WFMU: Gaylord Fields: Playlist from October 28, 2018

Listener comments!
	8:04pm maggiemaggie: Great start! I'm psyched for this!
	8:04pm Gaylord Fields: It will be fun!
	8:05pm JakeGhould (Scary): Boo! Gaylord!
	8:05pm Carmichael: Heya Gaylord. Big Flo and Eddie fan, they sang backup there. But you knew that.
	8:06pm TDK60: Hello Gaylord, I remember '72, sorta! maybe your show will jolt; 2 greats so far..
	8:06pm pumpkinspicerette: trick 'r treat!!!
	8:06pm Gaylord Fields: Memories will be jogged by this show.
	8:08pm Folsom: Are we getting Coconut?
	8:08pm Webhamster Henry: Party like it's 1972!
	8:09pm Gaylord Fields: @Folsom: A lot of ground to cover in two hours. I can't promise.
	8:10pm Carmichael: Passive voice, Gaylord ... :)
	8:11pm Gaylord Fields: @Carmichael: Intentionally so.
	8:12pm Joe B: 1972 also a great year for baseball cards -- Topps goes glam
	8:12pm Sigurður: =black
	8:13pm listener Rey: 72 was a great year for music and 73 was no slouch either
	8:13pm Gaylord Fields: @Joe B: I love the 1972 cards! Best for displaying afros!
	8:14pm Mr C: Gaylord goes for the gold!
	8:15pm Gaylord Fields: @Mr C: Solid gold hits of 1972, to be exact!
	8:17pm Webhamster Henry: Gaylord is the K-Tel of WFMU!
	8:18pm sweet cheri: howdy grand Gaylord and all, I have a terrific feeling that this is going to be a wonderful night for the 70s, because I REALLY love tunes from the 70s!!! you're REALLY fantastic grand Gaylord!!!! and I MEAN IT!!!
	8:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: Let me guess: Station Manager Ken requested that one.
	8:19pm listener Rey: Right on Gaylord and Bronwyn!
	8:21pm Marc Francis: Excellent choice! The year I was born.
	8:22pm listener Rey: Cavemen were not woke
	8:24pm Peter in SEA: I think that's the first time I've ever heard you sing on air, Gaylord!
	8:24pm coelacanth∅: i believe i believe i believe i'll like this episode
	8:25pm Peter in SEA: This was the BEST scene in Blackkkclansman! So good!
	8:25pm unpopularfred: I first learned of "Troglodyte" from The Delegates' "Campaign '72." Perhaps some other songs from this show too. www.youtube.com... en.wikipedia.org...
	8:25pm Jinx: i was 11 in '72. first heard these songs on Musicradio 77 WABC.
	8:28pm slugluv1313: @ listener Ray -- haha! re: cavemen :) @ Peter in SEA -- aw man STILL have yet to see Black Klansman! reading the book too . . .
	8:28pm Gaylord Fields: This is for all you toy piano aficionados.
	8:29pm Paul in the OC: AH, figured we'd get to Seals & Crofts eventually. Now if you REALLY want this one to kill, fast forward to 1973 & cue up the Isley Brothers!
	8:29pm Sir Richard Slouch: Summer Breeze is as 1972 as you can get. Doctor My Eyes a close second.
	8:29pm sweet cheri: you know believe it or not grand Gaylord i'm a proud owner of the collection of rhino's'"SUPER HITS OF THE 70S" and I love every tune from that cd collection.
	8:29pm Luisa24: These songs are killing me! The songs of my childhood ! It's like being in the back of the station wagon all over again! Love it!
	8:29pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I turned 3 in 1972, and some of these songs are of my earliest memories. This is really weird, yet pleasant.
	8:30pm mrmikestandsir: I think I'm breaking out in hives... '72 was my senior year of high school. --Yes, hives and sweats...
	8:30pm Tome: YEA !!!!
	8:30pm treehugger: I was eight in 1972. My favorite year of music. Change the 9 volt in your radio folks. Great idea
	8:31pm Elle Tor's Husband: And of course the great Curtis Mayfield and the soundtrack to "Super Fly" is unmatched to this day...
	8:31pm Tome: the 1972 yadda yadda song ..
	8:32pm slugluv1313: i was 13 in 1972 -- i listened to WABC too! but was also migrating to WPIX-FM (101.9, i think?), as they played more than what was strictly Top 40 AND i listened to Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdown religiously every Sunday morning! (hah! religiously indeed! my Dad would take my younger sister and i to 8am Mass, and we would get home just in time)
	8:32pm fietje: '72 was a great year for the Welk show.
	8:32pm Jinx: total earworm, nah nah nah nah
	8:34pm Luisa24: I'm def archiving this show! <3
	8:34pm Tome: 72 interesting year to 'hold on too" great songs ,, was not long after that ,, well as far as the "mainstream's" concerned ,,, the good Hard rocking became "metal'a and they Disco killed the hard core Funk ...
	8:35pm Carmichael: I was 15 in 72. Mouth and McNeal, whoa.
	8:35pm Gaylord Fields: @fietje: Fietje!!!
	8:35pm sweet cheri: ohhhhhhh man, grand Gaylord, this tune really grabs me, one of my favorites of all time!!!! i'm so in love with mouth and mcneal, grand Gaylord!!!
	8:36pm slugluv1313: "Brandy" by Looking Glass, "Precious and Few" by Climax . . . even the kinda cheeze-y stuff was pretty great :)
	8:37pm Webhamster Henry: Go All The Way.
	8:37pm Webhamster Henry: Which has a really short verse -- get's straight to the hook!
	8:37pm Tome: Cheetos ..
	8:38pm Gaylord Fields: @ slugluv1313: The 1972 cheese is some of my favorite cheese!
	8:38pm davek: Power Pop Yes!!!!
	8:39pm sweet cheri: another sweet night with you, grand Gaylord.....
	8:39pm doctorjazz: Great Raspberries tune!
	8:40pm judy from croton: I consider myself lucky to be so ancient whenever I hear the pop songs that were on the radio when I was 16.
	8:40pm katharsis: Yay
	8:41pm unpopularfred: @ slugluv1313 - I too made the mass/top 40 shuffle. Would have to occasionally bug the guy at the radio station by asking him what numbers 40 and 39 were when I didn't make it back in time.
	8:43pm listener Rey: Weren’t the Chakachas Dutch?
	8:44pm Rick A.: Another 70s Dutch import, The George Baker Selection with "Little Green Bag" and "Una Paloma Blanca".
	8:45pm sweet cheri: 1970s was really a BEAUTIFUL decade for music, am I right grand Gaylord?
	8:45pm doctorjazz: Was already 19, college , FM was the cool spot for music, but this stuff was still EVERYWHERE!
	8:45pm Gaylord Fields: @Rick A.: Most certainly! @listener Rey: I believe the Chakachas were Belgian.
	8:47pm Webhamster Henry: The WFMU Worst Song Contest had to split the decade in three to cover the worstness. wfmu.org... But we won't be going there.
	8:48pm Carmichael: I can see Billy’s afro bouncing all over the place.
	8:48pm slugluv1313: yes, Chackachas were a Belgian studio group . . . SUCH an interesting vibe when their "Jungle Fever" would be playing on the car radio as my Mom, Dad, and younger sister would be driving to Grandma's house, hah!
	8:51pm listener Rey: The 12 year old me was practicing dance moves to this jam
	8:52pm Gaylord Fields: @listener Rey: What a great year to be 12, right?
	8:53pm Tome: born in '60 sure was for me too ... <>
	8:53pm davek: Since I like ROCK this is a breathe of fresh air. Go Elvis!!!
	8:53pm listener Rey: @slugluv LOL my parents would rush to switch the station when that song came on
	8:55pm slugluv1313: @ Carmichael -- yes! same here! believe it or not -- the class at my dance school consisting of girls a bit older than me got to dance to "Outa Space" for the recital, complete with super-groovy-hot-pink-bell-bottomed-bare-midriffed outfits . . . i was sooooo jealous
	8:57pm doctorjazz: Always loved this Jonathan Edwards tune.
	8:58pm sweet cheri: i'm glad we both have something in common grand Gaylord, we both LOVE 70s tunes!!
	9:00pm treehugger: Uncle Albert and Maggie May were one year ahead of its time. 1971
	9:01pm Marc Francis: Fuck Spotify.
	9:02pm Tome: ...agrees with the above wholeheartedly ..
	9:02pm slugluv1313: ooops spelled CHAKACHAS wrong, duh! too funny, Ray! guessing that was not an unusual parental response!
	9:02pm Sigurður: Spotify fucking
	9:04pm slugluv1313: HELLO TERRE T. WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: Terre T is wfmu Royalty
	9:04pm davek: Agree!!!
	9:06pm Sir Richard Slouch: Up Lehigh Valley, Up Lehigh Valley.
	9:07pm listener Rey: @gaylord You said it. 72 was also a showcase year for R&B slow jams. Stylistics were all over the radio. Hint hint
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: overplayed and imitated to near death; still a masterpiece.
	9:07pm Webhamster Henry: Harry hated that "Just the way the story goes" line.
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: (a collaborative masterpiece,that is)
	9:08pm nickrhombi: i was five years when i first heard this song on the radio in my sisters room. it pulled emotions out of me that i was too young to have been able to experience. the magic of music. - i remember waiting.... and waiting....and waiting to hear it again... good set. most evocative.
	9:09pm Webhamster Henry: Harry was a master of multitrack.
	9:09pm Gaylord Fields: Couldn't find the single version of Love Unlimited.
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: my older sister was thinking about getting the album, the i heard jump into the fire on the radio and said Get it get it get it get it!!
	9:12pm Aitch: I was 8. Nilsson made that awesome movie The Point around then too. Much formative stuff in 72. I had 4 elder siblings so was immersed in it.
	9:12pm listener Rey: I’m just gonna have to clicky star EVERYTHING tonight.
	9:12pm slugluv1313: one of the most bizarre/incongruous sights i have ever seen was the 7th and 8th cheerleaders twirling batons to "I Am Woman" -- even then i was soon pissed off! (see, back then girls were not allowed to play basketball! only do cheerleading . . . i sucked at sports, but felt bad for a friend of mine who was an amazing basketball player . . . but, by the time i got to 8th grade, we DID have a girls' basketball team)
	9:13pm slugluv1313: yeahhhhhhh Baby . . . !
	9:14pm Montana Slim: When did WFMU turn into an oldies station? LOL, just kiddin'...
	9:14pm Gaylord Fields: @Montana Slim: When I turned into an oldie.
	9:14pm sweet cheri: grand Gaylord? like I said before, I really do love 70s tunes, they really grab me!!
	9:15pm Aitch: My take the listeners about the same age as the DJs? Getting old but still into it, always will be.
	9:16pm slugluv1313: YES!!! STYLISTICS! Chi-Lites too . . . i am guessing many who were on that AMAZING "Hey Love!" compilation (which i ordered off the TV, immediately upon seeing the commercial! and happily still have the 3 LP set)
	9:17pm Zetti: Really fun show! Thanks Gaylord & BB.
	9:17pm Aitch: My wacky mum dragging me to Godspell and JCSS as a kid, spinning me out now Gaylord
	9:17pm pp: Robin Lamont, uncredited singer
	9:18pm Kelly Jones: Godspell was probably my very first record and you know I know every song by heart. #raisedinacult
	9:18pm Gaylord Fields: @slugluv1313: With the great tagline "No, my brother: You've got to buy your own!"
	9:18pm famous original sugarwerewolf: Hi! 1972 was like 20 years before I was born
	9:18pm Kelly Jones: Thanks for a great show G & B!
	9:19pm Gaylord Fields: Genius segue courtesy Bronwyn B!
	9:19pm coelacanth∅: great track by argent
	9:19pm Jinx: hope i don't accidentally head off to 6th grade instead of to work tomorrow morning.
	9:20pm Luisa24: @Jinx HAHAHAHA
	9:20pm slugluv1313: EXACTLY, Gaylord! i think THAT was the clincher! :)
	9:20pm On the Yazoo: I was 11 in '72.. I got a lot of these records
	9:21pm slugluv1313: YES! Godspell segueing into Argent = PERFECTION!
	9:21pm doctorjazz: Mostly out was album rock in my crowd... The Band, Grateful Dead, Bowie, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Jethro Tull, etc. Took a bit to catch up with other stuff going on in the music world...
	9:22pm coelacanth∅: between me and (mostly) my older siblings and my parents we had this program mostly covered.
	9:22pm Folsom: @gaylord @slugluv1313 www.youtube.com...
	9:22pm Mike Sin: Completely enjoy shows such as this because, for me, it's cool to hear some songs I've heard many many times presented in a specific historical context. A specific context actually makes me "hear" them a bit differently, if that makes any sense.
	9:22pm listener 126464: do we have homework this weekend?
	9:22pm slugluv1313: @ Jinx -- be sure to wear one of those sizzler dresses!
	9:22pm sufferwords: was fun living through this soundtrack my first year of smoking weed
	9:23pm Tommy in Neversink: I LOVE this show
	9:24pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for helping out Bronwyn B.!
	9:24pm Tommy in Neversink: I loved Simon's first solo album
	9:24pm slugluv1313: @ Folsom -- THANK-YOU! yes i HAD to but my own!
	9:25pm coelacanth∅: i will never have a favorite year for music, but if i was forced to choose one i might pick 1969
	9:26pm nickrhombi: @aitch; yeah man, the point! also hugely important at the time. (youngest of 6 here. got everybodys music.) impressive melodic continuity there. and the warmest bass drum ever recorded. 'sit besiiiide the breakfast table... think about your troubles....'
	9:26pm slugluv1313: oops BUY (durned auto-correct!)
	9:27pm slugluv1313: JOY! YES!!!!!!!! wasn't "Popcorn" also from 1972?
	9:28pm Gaylord Fields: @Jinx: !!!
	9:28pm Sigurður: I wonder of London, thinking of color of course
	9:28pm coelacanth∅: my parents bought this album. even at my young age i had to hear the original music this came from. i borrowed it from the library. of course i didn't like it much!
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: @slugluv1313: Yes, "Popcorn" most certainly was!
	9:29pm Aitch: No American Pie!!! And nickrhombi, Point was '71, I checked. Ringo narrates!
	9:29pm nickrhombi: ... wasnt this terre t's theme music? or a variation on it by 'the move'?
	9:30pm Tommy in Neversink: I thought Long Cool Woman..was Creedence for a long time
	9:31pm Aitch: Even worse I thought it was their best track
	9:31pm nickrhombi: @aitch... discovered jcs a little later around 10 or 11. game changer.
	9:31pm coelacanth∅: nick, Bronwyn has it for bed music
	9:32pm Tommy in Neversink: In 72' I mainly heard the radio in the car with my mom ,I didn't much attention to who did what ...a lot of distractions ...sisters and brothers talking. I was 15 yo
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: Terre T opened with the move's song that her show was named for, but used a loop for her bed. i can't think of the song.
	9:33pm slugluv1313: ooooh Chi-Lites! THANK-YOU GAYLORD!!!
	9:33pm Tommy in Neversink: ..pay much attention
	9:33pm nickrhombi: - and definitely, 'the point' is still in rotation when i get the flu or on holidays when nieces and nephews visit.... gotta 'imprint'.
	9:34pm sweet cheri: grand Gaylord, I just would like to say that you're really a radio god!!
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: the move song "cherry blossom clinic" has "joy" in the instrumental middle.
	9:35pm nickrhombi: thank you, coelcanth! - wasnt there a rumor about terre t returning to the wfmu airwaves?
	9:35pm TDK60: I was wondering @ Oh Girl!
	9:36pm coelacanth∅: i hope it's not just a rumor
	9:36pm Kelly Jones: 1972 just didn't know when to quit...it's cray!
	9:36pm Sigurður: Makes you wonder
	9:37pm Tommy in Neversink: I think 68' was the great year for radio. I remember hearing Desmond Dekker's The Israelites along with Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue and Herb Albert's This guy's in love....in rural North Carolina. What a mix
	9:37pm Gaylord Fields: @Kelly Jones: And there's a LOT more where these came from!
	9:38pm Gaylord Fields: @Tommy in Neversink: I'm also partial to 1969 and 1970.
	9:38pm nickrhombi: yes, there was an instrumental interlude during cherry blossom clinic...i didnt know it had a name! - sort of a variation on that apollo jam... i think thats kind of a 'traditional' melody though, maybe? archaic...
	9:39pm Joe R.: I was skeptical about the premise of this show - I’d say 1966 if asked (no one has) - but you both are laying out a convincing argument :) Plus heavy nostalgia since I was just starting to be aware of music at this time, probably on WABC too
	9:39pm Tommy in Neversink: It's possible some of the songs I mentioned were 69'
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: "ode to joy" by Beethoven
	9:40pm chresti: 1972 was a crazy year for me, at 15
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i can only reduce it to a favorite decade, and it's an 11-year decade. 1965-1976.
	9:41pm Gaylord Fields: @Joe R.: Glad you're giving our thesis consideration.
	9:42pm nickrhombi: nooooo... is it!? lol. i thought it was like a scottish folk song or something. ha!
	9:42pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for not doing the obvious Starman segue.
	9:42pm chresti: Tommy-same with me- the car radio
	9:42pm Jinx: still have Sly's Fresh that i bought from Columbia House
	9:43pm Aitch: Here in Oz was split between England / US (and our own) on the radio. We got more Bowie, Roxy Music, Slade, Garry Glitter for e.g.
	9:43pm Tommy in Neversink: Sly and the Family Stone doing It's a family Affair is like Bad Company (the band) doing Bad Company ( the song)
	9:43pm chresti: hello!
	9:45pm slugluv1313: i think Terre T.'s bed music was a William Orbit remix??? i remember calling her up to ask her what she was playing and then bought the CD . . . but of course NOW i cannot for the life of me recall the title!
	9:46pm slugluv1313: Creedence's "Switch Hitch Hiker" is from 1972
	9:46pm TDK60: I love '65 but like '72 too; great nonhit LP trax too: fusion, soul, country-rock, art rock, hard rock.
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: my older sister got me into Sly & the family inadvertently she used to steal bags full of 45s because she could, i guess, and she gave me "family affair" for xmas. i knew she didn't give a shit what i wanted, which was hard rock music, mostly. then she gave me another copy of it for my birthday 1 month later. so i listened to it again, and i liked it.
	9:46pm Tommy in Neversink: I thought I had heard that already
	9:47pm chresti: play it again!
	9:47pm Wong: You don't kno how many thymes I've sed 1972 wuz an incred year for music. Loved & luv Danny O'Keefe's
	9:47pm unpopularfred: Joy is "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by J. S. Bach
	9:47pm agnesfidget: One can't be blamed for wanting to play "I'll Take You There" more than once.
	9:48pm Sigurður: Line, sea see line
	9:48pm slugluv1313: Malo's "Suavecito" too :)
	9:48pm Tommy in Neversink: OH yea ! A classic !
	9:48pm Montana Slim: If you have it in the WFMU library: Hot Tuna - Burgers : Water Song ... a favorite 8-track song...
	9:48pm fleep: Oh yes, please
	9:50pm Wong: Joni's
	9:50pm chresti: war-cisco kid, was that 72?
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: u-fred really? it does sound more like Bach but i thought i'd borrowed the Beethoven record after learning the music's origin.
	9:51pm Tommy in Neversink: Cisco Kid was WAY after 72'
	9:51pm Tome: yep is was '72
	9:52pm Tommy in Neversink: OH , sorry , I stand corrected
	9:52pm Tome: bit.ly... << __
	9:52pm Wong: So many songs on Neil Young's 'Harvest'
	9:52pm nickrhombi: 'bach'! yes!, thank you unpopularfred! and certainly, branwyn, i recognize the apollo 100 as your bed music, now. (dialed it up on the break and had a quick listen.)
	9:52pm Tome: was not sure myself actually had to check ^^^^
	9:52pm slugluv1313: Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" is from 1972 too
	9:53pm coelacanth∅: shit unpopularfred you're right! "ode to joy" was a hit by Miguel Rios (?) around the same time. i got confused. nick, got all that?!
	9:53pm Sigurður: Still feeling hate...
	9:53pm slugluv1313: this Johnny Nash song was what i was singing when i FINALLY "got" algebra :)
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: slugluv haha
	9:54pm nickrhombi: nicks a little confused, but thats nothing new. im following right along. thanks all!
	9:54pm Jinx: in re: the bridge discussion on Michael Shelley's show, does "I Can See Clearly Now" qualify? if that is a bridge in that song, it soars!
	9:55pm Gaylord Fields: @Jinx: Oh, it certainly qualifies!
	9:56pm chresti: Haha slug!
	9:56pm Wong: Leon Russell's 'Carney' had
	9:56pm Sigurður: Dempered
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: sorry to almost spread misinformation! my parents had both 45s. ("Joy" by apollo 100 & "ode to joy" by Miguel somebodyorother)
	9:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: It's probably bad form to ask, but what year was the worst for popular music? Appreciate the visit to '72, Gaylord & Bronwyn.
	9:58pm Tome: .. was downhill slowly after '72,,, and down more after like '77 ,,, well ..
	9:59pm TDK60: Jinx, that bridge is beautiful, classical music like chord changes
	9:59pm Tommy in Neversink: IMO Heart of Gold is the least interesting song on Harvest (one of the best albums ever made) and it was the hit.
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Tome but "punk" ("new wave") revitalized it for 3-4 years, in my opinion.
	10:01pm unpopularfred: don't know thie Miguel somebodyorother tune, will have to seek yhat out. (I know Rainbow used to play it.)
	10:01pm Tome: was only thinking "mainstream" but then again the "mainstream" up until like '78 was pretty goo ..
	10:01pm Jinx: woo hoo!
	10:02pm Wong: Great show
	10:02pm chresti: I wonder what decade had the most releases
	10:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Gaylord and Bronwyn
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks you two! It's an education!
	10:04pm fleep: Thank YOU both for part 1, with more to come
	1:33am slugluv1313: FOUND IT! Terre T.'s bed music: "Psyche Rock" by Pierre Henry (yes, i am THAT ocd about stuff like this! had to figure it out once i got home) why of WHY i was thinking William Orbit is beyond me . . . but i assure you, i have NOT been tripping out on whatever these groovy humans are experiencing :) www.youtube.com... THANKS AGAIN for a FANTASTIC SHOW! looking forward to part two of '72 :)
	4:34pm Miss Georgia Peach: THIS IS A GOOD SHOW

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October 28, 2018: 1972: The Greatest Year in Pop Music History, With Bronwyn B

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Artist	Track	Year
T. Rex	Bang a Gong (Get It On) "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" by "T. Rex"	1972
Arlo Guthrie	The City of New Orleans	1972
James Brown	Get On The Good Foot—Part 1	1972
Redbone	The Witch Queen of New Orleans	1972
The Jimmy Castor Bunch	Troglodyte (Cave Man)	1972

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	Too Late to Turn Back Now	1972
Seals & Crofts	Summer Breeze "Summer Breeze" by "Seals & Crofts"	1972
Mouth and MacNeal	How Do You Do "How Do You Do" by "Mouth and MacNeal"	1972
The Staple Singers	I'll Take You There	1972
Raspberries	Go All the Way "Go All the Way" by "Raspberries"	1972

Helen Reddy	I Am Woman "I Am Woman" by "Helen Reddy"	1972
Billy Preston	Outa-Space "Outa-Space" by "Billy Preston"	1972
Elvis Presley	Burning Love "Burning Love" by "Elvis Presley"	1972
Aretha Franklin	Day Dreaming "Day Dreaming" by "Aretha Franklin"	1972
Jonathan Edwards	Sunshine "Sunshine" by "Jonathan Edwards"	1972

Nilsson	Without You "Without You" by "Nilsson"	1972
Love Unlimited	Walking in The Rain With the One I Love	1972
Paul Simon	Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard	1972
Godspell	Day by Day "Day by Day" by "Godspell"	1972
Argent	Hold Your Head Up "Hold Your Head Up" by "Argent"	1972

Apollo 100	Joy "Joy" by "Apollo 100"	1972
The Hollies	Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)	1972
The Chi-Lites	Oh Girl "Oh Girl" by "The Chi-Lites"	1972
Elton John	Rocket Man "Rocket Man" by "Elton John"	1972
Sly and the Family Stone	Family Affair	1972

Al Green	Let's Stay Together "Let's Stay Together" by "Al Green"	1972
Johnny Nash	I Can See Clearly Now	1972
Luther Ingram	If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right	1972
Neil Young	Heart of Gold "Heart of Gold" by "Neil Young"	1972

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Listener comments!
	8:04pm maggiemaggie: Great start! I'm psyched for this!
	8:04pm Gaylord Fields: It will be fun!
	8:05pm JakeGhould (Scary): Boo! Gaylord!
	8:05pm Carmichael: Heya Gaylord. Big Flo and Eddie fan, they sang backup there. But you knew that.
	8:06pm TDK60: Hello Gaylord, I remember '72, sorta! maybe your show will jolt; 2 greats so far..
	8:06pm pumpkinspicerette: trick 'r treat!!!
	8:06pm Gaylord Fields: Memories will be jogged by this show.
	8:08pm Folsom: Are we getting Coconut?
	8:08pm Webhamster Henry: Party like it's 1972!
	8:09pm Gaylord Fields: @Folsom: A lot of ground to cover in two hours. I can't promise.
	8:10pm Carmichael: Passive voice, Gaylord ... :)
	8:11pm Gaylord Fields: @Carmichael: Intentionally so.
	8:12pm Joe B: 1972 also a great year for baseball cards -- Topps goes glam
	8:12pm Sigurður: =black
	8:13pm listener Rey: 72 was a great year for music and 73 was no slouch either
	8:13pm Gaylord Fields: @Joe B: I love the 1972 cards! Best for displaying afros!
	8:14pm Mr C: Gaylord goes for the gold!
	8:15pm Gaylord Fields: @Mr C: Solid gold hits of 1972, to be exact!
	8:17pm Webhamster Henry: Gaylord is the K-Tel of WFMU!
	8:18pm sweet cheri: howdy grand Gaylord and all, I have a terrific feeling that this is going to be a wonderful night for the 70s, because I REALLY love tunes from the 70s!!! you're REALLY fantastic grand Gaylord!!!! and I MEAN IT!!!
	8:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: Let me guess: Station Manager Ken requested that one.
	8:19pm listener Rey: Right on Gaylord and Bronwyn!
	8:21pm Marc Francis: Excellent choice! The year I was born.
	8:22pm listener Rey: Cavemen were not woke
	8:24pm Peter in SEA: I think that's the first time I've ever heard you sing on air, Gaylord!
	8:24pm coelacanth∅: i believe i believe i believe i'll like this episode
	8:25pm Peter in SEA: This was the BEST scene in Blackkkclansman! So good!
	8:25pm unpopularfred: I first learned of "Troglodyte" from The Delegates' "Campaign '72." Perhaps some other songs from this show too. www.youtube.com... en.wikipedia.org...
	8:25pm Jinx: i was 11 in '72. first heard these songs on Musicradio 77 WABC.
	8:28pm slugluv1313: @ listener Ray -- haha! re: cavemen :) @ Peter in SEA -- aw man STILL have yet to see Black Klansman! reading the book too . . .
	8:28pm Gaylord Fields: This is for all you toy piano aficionados.
	8:29pm Paul in the OC: AH, figured we'd get to Seals & Crofts eventually. Now if you REALLY want this one to kill, fast forward to 1973 & cue up the Isley Brothers!
	8:29pm Sir Richard Slouch: Summer Breeze is as 1972 as you can get. Doctor My Eyes a close second.
	8:29pm sweet cheri: you know believe it or not grand Gaylord i'm a proud owner of the collection of rhino's'"SUPER HITS OF THE 70S" and I love every tune from that cd collection.
	8:29pm Luisa24: These songs are killing me! The songs of my childhood ! It's like being in the back of the station wagon all over again! Love it!
	8:29pm Granny Spicy Tuna: I turned 3 in 1972, and some of these songs are of my earliest memories. This is really weird, yet pleasant.
	8:30pm mrmikestandsir: I think I'm breaking out in hives... '72 was my senior year of high school. --Yes, hives and sweats...
	8:30pm Tome: YEA !!!!
	8:30pm treehugger: I was eight in 1972. My favorite year of music. Change the 9 volt in your radio folks. Great idea
	8:31pm Elle Tor's Husband: And of course the great Curtis Mayfield and the soundtrack to "Super Fly" is unmatched to this day...
	8:31pm Tome: the 1972 yadda yadda song ..
	8:32pm slugluv1313: i was 13 in 1972 -- i listened to WABC too! but was also migrating to WPIX-FM (101.9, i think?), as they played more than what was strictly Top 40 AND i listened to Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdown religiously every Sunday morning! (hah! religiously indeed! my Dad would take my younger sister and i to 8am Mass, and we would get home just in time)
	8:32pm fietje: '72 was a great year for the Welk show.
	8:32pm Jinx: total earworm, nah nah nah nah
	8:34pm Luisa24: I'm def archiving this show! <3
	8:34pm Tome: 72 interesting year to 'hold on too" great songs ,, was not long after that ,, well as far as the "mainstream's" concerned ,,, the good Hard rocking became "metal'a and they Disco killed the hard core Funk ...
	8:35pm Carmichael: I was 15 in 72. Mouth and McNeal, whoa.
	8:35pm Gaylord Fields: @fietje: Fietje!!!
	8:35pm sweet cheri: ohhhhhhh man, grand Gaylord, this tune really grabs me, one of my favorites of all time!!!! i'm so in love with mouth and mcneal, grand Gaylord!!!
	8:36pm slugluv1313: "Brandy" by Looking Glass, "Precious and Few" by Climax . . . even the kinda cheeze-y stuff was pretty great :)
	8:37pm Webhamster Henry: Go All The Way.
	8:37pm Webhamster Henry: Which has a really short verse -- get's straight to the hook!
	8:37pm Tome: Cheetos ..
	8:38pm Gaylord Fields: @ slugluv1313: The 1972 cheese is some of my favorite cheese!
	8:38pm davek: Power Pop Yes!!!!
	8:39pm sweet cheri: another sweet night with you, grand Gaylord.....
	8:39pm doctorjazz: Great Raspberries tune!
	8:40pm judy from croton: I consider myself lucky to be so ancient whenever I hear the pop songs that were on the radio when I was 16.
	8:40pm katharsis: Yay
	8:41pm unpopularfred: @ slugluv1313 - I too made the mass/top 40 shuffle. Would have to occasionally bug the guy at the radio station by asking him what numbers 40 and 39 were when I didn't make it back in time.
	8:43pm listener Rey: Weren’t the Chakachas Dutch?
	8:44pm Rick A.: Another 70s Dutch import, The George Baker Selection with "Little Green Bag" and "Una Paloma Blanca".
	8:45pm sweet cheri: 1970s was really a BEAUTIFUL decade for music, am I right grand Gaylord?
	8:45pm doctorjazz: Was already 19, college , FM was the cool spot for music, but this stuff was still EVERYWHERE!
	8:45pm Gaylord Fields: @Rick A.: Most certainly! @listener Rey: I believe the Chakachas were Belgian.
	8:47pm Webhamster Henry: The WFMU Worst Song Contest had to split the decade in three to cover the worstness. wfmu.org... But we won't be going there.
	8:48pm Carmichael: I can see Billy’s afro bouncing all over the place.
	8:48pm slugluv1313: yes, Chackachas were a Belgian studio group . . . SUCH an interesting vibe when their "Jungle Fever" would be playing on the car radio as my Mom, Dad, and younger sister would be driving to Grandma's house, hah!
	8:51pm listener Rey: The 12 year old me was practicing dance moves to this jam
	8:52pm Gaylord Fields: @listener Rey: What a great year to be 12, right?
	8:53pm Tome: born in '60 sure was for me too ... <>
	8:53pm davek: Since I like ROCK this is a breathe of fresh air. Go Elvis!!!
	8:53pm listener Rey: @slugluv LOL my parents would rush to switch the station when that song came on
	8:55pm slugluv1313: @ Carmichael -- yes! same here! believe it or not -- the class at my dance school consisting of girls a bit older than me got to dance to "Outa Space" for the recital, complete with super-groovy-hot-pink-bell-bottomed-bare-midriffed outfits . . . i was sooooo jealous
	8:57pm doctorjazz: Always loved this Jonathan Edwards tune.
	8:58pm sweet cheri: i'm glad we both have something in common grand Gaylord, we both LOVE 70s tunes!!
	9:00pm treehugger: Uncle Albert and Maggie May were one year ahead of its time. 1971
	9:01pm Marc Francis: Fuck Spotify.
	9:02pm Tome: ...agrees with the above wholeheartedly ..
	9:02pm slugluv1313: ooops spelled CHAKACHAS wrong, duh! too funny, Ray! guessing that was not an unusual parental response!
	9:02pm Sigurður: Spotify fucking
	9:04pm slugluv1313: HELLO TERRE T. WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: Terre T is wfmu Royalty
	9:04pm davek: Agree!!!
	9:06pm Sir Richard Slouch: Up Lehigh Valley, Up Lehigh Valley.
	9:07pm listener Rey: @gaylord You said it. 72 was also a showcase year for R&B slow jams. Stylistics were all over the radio. Hint hint
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: overplayed and imitated to near death; still a masterpiece.
	9:07pm Webhamster Henry: Harry hated that "Just the way the story goes" line.
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: (a collaborative masterpiece,that is)
	9:08pm nickrhombi: i was five years when i first heard this song on the radio in my sisters room. it pulled emotions out of me that i was too young to have been able to experience. the magic of music. - i remember waiting.... and waiting....and waiting to hear it again... good set. most evocative.
	9:09pm Webhamster Henry: Harry was a master of multitrack.
	9:09pm Gaylord Fields: Couldn't find the single version of Love Unlimited.
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: my older sister was thinking about getting the album, the i heard jump into the fire on the radio and said Get it get it get it get it!!
	9:12pm Aitch: I was 8. Nilsson made that awesome movie The Point around then too. Much formative stuff in 72. I had 4 elder siblings so was immersed in it.
	9:12pm listener Rey: I’m just gonna have to clicky star EVERYTHING tonight.
	9:12pm slugluv1313: one of the most bizarre/incongruous sights i have ever seen was the 7th and 8th cheerleaders twirling batons to "I Am Woman" -- even then i was soon pissed off! (see, back then girls were not allowed to play basketball! only do cheerleading . . . i sucked at sports, but felt bad for a friend of mine who was an amazing basketball player . . . but, by the time i got to 8th grade, we DID have a girls' basketball team)
	9:13pm slugluv1313: yeahhhhhhh Baby . . . !
	9:14pm Montana Slim: When did WFMU turn into an oldies station? LOL, just kiddin'...
	9:14pm Gaylord Fields: @Montana Slim: When I turned into an oldie.
	9:14pm sweet cheri: grand Gaylord? like I said before, I really do love 70s tunes, they really grab me!!
	9:15pm Aitch: My take the listeners about the same age as the DJs? Getting old but still into it, always will be.
	9:16pm slugluv1313: YES!!! STYLISTICS! Chi-Lites too . . . i am guessing many who were on that AMAZING "Hey Love!" compilation (which i ordered off the TV, immediately upon seeing the commercial! and happily still have the 3 LP set)
	9:17pm Zetti: Really fun show! Thanks Gaylord & BB.
	9:17pm Aitch: My wacky mum dragging me to Godspell and JCSS as a kid, spinning me out now Gaylord
	9:17pm pp: Robin Lamont, uncredited singer
	9:18pm Kelly Jones: Godspell was probably my very first record and you know I know every song by heart. #raisedinacult
	9:18pm Gaylord Fields: @slugluv1313: With the great tagline "No, my brother: You've got to buy your own!"
	9:18pm famous original sugarwerewolf: Hi! 1972 was like 20 years before I was born
	9:18pm Kelly Jones: Thanks for a great show G & B!
	9:19pm Gaylord Fields: Genius segue courtesy Bronwyn B!
	9:19pm coelacanth∅: great track by argent
	9:19pm Jinx: hope i don't accidentally head off to 6th grade instead of to work tomorrow morning.
	9:20pm Luisa24: @Jinx HAHAHAHA
	9:20pm slugluv1313: EXACTLY, Gaylord! i think THAT was the clincher! :)
	9:20pm On the Yazoo: I was 11 in '72.. I got a lot of these records
	9:21pm slugluv1313: YES! Godspell segueing into Argent = PERFECTION!
	9:21pm doctorjazz: Mostly out was album rock in my crowd... The Band, Grateful Dead, Bowie, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Jethro Tull, etc. Took a bit to catch up with other stuff going on in the music world...
	9:22pm coelacanth∅: between me and (mostly) my older siblings and my parents we had this program mostly covered.
	9:22pm Folsom: @gaylord @slugluv1313 www.youtube.com...
	9:22pm Mike Sin: Completely enjoy shows such as this because, for me, it's cool to hear some songs I've heard many many times presented in a specific historical context. A specific context actually makes me "hear" them a bit differently, if that makes any sense.
	9:22pm listener 126464: do we have homework this weekend?
	9:22pm slugluv1313: @ Jinx -- be sure to wear one of those sizzler dresses!
	9:22pm sufferwords: was fun living through this soundtrack my first year of smoking weed
	9:23pm Tommy in Neversink: I LOVE this show
	9:24pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for helping out Bronwyn B.!
	9:24pm Tommy in Neversink: I loved Simon's first solo album
	9:24pm slugluv1313: @ Folsom -- THANK-YOU! yes i HAD to but my own!
	9:25pm coelacanth∅: i will never have a favorite year for music, but if i was forced to choose one i might pick 1969
	9:26pm nickrhombi: @aitch; yeah man, the point! also hugely important at the time. (youngest of 6 here. got everybodys music.) impressive melodic continuity there. and the warmest bass drum ever recorded. 'sit besiiiide the breakfast table... think about your troubles....'
	9:26pm slugluv1313: oops BUY (durned auto-correct!)
	9:27pm slugluv1313: JOY! YES!!!!!!!! wasn't "Popcorn" also from 1972?
	9:28pm Gaylord Fields: @Jinx: !!!
	9:28pm Sigurður: I wonder of London, thinking of color of course
	9:28pm coelacanth∅: my parents bought this album. even at my young age i had to hear the original music this came from. i borrowed it from the library. of course i didn't like it much!
	9:29pm Gaylord Fields: @slugluv1313: Yes, "Popcorn" most certainly was!
	9:29pm Aitch: No American Pie!!! And nickrhombi, Point was '71, I checked. Ringo narrates!
	9:29pm nickrhombi: ... wasnt this terre t's theme music? or a variation on it by 'the move'?
	9:30pm Tommy in Neversink: I thought Long Cool Woman..was Creedence for a long time
	9:31pm Aitch: Even worse I thought it was their best track
	9:31pm nickrhombi: @aitch... discovered jcs a little later around 10 or 11. game changer.
	9:31pm coelacanth∅: nick, Bronwyn has it for bed music
	9:32pm Tommy in Neversink: In 72' I mainly heard the radio in the car with my mom ,I didn't much attention to who did what ...a lot of distractions ...sisters and brothers talking. I was 15 yo
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: Terre T opened with the move's song that her show was named for, but used a loop for her bed. i can't think of the song.
	9:33pm slugluv1313: ooooh Chi-Lites! THANK-YOU GAYLORD!!!
	9:33pm Tommy in Neversink: ..pay much attention
	9:33pm nickrhombi: - and definitely, 'the point' is still in rotation when i get the flu or on holidays when nieces and nephews visit.... gotta 'imprint'.
	9:34pm sweet cheri: grand Gaylord, I just would like to say that you're really a radio god!!
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: the move song "cherry blossom clinic" has "joy" in the instrumental middle.
	9:35pm nickrhombi: thank you, coelcanth! - wasnt there a rumor about terre t returning to the wfmu airwaves?
	9:35pm TDK60: I was wondering @ Oh Girl!
	9:36pm coelacanth∅: i hope it's not just a rumor
	9:36pm Kelly Jones: 1972 just didn't know when to quit...it's cray!
	9:36pm Sigurður: Makes you wonder
	9:37pm Tommy in Neversink: I think 68' was the great year for radio. I remember hearing Desmond Dekker's The Israelites along with Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue and Herb Albert's This guy's in love....in rural North Carolina. What a mix
	9:37pm Gaylord Fields: @Kelly Jones: And there's a LOT more where these came from!
	9:38pm Gaylord Fields: @Tommy in Neversink: I'm also partial to 1969 and 1970.
	9:38pm nickrhombi: yes, there was an instrumental interlude during cherry blossom clinic...i didnt know it had a name! - sort of a variation on that apollo jam... i think thats kind of a 'traditional' melody though, maybe? archaic...
	9:39pm Joe R.: I was skeptical about the premise of this show - I’d say 1966 if asked (no one has) - but you both are laying out a convincing argument :) Plus heavy nostalgia since I was just starting to be aware of music at this time, probably on WABC too
	9:39pm Tommy in Neversink: It's possible some of the songs I mentioned were 69'
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: "ode to joy" by Beethoven
	9:40pm chresti: 1972 was a crazy year for me, at 15
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i can only reduce it to a favorite decade, and it's an 11-year decade. 1965-1976.
	9:41pm Gaylord Fields: @Joe R.: Glad you're giving our thesis consideration.
	9:42pm nickrhombi: nooooo... is it!? lol. i thought it was like a scottish folk song or something. ha!
	9:42pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for not doing the obvious Starman segue.
	9:42pm chresti: Tommy-same with me- the car radio
	9:42pm Jinx: still have Sly's Fresh that i bought from Columbia House
	9:43pm Aitch: Here in Oz was split between England / US (and our own) on the radio. We got more Bowie, Roxy Music, Slade, Garry Glitter for e.g.
	9:43pm Tommy in Neversink: Sly and the Family Stone doing It's a family Affair is like Bad Company (the band) doing Bad Company ( the song)
	9:43pm chresti: hello!
	9:45pm slugluv1313: i think Terre T.'s bed music was a William Orbit remix??? i remember calling her up to ask her what she was playing and then bought the CD . . . but of course NOW i cannot for the life of me recall the title!
	9:46pm slugluv1313: Creedence's "Switch Hitch Hiker" is from 1972
	9:46pm TDK60: I love '65 but like '72 too; great nonhit LP trax too: fusion, soul, country-rock, art rock, hard rock.
	9:46pm coelacanth∅: my older sister got me into Sly & the family inadvertently she used to steal bags full of 45s because she could, i guess, and she gave me "family affair" for xmas. i knew she didn't give a shit what i wanted, which was hard rock music, mostly. then she gave me another copy of it for my birthday 1 month later. so i listened to it again, and i liked it.
	9:46pm Tommy in Neversink: I thought I had heard that already
	9:47pm chresti: play it again!
	9:47pm Wong: You don't kno how many thymes I've sed 1972 wuz an incred year for music. Loved & luv Danny O'Keefe's
	9:47pm unpopularfred: Joy is "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by J. S. Bach
	9:47pm agnesfidget: One can't be blamed for wanting to play "I'll Take You There" more than once.
	9:48pm Sigurður: Line, sea see line
	9:48pm slugluv1313: Malo's "Suavecito" too :)
	9:48pm Tommy in Neversink: OH yea ! A classic !
	9:48pm Montana Slim: If you have it in the WFMU library: Hot Tuna - Burgers : Water Song ... a favorite 8-track song...
	9:48pm fleep: Oh yes, please
	9:50pm Wong: Joni's
	9:50pm chresti: war-cisco kid, was that 72?
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: u-fred really? it does sound more like Bach but i thought i'd borrowed the Beethoven record after learning the music's origin.
	9:51pm Tommy in Neversink: Cisco Kid was WAY after 72'
	9:51pm Tome: yep is was '72
	9:52pm Tommy in Neversink: OH , sorry , I stand corrected
	9:52pm Tome: bit.ly... << __
	9:52pm Wong: So many songs on Neil Young's 'Harvest'
	9:52pm nickrhombi: 'bach'! yes!, thank you unpopularfred! and certainly, branwyn, i recognize the apollo 100 as your bed music, now. (dialed it up on the break and had a quick listen.)
	9:52pm Tome: was not sure myself actually had to check ^^^^
	9:52pm slugluv1313: Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" is from 1972 too
	9:53pm coelacanth∅: shit unpopularfred you're right! "ode to joy" was a hit by Miguel Rios (?) around the same time. i got confused. nick, got all that?!
	9:53pm Sigurður: Still feeling hate...
	9:53pm slugluv1313: this Johnny Nash song was what i was singing when i FINALLY "got" algebra :)
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: slugluv haha
	9:54pm nickrhombi: nicks a little confused, but thats nothing new. im following right along. thanks all!
	9:54pm Jinx: in re: the bridge discussion on Michael Shelley's show, does "I Can See Clearly Now" qualify? if that is a bridge in that song, it soars!
	9:55pm Gaylord Fields: @Jinx: Oh, it certainly qualifies!
	9:56pm chresti: Haha slug!
	9:56pm Wong: Leon Russell's 'Carney' had
	9:56pm Sigurður: Dempered
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: sorry to almost spread misinformation! my parents had both 45s. ("Joy" by apollo 100 & "ode to joy" by Miguel somebodyorother)
	9:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: It's probably bad form to ask, but what year was the worst for popular music? Appreciate the visit to '72, Gaylord & Bronwyn.
	9:58pm Tome: .. was downhill slowly after '72,,, and down more after like '77 ,,, well ..
	9:59pm TDK60: Jinx, that bridge is beautiful, classical music like chord changes
	9:59pm Tommy in Neversink: IMO Heart of Gold is the least interesting song on Harvest (one of the best albums ever made) and it was the hit.
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Tome but "punk" ("new wave") revitalized it for 3-4 years, in my opinion.
	10:01pm unpopularfred: don't know thie Miguel somebodyorother tune, will have to seek yhat out. (I know Rainbow used to play it.)
	10:01pm Tome: was only thinking "mainstream" but then again the "mainstream" up until like '78 was pretty goo ..
	10:01pm Jinx: woo hoo!
	10:02pm Wong: Great show
	10:02pm chresti: I wonder what decade had the most releases
	10:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Gaylord and Bronwyn
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks you two! It's an education!
	10:04pm fleep: Thank YOU both for part 1, with more to come
	1:33am slugluv1313: FOUND IT! Terre T.'s bed music: "Psyche Rock" by Pierre Henry (yes, i am THAT ocd about stuff like this! had to figure it out once i got home) why of WHY i was thinking William Orbit is beyond me . . . but i assure you, i have NOT been tripping out on whatever these groovy humans are experiencing :) www.youtube.com... THANKS AGAIN for a FANTASTIC SHOW! looking forward to part two of '72 :)
	4:34pm Miss Georgia Peach: THIS IS A GOOD SHOW

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