We were worried about you! Come to IRC and share the love.

I'm there now. And much love to urbanwhaleshark who graciously yielded up his set.

Radio 1976 is now in da house!

finally!

how much did i miss?

play Barretta next ; >

You missed the theme from SWAT, amber :-P But I'll YSI it in a minute.

this and don't go breaking my heart have exactly the same tune, no?

I'd tell you if you'd come to IRC, amber :-P

Here, ≡ Click to see image ≡ this for me.

i just caught the end of it, wolfie--look how funny

er, that should be SWAT this for me.

HAH HAH HAH!

shake, shake, shake... : >

oh, you better play bay city rollers! i just found out someone i know is related to 2 of them...

They weren't in the top 40, amber! WHAT PART OF TOP 40 DON'T YOU GET with this theme thing I've got going on?? :-P

Besides weren't they like '72 or '73???

that's right!

i thought they were number 1 some year around then with S A T U R D A Y night!

...They scored their first U.S. hit with "Saturday Night," which was released in September 1975 and hit number one in January 1976. It was followed by the Top Ten hits "Money Honey" and "You Made Me Believe in Magic." ...

: P

i love this song : >

where did you come from, baby....

Ah, well I'm going off the top 100 songs of the year list, so perhaps they didn't stay #1 long enough to make the top 40?

Yeah, they were #67 for the year. Sorry hunny.

: P

(how could you go thru the 70s without them? booooo)

Boogie Fever!!!!

Oh *I* went thru the 70s with them, but unless you want me to increase my sets to 100 songs a night ... we'll sadly be Bay City Roller-less

(they were kinda cute boys, too weren't they? I seem to remember lunchboxes or something back in 2nd grade...oh, never mind)

we did the bump, bump, bump...

I Only Want to Be With You - Bay City Rollers (#12)

are you gonna play Disco Duck?

Well DAMN how many billboard charts are there? *blushes*

Um, the Billboard list *I* have says Disco Duck is 96. Sigh.

you suck! i'll have to put together a set of all the stuff you didn't play.

ANd then YOU can DJ and I'll listen and tell you all the stuff I wanna hear that you won't play for me :-P :*

link us to your list

this one has Disco Duck at 14 too

beelzebub has a devil...

it's such a diff from 75--that was still so 70s songwriterish...this is all fun and disco, mostly.

more, more, more... : >

I've been using a bittorrent engine that's got the lists in ascii text.

Here.

that list is way off...downloading it tho--thanks! : >

(i never heard of that place)

Well there's different Billboard charts ... singles, albums, pop, etc. Does the billboard magazine site itself archive its charts? I haven't been able to find any there when I've looked...

Fly, amber, fly!

oh, you don't know of a good torrent site for spanish music, do you? I'm looking for albums by casa azul.

*dances around the room, even tho fly robin fly is 75*

Do you use usenet, amber? That's WAY better than the p2p services for finding obscure/international music.

maybe somewhere on billboard.com?

I've been alive forever... ; >

usenet annoys me--it always always has.

skyrockets in flight! lol!

Apparently, IRC also annoys you :-P

i haven't heard this since then i don't think (and don't miss it--it reminds me of those stars on 45 songs)

I got turned off irc bec of #mefi when everyone i like kept getting banned.

#mecha != #mefi sweetie. We'd love to see you there.

nah, i'm waiting for an engraved invitation ; >

(it's such a timesink--i'm doing 17 things at once, and having to pay attention to chat too is too much)

slip out the back, jack : >

awesome!

Favorite memory of 1976: piggybacking on my dad's shoulders when he went in to vote to Gerald Ford. Me, being a precocious young 3 1/2 y.o. democrat, flipped the toggle for Carter. Dad was pissed.

You think it's easy for me to keep coming back to the thread to chat with you, spin the set, AND keep the party going in #mecha Amber?

*engraves an invitation for amber and seals it with love machine hug and kiss*

that's hilarious moonbird! :-D

moonbird : > (my mother used to take us into the booth too, each time, but we could never touch any of the cool levers, or reach the top yanking thing)

see, wolfie, now i'll come--this song on now can not possibly have been in the top 40--i don't know any of the words at all...

Dude, that song was on the radio ALL THE TIME when I was a kid...

i felt the rush like a rolling ball of thunder...

i never heard it at all--it's been the only song i didn't know the words for, which can't be if it was really top 40--that's all they played, over and over and over and over...

i'm dling chat software now : P

You're from an alternate universe, aren't you amber? :-P

BTW, "Disco Lady" is the horndog's "Hokey Pokey".

amber just use http://www.slashnet.org/java.php

Yeah, piggybacking with dad was always bad luck for him. One day I decided to eat a whole bottle of Flinstones vitamins. Without thinking about horrible repurcussions, he let me piggyback when we were at the pharmacy right after I'd had a large dose of the Ipecac.

All.
Over.
His.
Head.

40 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:07
Playlist length: 2 hours 5 Minutes

Playlist files:

1. Eric Carmen - All By Myself (4:44)
2. Captain & Tennille - Lonely Night (Angel Face) (2:55)
3. Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn The Beat Around (3:43)
4. Gary Wright - Dream Weaver (2:56)
5. Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow (2:58)
6. Dr Hook - Only Sixteen (1:20)
7. Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right (3:08)
8. David Bowie - Golden Years (3:37)
9. Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find (4:10)
10. Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing (3:19)
11. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster (3:54)
12. Rhythm Heritage - Theme From Swat (2:27)
13. Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From (2:58)
14. The Commodores - Sweet Love (3:11)
15. Kc & The Sunshine Band - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty (2:45)
16. Eagles - Take It To The Limit (4:16)
17. Silver Convention - Get Up And Boogie (2:52)
18. Nazareth - Love Hurts (2:56)
19. Hot Chocalate - You Sexy Thing (3:34)
20. England Dan & John Ford Coley - I'd Really Love To See (2:49)
21. Sylvers - Boogie Fever (3:06)
22. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue (3:56)
23. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (5:10)
24. Andrea True Connection - More, More, More (2:42)
25. Seals & Crofts - Get Closer (3:24)
26. Diana Ross - Love Hangover (3:11)
27. Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly (2:57)
28. Barry Manilow - I Write The Songs (3:26)
29. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight (2:30)
30. Hall & Oates - Sara Smile (2:25)
31. Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth Of Beethoven (2:47)
32. Gary Wright - Love Is Alive (3:26)
33. Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (3:02)
34. Miracles - Love Machine, Pt. 1 (3:05)
35. Manhattans - Kiss And Say Goodbye (4:00)
36. Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music (2:53)
37. Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh What A Night) (2:20)
38. Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady (4:59)
39. Elton John & Kiki Dee - Dont Go Breaking My Heart (3:07)
40. Paul Mccartney & Wings - Silly Love Songs (6:42)

i froze...stinky irc

It looks like wolfdaddy's lists for '75 and '76 are also here, and his Top 15's from '74 and earlier match these lists, and there are definately some differences between the two...

The first list may have been from Billboard's "Year End Issue", which actually comes out a week before Christmas and cuts off the end/beginning of the "year" before Thanksgiving. The second list may be copied from Joel Whitburn's Billboard Pop Annual, an "authorized revisionist history" which used the true calendar years and listed all the #1 hits first...

How did I come to that conclusion? Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" was #1 for the last 6 weeks of 1976. One one list it was the #1 song of '77, on the other it was the #1 song of '76. And I spent way too much time researching this...

BTW, the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night" WAS #1 for one week at the beginning of '76, and there were 26 different singles that hit #1 that year, so it probably was just under the Top 20 listed by that one site.

As for the site with the Top 100, the methodology of Billboard's "Year End Issue" was weighted in favor of Total Number Of Weeks a single was on the charts. So if a song zoomed to #1, then fell off the charts just as quickly, it ended up lower ranked than a song that hung around the middle of the chart for several months... so about half of the year's #1 hits ended the year below #40 on that list.

I must stop now before I turn into Casey Kasem.

Well, I appreciate the research. Who knew it would be so difficult to actually determine just how popular a song from 30 years ago actually was?

All I know is that I heard most of the songs I've been playing on Radio Mecha on my mom's car's radio ... endlessly.

Thanks again wendell!