"Can you remember this?"
Music and History
Top 30 Hits of 1972
1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack
2. Alone Again (Naturally), Gilbert O'Sullivan
3. American Pie, Don McLean
4. Without You, Nilsson
5. The Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr.
6. I Gotcha, Joe Tex
7. Lean On Me, Bill Withers
8. Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, Mac Davis
9. Brand New Key, Melanie
10. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast, Wayne Newton
11. Let's Stay Together, Al Green
12. Brandy (You're a Fine Girl), Looking Glass
13. Oh Girl, The Chi-Lites
14. Nice to Be With You, Gallery
15. My Ding-A-Ling, Chuck Berry
16. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right, Luther Ingram
17. Heart of Gold, Neil Young
18. Betcha By Golly, Wow, The Stylistics
19. I'll Take You There, The Staple Singers
20. Ben, Michael Jackson
21. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Robert John
22. Outa-Space, Billy Preston
23. Slippin' Into Darkness, War
24. Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress), The Hollies
25. How Do You Do, Mouth and MacNeal
26. Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond
27. A Horse With No Name, America
28. Popcorn, Hot Butter
29. Everybody Plays the Fool, The Main Ingredient
30. Precious and Few, Climax
1972 This year is marked as a black year in history due to the use of terrorism entering sport with the massacre of 11 Israel Athletes by Arab Gunman. Also this is the beginning of the biggest political scandal in modern times and the start of the Watergate Scandal. On the other side of the Atlantic a worsening of the problems between the IRA and the British government see wrongs from both sides and innocent lives are lost.
Cost Of Living 1972
How Much things cost in 1972
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 3.27%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1020
Average Cost of new house $27,550.00
Average Income per year $11,800.00
Average Monthly Rent $165.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 55 cents Roxanne Ladies Swimsuit $30.00
Kodak Pocket Camera $28.00
Wrangler Jeans $12.00
Ladies Timex Watch From $30.00
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What was going on in 1972?