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 November 11, 1978. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 2003.
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 1978:
Cabbage Patch Kids made their debut, Reese’s Pieces first popped into candy aisle and Garfield the cat hit newspaper comic strips.
At the movies, you were watching:
Grease
Superman
Jaws 2
On television:
Laverne & Shirley
Happy Days
Three’s Company
….and WKRP in Cincinnati, Diff’rent Strokes, Taxi, and Battlestar Galactica all made their debuts..
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
The same year, E. Bryant Crutchfield began test-marketing his new school notebook, a brightly colored three-ring binder which held folders and closed with a satisfying button snap. From the start, they were an enormous success. For several years after their nationwide release, over $100 million of the folders and notebooks were sold each year. Can you guess our mystery school supply that was the first student organization system? Take a listen to the show for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Melissa Manchester told Huffpost.com in 2012 about her collaboration with Kenny Loggins: “It came out of the oddity of the times – he and I kept running into each other at televised award shows.We would meet and chat in the Green Room, and finally he asked if we could get together and write something. He came to my house one night and we polished off a song.” Which ended up being Kenny’s first major hit reaching #9. Joined by Stevie Nicks…at #18: Whenever I Call You Friend
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of November 11, 1978.
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.