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Top 20 Song Chart for July 1, 1972

LW TW       peak  
2 1   Lean On Me  
  Bill Withers
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1 2   Song Sung Blue 1  
  Neil Diamond
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3 3   The Candy Man 1  
  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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4 4   Nice To Be With You 1  
  Gallery
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9 5   Too Late To Turn Back Now 2  
  Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
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7 6   Rocket Man  
  Elton John
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11 7   I Need You 5  
  America
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17 8   Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast 2  
  Wayne Newton
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6 9   (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All 6  
  The 5th Dimension
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16 10   (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right 4  
  Luther Ingram
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13 11   I Wanna Be Where You Are  
  Michael Jackson
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18 12   How Do You Do? 6  
  Mouth & MacNeal
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19 13   Layla 8  
  Derek And The Dominos
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15 14   Too Young  
  Donny Osmond
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- 15   Alone Again (Naturally) 1  
  Gilbert O'Sullivan
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- 16   Take It Easy 8  
  Eagles
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- 17   Day By Day 11  
  Godspell
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- 18   People Make The World Go Round  
  The Stylistics
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8 19   Sylvia's Mother 3  
  Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show
    YouTube Amazon  

- 20   School's Out 3  
  Alice Cooper
    YouTube Amazon  

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Lean On Me tops the entire chart this week for Bill Withers. Neil Diamond is at number two this week with Song Sung Blue. The Candy Man by Sammy Davis, Jr. comes in at number three.


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