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The Chart
It’s “Love Machine” by the Miracles and then the 70s are reminiscing for the rest of the month with”December 1963″ by Four Seasons.
- “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover” – Paul Simon
- [new] “Action” – Sweet
- “All By Myself” – Eric Carmen
- “Baby Face” – A Wing & A Prayer Fife & Drum Corps
- “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen
- [new] “Boogie Fever” – Sylvers
- “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” – Neil Sedaka
- [new] “Can’t Hide Love” – Earth Wind & Fire
- [new] “Cupid” – Tony Orlando & Dawn
- “December 1963” – Four Seasons
- “Deep Purple” – Donny & Marie Osmond
- [new] “Disco Lady” – Johnnie Taylor
- [new] “Don’t Pull Your Love” – Glen Campbell
- [new] “Double Trouble” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- “Dream On” – Aerosmith
- “Dream Weaver” – Gary Wright
- [new] “Eh Cumpari” – Gaylord & Holiday
- “Fanny” – Bee Gees
- [new] “Get Up And Boogie” – Silver Convention
- “Golden Years” – David Bowie
- [new] “Good Hearted Woman” – Waylon & Willie
- “Grow Some Funk Of Your Own” – Elton John
- [new] “Happy Music” – Blackbyrds
- [new] “Heavy Love” – David Ruffin
- [new] “Here There And Everywhere” – Emmylou Harris
- [new] “Hey Baby” – Ted Nugent
- [new] “Highfly” – John Miles
- [new] “Hurt” – Elvis Presley
- “I Write The Songs” – Barry Manilow
- [new] “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” – Terry Bradshaw
- [new] “I’ve Got A Feeling” – Al Wilson
- [new] “If Love Must Go” – Dobie Gray
- “Junk Food Junkie” – Larry Groce
- [new] “Just You And I” – Melissa Manchester
- [new] “Let Your Love Flow” – Bellamy Brothers
- “Lonely Night” – Captain & Tennille
- “Love Hurts” – Nazareth
- [new] “Love Is The Drug” – Roxy Music
- “Love Machine” – Miracles
- “Love To Love You Baby” – Donna Summer
- [new] “Mighty High” – Mighty Clouds Of Joy
- “Money Honey” – Bay City Rollers
- [new] “More More More” – Andrea True Connection
- [new] “New Orleans” – Staple Singers
- [new] “Once A Fool” – Kiki Dee
- [new] “Only Love Is Real” – Carole King
- “Only Sixteen” – Dr. Hook
- [new] “Ophelia” – The Band
- [new] “Queen Of Hearts” – K.C. & The Sunshine Band
- [new] “Right Back Where We Started” – Maxine Nightingale
- [new] “Sally” – Grand Funk Railroad
- [new] “Scotch On The Rocks” – Band Of The Black Watch
- [new] “Shout It Out Loud” – Kiss
- [new] “Show Me The Way” – Peter Frampton
- “Slow Ride” – Foghat
- [new] “Sweet Love” – Commodores
- “Sweet Thing” – Rufus
- [new] “Sweet Thing” – Rufus & Chaka Kahn
- “Take It To The Limit” – Eagles
- [new] “Tangerine” – Salsoul Orchestra
- [new] “The White Knight” – Cleddus Maggard
- “The White Knight” – Cleddus Maggard & The Citizen’s Band
- “Theme From S.W.A.T.” – Rhythm Heritage
- [new] “There Won’t Be No Country Music” – C.W. Mccall
- [new] “There’s A Kind Of Hush” – Carpenters
- “Wake Up Everybody” – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
- [new] “Welcome Back” – John Sebastian
- [new] “You Are Beautiful” – Stylistics
- “You Sexy Thing” – Hot Chocolate
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
The Times
Michael Ritchie’s “The Bad News Bears” hit theaters in late March 1976, turning the conventional, wholesome sports movie trope completely on its head. Starring Walter Matthau as the beer-swigging, pool-cleaning Little League coach Morris Buttermaker, the film brought unvarnished realism, profanity, and cynicism to youth sports. Co-starring Tatum O’Neal as ace pitcher Amanda Whurlitzer and Jackie Earle Haley as the cigarette-smoking rebel Kelly Leak, the movie was a massive commercial hit. Its unvarnished script and refusal to deliver a clichéd Hollywood ending made it a cornerstone of 1970s counter-establishment cinema.
On March 18, 1976, Nicolas Roeg’s surreal sci-fi drama “The Man Who Fell to Earth” premiered in London, marking David Bowie’s feature film acting debut. Playing Thomas Jerome Newton—an alien who travels to Earth to find water for his dying home planet, only to become corrupted by wealth, television, and alcoholism—Bowie delivered a haunting, fragile performance that felt like a natural extension of his alien pop personas.
On March 30, 1976, the fledgling Sex Pistols played their first show at London’s iconic 100 Club on Oxford Street. While the venue had spent decades as a traditional jazz and blues stronghold, this gig kicked the doors open for the burgeoning British punk movement. The raw, aggressive set caught the attention of early music journalists and fans who would go on to form the vanguard of late-70s punk, directly paving the way for the legendary 100 Club Punk Special festival later that autumn.
The Take
In 1969, while staying at the Fort Worther Motel in Fort Worth, Texas,WaylonJennings saw an advertisement in a newspaper promoting Tina Turner as a “good hearted woman loving two-timing men”, a reference to Ike Turner. Jennings went to talk to fellow country musician Willie Nelson, who was in a middle of a poker game, about writing a song based on that phrase. Joining the game, he and Nelson expanded the lyrics as Nelson’s wife Connie Koepke wrote them down. 7 years later it was a bonafide hit for the pair.
Though Roxy Music did not film a music video for their classic “Love Is the Drug”, they did mime the song for a television appearance in 1975. Ferry wore an eyepatchfor the appearance, albeit not for aesthetic reasons. He recalled:
It wasn’t a piratical fashion thing, as many people thought. The day before our taping, I was sent to the hospital to have my eye looked at. I had walked into a door or something. I remember thinking, ‘Oh, God, we’ve got to do a television show.’ Which we did despite my eye. In the video, if you look carefully, you can actually see a bandage with a dressing underneath. But the black patch looked good
And then we have a couple of great live performances with “Sweet Love” by the Commodores…
and “There’s A Kind Of Hush” by the Carpenters.
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.