# Best of the Rest of the Top 40: 1972

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1972/711232>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 29, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1972/711232 "2015-01-29T15:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1972/711232/21 "2015-01-30T02:56:35Z")

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> [@Typo\_Negative](#):
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> Long Cool Woman is one of the coolest songs of all time.

Nope. Too energetic to be cool. “Slipping Into Darkness” is smooth and endlessly cool.

> [@JohnT](#):
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> So, the second biggest song that didn’t hit #1 was sung by _Wayne Newton_?
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> I don’t know whether to laugh or cry… 😕

Weep for those of us listening to the radio in 1972, stuck with AM only.

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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1972/711232/22 "2015-01-30T03:00:46Z")

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I voted for “Go All the Way,” but unfortunately I’m alone so far (despite what **woodstockbirdybird** said). “Day After Day” was the second-best song in the world-famous **Ponch8 Music Rating System**. I’ve heard Billy Preston’s “Outa-Space” before, but didn’t know it by name. It’s pretty damn cool too.

In dead-ass last place is the dreadful “Precious and Few.”

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1972/711232/23 "2015-01-30T10:58:01Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> It’s ROCKET MAN. I’m not even much of an Elton John fan, but it’s ROCKET MAN.

This.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1972/711232/24 "2015-01-30T11:11:04Z")

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Back Stabbers, man. 70s soul cool.

Man, the O’Jays were great, man.

Man.

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