Pop Music - August 1974

August 1974: NFL Players' strike ends before pre-season... (without an agreement)

Looking at American Top 40 charts for August, 1974... 40 years ago this month: What songs made their Top 40 debut? What was new and trending? Well, there were 25 songs entering the Top 40 during July (5 weeks). With 6 eventually making it to #1!  Here they are, ranked by eventual peak:

• I Honestly Love You  - Olivia Newton-John - 1
• You Haven't Done Nothin'  - Stevie Wonder - 1
• Then Came You  - Dionne Warwick - 1
• Nothing From Nothing  - Billy Preston - 1
• I Shot The Sheriff  - Eric Clapton - 1
• Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe  - Barry White - 1
• Beach Baby  - First Class - 4
• Can't Get Enough  - Bad Company - 5
• Clap For The Wolfman  - Guess Who - 6
• Another Saturday Night  - Cat Stevens - 6
• Sweet Home Alabama  - Lynyrd Skynyrd - 8
• Earache My Eye  - Cheech & Chong - 9
• Wild Thing  - Fancy - 14
• Who Do You Think You Are  - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods - 15
• It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)  - Rolling Stones - 16
• Let's Put It All Together  - Stylistics - 18
• Free Man In Paris  - Joni Mitchell - 22
• I Love My Friend  - Charlie Rich - 24
• Don't Change Horses (In The Middle Of A Stream)  - Tower Of Power - 26
• My Thang  - James Brown - 29
• Time For Livin'  - Sly & The Family Stone - 32
• River's Risin'  - Edgar Winter Group - 33
• Happiness Is Just Around The Bend  - Main Ingredient - 35
• Sugar Baby Love  - Rubettes - 37
• Kung Fu  - Curtis Mayfield - 40

I was actually able to find all but one of of these songs on Spotify (guess which one!). 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 almost 94% of these songs...

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