Episode 44: The Week Ending March 4, 1978 My Flashlight is Running on Empty

At his point, I hope that we’re not running on empty, and in terms of our content, I hope it is more than just dust in the wind. If you are still with us, then I want to thank you for being a friend, or at the very least for having some sympathy for poor pitiful me. Whether you’re a native New Yorker, from Thunder Island, or otherwise a long long way from home;  we can’t smile without you.  Especially since we are getting very close to wishing ourselves a happy anniversary. This week, the name of the game is Disco and it is stayin’ alive in the Billboard Top 40 from the Week of March 4, 1978. So dance, dance, dance yowsah, yowsah, yowsah.
Link to a listing of the songs in this week’s episode: https://top40weekly.com/1978-all-charts/#US_Top_40_Singles_Week_Ending_4th_March_1978
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.
Rejected Episode Titles:
Night Fever, Hand Me the Flashlight
Short People on Thunder Island
Stayin’ Alive on Thunder Island
What’s Your Name of the Game
Thank You For Being a Native New Yorker
Dust in the Wind Gets In My Ebony Eyes
Sometimes When We Touch It’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jack and Jill Falling, Which Way is Up?
I Go Crazy, Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah
Things we talked about in the episode:
Chautauqua Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua
Time March 6, 1978 Cover: Cheryl Tiegs: https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19780306,00.html
Bituminous coal strike of 1977–1978: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bituminous_coal_strike_of_1977%E2%80%931978#:~:text=The%20Bituminous%20coal%20strike%20of,not%20beneficial%20to%20union%20members.
Playboy Magazine: Goldie Hawn Interview Addition : https://extratv.com/photos/image_jpg_20101103_e07907660cee526da405141787ff01a3/
Goldie Hawn Special March 1, 1978 with The Harlem Globtrotters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8SX8f1__RY