UK POP CHART HISTORY - JULY 1972

Slade achieve their second chart topper this week with 'Take Me Bak Ome'. During the next eighteen months, they'll achieve this feat another four times. They will remain the only seventies act to score six number 1's until November 1977, when Abba secure their sixth of nine visits to the top spot.

TOP 20 SINGLES W/E July 1st 1972

TW

LW

SONG TITLE

ARTIST

1

2

Take Me Bak Ome

Slade

2

1

Vincent

Don McLean

3

13

Puppy Love

Donny Osmond

4

8

Little Willy

The Sweet

5

6

Rock And Roll - Parts 1 & 2

Gary Glitter

6

3

Rockin' Robin

Michael Jackson

7

7

California Man

The Move

8

-

American Trilogy

Elvis Presley

9

9

Mary Had A Little Lamb

Wings

10

5

At The Club / Saturday Night At The Movies

The Drifters

11

-

Circles

The New Seekers

12

18

Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day

Gilbert O' Sullivan

13

20

Little Bit Of Love

Free

14

15

Song Sung Blue

Neil Diamond

15

4

Metal Guru

T.Rex

16

17

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Roberta Flack

17

11

Sister Jane

New World

18

14

Oh Girl

The Chi-Lites

19

16

Supersonic Rocket Ship

The Kinks

20

12

Oh Babe What Would You Say

Hurricane Smith

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