Jacksons – Body Language
From the Carol Brunett Show. 1976 with Vicki Lawrence
from their show mid-1970s
Category: 1976
Johnny Cash – One Piece at a Time
By 1976 Johnny Cash had already been performing for 20 years and for many of those years he was at the top of the Charts.
it was in 1976 that he did the story song One Piece at a Time. It’s the story of an auto assembly line worker built a car with one stolen [...]
Shaun Cassidy – Da Do Ron Ron
Posting this in tribute to Ellie Greenwich who passed away on August 26, 2009.
Not everyone may know her name, but we do know the music that she and her writing partner Jeff Barry wrote in the early 1960s.
Among some of her songs were this one Da Do Ron Ron first done in 1963 by the [...]
Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots – Disco Duck
In 1976 dance music, Disco music, was moving toward big popularity. Memphis Disc Jockey Rick Dees came up with a crazy parody on the craze featuring the Disco Duck.
Dees has said that the song was completed in a day, but took months until someone would join with him to record it. It was [...]
The Who – Squeeze Box
By 1975 Pete Townsend and The Who was pushing the bubble on what could be played on the radio. This song from their 1975 Album The Who By The Numbers. A squeeze box is a slang term for accordion. Although it was also a term for a sex toy. The words [...]
Gary Wright – Dream Weaver
Gary Wright was the keyboard player of the Progressive Rock band Spooky Tooth when they broke up for the second time in 1974. He went solo and recorded the album Dream Weaver which featured just himself on synthesiser/keyboard and Jim Keltner on drums.
Wright has said that he was inspired to write the song after [...]
C.W McCall – Convoy
Advertising man Bill Fries created the character C.W. McCall for Old Home Bread brand of the Metz Baking Company in 1972. C.W. McCall was the trucker who, along with his dog Sloan and his adventures at the Old Home Cafe.
From those commercials came the first songs and an Album in 1975. During the [...]
Elton John – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
It was the summer of 1976 and Elton john recorded this duet with Kiki Dee. This version is him singing it alone in one of his concerts during the same time period. While Elton John had enjoyed quite a few number ones in the US, and this one reach it as well, this [...]