I like all of these songs but "Dancing Queen" is the one that stood out the most for me that year.  :)

I'll have to go with "Hotel California". :)

I like all of these songs but "Dancing Queen" is the one that stood out the most for me that year.  :)


I would agree, Karen...but we had that the previous year, so I went for...

'When I Need You' - Leo Sayer

As an 'other' (or two!), 'Chanson D'Amour' (ManTran) and 'Romeo' (Mr Big) were highly enjoyable...

I would agree, Karen...but we had that the previous year...

Really?  That's interesting.

'When I Need You' - Leo Sayer

Good choice.  I love how he does all the different voices for that song.  :)

As an 'other' (or two!), 'Chanson D'Amour' (ManTran) and 'Romeo' (Mr Big) were highly enjoyable...

I have not heard of either of those songs.  I wonder how hard they'd be to find....

Other - Da Doo Run Run by Shaun Cassidy

Hotel California. Brings back many memories.  :)



Cat

I Just Want To Be Your Everything (the year of my first "serious" boyfriend - this was "our" song ::))

Hard to beat ABBA!
God lyk!

Hotel California. Brings back many memories.  :)



Cat
I totally agree! I was 16 and the memories are never ending :)

I came thisclose to choosing David Soul ;)  But I had to go with Hotel California.  However, I also love "How Deep Is Your Love?"

Man, this was a great year for music! :D

Good year for music, indeed. I couldn't pick. :D They're all my favorite!

There were SO many....
JANUARY

"Boogie Child" - The Bee Gees (#12)
"Crackerbox Palace" - George Harrison (#19)
"Don't Give Up On Us" - David Soul (G) (#1)
"Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac (#10)
"Here Come Those Tears Again" - Jackson Browne (#23)
"Hey Baby" - Ringo Starr (#74)
"I Just Can't Say No To You" - Parker McGee (#42)
"I've Got Love On My Mind" - Natalie Cole (G) (#5)
"Long Time" - Boston (#22)
"Rich Girl" - Hall & Oates (G) (#1)
"Right Time Of The Night" - Jennifer Warnes (#6)
"Sam" - Olivia Newton-John (#20)
"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" - Tom Jones (#15)
"So In To You" - The Atlanta Rhythm Section (#7)
"The Things We Do For Love" - 10cc (G) (#5)
FEBRUARY

"Angel In Your Arms" - Hot (G) (#6)
"Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance!)" - Elton John (#28)
"Couldn't Get It Right" - The Climax Blues Band (#3)
"The First Cut Is The Deepest" - Rod Stewart (#21)
"Hotel California" - The Eagles (G) (#1)
"I Wanna Get Next To You" - Rose Royce (#10)
"I'm Your Boogie Man" - K.C. & the Sunshine Band (G) (#1)
"Love in 'C' Minor - Part 1" - Cerrone (#36)
"Maybe I'm Amazed" - Wings (#10)
"N.Y., You Got Me Dancing" - The Andrea True Connection (#27)
"Southern Nights" - Glen Campbell (G) (#1)
"Theme From Rocky (Gonna Fly Now)" - Rhythm Heritage (#94)
"Tryin' To Love Two" - William Bell (G) (#10)
"When I Need You" - Leo Sayer (G) (#1)
"Winter Melody/Spring Affair" - Donna Summer (#43)
MARCH

"Can't Stop Dancin'" - The Captain & Tennille (#13)
"Cherry Baby" - Starz (#33)
"Dancing Man" - Q (#23)
"Disco Inferno" - The Trammps (#11)
"Heard It In A Love Song" - The Marshall Tucker Band (#14)
"Hello Stranger" - Yvonne Elliman (#15)
"I Think We're Alone Now" - The Rubinoos (#45)
"Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs (#11)
"Lonely Boy" - Andrew Gold (#7)
"My Sweet Lady" - John Denver (#32)
"Theme From 'Charlie's Angels'" - Henry Mancini (#45)
"Tie Your Mother Down" - Queen (#49)
"Uptown Festival (Motown Medley)" - Shalamar (#25)
"Your Love" - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. (#15)
"Your Own Special Way" - Genesis (#62)
APRIL

"Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" - Joe Tex (G) (#12)
"Cinderella" - Firefall (#34)
"Dreams" - Fleetwood Mac (G) (#1)
"Feels Like The First Time" - Foreigner (#4)
"Gonna Fly Now (Theme From 'Rocky')" - Bill Conti (G) (#1)
"Got To Give It Up (Part 1)" - Marvin Gaye (#1)
"High School Dance" - The Sylvers (#17)
"I'll Be Standing By" - Foghat (#67)
"Lucille" - Kenny Rogers (G) (#5)
"Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett (#8)
"Sing" - Tony Orlando & Dawn (#58)
"Sir Duke" - Stevie Wonder (G) (#1)
"Undercover Angel" - Alan O'Day (G) (#1)
"Whodunit" - Tavares (#22)
"You And Me" - Alice Cooper (#9)
MAY

"All You Get From Love Is A Love Song" - Carpenters (#35)
"Da Doo Ron Ron" - Shaun Cassidy (G) (#1)
"Do You Wanna Make Love" - Peter McCann (G) (#5)
"Hollywood" - Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan (#32)
"I Just Want To Be Your Everything" - Andy Gibb (G) (#1)
"Jet Airliner" - The Steve Miller Band (#8)
"Knowing Me, Knowing You" - Abba (G) (#14)
"Life In The Fast Lane" - The Eagles (#11)
"Looks Like We Made It" - Barry Manilow (G) (#1)
"My Heart Belongs To Me" - Barbra Streisand (#4)
"On And On" - Stephen Bishop (#11)
"Peace Of Mind" - Boston (#38)
"The Pretender" - Jackson Browne (#58)
"Solsbury Hill" - Peter Gabriel (#68)
"(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" - Rita Coolidge (G) (#2)
JUNE

"Barracuda" - Heart (#11)
"Best Of My Love" - The Emotions (G) (#1)
"Easy" - The Commodores (#4)
"Give A Little Bit" - Supertramp (#15)
"Handy Man" - James Taylor (#4)
"I'm In You" - Peter Frampton (#2)
"It Was Almost Like A Song" - Ronnie Milsap (#16)
"Just A Song Before I Go" - Crosby, Stills & Nash (#7)
"The Killing Of Georgie" - Rod Stewart (#30)
"Runaway" - Bonnie Raitt (#57)
"Smoke From A Distant Fire" - The Sanford-Townsend Band (#9)
"Telephone Line" - The Electric Light Orchestra (G) (#7)
"Telephone Man" - Meri Wilson (G) (#18)
"Way Down" - Elvis Presley (G) (#18)
"You Made Me Believe In Magic" - The Bay City Rollers (#10)
JULY

"Boogie Nights" - Heatwave (P) (#2)
"Christine Sixteen" - Kiss (#25)
"Cold As Ice" - Foreigner (#6)
"Don't Worry Baby" - B.J. Thomas (#17)
"Edge Of The Universe" - The Bee Gees (#26)
"Float On" - The Floaters (G) (#2)
"The Greatest Love Of All" - George Benson (#24)
"Keep It Comin' Love" - K.C. & the Sunshine Band (#2)
"Nobody Does It Better" - Carly Simon (G) (#2)
"O-H-I-O" - Ohio Players (#45)
"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" - The Ramones (#81)
"Something About You" - LeBlanc & Carr (#48)
"Strawberry Letter 23" - The Brothers Johnson (G) (#5)
"Swayin' To The Music (Slow Dancin')" - Johnny Rivers (G) (#10)
"That's Rock 'N' Roll" - Shaun Cassidy (G) (#3)
AUGUST

"Brick House" - The Commodores (#5)
"Cat Scratch Fever" - Ted Nugent (#30)
"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" - Crystal Gayle (G) (#2)
"Help Is On Its Way" - The Little River Band (#14)
"I Feel Love" - Donna Summer (G) (#6)
"I Go Crazy" - Paul Davis (#7)
"Indian Summer" - Poco (#50)
"It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me" - Barry White (G) (#4)
"Jungle Love" - The Steve Miller Band" (#23)
"Just Remember I Love You" - Firefall (#11)
"My Cherie Amour" - The Soul Train Gang (#92)
"She Did It" - Eric Carmen (#23)
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" - Peter Frampton (#18)
"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" - Meco (P) (#1)
"You're The Only One" - The J. Geils Band (#83)
SEPTEMBER

"Baby, What A Big Surprise" - Chicago (#4)
"Blue Bayou" - Linda Ronstadt (G) (#3)
"Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes" - Jimmy Buffett (#37)
"Come Sail Away" - Styx (#8)
"Daybreak" - Barry Manilow (#23)
"Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me" - Peter Brown (G) (#18)
"Dusic" - Brick (#18)
"Heaven On The 7th Floor" - Paul Nicholas (G) (#6)
"How Deep Is Your Love" - The Bee Gees (G) (#1)
"I Just Want To Make Love To You" - Foghat (#33)
"The King Is Gone" - Ronnie McDowell (G) (#13)
"Send In The Clowns" (re-entry) - Judy Collins (#19)
"We Just Disagree" - Dave Mason (#12)
"We're All Alone" - Rita Coolidge (G) (#7)
"You Light Up My Life" - Debby Boone (P) (#1)
OCTOBER

"Baby Come Back" - Player (G) (#1)
"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" - Chic (G) (#6)
"(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again" - L.T.D. (G) (#4)
"Falling" - LeBlanc & Carr (#13)
"Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton (G) (#3)
"It's So Easy" - Linda Ronstadt (#5)
"Money, Money, Money" - Abba (#56)
"Sentimental Lady" - Bob Welch (#8)
"Slip Slidin' Away" - Paul Simon (#5)
"Started Out Dancing, Ended Up Making Love" - Alan O'Day (#73)
"We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You" - Queen (P) (#4)
"Why Do Lovers (Break Each Other's Heart?)" - Hall & Oates (#73)
"You Make Loving Fun" - Fleetwood Mac (#9)
"You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" - Rod Stewart (G) (#4)
"Your Smiling Face" - James Taylor (#20)
NOVEMBER

"As" - Stevie Wonder (#36)
"Bloat On" - Cheech & Chong (#41)
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" - Santa Esmeralda (#15)
"Emotion" - Samantha Sang (P) (#3)
"Hey Deanie" - Shaun Cassidy (G) (#7)
"Just The Way You Are" - Billy Joel (G) (#3)
"Love Is Thicker Than Water" - Andy Gibb (G) (#1)
"More Than A Woman" - Tavares (#32)
"My Way" - Elvis Presley (G) (#22)
"Native New Yorker" - Odyssey (#21)
"Peg" - Steely Dan (#11)
"Short People" - Randy Newman (G) (#2)
"Sometimes When We Touch" - Dan Hill (G) (#3)
"Turn To Stone" - The Electric Light Orchestra (#13)
DECEMBER

"Boats Against The Current" - Eric Carmen (#88)
"Desiree" - Neil Diamond (#16)
"Easy To Love" - Leo Sayer (#36)
"Ffun" - Con Funk Shun (#23)
"Goodbye Girl" - David Gates (#15)
"Lovely Day" - Bill Withers (#30)
"Mindbender" - Stillwater (#46)
"Rockaway Beach" - The Ramones (#66)
"Stayin' Alive" - The Bee Gees (P) (#1)
"Sweet Music Man" - Kenny Rogers (#44)
"Theme From 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind'" - John Williams (#13)
"Thunder Island" - Jay Ferguson (#9)
"Too Hot Ta Trot" - The Commodores (#24)
"Tried To Love" - Peter Frampton (#41)
"What A Difference You've Made In My Life" - Ronnie Milsap

I'd go with "I Go Crazy" by Paul Davis.....today ;)

BTW....if you LOVE the seventies music go to THIS website for cool stuff...
http://superseventies.com/

Good year for music, indeed. I couldn't pick. :D They're all my favorite!


Same ! 8)

However, I will give special mention to 'A Mean Pair Of Jeans' by Marty Rhone  :)

Same ! 8)

However, I will give special mention to 'A Mean Pair Of Jeans' by Marty Rhone  :)


Oh that's just sick !  :\'( You did that for my benefit dincha ?  >:( Grrr !  ;)

Dancing Queen - ABBA

Oh that's just sick !  :\'( You did that for my benefit dincha ?  >:( Grrr !  ;)


Wha.....who me ? :-\\

  ;D :-* ;)

Same ! 8)

However, I will give special mention to 'A Mean Pair Of Jeans' by Marty Rhone  :)


;D ;D ;D ;D

1977 was a good year for me. Junior in school, parties and loads of friends. I'd have to go with Dancing Queen. This is the kind of song that will never get old. Hopefully no one will mess  it up by doing a remake, especially a rap artist.

Lots of good songs on those lists, Mark.  :)

Thanks RnRFan.  Couldn't bring myself to pick one from the poll list.
"Solsbury Hill" - Peter Gabriel (#68)
Also
"King's Lead Hat" - Brian Eno

I like all of these songs but "Dancing Queen" is the one that stood out the most for me that year.  :)


Ditto.

:) ;)

I'd go with "I Go Crazy" by Paul Davis.....today ;)



Great "Other" pick, RnRFan.  :)

"I Go Crazy" is one of those songs you hear for years and never really know when it first came out. Sort of like Harry Chapin's "Taxi". ???

:)

Great "Other" pick, RnRFan.  :)

"I Go Crazy" is one of those songs you hear for years and never really know when it first came out. Sort of like Harry Chapin's "Taxi". ???

:)


Thanks zcrito, and I agree ;)

Great "Other" pick, RnRFan.  :)

"I Go Crazy" is one of those songs you hear for years and never really know when it first came out.  :)



All of my reference materials show that song as being a hit in 1978.  :-\\

All of my reference materials show that song as being a hit in 1978.  :-\\
Yeah I found it to be just like Players "Baby Come Back" which was released December 10, 1977 but became a hit in early '78 :-\\ :)

Thanks RnRFan.  Couldn't bring myself to pick one from the poll list.
"Solsbury Hill" - Peter Gabriel (#68)
Also
"King's Lead Hat" - Brian Eno
Glad to post it, MaxwellSmart :)

Yeah I found it to be just like Players "Baby Come Back" which was released December 10, 1977 but became a hit in early '78 :-\\ :)


Ah!  ;)

All of my reference materials show that song as being a hit in 1978.  :-\\


I checked top40db.net. They live and breath the Billboard charts and they show it with a debut of "Aug '77".

To tell you the truth, I always thought it was an early '80s song since it remained popular for so many years. It was in the Guinness book of records at one time for its chart activity. I'm not going to double-check that for accuracy though. ???

(Harry Chapin's Taxi, debut: March, 1972) ???

;) :)

I checked top40db.net. They live and breath the Billboard charts and they show it with a debut of "Aug '77".

I tend to go by when songs hit the Top 40 as opposed to when they 'debut'.  That's just me.  :)

I tend to go by when songs hit the Top 40 as opposed to when they 'debut'.   That's just me.  :)


To me a song's date is always when I first hear it. Which, depending on the radio stations where one lives could be a difference of months or years from the time it actually shows up on the charts...

This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide - The Kings, charted summer 1980, first played where I live, spring 1982!
To me it'll always be a '82 song.

;)

To me a song's date is always when I first hear it. Which, depending on the radio stations where one lives could be a difference of months or years from the time it actually shows up on the charts...

This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide - The Kings, charted summer 1980, first played where I live, spring 1982!
To me it'll always be a '82 song.

;)



Ah, The Kings, "Switching to Glide," they used to play that song all the time at the roller rink we used to go to when I was a kid.  I forgot all about it until it appeared on Rhino's "New Wave Hits of the '80s" series.

I personally like Stayin Alive From the bee gees I cant believe you didnt put that on your list

Ah, The Kings, "Switching to Glide," they used to play that song all the time at the roller rink we used to go to when I was a kid.  I forgot all about it until it appeared on Rhino's "New Wave Hits of the '80s" series.


I always liked the "Switching" part more than the "Beat".

Anyway, I gotcha covered on the Rhino release...
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=RRH3MpEFuZ&ean=81227169725

:) ;D

I pick Rich Girl  but I like these also.

I just want to be your everything
Dancing Queen
How deep is your love
Don't give up on us
When I nee you

Some great songs in this list Karen, I picked "Car Wash" as my favourite, mainly because I heard it in a crowded bar in Blackpool on Saturday night. I was in a bar called "Lionel's" where the host (Lionel Vinyl) was wearing a 70s suit and an Afro haircut. He led the whole place in a dance routine to "Car Wash" and it went down a storm, even though most of the crowd were about 20 years younger than me and couldn't possibly remember the original!

My other abiding memory of 1977 is of course punk rock:

"God Save The Queen" - The Sex Pistols
"Complete Control" - The Clash
"Peaches" - The Stranglers
"Oh Bondage Up Yours" - X Ray Spex
"Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - The Adverts

Some great songs in this list Karen, I picked "Car Wash" as my favourite, mainly because I heard it in a crowded bar in Blackpool on Saturday night. I was in a bar called "Lionel's" where the host (Lionel Vinyl) was wearing a 70s suit and an Afro haircut. He led the whole place in a dance routine to "Car Wash" and it went down a storm, even though most of the crowd were about 20 years younger than me and couldn't possibly remember the original!

Good reason to like the song!  ;)

My other abiding memory of 1977 is of course punk rock:

"God Save The Queen" - The Sex Pistols
"Complete Control" - The Clash
"Peaches" - The Stranglers
"Oh Bondage Up Yours" - X Ray Spex
"Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - The Adverts


I'm embarrassed to say that I don't recall any of these.  I guess I listened more to good 'ol rock 'n' roll (thanks to my brothers).... :)

"Dancing Queen" and "Dreams" followed by ten million more!

"Dancing Queen" and "Dreams" followed by ten million more!
Only 10, Maria ??? ;D ;)

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac

Tanya

Only 10, Maria ??? ;D ;)



...ish  ;)

I have to say I hate most of the songs you listed...especially Rose Royce's 'Carwash.' But I voted for Hotel California, followed closely by Dancing Queen. The early 70s were much better than the mid-late 70s with classic rock, etc before the disco era.

]I was so-so with 1977.  The year didn't start out to bad, but the year ended not to greatly. 
I was also in junior high and eighth grade was a lot of fun, ninth not sooo much.

I'd have to go with "Blinded By The Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band as my favorite tune of that year (although it was released in 1976 it didn't go to #1 until February of that year).

My second favorite would have to be Meco's "Star Wars Medley" (especially the Cantina Band part).

My third favorite not mentioned here would have to be the one-hit wonder "Strawberry Letter #23" by Brothers Johnson.

I also still love and probably my fourth favorite (another one not mentioned) is Rita Coolidge's remake of "Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher & Higher" (I also have a huge crush on Rita Coolidge, who couldn't -- if you were a man at least?) 

My favorite novelty song of that year would have to be "Telephone Man" by Merry Wilson.  That was so humorous, don't you think?

And I have to give kudos to the theme to the TV show that premiered that Fall:  "Soap" -- that will always be 1977 to me. 

I Chose Manfred Mann's Earth Band "Blinded By the Light" as that is one song I can listen to over and over again.. I have countless 1977 songs I love, but I can't think of all of them right at the moment.. more later..

Both "How Deep Is Your Love" by The Bee-Gees and "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb