What's your favorite song from 1976?

[Coventina]

Here's mine:

[FM123]

1. Show Me The Way!

I was obsessed with Peter Frampton!
I still love his album Frampton Comes Alive.....

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. My middle child was conceived to that song

In the back of a red Caddy Coupe de Ville on Bass Lake road, in 76. (That should end your Frampton love affair forever).

I saw the Winterland show that the live album is from. In about a year he went from Humble Pie, to Frampton's Camel, to Peter Frampton. Saw all of those iterations then and saw him in Sacramento the night before the Winterland shows.

[FM123]

5. Love it!!!

We all have "events" that occurred while listening to Frampton, some we don't even remember......

[ghostsinthemachine]

17. Recent interview with Peter Frampton

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/09/interview-why-was-frampton-comes-alive-recorded-in-the-bay-area/
In advance of his Bay area show this weekend with (gag me) Steve "that non playing motherfucker" Miller and Night Ranger at Shoreline Ampitheater. (Quote by Miles Davis)

[FM123]

19. Great article, love what he says about Bowie.

[Glorfindel]

2. (Don't Fear) the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

It's the cowbell. It's nothing without the cowbell!

[ProfessorGAC]

7. That And That Fantastic Modal Guitar Solo

And the riff is awfully catchy. That's one of my faves of all time. Those guys, before they were huge, used to come through our town to play at the Monday concert tour at the ice rink every year in the early 70's. Because my dad was tangentially involved with that concert series, we always had back stage passes. We met those guys and every single one of them were really nice guys.

Other bands that were part of that circuit: Rufus, Black Oak Arkansas, Malo, Redbone (at least once), Ides of March, and a few others.

Was pretty cool thing every Monday in the summer.

[Glorfindel]

8. Whoa...now those are some great childhood memories!

I hadn't thought about Black Oak Arkansas in years! I'm off to YouTube to catch a song or two.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Have Fun With That!

For their climax ending, they used these super cheap pine guitars!
They smashed matching 335 knockoffs together to close the show!
From backstage, I saw the roadies, at two points about 10 seconds apart, change them from the good guitars they were playing to these pieces of shit
Second year, I asked. They had a dude with a van and woodworking stuff who'd put that junk back together so they could do it the next night!!!
Jim Dandy to the rescue indeed!!!

[ghostsinthemachine]

18. My friend Gary was WAY into BOC

In 72-73. Heavy music, the heaviest, beyond Black Sabbath. Fear The Reaper was pop for them.

I saw them open for Jefferson Starship (second Blows tour) and Kansas. "Drop your socks and grab your cocks, it's BLUE OYSTER CUUUULT!"

[tazkcmo]

3. Dancing Queen

Was living in Germany in 1976 as a teenager. Abba seemed to always be playing in the back ground of my most pleasant memories. Abba, to this day, is a trigger for warm fuzzies for me.

[Little Star]

6. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone

[shenmue]

26. Yeah

[Eugene]

9. "A Fifth of Beethoven" - Walter Murphy

[SethH]

10. I wish

[red dog 1]

12. Let Your Love Flow - The Bellamy Brothers

Honorable Mentions

- Dancing Queen - ABBA
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
- 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
- Only Sixteen - Dr Hook

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Are we allowed Bohemian Rhapsody - still Number One at the start of the year?

I took a look at the best selling singles in the UK that year for a reminder of what was when - and the 3rd biggest seller (4 weeks at number one) was something that rings no bells whatsoever - "Mississippi" by 'Pussycat'. With a truly bizarre video - it's the bust above the drummer with nipples a foot across:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_(song)

It was also number 1 in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland.

Not that I was even aware of it at the time, but my favourite album of the year is definitely Trick of the Tail by Genesis. Perhaps with Entangled as the best track, but they're all excellent.

[Coventina]

14. If it was on the charts, it qualifies!

[friendly_iconoclast]

15. "Sophie" by Jeff Beck, written by Narada Michael Walden

From the album "Wired", which is the best album Mahavishnu Orchestra never did...

[Efilroft Sul]

16. "Fly Like an Eagle," Steve Miller Band

I was nine years old during the Bicentennial, and I thought this song encapsulated how America should treat the least of all of us. And I still do. If I ever ran for higher office, I would crawl across broken glass to ask Steve Miller for his permission to use it.

[Phentex]

20. Oh What a Night...

[OriginalGeek]

21. from my all-time favorite album

It was an April morning when they told us we should go...

[shenmue]

27. Amen

[vanamonde]

22. Afternoon Delight

Starland Vocal Band

[FrankfurtCat]

23. Fleetwood Mac: "Go Your Own Way"

[struggle4progress]

24. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

[catbyte]

30. LOL, my Goddaughter was 4 when this came out & she always sang it:

"50 Ways to Love Your Liver." thanks for the memory!

[struggle4progress]

31. +

[hurl]

25. You might hate this but...

Most of the great music here is pretty popular and mainstream, but here's one that's pretty obscure. I admit being biased, but I have attended more concerts by Philip Glass Ensemble than any other group. It likely will drive most people crazy, so listen at your own risk - definitely not something most people would care for.

Philip Glass' seminal opera Einstein on the Beach was released in 1976. Often called 'minimalist,' the composer hated that description. The music is sometimes panned as repetitive, but if you have the patience to listen closely, it's anything but. Singers use solfege syllables (do re mi...) so you can tell what note is being sung (do = C). In other portions, singers sing numbers to give insight on the time signature. Here is an example of that. It starts with counting, with the solfege syllables coming in at about 2:07.

More, if you can take it:

[Coventina]

28. I love Glass! Thanks for contributing!!

[Tikki]

29. This song changed the way I would be listening to music.....

from then on....in a world of arena rock and mega concerts..this band hit small L A Clubs
and helped change everything.
I climbed over a cement barrier to get into an independent record store in 1976, to discover what I was hearing, the first time I heard this song.

One of my forever favorite songs.

Tikki

[catbyte]

32. Golden Years by the immortal David Bowie