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 September 14, 1974. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 2007.
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 1974:
A gallon of gas was 53 cents.
A postage stamp was 10 cents.
And eggs were 58 cents a dozen.
At the movies, you were watching:
Blazing Saddles
Towering Inferno
The Godfather: Part II
On television:
All In The Family
Chico and The Man
The Jeffersons
And Happy Days started an 11- year run on ABC.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
At just 26 years-old, this author published his first book with Doubleday & Co, in 1974 and sales from the title allowed him to quit teaching to write full-time. Since then he has published over 50 books. In 2014, The U.S. National Endowment for the Arts awarded him a National Medal of Arts. Can you guess our mystery writer? Take a listen to the show below for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods had been performing for nearly a decade when they hit it big touring in the mid-60’s as an opening act for groups like The Rascals, Paul Revere and The Raiders, and Herman’s Hermits. Thanks to an opening stint for The Osmond Brothers they finally got their big break recording the 1974 smash Billy, Don’t Be A Hero and from that same album, a song quickly moving up our chart. At #24, Who Do You Think You Are.
Listen Live
Mr. Romance’s Top 10 Countdown show comes to you every Saturday night at 7 p.m. with an encore presentation Sunday morning at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time) on 97 Lite FM.
Listen On Demand
Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of September 14, 1974.
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.