http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mkTg1Cyun4

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My dad liked this song, but I don't think it was a romantic sympathy, I think it was for the line "love them 'til your arms break," and he had the emotional maturity of a 13-year-old.  But I liked it too.  One of the first sad pop songs I really liked a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOy7TPjfkE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mra-AaweE-c

Sometimes the live version does better than the studio --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wyL1NtMVPo

Must have some Serge...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MVyenU78w

Und der Kraftwerk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXorsS2bsYg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHU-x6HVGqg

Teddy Pendergrass- Only You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkonCrapftA

A lot of the Bee Gees / Andy Gibb / Grease stuff has already been posted so I'm gonna go with this funky one by George Benson!

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A lot of the Bee Gees / Andy Gibb / Grease stuff has already been posted so I'm gonna go with this funky one by George Benson!


Fine stuff just before he hit big-time paydirt...

Now, as we've just been knocked out with a huge whimper, let's go back to a World Cup that we 'did'nae qualify' for!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcE86JmIN3E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTaydm8wGR0&feature=kp

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"The Gambler" is a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in 1980.

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Nicolette Larson, "Lotta Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EERTY563_Zk

"'The Bad Old Days" was the British entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, performed in English by Co-Co. The song, written by Stephanie de Sykes and Stuart Slater. At the close of voting, it had received 61 points, placing 11th in a field of 20.  The single reached No.13 in the UK during a seven week chart run. The song entered the UK singles chart at no.39 for the week the contest was staged. In the following week, it rose rapidly to no.16. Its eventual peak of 13 occurred three weeks after their failure in the contest. It was to be the group's only hit.

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"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a song written by Andrew Gold, who recorded it for his third album, All This and Heaven Too. The song reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. It also spent two weeks at number 11 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100, ranking it as the 98th biggest hit of 1978. In Canada, the song peaked at number seven.

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"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a song written by Andrew Gold, who recorded it for his third album, All This and Heaven Too. The song reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. It also spent two weeks at number 11 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100, ranking it as the 98th biggest hit of 1978. In Canada, the song peaked at number seven.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazVExZGr08
Cynthia Fee's version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazVExZGr08
Cynthia Fee's version
The song was famously later re-recorded by Cynthia Fee to serve as the theme song for the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls, and recorded again for the series' CBS spin-off The Golden Palace.

Something a bit obscure I heard today on the XM, but holy crap do I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyGuuJJfKU

Heart, "Straight On":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcEFPgNftPc

"Annie's Song" is a folk rock country song written by singer-songwriter John Denver. An instrumental version became flutist James Galway's only major British hit in 1978.

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"Annie's Song" is a folk rock country song written by singer-songwriter John Denver. An instrumental version became flutist James Galway's only major British hit in 1978.

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Benny Hill did a funny spoof of James Galway.

Benny Hill did a funny spoof of James Galway.
Sadly, not on YouTube!

I always liked this one - Jay Ferguson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKZJp-x-Dc

In respect to Sir Terry Wogan who has died today.

"The Floral Dance" is a popular English song describing the annual Furry Dance in Helston, Cornwall. The music and lyric were written in 1911 by Kate Emily Barkley ("Katie") Moss (1881-1947) who was a professional violinist, pianist and concert singer. In 1978, Terry Wogan recorded a version which reached #21 in the UK Charts.

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"Hopelessly Devoted to You", is a song written by John Farrar. It was originally performed by Olivia Newton-John in the film version of Grease (1978). The song received an Oscar nomination as Best Original Song, losing to "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday at the 51st Academy Awards.

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"You're the One That I Want" is a song written by John Farrar for the 1978 film version of the musical Grease. It was performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It is one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold over 3 million copies among the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France alone, with estimates of more than 15 million copies sold overall.

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Paul McCartney & Wings
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Paul McCartney & Wings
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I cannot play this video, it is unavailable, done to copyright reasons. Which song is it?

"Sultans of Swing" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits from their eponymous debut album, which band frontman Mark Knopfler wrote and composed. Although it was first released in 1978, it was its 1979 re-release that caused it to become a hit in both the UK and U.S.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Yi762sQTo
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"Anak" (Filipino for child or more accurately my son or my daughter) is a Tagalog song written by Filipino folk-singer Freddie Aguilar. It was a finalist for the inaugural 1977 Metropop Song Festival held in Manila. Release as a record in 1978, it became an international hit, and was translated into 26 languages. The lyrics speak of Filipino family values.

Tagalog version
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English version
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"Teenage Kicks" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk rock/new wave band The Undertones. Written by the band's principal songwriter, John O'Neill, the song was recorded on 16 June 1978 and initially released that September upon independent Belfast record label Good Vibrations, before the band—at the time unobligated to any record label—signed to Sire Records on 2 October 1978.

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"Reunited" was a hit song for R&B vocal duo Peaches & Herb. As the second single release from their 1978 album, 2 Hot, the song was a huge crossover smash, topping both the pop and soul charts. It spent four weeks at number one on both the R&B singles chart and the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1979 and sold over 2 million copies. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1979.

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"Grease (is the Word)" is a song written by Barry Gibb and performed by Frankie Valli. "Grease" is the title song for the musical motion picture Grease (1978), which was based on the stage play of the same name. It was featured twice on the film's soundtrack, as the first track and reprised as the final track.

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"Grease (is the Word)" is a song written by Barry Gibb and performed by Frankie Valli. "Grease" is the title song for the musical motion picture Grease (1978), which was based on the stage play of the same name. It was featured twice on the film's soundtrack, as the first track and reprised as the final track.

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The animated intro to Grease always reminds me of my (very) early childhood. That was the scene I remembered the most for some reason.

"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum, who describes it as being about "unconditional undeserved love." It was a number one hit single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray.  In 1999, Irish pop band Boyzone recorded a hit cover of the song that hit number one in the UK Singles Chart.

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"Dreadlock Holiday" is a reggae song by 10cc. It was written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman and was the lead single from the band's 1978 album, Bloody Tourists. Lead vocals were performed by Graham Gouldman. It became the group's third and final number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, and final top 10 hit, spending a single week at the top in September 1978. The single also topped the charts in New Zealand, reached Number 2 in Ireland and Australia, and peaked at number 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

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The lyrics relate the experiences of a white man lost in Jamaica. His first encounter with the locals is of being confronted in the street by an unpleasant dreadlocked man who wants the white man's silver chain. The next encounter is when he is beside the pool of his hotel drinking a piña colada; a dark-voiced woman offers him drugs. These experiences were based on real events that happened to Moody Blues vocalist Justin Hayward and Eric Stewart in Barbados which Stewart changed to Jamaica. The reference to cricket in the first chorus, reggae in the second, and Jamaica in the third, reflects the victim trying to avoid conflict by convincing the antagonist that they share common interests.

"Talking in Your Sleep" is a song written by Roger Cook and Bobby Wood, and recorded by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. It was released in January 1978 as the first single from the album When I Dream. The song became a hit on both the country and pop charts in 1978. It peaked at number one on the US Country chart, number eighteen on the US Pop chart and number three at the US Adult Contemporary chart.

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"Rasputin" is a 1978 euro disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and euro disco group Boney M., the second from their album Nightflight to Venus. With a tune resembling the second half of the Turkish folk song "Kâtibim", it is a semi-biographical song about Grigori Rasputin, a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family during the early 20th century. The song variously sensationalizes Rasputin as a playboy, mystical healer, and political manipulator.

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"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" is a song that hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, sung by Barbra Streisand And Neil Diamond. It is a song about two lovers who have drifted apart while they "go through the motions" and heartache of life together. The song was written by Neil Diamond with Alan and Marilyn Bergman for the ill-fated TV show All That Glitters.

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"If I Had Words" is a 1978 UK hit song by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley. It reached number 3 in the UK charts and number 24 in the Australian charts in 1978. It sold more than one million copies worldwide. It was also a hit in Ireland (number 9), New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The tune was taken from the main theme of the maestoso section of Saint-Saëns' Symphony No.3 in C minor (Symphony with organ) with an added reggae beat. (In the symphony, the theme used in the song is first exposed by the strings section in the second movement; it is later also played by the organ.) The lyrics and arrangement were by Jonathan Hodge, a prolific writer of TV jingles and movie themes, who also produced the single. The song and the symphony were used as the main theme in the 1995 family film Babe and its 1998 sequel Babe: Pig in the City and can be heard in the 1989 comedy, How to Get Ahead in Advertising.

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Apologies if this was posted before, but I was just thinking about this gem.  The last Top 20 hit for Seals and Crofts.

Seals and Crofts - You're The Love (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5qZxeJG5U

:)

Apologies if this was posted before, but I was just thinking about this gem.  The last Top 20 hit for Seals and Crofts.

Seals and Crofts - You're The Love (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5qZxeJG5U

:)


I have just checked, you are in the clear.

Dan Folgelberg's - The Power of Gold

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I had this album and enjoyed how different it was from his other work.

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Always gives me chills when I hear it. So meaningful.

Great tune!

Another track from the same album, "The Load-Out / Stay", which is two songs in one, is also great to listen to. Sometimes "Stay" (a re-working of Maurice Williams hit from '60) is played as a standalone song, but "The Load Out" leads into it after about 5 1/2 minutes, making the two-songs-in-one track almost 9 minutes altogether.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UC4SLsPQic

This is so 80's.

1978 had synth pop, glam metal, new wave, thrash metal, and even new jack swing.  ;D ;D ;D

This is so 80's.

1978 had synth pop, glam metal, new wave, thrash metal, and even new jack swing.  ;D ;D ;D

Disco was also still around, at the peak of its popularity.

"Cavatina" is a 1970 classical guitar piece by British composer Stanley Myers written for the film The Walking Stick (1970), and popularised as the theme from The Deer Hunter (1978) some eight years later. As the Italian diminutive of cavata, cavatina is a musical term frequently applied to any simple, melodious air.

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"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. A top-selling song after its initial release, it sold 14 million copies worldwide (within first two years of release alone, not counting the numerous re-recordings and 200+ cover versions released in 20+ different languages world-wide) and has remained a popular disco anthem, as well as being certified platinum by the RIAA.

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"Werewolves of London" is a rock song performed by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. It was composed by Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel and was included on Excitable Boy (1978), Zevon's third solo album. The track featured Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and John McVie on drums and bass respectively. The single was released by Asylum Records and was a top 40 US hit, the only one of Zevon's career, reaching No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 that May.

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Here's another one I liked from 1978

Walter Egan - Magnet And Steel


with Stevie Nicks doing background vocals.

A great sound all around. Perhaps his signature hit (at least in the States).

Some photos of the audience from the June 17, 1978 Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Pure 1978. Short shorts on guys, bell bottoms, no baseball caps and mostly everyone is thin. The latter point not intending to be fat shaming in the least. Just to sociologically point out that the obesity epidemic here in the US which began in the 1990s had not yet taken hold.

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And a few more...

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Some photos of the audience from the June 17, 1978 Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Pure 1978. Short shorts on guys, bell bottoms, no baseball caps and mostly everyone is thin. The latter point not intending to be fat shaming in the least. Just to sociologically point out that the obesity epidemic here in the US which began in the 1990s had not yet taken hold.

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http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rolling-Stones-fans-1978-19.jpg

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rolling-Stones-fans-1978-16.jpg

Thanks for sharing, I guess being skinny was pretty much a norm back then?

Some photos of the audience from the June 17, 1978 Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Pure 1978. Short shorts on guys, bell bottoms, no baseball caps and mostly everyone is thin. The latter point not intending to be fat shaming in the least. Just to sociologically point out that the obesity epidemic here in the US which began in the 1990s had not yet taken hold.

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rolling-Stones-fans-1978-22.jpg

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rolling-Stones-fans-1978-19.jpg

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rolling-Stones-fans-1978-16.jpg
Years before the McDonald's Diet kicked in?

Years before the McDonald's Diet kicked in?


There were plenty of McDonald's around back then. Yet, being thin was still the norm. The obesity epidemic in the US began in earnest in the 1990s.

Some photos of the audience from the June 17, 1978 Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia
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http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rolling-Stones-fans-1978-19.jpg

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Apparently the guy in the foreground is doing something loud and demonstrative, as so many others seem to be looking at him.  ;D  The other observation is the ground looks very wet with puddles - and littered.

There were plenty of McDonald's around back then. Yet, being thin was still the norm. The obesity epidemic in the US began in earnest in the 1990s.


Back then, a regular Big Mac was considered a "big" burger.  Not any more!  :-\\

Apparently the guy in the foreground is doing something loud and demonstrative, as so many others seem to be looking at him.  ;D  The other observation is the ground looks very wet with puddles - and littered.

Maybe he's doing a certain dance?

There were plenty of McDonald's around back then. Yet, being thin was still the norm. The obesity epidemic in the US began in earnest in the 1990s.


Another thing, people were naturally thin back then. Save for a small subculture of "bodybuilders", as they used to be called (like early Arnold Schwarzenegger), few people "went to the gym" to build up their bodies in any kind of unnatural way.  And, truth be told, the "bodybuilders" were looked upon as being a bit odd. Gyms back then were mainly for boxing, running track, etc. And all the fitness places people have expensive memberships to now were an unknown thing. Yet the general population was much thinner than now.

Apparently the guy in the foreground is doing something loud and demonstrative, as so many others seem to be looking at him.  ;D 


He was possibly doing an interpretive dance of his own invention to "Shattered".

Another thing, people were naturally thin back then. Save for a small subculture of "bodybuilders", as they used to be called (like early Arnold Schwarzenegger), few people "went to the gym" to build up their bodies in any kind of unnatural way.  And, truth be told, the "bodybuilders" were looked upon as being a bit odd. Gyms back then were mainly for boxing, running track, etc. And all the fitness places people have expensive memberships to now were an unknown thing. Yet the general population was much thinner than now.
It was around then the film "Pumping Iron" was released, about the world of professional bodybuilding, with a focus on the 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe and 1975 Mr. Olympia competitions. Directed by George Butler and Robert Fiore and edited by Geof Bartz and Larry Silk, it is inspired by a book of the same name by Butler and Charles Gaines, and nominally centers on the competition between Arnold Schwarzenegger and one of his primarycompetitors for the title of Mr. Olympia, Lou Ferrigno.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_Iron

Another thing, people were naturally thin back then. Save for a small subculture of "bodybuilders", as they used to be called (like early Arnold Schwarzenegger), few people "went to the gym" to build up their bodies in any kind of unnatural way.  And, truth be told, the "bodybuilders" were looked upon as being a bit odd. Gyms back then were mainly for boxing, running track, etc. And all the fitness places people have expensive memberships to now were an unknown thing. Yet the general population was much thinner than now.

Compared to today's generation.