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AT40 - This Week In 1976 (1 Viewer)

15. "Back Where We Started from" - Maxine Nightingale

That can't be her real name, right? In any case, a fine pop record.
Was just about to say I always thought this song was by Captain and Tenille and then they pop up in the very next spot 

 
37. "Crazy On You" - Heart

Dreamboat Annie's greatest hit


26. "Love Is Alive" - Gary Wright

HIS follow up to "Dream Weaver"


25. "Takin' It To The Streets" - Doobies

This is a great record. 


12. "Rhiannon" - Fleetwood Mac

I love this song


11. "Fool To Cry" - Stones


Apparently Casey can't count - we lost #10

9. "Sara Smile" - Hall & Oates

Killer
Great great songs.  Love Is Alive in particular is one of my all time faves, partly for that synth sequence that Tone Loc eventually stole and I listened to over and over again in high school.   :gang2:

 
1. "Love Hangover" - Diana Ross

Diana in complete Diva mode. This was probably Berry Gordy's commercial high point with her. 

 
That's actually a really good list of songs.  Much better than many of these you post.  At least half have stood the 40-year test of time.

 
Following along with these threads show two things: Uruk-Hai loves and is extremely knowledgeable about music. 

Second is how much he dislikes Paul Simon and Jeff Lynne. 

 
19. "Show Me The Way" - Frampton

God, you couldn't run away from this song. Good for Pete, but I never need to hear it again (yes, I owned the album).
I think everyone was handed a copy of the album at my high school when they entered 10th grade. :lol:  

 
Gary Wright's "Love is Alive" didn't immediately jog the memory, but once I heard those first couple of synth beats, it all came back to me.

Nice work, @Uruk-Hai:thumbup:

 
38. "It's Over" - Boz Scaggs

Boz had this kind of choked vocal style you'd think would be limited, but damned if he couldn't use it in a lot of different ways.
Just started reading this thread, but I hope the Lido Shuffle is somewhere near the top of this countdown.

 
Apparently Casey can't count - we lost #10

9. "Sara Smile" - Hall & Oates

Killer
If you like that early 90's R&B smooth side.  One of the better, lesser known groups, After 7, did a great cover of the song.  Nowhere near the original, but it's very smooth and updated.  One would think they'd have bastardized it, but they really held true to the harmonies and smoothness of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLWMFZS6xms

 
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Second is how much he dislikes Paul Simon and Jeff Lynne. 
Most of that is shtick, if I'm being honest. Both of those guys have written a bazillion songs I love. 

That being said....

(blows out)

Lynne has always had a coat-taling thing about him to me. But nobody forced his betters to work with him, so....

Simon is a pretentious, miserable little ####### who - by many accounts - stole a lot of his most famous music.

 
Notes:

I had just turned 14 when this countdown originally ran and was entering High School after this summer break.

Some of the decade's biggest hitmakers were missing from this one - 

Elton John - burnout

Stevie Wonder - timing; about to drop an album nuke on the world

Eagles - see Wonder, Stevie above

 
Notes:

I had just turned 14 when this countdown originally ran and was entering High School after this summer break.

Some of the decade's biggest hitmakers were missing from this one - 

Elton John - burnout

Stevie Wonder - timing; about to drop an album nuke on the world

Eagles - see Wonder, Stevie above
Same age as me, what week was this? I just turned 56 last week, and same scenario.

 
Same age as me, what week was this? I just turned 56 last week, and same scenario.
Pack, it was this week in 1976. I don't know the exact Billboard week-ending date, because I don't feel like counting backwards, but somewhere 1st week of June chart.

Happy birthday, by the way! I've got a few weeks on you, as I hit it back in April.

 
15. "Back Where We Started from" - Maxine Nightingale

That can't be her real name, right? In any case, a fine pop record.
I can't hear this song without thinking of the movie "Slapshot".  I play it at the rink before my kids' games all the time.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Notes:

I had just turned 14 when this countdown originally ran and was entering High School after this summer break.

Some of the decade's biggest hitmakers were missing from this one - 

Elton John - burnout

Stevie Wonder - timing; about to drop an album nuke on the world

Eagles - see Wonder, Stevie above
I thought those three were conspicuous absences. 

Your explanations are on point: Elton was worn out from touring and starting up his own label, Stevie took an extra year to finish Songs In The Key of Life and would drop in September, Eagles were recording Hotel California and would release it in December.   

Also missing from the countdown?  Chicago.  They had put out their first greatest hits the previous fall and would release a new album (with what would be their first single to hit #1) in a couple weeks.

 
My 1976 albums purchased (from memory - sure I'm missing some): 

Trick of the Tail - Genesis

Faithful - Todd Rundgren

Song Remains the Same - Led Zepplin

Presense - Led Zepplin

Zoot Allures - Frank Zappa

Agents of Fortune - Blue Oyster Cult

The Royal Scam - Steely Dan

A New World Record - ELO

Dreamboat Annie - Heart

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton

2112 - Rush (also last 4 digits of my phone number at the time :)

Blondie - Blondie

Rocks - Aerosmith

Boston - Boston

Leftoverture - Kansas

Station to Station - David Bowie

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Pack, it was this week in 1976. I don't know the exact Billboard week-ending date, because I don't feel like counting backwards, but somewhere 1st week of June chart.

Happy birthday, by the way! I've got a few weeks on you, as I hit it back in April.
Thanks GB!

 
Uruk-Hai said:
12. "Rhiannon" - Fleetwood Mac

I love this song
This is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song once they got Nicks.  I'll still take Jumping at Shadows when Peter Green was with them first though.

 

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