Pop Music - December 1974

Wordle from lyrics of Fire

Looking at American Top 40 charts for December, 1974... 40 years ago this month: What songs made their Top 40 debut? What was new and trending?

Well, there were 20 songs entering the Top 40 during December 1974 (4 weeks).  Including a whopping six (6) eventual #1s!  Here they are, ranked by eventual peak:

•  Best Of My Love  - Eagles - #1
• Please Mr. Postman  - Carpenters - #1
• Fire  - Ohio Players - #1
• Pick Up The Pieces  - Average White Band - #1
• Mandy  - Barry Manilow - #1
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds  - Elton John - #1
• Some Kind Of Wonderful  - Grand Funk Railroad - #3
• Morning Side Of The Mountain  - Donny Osmond - #8
• Never Can Say Goodbye  - Gloria Gaynor - #9
• Get Dancin'  - Disco Tex and The Sex-O-Lettes - #10
• Doctor's Orders  - Carol Douglas - #11
• Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)  - Mac Davis - #15
• Dark Horse  - George Harrison - #15
• Ride 'Em Cowboy  - Paul Davis - #23
• Dancin' Fool  - Guess Who - #28
• From His Woman To You  - Barbara Mason - #28
• Dream On  - Righteous Brothers - #32
• Ruby, Baby  - Billy "Crash" Craddock - #33
• The Entertainer  - Billy Joel - #34
• The Heartbreak Kid  - Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods - #39

I was able to find 17 of these 20 songs on Spotify.  And added to a playlist covering all of 1974.  It includes 228 of the 251 songs which entered the Top 40 in the entirety of 1974. I'm pretty impressed that they have over 90% of these songs...

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