is a compilation of previously released tracks. It consists of songs previously recorded on albums made from prison concerts or live albums and has songs such as "Folsom Prison Blues", "Orange Blossom Special", "Understand Your Man", and "Sunday Morning Coming Do...
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Super Fly (soundtrack) - Curtis Mayfield
  • The Sweet's Biggest Hits
    The Sweet's Biggest Hits

    The Sweet's Biggest Hits is a 1972 greatest hits album by Sweet ....
     - The Sweet
  • Talking Book
    Talking Book

    Talking Book is an album by Stevie Wonder. Released on October 27, 1972, it was the second of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life....
     - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • There It Is
    There It Is (James Brown album)

    There It Is is a 1972 album by James Brown....
     - James Brown
    James Brown

    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  • They Only Come Out at Night
    They Only Come Out at Night

    They Only Come Out at Night is the fourth studio album by the Edgar Winter Group. It went to No. 3 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, eventually sold two million copies, and features two of the band's biggest hits, "Frankenstein " and "Free Ride " ....
     - Edgar Winter Group
    Edgar Winter

    Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock music....
  • Thick as a Brick
    Thick as a Brick

    Thick as a Brick is a concept album by the British rock and roll band Jethro Tull . This was their first album featuring new drummer Barriemore Barlow....
     - Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  • A Thing Called Love
    A Thing Called Love

    A Thing Called Love is an album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972 . The title song, written by Jerry Reed, was released successfully as a single , reaching No....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Together - Golden Earring
    Golden Earring

    Golden Earring is a Netherlands rock music band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as the Golden Earrings . They had international chart success with the songs "Eight Miles High" in 1969, "Radar Love" in 1973, "Twilight Zone " in 1982, and "When The Lady Smiles" in 1984....
  • Together - Jesse Colin Young
    Jesse Colin Young

    Jesse Colin Young is an United States singer / songwriter / folksinger. His career began in 1960s Greenwich Village and he released two solo albums before forming The Youngbloods....
  • Toulouse Street
    Toulouse Street

    Toulouse Street is the second studio album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1972 ....
     - The Doobie Brothers
    The Doobie Brothers

    The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
  • To Whom It May Concern - The Bee Gees
  • Transformer
    Transformer (album)

    Transformer is Lou Reed's breakthrough second solo album, released in December 1972. Unlike its predecessor Lou Reed , eight songs of which were leftovers from his The Velvet Underground days, this album contains mainly new material....
     - Lou Reed
    Lou Reed

    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
  • Trilogy
    Trilogy (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)

    Trilogy is the third studio album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, originally released in 1972. The interior of the original gatefold sleeve features a photomontage showing multiple images of the band in Epping Forest carpeted with autumn leaves....
     - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer

    Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
  • Trouble at Mill - King Earl Boogie Band
    Paul King (musician)

    Paul King , was a member of Mungo Jerry between 1970 and 1972. He contributed occasional lead vocals, and played acoustic guitar , banjo, harmonica, kazoo and jug ....
  • Trouble Man
    Trouble Man

    Trouble Man is a 1972 blaxploitation film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The film stars Robert Hooks as "Mr. T.", a hard-edged private detective who tends to take justice into his own hands....
     - Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Gaye

    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
  • Understanding
    Understanding (album)

    Understanding is a 1972 R&B album recorded by Bobby Womack. for United Artists Records. It charted #43 on the Billboard US Pop Charts, and #7 on the Billboard R&B Charts....
     - Bobby Womack
    Bobby Womack

    Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40 years and has spanned a repertoire in the style...
  • The Unnamables
    The Unnamables

    The Unnamables is the first and only album by Univeria Zekt. It was released in 1972. . A Magma album in disguise, The Unnamables was designed to ease listeners into the musical world of Magma....
     - Magma
    Magma (band)

    Magma is a France progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander , who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him....
  • Vol. 4 - Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath

    Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  • Waka/Jawaka
    Waka/Jawaka

    Waka/Jawaka is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 1972. The album is the jazz music-influenced precursor to The Grand Wazoo, and, as the front cover indicates, sequel of sorts to 1969's Hot Rats....
     - Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  • War Heroes
    War Heroes

    War Heroes is a posthumous sixth studio album by United States guitarist Jimi Hendrix, released on October 1 and December 1972 in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively....
     - Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

    James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
  • Waterloo Lily
    Waterloo Lily

    Waterloo Lily is a 1972 released album by Caravan on the Deram label. It is the only album made by Caravan with Stephen Miller as the keyboard player....
     - Caravan
    Caravan (band)

    Caravan are an England band from the Canterbury area, founded by former The Wilde Flowers members Dave Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan....
  • What You See Is What You Get - The Dramatics
    The Dramatics

    The Dramatics are an United States soul music vocal group, formed in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1962. They are best known for their 1972 hit song, the million selling "In the Rain "....
  • Who Came First
    Who Came First

    Who Came First is the first major-label solo album by Pete Townshend, guitarist and lead songwriter of The Who. It includes outtakes from the semi-aborted Who concept album Lifehouse as well as homages to his mentor Meher Baba....
     - Pete Townshend
    Pete Townshend

    Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend , is an English rock and roll guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career....
  • Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs - The Groundhogs
    The Groundhogs

    The Groundhogs were a British blues band founded in late 1963, which toured extensively in the 1960s and continued in existence sporadically to the present day....
  • Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
    Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine

    Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine was The Doors' second compilation album , released in 1972. The album's title is a lyric from the song "The End ." The album, like 13 and the 1973 The Best of the Doors, has not been released on compact disc....
     - The Doors
    The Doors

    The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
  • Where It All Began - Bo Diddley
  • Wild One
    Wild One (The Guess Who album)

    Wild One is an album released in 1972 in music by the Canada rock band The Guess Who....
     - The Guess Who
    The Guess Who

    The Guess Who is a Canada rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there....
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken

    Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a 1972 album officially by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, but with collaboration from many famous bluegrass music and Country-Western music players, including Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Bashful Brother Oswald, Norman Blake , and others....
     - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  • Wind of Change
    Wind of Change (album)

    Wind of Change is the first solo album of Peter Frampton. It was released in 1972. This album features appearances by Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, and Klaus Voorman....
     - Peter Frampton
    Peter Frampton

    Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd , among others....
  • Wolf City
    Wolf City

    Wolf City is the fifth studio album released by the Germany Krautrock band Amon D??l II.Like its predecessor, Carnival in Babylon, Wolf City is a more conventional recording than the band's earlier albums, with shorter track times and more straightforward song structures....
     - Amon Düül II
    Amon Düül II

    Amon D??l II is a Germany rock music. The group is generally considered to be one of the founders of the German rock music scene and a seminal influence on the development of Krautrock....
  • The World Is a Ghetto
    The World Is a Ghetto

    The World is a Ghetto is an album released by the band War late in year 1972. Originally released in vinyl, later available on CD. In 2003, the album was ranked number 449 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
     - War
    War (band)

    War is an United States funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider ", "Spill the Wine" and "Why Can't We Be Friends ". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of Rock music, funk, jazz, Latin music, Rhythm and blues, and reggae....
  • Young, Gifted and Black
    Young, Gifted and Black

    Young, Gifted and Black is a soul music album by Aretha Franklin, released in 1972. It takes its title from the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", which is included on the album....
     - Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....


Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1972.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Don McLean
Don McLean

Don McLean is an United States singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie , containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent "....
 		 American Pie 1972 US BB 1 - December 1971, US CashBox 1 of 1972, Canada 1 - November 1971, Australia 1 for 5 weeks September 1972, Australia Goset 1 - February 1972, UK 2 - Jan 1972, US BB 2 of 1972, France 2 - Mar 1972, POP 2 of 1972, Poland 4 - February 2000, Australia 4 of 1972, OzNet 4, RIAA 5, DDD 6 of 1971, Norway 9 - Mar 1972, Holland 11 - February 1972, Germany 17 - Mar 1972, Scrobulate 17 of folk, RYM 22 of 1971, 23 in 2FM list, TheQ 25, WXPN 61, Party 64 of 1999, Acclaimed 266
2 Hot Butter
Hot Butter

Hot Butter was an instrumental cover band fronted by the Keyboard instrument player Stan Free. The other band members were Dave Mullaney, John Abbott, Bill Jerome, Steve Jerome, and Danny Jordan....
 		 Popcorn
Popcorn (instrumental)

"Popcorn" is a famous early synthpop instrumental, originally recorded by Gershon Kingsley. In 1972, it was a huge hit in many countries when it was rerecorded by Hot Butter....
 		 1972 Holland 1 - August 1972, France 1 - July 1972, Switzerland 1 - August 1972, Norway 1 - August 1972, Germany 1 - August 1972, Australia 1 for 8 weeks May 1973, Australia Goset 1 - September 1972, Canada 3 - September 1972, Australia 3 of 1972, UK 5 - July 1972, US BB 9 - August 1972, Austria 10 - Jan 1973, POP 32 of 1972, RYM 45 of 1972, US CashBox 70 of 1972, Scrobulate 84 of 70s, Italy 88 of 1972, Germany 137 of the 1970s
3 Harry Nilsson
Harry Nilsson

Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
 		 Without You
Without You

"Without You" is a song originally recorded by Badfinger for their album No Dice , and written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans and produced by Geoff Emerick....
 		 1972 UK 1 - February 1972, US BB 1 - Jan 1972, Canada 1 - Jan 1972, Éire 1 - Mar 1972, Australia 1 for 5 weeks November 1972, Australia Goset 1 - Mar 1972, Australia 2 of 1972, Peel list 3 of 1971, US CashBox 5 of 1972, France 8 - Mar 1972, Holland 10 - April 1972, Italy 12 of 1972, Germany 16 - May 1972, RYM 16 of 1971, Scrobulate 17 of ballad, Acclaimed 823
4 Derek & The Dominos Layla
Layla

"Layla" is the title track on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December 1970. It is considered one of rock and roll's definitive love songs, featuring an unmistakable guitar figure , played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, and a piano coda that comprises the second half of the song....
 		 1972 France 1 - July 1972, DDD 1 of 1970, 3 in 2FM list, UK 4 - Mar 1982, Canada 4 - Jun 1972, Holland 4 - October 1992, RYM 5 of 1970, Virgin 9, Scrobulate 9 of blues, US BB 10 - Jun 1972, Poland 10 - April 1982, US BB 11 of 1972, TheQ 11, POP 11 of 1972, WXPN 16, Europe 21 of the 1970s, Rolling Stone 27, Switzerland 28 - November 1992, Acclaimed 37, Belgium 102 of all time, RIAA 118, OzNet 213
5 Neil Young
Neil Young

Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
 		 Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold (song)

"Heart of Gold" from the 1972 album Harvest is Neil Young's only number one hit single in his long musical career. Rolling Stone ranked it #297 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time....
 		 1972 US BB 1 - February 1972, Canada 1 - February 1972, France 2 - April 1972, Norway 4 - May 1972, Germany 4 - May 1972, RYM 5 of 1972, DDD 5 of 1972, Holland 9 - February 1972, UK 10 - Mar 1972, US CashBox 12 of 1972, Australia Goset 15 - April 1972, US BB 26 of 1972, POP 49 of 1972, TheQ 67, Europe 81 of the 1970s, Scrobulate 95 of classic rock, Belgium 220 of all time, RIAA 286, Rolling Stone 297, Germany 344 of the 1970s, Acclaimed 350, WXPN 359


American and/or British hit singles

  • "10538 Overture
    10538 Overture

    "10538 Overture", released in 1972 , was the first song to be recorded by Electric Light Orchestra....
    " - Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  • "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done
    A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done

    A Cowboy's Work is Never Done is a song by Sonny and Cher. It was released as a single and peaked at #8 on the US singles chart....
    " - Sonny and Cher
  • "A Horse With No Name
    A Horse with No Name

    "A Horse with No Name" is a song by the band America and their first single. It became their biggest hit single, topping the charts in the US and several other countries....
    " - America
    America (band)

    America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972....
  • "All the Young Dudes
    All the Young Dudes (song)

    "All the Young Dudes" is a song written by David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by Mott the Hoople in 1972. NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have described the track as "one of that rare breed: rock songs which hymn the solidarity of the disaffected without distress or sentimentality"....
    " - Mott the Hoople
    Mott the Hoople

    Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
  • "Alone Again (Naturally)
    Alone Again (Naturally)

    "Alone Again " is a song by the Irish people singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972, and in total spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at No.1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 single record chart....
    " - Gilbert O'Sullivan
    Gilbert O'Sullivan

    Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish people singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hit record "Alone Again ", "Clair " and "Get Down". His unusual image - Shorts, flat cap and Bowl cut Hairstyle - helped to launch the successful international career of the performer....
  • "America
    America (Paul Simon song)

    "America", written by Paul Simon, was originally by 1960s folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, of which he was a member. It was included in their album Bookends, released on 3 April 1968....
    " - Simon and Garfunkel
    Simon and Garfunkel

    Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
  • "American Pie" - Don McLean
    Don McLean

    Don McLean is an United States singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie , containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent "....
  • "Anticipation
    Anticipation (song)

    "Anticipation" is a song by Carly Simon. It was the most famous track from her 1971 Anticipation , reaching #13 on the U.S. pop charts. The song relates Simon's state of mind as she waits to go on a date with Cat Stevens....
    " - Carly Simon
    Carly Simon

    Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  • "Baby Blue
    Baby blue

    At right is displayed the color baby blue. The color baby blue as shown here is identical to the web color light cyan. Baby blue is known as one of the pastel colors....
    " - Badfinger
    Badfinger

    Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
  • "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me
    Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me

    "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" was a hit song by country music and pop music singer-songwriter Mac Davis. Coming from his breakthrough album of the same name, the song reached No....
    " - Mac Davis
    Mac Davis

    Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis , is a country music singer and songwriter originally from Lubbock, Texas, Texas who has enjoyed much pop music Crossover success....
  • "Back Off Boogaloo
    Back Off Boogaloo

    Back Off Boogaloo is a 1972 in music single released by Ringo Starr. The song was a hit in the U.S. reaching #9 on the US Hot 100 and hit #2 on the UK Singles Chart....
    " - Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
  • "Back Stabbers
    Back Stabbers

    Back Stabbers is a studio album by Philadelphia soul group The O'Jays, released in August of 1972 on Philadelphia International Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972....
    " - The O'Jays
    The O'Jays

    The O'Jays are a Cleveland Ohio-based soul/R&B group, originally consisting of Walter Williams , Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell and Eddie Levert ....
  • "Bang a Gong" - T. Rex
    T.Rex (band)

    'T.Rex' were an English rock music band fronted by guitarist, singer and songwriter Marc Bolan. Formed as 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' in 1960s London, the folk rock group's debut album My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair......
  • "Beautiful Sunday" - Daniel Boone
    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone [October 22 , 1734 – September 26, 1820] was an American pioneer and hunting whose frontier exploits made him one of the first Folklore of the United States of the United States....
  • "Been to Canaan" - Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  • "Ben
    Ben (song)

    "Ben" is a number-one hit song recorded by the Adolescence Michael Jackson for the Motown Records label in 1972 in music. The song, the theme of a Ben , spent one week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100....
    "- Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • "Best Thing" - Styx
    Styx (band)

    Styx is an American Rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Mr. Roboto", "Babe ", "Lady ", "Blue Collar Man" and "The Best of Times ." Styx is the first band to have four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the RIAA....
  • "Betcha By Golly, Wow" - The Stylistics
    The Stylistics

    The Stylistics were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul musical ensemble of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and comprised lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn....
  • "Black and White" - Three Dog Night
    Three Dog Night

    Three Dog Night is an United States rock band, best known for their music from 1968?1975. They were still making live appearances and recordings in 2008....
  • "Black Dog
    Black Dog (song)

    "Black Dog" is a song by England rock band Led Zeppelin, which is featured as the lead-off track of their Led Zeppelin IV, released in 1971. It was also released as a single in the US and Australia with "Misty Mountain Hop" on the B-side, and reached #15 on Billboard and #11 in Australia....
    "- Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
  • "Brand New Key
    Brand New Key

    "Brand New Key" is a pop song written by folk singer Melanie , which became a novelty record hit in 1971-2. Taken from Melanie's album Gather Me the song was her biggest hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in December 1971 and January 1972....
    " - Melanie
    Melanie Safka

    Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an United States singer-songwriter.Usually known professionally as Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Lay Down " and "What They Done To My Song Ma"....
  • "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
    Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)

    "Brandy " is a 1972 in music pop music written by Elliot Lurie and recorded by Lurie's band Looking Glass on their debut album Looking Glass....
    " - Looking Glass
    Looking Glass (band)

    Looking Glass was an United States pop music Musical ensemble of the early 1970s that was part of the Jersey Shore sound. They are best remembered for their million selling 1972 song, "Brandy "....
  • "Burning Love
    Burning Love

    "Burning Love" is a song written by Dennis Linde and made famous by Elvis Presley. Elvis recorded it at RCA's Hollywood studios on March 28, 1972....
    " - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "California Man
    California Man (song)

    California Man is a song by The Move.Released in 1972 as a maxi single with "Do Ya" and "Ella James" as a double B-side, this was The Move's swan song exit, as the Electric Light Orchestra had already been launched with the first ELO single 10538 Overture released only a month after this track....
    " - The Move
    The Move

    The Move were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s from Birmingham, England, and were among the most popular British bands to not find any success in the US....
  • "The Candy Man
    The Candy Man

    "The Candy Man" is a song from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film and does not appear in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....
    " - Sammy Davis Jr.
  • "Children of the Revolution
    Children of the Revolution

    "Children of the Revolution" is a song by T. Rex , written by Marc Bolan. It was a #2 hit single in September 1972. The song broke their sequence of four official single releases all reaching #1 ....
    " - T. Rex
  • "Cisco Kid" - War
    War

    ...
  • "The City Of New Orleans" - Arlo Guthrie
    Arlo Guthrie

    Arlo Davy Guthrie is an United States folk music singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings protest song against social injustice....
  • "Clair
    Clair (song)

    "Clair" is a popular song by Irish people singer and songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan and is one of his biggest selling singles. Written by O'Sullivan and produced by Gordon Mills, it was the number one single in the UK for two weeks in November 1972 and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA....
    " - Gilbert O'Sullivan
    Gilbert O'Sullivan

    Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish people singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hit record "Alone Again ", "Clair " and "Get Down". His unusual image - Shorts, flat cap and Bowl cut Hairstyle - helped to launch the successful international career of the performer....
  • "Clean Up Woman
    Clean Up Woman

    "Clean Up Woman" is a 1971 song, sound recording and reproduction by Betty Wright, that reached #5 on both the United States Billboard Hot 100 & Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs record chart....
    " - Betty Wright
    Betty Wright

    Betty Wright ) is a soul music and Rhythm and blues singing, who influenced a generation of female singer-songwriters and also influenced the world of Hip hop music, who sampling some of her more famous material....
  • "Coconut
    Coconut (song)

    "Coconut" is a Calypso music written and first recorded by Harry Nilsson....
    " - Harry Nilsson
    Harry Nilsson

    Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
  • "Conquistador" - Procol Harum
    Procol Harum

    Procol Harum are a United Kingdom Rock music band, formed in the 1960s, which built an important foundation for what would become progressive rock, or perhaps more closely, symphonic rock....
  • "The Cover of the "Rolling Stone" - Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
  • "Crocodile Rock
    Crocodile Rock

    "Crocodile Rock" is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and recorded in June 1972 at the Strawberry Studios, Ch?teau d'H?rouville in France....
    " - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" - Wayne Newton
    Wayne Newton

    Carson Wayne Newton is an United States singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born in Roanoke, Virginia. While Newton was still a child, his family moved to a home near Newark, Ohio....
  • "Day After Day
    Day After Day

    Day After Day could refer to:*Day After Day , a novel by Carlo Lucarelli*Day After Day , a song by Badfinger from their album Straight Up ...
    " - Badfinger
    Badfinger

    Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
  • "Day by Day
    Day by Day (song)

    "Day by Day" is a popular music song with music by Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston and lyrics by Sammy Cahn....
    " - Godspell
    Godspell

    Godspell is a 1970 musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since....
  • "The Day I Found Myself" - Honey Cone
    Honey Cone

    Honey Cone was an United States R&B and soul singing girl group who was most famous for the Billboard hit, "Want Ads". They were the premier female group for Hot Wax Records, operated by the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland writing and producing team in the very early-1970s after the team departed from Motown Records....
  • "Day Dreaming
    Day Dreaming (song)

    "Day Dreaming" is a soul music single by United States singer Aretha Franklin. Released from her album, Young, Gifted and Black, it spent two weeks at the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart in April 1972 and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100....
    " - Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  • "Diary
    Diary (song)

    "Diary" is a song by American contemporary R&B-soul music singer Alicia Keys, featuring the American R&B-soul group Tony! Toni! Ton?!. Written by Keys and Kerry Brothers, Jr., the song was released in June 2004 as the third single from Keys' third studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys ....
    " - Bread
    Bread (band)

    Bread was a 1970s Rock music/Pop music band from Los Angeles, California, California. They were one of the most popular rock groups of the early 1970s, a primary example of what later was labeled "soft rock", releasing a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles....
  • "Doctor My Eyes
    Doctor My Eyes

    "Doctor My Eyes" is a 1972 in music song written and performed by Jackson Browne and included on his debut album Jackson Browne . Featuring a combination of an upbeat piano riff ? accidentally found courtesy of an instrument with a broken action that Browne was writing songs on ? together with Browne's trademark big poetic vision, it was...
    " - Jackson Browne
    Jackson Browne

    Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  • "Do it Again" - Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  • "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" - James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  • "Don't Say You Don't Remember" - Beverly Bremers
    Beverly Bremers

    Beverly Bremers is an American singer and actress born in Chicago, Illinois. She released an album on Scepter Records in 1972 entitled I'll Make You Music, which reached #124 on the U.S....
  • "Everybody Plays the Fool
    Everybody Plays the Fool

    "Everybody Plays the Fool" is the title of a popular song written by J.R. Bailey, Rudy Clark and Ken Williams. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Grammy Award for Best R&B Song at the Grammy Awards of 1973....
    " - The Main Ingredient
    The Main Ingredient

    The Main Ingredient is an United States soul music and Rhythm and blues group best known for their 1972 hit record song, "Everybody Plays the Fool"....
  • "Everything I Own
    Everything I Own

    "Everything I Own" is a popular song written by David Gates. Originally recorded by Gates' band Bread for their 1972 in music album Baby, I'm a Want You the song quickly became a popular standard recorded by The Connells, Jack Jones , Ken Boothe, Olivia Newton-John, Georgie Fame, Boy George, *NSYNC, Jude , Rod Stewart, Nicole Scherzinge...
    " - Bread
    Bread (band)

    Bread was a 1970s Rock music/Pop music band from Los Angeles, California, California. They were one of the most popular rock groups of the early 1970s, a primary example of what later was labeled "soft rock", releasing a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles....
  • "Eye Level" - Simon Park Orchestra
    Simon Park Orchestra

    The Simon Park Orchestra is a group which is most notable for sound recording and reproduction the instrumental, "Eye Level", which spent four weeks at the chart-topper position in the UK Singles Chart in September 1973....
  • "Family Affair
    Family Affair

    Family Affair is a situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis , as he attempted to raise his sister's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment....
    " - Sly and The Family Stone
  • "The Family of Man
    The Family of Man

    The Family of Man was a photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen first shown in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.According to Steichen, the exhibition represented the 'culmination of his career'....
    " - Three Dog Night
    Three Dog Night

    Three Dog Night is an United States rock band, best known for their music from 1968?1975. They were still making live appearances and recordings in 2008....
  • "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who was later to become his wife. It was popularized by Roberta Flack and became a breakout hit for the singer after it appeared in the film Play Misty for Me....
    " - Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
  • "Footstompin' Music" - Grand Funk Railroad
    Grand Funk Railroad

    Grand Funk Railroad is an United States Rock music band. The Grand Funk Railroad lineup was highly popular during the 1970s, selling over 25 million records, selling out arenas worldwide and being awarded four RIAA gold albums in 1970, the most for any American group that year....
  • "Freddie's Dead (Theme From Superfly)" - Curtis Mayfield
  • "Garden Party" - Rick Nelson
    Ricky Nelson

    Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson , was an United States singer, musician and actor. With more than 50 Billboard Hot 100 hits, Nelson was second to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the late 1950s....
  • "Geronimo's Cadillac" - Michael Murphy
    Michael Murphy

    Michael Murphy may refer to:* Michael Murphy , American actor* Michael Murphy , American Integral Movement author and co-founder of the Esalen Institute...
  • "Get on the Good Foot pt.1" - James Brown
    James Brown

    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  • "Give Ireland Back to the Irish
    Give Ireland Back to the Irish

    "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is a Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney song written in response to the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland on 30 January 1972....
    " - Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  • "Go All the Way
    Go All the Way

    Go All the Way is a 1980 album released by The Isley Brothers for their T-Neck Records imprint. The album is notable for the Billboard and Billboard Rhythm and blues ballad, "Don't Say Goodnight "....
    " - The Raspberries
    The Raspberries

    Raspberries are a power pop/rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, United States. They had a brief run of success in the 1970s with Beatleesque songs, recalling the heyday of the 1960's "British Invasion"....
  • "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" - Danny O'Keefe
    Danny O'Keefe

    Danny O'Keefe is a United States based singer-songwriter, born in Spokane, Washington, Washington, in 1943. O'Keefe's musical career has spanned four decades from his early days playing in the Minnesota coffee houses to his present station in the Seattle area....
  • "Goodbye to Love
    Goodbye to Love

    "Goodbye to Love" is a song composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis. It was released by the Carpenters in 1972. On the "Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters" documentary, Tony Peluso stated that this was one of the first, if not the first, love ballads to have a fuzz guitar solo....
    " - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • "Guitar Man
    Guitar Man

    Guitar Man is the fifth album released by Bread in 1972.In 2004 Cake covered "The Guitar Man" on their album Pressure Chief.In 2005, American Idol star Bo Bice used the chorus of "The Guitar Man" as the basis for the chorus of his hit song The Real Thing ....
    " - Bread
    Bread (band)

    Bread was a 1970s Rock music/Pop music band from Los Angeles, California, California. They were one of the most popular rock groups of the early 1970s, a primary example of what later was labeled "soft rock", releasing a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles....
  • "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA
    The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA

    "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" is a country music and pop music song written and recorded by Donna Fargo. It is written in the voice of a newlywed girl, sung to her new husband....
    " - Donna Fargo
    Donna Fargo

    Donna Fargo is an United States, who is best-known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s. This includes "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA" and "Funny Face," which both became major crossover Pop music hits in 1972 in country music....
  • "Happy
    Happy (Rolling Stones song)

    "Happy" is the tenth track on the Rolling Stones' 1972 album Exile on Main St. Keith Richards sings lead vocals. Released as the second single from the album in July 1972, it reached number 22 in the US charts....
    " - Rolling Stones
  • "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
    Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

    "Happy Xmas " is a Christmas song made famous by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the The Plastic Ono Band. It was recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City in late October of 1971 in music, with the help of producer Phil Spector....
    " - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  • "Have You Seen Her
    Have You Seen Her

    "Have You Seen Her" is a chart-topper song sound recording and reproduction by the soul music human voice band , The Chi-Lites, and released on Brunswick Records in 1971....
    " - The Chi-Lites
    The Chi-Lites

    The Chi-Lites are a Chicago based smooth soul human voice musical ensemble. Allmusic music journalism, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, states "led by singing Eugene Record, the Chi-Lites had a lush, creamy sound distinguished by their four-part harmony and layered record producer....
  • "Heart of Gold
    Heart of Gold (song)

    "Heart of Gold" from the 1972 album Harvest is Neil Young's only number one hit single in his long musical career. Rolling Stone ranked it #297 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time....
    " - Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • "Hi, Hi, Hi" - Wings
  • "Hold Your Head Up" - Argent
    Argent (band)

    Argent were an England Rock music Musical ensemble founded in 1969 by keyboardist Rod Argent, formerly of The Zombies.The first three demo from Argent, recorded in the autumn of 1968 featured Mac MacLeod on bass guitar....
  • "Honky Cat
    Honky Cat

    "Honky Cat" is a song from the 1972 Elton John album Honky Chateau. It is the first song on the album, and had a running time of five minutes ten seconds....
    " - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • "Hot Rod Lincoln
    Hot Rod Lincoln

    "Hot Rod Lincoln" was recorded as an answer song to "Hot Rod Race" in 1955. It was written by Charlie Ryan and W. S. Stevenson. It was first recorded by Ryan, recording as Charlie Ryan and The Livingston Brothers.....
    " - Commander Cody
    Commander Cody

    Commander Cody may refer to:* The stage name of George Frayne, leader of the rock and roll band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, and, informally, the band itself...
     & His Lost Planet Airmen
  • "How Do You Do" - Mouth & MacNeal
    Mouth & MacNeal

    Mouth & MacNeal was a pop music duet from The Netherlands. They were formed in 1971 when record producer Hans van Hemert brought together the solo talents of Mouth and Maggie MacNeal together....
  • "Hurting Each Other
    Hurting Each Other

    "Hurting Each Other" is a song popularized by the Carpenters in 1972. It was originally written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell in 1965, and was recorded multiple times by artists from Ruby and the Romantics to Rosemary Clooney....
    " - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • "I Am Woman
    I Am Woman

    "I Am Woman" is a song cowritten by Helen Reddy and singer/songwriter/guitarist Ray Burton and performed by Reddy. Released in its most well-known version in 1972, the song became an enduring anthem for the Women's Movement in the United States ....
    " - Helen Reddy
    Helen Reddy

    Helen Reddy is an Australian/American singer-songwriter. She has won a Grammy Award, been a theatrical stage performer appearing on Broadway theatre, an actress in feature films and credited with writing and singing one of the most iconic and culturally significant songs of the 1970s, "I Am Woman"....
  • "I Can See Clearly Now
    I Can See Clearly Now

    "I Can See Clearly Now" is a song written and recorded by Johnny Nash. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972....
    " - Johnny Nash
    Johnny Nash

    Johnny Nash is an African-American popular music singer-songwriter, best known for his unexpected 1972 comeback chart-topper, "I Can See Clearly Now"....
  • "I Gotcha
    I Gotcha (Joe Tex song)

    "I Gotcha" is a song by Joe Tex. Tex originally intended for the song to be recorded by King Floyd, but Floyd never recorded a version of it. Instead, Tex went ahead and recorded it himself in the late 1960's, but ended up not releasing it....
    " - Joe Tex
    Joe Tex

    Joe Tex , was an United States soul music and disco singer-songwriter most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His style of speaking over music, which he called 'rap music', made him a predecessor of the modern style of music....
  • "I Need You" - America
    America (band)

    America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972....
  • "I Saw The Light
    I Saw The Light (Todd Rundgren song)

    "I Saw the Light" is the opening track from Todd Rundgren's 1972 Something/Anything? double album which was one of the first artist-written, -produced and -performed albums....
    " - Todd Rundgren
    Todd Rundgren

    Todd Harry Rundgren , is an United States musician, singer-songwriter and record producer....
  • "I Wanna Be Where You Are
    I Wanna Be Where You Are

    "I Wanna Be Where You Are" is a song written by Leon Ware and Arthur "T-Boy" Ross for Michael Jackson, who took the song to number sixteen on the U.S....
    " - Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • "I Want To Be With You" - The Raspberries
    The Raspberries

    Raspberries are a power pop/rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, United States. They had a brief run of success in the 1970s with Beatleesque songs, recalling the heyday of the 1960's "British Invasion"....
  • "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
    I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing

    "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing " is a pop music song which originated as an advertising jingle, produced by Roquel Billy Davis and sung by the Hillside Singers, for Coca-Cola, and was featured in 1971 as a television commercial....
    " - The New Seekers
    The New Seekers

    The New Seekers were a United Kingdom-based pop music band , formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. The idea was that the New Seekers would appeal to the same market as the original Seekers, but their music had rock as well as folk influences....
  • "I'd Love You to Want Me
    I'd Love You to Want Me

    "I'd Love You to Want Me" is the title of a popular song from 1972 by Roland Kent Lavoie, who performed using the stage name Lobo . Lavioe wrote the song, which appears on his album Of a Simple Man....
    " - Lobo
    Lobo (musician)

    Lobo , is an United States singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s, scoring several Top 10 hits, including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo," "I'd Love You to Want Me" and "Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend." Lobo's songs have been characterised by their sweet melodies, sumptuous instrumentation and soulful lyrics....
  • "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right" - Luther Ingram
    Luther Ingram

    ###Luther Ingram was an Rhythm and blues and Soul music singing and songwriter....
  • "If You Don't Know Me By Now
    If You Don't Know Me By Now

    "If You Don't Know Me by Now" is a song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and recorded by the Philadelphia soul musical group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, which became their first hit after being released as a single in 1972, topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
    " - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
  • "I'll Be Around
    I'll Be Around

    Songs named "I'll Be Around" include:*"I'll Be Around ," a 1942 in music popular music/jazz classic song by Alec Wilder*"I'll Be Around ," a 1972 in music song by The Spinners ...
    " - The Spinners
  • "I'll Take You There
    I'll Take You There

    "I'll Take You There" is a number-one single written by Alvertis Isbell, produced by Al Bell and performed by soul music/gospel music family band The Staple Singers, released on Stax Records in February of 1972 ....
    " - The Staple Singers
    The Staple Singers

    The Staple Singers were an United States Gospel music, soul music, and R&B singing group. Pops Staples , the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha , Pervis , Yvonne , and Mavis Staples ....
  • "Immigration Man
    Immigration Man

    "Immigration Man" is a song recorded by David Crosby and Graham Nash as a duo, from 1972. It was released as a single and was also the closing track on Crosby and Nash's first duo album, Graham Nash/David Crosby ....
    " - Crosby & Nash
    Crosby & Nash

    The musical team of David Crosby and Graham Nash perform as a duo during Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young hiatuses....
  • "I'm Still in Love with You
    I'm Still in Love with You (Al Green song)

    "I'm Still in Love With You" is a song recorded by Al Green. Released from the album of the same title, the single spent two weeks at #1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart in April, 1972....
    " - Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • "I'm Stone in Love With You" - The Stylistics
    The Stylistics

    The Stylistics were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul musical ensemble of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and comprised lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn....
  • "In the Rain
    In the Rain

    In the Rain is an apocalyptic folk music album released by Tony Wakeford's England Industrial music and Paganism neoclassicism group Sol Invictus , in 1995 in music....
    " - The Dramatics
    The Dramatics

    The Dramatics are an United States soul music vocal group, formed in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1962. They are best known for their 1972 hit song, the million selling "In the Rain "....
  • "Isn't Life Strange" - The Moody Blues
    The Moody Blues

    The Moody Blues are an England band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressi...
  • "It Never Rains in Southern California
    It Never Rains in Southern California

    "It Never Rains in Southern California", written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, is the title of a song first released by singer/songwriter Albert Hammond in 1972....
    " - Albert Hammond
    Albert Hammond

    Albert Hammond is a singer-songwriter, whose family came originally from Gibraltar. Hammond is one of the more successful pop music/rock music songwriters to come out of England during the 1960s and 1970s, and has also enjoyed a long career as a recording artist, his work popular in two languages on three continents across four decades....
  • "It's Going to Take Some Time
    It's Going to Take Some Time

    It's Going to Take Some Time is a song written by Carole King and Toni Stern for her 1971 Music album. It was redone by the Carpenters in 1972 for their fourth album, A Song for You ....
    " - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  • "Too Late to Turn Back Now
    Too Late to Turn Back Now

    Too Late to Turn Back Now is the title of a 1977 album by the progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, on the Flying Fish Records label....
    " - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
  • "Jesus Is Just Alright
    Jesus Is Just Alright

    "Jesus Is Just Alright" is a song written in 1969 by Arthur Reid Reynolds. The song was recorded by The Byrds for their 1969 album Ballad of Easy Rider and released as the second single from the album, but it barely scraped the US charts, peaking at #97....
    " - The Doobie Brothers
    The Doobie Brothers

    The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
  • "John, I'm Only Dancing
    John, I'm Only Dancing

    "John, I?m Only Dancing" is a single by David Bowie, released in September 1972. The song was widely believed to be concerned with a homosexual relationship, the narrator informing his boyfriend not to worry about the girl he's with because he's "only dancing" with her....
    " - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • "Join Together" - The Who
    The Who

    The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  • "Joy" - Apollo 100
    Apollo 100

    Apollo 100 was a short-lived United Kingdom instrumental recording studio based band that had a chart-topper with the Johann Sebastian Bach-inspired single "Joy" in 1972....
  • "Jump Into the Fire" - Harry Nilsson
    Harry Nilsson

    Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
  • "Jungle Fever" - The Chakachas (Roland Klywger under an assumed group name)
  • "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep At All" - The Fifth Dimension
    The Fifth Dimension

    The Fifth Dimension, also known as The 5th Dimension, is a multiple Grammy-winning United States popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, Rhythm and blues, Soul music, and jazz....
  • "Layla
    Layla

    "Layla" is the title track on the Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December 1970. It is considered one of rock and roll's definitive love songs, featuring an unmistakable guitar figure , played by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman, and a piano coda that comprises the second half of the song....
    " - Derek & the Dominoes
  • "Lean on Me
    Lean on Me (song)

    "Lean on Me" is a hit song written and performed by Bill Withers on the 1972 album Still Bill. It is ranked number 205 on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
    " - Bill Withers
    Bill Withers

    Bill Withers is an United States singer-songwriter and hall-of-fame songwriter who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Ain't No Sunshine," "Use Me ," "Lovely Day ," "Lean on Me ", "Grandma's Hands", and "Just the Two of Us "....
  • "Legend In Your Own Time" - Carly Simon
    Carly Simon

    Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  • "Let's Stay Together
    Let's Stay Together (song)

    "Let's Stay Together" is a song by Al Green on his 1972 album Let's Stay Together . It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks....
    " - Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • "The Lion Sleeps Tonight
    The Lion Sleeps Tonight

    "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" began as a 1939 African popular music hit "Mbube" that, in modified versions, also became a hit in the United States and United Kingdom....
    " - Robert John
    Robert John

    Robert John is an United States singer-songwriter. He is best remembered for the 1979 hit single, "Sad Eyes". This song, which features John's falsetto human voice, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 that summer....
  • "Listen to The Music" - The Doobie Brothers
    The Doobie Brothers

    The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
  • "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" - Hollies
  • "Look What You Done For Me" - Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • "Love Theme From "The Godfather" - Andy Williams
    Andy Williams

    Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is a legendary American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 gold and three platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure"....
  • "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

    "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" is a song by Paul Simon, written in 1971, from the 1972 album Paul Simon . The song reached number twenty-two on the U.S....
    " - Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • "Me and Mrs. Jones
    Me and Mrs. Jones

    "Me and Mrs. Jones" was a number-one single originally performed by soul music singer Billy Paul, recorded and released in 1972 on CBS Records' Epic Records imprint....
    " - Billy Paul
    Billy Paul

    Billy Paul is a Grammy Awards of 1973#R.26B winning United States soul music singer, most known for his 1972 chart topper single , "Me and Mrs....
  • "Metal Guru
    Metal Guru

    "Metal Guru" is a song by the United Kingdom rock music band T.Rex , written by Marc Bolan. It was the band's the fourth number one on the UK Singles Chart when it topped the chart for four weeks in May-June 1972....
    " - T. Rex
  • "Mother and Child Reunion
    Mother and Child Reunion

    "Mother and Child Reunion" is a song written by Paul Simon and is on his Paul Simon . It was released as a single in 1972, and reached #4 on the American charts....
    " - Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • "Motorcycle Mama" - Sailcat
    Sailcat

    Sailcat was a short-lived American rock and roll band. They were a one-hit wonder who scored a hit single in the summer of 1972 with the song "Motorcycle Mama"....
  • "My Ding-A-Ling
    My Ding-a-Ling

    "My Ding-a-Ling" was a 1972 novelty song hit record for Chuck Berry, and his only United States number-one single on the pop charts. Later that year the song was on the album "The London Chuck Berry Sessions"....
    " - Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry

    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  • "Never Been to Spain" - Three Dog Night
    Three Dog Night

    Three Dog Night is an United States rock band, best known for their music from 1968?1975. They were still making live appearances and recordings in 2008....
  • "Nice to Be With You" - Gallery
    Gallery

    Gallery may refer to:* An art gallery* Gallery , an element in architecture: a long hallway or long, narrow room, frequently decorated with sculptures and frescoes...
  • "No One to Depend On" - Santana
    Santana (band)

    Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....
  • "Oh Girl
    Oh Girl

    "Oh Girl" is a Chart-topper single sound recording and reproduction by the soul music human voice band , The Chi-Lites and released on Brunswick Records in 1972 in music....
    " - The Chi-Lites
    The Chi-Lites

    The Chi-Lites are a Chicago based smooth soul human voice musical ensemble. Allmusic music journalism, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, states "led by singing Eugene Record, the Chi-Lites had a lush, creamy sound distinguished by their four-part harmony and layered record producer....
  • "Old Man" - Neil Young
    Neil Young

    Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  • "One Monkee Don't Stop No Show" - Honey Cone
    Honey Cone

    Honey Cone was an United States R&B and soul singing girl group who was most famous for the Billboard hit, "Want Ads". They were the premier female group for Hot Wax Records, operated by the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland writing and producing team in the very early-1970s after the team departed from Motown Records....
  • "Operator
    Operator (song)

    "Operator" is a Motown Sound song recorded by Motown vocalists Mary Wells and Brenda Holloway. The Wells version was the b-side to her top ten hit, "Two Lovers " while Holloway's was issued as a single in 1965....
    " - Jim Croce
    Jim Croce

    James Joseph Croce , popularly known as Jim Croce, was an United States singer-songwriter.Croce scored a handful of hit songs in the first of half of the '70s, but died in an airplane crash just as he was beginning to capitalize on his success....
  • "Outta-Space" - Billy Preston
    Billy Preston

    William Everett "Billy" Preston was an United States soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little...
  • "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
    Papa Was a Rollin' Stone

    "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a soul music song, written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong as a single for Motown act The Undisputed Truth in 1971....
    " - The Temptations
    The Temptations

    The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
  • "Paper Plane" - Status Quo
    Status Quo

    Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  • "People Need Love
    People Need Love

    "People Need Love" was the first single released by the Swedish pop quartet "Bj?rn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid," which would eventually become the group ABBA....
    " - ABBA
    ABBA

    ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
         (in Japan)
  • "Pieces of April" - Three Dog Night
    Three Dog Night

    Three Dog Night is an United States rock band, best known for their music from 1968?1975. They were still making live appearances and recordings in 2008....
  • "Precious and Few" - Climax
    Climax (band)

    Climax was a musical ensemble formed in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, California, most noted for their 1972 hit record song "Precious and Few," which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  • "Puppy Love
    Puppy Love (song)

    "Puppy Love" is a popular song written by Paul Anka in 1960 for Annette Funicello, with whom he was dating at the time. Anka's version reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #33 on the UK singles chart....
    " - Donny Osmond
    Donny Osmond

    Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an United States singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author....
  • "Respect Yourself" - The Staple Singers
    The Staple Singers

    The Staple Singers were an United States Gospel music, soul music, and R&B singing group. Pops Staples , the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha , Pervis , Yvonne , and Mavis Staples ....
  • "Rock and Roll Part 1 + 2
    Rock and Roll (Gary Glitter song)

    "Rock and Roll", also known as "The Hey Song," is a song performed by United Kingdom glam rocker Gary Glitter that was released in 1972 as a single and on the album Glitter ....
    " - Gary Glitter
    Gary Glitter

    Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
  • "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" - Johnny Rivers
    Johnny Rivers

    Johnny Rivers is an United States rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was versatile enough to do folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material....
  • "Rockin' Robin
    Rockin' Robin

    Rockin' Robin usually refers to either:* Rockin' Robin , Robin Smith, a professional female wrestler* Rockin' Robin , a rock 'n' roll song...
    " - Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • "Rock Me Baby
    Rock Me Baby

    Rock Me Baby was an United States television series. It is a comedy / drama that debuted on September 15, 2003 on UPN. Rock Me Baby stars actor and comedian Dan Cortese as Jimmy Cox, co-host of a popular Denver radio show with his best friend, Carl, played by Carl Anthony Payne II....
    " - Sacha Distel
    Sacha Distel

    Sacha Distel , was a France singer who had hits such as a cover version of the Academy Award for Best Original Song winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" , "Scoubidou" and "The Good Life "....
     (dubbed)
  • "Rocket Man
    Rocket Man

    "Rocket Man " is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and originally performed by John. It is loosely based on the short story "The Rocket Man" in Ray Bradbury's book The Illustrated Man, and echoes the theme of David Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity" ....
    " - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • "Roundabout
    Roundabout (song)

    "Roundabout" is the track which opens the 1971 album Fragile produced by United Kingdom progressive rock band Yes . In 1972, an edited version of the song was released as a single with "Long Distance Runaround" on the B side....
    " - Yes
    Yes (band)

    Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  • "Run to Me
    Run to Me

    "Run to Me" was the second single from Angela Winbush's solo debut, Sharp. The single reached number four on the R&B Billboard magazine, it followed the albums debut album "Angel", which spent two weeks at the top of the R&B US Billboard chart....
    " - Bee Gees
    Bee Gees

    The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
  • "Saturday In the Park" - Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  • "School's Out
    School's Out (song)

    "School's Out" is a 1972 in music title track single released on Alice Cooper's School's Out .Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question, "What's the greatest three minutes of your life?"....
    " - Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  • "Scorpio
    Scorpio (song)

    "Scorpio" also can refer to a song by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band"Scorpio" is the title song of a South Korean rock band The TRAX....
    " - Dennis Coffey
    Dennis Coffey

    Dennis Coffey is an United States guitarist. He was a recording studio musician for many soul music and Rhythm and blues sound recording and reproduction....
     & The Detroit Guitar Band
  • "Signs
    Signs (song)

    "Signs" is the third single from rapper Snoop Dogg's seventh studio album, R&G : The Masterpiece . It was produced by The Neptunes, and it features singers Charlie Wilson and Justin Timberlake....
    " - The Drifters
    The Drifters

    The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
  • "Small Beginnings" - Flash
    Flash (band)

    Flash was a short-lived English people progressive rock band , formed by former Yes guitarist Peter Banks and singer Colin Carter in 1972. Bassist Ray Bennett, drummer Mike Hough and ex-Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye completed the line-up....
  • "Solid Gold Easy Action" - T. Rex (band)
  • "Someday Never Comes" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • "Something's Wrong With Me" - Austin Roberts
    Austin Roberts

    Austin Roberts was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa, first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the region: his work The mammals of South Africa was published posthumously in 1951....
  • "Song Sung Blue
    Song Sung Blue

    "Song Sung Blue" is a 1972 in music song written and recorded by Neil Diamond. The song was released off his album, Moods and later appeared on many of Diamond's live and compilation albums....
    " - Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • "Spaceman
    Spaceman (song)

    "Spaceman" is a song by Wolverhampton, England singer?songwriter Jas Mann, of Babylon Zoo. Known for its heavily distorted guitars and metallic, robotic-sounding vocals, it went straight to Number 1 on the UK singles chart on January 21, 1996, selling 418,000 copies in the first week of release....
    " - Harry Nilsson
    Harry Nilsson

    Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
  • "Speak To The Sky" - Rick Springfield
    Rick Springfield

    Rick Springfield is an Australian-United States songwriter, musician and actor. As a musician he is most famous for the 1981 in music #1 single "Jessie's Girl", which became a Grammy Award-winning landmark of 1980s pop music-rock music and helped establish the emerging music video age....
  • "Starman
    Starman (song)

    "Starman" is a single by David Bowie, released in April 1972. The song was a late addition to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, included at the insistence of RCA Records?s Dennis Katz, who heard a demo and loved the track, believing it would make a great single....
    " - David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  • "Stay with Me
    Stay with Me (Faces song)

    "Stay with Me", possibly the best known song by the band Faces , is from their 1971 in music album A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse....
    " - The Faces
  • "Suavecito" - Malo
    Malo

    Malo was a Latin music tinged rock and roll band . The San Francisco, California, California based ensemble was led by Jorge Santana, the sibling of famed Latin-Rock guitarist, Carlos Santana....
  • "Sugar Daddy" - The Jackson 5
    The Jackson 5

    The Jackson 5 was a two-time Grammy Award-nominated American popular music Jackson family Musical ensemble from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally co...
  • "Summer Breeze
    Summer Breeze (song)

    "Summer Breeze" is a 1972 soft rock, top-10-charting single by Seals & Crofts that has been covered by The Isley Brothers, the Three Tenors and several other artists....
    " - Seals & Crofts
  • "Sunshine
    Sunshine (song)

    "Sunshine" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the united states pop music band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1980 album Keepin' the Summer Alive....
    " - Jonathan Edwards
  • "Superstition
    Superstition (song)

    "Superstition" is a popular song written, produced, arranged, and performed by Stevie Wonder for Motown Records in 1972, when Wonder was twenty-two years old....
    " - Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder

    Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  • "Sweet Seasons" - Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  • "Sweet Surrender
    Sweet Surrender

    "Sweet Surrender" was the first single from Wet Wet Wet's third studio album, Holding Back the River. It was released on September 25, 1989, and reached #6 on the UK singles chart....
    " - Bread
    Bread (band)

    Bread was a 1970s Rock music/Pop music band from Los Angeles, California, California. They were one of the most popular rock groups of the early 1970s, a primary example of what later was labeled "soft rock", releasing a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles....
  • "Sylvia's Mother" - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
    Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

    Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show was a pop -country rock band formed around Union City, New Jersey in 1969....
  • "Take It Easy
    Take it Easy

    Take It Easy a spatial Bingo -like game from Ravensburger. Each player gets a board with places for 19 hexagon tiles to place in a hexagon shape....
    " - The Eagles
  • "Taxi
    Taxi (song)

    "Taxi" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin, from his album Heads and Tales . Chapin debuted the song on NBC's The Tonight Show in 1972 which was followed many calls and telegrams from the viewers to NBC demanding Chapin to return to the show....
    " - Harry Chapin
    Harry Chapin

    Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer and songwriter known for folk rock songs such as "Taxi ," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World H...
  • "Telegram Sam
    Telegram Sam

    Telegram Sam was the third UK number one single for the United Kingdom rock music group T. Rex . The song also appeared on their 1972 album The Slider....
    " - T. Rex (band)
  • "Thunder And Lightning
    Thunder and Lightning

    Thunder and Lightning is the twelfth and final studio album by heavy-rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1983 . Following the departure of Snowy White and the appointment of John Sykes, there was a longer delay between 1981's Renegade and this album, released in the UK in March 1983....
    " - Chi Coltrane
    Chi Coltrane

    Chi Coltrane is best known as an United States rock music-pop music-jazz songwriter, pianist, and singer....
  • "Tightrope" - Leon Russell
    Leon Russell

    Leon Russell is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.First known mostly as a session musician, Russell has played with artists as varied as Jerry Lee Lewis, Phil Spector, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Elton John, BB King, Freddie King, Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman...
  • "Tiny Dancer
    Tiny Dancer

    "Tiny Dancer" is a 1971 in music song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It appears on John's fourth album, Madman Across the Water....
    " - Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • "Top of the World
    Top of the World (The Carpenters song)

    "Top of the World" is the name of a 1973 song by The Carpenters. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973, becoming the duo's second U.S. number-one single....
    " - The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
         (in Japan; it became a hit in the U.S. and the UK the following year)
  • "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" - Jimmy Castor Bunch
  • "Trouble Man
    Trouble Man

    Trouble Man is a 1972 blaxploitation film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The film stars Robert Hooks as "Mr. T.", a hard-edged private detective who tends to take justice into his own hands....
    " - Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Gaye

    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
  • "Tumbling Dice
    Tumbling Dice

    "Tumbling Dice" is a Rock and Roll song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones' 1972 double album Exile on Main St. and was the album's first single....
    " - Rolling Stones
  • "Two Divided By Love" - The Grass Roots
    The Grass Roots

    The Grass Roots are a United States rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriter duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri....
  • "Use Me
    Use Me (Withers)

    "Use Me" is a song written, and recorded on the 1972 album Still Bill by Bill Withers. It is his second biggest hit in the U.S., reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    " - Bill Withers
    Bill Withers

    Bill Withers is an United States singer-songwriter and hall-of-fame songwriter who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Ain't No Sunshine," "Use Me ," "Lovely Day ," "Lean on Me ", "Grandma's Hands", and "Just the Two of Us "....
  • "Ventura Highway
    Ventura Highway

    "Ventura Highway" is a popular 1972 song by the rock group America from their album, Homecoming .Vocalist Dewey Bunnell has said that the "alligator lizards in the air" in the song are references to cloud shapes....
    " - America
    America (band)

    America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972....
  • "Vincent
    Vincent

    Vincent is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Latin name Vincentius meaning "conquering" . Vincent may refer to: ...
    " - Don McLean
    Don McLean

    Don McLean is an United States singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie , containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent "....
  • "Virginia Plain
    Virginia Plain

    "Virginia Plain" is a song written in 1972 by Bryan Ferry. It was recorded by his band Roxy Music and became their first single, backed with "The Numberer" ....
    " - Roxy Music
    Roxy Music

    Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
  • "Walking in the Rain With the One I Love" - Love Unlimited
    Love Unlimited

    Love Unlimited was a female vocal trio that provided backing vocals for United States rhythm and blues/soul music singer Barry White on his albums and concert tours....
  • "The Way of Love
    The Way of Love

    "The Way Of Love" is a song written by Jacques Dieval and Al Stillman. The song was originally written in French under the name 'J'ai le mal de toi' and recorded by Lili Castel for the song competition "Musik Ohne Grenzen" on the Belgian radio ....
    " - Cher
    Cher

    Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
  • "Where Is the Love?
    Where Is the Love?

    "Where Is the Love?" is the first single from the Black Eyed Peas' third album, Elephunk Released in 2003, the single peaked at #8 in the USA becoming The Black Eyed Peas' first Top 10 hit; the single also peaked at #1 in Australia and the UK....
    " - Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
     & Donny Hathaway
    Donny Hathaway

    Donny Edward Hathaway was an Grammy Award-winning United States soul music musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto " , Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His collaborations with Roberta Flack took him to the top of the charts and won him the Grammy Awa...
  • "Without You
    Without You

    "Without You" is a song originally recorded by Badfinger for their album No Dice , and written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans and produced by Geoff Emerick....
    " - Harry Nilsson
    Harry Nilsson

    Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
  • "Witchy Woman
    Witchy Woman

    "Witchy Woman" is a song written by Don Henley and Bernie Leadon, and recorded by the American rock band Eagles. Released as the second single from the band's debut album Eagles , it reached #9 on the Billboard Pop singles chart and is the only single from the album to feature Henley on lead vocals....
    " - The Eagles
  • "Woman Is the Nigger of the World
    Woman Is the Nigger of the World

    "Woman is the Nigger of the World" is a 1972 song by John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band. The phrase was originally coined by Yoko Ono during a magazine interview in 1969....
    " - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  • "You Are Everything
    You Are Everything

    "You Are Everything" is a soul music song songwriter by Thom Bell and Linda Creed. Recorded in Philadelphia at Sigma Sound Studios, it was originally released in 1971 as a single record producer by Bell for the Philadelphia soul musical ensemble, The Stylistics....
    " - The Stylistics
    The Stylistics

    The Stylistics were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul musical ensemble of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and comprised lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn....
  • "You Don't Mess Around With Jim
    You Don't Mess Around with Jim

    You Don't Mess Around with Jim is an album by United States singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1972 . The title track and "Time in a Bottle" are two of his most identifiable songs....
    " - Jim Croce
    Jim Croce

    James Joseph Croce , popularly known as Jim Croce, was an United States singer-songwriter.Croce scored a handful of hit songs in the first of half of the '70s, but died in an airplane crash just as he was beginning to capitalize on his success....
  • "You Ought to be With Me" - Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • "You Turn Me On I'm a Radio" - Joni Mitchell
    Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  • "You Wear It Well
    You Wear It Well

    "You Wear It Well" is the name of a song written by Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton. It is usually preceded by "Interludings," the instrumental track previous to it on the album Never a Dull Moment , on many classic rock radio stations....
    " - Rod Stewart
    Rod Stewart

    Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
  • "Your Mama Don't Dance
    Your Mama Don't Dance

    "Your Mama Don't Dance" is a hit 1972 song by the rock duo Loggins and Messina. Released on their self-titled album Loggins and Messina , it reached #4 on the Billboard Billboard Hot 100 and #19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks as a single in early 1973....
    " - Loggins and Messina
    Loggins and Messina

    Loggins and Messina were an United States rock music-pop music duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina who achieved their success in the early to mid 1970s....
  • "You're So Vain
    You're So Vain

    "You're So Vain" is a song written and performed by Carly Simon released in December 1972.The song is a critical profile of a self-absorbed lover....
    " - Carly Simon
    Carly Simon

    Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....


See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1972

Published popular music

"Alone Again" w.m. Raymond O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan

Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish people singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hit record "Alone Again ", "Clair " and "Get Down". His unusual image - Shorts, flat cap and Bowl cut Hairstyle - helped to launch the successful international career of the performer....
 "Alone At A Drive-In Movie"     w.m. Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs is an United States composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters....
 & Warren Casey
Warren Casey

Warren Casey was an United States theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957....
 "American Pie" w.m. Don McLean
Don McLean

Don McLean is an United States singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie , containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent "....
 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" w.m. Jim Croce
Jim Croce

James Joseph Croce , popularly known as Jim Croce, was an United States singer-songwriter.Croce scored a handful of hit songs in the first of half of the '70s, but died in an airplane crash just as he was beginning to capitalize on his success....
 "Beautiful Through and Through" w. Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill was an United States songwriter, theatre composer and lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
 m. Jule Styne
Jule Styne

Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
 from the musical Sugar
Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
 "Beauty School Dropout" w.m. Warren Casey
Warren Casey

Warren Casey was an United States theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957....
 & Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs is an United States composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters....
 from the musical Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
 "The Beauty That Drives Men Mad" w. Bob Merrill
Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill was an United States songwriter, theatre composer and lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
 m. Jule Styne
Jule Styne

Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
 from the musical Sugar
Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
 "Bein' Green
Bein' Green

"Bein' Green" is a popular song originally written by Joe Raposo in 1970 for the first season of the children's show, Sesame Street and it was performed by Kermit the Frog ....
" w.m. Joe Raposo
Joe Raposo

Joseph Guilherme Raposo Jr., Order of Infante D. Henrique was a Portugal-United States composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the Sesame Street Theme, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C i...
 from the television series Sesame Street
Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
. "Blues for Newport" m. Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
 "Born to Hand Jive" w.m. Warren Casey
Warren Casey

Warren Casey was an United States theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957....
 & Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs is an United States composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters....
 from the musical Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
 "Burning Love
Burning Love

"Burning Love" is a song written by Dennis Linde and made famous by Elvis Presley. Elvis recorded it at RCA's Hollywood studios on March 28, 1972....
"    w.m. Dennis Linde
Dennis Linde

Dennis Linde was an American singer and songwriter whose work was primarily in country music.Although he is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love", Dennis Linde wrote numerous hit songs for mainly country music singers, beginning with hits for Roger Miller and Roy Drusky in 1970....
 "C is for Cookie" w.m. Joe Raposo
Joe Raposo

Joseph Guilherme Raposo Jr., Order of Infante D. Henrique was a Portugal-United States composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the Sesame Street Theme, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C i...
 "Clair" w.m. Raymond O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan

Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish people singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hit record "Alone Again ", "Clair " and "Get Down". His unusual image - Shorts, flat cap and Bowl cut Hairstyle - helped to launch the successful international career of the performer....
 "Come Dream With Me" w. Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
 m. Jimmy Van Heusen "Corner of the Sky" w.m. Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked ....
 from the musical Pippin
Pippin (musical)

Pippin is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto....
 "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" - Simon and Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
 Greased Lightning
Greased Lightning

Greased Lightning is a 1977 in film biographical film, starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. Greased Lightning is a film loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American stock car racing champion in the United States....
 w.m. Warren Casey
Warren Casey

Warren Casey was an United States theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957....
 & Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs is an United States composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters....
 from the musical Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
 "I Can See Clearly Now" w.m. Johnny Nash
Johnny Nash

Johnny Nash is an African-American popular music singer-songwriter, best known for his unexpected 1972 comeback chart-topper, "I Can See Clearly Now"....
 "Killing Me Softly with His Song
Killing Me Softly with His Song

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a 1971 song composed by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel. It was inspired by Lori Lieberman's response to having seen a performance by Don McLean....
" w. Norman Gimbel
Norman Gimbel

Norman Gimbel is an United States lyricist of pop songs and movie themes whose nearly-sixty-year career includes such titles as "Sway ", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Meditation " and "I Will Wait for You", along with Academy Award and Grammy Award wins....
 m. Charles Fox
Charles Fox

Charles Fox may refer to:*Charles Douglas Fox , British civil engineer*Charles James Fox , British politician*Charles Fox , film and television composer...
 "Liza With A Z" w. Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb

Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
 m. John Kander
John Kander

John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
 from the television production Liza With A Z "Magic To Do" w.m. Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked ....
. Introduced by Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen

Character Actor Ben Vereen is an United States actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts....
 in the musical Pippin
Pippin (musical)

Pippin is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto....
 "Maybe This Time" w. Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb

Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
 m. John Kander
John Kander

John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
 from the musical film Cabaret
Cabaret (film)

Cabaret is a 1972 in film American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazism under Adolf Hitler....
 "Mooning" w.m. Warren Casey
Warren Casey

Warren Casey was an United States theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957....
 & Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs is an United States composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters....
 from the musical Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
 "The Morning After" w.m. Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha from the film The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure (film)

The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film based on a The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico. It concerns the capsize of a luxurious ocean liner by a tidal wave and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to journey up to the bottom of the hull of the liner before it sinks....
 "No Time at All" w.m. Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career already spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked ....
 from the musical Pippin
Pippin (musical)

Pippin is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto....
 "The Old Fashioned Way" w. Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
, Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha m. George Garvarentz "Ring Them Bells"     w. Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb

Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
 m. John Kander
John Kander

John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
 from the television production Liza With a Z "Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin song)

"Rock and Roll" is a song by England rock and roll band Led Zeppelin, which was first released as the second track from Led Zeppelin IV in 1971....
" - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
 "Shakin' At The High School Hop"     w.m. Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey "Sing" w.m. Joe Raposo
Joe Raposo

Joseph Guilherme Raposo Jr., Order of Infante D. Henrique was a Portugal-United States composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the Sesame Street Theme, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C i...
. Introduced by Bob McGrath
Bob McGrath

Robert Emmet "Bob" McGrath is an American singer and actor best known for playing the human character "Bob" on Sesame Street. He was born in Ottawa, Illinois....
 on Sesame Street
Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
 "Speak Softly, Love"      w. Larry Kusik m. Nino Rota from the film The Godfather
The Godfather

The Godfather is an Cinema of the United States crime film film based on the The Godfather by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne, who was not credited....
 "Summer Nights" w.m. Warren Casey
Warren Casey

Warren Casey was an United States theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957....
 & Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs is an United States composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters....
 from the musical Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
 "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" w.m. Warren Casey
Warren Casey

Warren Casey was an United States theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor.Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957....
 & Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs is an United States composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters....
 from the musical Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
 "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree" w.m. L. Russell Brown & Irwin Levine "Vincent" w.m. Don McLean
Don McLean

Don McLean is an United States singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1971 album American Pie , containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent "....
 "You Are the Sunshine of My Life
You Are the Sunshine of My Life

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 Pop music single released by Stevie Wonder. The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap and Lani Groves....
" w.m. Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...


Classical music

Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Companion of Honour, Royal Victorian Order was a British composer....
 - Metamorphic Variations Friedrich Cerha
Friedrich Cerha

Friedrich Cerha is an Austrian composer and conductor.Cerha received his education at the Viennese Music Academy and at the University of Vienna ....
 - Spiegel George Crumb
George Crumb

George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
 - Makrokosmos, Volume I for amplified piano Mario Davidovsky
Mario Davidovsky

Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
 - Transientes for orchestra Paul Le Flem
Paul Le Flem

Paul Le Flem was a French composer and musician. Born in Brittany, Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel, later teaching at the same establishment, where his pupils included Erik Satie and Andr? Jolivet....
 - Symphony No. 4 Dmitri Kabalevsky
Dmitri Kabalevsky

Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Russians Soviet Union composer.Kabalevsky is regarded as one of the great modern composers of children's music....
 - A Letter to the 30th Century (oratorio) György Ligeti
György Ligeti

Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
 - Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra Theo Loevendie
Theo Loevendie

Theo Loevendie is a Dutch people composer and clarinet player.Loevendie studied musical composition and clarinet at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam....
 - Horn Concerto, "Orbits" George Rochberg
George Rochberg

George Rochberg, was an United States composer of contemporary classical music....
 - Recordanza (Soliloquy for Cello and Piano) Veljo Tormis
Veljo Tormis

Veljo Tormis is an Estonian composer, regarded to be one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia....
 - Curse Upon Iron (Raua needmine)

Opera

Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
 - Taverner Thomas Pasatieri
Thomas Pasatieri

Thomas Pasatieri is an American opera and film composer and pianist.He began composing at age 15 and, as a teenager, studied with Nadia Boulanger....
 - Black Widow Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson (composer)

Charles Mills Wilson is a Canadian composer, choral conductor, and music educator....
 - Héloise and Abelard

Musical theater

Beggar's Opera     Broadway production Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill     Broadway revue opened at the Theatre de Lys on October 1 and ran for 152 performances Company
Company (musical)

Company is a Musical theatre with a book by George Furth and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.Originally entitled Threes, its plot revolves around Bobby , the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends....
 (Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
) - London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre
Her Majesty's Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in the Haymarket, in the City of Westminster. The present building was designed by Charles J....
 on January 18 and ran for 344 performances Cowardy Custard
Cowardy Custard

Cowardy Custard is a musical revue and was one of the last No?l Coward shows staged during his life. It was devised by Gerard Frow, Alan Strachan and Wendy Toye....
     London production opened at the Mermaid Theatre
Mermaid Theatre

The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre at Puddle Dock, in Blackfriars, London, in the City of London and the first built there since the time of Shakespeare....
 on July 10 Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope

Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope is a musical theatre revue with music and lyrics by Micki Grant.The all-singing, all-dancing show celebrates the African American experience with a series of pseudo-inspirational tunes focusing on such topics as rat-infested tenements and slumlords, the joy and strife of ghetto life, student protests, black...
     Broadway revue opened at the Playhouse Theatre
Playhouse Theatre

The Playhouse Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square. The Theatre was built by F....
 on April 19 and ran for 914 performances Don't Play Us Cheap
Don't Play Us Cheap

Don't Play Us Cheap is a musical written, produced, and directed by Melvin Van Peebles, about an imp and a devil who take human form and try to break up a Harlem house party....
     Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....
 on May 16 and ran for 164 performances A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a Musical theatre with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
 (Stephen Sondheim) - Broadway revival The Good Old, Bad Old Days (Music, Lyrics & Book: Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley

Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
 & Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
) London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Prince of Wales Theatre

The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner....
 on December 20 and ran for 309 performances Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It highlights the political and interpersonal struggles of Judas Iscariot and Jesus....
 (Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
 and Tim Rice
Tim Rice

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, author, radio personality and television gameshow panellist....
) - London production opened at the Palace Theatre
Palace Theatre, London

The Palace Theatre, is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster. It is an imposing red-brick building that dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus, London, and is located near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road....
 on August 9 and ran for 3358 performances Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
     Broadway production Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second British musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice....
 (Lloyd Webber & Rice) - London production opened at The Roundhouse
The Roundhouse

The Roundhouse is a former Motive power depot now used as an arts and concert venue in Chalk Farm, London. Built in 1846, it ceased to be used as an engine shed by 1867, and underwent various uses before being abandoned just before the Second World War....
 on November 8 and ran for 43 performances Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha is a musical theater with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote....
     Broadway revival Pippin
Pippin (musical)

Pippin is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto....
     Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre
Imperial Theatre

The Imperial Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 249 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. The theatre seats up to 1417 people...
 on October 23 and ran for 1944 performances Sugar
Sugar (musical)

Sugar is a 1972 Broadway theater Musical theatre based on the screenplay for the film Some Like it Hot, which was written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L....
     Broadway production

Musical films

Cabaret
Cabaret (film)

Cabaret is a 1972 in film American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazism under Adolf Hitler....
 Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha (film)

Man of La Mancha is a 1972 in film film version of the Broadway theatre musical theatre Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion....


Musical television productions

Liza With A Z

Births

January 17 - Aqualung
Aqualung (musician)

Matthew "Matt" Hales , better known as Aqualung, is an England singer and songwriter best known in the UK for his song "Strange and Beautiful", which was featured on a television advertisement for the new Volkswagen Beetle during the summer of 2002 and went on to become a Top 10 hit in the UK singles chart later that year....
, singer-songwriter January 27 - Mark Owen
Mark Owen

Mark Owen is an English people singer-songwriter. He is a founding member of the English pop music Take That. The band were successful during the early 1990s and are currently enjoying success since their reunion in 2005....
, Take That
Take That

Take That are an England pop music musical group consisting of members Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, and, formerly, Robbie Williams....
 February 2 - Dana International
Dana International

Sharon Cohen , professionally known as Dana International is an Israeli Pop music singer of a Yemenite Jewish origin. She is most famous for having won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva ." She is arguably one of the most famous transsexual celebrities in the world....
, Eurovision-winning singer February 11 - Craig Jones
Craig Jones

Craig Michael Jones , also known as 133!, Pinhead, The Silent One, or by his number #5, is an American musician, best known as the sampling of the Grammy Award-winning band Slipknot ....
, sampler/keyboardist for Slipknot
Slipknot (band)

Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
 February 14 - Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas (musician)

Robert Kelly Thomas is an American rock recording artist, and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret....
, Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox Twenty

Matchbox Twenty is a Grammy-nominated rock band formed in Orlando, Florida.Matchbox Twenty has sold over 45 million albums worldwide from the releases of Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season , and More Than You Think You Are. They released their latest album, Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007....
 February 17 - Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead Singer, main lyricist and guitarist for the punk rock trio Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs....
, Green Day
Green Day

Green Day is an American Rock music trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tr? Cool for the majority of its existence....
 February 20 - K-os
K-os

Kevin Brereton, better known by his stage name k-os, is a Canada rapping, singer, songwriter and record producer. His given name may also be cited as Kheaven, a spelling he later adopted....
, rapper/musician February 24 - Chris Fehn
Chris Fehn

Christopher Michael Fehn , or known as simply Chris, by his number #3, or by his nicknames Cockface McGinty and/or Mr. Picklenose, is an American musician known as one of the two custom Percussion instruments of Slipknot ....
, percussionist/backing vocalist for Slipknot
Slipknot (band)

Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
 March 9 - AZ
AZ (rapper)

Anthony Cruz better known as AZ,, to Dominican Republic and African American parentage is a East New York, Brooklyn native and a Grammy nominated American rapper....
, rapper March 10 - Douglas Ardito, Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd

Puddle of Mudd is an United States Rock music band from Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri, United States. They achieved success on rock radio and some success in the mainstream, and their major-label debut Come Clean has sold over 5 million copies....
 March 11 - UA
UA (singer)

, simply known by the stage name UA , is a Japanese singer.Her unusual stage name is a Swahili language word that means "flower" or "kill"....
, singer March 15 - Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus

Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician and record producer. Hoppus is one of the founding members of the pop punk rock band Blink-182 and the pop punk/Alternative rock band +44 ....
, Blink-182
Blink-182

Blink-182 is an United States Rock music trio formed in 1992 in Poway, California that predominantly plays pop punk music. The band, then known simply as "Blink", was originally composed of Tom DeLonge , Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor ....
 March 17 - Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canada rock musician of France-Switzerland ancestry from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as Bass guitar with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour....
, Hole
Hole (band)

Hole was an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989 and disbanded in 2002. The band was fronted by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson when he responded to an ad she placed in the punk zine Flipside ....
 April 8 - Paul Gray
Paul Gray (Slipknot)

Paul Dedrick Gray , also known by his number #2, is an American musician best known as the bass player of Slipknot ....
, bassist for Slipknot
Slipknot (band)

Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
 April 20 - Stephen Marley
Stephen Marley (musician)

Stephen Robert Nesta "Raggamuffin" Marley is an United States musician and the son of reggae legend Bob Marley and his wife Rita Marley....
, reggae musician May 4 - Mike Dirnt
Mike Dirnt

Mike Dirnt is the American bassist and backing vocalist for the United States punk rock band Green Day. While at school, he would play "air-bass"....
, Green Day
Green Day

Green Day is an American Rock music trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tr? Cool for the majority of its existence....
 May 19 - Jenny Berggren
Jenny Berggren

Jenny Cecilia Berggren is one of the three current members of Sweden pop band Ace of Base. Her brother Jonas Berggren is a current member and her sister Linn Berggren is a former member; Jenny is the youngest....
, Ace of Base
Ace of Base

Ace of Base is a Pop music band from Gothenburg, Sweden, comprising Ulf Ekberg and siblings Jonas Berggren and Jenny Berggren. They released their debut album in 1993 and went on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide, topping the charts with hits such as "All That She Wants" and "The Sign"....
 May 21 *Adriano Cintra
Adriano Cintra

Adriano Ferreira Cintra is a Brazilian multi-instrumentist and producer of Portuguese people, caboclo and Tupi stock, also known as a C-list underground and club celebrity in his hometown....
, Cansei de Ser Sexy *The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

Christopher George Latore Wallace , popularly known by Biggie Smalls , and his primary stage name, The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper....
 May 27 - Ivete Sangalo
Ivete Sangalo

Ivete Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian ax? music and M?sica Popular Brasileira singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host....
, Brazilian female singer June 12 - Bounty Killer
Bounty Killer

Bounty Killer is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay. He is the founder of a dancehall collective, known as The Alliance ....
, reggae/dancehall singer June 26 - Garou
Garou (singer)

Garou, is a French Canadian singer born as Pierre Garand on June 26 1972 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Quebec, Canada....
, singer June 27 - Edward Royster
Edward Royster

Edward Royster is the lead singer for California metal bands Four Sick Cats, Blowfex, and Backwoods Warriors. His vocal style has been described as "Axl Rose and Chris Cornell with a splash of Mark Lanegan"....
, vocalist for Four Sick Cats
Four Sick Cats

Four Sick Cats is an American alternative metal band from Riverside, California....
, Blowfex
Blowfex

Blowfex is an alternative metal band from Los Angeles, California, USA. The band features members from other bands such as Four Sick Cats, LA Suicide Pact #9, Shovel , and Dopamine Freaks....
, and Backwoods Warriors
Backwoods Warriors

Backwoods Warriors are an alternative rock, grunge, post-grunge, and Heavy Metal music band from San Bernardino County, California, USA....
 July 4 - Rogue
Rogue (musician)

Rogue is a founding member and lead singer of the American Gothic rock/electropop band The Cr?xshadows....
, lead singer of The Crüxshadows
The Crüxshadows

The Cr?xshadows is an independent music group from Florida. Their sound is made up of a combination of moody male vocals, electric violin, guitar, and Synthesizer....
 July 4 - Brett Reed
Brett Reed

Brett A. Reed is an United States musician, best known as the drummer for the punk rock band Rancid . He joined Rancid in November 1991 and left 15 years later....
, Rancid
Rancid (band)

Rancid is an American punk band formed in 1991 in Albany, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy ....
 July 26 - Wayne Wonder
Wayne Wonder

Wayne Wonder is a Jamaican reggae / Rhythm and blues musician....
, reggae singer August 6 - Geri Halliwell
Geri Halliwell

Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell is an England pop music singer-songwriter, children's author, actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund....
 August 8 - Lüpüs Thünder
Lüpüs Thünder

L?p?s Th?nder is the former lead guitarist of the band The Bloodhound Gang . He was born Matthew Wayne Stigliano on August 8, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
, The Bloodhound Gang
The Bloodhound Gang

The Bloodhound Gang may be a reference to:*The Bloodhound Gang , a segment on the program 3-2-1 Contact*The Bloodhound Gang, a band that took its name from the TV show segment...
 August 9 - A-Mei
A-Mei

A-mei , also known by her birth name Zhang Huimei or as Chang Hui-mei , is an Taiwanese aborigines Music of Taiwan pop music singer and occasional songwriter....
, singer August 15 - Mikey Graham
Mikey Graham

Michael Christopher Charles 'Mikey' Graham is an Ireland Pop music singer, best known as a member of the boy band, Boyzone....
, Boyzone
Boyzone

Boyzone are an Irish people boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe....
 September 4 - Carlos Ponce
Carlos Ponce

Carlos Armando Ponce, Jr. is a Puerto Rico actor, singer, composer and TV personality of Cubans descent, known as simply Carlos Ponce. He starred in the Telemundo serial Dame Chocolate ....
, singer and composer September 21 - Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher

William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher is an English musician and songwriter best known as the lead singer of the rock music band Oasis . One of the figureheads of the 1990s Britpop movement, Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing style, and abrasive attitude have been the subject of commentary in the press....
, Oasis
Oasis (band)

Oasis are an English rock music band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as "The Rain", the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher ....
 September 23 - Jermaine Dupri
Jermaine Dupri

Jermaine Dupri, also known as JD, , is an United States record producer, rapper and Grammy winning songwriter. He is also known as Bow Wow's mentor....
, rapper September 26 - Shawn Stockman
Shawn Stockman

Shawn Patrick Stockman is an African-American Rhythm and blues singer, best known as a member of the Human voice band Boyz II Men.Stockman recorded a solo album as a side project during the late 1990s, but the Gramophone record was never released....
, Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men is an Grammy Award-winning American Contemporary R&B/soul music singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988 as a quintet which originally included Marc Nelson, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with the members being Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown Records during the...
 October 17 *Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean

Wyclef Jean born Wyclef Neluset Jean on October 17, 1972) is a multi-platinum Haitian-United States of America musician, actor, record producer and former-member of the hip hop music trio Fugees....
,