Sounds of The Seventies

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You Should Be Dancing became the Bee Gees' third #1 single and setting the stage for their contributions to Saturday Night Fever a year later.

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1976

English guitarist Peter Framton was the year's biggest one-man phenomenon. A verteran of a teeny-bopper band, the Herd, and the arena-rocking Humble Pie, Frampton toured nonstop as a solo act, and in 1976 his work paid off.

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1976

The double-album Frampton Comes Alive, recorded live at Winterland in San Francisco, sold an unprecedented ten million copies, six million in America alone.Show Me the Way featured one of Frampton's calling cards, the "voice box," which channeled guitar sounds through a mouthpiece to form words.

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1976

Peter Frampton was the guitar hero of the new generation of arena-rock fans

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart

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WALSH, JOE............... Life's Been Good

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Elton John was the pop songsmith. Like Frampton, he was always more popular stateside. Don't Go Breaking My Heart, his duet with Kiki Dee, was his first British No. 1, although he'd had five No.1 hits in America.

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart was Elton John's first record on his own label, Rocket.

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Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) Rod Stewart

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Love to Love You Baby

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Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"--under the names of Ann Orson and Carte Blanche.

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Still the one

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Kiki Dee had previously been signed to Motown and she made little noise there, she did become friendly with British Motown executive John Reid, who went on to manage Elton John, which is how the pairing came to be. But when it was time for the real glory--an appearance on "The Muppet Show"--she had to take a back seat to Miss Piggy, who sang the duet,"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with Elton John.

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1976

Daryl Hall and John Oates, the inspiration for "Sara Smile" was Hall's girlfriend, Sara Sandy Allen, a former airline stewardess who was also the subject of Oates' "Las Vegas Turnaround." Oates first met her,by chance, in Manhattan and took her back to the East 82nd Street apartment he shared with his singing partner, Hall, who was in the process of breaking up with his wife, fell for Sara instantly, and they were soon living together.

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hello old friend

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Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" was , he insisted, "just a fluke thing I slipped into by accident," but the single and the album it came from, "Still Crazy after all these years," seemed to dwell on the recent breakup of Simon's marriage

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get closer

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1976

Linda Ronstadt scored with her second remake of a Buddy Holly song; this time it was That'll Be The Day,which the 50s rocker had written based on a line spoken by John Wayne in John Ford's classic western film The Searchers.

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50 ways to leave your lover

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1976

Amoung the year's oddities were former Raspberries leader Eric Carmen's solo debut, All by Myself, based on a Rachmaninoff melody; East Coast bar band Orleans' Still the One, which promptly became the ABC-TV net work's theme ; and good-time journey man Elvin Bishop's Fooled Around and Fell in Love, with lead vocals by future Jefferson Starship singer Mickey Thomas.