He really is underrated. If I’m ever on a cruise during a storm, I’m going to break into the PA system and play “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” as a tribute.
I’m 63. As a teenager in the 70s I looked forward to American top 40 Sunday mornings Professor thank you for producing these redux videos. I enjoy them immensely.
I have a relative who's father was on the Fitzgerald. Oliver Champeau who was the Third Assistant Engineer. May all of the crew rest in peace. Gordon Lightfoot did a lot for the families of the Fitz. And after his death they rang the bell 30 times in honor of Gordon Lightfoot. May he rest in peace.
@@Au60schild After the announcement of his death is when they rang the bell 30 times in memory of the crew of the Fitz and one more for Gordan Lightfoot.
Did you ever hear the song "32 Down on the Robert Mckenzie" fellow Canadian Paul Gross' wrote for his show Due South when he couldn't get the rights to the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
I also was born in 63, and hung with brother and cuz or my neighbor, went cousin and hitting party's they were good at letting me dance but took good care of me. I still love to dance. I taught my kids to dance both Spanish and English style music..
If You Leave Me Now was a favorite of mine when it hit the charts. I rushed out and bought the chocolate bar covered album and played it often. Fast forward to spring of 1979. I was a Junior in college and had met who I believed to be “The One” at the beginning of the school year. We were on a trajectory towards certain marriage. But in April, as we were walking across campus one night, she stopped and looked me in the eyes and told me that she thought we should go our separate ways. Needless to say, I was devastated. I made my way back to my apartment and with tears flowing, pulled Chicago X out of its sleeve, set it on the turntable, and gently placed the needle to the beginning of If You Leave Me Now. As Peter Cetera sang, I took out a notebook and began to write down the thoughts that were flowing out of my heart. I played the song over and over as I wrote. Once I had run out of thoughts (which filled five pages), I gently folded them and placed them in an envelope. I then walked over to her dorm and had her roommate deliver my letter to her. A year and a half later, we were married and have remained devoted to one another for 44 1/2 years. Whether or not we reunited solely because of that song is open to conjecture. I choose to believe that without the inspiration from that song, I would have missed out on “the biggest part of me.”
You know, I was convinced that 80s music was the best for a long time but thanks to some of these channels, I’ve gone to realize that 70s music really was the top-tier.
Most of the best bands EVER WHERE FORMED IN THE 70s true facts The EAGLES 71 BOSTON 76 , AREOWSMITH 73 ,ABBA 72 ,ACDC 74,, QUEEN 72 .JOURNEY 76 VAN HALEN 75 ,BLONDIE 77 , THE CARS, 77 ,,THE POLICE 78,THE KNACK 78 ,,,KANSAS 76, ,FOREIGNER 77.SUPER TRAMP 73 .STYX 73.TOTO 77, WHITE SNAKE 78, VILLAGE PEOPLE 78 ,KC N SUNSHINE BAND 75, FOG HAT 75 ,THE KNACK 78 .HEART 75 ,This is why the 70s had ALOTof the best bands where FORMED in the 70s baby ,And the 70s have 8 of the top 25 biggest selling LPS Sold in the USA are from the 70s TRUE FACTS,
If you remember 1976 being your Senior year in high school and this time of year you were headed to the football playoffs, Friday home games having a dance afterwards; then you’re going to love this song list and probably going to dig this channel! Holy cow POR!! This was my life in review!!
I graduated high school in 1976. I remember all these songs playing on the radio. I had The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on a 45. Still get chills when I hear it. Interesting fact, it sank on November 10, 1975 and I got married on November 10, 1979. So many memories from that part of my life, especially great music. R.I.P. Gordon and my late wife Rhonda.
I was a year behind you! It truly was the absolute best time, and we had the best music! I’m so sorry for the loss of your wife. I hope you are happy now, in spite of your loss.
The 80s will always be my favorite decade, but the 70s have a special place in my heart, that's when I started listening to my older siblings' music and was introduced to Steve Miller, Foreigner, Gerry Rafferty, Styx, Bee Gees. Couldn't ask for a better musical upbringing.
IM 63 To me the 70s will never be matched but thats my TASTE IN OUT STANDING MUSIC AND THE GREAT BANDS ,,, FORMED,, IN THE 70S Are not ever going to be matched by ANY DECADE NOT EVEN THE 80s The Eagles.71 Boston76 ABBA 72, Acdc 73 ,Queen ,Kiss74 ,Van Halen 73,,Foreinger 77 .Journey 76.Blondie ,76 Super Tramp 73.Styx 73, The Cars 77 ,Toto 77,E,lo , Hall and Oats 73 ,,Bto 74 ,Poco76 ,Ambrosia 77 Player 76,Exile 77, White Snake 78, Just to name a few of 70s great BANDS formed in the 70s BABY,
My sister, our friend Bonnie, and I would go next door to my Grandmom’s house and go up to my uncle’s room and listen to his records, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, Steely Dan, Carole King, and Cheech and Chong, to name a few. He was 18 and joined the navy and left three teenaged girls, a musical education.
Same here,my big brother introduced me to all of those and so many others,especially my favorite band ever-Queen. He made me really listen to the song Seven Seas of Rhye and I was hooked. Broken hearted when I couldn't buy the single. It was promotional copies for radio only ! 😢
I graduated from high school In 1976. Everything was red, white, and blue for the Bicentennial year. I love the 70’s music and still listen to it today. I remember seeing Carrie at the movie theater with my boyfriend (now husband). I’ll never forget how scared I was when her hand came out of the ground. We spent 20 minutes in the parking lot afterwards getting me to calm down. That was the last scarey movie I ever saw.
I SAW THAT WOOOW I JUMPED OUT LIKE MICHAEL J but strait up out my chair in KODIAK ALASKA With my sisters i was 15 and my sisters 10 and 8 LOL I MISS THE 70s so many huge bands and great songs
“She’s gone” is one of those songs that feels EXACTLY like what it’s saying. But it’s not just heartbreaking. You wake up in your New York or Philadelphia apartment on a July morning. The sky is hazy white; the humidity is oppressive. It never really cooled off last night. The city feels brutal. And it’s on THIS morning that you discover your partner has left you. The song is a masterpiece
"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was one of my favorite songs, it reminded me of the Great Lakes and my home where I grew up. When I was in the service, no mater where I was I was stationed, this song took me back home. Great Song.
Terrible!!!!! If you had no connection to/knowledge of the ship/wreck, yet were subjected to hearing the song on radio about every four minutes, you’d hate it as much as I did/still do. Maybe if I had been Canadian
Saw Gordon Lightfoot in concert within a year of the song's release. The only clear memory of that concert was after he sang "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" the whole venue was almost completely silent, except for some concert-goers weeping. I don't think I will ever attend a concert like that again. The song still hits me real hard. I live about 8 miles from Lake Michigan, and I've seen some big breakers crashing into the piers at Holland State Park, and Grand Haven, MI. I can't imagine how huge those waves were when "the gales of November came early." RIP Gordon.
In '76, I was the geek wearing glasses, falling in love with the girl that looked like Cheryl Ladd. I'd like to say that it all worked out and we're together to this day, but the truth is, I married a girl that is even prettier and she never cared that I wore glasses.
1976.... I was 12 years old. Used to sing all the time, when my mom wasn't forcing me to take piano lessons. Thank you, mom! The piano brings me so much joy today. It's helped me write numerous songs for our band. I love this channel, because music has always been central in my life, loves, and memories.
Even as a 12 year old boy, "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" touched me to tears. I hadn't heard of the tragedy, so I asked my dad. The horror they must have felt was unimaginable.
In 1976 I was graduating from High School and starting college. 17 going on 18. So very long ago but so close in memory. Graduation from work is coming up this year. A start of something new. The music world doesn't quite have the same powerful background as the past as this video shows. I think back in the day the industry didn't run the show in the same way. Individuality and that singer songwriter vibe seems to be canned into a formula. Nothing to stand out and up as time passes. Recently reconnected to James Blunt music and gave myself a punch in the heart and soul with Monsters, Girl That Never Was, and some older 2000s If Time is All I Have, No Bravery, Carry Me Home. Looking forward to seeing him on his Back to Bedlam 20th anniversary tour in Boston 2025.. Miss the Bee Gees in all their decades. Background to my post graduation from highschool and college years. Music was diversified and great back in the day. Says this old girl who used to carry around her portable purple record player that my mom bought with her green stamps knowing how important music was to my 16 year old self. played the heck out of Neil Diamond, Kansas, and many more including Bobby Sherman my bubble gum crush♥️
True story. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ( One of my favs too ), was done in one take. Gordon played a rough acoustic version for the band in the studio. They did a take as a band and that's the one that stuck. They did several other takes but couldn't get the magic of the first run so that's the one we hear to this day. First take. Love your channel.
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My grandparents lived on Lake Huron and we would go up there every summer on vacation. When this song was released in’76, I would go out on their covered patio, turn on the radio, and listen to the Commodores “Easy” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. Great memories.
That was what I thought of as well - if I recall correctly Dees had a buddy do the Donald Duck voice and there was some controversy about using the Donald Duck persona as Disney did *not* permit this…
Every time I hear a song by Chicago it takes me back to Hynes Auditorium, Boston, second row center, May 30, 1972, Jr year HS, first ever concert with a girl who would become my HS sweetheart. 52 years later we live separate lives but thankfully remain in touch. Thank you for all you do, Professor !
1976 is one of my favorite years for music. Probably has to do with my coming of age that year. I turned 13, had my first rst big crush, my emotions all over the place and I turned to music for comfort and joy. Many of those songs still have an emotional memory.
My mom was a bartender at the 2001 club in Pittsburgh when Wild Cherry came out! Love your show, Professor of Rock! Thanks for revisiting all these great songs and moments in time!
Great episode, brought back nostalgia, i was 6 in 1976. Living in Sydney, Australia, back when it was all AM radio stations, As a kid, I listened to a lot of stations by atmospheric skip. On some nights, you could hear stations from Brisbane, Melbourne, and other cities around the country playing the latest song releases. Chicago was big over here in 76,77 great band. Same with Steve Miller Band with song Keep On Rocking Me. All bring back memories of getting ready for school. Those bands got a lot of air play here in the 70s. Keep up the greatness you have with your music history. It hits my notes. Thank you, professor. Keep on rocking in the free world.
I was born in '76; it's 48 years ago... Thanks, though, @Professor of Rock.... I wish I was 45! 😆 Although I can do without the shenanigans of 2024! 🎶 🎵 keep on a rockin'! Love the show!!!
I graduated high school in 1976 and I want to go back to that time, just for a few days. So many good memories, and somewhat ignorant of the country's woes in the 70s. Music sure was great then.
Every time I hear something from Chicago (especially their love ballads), I'm always reminded of my mother who had a real affection for Peter Cetera. My dad played trombone back in school and I would pick that up from him, so I got to hear "both sides", if you will, of Chicago, from the earlier more brass-filled times that my dad preferred to the later love ballad sound that my mom liked more. If only they could see the strong streaming numbers today, I know they'd both be pleased.
Wow, what a flood of memories! The Wilson sisters ❤. Fifth of Beethoven in orchestra, wild cherry as a trumpet player, Edmund Fitzgerald great song story, Rock’n’Me Steve Miller doing things in the tall grass in the back of a park, disco duck the stupidest song ever, and the best, Chicago!! Thanks for the memories Professor!
76 was my early teen years when music was larger than life to me, there wasn't a time anywhere when we didn't have the radio on. What a fantastic top 9, you know which one I will dismiss! Absolutely love the music from the 70s! Great episode!
I have to ration myself to viewing your videos, because it's waaaay too easy to inadvertently binge watch to depletion. You've got the personality to set my mood right no matter how stressed a day is. Right on, can you dig it?
I agree but dont forget Peter Cetera on bass and background vocals to support Terry. Kath was perhaps the greatest loss if all those folks we lost early back in the 70s
In 1976, was an 8th grader who painted my bedroom in red, white, and blue. Patriotism was everywhere! I loved Heart, America, just discovered Fleetwood Mac, and Peter Frampton!
Memories to treasure forever! Chicago's hit If you leave me now was my moms favorite song ever and I think of her everytime I hear it she passed 7,5 yrs ago😢
GEN X,1965! Graduated high school 1984! Professor, please bring back 1984 Vintage shirt you’re wearing in this video.Gotta have it! Great TOP 10 for 1976 and I was 11 years young. Keep Rockin’ music junkies.
Ive always said 'Music is a Time Machine.' Because whenever we hear an oldie but goodie, we automatically go back to the days of when the song was popular... What we were doing at that time in life, etc. I sure miss being a kid during then. 70s had THE BEST Music!!
Love Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The lyrics are so evocative. Interesting note: They now ring the bell 30 times. The families have added one for Gordon Lightfoot.
Disco Duck is an all-time bad song, but Rick Dees was an American classic! What a blast from the past! Apparently he's still alive and kicking. God bless him!
Oh curse you, I am in tears. I had just turned 16, had moved away from home to my new school for the first weeks, and each of these songs was an intimate part of my life then. Chicago was my favourite band, but I knew (and still do) almost all of these songs by heart (well about half of disco duck!). Thanks for the memories.
The amazing thing about 1970s music on radio was that you could tune into one hit station like 1050 CHUM or CFRA 580 and hear singer-songwriters, funk, soul, R&B, pop, rock, folk, country, and other genres all in ONE hour. So many songs had key changes, time signature changes, and instrumental (keyboard, guitar, etc.) parts. Interesting stuff. No auto-tuning to be found.
I really do miss those old radio stations that played all styles. Found so many “surprise” favs. Sure, there was some gate-keeping, but even today’s streaming services get locked into certain tunes/vibes via the sacred “algorithms”. There’s good music out there, you just have to sort through a lot of trash to find treasure. And yes, the loss of key and time changes-even melody, to a large part-makes so many current songs pretty boring.
What a great collection of songs, and I'm including Disco Duck in that statement; it's a goofy and fun song. In the fall of '76 I was 11, but I hadn't gotten really big into music yet. I was playing cornet in the school band, but mostly just listening to pop music on the radio. It would be a couple of more years before I got serious about buying and collecting music, but when I did, the songs I was familiar with from the radio were the first ones I sought out. The Captain and Tennille's Greatest Hits was one of the first albums I got, on 8-track. They had several songs I liked, including Muskrat Love. And while I didn't actually buy any K-Tel records, my cousin had several of them and gave them to me, giving me a pretty good variety of pop music from the early 70s, plus some more obscure songs like Rick Springfield's minor hit Speak To The Sky. One of the K-Tel records was the same one you showed the cover of, with the gold bars.
1976 was the year I started getting into Pop music!! I was 11 years old!! I remember all these songs!! Gordon Lightfoot passed away earlier this year!! Disco Duck was a song my Mom HATED!! Ah, the memories!! Great video!! Cindy Snow (yes, that's my real name!!)
When our family was on vacation in Kalamazoo, Michigan (my dad grew up there and met my mom there. My sister, brother, and I were all born there) we would have a huge family reunion at my uncle's cottage on a lake in the area. August 1976, Gordon's Wreck was played almost every two hours or so on WGRD (Grand Rapids). Other stations in the area wee spinning it, too. There was no escaping the song. I had just turned 14 at the time.
My first child was born in 1976. Still listening to this music today 😃 I, by the way, love Hard Habit to Break. It's one of my top 10 favorite songs. I've also seen Hall and Oates live many times and love She's Gone live! Really special. Keep up the great work!!
75-76...i was only 15...and i can relate to the school dance,i plucked up the courage to ask the girl who was voted the May Queen a bit like the home coming queen in the USA, and can you believe it she said yes....wow my 1st slow dance and eventually my 1st innocent kiss.. oh what beautiful memories....now im a 63 year old divorcee who still loves great music...thanks Debbie the Corby May Queen 💙
I'm right there with you, brother. I was Born Jan 26, '61, so I was 15 most of the year. A lot of firsts used to happen around that age: learner's (driving) permit, first love, first kiss, first... well, other things that still make my heart skip a beat, homecoming, 9th-grade prom, bicentennial (USA), CB radios, Charlie's Angels, Boston (the band), Wings at the Speed of Sound, no social media, no electronic distractions. I didn't know how magical that time was until I was much older.
@@workdre I remember wings and buying band on the run 2nd hand...Boston and I'd just discovered Genesid Live from 72....never looked back...great music
@@davidjarvie9546 Unfortunately I was going through a Beatles completist phase. The good side was a teacher with lots of early rare Fabs 45s and EPs who sold them to me for $10 each, but the bad side was also spending too much for wretched Apple product like Wings Wild Life, George's Extra Texture, Ringo's Sentimental Journey, John & Yoko's Sometime in NYC and stuff by Mary Hopkins, Lon & Derek von Eeton, Elephant's Memory, etc out of "Brand Loyalty".
In 1976 I was mainly into rock. Allman Bros, Thin Lizzy, Ted Nugent, Robin Trower, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top etc. AM radio was what my girlfriend and most of our friends were into. I appreciated this pop radio hit lineup then, and love even more it now. Except for Disco Duck...not then, not later. Everything else on this list is gold. Including Muskrat Love.
It sounds like you and I have the same kind of head set. I see the appeal some of those kind of pop songs that girlfriends and others would like. I preferred to listen the songs that were played on FM rock radio stations.
Damn, that was a fun top 10 some really incredible songs on this list! I was nearly 12 when this list landed. I remember hearing all of these songs in the car riding around with my dad.
High School Class of '76. I remember all of these clearly! There are so many bands that made great music back then that you have material for decades! For future videos on 1976 I would suggest the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Blue Oyster Cult and the Climax Blues Band. They deserve some love!
"Crazy On You" was one of my biggest favorites as a 70s teen. Heart's Dreamboat Annie and Gordon Lightfoot's Summertime Dream were two of my probably first five albums. I remember I got Gordon Lightfoot after another album by a Japanese electronic music guy came scratched or warped or something. I remember taking it back to the record store and exchanging it for Gordon Lightfoot. The sales guy was laughing that I went from Japanese electronica to Gordon Lightfoot.
I’m a 76 er born this very week that you just discussed. This was AWESOME! So cool to hear about the top 10 songs of my birth week. Thank you Professor for making this wonderful video.
Still, this top 10 with Disco Duck beats any top 10 of the last 20 years. That was a great year. Each of these songs has a memory attached. Thank you, POR. ☕️☕️🎶🎵🎶
I remember all these hits from '76. Especially Chicago If You leave Me Now. Takes me back to my first semester of 7th grade. What a time to be growing up and what a soundtrack.
My top 10: 1. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -Gordon Lightfoot 2. Tightrope - Electric Light Orchestra 3. You're My Best Friend - Queen 4. Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton 5. Crazy on You - Heart 6. Fernando - Abba 7. Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck 8. Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word - Elton John 9. I'll Be Good to You - Brothers Johnson 10. The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
My top 1 moonlight feels right - starbuck 2 you will never find another love like mine - lou rawls 3 year of the cat - al stewart 4 oxygene - jean michel- jarre 5 float on -the floaters 6 dancing queen - abba 7 tonights the night - rod stewart 8 blitzkrieg pop - ramones 9 wreck of edmond fitzgerald 10 europa (earths cry heavens smile) santana
@christiancastro2442 Not to be picky, but Oxygene wasn't released in the U.S till late 77. I know because I bought it based on a review when it came out. Great album!
@@carlwinebrenner9900 Sorry seems to be the hardest word sounds superb on the Live in Australia album. The whole LP is awesome but my favorite is Tiny Dancer.
@@illegal_space_alienThat is a video that would go viral. Who would join the professor of rock making this long distance call? And since he is already making the call perhaps he could get some other interviews. I am thinking John Lennon for starters. Perhaps Elvis and Freddy Mercury if they aren't too busy for a chat.
I was a sophomore in high school, and 14. I love Chicago, have all of their albums with Terry Kath. Color My World is my favorite ballad of theirs, all time. Since 1976 is "my time", I can tell you what we were rocking to at my high school, Boston, Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Queen, and Earth, Wind and Fire. We had a jukebox in our cafeteria.
1976, the Bicentennial year for the USA and the year I graduated from high school. Music was turning heavily disco but yes there was Magic Man. I was heavily into progressive, ELP and Peter Gabriel era Genesis but loved heavy rock, Dylan and The Band. Great episode. Thanks.
The Last Waltz in 76 was my introduction to The Band but I also graduated in 76. Agree on ELP, but paired more with Boston Disco invaded more in 77 as I recall (and I secretly loved most of it)
Born in 66 and enjoyed both the 70's and 80's. Best year every to be born. 70's though has the best soft ballad love songs of all time and it's not even close and the songwriting is epic.
Loved them all...and so happy my memories include seeing Chicago twice at Summerfest over the years. They're still in my top 10 of best bands...moving forward toward two more of the next decade: Foreigner and Journey. Hey..we old folks were blessed...we had the greatest bands ever!
Magic Man, The Wreck of the Fitzgerald and Play That Funky Music give me chills, in a good way. I could skip the rest but that’s the beauty of the 70s/80s/90s; real diversity of music.
I loved (and still do) Magic Man, The Wreck Of The Edumund Fitzgerald, and Philadelphia Freedom. '76 was so awesome to be alive and listening to some really great music on the radio.
@ Magic Man’s on my good list (good chills). And I would have liked 1912 I’m sure. A lot of Aussie classics sound like the same era and are about sad things (like And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda), so I’m going to like a sad Canadian song too..
Summer 1977, I was 12 years old. My posse and I had been at a lock-in at the public pool, playing air hockey and foosball, drinking massive quantities of pop, and flirting. The next morning, we went out to the pool to float and watch the sunrise. As the sky turned from blue to pink and apricot, one of my very favorite songs played over the loud speakers. “If you leave me now, you’ll take away the biggest part of me . . .” The whole scene thrilled my romantic little heart so much that I can still see/hear/feel it 47 years later . . .
Me too. And on top of that, in an October of 1976 I was moving away from the town where I grew up, and away from my first love. “She’s Gone” was an extremely apt song for the sound track of our lives.
I graduated High School in 1976, and I loved 🥰 everyone of these songs … thanks for covering 1976 ! The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald…. You are right haunting. 😢
The 70's were insane. I was 8 or 9 when my brothers started playing Hotel California. I was at Eckert drug store buying my first K-Tell record - which of course, was Disco. There were the Carpenters, Streisand, Paul McCartney, amazing country hits, Rock, Folk - you name it. It was a music lovers paradise. The 80's brought Madonna and Hip Hop - which were awesome - some good music came out of the nineties, but then, it just became lost. I am 59 now, and enjoy a variety of music but there will NEVER be music like that of the 70's. TYTY for this vid.
I really miss the '70's music. I graduated HS in '75 at 17 and we had one of the best decades of music. I liked a lot of the '60's and '80's as well. Great times! Rock on all! 😎
I was in third grade at a Catholic School on the Coast of NJ in '77 and had a teacher, Mrs. Armstrong. My recollection was that she was a bit hippyish, and one day she told us the story about The Edmund Fitzgerald. Then she broke out her axe and did a wonderful rendition of Gordon Lightfoot's tribute to the mariners. It was very moving to me, and I won't forget it.
I think about half the streams of Edmund Fitzgerald are mine. I absolutely love that song. It contains some of the greatest lyrics ever (“does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours) to a musical arrangement that fits the lyrics perfectly and puts you in the middle of the maelstrom.
I just realized my parents took me to see Saturday Night Fever when I was 5. I did remember seeing Jaws when I was 4. My parents didn't believe in babysitters and therefore took us kids on all of their outings. My daddy worked as an administrator at the Indian Residential School, Oaks. I was on a field trip with the kids who were possibly forced to go to the school, leaving their families behind. If You Leave Me Now came on the radio when I was on a field trip. The girls started crying, so many were crying and then the entire bus population started crying. I was crying because they were crying. I had my family, but our house was on the campus, so everything I did was with the students. Much later in life, I realized the truth about residential schools, including my dad and his siblings experience with this particular school.
In the UK, we remember the “heatwave of 76”. The Sex Pistols and the birth of British Punk, Boys Are Back in Town, Blinded By The Light MMEB and Couldn’t Get It Right Climax Blues Band
.....REST of the world, wouldn't get to hear "Couldn't Get It Right" for another 6 months or so; Pete Haycock, has NEVER gotten his PROPS as a PHENOMENAL guitarist.....
I really enjoyed hearing about the music from 1976 I was around 12 or 13 at the time and I remember them all especially AM radio and on the TV music shows at the time as always Thank You for the Classic Rock and Roll Memories Professor. 🎶🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🎶
Poll: What is your pick for the WORST SONG OF ALL TIME?
Hit Me With Your Best Shot .... Top of my list
"Achy Breaky Heart"
Seeing I have a remake of a t-shirt from that period of time that says “Death Before Disco”… gonna have to say Disco Duck.
Oh Superman-Lori Anderson.
“Cats in the cradle”
Hits hard because it was my home life
“Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?”
Most heartfelt lyric ever.
"fellas it's been good to know ya" gets me every time. All of it is more emotional than you think it would be.
Almost 50 years later I still cry when hearing The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The song is second to American Pie.
Genius song
Truly a God inspired song lyrics.
Gordon Lightfoot's contribution to music is a Canadian treasure. May he R.I.P.
He really is underrated. If I’m ever on a cruise during a storm, I’m going to break into the PA system and play “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” as a tribute.
Robert, he played music his whole life. I can remember Gordo being here in KC just months before his passing. What a story teller he was.
His Sundown LP is one of my favorites. Not a bad tune on the whole album.
When a musician and a poet inhabits the same body it’s nothing short of magical👍🏼❤️
He is the greatest song writer of all time. RIP Mr. Lightfoot.
I’m 63. As a teenager in the 70s I looked forward to American top 40 Sunday mornings Professor thank you for producing these redux videos. I enjoy them immensely.
I have a relative who's father was on the Fitzgerald. Oliver Champeau who was the Third Assistant Engineer. May all of the crew rest in peace.
Gordon Lightfoot did a lot for the families of the Fitz. And after his death they rang the bell 30 times in honor of Gordon Lightfoot. May he rest in peace.
I feel like I am out at sea when I hear that song.
A masterpiece
Thanks for sharing that
Close to accurate. "The church bell chimed 'til it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald"
@@Au60schild After the announcement of his death is when they rang the bell 30 times in memory of the crew of the Fitz and one more for Gordan Lightfoot.
TH-cam is the closest thing we have to a time machine. It's great to be able to recall classic songs from decades past. All the oldies are goodies.
If we did have a time machine, someone would drop by and be told Thom's not here he's in 1973 again.
Exackery 😊
So true.
There is a place on the web that is the web as it was back in time-I’d say that’s closer.
I love the midnight special channel here on TH-cam.
Gordon Lightfoot's voice always give a chill and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I hear him.
I know. This was recorded a few years back. Just released today
Did you ever hear the song "32 Down on the Robert Mckenzie" fellow Canadian Paul Gross' wrote for his show Due South when he couldn't get the rights to the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
I was 13. I feel so fortunate to be born in 1963 and got to experience all of this music live while it was happening. Great channel. Thank you.
I also was born in 63, and hung with brother and cuz or my neighbor, went cousin and hitting party's they were good at letting me dance but took good care of me. I still love to dance. I taught my kids to dance both Spanish and English style music..
If You Leave Me Now was a favorite of mine when it hit the charts. I rushed out and bought the chocolate bar covered album and played it often. Fast forward to spring of 1979. I was a Junior in college and had met who I believed to be “The One” at the beginning of the school year. We were on a trajectory towards certain marriage. But in April, as we were walking across campus one night, she stopped and looked me in the eyes and told me that she thought we should go our separate ways. Needless to say, I was devastated. I made my way back to my apartment and with tears flowing, pulled Chicago X out of its sleeve, set it on the turntable, and gently placed the needle to the beginning of If You Leave Me Now. As Peter Cetera sang, I took out a notebook and began to write down the thoughts that were flowing out of my heart. I played the song over and over as I wrote. Once I had run out of thoughts (which filled five pages), I gently folded them and placed them in an envelope. I then walked over to her dorm and had her roommate deliver my letter to her. A year and a half later, we were married and have remained devoted to one another for 44 1/2 years. Whether or not we reunited solely because of that song is open to conjecture. I choose to believe that without the inspiration from that song, I would have missed out on “the biggest part of me.”
Great story! Music changes people's lives and minds.
She’s a lesbian Fred. Everybody knew except you.
I ❤️ LOVE 70s music so much!! Not only was the songwriting and musicianship on a whole other level from today, the music was just plain FUN!!
Rock on!
You know, I was convinced that 80s music was the best for a long time but thanks to some of these channels, I’ve gone to realize that 70s music really was the top-tier.
Im 59 and musically stuck in the 70s. 😅 my grandkids know and enjoy 70s music too lol ❤
Gordon passed last year. The maritime cathedral rang the church bell thirty times in tribute to him.
I know. This was recorded a few years back. Just released today
RIP Gordon. A major part of my teen years!
One time in tribute to him plus 29 times in tribute to the ship victims.
Most of the best bands EVER WHERE FORMED IN THE 70s true facts The EAGLES 71 BOSTON 76 , AREOWSMITH 73 ,ABBA 72 ,ACDC 74,, QUEEN 72 .JOURNEY 76 VAN HALEN 75 ,BLONDIE 77 , THE CARS, 77 ,,THE POLICE 78,THE KNACK 78 ,,,KANSAS 76, ,FOREIGNER 77.SUPER TRAMP 73 .STYX 73.TOTO 77, WHITE SNAKE 78, VILLAGE PEOPLE 78 ,KC N SUNSHINE BAND 75, FOG HAT 75 ,THE KNACK 78 .HEART 75 ,This is why the 70s had ALOTof the best bands where FORMED in the 70s baby ,And the 70s have 8 of the top 25 biggest selling LPS Sold in the USA are from the 70s TRUE FACTS,
I 4 GOT ABOUT KISS BEINING FORMED IN 73
If you remember 1976 being your Senior year in high school and this time of year you were headed to the football playoffs, Friday home games having a dance afterwards; then you’re going to love this song list and probably going to dig this channel!
Holy cow POR!! This was my life in review!!
I graduated high school in 1976. I remember all these songs playing on the radio. I had The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on a 45. Still get chills when I hear it. Interesting fact, it sank on November 10, 1975 and I got married on November 10, 1979. So many memories from that part of my life, especially great music. R.I.P. Gordon and my late wife Rhonda.
I was a year behind you! It truly was the absolute best time, and we had the best music! I’m so sorry for the loss of your wife. I hope you are happy now, in spite of your loss.
I was a 1976 graduate too! Best time ever! I'm sorry for the loss of Rhonda. Be well. 💖🥰
I graduated in 76 as well, our class song was supposed to be evergreen, but someone slipped in wasted days and wasted nights instead.
Class of 76 was 'The Bicentennial' class. 200 years after 1776.😊 1976 was my graduation year also.
The 80s will always be my favorite decade, but the 70s have a special place in my heart, that's when I started listening to my older siblings' music and was introduced to Steve Miller, Foreigner, Gerry Rafferty, Styx, Bee Gees. Couldn't ask for a better musical upbringing.
Same!
IM 63 To me the 70s will never be matched but thats my TASTE IN OUT STANDING MUSIC AND THE GREAT BANDS ,,, FORMED,, IN THE 70S Are not ever going to be matched by ANY DECADE NOT EVEN THE 80s The Eagles.71 Boston76 ABBA 72, Acdc 73 ,Queen ,Kiss74 ,Van Halen 73,,Foreinger 77 .Journey 76.Blondie ,76 Super Tramp 73.Styx 73, The Cars 77 ,Toto 77,E,lo , Hall and Oats 73 ,,Bto 74 ,Poco76 ,Ambrosia 77 Player 76,Exile 77, White Snake 78, Just to name a few of 70s great BANDS formed in the 70s BABY,
My sister, our friend Bonnie, and I would go next door to my Grandmom’s house and go up to my uncle’s room and listen to his records, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, Steely Dan, Carole King, and Cheech and Chong, to name a few. He was 18 and joined the navy and left three teenaged girls, a musical education.
Same here,my big brother introduced me to all of those and so many others,especially my favorite band ever-Queen. He made me really listen to the song Seven Seas of Rhye and I was hooked. Broken hearted when I couldn't buy the single. It was promotional copies for radio only ! 😢
@theodoreritola7641 Groovy music never dies !! Lmao ! I was born in 64 and my brother got me into ALL the best music of the day !❤
I’m 66 so thanks for taking back to high school 😄 I needed this. I want to go back and do it all over again!
I am 65 and feel the same way
I am 64 and too would go back
A friend tells me..going back
You'd just make different mistakes
I graduated from high school In 1976. Everything was red, white, and blue for the Bicentennial year. I love the 70’s music and still listen to it today. I remember seeing Carrie at the movie theater with my boyfriend (now husband). I’ll never forget how scared I was when her hand came out of the ground. We spent 20 minutes in the parking lot afterwards getting me to calm down. That was the last scarey movie I ever saw.
I was only 7, but I remember all the fire hydrants in town and all the park pavilions were painted red, white, and blue.
I SAW THAT WOOOW I JUMPED OUT LIKE MICHAEL J but strait up out my chair in KODIAK ALASKA With my sisters i was 15 and my sisters 10 and 8 LOL I MISS THE 70s so many huge bands and great songs
Fear is a sin
@@reginastock5546 Also 1976 Grad. Black Christmas, 1974, had a similar effect on me.
My mom saw Psycho when it came out. She said after that she was paranoid as hell about motel showers. 😂
"if you leave me now", coupled with "she's gone"... what a great 1-2 punch of heart ache.....
“She’s gone” is one of those songs that feels EXACTLY like what it’s saying. But it’s not just heartbreaking. You wake up in your New York or Philadelphia apartment on a July morning. The sky is hazy white; the humidity is oppressive. It never really cooled off last night. The city feels brutal. And it’s on THIS morning that you discover your partner has left you. The song is a masterpiece
Still my favorite Hall & Oates song!
this was before H&O got addicted to making pop schlock.
I was happy for them having that run of hits in the 80s, and thought “no can-do“ was brilliant. But none of it had the same soul.
Thanks, Professor, for your dedication in keeping rock music through the years alive. Hard to overstate how we all appreciate it.
"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" was one of my favorite songs, it reminded me of the Great Lakes and my home where I grew up. When I was in the service, no mater where I was I was stationed, this song took me back home. Great Song.
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was the most requested song at strip clubs 😊
That song they just played ? That song Edmund Fitzgerald was Terrible !
Terrible!!!!!
If you had no connection to/knowledge of the ship/wreck, yet were subjected to hearing the song on radio about every four minutes, you’d hate it as much as I did/still do.
Maybe if I had been Canadian
Saw Gordon Lightfoot in concert within a year of the song's release. The only clear memory of that concert was after he sang "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" the whole venue was almost completely silent, except for some concert-goers weeping. I don't think I will ever attend a concert like that again. The song still hits me real hard. I live about 8 miles from Lake Michigan, and I've seen some big breakers crashing into the piers at Holland State Park, and Grand Haven, MI. I can't imagine how huge those waves were when "the gales of November came early." RIP Gordon.
Yes. I filmed this years ago but never released it.
@@ProfessorofRockneed to brush up on your math my guy. 45 years ago?
@@JohnnyBGoode-q7n "HE" filmed it.
@@ProfessorofRock - AH! That explains the "45 years" comment. I figured your math skills couldn't be *THAT* suspect 😉
As bad as Michigan can be, it's nothing compared to Superior.
In '76, I was the geek wearing glasses, falling in love with the girl that looked like Cheryl Ladd. I'd like to say that it all worked out and we're together to this day, but the truth is, I married a girl that is even prettier and she never cared that I wore glasses.
Good for you 🤓
1976.... I was 12 years old. Used to sing all the time, when my mom wasn't forcing me to take piano lessons. Thank you, mom! The piano brings me so much joy today. It's helped me write numerous songs for our band.
I love this channel, because music has always been central in my life, loves, and memories.
Even as a 12 year old boy, "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" touched me to tears. I hadn't heard of the tragedy, so I asked my dad. The horror they must have felt was unimaginable.
In 1976 I was graduating from High School and starting college. 17 going on 18. So very long ago but so close in memory. Graduation from work is coming up this year. A start of something new. The music world doesn't quite have the same powerful background as the past as this video shows. I think back in the day the industry didn't run the show in the same way. Individuality and that singer songwriter vibe seems to be canned into a formula. Nothing to stand out and up as time passes. Recently reconnected to James Blunt music and gave myself a punch in the heart and soul with Monsters, Girl That Never Was, and some older 2000s If Time is All I Have, No Bravery, Carry Me Home. Looking forward to seeing him on his Back to Bedlam 20th anniversary tour in Boston 2025..
Miss the Bee Gees in all their decades. Background to my post graduation from highschool and college years.
Music was diversified and great back in the day. Says this old girl who used to carry around her portable purple record player that my mom bought with her green stamps knowing how important music was to my 16 year old self. played the heck out of Neil Diamond, Kansas, and many more including Bobby Sherman my bubble gum crush♥️
True story. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ( One of my favs too ), was done in one take. Gordon played a rough acoustic version for the band in the studio. They did a take as a band and that's the one that stuck. They did several other takes but couldn't get the magic of the first run so that's the one we hear to this day. First take. Love your channel.
My grandparents lived on Lake Huron and we would go up there every summer on vacation. When this song was released in’76, I would go out on their covered patio, turn on the radio, and listen to the Commodores “Easy” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. Great memories.
I’m going to guess Disco Duck as the worst song before watching. Let’s face it, the bottom 10 would outperform today’s top 10.
Me too. Internet says 1977 release.
He already did a video about that hehe
That was what I thought of as well - if I recall correctly Dees had a buddy do the Donald Duck voice and there was some controversy about using the Donald Duck persona as Disney did *not* permit this…
That was my first thought also
I think the Sesame Street disco album that was released back then would out perform them even in quality.
Every time I hear a song by Chicago it takes me back to Hynes Auditorium, Boston, second row center, May 30, 1972, Jr year HS, first ever concert with a girl who would become my HS sweetheart. 52 years later we live separate lives but thankfully remain in touch. Thank you for all you do, Professor !
1976 is one of my favorite years for music. Probably has to do with my coming of age that year. I turned 13, had my first rst big crush, my emotions all over the place and I turned to music for comfort and joy. Many of those songs still have an emotional memory.
My mom was a bartender at the 2001 club in Pittsburgh when Wild Cherry came out!
Love your show, Professor of Rock! Thanks for revisiting all these great songs and moments in time!
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Great episode, brought back nostalgia, i was 6 in 1976.
Living in Sydney, Australia, back when it was all AM radio stations,
As a kid, I listened to a lot of stations by atmospheric skip.
On some nights, you could hear stations from Brisbane, Melbourne, and other cities around the country playing the latest song releases.
Chicago was big over here in 76,77 great band.
Same with Steve Miller Band with song Keep On Rocking Me.
All bring back memories of getting ready for school.
Those bands got a lot of air play here in the 70s.
Keep up the greatness you have with your music history.
It hits my notes. Thank you, professor. Keep on rocking in the free world.
Always enjoy the Redux videos!
Pretty awesome concept and even more awesome songs
I was born in '76; it's 48 years ago... Thanks, though, @Professor of Rock.... I wish I was 45! 😆 Although I can do without the shenanigans of 2024! 🎶 🎵 keep on a rockin'! Love the show!!!
I scrolled quick to see if I clicked on an old video.... sadly no I'm still old, thankfully I guess I still remember exactly how hold. :)
Was this video blocked since 2021?
I had to check my math. Very disconcerting.
I graduated in76 at 17. Moved out after
I graduated high school in 1976 and I want to go back to that time, just for a few days. So many good memories, and somewhat ignorant of the country's woes in the 70s. Music sure was great then.
It was a different time and a different era been thinking of the sixties and the late fifties we didn't know how good we had it
Every time I hear something from Chicago (especially their love ballads), I'm always reminded of my mother who had a real affection for Peter Cetera. My dad played trombone back in school and I would pick that up from him, so I got to hear "both sides", if you will, of Chicago, from the earlier more brass-filled times that my dad preferred to the later love ballad sound that my mom liked more. If only they could see the strong streaming numbers today, I know they'd both be pleased.
Wow, what a flood of memories! The Wilson sisters ❤. Fifth of Beethoven in orchestra, wild cherry as a trumpet player, Edmund Fitzgerald great song story, Rock’n’Me Steve Miller doing things in the tall grass in the back of a park, disco duck the stupidest song ever, and the best, Chicago!! Thanks for the memories Professor!
Hi F# Bro, couldnt have been easy in the studio, and live.
76 was my early teen years when music was larger than life to me, there wasn't a time anywhere when we didn't have the radio on. What a fantastic top 9, you know which one I will dismiss! Absolutely love the music from the 70s! Great episode!
I have to ration myself to viewing your videos, because it's waaaay too easy to inadvertently binge watch to depletion. You've got the personality to set my mood right no matter how stressed a day is. Right on, can you dig it?
K-tel itself needs an episode!!!❤❤❤
@rp338. 22 monster hits- get yours now- quantities are limited- but wait!! There’s more!!
I have a majority of the k-tels, still keep my eye out for them
Chicago Transit Authority … their first album … their best album … their best rock n roll album. Terry Kath was a treasure RIP.
My Dad loved the horn section of this band.
I agree but dont forget Peter Cetera on bass and background vocals to support Terry.
Kath was perhaps the greatest loss if all those folks we lost early back in the 70s
25 or 6 to 4 is a perfect example of Terry and Peter working together
“Putting the K-Tell compilation tape into the 8 track player” …..I laughed so hard at that sentence.
In 1976, was an 8th grader who painted my bedroom in red, white, and blue. Patriotism was everywhere! I loved Heart, America, just discovered Fleetwood Mac, and Peter Frampton!
Memories to treasure forever! Chicago's hit If you leave me now was my moms favorite song ever and I think of her everytime I hear it she passed 7,5 yrs ago😢
GEN X,1965! Graduated high school 1984!
Professor, please bring back 1984 Vintage shirt you’re wearing in this video.Gotta have it!
Great TOP 10 for 1976 and I was 11 years young.
Keep Rockin’ music junkies.
Ive always said
'Music is a Time Machine.'
Because whenever we hear an oldie but goodie, we automatically go back to the days of when the song was popular...
What we were doing at that time in life, etc.
I sure miss being a kid during then.
70s had THE BEST Music!!
The Song Remembers When, Trisha Yearwood
The Jukeboxes also! I met a young man years ago named Daniel on his phone over 6,000 songs, Wonder what his gifting was in music
Love Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The lyrics are so evocative. Interesting note: They now ring the bell 30 times. The families have added one for Gordon Lightfoot.
When Gordon Lightfoot died, the Mariners' Church in Detroit rang its bells 30 times.
Disco Duck is an all-time bad song, but Rick Dees was an American classic! What a blast from the past! Apparently he's still alive and kicking. God bless him!
He's syndicated on one of my local radio stations. He's sounding older these days, but still iconic.
He did the weekly top 40, right?
@@noelstafford7266 no, that was Casey Kasem
Oh curse you, I am in tears. I had just turned 16, had moved away from home to my new school for the first weeks, and each of these songs was an intimate part of my life then. Chicago was my favourite band, but I knew (and still do) almost all of these songs by heart (well about half of disco duck!). Thanks for the memories.
The amazing thing about 1970s music on radio was that you could tune into one hit station like 1050 CHUM or CFRA 580 and hear singer-songwriters, funk, soul, R&B, pop, rock, folk, country, and other genres all in ONE hour. So many songs had key changes, time signature changes, and instrumental (keyboard, guitar, etc.) parts. Interesting stuff. No auto-tuning to be found.
I really do miss those old radio stations that played all styles. Found so many “surprise” favs. Sure, there was some gate-keeping, but even today’s streaming services get locked into certain tunes/vibes via the sacred “algorithms”. There’s good music out there, you just have to sort through a lot of trash to find treasure.
And yes, the loss of key and time changes-even melody, to a large part-makes so many current songs pretty boring.
I was religious in my listening of CHUM in the 1970s.
Same with the 60's and even late 50's! Lots of diverse sounds! 🎶😎🎶
What a great collection of songs, and I'm including Disco Duck in that statement; it's a goofy and fun song. In the fall of '76 I was 11, but I hadn't gotten really big into music yet. I was playing cornet in the school band, but mostly just listening to pop music on the radio. It would be a couple of more years before I got serious about buying and collecting music, but when I did, the songs I was familiar with from the radio were the first ones I sought out. The Captain and Tennille's Greatest Hits was one of the first albums I got, on 8-track. They had several songs I liked, including Muskrat Love.
And while I didn't actually buy any K-Tel records, my cousin had several of them and gave them to me, giving me a pretty good variety of pop music from the early 70s, plus some more obscure songs like Rick Springfield's minor hit Speak To The Sky. One of the K-Tel records was the same one you showed the cover of, with the gold bars.
One my favorite type of episodes, the redux. Keep 'em coming, doesn't matter what year and month!
1976 was the year I started getting into Pop music!! I was 11 years old!! I remember all these songs!! Gordon Lightfoot passed away earlier this year!! Disco Duck was a song my Mom HATED!! Ah, the memories!! Great video!! Cindy Snow (yes, that's my real name!!)
Very cool
The post-Chrissy "Three's Company" years must have been rough
@@Hoeech I actually got a job because someone wanted to see what a real Cindy Snow was like!!
You're mom has good taste in music
When our family was on vacation in Kalamazoo, Michigan (my dad grew up there and met my mom there. My sister, brother, and I were all born there) we would have a huge family reunion at my uncle's cottage on a lake in the area. August 1976, Gordon's Wreck was played almost every two hours or so on WGRD (Grand Rapids). Other stations in the area wee spinning it, too. There was no escaping the song. I had just turned 14 at the time.
I graduated highschool in 1976. This really takes me back.
My first child was born in 1976. Still listening to this music today 😃 I, by the way, love Hard Habit to Break. It's one of my top 10 favorite songs. I've also seen Hall and Oates live many times and love She's Gone live! Really special. Keep up the great work!!
1976 was the year I graduated. Lots of memories. Keep up the good work!
75-76...i was only 15...and i can relate to the school dance,i plucked up the courage to ask the girl who was voted the May Queen a bit like the home coming queen in the USA, and can you believe it she said yes....wow my 1st slow dance and eventually my 1st innocent kiss.. oh what beautiful memories....now im a 63 year old divorcee who still loves great music...thanks Debbie the Corby May Queen 💙
Right on brother!
OMG! This just reminded me that Sadie Hawkins Day is coming up soon! I think it's November 18th, or at least it used to be...
I'm right there with you, brother. I was Born Jan 26, '61, so I was 15 most of the year. A lot of firsts used to happen around that age: learner's (driving) permit, first love, first kiss, first... well, other things that still make my heart skip a beat, homecoming, 9th-grade prom, bicentennial (USA), CB radios, Charlie's Angels, Boston (the band), Wings at the Speed of Sound, no social media, no electronic distractions. I didn't know how magical that time was until I was much older.
@@workdre I remember wings and buying band on the run 2nd hand...Boston and I'd just discovered Genesid Live from 72....never looked back...great music
@@davidjarvie9546 Unfortunately I was going through a Beatles completist phase. The good side was a teacher with lots of early rare Fabs 45s and EPs who sold them to me for $10 each, but the bad side was also spending too much for wretched Apple product like Wings Wild Life, George's Extra Texture, Ringo's Sentimental Journey, John & Yoko's Sometime in NYC and stuff by Mary Hopkins, Lon & Derek von Eeton, Elephant's Memory, etc out of "Brand Loyalty".
In 1976 I was mainly into rock. Allman Bros, Thin Lizzy, Ted Nugent, Robin Trower, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top etc. AM radio was what my girlfriend and most of our friends were into. I appreciated this pop radio hit lineup then, and love even more it now. Except for Disco Duck...not then, not later. Everything else on this list is gold. Including Muskrat Love.
It sounds like you and I have the same kind of head set. I see the appeal some of those kind of pop songs that girlfriends and others would like. I preferred to listen the songs that were played on FM rock radio stations.
Damn, that was a fun top 10 some really incredible songs on this list! I was nearly 12 when this list landed. I remember hearing all of these songs in the car riding around with my dad.
High School Class of '76. I remember all of these clearly! There are so many bands that made great music back then that you have material for decades! For future videos on 1976 I would suggest the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Blue Oyster Cult and the Climax Blues Band. They deserve some love!
I remember 1976. I was 5 years old. It was the Bicentennial and everything was red, white and blue.
I'm pretty sure that time frame was peak America, never to be reached again, sadly.
I was living outside Boston at the time. lots of fun memories of the celebrations
Those tall ships really raised the countries spirits after Watergate
That was a crazy year, wasn't it? I turned 8 August 1976 .
"Crazy On You" was one of my biggest favorites as a 70s teen. Heart's Dreamboat Annie and Gordon Lightfoot's Summertime Dream were two of my probably first five albums. I remember I got Gordon Lightfoot after another album by a Japanese electronic music guy came scratched or warped or something. I remember taking it back to the record store and exchanging it for Gordon Lightfoot. The sales guy was laughing that I went from Japanese electronica to Gordon Lightfoot.
I’m a 76 er born this very week that you just discussed. This was AWESOME! So cool to hear about the top 10 songs of my birth week. Thank you Professor for making this wonderful video.
Happy birthday!
@@libena1973 Thank You!!!!!!!!!!
Still, this top 10 with Disco Duck beats any top 10 of the last 20 years. That was a great year. Each of these songs has a memory attached. Thank you, POR.
☕️☕️🎶🎵🎶
Absolutely correct.
I remember all these hits from '76. Especially Chicago If You leave Me Now. Takes me back to my first semester of 7th grade. What a time to be growing up and what a soundtrack.
My top 10:
1. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -Gordon Lightfoot
2. Tightrope - Electric Light Orchestra
3. You're My Best Friend - Queen
4. Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton
5. Crazy on You - Heart
6. Fernando - Abba
7. Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
8. Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word - Elton John
9. I'll Be Good to You - Brothers Johnson
10. The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
My top
1 moonlight feels right - starbuck
2 you will never find another love like mine - lou rawls
3 year of the cat - al stewart
4 oxygene - jean michel- jarre
5 float on -the floaters
6 dancing queen - abba
7 tonights the night - rod stewart
8 blitzkrieg pop - ramones
9 wreck of edmond fitzgerald
10 europa (earths cry heavens smile) santana
@christiancastro2442 Not to be picky, but Oxygene wasn't released in the U.S till late 77. I know because I bought it based on a review when it came out.
Great album!
Wow number 8 my favorite Elton John song I didn't think anyone remembered it
@@carlwinebrenner9900 Sorry seems to be the hardest word sounds superb on the Live in Australia album. The whole LP is awesome but my favorite is Tiny Dancer.
I have to say I love the way watching you videos set the Peabody and Sherman “way back” machine in my mind - back to innocence and potential
I always liked the synth solo on "Muskrat Love." It was still a fairly new invention, as far as Pop music goes.
I graduated from HS in 1976 & these songs bring back some very nostalgic memories for me! 🤠
If you can get an interview with Gordon I would definitely watch that. Would scare the hell out of me but I'd watch it. 😢
Haha. Yeah that’s gonna be tough. Or very surreal
I know. This was recorded a few years back. Just released today
@@ProfessorofRock Really wish you'd gotten the interview. 👍
@@Meh-j9sTime to break out the ol’ ouija board for that interview.
@@illegal_space_alienThat is a video that would go viral. Who would join the professor of rock making this long distance call? And since he is already making the call perhaps he could get some other interviews. I am thinking John Lennon for starters. Perhaps Elvis and Freddy Mercury if they aren't too busy for a chat.
Thank you. I was born the last week of October 1976. It’s so cool to hear about what people were listening to when I arrived.
I was a sophomore in high school, and 14. I love Chicago, have all of their albums with Terry Kath. Color My World is my favorite ballad of theirs, all time. Since 1976 is "my time", I can tell you what we were rocking to at my high school, Boston, Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Queen, and Earth, Wind and Fire. We had a jukebox in our cafeteria.
1976, the Bicentennial year for the USA and the year I graduated from high school. Music was turning heavily disco but yes there was Magic Man. I was heavily into progressive, ELP and Peter Gabriel era Genesis but loved heavy rock, Dylan and The Band. Great episode. Thanks.
The Last Waltz in 76 was my introduction to The Band but I also graduated in 76. Agree on ELP, but paired more with Boston
Disco invaded more in 77 as I recall (and I secretly loved most of it)
Ah yes, Casey Kasem. He was the original Shaggy on Scooby Doo. I also remember him voicing Robin on the Super friends.
I think he was one of the voices on the Speed Buggy cartoon also.
He was also the voice of Mark from Battle of the Planets.
An amazing voice actor, I didn't know he was also a singer, still so cool!!
@@kali550Classic Battle of the Planets. My favorite as a 4/5 year old
Plus lots of TV commercial voiceovers.
My husband and I listen to America’s top 40 on Sirius XM 70s on 7 every week! I’m happy to have found you!
Born in 66 and enjoyed both the 70's and 80's. Best year every to be born.
70's though has the best soft ballad love songs of all time and it's not even close and the songwriting is epic.
Ah, my senior year in high school, and my best friend's (from high school) birthday week. Thanks for a doubly connected trip down memory lane!
R.I.P. Dick Clark and Kasey Kasem.
They are sorely missed. Thank goodness for the Professor, because we have nobody else like Clark and Kasem today.
Yes; you mean Casey Kasem.
Loved them all...and so happy my memories include seeing Chicago twice at Summerfest over the years. They're still in my top 10 of best bands...moving forward toward two more of the next decade: Foreigner and Journey. Hey..we old folks were blessed...we had the greatest bands ever!
Magic Man, The Wreck of the Fitzgerald and Play That Funky Music give me chills, in a good way. I could skip the rest but that’s the beauty of the 70s/80s/90s; real diversity of music.
What’s wrong with Magic Man?? I can’t stand Edmund Fitzgerald. It sounds like it was recorded in 1912.
@paulvoorhies8821 I think that she was saying those were her favorites from that list and the others didn't matter.
I loved (and still do) Magic Man, The Wreck Of The Edumund Fitzgerald, and Philadelphia Freedom. '76 was so awesome to be alive and listening to some really great music on the radio.
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@ Magic Man’s on my good list (good chills). And I would have liked 1912 I’m sure. A lot of Aussie classics sound like the same era and are about sad things (like And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda), so I’m going to like a sad Canadian song too..
Summer 1977, I was 12 years old. My posse and I had been at a lock-in at the public pool, playing air hockey and foosball, drinking massive quantities of pop, and flirting.
The next morning, we went out to the pool to float and watch the sunrise. As the sky turned from blue to pink and apricot, one of my very favorite songs played over the loud speakers. “If you leave me now, you’ll take away the biggest part of me . . .”
The whole scene thrilled my romantic little heart so much that I can still see/hear/feel it 47 years later . . .
I was freshman in high school Oct 1976. Good memories, thank you.
Me too.
Me three! Roosevelt Jr High in Appleton Wisconsin. I escaped 8 years of Catholic School.
Best year ever!
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Me too. And on top of that, in an October of 1976 I was moving away from the town where I grew up, and away from my first love. “She’s Gone” was an extremely apt song for the sound track of our lives.
Mee too
I graduated High School in 1976, and I loved 🥰 everyone of these songs … thanks for covering 1976 ! The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald…. You are right haunting. 😢
Oh, us old folks remember Love So Right. Children of The World was a great album. I miss them. Shalom Andy, Maurice, & Robin. 🥀
Burnt Offerings; I know that movie, it's an excellent horror movie.
I thought that was Stevie Nicks with Oates on that album cover, and then I realized that was Hall.
Another great video, Adam. I am so happy for your research of these groups, Thanks again.
The 70's were insane. I was 8 or 9 when my brothers started playing Hotel California. I was at Eckert drug store buying my first K-Tell record - which of course, was Disco. There were the Carpenters, Streisand, Paul McCartney, amazing country hits, Rock, Folk - you name it. It was a music lovers paradise. The 80's brought Madonna and Hip Hop - which were awesome - some good music came out of the nineties, but then, it just became lost.
I am 59 now, and enjoy a variety of music but there will NEVER be music like that of the 70's. TYTY for this vid.
Two for Tuesday- Love it!!! 1976 - I was 13. It's when I really started learning about Rock and music in general.
Same. Exact same.
1976; Year I graduated HS, met my wife of 47 years, started college. These songs stir so many memories.
I really miss the '70's music. I graduated HS in '75 at 17 and we had one of the best decades of music. I liked a lot of the '60's and '80's as well. Great times! Rock on all! 😎
65-80 were the sweet spot for good music for me, all of them bring back memories.
I was in third grade at a Catholic School on the Coast of NJ in '77 and had a teacher, Mrs. Armstrong. My recollection was that she was a bit hippyish, and one day she told us the story about The Edmund Fitzgerald. Then she broke out her axe and did a wonderful rendition of Gordon Lightfoot's tribute to the mariners. It was very moving to me, and I won't forget it.
I think about half the streams of Edmund Fitzgerald are mine. I absolutely love that song. It contains some of the greatest lyrics ever (“does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours) to a musical arrangement that fits the lyrics perfectly and puts you in the middle of the maelstrom.
Thx Professor for putting this up - always fun to take a dip back to yesteryear
Eight of the songs in my 1976 Top Ten can be found on Boston's first album.
Amen!
Love Boston! 🎶
I was 10 in 1976. I think you covered everything I remembered. ABBA was super popular then as well.
My graduation from High School, 1976!!! The best music ever!!!
Yes, loved graduating in the Bicentennial year of 1976!
I just realized my parents took me to see Saturday Night Fever when I was 5. I did remember seeing Jaws when I was 4. My parents didn't believe in babysitters and therefore took us kids on all of their outings.
My daddy worked as an administrator at the Indian Residential School, Oaks. I was on a field trip with the kids who were possibly forced to go to the school, leaving their families behind. If You Leave Me Now came on the radio when I was on a field trip. The girls started crying, so many were crying and then the entire bus population started crying. I was crying because they were crying. I had my family, but our house was on the campus, so everything I did was with the students. Much later in life, I realized the truth about residential schools, including my dad and his siblings experience with this particular school.
In the UK, we remember the “heatwave of 76”. The Sex Pistols and the birth of British Punk, Boys Are Back in Town, Blinded By The Light MMEB and Couldn’t Get It Right Climax Blues Band
.....REST of the world, wouldn't get to hear "Couldn't Get It Right" for another 6 months or so; Pete Haycock, has NEVER gotten his PROPS as a PHENOMENAL guitarist.....
I really enjoyed hearing about the music from 1976 I was around
12 or 13 at the time and I remember them all especially AM radio and on
the TV music shows at the time as always Thank You for the Classic
Rock and Roll Memories Professor.
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