Most of the details of this chart were obtained from a recording shared on The Offshore Radio Club Forum, supplemented and confirmed with information from radiopedia.nl with grateful thanks to both. |
Radio Northsea International Prediction Hit 40 20th May 1972 |
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1
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9 |
I Saw The Light |
Todd Rundgren |
2
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2 |
Isn't Life Strange |
The Moody Blues |
3
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5 |
Puppy Love |
Donny Osmond |
4
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1 |
Take A Look Around |
The Temptations |
5
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3 |
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) |
Elton John |
6
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16 |
Song Sung Blue |
Neil Diamond |
7
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6 |
Tumbling Dice |
The Rolling Stones |
8
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- |
Metal Guru |
T.Rex |
9
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4 |
Oh Babe, What Would You Say? |
Hurricane Smith |
10
|
8 |
Summer Of '71 |
Bolland & Bolland |
11
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13 |
Starman |
David Bowie |
12
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20 |
What's Your Name |
Chicory Tip |
13
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21 |
Holidays |
Michel Polnareff |
14
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10 |
Walking In the Rain With the One I Love |
Love Unlimited |
15
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15 |
It's Different Now |
Clodagh Rodgers |
16
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12 |
Memories |
Earth & Fire |
17
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28 |
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face |
Roberta Flack |
18
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7 |
Could It Be Forever |
David Cassidy |
19
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29 |
Taos New Mexico |
R. Dean Taylor |
20
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11 |
Après Toi |
Vicky Leandros |
21
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26 |
A Little Piece of Leather |
Donnie Elbert |
22
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- |
Vincent |
Don McLean |
23
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34 |
Look What You Done For Me |
Al Green |
24
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- |
Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoo |
Diana Ross |
25
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25 |
That's What I Want To Be |
Neil Reid |
26
|
- |
Automatically Sunshine |
The Supremes |
27
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31 |
Rockin' Robin |
Michael Jackson |
28
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- |
Lady Eleanor |
Lindisfarne |
29
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24 |
Buddy Joe |
Golden Earring |
30
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39 |
Oh Girl |
The Chi-Lites |
31
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- |
I Like It That Way |
The Tremeloes |
32
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22 |
Open Up |
Mungo Jerry |
33
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38 |
Ships With Sails |
The Doors |
34
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- |
Supersonic Rocket Ship |
The Kinks |
35
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- |
Am I Losing You |
The Partridge Family |
36
|
- |
(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All |
The 5th Dimension |
37
|
- |
Immigration Man |
Graham Nash & David Crosby |
38
|
- |
My Girl Has Gone |
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles |
39
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- |
Where |
Greenfield & Cook |
40
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- |
Ain't That Peculiar |
Fanny |
| DJ HIT PICKS |
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| Tony Allan |
Matrimony |
Gilbert O'Sullivan |
| Terry Davis |
Big Country * |
Big Boris |
| Robb Eden |
Thing * |
Edwina Biglet & the Miglets |
| Arnold Layne |
California Man |
The Move |
| Paul May |
Doctor My Eyes |
Jackson Browne |
| Brian McKenzie |
Hello Sailor * |
Gone West |
* Three of the six DJ Hit Picks can best be described as ‘novelty discs’ and did not go on to trouble the UK charts. See this blog post for more information about Edwina Biglet & the Miglets; the Big Boris record was a reggae version of the theme from the film The Big Country produced by Phil Swern and Johnny Arthey, the men responsible for a number of hit records; the Gone West track also had a slight reggae feel and seems to have been a side-project from Rick Westwood of the Tremeloes. |
A clip of Robb Eden on the Prediction Hit 40 chart show of 20th May 1972, recorded from the station's FM outlet. This is taken from a file shared on The Offshore Radio
Club Forum by Hans Hendriks. Our thanks to him (duration 3 minutes 17 seconds) |