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July 19, 1975 Paul McCartney & Wings' "Listen To What The Man Said" hits #1.
May 31, 1975 Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" hits #1 in America.
March 15, 1975 Olivia Newton-John's album Have You Never Been Mellow hits #1 in the US.
March 8, 1975 Olivia Newton-John's "Have You Never Been Mellow" hits #1 in the US.
February 15, 1975 Linda Ronstadt finally breaks through when her album Heart Like a Wheel and single "You're No Good" both hit #1 in America, establishing her as one of the biggest stars of the '70s. It took a while: none of her first four solo albums charted higher than #45, no single higher than #25.More
February 1, 1975 Neil Sedaka's "Laughter In The Rain" hits #1.
January 2, 1975 Suzi Quatro lands the cover of Rolling Stone magazine with the headline, "Suzi Quatro flexes her leather." With a string of UK hits under her cowhide, she's ready to conquer her home country (born and raised in Michigan), but fails to break through. The magazine does get the attention of Happy Days producers, who cast her on the show as Leather Tuscadero.
November 2, 1974 Stevie Wonder's "You Haven't Done Nothin'," a dig on President Richard Nixon, hits #1 in America.
October 19, 1974 Bachman-Turner Overdrive hit #1 in America with the album Not Fragile, the title a play on the Yes album Fragile. Hits from the set include "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" and "Roll On Down the Highway."
October 12, 1974 Olivia Newton-John's LP If You Love Me, Let Me Know hits #1.
October 5, 1974 Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You" hits #1 for the first of two weeks, making it her first chart-topper in the US.
August 24, 1974 Paul Anka's "(You're) Having My Baby" hits #1 for the first of three weeks despite condemnation from feminist groups.More
June 8, 1974 Paul McCartney & Wings' "Band On The Run" hits #1.
May 4, 1974 The Sting soundtrack, featuring Marvin Hamlisch's adaptations of Scott Joplin's ragtime piano tunes, hits #1 in America, where it stays for five weeks.
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April 13, 1974 Paul McCartney & Wings' album Band On The Run hits #1.
April 6, 1974 ABBA become European stars overnight when their composition "Waterloo" wins the annual Eurovision Song Contest.More
March 30, 1974 John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulders" hits #1 in the US. The song first appeared on his 1971 album Poems, Prayers & Promises; it came to prominence after featuring in the made-for-TV movie Sunshine in 1973.
March 23, 1974 Hall & Oates' "She's Gone" peaks at #60 on the Hot 100. Later that year, a version by Tavares hits #50, and in 1976, the original goes to #7 when it is re-released. The duo were each dealing with girl problems when they wrote the song together.
February 21, 1974 "Jungle Boogie" becomes the first Kool & the Gang single certified Gold. It embodies the funk sound that defines the group in the early '70s. They switch to a more melodic sound with the 1979 introduction of lead singer J.T. Taylor, who ushers them into an era of hits like "Ladies Night," "Joanna" and "Cherish."
February 16, 1974 Planet Waves becomes the first Bob Dylan album to reach #1 in the US.More
January 12, 1974 Jim Croce's album You Don't Mess Around with Jim, the one with "Time In A Bottle" and "Operator," hits #1 in America three months after his death in a plane crash.
January 2, 1974 Country singer and actor Tex Ritter (father of actor John Ritter) dies of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 68. His first of many hits was 1944's "I'm Wastin' My Tears on You."
December 20, 1973 Bobby Darin dies at age 37 after surgery to repair his ailing heart.More
October 20, 1973 The Rolling Stones ballad "Angie" hits #1 in America.
September 20, 1973 Jim Croce is killed in a plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana, at age 30. More
April 5, 1973 Singer/superproducer Pharrell Williams is born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. As half of the hip-hop production duo The Neptunes, he's a prime architect of the popular music landscape of the 2000s.
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March 17, 1973 The sci-fi musical Lost Horizon, scored by Burt Bacharach, bombs at the box office. The failure precipitates Bacharach's split from longtime songwriting partner Hal David and Dionne Warwick, who had performed their songs for more than a decade.More
December 31, 1972 Dick Clark begins a new holiday tradition as his first New Year's Rockin' Eve concert is broadcast on NBC; guests include Three Dog Night and Al Green.More
December 2, 1972 The Temptations "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" hits #1 in the US. Running 6:58, it's one of the longest chart-topping singles.
August 26, 1972 Looking Glass' "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" hits #1, where it will stay for one week.
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