Posted on 07/05/2025 12:43:39 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Love Will Keep Us Together went to number one on June 21, 1975 for 4 weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at mybirthdayhits.com ...
I would give anything to have seen "The Lamb" tour.
Yep, that was the year Elton jumped the shark.
No, from wikipedia:
Tennille said the reason for their divorce was Dragon’s “inability to be affectionate.”[27] In her memoir, Tennille revealed that despite their success and public image of a solid marriage, she was lonely and isolated. Dragon had been controlling and emotionally distant; throughout their relationship they slept in separate bedrooms. “I can say without exaggeration that he showed no physical affection for me during our very long marriage,” she said.[29] She reported that Dragon reacted positively to her memoir and the revelation by saying, “I saw you on The Today Show. I was proud of you.”[30]
Following their divorce, Tennille and Dragon remained friends until his death from kidney failure on January 2, 2019.[31] Dragon stated in a February 2017 interview with People that Tennille had returned to Arizona to assist him following a serious health-related incident he had experienced the previous year.[32]
She couldn’t sing muskrat love anymore and had to leave.
America did it first.
Ahhhhh. The 70’s. Leif Garrett. The Cassidy Boys. Barry Manilow. The list goes on.
The Doobie Brothers “Stampede” came out in 1975, IMHO their best album, and the last before the Michael McDonald era.
Probably one of the most annoying #1 hit ever from this week 50 years ago.
“You Light Up My Life”, anyone?
Co-written by Neil Sedaka and, in the fade-out, Toni Tennille sings “Sedaka is back”
Fun fact...Toni Tennille did backing vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”
Now you’re talking!
It’s mind-boggling to think of how different the two 50-year time spans are.
I think in 1925 the top songs were based on the purchases of sheet music, not records.
Yes. Sublime.
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You just posted all of my music. Mid 70’s music was so bad overproduced and dominated by the record companies the scenes were beginning to rumble ... CBGG was open for 2 years and Blondie had formed already when this song was a hit. God Save the Queen followed not long after in 78.
1975 we finally were out of Vietnam
It was a good time.
Dads were driving 7 mph Lincoln’s and Oldsmobiles.
We had free speech.
Boys had deep voices, and they were funny
Families had 5 to 10 kids, we could do anything we wanted, no one missed us AND we were expendable.
A VW bug was $800 cash
Any top 40 song that reminds us of that is good. But spare us the simplistic ear worm stuff. The title alone is enough to make it settle in for a week
August 16 list that year-
The BeeGees? I mean even this Dead Head can appreciate their perfect familial
harmonies
1 1 JIVE TALKIN’ –•– The Bee Gees (RSO)-12 (2 weeks at #1)
2 4 ONE OF THESE NIGHTS –•– The Eagles (Asylum)-12
3 3 PLEASE MR. PLEASE –•– Olivia Newton-John (MCA)-11
4 5 SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT –•– Elton John (MCA)-7
5 15 FALLIN’ IN LOVE –•– Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds (Playboy)-9
6 7 RHINESTONE COWBOY –•– Glen Campbell (Capitol)-12
7 8 WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS –•– War (United Aritsts)-16
8 9 HOW SWEET IT IS (To Be Loved By You) –•– James Taylor (Warner Brothers)-9
9 6 MIDNIGHT BLUE –•– Melissa Manchester (Arista)-15
10 10 THE ROCKFORD FILES –•– Mike Post (MGM)-14
11 2 I’M NOT IN LOVE –•– 10 c.c. (Mercury)-14
12 22 GET DOWN TONIGHT –•– K.C. and the Sunshine Band (T.K.)-6
13 17 LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER –•– The Captain and Tennille (A&M)-18
14 14 MORNIN’ BEAUTIFUL –•– Tony Orlando and Dawn (Elektra)-9
15 18 FIGHT THE POWER (Part 1) –•– The Isley Brothers (T-Neck)-9
16 20 AT SEVENTEEN –•– Janis Ian (Columbia)-10
17 12 LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID –•– Paul McCartney and Wings (Capitol)-12
18 21 HOLDIN’ ON TO YESTERDAY –•– Ambrosia (20th Century)-10
19 26 COULD IT BE MAGIC –•– Barry Manilow (Arista)-8
Absolutely the WORST number one song ever.
The only song worse ever in the history of the world is Muskrat Love.
There’s a pattern there...
I was into The Moody Blues and 10cc in the mid-70s
Then I heard Roxy Music and nothing has been the same since.
This opus had just knocked Vernon Dalhart's The Prisoner's Song out of the top spot. Although this song's lyrics don't make sense, "The Prisoner's Song" was probably the biggest hit of the interwar years. Vernon Dalhart would go on to be the bestselling male vocalist of the 1920s. His guitarist Carson Robison would go on to record Remember Pearl Harbor and I'm No Communist, which woke folks these days find to be highly politically incorrect.
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