A comic once said “Few know this but there was a law passed in Congress in 1975 that every young person in the United States has to be issued a copy of the Peter Frampton album Show Me the Way.”
Ha! Yes, it was seemingly everywhere, although I didn’t buy it. But then, I only bought about a dozen albums way back my single life.
The album “Frampton Comes Alive” was released in January of 1976 (I looked it up). I remember I started going to a disco in Davenport Iowa about then, and a couple of months later Frampton was in the rotation regularly. His two hits “Show me the way” and “Do you feel like we do”, didn’t keep a steady pace for fast dancing, so the floor would almost empty. His “Baby, I love your way” was a slow dance song, and the floor would be full.
I just never was interested in buying a bunch of records. AM rock radio stations were on my button selectors in my car from 73 to 75. From 76 on I also had FM. My fun money mostly went toward a nice car, dating the chicks, and some flying.