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| Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1972 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $6.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 93159
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227063320
EAN: 0081227063320
ASIN: B0000032JI
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan | | • | I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash | | • | Black & White - Three Dog Night | | • | Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) - Looking Glass | | • | My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry | | • | A Horse With No Name - America | | • | Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) - The Hollies | | • | Papa Was A Rollin' Stone - The Temptations | | • | Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues | | • | Back Stabbers - The O'Jays |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Dry as a bone September 28, 2007
Of all the Billboard compilations I have listened to this has to be my least favorite..well second to least favorite. The only song I really love on this is "Brandy". "Alone Again" and "Black White" are okay. "My Ding-a-Ling" is funny but not really a song I would want to hear on a CD featuring music hits. The rest of the stuff I don't like at all. What happened to "Dancing in the Moonlight?" Where's James Taylor? The early and mid 70's were really great musically but if this CD is a collection of the top sellers for this year than my only explanation is the fact that everyone was smoking pot.
 It was a very good year... September 30, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This CD of Billboard's Top Rock and Roll Hits from 1972 is an excellent collection of ten great songs from that year. This CD is one of the stronger ones in this series of Billboard hits put out by Rhino.
The quality of the sound is excellent; and this is after I listened to it so many times I must have almost run the "grooves" off the data side of the CD! SMILES It's hard to pick just one song that's my very favorite here. They all bring back such great memories.
The CD music draws you in immediately with an especially poignant song that always hits me hard with Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)." When I was a kid I thought the song was melodramatic with its talk about the pain of losing lovers and parents; but now that I am in mid-life I completely identify with the situations Gilbert describes in this song. It's magnificent. The CD tracks don't let up after this one, either. The next song is Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" which is very well done with an excellent, lush musical arrangement. "Black & White" addresses racial issues in our country that we are still grappling with today; and "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" is beautifully sung by Looking Glass and this offers a great arrangement, too! Whatever happened to these artists, anyway?
Other songs are timeless classics like "Nights In White Satin" by The Moody Blues and "Back Stabbers" by The O'Jays. Indeed, it's impossible to find a loser anywhere on this CD! It held my attention all the way through so many times and it will be a favorite of yours, too, if you like this type of music.
The liner notes offer some great pictures of the artists on this CD and some quick recaps of news that was big in 1972. Very good!
Of course, here I go again with my standard complaint about this series: Rhino Records, almost for some arbitrary reason, decided to make each CD have exactly ten songs on it. Not eleven, not nine, but ten and ten invariably. What if one year produced more hits than another? The CD has plenty of space for at least one or two songs more and I really would have liked that. I ordinarily take off a star for this; but this CD has so many wonderful songs that it does deserve five stars.
Overall, I highly recommend this CD for fans of '70s music, fans of the artists on this CD and people who want an affordable CD to get better acquainted with music from the early 1970s. You can't go wrong with such a strong CD chock full of excellent music like this one. Great job, Rhino, and enjoy, everyone!
Another worthy addition. July 14, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Billboard 1972 is another addition worth buying for the hefty price listed by some sellers here on Amazon.com. For only 10 tracks, these songs are completely classical hits made by various talented artists. Songs worthy of praise include: "My Ding a Ling", "A Horse With No Name", "Black and White", and "Brandy". Though all are very interesting to listen to, these are the most noteworthy additions to this collection. However, there is a catch to all this. The "Ultimate Seventies" Collection may threaten the Billboard song making business, since many songs here are duplicated in "Ultimate Seventies"-1972. This also applies to Billboard 1970. If you DON'T own the Ultimate Seventies, add Billboard 1972 to your rock n roll hits collection.
A good compilation of 70's music............. November 8, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this CD because it has one of my favorite songs on it Brandy (You're a Fine Girl).I had been looking for a CD with it on it for quite some time. My only complaint with the CD (and I think it is true of many of Billboard series CD's) is that it contains many songs that you can easily find on other 70's compilations. I would have liked to have seen harder to find songs on the CD, but it does contain some great music.
It was a very good year (mostly) June 3, 2001
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
I got this CD in a five box collection "Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits 1968-1972 and this one is my favorite for the very simple reason that it has "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. This song invokes the deepest feelings of melancholy of any song that I can think of and is so sad that it probably shortened poor Gilbert's career. Kind of like "Eve of Destruction" did for that other guy that I can't name just now. This CD also contains the very best rock song ever, "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress" by the Hollies but I have to deduct 2 stars for some real dogs, "Brandy", "My Ding-A-Ling" and the totally forgetable, "Back Stabbers" and "Papa Was A Rolling Stone. It also has a shortened version of "Knights In White Satin" by The Moody Blues but thankfully no songs by Pink Floyd so we can add back one star.
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