Heya everyone!:) The year is 1976...I graduated high school in 1976...It was the bicentennial of the USA. I went to the prom and our theme was "Stairway to Heaven"(I think everyone's was:P)
Alittle "Stairway" trivia: * Stairway to Heaven" remains the biggest-selling sheet music in the history
of rock. An average hit sells 10,000 to 15,000 copies. "Stairway to Heaven"
has sold more than one million copies.
The Top 10 Singles of 1976 "Disco Lady" - Johnnie Taylor
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - Elton John and Kiki Dee
"Play That Funky Music" - Wild Cherry
"Tonight's The Night" - Rod Stewart
"Kiss and Say Goodbye" - The Manhattans
"Silly Love Songs" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"A Fifth Of Beethoven" - Walter Murphy
"Love Machine (Part 1)" - The Miracles
"50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon
"December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" - The Four Seasons
Honorable Mentions: The albums of 1976 and my favorites!:D
I so had that poster above and yes a black light !!:D
Bernie Leadon, original member of the Eagles since they were organized in 1971, leaves the group and is replaced by Joe Walsh.
Because of booming record sales in recent years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) creates a new platinum award, for singles that sell in excess of 2 million copies and an album that sells 1 million units. The first platinum single was Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady," and the first platinum album went to the Eagles for their Greatest Hits 1971-1975.
A Chorus Line opens on Broadway. It would become the longest-running musical in entertainment history.
Lasers are used in a rock show for the first time, by the Who.
Genesis begins its first tour of America.
Bruce Springsteen, while playing in Memphis, tries to sneak into Graceland to see his idol Elvis Presley. He is stopped by security guards, who quietly lead him off the grounds, unconcerned that he is a major star.
Paul McCartney begins his Wings over America tour, from which an album by the same name would be released a year later and zoom to number one.
Donna Summer's American debut single in 1975, "Love To Love You Baby," smolders up the charts in 1976 as part of the disco explosion.
Prior to the release of the album No Reason To Cry, Eric Clapton begins a concert tour of England, his first in years.
Elton John plays for a week at New York's Madison Square Garden. The summertime concerts smash all attendance records.
20 Popular Movies of 1976:
- Rocky
- A Star Is Born
- King Kong
- Silver Streak
- All The President's Men
- Marathon Man
- Network
- The Omen
- Taxi Driver
- The Song Remains The Same
TV affected us growing up more than our parents did (unless your parents
didn't allow you to watch TV). We learned how to spell relief, what to do to
stains, what to like and dislike, and what we wanted to buy. We innocently
sang and mimicked the tunes of Dr Pepper, Oscar Mayer, and meow meow meow meow
Meow Mix. Even if you try to avoid mainstream culture, advertising always makes
its evil way into the brain and replays itself anytime you need to use the
product, or during just about any moments of possible silence, through the use
of rhymes, reason, and bad show tunes. A few of these may seem as if they were
only yesterday: Morris the Cat (9-Lives cat food); I love my calendar cat;
Lauren Hutton and the Nestea Ice Tea plunge; "You've Got Ring Around the
Collar (Wisk); Herb Albert music; "He likes it! Hey, Mikey!" (Life cereal);
"AIMs Home Loan to the rescue"; "And like a good neighbor, State Farm is
there"; "Do you know me?" (American Express); "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie,
and Chevrolet"; "Beef, it's what's for dinner"; little Rodney Allen Rippy
trying to take a bite out of the big burger (Jack in the Box); "You deserve a
break today"/"Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles,
onions, on a sesame seed bun" (McD's); "Connect Four! Where?! Here, diagonally.
Pretty sneaky, Sis!" (game); "When you play Perfection, you gotta move on fast,
move on fast, before the pieces pop-up, before you put in the last, and that's
Perfection!" (game); "You sank my battleship!" (game); "I'm the Sole Survivor"
(game); battery on the shoulder of Robert Conrad, who dared you to knock it
off; O.J. jumping turnstiles in the airport (Hertz rental car); "Sorry,
Charlie!" (Star-kist tuna); margarine commercial where a crown suddenly
appears on someone's head (Imperial margarine); "It's not nice to fool Mother
Nature" (Parkay margarine -- "Butter!"); "You think it's butter, but it's not,
it's Chiffon"; "Pepto biiisssmmmoool"; "One spicy meatball"/"I can't believe
I ate the whole thing"/"Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is fast
fast _fast_" (Alka-Seltzer)- from "Retro Hell" (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997).
The Top 20 Television Shows of 1976:
- Happy Days
- Laverne & Shirley
- The ABC Monday Night Movie
- M*A*S*H
- Charlie's Angels
- The Big Event
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- The ABC Sunday Night Movie
- Baretta
- One Day at a Time
News Highlights of 1976:
Military spending in the world skyrockets to $300 billion a year.
The Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria.
Barbara Walters is the first broadcaster to be offered a $1 million per-year contract to cohost the nightly news.
Racial violence in black townships outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, is the worst in 15 years.
Jimmy Carter, a "born-again" Baptist from Georgia, is the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
From coast to coast, the United States celebrates its 200th birthday.
Gymnast Nadia Comaneci of Romania is the darling of the Summer Olympics in Montreal. (Even the theme music played during her performances, released as a single, goes gold).
In Philadelphia 28 people die of a mysterious virus dubbed "Legionnaire's disease."
In a close election, Jimmy Carter is elected president over incumbent Gerald Ford.
Austrian Kurt Waldheim begins serving his second term as secretary general of the United Nations.
Top Albums of 1976:
n 1976 I started nursing school, I was engaged since 1974 to my highschool sweetheart but we broke up:cry: , I moved away from home, I worked at a chinese restaurant while I was in nursing school, It was a very hard year for me personally but also a pivotal year intellectually. I hope everyone is having a great day, if not, God loves you and cares and so do I :D(but He can help and is always available). God Bless each one of you and keep you and yours in His loving care.
~Bekka XOXO
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