When is it Sadie?
The Chart
It’s a week each at the top for “Let Your Love Flow” by the Bellamy Brothers, “Welcome Back” by John Sebastian, “Boogie Fever” by Sylvers, “Silly Love Songs” by Wings and “Love Hangover” by Diana Ross.
- [new] “Baretta’s Theme” – Rhythm Heritage
- “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen
- “Boogie Fever” – Sylvers
- [new] “Come On Over” – Olivia Newton-John
- “December 1963” – Four Seasons
- “Disco Lady” – Johnnie Taylor
- [new] “Don’t Pull Your Love” – Glen Campbell
- “Dream Weaver” – Gary Wright
- [new] “Fool To Cry” – Rolling Stones
- “Fooled Around And Fell In Love” – Elvin Bishop
- “Get Up And Boogie” – Silver Convention
- [new] “Happy Days” – Pratt & Mcclain
- [new] “Happy Music” – Blackbyrds
- [new] “Hurt” – Elvis Presley
- “I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do” – Abba
- [new] “I Want You” – Marvin Gaye
- [new] “I’ve Got A Feeling” – Al Wilson
- “Let Your Love Flow” – Bellamy Brothers
- “Livin’ For The Weekend” – O’jays
- “Lonely Night” – Captain & Tennille
- “Love Hangover” – Diana Ross
- [new] “Love In The Shadows” – Neil Sedaka
- [new] “Love Is Alive” – Gary Wright
- [new] “Love Really Hurts Without You” – Billy Ocean
- “Misty Blue” – Dorothy Moore
- [new] “More More More” – Andrea True Connection
- [new] “Movin’” – Brass Construction
- [new] “One Piece At A Time” – Johnny Cash
- “Only Sixteen” – Dr. Hook
- “Rhiannon” – Fleetwood Mac
- [new] “Right Back Where We Started From” – Maxine Nightingale
- “Right Back Where We Started” – Maxine Nightingale
- “Sara Smile” – Hall & Oates
- “Shannon” – Henry Gross
- [new] “Shop Around” – Captain & Tennille
- “Show Me The Way” – Peter Frampton
- “Silly Love Songs” – Wings
- [new] “Strange Magic” – Electric Light Orchestr
- “Strange Magic” – Electric Light Orchestra
- “Sweet Love” – Commodores
- “Sweet Thing” – Rufus
- [new] “Takin’ It To The Streets” – Doobie Brothers
- “There’s A Kind Of Hush” – Carpenters
- “Tryin’ To Get The Feeling Again” – Barry Manilow
- [new] “Union Man” – Cate Brothers
- “Welcome Back” – John Sebastian
- [new] “Young Blood” – Bad Company
[new] = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.
The Times
On May 3, 1976, Paul McCartney and Wings kicked off the North American leg of their world tour in Fort Worth, Texas. It was McCartney’s first time touring the United States in a decade, since The Beatles played Candlestick Park in 1966.
Shattering indoor attendance records across 31 arena and stadium shows, the tour delivered a 30-song setlist balancing Wings chart-toppers (“Band on the Run,” “Live and Let Die”) with a handful of Beatles classics McCartney had never before performed live as a solo artist. The massive production—complete with laser lights and dry ice—defined the spectacle of mid-70s stadium rock.
On May 24, 1976, British wine merchant Steven Spurrier staged a blind wine-tasting competition in Paris featuring a panel of France’s top sommeliers and wine critics. The panel compared premier French Bordeaux and Burgundies against upstart, little-known boutique wines from California’s Napa Valley.
In an outcome that stunned the international press, the American entrants swept first place in both categories: Chateau Montelena’s 1973 Chardonnay beat French white Burgundies, and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars’ 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon took the top red spot. Reported globally by Time magazine, the event destroyed the myth of French invincibility and opened the door for New World winemaking across the globe.
On May 8, 1976, former Lovin’ Spoonful frontman John Sebastian took the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Welcome Back“—the infectious, nostalgic theme song to the hit ABC television comedy Welcome Back, Kotter.
Originally commissioned as a simple opening sequence tune, the song resonated so deeply with audiences that producers retooled the sitcom’s original title (Kotter) to match the song. Rushed into production and released as a standalone pop 45, it became an inescapable radio staple across the spring, propelling the show and breakout star John Travolta (playing the swaggering Vinnie Barbarino) into superstardom.
The Take
Let’s see some videos from the new chart hits this week…
The classic sitcom theme tune “Happy Days” by Pratt & Mcclain…
And on Top of the Pops “Love Really Hurts Without You” by Billy Ocean…
Then Maxine Nightingale with “Right Back Where We Started From”…
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.