20th May 1972.

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
presented by Robb Eden

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1
9
I Saw The Light
Todd Rundgren
2
2
Isn't Life Strange
The Moody Blues
3
5
Puppy Love
Donny Osmond
4
1
Take A Look Around
The Temptations
5
3
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
Elton John
6
16
Song Sung Blue
Neil Diamond
7
6
Tumbling Dice
The Rolling Stones
8
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Metal Guru
T.Rex
9
4
Oh Babe, What Would You Say?
Hurricane Smith
10
8
Summer Of '71
Bolland & Bolland
11
13
Starman
David Bowie
12
20
What's Your Name
Chicory Tip
13
21
Holidays
Michel Polnareff
14
10
Walking In the Rain With the One I Love
Love Unlimited
15
15
It's Different Now
Clodagh Rodgers
16
12
Memories
Earth & Fire
17
28
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Roberta Flack
18
7
Could It Be Forever
David Cassidy
19
29
Taos New Mexico
R. Dean Taylor
20
11
Après Toi
Vicky Leandros
21
26
A Little Piece of Leather
Donnie Elbert
22
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Vincent
Don McLean
23
34
Look What You Done For Me
Al Green
24
-
Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoo
Diana Ross
25
25
That's What I Want To Be
Neil Reid
26
-
Automatically Sunshine
The Supremes
27
31
Rockin' Robin
Michael Jackson
28
-
Lady Eleanor
Lindisfarne
29
24
Buddy Joe
Golden Earring
30
39
Oh Girl
The Chi-Lites
31
-
I Like It That Way
The Tremeloes
32
22
Open Up
Mungo Jerry
33
38
Ships With Sails
The Doors
34
-
Supersonic Rocket Ship
The Kinks
35
-
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
-
Where
Greenfield & Cook
40
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Ain't That Peculiar
Fanny




DJ HIT PICKS


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.


click to hear audio 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)

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 25th March. The next one is from 15th July.


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