I was never a “top forty” guy- Led Zeppelin all the way but there are some decent songs on this list:
3 7 LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID –•– Wings (Capitol)-6 (3)
11 17 I’M NOT IN LOVE –•– 10cc (Mercury)-8 (11)
12 14 SWEARIN’ TO GOD –•– Frankie Valli (Private Stock)-8 (12)
37 34 BAD LUCK (Part 1) –•– Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
42 37 BLACK FRIDAY –•– Steely Dan (ABC)-7 (37)
33 39 EVERY TIME YOU TOUCH ME (I Get High) –•– Charlie Rich (Epic)-6 (33)
A lot of people don’t know this, but Charlie Rich was an accomplished jazz pianist, long before he made it on the charts in the 70s.
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.