{"id":1977,"date":"2015-02-13T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:28:47","slug":"music-friday-1974-billboard-hot-100-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-1974-billboard-hot-100-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; 1974 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-1974-billboard-hot-100-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; 1974 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>A cursory glance at the calendar reminds me that it has been about a month since my last Music Friday post, so I missed a couple Fridays in there. \u00a0Sorry. \u00a0In the pursuit of determining my &#8220;Peak Music Year&#8221; I have so far examined the BillBoard Hot 100 charts from 1965 thru 1973, now all we have left to look at are 1974 and 1975. \u00a0What a long strange trip it&#8217;s been. \u00a0Today we shall inspect the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/archive\/charts\/1974\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1974 Chart.<\/a>\u00a0 Lemme just get a quick look at it&#8230;holy crap. \u00a0This is another one of those schizoid years that bounced all over the place. \u00a0There&#8217;s no shortage of weirdness either, and the mood changed frequently. \u00a0A strange trip indeed. \u00a0There are only nine songs that stayed at #1 longer than one week and out of those nine, six stayed at #1 for only two weeks, and three stayed at #1 for three weeks. \u00a0So&#8230;those three songs must have been killer, right? \u00a0Right? \u00a0WRONG! \u00a0These three songs are examples of everything that was wrong with popular music in the 70&#8217;s and quite possibly what was wrong with the actual 70&#8217;s. \u00a0In hindsight I don&#8217;t understand why these songs did not cause protests, riots and mass hysteria in general. \u00a0If these songs were &#8220;killer&#8221; in any sense it would be in the sense that after listening to them one becomes markedly suicidal. \u00a0I hesitate to even post them here for fear of alienating the very few readers I have. \u00a0OK, here goes. \u00a0Just remember I didn&#8217;t write them or perform them. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t like them in 1974 nor do I like them now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-tPcc1ftj8E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Seasons in the Sun<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Jacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry Jacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XtzoUu7w-YM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Streak<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Stevens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ray Stevens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=umrzGr_etQw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>(You&#8217;re) Having My Baby<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Anka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Anka<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Odia_Coates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Odia Coates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The list of oddball stuff goes on&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bmfudW7rbG0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Kung Fu Fighting<\/em><\/a>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/p-L0NpaErkk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Night Chicago Died<\/em><\/a>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HqfIKqW2ZPo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Billy Don&#8217;t be A Hero<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0 AAARRRRGH.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;this may have been a covert plot by Canada to overthrow the U.S. because I see in the Wiki bios of Terry Jacks and Paul Anka that they are Canadians. \u00a0That&#8217;s it. \u00a0<em>There&#8217;s no other explanation. \u00a0<\/em>This fact alone may disqualify 1974 as my peak music year.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! \u00a0There&#8217;s more! \u00a0There is a smattering of goodenss if not greatness, especially if you are a folk rock fan. \u00a0The 70&#8217;s were the hayday of artists like John Denver, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot, all of whom had #1 songs that year. \u00a0And also in the mix are a few #1&#8217;s by ex- Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and (honorary Beatle) Billy Preston. \u00a0But 1974 apparently being the year of the short National Attention Span, these songs stayed at #1 for only one week apiece.<\/p>\n<p>How did I describe 1974 earlier? \u00a0Schizophrenic? \u00a0Maybe Manic-depressive is a better description. \u00a0Or bi-polar as they call it now. \u00a0High highs and low lows. \u00a0I believe I can safely rule it out as my Peak Music Year, but I won&#8217;t rank it last because of a few gems in the pile of rubble. \u00a0There is no clear winner this year, so I will simply present a couple of my favorite songs from that year. \u00a0Enjoy! \u00a0Gotta go!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CcUzhf35X9g\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dO1rMeYnOmM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet A cursory glance at the calendar reminds me that it has been about a month since my last Music Friday post, so I missed a couple Fridays in there. \u00a0Sorry. \u00a0In the pursuit of determining my &#8220;Peak Music Year&#8221; I have so far examined&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}