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 December 11, 1976. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 2005.
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 1976:
Gas was $.59 a gallon.
And minimum wage was $2.30 per hour
At the movies, you were watching
Rocky
A Star is Born
The Bad News Bears
On television:
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
M*A*S*H
Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created the Apple Computer Company in the Spring of 1976, to market Wozniak’s Apple I desktop computer.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
NASA unveiled the first space shuttle to the public in September of ‘76. It was only a prototype created to conduct test flights as the official launch of the Space Shuttle Program did not occur until April of 1981 with the launch of the Columbia. Can you guess the name of NASA’s first space shuttle? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
A new musical about the life and career of Neil Diamond premiered this past June in Boston. And just opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. But this week back in 1976, Neil debuted on the charts with the title track to his 10th album that also shares the name of that new musical. In its first week, Beautiful Noise enters the chart at #36 on it’s way to its peak position of #8.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of December 11, 1976.
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.