The Summer of '76

[Morningside]

Just looking at this:
http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1976....
There were some great ones that year, plus some that I have never heard of.
I see ELO are there. I remember the next year (1977) Mr Blue Sky being played almost no-stop.

Edited by Morningside on Tuesday 15th July 22:27

[can't remember]

Biker's Nemesis said:

3 short years later the Wurzels didn't get a look in..


Gary Numan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=102NNwdI9i0

I remember recording that off Top Of The Pops and playing it on a school trip. I was pipped for cool by Danny Atherton's older brother who had Mr Clean by The Jam on his cassette player which had swears.

[Legacywr]

Morningside said:

Just looking at this:
http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1976....
There were some great ones that year, plus some that I have never heard of.
I see ELO are there. I remember the next year (1977) Mr Blue Sky being played almost no-stop.

Edited by Morningside on Tuesday 15th July 22:27

Mr Blue Sky was 1978!

[Morningside]

Legacywr said:

Morningside said:

Just looking at this:
http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1976....
There were some great ones that year, plus some that I have never heard of.
I see ELO are there. I remember the next year (1977) Mr Blue Sky being played almost no-stop.

Mr Blue Sky was 1978!

Bloody hell, I always thought it was '77.
Edit: I looks like the Album "Out of the Blue" featuring Mr Blue Sky was 1977 but the single was released in 1978.

...I think.

Edited by Morningside on Tuesday 15th July 23:22

[ali_kat]

XJ Flyer said:

R Whites did other soft drinks too.Their cream soda beat any type of lemonade then or since.

I bow to your age & better knowledge

[ali_kat]

Jinx said:

Evil Ali Evil. I now have the advert going through my head.

Sorry Jinx




I'm a secret lemonade drinker......

[Impasse]

A three minute long distance cheap rate call still costs less than 10p when dialled direct on your own phone.

[Terminator X]

Those were the days, long before man made global warming ... er, hold on

TX.

[GetCarter]

Bill said:

We had a dog called Ulysses who answered to Useless.

Mate of mine has a dog called Pointless

[Le TVR]

can't remember said:

Anyway, those of you complaining about the Wurzels should consider my 76 song, Save All Your Kisses For Me. .

I have to confess to the somewhat illicit activity of pirate radio in the mid seventies and the typical playlist had none of the tracks mentioned so far!

More than a feeling / Boston went out at least hourly..
Cocaine / JJ Cale
Take the money and run / Steve Miller
Back in the saddle / Aerosmith
Dont take me alive / Steely Dan

Probably the most requested song was still Born to run / Springsteen from the year before.

[fatboy18]

I had just left school and was in Art college, was also saving up to see Elvis in concert in the USA I also had my 1973 Honda SS50 moped....Guess what, I still have it

That really was a Long Hot Summer, I don't think there has been one like it ever since.

[Eric Mc]

We've had hotter - but not so hot for so long.

[Blib]

Morningside said:

Legacywr said:

Morningside said:

Just looking at this:
http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1976....
There were some great ones that year, plus some that I have never heard of.
I see ELO are there. I remember the next year (1977) Mr Blue Sky being played almost no-stop.

Mr Blue Sky was 1978!

Bloody hell, I always thought it was '77.
Edit: I looks like the Album "Out of the Blue" featuring Mr Blue Sky was 1977 but the single was released in 1978.

...I think.

Edited by Morningside on Tuesday 15th July 23:22

I saw ELO play at Wembley Arena when they released that album. IIRC, they played in "the round" and the set was a giant flying saucer, as per the album cover.

God, I'm old. I had hair back then and everything.

[RDJ]

ClaphamGT3 said:

I too remember the thigh searing properties of vinyl seats; in my case the 3rd (rear facing) row of seats in my mother's Volvo estate. This was exacerbated by the full-on greenhouse effect of the huge side and rear windows and the fact that the crude, push-button 'single zone' air con threw up a stark choice between the front seat occupants becoming hypothermic or the 3rd row passengers succumbing to heat exhaustion. The front seat occupants always won out and somehow a tepid bottle of barley's lemon water and a 4 litre ice cream tub to vom in when it all got too much was supposed to equate to 'responsible parenting'

torture

[BHC]

It's incredible how sadistic car makers were in upholstering seats in vinyl at a time when children didn't wear trousers so much. At some point my father had a black Ford Granada

[LordGrover]

Shares in tartan rugs.

[BHC]

LordGrover said:

Shares in tartan rugs.

You mean the ones made from the itchiest fabric in the world?

[RDJ]

BHC said:

LordGrover said:

Shares in tartan rugs.

You mean the ones made from the itchiest fabric in the world?

That was reserved for making the old army 'surplus' blankets



Reserved for the guest room

Edited by RDJ on Wednesday 16th July 15:24

[LBird]

I was 16, my sister was 15 and we had our first holiday without our parents, walking around the IoW, staying in youth hostels. I had my transistor radio in the back pocket of my rucksack and remember us dancing along the grass verges to "In Zaire"! Also remember laughing hysterically, until we couldn't stand up any longer, in house of mirrors in Black Gang Chine and having to get more money from Mum and Dad as we'd spent all ours on bus fares (well, it was very hot for walking).....

It was a glorious, wonderful summer, full of many significant memories for me. A summer I will always remember with a smile and a sigh of nostalgia.

[BHC]

RDJ said:

BHC said:

LordGrover said:

Shares in tartan rugs.

You mean the ones made from the itchiest fabric in the world?

:non:

That was reserved for making the old army 'surplus' blankets

I remember those in the cadets, but my father also had a tartan one from something similarly itchy. He used to sit on his bench in the garden huddled in it, so it always stank of Castellas and Scotch.