Depending on where you were in 1979, We Are Family by Sister Sledge may be a song that you would rather forget. The Pittsburgh Pirates used this song as their theme song during the summer of 1979. They beat the Baltimore Orioles in seven games to win the World series all with this song playing in the background. Fans from Baltimore, which I am one, came to hate this song. Each time it plays it brings back bad memories.

But for others I’m sure it beings back good memories.

The song was composed by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.

Other than the Pirates the song has been used a number of time to bring people with a common cause together, including a version put together by Rogers after the attack on September 11, 2001 and at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

In 1979 Rupert Holmes recorded perhaps the only song that he wished he never did. Even though he wrote songs before this as well as afterward, it is this song that he is best known.

It’s a story song about a man who due to changing feelings towards his mate decides to answer a personal ad he finds in the paper. After communicating with the lady he decides to meet her only to find it’s the same lady he thought he was getting tired of.

The song was the last number 1 of the ’70′s. First reaching Number 1 on December 22, 1979.

The phrase The Pina Colada Song was added to the title after its release, since that what many people was calling it, not realizing that the title was Escape.

In late 1978 Kenny Rogers recorded what would become his signature song. The Gambler, Kenny Roger as the singer is the narrator and not the Gambler, is an old gambler who sits with Rogers on a ‘train bound for nowhere’.

The song reached Number 16 on the Pop Charts and was a Number 1 Country single. It was the second of 5 consecutive Number 1′s that he had on the country charts during late 78/early 79.

The song was written by Don Schlitz, who had recorded the song earlier.

This version was done on the Muppet Show.

Kenny Roger would play the role of Brady Hawkes, the Gambler, in 5 made for TV movies between 1980 and 1994.

Herb Albert was the leader and played the trumpet from the 1960′s group Herb Albert and the The Tijuana Brass. In the ’70′s he was the ‘A’ in A&M records, one of the biggest record companies of the decade with acts like the Carpenters, Styx and many others. He also release a couple of solo songs and 1979′s Rise was his biggest solo hit. By 1979 videos were being produced for songs and this is the video of it.