The Best of Top of the Pops '72 is a 1972 compilation album released by the Top of the Poppers, who were well-known for their cover-versions of popular songs during the 1970s. Despite negative reviews, the album sold well, and was recently re-released on CD and iTunes

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. The album contains songs recorded by the Top of the Poppers during 1972.

Tracklisting

1. I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
   I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
   "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing " is a popular song which originated as a jingle in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television commercial for Coca-Cola. The song, produced by Billy Davis and performed by The New Seekers, portrayed a positive message of hope and love sung by a multicultural...
   
   
2. Telegram Sam
   Telegram Sam
   Telegram Sam was the third UK number one single for the British rock group T. Rex. The song also appeared on their 1972 album The Slider.Perhaps best known for bringing the term "main man" into popular culture, it was number one for two weeks, before being knocked off the top by "Son of My Father"...
   
   
3. Son of My Father
   Son of my Father
   "Son Of My Father" is a song popularised by Chicory Tip. Giorgio Moroder, the co-writer, also recorded it and had a minor hit.Originally written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte in Italian as Tu sei mio padre and recorded under the moniker Giorgio. A copy found its way to studio manager Roger...
   
   
4. Without You
5. Amazing Grace
   Amazing Grace
   "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...
   
   
6. Mouldy Old Dough
   Mouldy Old Dough
   "Mouldy Old Dough" is an instrumental single, which was a hit for Lieutenant Pigeon.It was written by Nigel Fletcher and Rob Woodward and first produced by them under the name of their other band, Stavely Makepeace....
   
   
7. Puppy Love
8. Mama Weer All Crazee Now
   Mama Weer All Crazee Now
   "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" is a popular song originally recorded by the British Glam rock band Slade on their album Slayed?.Written by Jim Lea and Noddy Holder and produced by Chas Chandler, it was the band's third number-one single in the United Kingdom. The single entered the charts on its first...
   
   
9. Metal Guru
10. Clair
11. My Ding-a-Ling
    My Ding-a-Ling
    "My Ding-a-Ling" was the title of a novelty song recorded by Chuck Berry, and his only U.S. number-one single on the pop charts. Later that year the song, in a longer unedited form, was on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions...
    
    
12. Long Haired Lover From Liverpool
    Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
    "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" is a pop song by Jimmy Osmond.Written by Christopher Kingsley and produced by Mike Curb and Perry Botkin Jr, "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" was a UK number one single for Jimmy Osmond...
    
    
13. You Wear It Well

Reception

The album was largely panned by critics when released. Today, the album is a collector's item. Dave Thompson for Allmusic says that "As usual with the early-'70s Top of the Pops albums, the rockers fare better than the ballads — listeners cringe past a toe-curling "Without You," but T. Rex's "Telegram Sam" and "Metal Guru" are electrifying" and that "The team acquits themselves well, too, across the year's greatest novelty smashes".

See also

• Top of the Pops (record series)
  Top of the Pops (record series)
  Top of the Pops is the name of a series of records issued by Pickwick Records on their Hallmark label, which contain anonymous cover versions of recent and current hit singles. The recordings were intended to replicate the sound of the original hits as closely as possible...
  
  
• Hallmark Records
  Hallmark Records
  Hallmark Records is a British record label. It was founded in the 1960s and recently revived. The revived company has since become a major publisher of budget CDs in the UK, issuing both public domain and copyrighted material. The company has also re-issued some of its albums from the 1960s and...