Read my mind!
Sedaka’s back!
Didn’t she divorce the Captain after he got dementia?
That proves how awful popular music was in 1975.
One of my favorite pop songs. So catchy!
The absolute pit of a song...
I could not change stations fast enough...
::gaaagggg:: [even thinking about it...]
You might find it annoying. Structurally, it is darned close to the platonic ideal of a pop record.
Toni Tennille’s voice is lovely. Arrangement was great. There were a LOT worse tunes in 1975. And THOSE are scads better from anything popular from the Grunge era and after.
Great song, great recording.
“I will, I will, I will!”
I prefer that to pretty anything that’s hit the charts in this century.
The Capt in that stupid ass hat.
1975
Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ came out.
Grateful Dead live
Pink Floyd ‘Wish You Were Here’
America ‘Hearts’
Marshall Tucker Band ‘Where We All Belong’
We saw-
The above
Allman Bros
The Dead
James Taylor
Tom Waits
CSN
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Jefferson Starship
This earworm stuff was on the AM dial but there was great compositions and a lot of fun Rock and Roll and Blues coming out that we still play
Ahhhhh. The 70’s. Leif Garrett. The Cassidy Boys. Barry Manilow. The list goes on.
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”
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.
The Captain and Tenille...
I think...