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What's your favorite song from 1972? (Original Post) Coventina Aug 2017 OP
Waters of March frazzled Aug 2017 #1
Here's the Top 100 for 1972. Boomerproud Aug 2017 #2
Layla, for me. Kittycow Aug 2017 #5
You are so welcome. Reading those titles brought back great memories. Boomerproud Aug 2017 #6
Ditto for me! Heartstrings Aug 2017 #16
The new zoo revue TEB Aug 2017 #3
What a great year Soxfan58 Aug 2017 #4
"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder Eugene Aug 2017 #7
A few ailsagirl Aug 2017 #8
American Pie - Don McLean red dog 1 Aug 2017 #9
Tiny Dancer -Elton John yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #10
Taxi by Harry Chapin Sanity Claws Aug 2017 #11
Soup (or any other song from Ege Bamyasi) by Can. Codeine Aug 2017 #12
"Personality Crisis"....New York Dolls (1972) Tikki Aug 2017 #13
America - A Horse with No Name Rhiannon12866 Aug 2017 #14
Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken Rhiannon12866 Aug 2017 #15
I can sing along a little bit in my head Kittycow Aug 2017 #17

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
1. Waters of March
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:19 PM
Aug 2017

Or "Águas de março," in Portuguese. I include this in 1972 because it was written and first recorded that year, by Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. (This definitely could have gone in the "Bossa Nova" thread as well!). But the greater version is from two years later, in 1974, with Jobim and Ellis Regina recording it as a duet. I also include a pretty nice version in English from 1975 by Art Garfunkel, so you can catch the English lyrics (also written by Jobim). I love, love this song.






Boomerproud

(7,890 posts)
2. Here's the Top 100 for 1972.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:24 PM
Aug 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1972

My Favorites (in no order)
I'll Take You There
Vincent
Doctor My Eye
Black and White
I Can See Clearly Now
Layla
City of New Orleans
American Pie
Morning Has Broken
Rocket Man

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)
5. Layla, for me.
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 02:17 PM
Aug 2017

The first time that I heard it, which happened to be the long version, I got chills

Thanks for posting the link, Boomerproud!

red dog 1

(27,653 posts)
9. American Pie - Don McLean
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 04:29 PM
Aug 2017

Honorable mentions:

- Heart of Gold...Neil Young
- Lean on Me...Bill Withers
- A Horse With No Name...America
- Nights in White Satin...Moody Blues
- I Can See Clearly Now...Johnny Nash
- Bang a Gong (Get it On)....T. Rex
- Layla...Derek and The Dominoes
- You Don't Mess Around With Jim...Jim Croce

yuiyoshida

(41,769 posts)
10. Tiny Dancer -Elton John
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 05:44 PM
Aug 2017


it may have been 1971 but I first heard years later while sitting in a small coffee shop on the Huntington Beach Pier... from a jukebox..

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