With my 30th High School reunion just around the corner. Our intrepid reunion coordinator posed the question on classmates.com what music would we want to be played. I decided to look up the music from our senior year because that is when the light was visable at the end of the tunnel. Here is what we listened to from fall of 1975 to June of 1976. Actually these are the number one songs according to Ben Fong Torres:
9/26/75 Fame--David Bowie
10/10/75 Bad Blood--Neil Sedaka
11/7/75 Island Girl--Elton John
12/19/75 Convoy--CW McCall
2/6/76 Theme From Swat--Rhythm Heritage
3/5/76 Dream Weaver--Gary Wright
4/9/76 Disco Lady--Johnnie Taylor
4/23/76 Boogie Fever--Sylvers
It apears that music was transitioning from the Glitter Rock period of the mid-seventies to the disco explosion of the late 70s.
"Boogie Fever" by the Silvers is a great disco hit and I have it on a K-Tel collection LP. What was your favorite Top 40 station in high school? I liked both KNEW and KSPO in Spokane and in college KAYO and KOL in Seattle.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can recall, the Top 40 station in 1976 in Walla Walla was KTEL (not to be confused with K-TEL), and possibly KUJ.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing that so many of those songs can be heard on radio stations today (hell, probably the only remnant of the SWAT TV series people recall today -- apart from the Colin Farrell movie -- is the Quincy-Jones-like theme song). How many songs from 1946 were playing on popular radio in 1976?
I can answer that. Because baby boomers have the largest disposable income.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny how music takes you back. Do you feel like you did in '76 when you hear some of this stuff?
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