The top song on July 4th 1975 was...Love Will Keep Us Together

My Birthday Hits ^ | 1975 | My Birthday Hits

[DallasBiff]

Love Will Keep Us Together went to number one on June 21, 1975 for 4 weeks.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The same song the DemonRAT señators play when they are doing conjugal visits with illegal alien gangbangers at detention centers.

[Fledermaus]

Cut The Cake by AWB wasn’t as good as Pick Up The Pieces. I played the sax solo in band. The stupid high school arrangement of course gave the best parts to trumpets.

I refused so we switched it back to sax.

All marching band music was arranged for trumpets.

[Chickensoup]

No he had essential tremor and cou play keyboard anymore.

[Fledermaus]

If I heard “I want to see you tonight” I groaned.

[Chickensoup]

To this day my heart gladdens when I hear JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG.

[Dr. Sivana]

He also had “Dancin’ Fool”.

Another novelty song that got airplay, but peaked at #45.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Capt in that stupid ass hat.

The guy is a performer who went bald early. Even Dion wore a cap when he went bald.

Also, he played a lot of outdoor performances with the Beach Boys. Also, the hat gives him an excuse be called the "Captain". The Captain and Tennille sounds better than "Darryl and Toni" or "Dragon and Tennille".

It was the '70s, as far as "stupid ass" getups go, you can do a LOT worse, from KISS, Bowie, and Elton John, to ABBA with Cat dresses and sky high platform boots on Bjorn . . . or was that Bennie. The one with the monkey face.

He's a keyboardist. You have Marvin Hamlisch on one end of the spectrum, and Elton John on the other, with Billy Joel in the middle. The hat is fine.

[Skooz]

Summer 1975 was a musical desert on the radio.

We didn’t have an album rock station here, so I was stuck with possibly the most horrific Top 40 of all time.

It traumatized me.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Love the song. The link, not so much.

https://youtu.be/1G0sOA6hTg0?si=XCzArLpo2a3bRhqx

[Skooz]

McDonald killed the Doobies.

Yep.

[dfwgator]

I loved the Cat dresses. Frida was so hot back then.

[daler]

“Great music early 70s”

To me, great early 70s would be Zep, Doobies and Alice Cooper.

Maybe Grand Funk and James Gang.

[Andy'smom]

::gaaagggg:: [even thinking about it...]

Same here. I couldn’t stand those 2.

[Alas Babylon!]

Summer of 1975. I graduated in 1976. This is the music that would be playing in the radio in the car. Everyone had a radio in their car. Some of us had 8-tracks, and a few rich kids had a cassette player.

Still, when you went out with your friends, or at some hangout, these tunes would be playing in the background. In basic training in July of 76, they’d play the local San Antonio radio station in the chow hall—the only time we would hear any music.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yeah, that line from Elton was de facto gay.

[redfreedom]

You have your opinion, mine is the opposite. I remember it well and liked it then and now.

[Dr. Sivana]

Oh . . . there are a LOT more than that. “Flintstone Boy” was a flipside (I think of “Ego”). A rare song where Elton John wrote the lyrics, which he isn’t very good at. Lots of male pronouns in that one. “Elton’s Song” is purposefully ambiguous, but not really. Even back in 1971, “All the Nasties”. And don’t even get started on the videos. “I’m Still Standing” is bleagh!

Philadelphia Freedom didn’t hit anyone I knew that way.

[Red Badger]

It didn’t.

They got a divorce........

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Oh come on, guys. If, back in the day, Toni Tenille had offered to sing Muskrat Love to you, in private, at your place - you would have loved the song.

[Kazan]

But, it wasn’t nearly as annoying as one of their later hits — Muskrat Love.