American Top 40 (Week ending 10/14/72)

1 1 BABY DON’T GET HOOKED ON ME –•– Mac Davis (Columbia)-14 (2 weeks at #1) (1) 2 2 BLACK & WHITE –•– Three Dog Night (Dunhill)-8 (1) 3 3 SATURDAY IN THE PARK –•– Chicago (Columbia)-9 (3) 4 4 BACK STABBERS –•– The O’Jays (Philadelphia International)-11 (4) 5 6 BEN –•– Michael Jackson (Motown)-9 (5) 6 7 EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL –•– The Main Ingredient (RCA)-12 (6) 7 9 GO ALL THE WAY –•– The Raspberries (Capitol)-14 (7) 8 13 USE ME –•– Bill Withers (Sussex)-6 (8) 9 18 BURNING LOVE –•– Elvis Presley (RCA)-7 (9) 10 14 POPCORN –•– Hot Butter (Musicor)-13 (10) 11 11 POWER OF LOVE –•– Joe Simon (Spring)-13 (11) 12 12 PLAY ME –•– Neil Diamond (Uni)-8 (12) 13 20 MY DING-A-LING –•– Chuck Berry (Chess)-7 (13) 14 17 NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN –•– The Moody Blues (Deram)-9 (14) 15 19 SPEAK TO THE SKY –•– Rick Springfield (Capitol)-9 (15) 16 16 RUN TO ME –•– The Bee Gees (Atco)-10 (16) 17 8 HONKY CAT –•– Elton John (Uni)-8 (8) 18 5 ALONE AGAIN (Naturally) –•– Gilbert O’Sullivan (MAM)-16 (1) 19 22 GARDEN PARTY –•– Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band (Decca)-10 (19) 20 15 BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY –•– Daniel Boone (Mercury)-18 (15) 21 27 YOU WEAR IT WELL –•– Rod Stewart (Mercury)-6 (21) 22 26 THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS –•– Arlo Guthrie (Reprise)-10 (22) 23 28 GET ON THE GOOD FOOT (Part 1) –•– James Brown (Polydor)-9 (23) 24 30 WHY / LONELY BOY –•– Donny Osmond (MGM)-6 (24) 25 36 FREDDIE’S DEAD (Theme From “Superfly”) –•– Curtis Mayfield (Curtom)-7 (25) 26 34 TIGHT ROPE –•– Leon Russell (Shelter)-6 (26) 27 40 GOOD TIME CHARLIE’S GOT THE BLUES –•– Danny O’Keefe (Signpost)-5 (27) 28 38 DON’T EVER BE LONELY (A Poor Little Fool Like Me) –•– Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose (United Artists)-5 (28) 29 32 STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN –•– Mel and Tim (Stax)-13 (29) 30 10 ROCK AND ROLL (Part 2) –•– Gary Glitter (Bell)-11 (7) 31 37 LISTEN TO THE MUSIC –•– The Doobie Brothers (Warner Brothers)-5 (31) 32 24 POP THAT THANG –•– The Isley Brothers (T-Neck)-14 (24) 33 23 BRANDY (You’re a Fine Girl) –•– Looking Glass (Epic)-16 (1) 34 44 THUNDER AND LIGHTNING –•– Chi Coltrane (Columbia)-5 (34) 35 43 WITCHY WOMAN –•– Eagles (Asylum)-4 (35) 36 25 THE GUITAR MAN –•– Bread (Elektra)-10 (11) 37 47 IF I COULD REACH YOU –•– The 5th Dimension (Bell)-4 (37) 38 41 IF YOU LEAVE ME TONIGHT I’LL CRY –•– Jerry Wallace (Decca)-7 (38) 39 39 EASY LIVIN’ –•– Uriah Heep (Mercury)-10 (39) 40 21 LONG COOL WOMAN (In a Black Dress) –•– The Hollies (Epic)-15 (2)