Today I am pleased to highlight more 1972 memories.
Gallery was a group that hailed from the Detroit area. They became a three hit wonder with a trio of songs that were all released during '72 and all were from the same album. They sold a lot of 8 tracks that year! Jim Gold was the leader of the band and he joined me on the air in 2006.
Gallery got a lot of airplay and were featured on a couple of K-tel commercials that seemed to air all the time on local t.v. Jim Gold is happy that he got a brief moment in the national spotlight.
I feel the debut album by Gallery is an overlooked gem from 1972.
Three hits on one album guaranteed that my $3.99 was well spent at the record store. The group's version of I Believe In Music was released in early August.
Gallery's three hits came back-to-back-to-back in 1972 ... and all three of them made The National Top 12.
"Nice To Be With You" went all the way to #1 in Cash Box Magazine. (It topped out at #4 in Billboard and Record World ... but charted for an incredible 22 weeks ... virtually unheard of at the time when a long-running record MIGHT spent 16 weeks on the chart.)
"I Believe In Music," a Mac Davis song, followed it up the charts, peaking at #12 in Record World, #13 in Cash Box, but only #22 in Billboard. It still seems to be the definitive version of this tune, even fifty years later.
"Big City Miss Ruth Ann" wrapped up the trifecta by also gong to #12 (this time in Cash Box), while peaking at #21 and #23 in Record World and Billboard respectively. All three recordings still hold up very well some five decades later. (kk)