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Jackson Five - "Lookin' Through the Windows" The Chi-Lites - "The Coldest Days of My Life" The Main Ingredient - "Everybody Plays the Fool" The Delfonics - "Tell Me This Is a Dream"Īretha Franklin - "All the King's Horses"ĭetroit Emeralds - "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)"Ĭornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - "Too Late to Turn Back Now" Luther Ingram - "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - "I Miss You" Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - "Where Is the Love" Michael Jackson - "I Wanna Be Where You Are" The Stylistics - "People Make the World Go Round" The Crusaders - "Put It Where You Want It"īettye Swann - "Victim of a Foolish Heart" Roberta Flack - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"Ĭurtis Mayfield - "Beautiful Brother of Mine" Sly & the Family Stone - "(You Caught Me) Smilin'"Įsther Phillips - "Home Is Where the Hatred Is" The Staple Singers - "I'll Take You There" Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Help Me Make It Through the Night"

Love Unlimited - "Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love" The Honey Cone - "The Day I Found Myself" Kool & the Gang - "Love the Life You Live"Īnn Peebles - "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" James Brown - "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing" Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - "In and Out of My Life" Roberta Flack - "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" Favorite 41 appears in its place, at the end of the playlist.Īretha Franklin - "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)"īobby "Blue" Bland - "Do What You Set Out to Do" *This song is not available on Spotify in the U.S. James Brown - " Talking Loud and Saying Nothing" ģ7. Al Green - " Look What You Done for Me" ģ6. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - "I Miss You" ģ4. The Main Ingredient - " Everybody Plays the Fool" ģ1. Spinners - " Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" ģ0. Bobby Womack - " Woman's Gotta Have It" Ģ6. Sly & the Family Stone - " (You Caught Me) Smilin'" Ģ5. Love Unlimited - "Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love" Ģ2. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - "Where Is the Love" ġ9. The Staple Singers - " I'll Take You There" ġ7. Al Green - "I'm Still in Love with You" ġ6. The Stylistics - "Betcha by Golly, Wow" ġ4. Sly & the Family Stone - " Runnin' Away" ġ2. Michael Jackson - "I Wanna Be Where You Are" Ħ. The Temptations - " Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" Ĥ.

The Stylistics - " People Make the World Go Round" ģ. Here are 40 personal-favorite singles that reached Billboard's Soul Singles chart during 1972, followed by a Spotify playlist and month-by-month top tens:ġ. Additionally, there was emerging talent exposed through Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, who showcased a 21-year-old Teddy Pendergrass on "I Miss You" and "If You Don't Know Me by Now"-two of several lasting smashes released on Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label. For 12 weeks of September through December, songs by acts either rooted in or supported by Philly's network, including one by ex-Motown act the Spinners (Phillymotown back again), were at the top of Billboard's Soul Singles chart. By the end of 1972, there was no doubt that Philly soul had overtaken that of Detroit, whose Motown label-like Don Cornelius' Chicago-born Soul Train program-moved to Los Angeles. Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Thom Bell and Linda Creed, and countless additional Philly-based songwriters, producers, and session musicians supported a nonstop supply of hit recordings. Throughout the year, the shift in power continued to pull away from Detroit and Memphis, drawn more toward Philadelphia. There was also Quincy Jones and Donny Hathaway's work on Come Back, Charleston Blue, highlighted by "Little Ghetto Boy." Plenty of the year's best singles not connected to the big screen, such as " Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and " The World Is a Ghetto," certainly were elaborate and dramatic enough to fit on it. In July, almost exactly a year after Isaac Hayes scored with Shaft, Curtis Mayfield answered with Super Fly, a deeper and tighter soundtrack, while December brought Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man. Meanwhile, black films continued to affect the development of commercial R&B. Al Green delivered a pair of relatively understated classics with Let's Stay Together and I'm Still in Love with You. Only seven months later, it was topped by Talking Book, a five-star album that was even more advanced in sound and successful in sales. Aided by co-producers, engineers, and synthesizer programmers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, he released the phenomenal Music of My Mind that March. Stevie Wonder lapped all competition in 1972.