Ann and Nancy Wilson and Heart was one of the great Rock and Roll Bands of the late 70s at a time when many of the hits of the day were dance flavored Disco.

Little Queen was the title of their second album as well as the second single. It followed the popular Barracuda and did not perform as well as expected on the charts, peaking at Number 62.

Still it’s one of their popular songs.

It’s a shame that Heart is not part of the Rock Hall of Fame. They, then as well as now, Rocked.

One of the biggest recording of all time and the biggest of the 1970s was the title song of the movie You Light up My Life written by Joe Brooks.

Kasey Cisyk recorded the song for the movie, it was lip-synced by Didi Conn. The movie version was released as a single but peaked at Number 60.

Debby Boone, the daughter of the 1950s pop star Pat Boone version and was the top song of the year. Although she has recorded many songs since this her debut song, it was her only Pop Charting record. She had a couple of county hits and now records in the Christian Music genre.

Even though it was not intended by Brooks, the song’s composer, Boone recorded it with a religious spin on the song, singing to God as the one lighting her life.

The song hit number 1 on October 15 and reminded there until mid-December for a then record of 10 weeks. It was bumped from Number 1 by How deep is Your Love by the Bee Gees.

Even though Bob Seger had been recording since 1969 until 1976 he was mostly known as a Regional artist out of Michigan.

Things began to change in 1976. First there was his Live Bullet album with his Silver Bullet Band. At the end of 1976 they released the album Night Moves which featured the single of the same name.

Night Moves would peak on the charts at Number 4 and would push the blue collar singer/songwriter to national popularity.

The song rang true to many people of the 70s generation since it is about a young couple losing their virginity in a Chevy. Many couple related to that same experience.

When Styx released their 7th Album, The Grand Illusion, their third on A&M records, they were still a relatively little known band.  Previous to Come Sail Away, the first single released from the album, their biggest single was Lady from their Styx II originally released in 1972 on Wooden Nickel Records with the single released in 1974.

Come Sail Away written by the band keyboardist Dennis DeYoung reached the American Top 10 peaking at Number 8 early in 1978.  He also was the vocalist of the song.

The single release of the song was a 3 minute 10 second version while the full version on the album is slightly over six minutes.

The Grand Illusion was the 2nd Album to feature their new guitarist Tommy Shaw.

In 1977 Bing Crosby was the old crooner from the 1930s and 1940s. He was more well known then for his annual Christmas Specials and his recording of White Christmas, as well as his old films, when on September 11th he and 30 year old glam rocker David Bowie recorded this song for Bing’s 1977 Christmas Special.

The song was originally just to be a duet of the Little Drummer Boy, but Bowie was not a fan of the song and requested to sing something else. Buz Kohan, Larry Grossman and Ian Fraser quickly wrote the song Peace on Earth and created an arrangement for the two songs.

This song was one of the last recordings of Bing crosby, who died of a heart attack after completing a round of golf on October 14th. The Christmas Special would be shown a month after his death.

The song didn’t really become popular until it was released as a Christmas single in 1982.

In 1977 Emerson, Lake and Palmer would release their album Works Volume 1. The album was divided into four parts, each recorded on a side of the 4 record set. Each section highlighted a member of the band.

On side 4, the Band’s side, they recorded two tracks. Fanfare for the Common Man, a classical piece written in 1942 by Aaron Copeland was the first track.

Keith Emerson was a admirer of Aaron Copeland, and this wasn’t the first song of his that they recorded. Hoedown was on their 1972 album Trilogy.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s arrangement of Fanfare for the Common Man was used as the opening theme song for CBS Sports Spectacular.

Some may remember Jerry Reed as the Snowman in the Smokey and the Bandit movies.

Others will remember him as the singer of songs such as Amos Moses, When You’re Hot, You’re Hot or Lord, Mr. Ford.

And there are still others who knows that he was a songwriter having written the songs to Smokey and the Bandit, the ones mentioned above and others such as Guitar Man and US Male for Elvis Presley, A Thing Called Love, a song he recorded in the late 60′s.

But he was also a great guitarist as can be seen in this clip from 1977. He may be the greatest county guitarist that ever lived.

He began his career in 1955 and it ended this week when he passed away.

Rest In Peace – Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – August 31, 2008).

Ann and Nancy Wilson were hot and the group rocked.

Plastic Letters was the second Album by the Punk band Blondie. Denis, a remake of the 1960′s pop song Denise by Randy & the Rainbows was an European hit reaching Number 2 on the UK charts. It was the only song released from the Plastic Letters LP in the US, but it failed to chart.