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Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1972

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1972 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring ten hit recordings from 1972.


1976 Winter Olympics

Denver officially withdrew on November 15, and the IOC then offered the games to Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of government following elections.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1955

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1955 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1955.

The volume is the first in a series of albums by Rhino Records that chronicled years in music, starting from 1955 and continuing through 1995.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1959

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1959 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1959.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1960

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1960 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring ten hit recordings from 1960.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1964

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1964 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring ten hit recordings from 1964.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1965.

This resulted in what was a Mr. Holland's Opus-esque album, as two songs from the 1993 re-release, "A Lover's Concerto" and "1-2-3", have been featured in the 1996 film Mr.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1966

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1966 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1966.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1969.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1970

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1970 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1970.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1971

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1971 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1971.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1973

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1973 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring ten hit recordings from 1973.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1974

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1974 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1974.

Carter F. Bales

A Democrat, Bales was the candidate to the U.S. House of Representative from New York’s 3rd Congressional District in 1972, but lost the general election in the Nixon Landslide.

Chesterfield Smith

While serving as President of the American Bar Association he became an outspoken critic of the Richard Nixon and advocated for the congressional reappointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate affair, although Smith had earlier supported Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

Commonwealth Railways

Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government.

David Pirie

His first book, A Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema 1946 - 1972 (1973), was the first book-length survey of the British horror film, and is still considered the definitive study of that subject.

Democrats for Nixon

Democrats for Nixon was a campaign to promote Democratic support for the then-incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election.

Harold Vernon Froehlich

He was elected in 1972 to the 93rd United States Congress replacing the retired John W. Byrnes.

Jefferson County, Idaho

In the 1972 Presidential election Richard Nixon won the county with then John Birch Society member John G. Schmitz reportedly receiving 27.51% of the county's vote.

Jesse Haines

Frankie Frisch, a member of the VC, also shepherded the selections of teammates Dave Bancroft and Chick Hafey in 1971, Ross Youngs in 1972, George Kelly in 1973, Jim Bottomley in 1974, and Freddie Lindstrom in 1976.

John Bucklaschuk

In the Canadian federal election of 1972, he ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in the riding of Lisgar, but finished a distant third against incumbent Progressive Conservative Jack Murta, and former Lieutenant-Governor and Liberal candidate Richard Spink Bowles.

John J. Daley

Daley was also a candidate for presidential elector during the 1972 presidential election (Vermont was carried by Republican incumbent President Richard Nixon).

July 15, 1972

Takehisa Kosugi - electronic violin, vocals and radio oscillators

Marcel-Claude Roy

He was re-elected at Laval (subsequently Laval West) in the 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections but was defeated by Guy Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party.

Monroe County, Missouri

Monroe County was one of only two jurisdictions in Missouri to be carried by Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election against incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon.

Murray McBride

McBride was defeated in the 1972 election by Paul Dick of the Progressive Conservative party at the riding which became Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton.

North American Newspaper Alliance

A notable event late in the syndicate’s history occurred when a freelance correspondent, Lucianne Goldberg joined the press corps covering candidate George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign, claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service, an affiliate of NANA.

Ole Kopreitan

He instead joined the popular movement Folkebevegelsen mot EF, which worked, successfully, to prevent Norwegian membership in the European Communities.

Ragnar Kalheim

In 1972 he was a member of the popular movement Folkebevegelsen mot EF, which worked, successfully, to prevent Norwegian membership in the European Communities.

Reg Withers

After the defeat of the McMahon government in 1972, Withers became Opposition Leader in the Senate, where he retained a thin majority and acted to block much of the Whitlam Government's legislation.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1972

He was challenged by two minor candidates, liberal Pete McCloskey of California and conservative John Ashbrook of Ohio.

Robert Eisner

In 1972, he served as an adviser to George McGovern, during his campaign for the United States Presidency.

Rochdale by-election, 1972

In that by-election the Liberal candidate had finished second, during the late 1950s Liberal revival that culminated in the victory at the Torrington by-election, 1958 the next month.

Shusei Tanaka

He was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 1972 general election and represented the Nagano Prefecture first district.

Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol

In the 1972 general election Dietl was the candidate of the hard-liners, including the Party of Independents, in the single-seat constituency of Brixen and won 20.8% of the vote, the major defection from SVP since then.

Social Democrats, USA

SDUSA members stated concerns about an exaggerated role of "middle-class" peace activists in the Democratic Party, particularly associated with the "New Politics" of Senator George McGovern, whose Presidential candidacy was viewed as an ongoing disaster for the Democratic Party and for the USA.

Sutton and Cheam by-election, 1972

The Sutton and Cheam by-election of 7 December 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Sharples was appointed Governor of Bermuda.

Thomas G. Morris

He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1972, and then served as a management consultant and vice president for Bank Securities, Inc.

Toronto municipal election, 1972

Crombie had been elected to city council only three years earlier, previously serving as a professor at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute.

United States presidential election in New York, 1972

This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the upstate counties of Erie County, where the city of Buffalo is located, and Albany County, where the state capital of Albany is located.

United States Senate election in Delaware, 1972

Though Senator Boggs was expected to easily win a third term over the then-unknown Biden, it ended up being the closest Senate election in 1972, and Biden narrowly beat out Boggs by a little over three thousand votes, winning what would be his first of seven terms.

To avoid that, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon helped convince Boggs to run again with full party support.

United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1972

The North Carolina United States Senate election of 1972 was held on 7 November 1972 as part of the nation-wide elections to the Senate, and coinciding with the 1972 presidential election.

United States Senate election in North Carolina, 2008

In addition, Hagan became the first Democrat to win this seat when it last went to the Republicans in 1972.

Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky

Sol Liptzin characterized him as "a master of the picturesque vitriolic phrase." Liptzin, 1972, 46


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