It’s time for another edition of Mr. Romance’s Top 10 Countdown Show, a look back at the 10 most popular songs on the Adult Contemporary chart for the week of August 4, 1979. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1991.
Get ready for pop culture, trivia and all your lite hits that might just bring back some memories or maybe you’ll discover some new soft rock favorites.
Top 10 Countdown Show Pop Culture
The year was 1979:
First appearances were McDonald’s The Happy Meal, The Dustbuster by Black and Decker and Sony’s Walkman.
At the movies, you were watching
Kramer vs Kramer
Apocalypse Now
Alien
On television:
60 Minutes
Three’s Company
That’s Incredible!
And ESPN, Nickelodeon, and PBS’s This Old House all debuted in 1979.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
In 1979, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda won Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. And television gave us stars like John Ritter, Suzanne Summers, and Farrah Fawcett. But In the 60s and 70s we also saw dogs steal the limelight in film and animation featuring Snoopy, Lassie, and Benji. In 1979, an animated crime fighting dog first made its appearance. Can you guess this mystery dog? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Originally formed in Melbourne, Australia in March of 1975 the Little River Band have sold more than 30 million records with six studio albums reaching the top 10 on the Australian album chart plus were inducted in the Australian Recording Industry Hall of Fame in 2004. Here in America, the band’s first platinum selling album was in 1978 with Sleeper Catcher featuring the the mega hits Lady and Reminiscing. Their follow-up album in the summer of ‘79 was First Under the Wire which not only reached platinum status as well, but spawned two Top 20 hits on our chart: Cool Change and the song making its debut this week at #40 Lonesome Loser.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of August 4, 1979.
An avid record collector, lover of all desserts and sometimes seen wearing multiple Swatch watches, Dave has been lending his voice for over 20 years heard on such prominent brands as Intel, RCA, Eddie Bauer, Kellogg‘s, Pizza Hut, Lexus, and infomercial giants Guthy-Renker and Beachbody. His narration projects include Japan’s preeminent automobile series Best Motoring International and Hot Version, along with GTChannel, QVC, Universal Music Enterprises, and ViSalus Sciences.