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Alice Cooper waves the election banner
Song of the Day: In the wake of the most vital mid-term US elections in a generation, the 1972 rock song that is often wheeled out on these occasions, but less known is that it is a reworking of an earlier song, Reflected
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Harry Chapin
Song of the Day: Next in the taxi line is this wistfully beautiful 1972 song from the American singer-songwriter’s debut album, Heads & Tales, about a driver who picks up a glamorous woman who turns out to be an old flame
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Tim Buckley
Song of the Day: From one nighthawk, Tom Waits, to another American singer-songwriter - father to Jeff, and here singing about his early career when he worked as a New York cab driver, picking up a crazed customer
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Curtis Mayfield on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Baby Huey, whose brilliant only album was produced by Curtis Mayfield, let’s turn to the man himself with a trio classic tracks from 1972 that show the full range of his funk and orchestration prowess
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Ray Chalres
Song of the Day: After Sister Rosetta Tharpe performing in rainy Manchester in 1964, another great's rendition of a another wet weather number written by Tony Joe White in 1967 from his 1972 album Through The Eyes Of Love
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Jake Thackray
Song of the Day: From yesterday's Ye Nuns, a gem from the Yorkshire chansonnier from his about a nun who wasn't really one, filled with playful, suggestive images and written in a mock-innocent style
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Helen Reddy
Song of the Day: Following from yesterday's Japanese celebration song Girls' Day - Hina Maturi - a truly empowering number by the US-Australian singer to go alongside #March4Women running up to International Women's Day
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Maybe nine can win? Fabulous family band The Sylvers
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Ty Segall/Hot Chocolate cover comparison, more material playing on the topic of who or may not be the winner in a relationship from the brilliant hip hop and jazz producer and the 70s funk and soul family group
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Big Demis and friends: Aphrodite's Child back in the day
Song of the Day: Why the hell not? Let's delve deep into darkest psychedelia and prog-rock, do deep in fact, that we go Greek, in the company of Demis Roussos before be became a tent-wearing behemoth solo artist, and Vangelis Papathanassiou before his film score fame
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Can with bass player and co-founder Holger Czukay (seated).
Song of the Day: As a tribute to krautrock pioneer, bass player and brilliant eccentric band co-founder Holger Czukay, who has died aged 79, two of band's best known songs that exemplifies that highly influential style of repetition and momentum, from 1972's Ege Bamyasi and 1971's Tago Mago
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Steely Dan's Walter Becker, left, with Donald Fagan
Song of the Day: As a tribute to the recently departed Walter Becker, guitarist, bass player and co-songwriter for almost five decades with Donald Fagan, a sample of two their unique blend of rock, jazz, samba, prog and fusion, from 1972's debut album Can't Buy a Thrill, with the two perfectionists, with a host of brilliant other musicians, creating a clever, sophisticated sound
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