#1 Song of the Week

This week its Sammy Davis Jr and his only #1 hit "Candy Man", From Those Were The Days:
Sammy Davis Jr. earned his place at the top of the popular music charts for the first time, after years in the entertainment business. His number one song, The Candy Man, stayed at the top for three consecutive weeks. The Candy Man was truly a song of fate for Sammy. He openly did not want to record the song, but did so as a favor to MGM Records head Mike Curb, since it was to be used in the film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Davis said he would give the tune one take, "and that’s it!" Sure enough, in that one-time recording, Sammy nailed it. The Candy Man stayed on the pop charts for 16 weeks. The best the legendary performer had done before was 12 weeks for Love Me or Leave Me in 1955 and 11 weeks for I’ve Gotta Be Me (from Golden Rainbow) in 1969. After The Candy Man became a hit, Davis included it in his stage shows and concerts -- and collected huge royalties from it.

This was from a performance on "The Flip Wilson Show" in 1972.
The song hit #1 on June 10th 1972 and it replace "I'll Take You There" by The Staple Singers which dropped to #2, at #3 was "Oh Girl" by the Chi-Lites, #4 "Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond and at #5 "Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.
I'm Casey Kasem and the hits get bigger as the numbers get smaller.