Best of the Rest of the Top 40: 1972

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

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

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.”

This.

Back Stabbers, man. 70s soul cool.

Man, the O’Jays were great, man.

Man.