Monday, June 16, 2014

Pop Music - June 1974




 
June 4th 1974, "10 Cent Beer Night" in Cleveland.  Seemed like a good idea at the time...

Sorry I missed May, moving on to June:  Looking at American Top 40 charts for June, 1974... 40 years ago this month: What songs made their Top 40 debut? What was new and trending? Well, there were 23 songs entering the Top 40 during June (5 weeks). Here they are, ranked by eventual peak:

    • Rock The Boat - Hues Corporation- 1
    • Annie's Song - John Denver- 1
    • Rock Your Baby - George McCrae- 1
    • Rock And Roll Heaven - Righteous Brothers- 3
    • Rikki, Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan- 4
    • On And On - Gladys Knight & The Pips- 5
    • The Air That I Breathe - Hollies- 6
    • Waterloo - ABBA- 6
    • Sideshow - Blue Magic- 8
    • Takin' Care Of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive- 12
    • Radar Love - Golden Earring- 13
    • Haven't Got Time For The Pain - Carly Simon- 14
    • Finally Got Myself Together (I'm A Changed Man) - Impressions- 17
    • If You Talk In Your Sleep - Elvis Presley- 17
    • I'm Coming Home - Spinners- 18
    • If You Wanna Get To Heaven - Ozark Mountain Daredevils- 25
    • Train Of Thought - Cher- 27
    • Son Of Sagittarius - Eddie Kendricks- 28
    • Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett- 30
    • Another Park, Another Sunday - Doobie Brothers- 32
    • Already Gone - Eagles- 32
    • Workin' At The Car Wash Blues - Jim Croce- 32
    • No Charge - Melba Montgomery- 39

    I was actually able to find all of these songs on Spotify. And added to a playlist. Right now it includes through September 1974, and 164 of the 175 songs which entered the Top 40 in the 1st 9 months of 1974. I'm pretty impressed that they have over 92% of these songs...

Check it out: http://open.spotify.com/user/lsqrd42/playlist/23G0cY9o6mflTaGwievQ9z

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