End of May 1972:
At 5: Rocket Man, Elton John
At 4: Come What May, Vicky Leandros
At 3: Amazing Grace, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (which had a really long run at the top)
At 2: Could It Be Forever, David Cassidy
And at 1: Metal Guru, T. Rex
The Cassidy one has long since faded from memory, but I could busk any of the others, at least a line or two of music.
ETA: UK singles
Hey Jude, The Beatles
People Got to Be Free, The Rascals
La-La Means I Love You, The Delfonics
Angel of the Morning, Merrilee Rush
Those Were the Days, Mary Hopkin
I guess we got our lists from separate sources, but I’ll have to remember to wish you a happy birthday next year, brother!
Going by what I see in that other series of threads, it wasn’t what was playing when I was 12, but rather when I was 14 - 15, that really stuck with me.
November 1976
1 Love So Right
Bee Gees
2 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot
3 Beth
Kiss
4 Fernando
Abba
5 Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
Rod Stewart
With the exception of Gordon Lightfoot, a wall of suck.
*Do you feel like we do? *from Frampton came in at #6
October, 1987:
Goes a long way to explaining why I didn’t start buying music for another five years or so.
September 1962:
If it helps, Weird Al’s “I Lost on Jeopardy” was a parody of #3.
Yes I think we must have, though the different songs on your list were still in the top 10 on my list. And I’ll also have to remember that we’re birthday twins next year, though I’m a sister not a brother.
April 1967
1
Happy Together
The Turtles
2
Penny Lane
The Beatles
3
Dedicated To The One I Love
The Mamas & The Papas
4
This Is My Song
Petula Clark
5
I’ve Been Lonely Too Long
The Young Rascals
I’m going to be a little different. In April 1979 my family was on vacation at Point Lookout, on Stradbroke Island, for the first of many times to come. There was a burger joint/general store where all the surfies and cool kids hung out, and it had a juke box. The store is gone now, replaced with something much fancier. 21 years later I got married only a couple of hundred yards away from where that store was.
The song that was being played over and over again on that juke box in April 1979 was the number one in Australia at the time, and it takes me right back to where I first heard it when I hear it now:
The only song in that list that I remember is Centerfold.
UK Top 40 in the week beginning 17 January 1998
Truly, a memorable week in music.