1972
🔙 Backtrack — 1972
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
1972. A driveway-and-streetlights kind of night. You had a Ho Ho, a Fresca, and just enough of the day left to dial a number on the rotary phone.
🎬 At the movies
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Scooby-Doo👕 tee →
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- The Pink Panther Show
- Hong Kong Phooey
- The Jetsons
- The Flintstones
Billboard Year-End Hot 100
📊 Full chart →- 1
The First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceRoberta Flack - 2
Alone Again (Naturally)Gilbert O'Sullivan - 3
American PieDon McLean - 4
Without YouHarry Nilsson - 5
The Candy ManSammy Davis, Jr. - 6
I GotchaJoe Tex - 7
Lean on MeBill Withers - 8
Baby Don't Get Hooked On MeMac Davis - 9
Brand New KeyMelanie - 10
Daddy Don't You Walk so FastWayne Newton - 11
Let's Stay TogetherAl Green - 12
Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)Looking Glass - 13
Oh GirlThe Chi-Lites - 14
Nice to Be With YouGallery - 15
My Ding a LingChuck Berry - 16
(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be RightLuther Ingram - 17
Heart of GoldNeil Young - 18
Betcha by Golly, WowThe Stylistics - 19
I'll Take You ThereThe Staple Singers - 20
BenMichael Jackson - 21
The Lion Sleeps TonightRobert John - 22
Outa-SpaceBilly Preston - 23
Slippin' Into DarknessWar - 24
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)The Hollies - 25
How Do You Do?Mouth & MacNeal
More from 1972
🎤 Big in 1972
🎚️ 1972 genres
🎬 Movies of 1972
All soundtracks →The soundtracks that scored 1972 — every song and where it played.
🎚️ Related vibes
All themes →Themed rooms that lean on the sound of 1972.
What does 1972 remind you of?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1972.
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🎵 1972 albums on vinyl
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