4th March 1972.

When Paul May took over as Programme Director in February 1972 he introduced a new station chart, the Prediction Hit 40.

Some of the details of this chart were obtained from a recording shared by Scotty on the Radiotrefpunt (radio meeting point) forum, supplemented and confirmed with information from radiopedia.nl with grateful thanks to both.

Radio Northsea International Prediction Hit 40 4th March 1972 presented by Tony Allan
this week	last week
1	-	Alone Again (Naturally)	Gilbert O'Sullivan
2	10	The Baby	The Hollies
3	3	Look Wot You Dun	Slade
4	15	Meet Me On the Corner	Lindisfarne
5	9	Levon	Elton John
6	2	Day After Day	Badfinger
7	1	Without You	Nilsson
8	17	Roundabout	Yes
9	13	Say You Don't Mind	Colin Blunstone
10	7	Mother and Child Reunion	Paul Simon
11	33	Suzanne	Montanas
12	14	Sweet Seasons	Carole King
13	35	Freedom	Mac & Katie Kissoon
14	12	Get Down	Curtis Mayfield
15	4 *	L'Avventura	Stone & Charden
16	19	It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)	The Partridge Family
17	8	Heart of Gold	Neil Young
18	6	Crunchy Granola Sweet	Neil Diamond
19	-	Da Doo Ron Ron	Ian Matthews
20	20	Lovin' You Ain't Easy	Michael Pagliaro
21	24	On The Ride	The Continental Uptight Band
22	-	What The World Needs Now Is Love / Abraham, Martin & John	Tom Clay
23	11	Sunshine (Go Away Today)	Jonathan Edwards
24	5	Sacramento	Middle of the Road
25	34	I Love You Baby	Tony Ronald
26	32	The Love In Your Eyes	Vic Dana
27	40	White Lies, Blue Eyes	Bullet
28	-	Down From Dover	Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
29	-	Number Wonderful	Pickettywitch
30	-	But I Do	Bob & Marcia
31	-	Just Two Little Creatures	Sandy Coast
32	28	Telegram Sam	T.Rex
33	18	Have You Seen Her	The Chi-Lites
34	16	Son of My Father	Chicory Tip
35	-	Step Out / Shooting Star	The Mamas & the Papas
36	-	La Lumière	Charles Aznavour
37	21	Let's Stay Together	Al Green
38	-	What Is Life	Olivia Newton-John
39	-	Old Joe Clark	John Hartford
40	-	Serafina	Serpents Noirs

* On the recording Tony refers to L'Avventura as being “last week's number one” but radiopedia.nl lists the record as number four the previous week and Without You as number 1.

A recording of some of this show was shared by Scotty on the Radiotrefpunt (radio meeting point) forum:

Tony Allan from the Prediction Hit 40 chart show of 4th March 1972. Later in the show, not on this clip, Tony plays a record he describes as “Barry Martin's hitpick”. Barry Martin must have been a new DJ who was about to join the station but, to the best of our knowledge, he never did (duration 4 minutes 49 seconds)

The links from the songs on this page lead to the Amazon MP3 Store where you can hear short audio clips of the tracks and customers in the UK can buy downloads. Please see this note.

There are a number of other offshore charts listed on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Full details here.

The most recent previous RNI chart we have is from 1st August 1971. The next one is from 15th July 1972.

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