Episode 27: The Week Ending November 8, 1975: Born to Run Away from My Little Town

Back in the 70’s there were just too many people with hurt feelings and bad blood. Relationships fell into two categories, diamonds and rust. Some sadly learned that it only takes a minute for their partner to fly robin fly and head sky high.  If you were one of the lucky ones who believed in miracles, you knew who loves you, and sooner or later our day would come. Well we couldn’t think of something better to do so let’s do it again and have a listen to the Billboard Top 40 from the week of November 8th, 1975.
Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1975-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_8th_November_1975
Rejected Titles:
This Will Be an Everlasting Heatwave
Born to Run, Low Rider, Fly Robin Fly, Nuff’ Said
Saturday Nights on Broadway
It Only Takes a Minute to do Something Freaky with You
Data Sources: Billboard Magazine, where the charts came from and on what the countdown was based.
Websites: allmusic.com, songfacts.com Wikipedia.com (because Mark’s lazy)
Books: “Ranking the 70’s” by Dann Isbell, and Bill Carroll
“American Top 40 With Casey Kasem (The 1970’s) by Pete Battistini.
Some links to things we discussed in this episode:
Blackmore’s Night Diamonds and Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e83qHv5pLHI
Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOAHpLBNiUw
Tavares: Music Museum of New England: https://www.mmone.org/tavares/
The Bay City Rollers make their US debut on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell September 20 1975:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb4xE4S82r0
Master Bait & Tackle (permanently closed) Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=157761847591570&__tn__=C-R
Let's Do It Again (1975, trailer) [Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-57J8Cfzc
Springsteen Makes Covers Of Time And Newsweek: https://calendar.songfacts.com/october/27/9017
The Man from Hong Kong (1975)(George Lazenby) Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS-wUJv2AqU
George Lopez intro (Featuring Low Rider by War): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpIwfggPxqs
Natural History, 1982, v. 91 Article “Low, Slow, and Mean” by William Gradante: https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/6488