Terry Jacks!
Damn, and I carefully scanned the posts before mine to see if it was already mentioned! :smack:
Hey, thanks! Quite the blast from the past…if I only weren’t too cheap to pony up, I could listen 
but it’s pretty cool, remembering some of the dj’s.
I wonder if they’re out and about and some guy comes up to them, says, “Hey, you’re {DJ’s name here} from WLS, right?”
DJ: “Well, yeah…”
Guy punches his lights out.
DJ: “What was that for?!”
Guy: “Hot Child in the City, asshole! Just be glad I don’t punch your sorry ass one time for every time you played it!”
I think you need to pound the program director for that one, not the DJ.
Here are some more songs that reached #1 the year I graduated from high school (1974):
Sundown- Gordon Lightfoot
Rock The Boat- Hues Corporation
Annie’s Song- John Denver
(You’re) Having My Baby- Paul Anka
Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe- Barry White
Rock Me Gently- Andy Kim
Then Came You- Dionne Warwicke & The Spinners
Whatever Gets You Through The Night- John Lennon
Cat’s In The Cradle- Harry Chapin
And that all-time classic,
Kung Fu Fighting- Carl Douglas
What, no love for America?
Especially “Horse with no name”, but all their hits got played a LOT in the 70s.
<hopes he didn’t miss it earlier.>
Satch
Could be right. OTOH they don’t sing his name on the air, so perhaps the DJ could pass the suggestion along 
Geez, if you really want to abuse yourselves with this just get an XM or Sirius radio and tune it to the '70’s channel. Kill yourself with it. Not that it was all bad but, Abba?, The Guess Who?, Debbie Boone?, Andy Kimm?, Donny Osmand?
Suicide is a better option.
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Touch me in the morning - Diana Ross
ABC - The Jackson 5
Ben - Michael Jackson
Got to Be there - Michael Jackson
You all have mentioned all the ones I can think of, plus more.
I just want to say how much those of us teens who were stuck in Nashville West (Bakersfield) loved our evenings listening to ol’ WLS in Chicago during the late 50s, early 60s.
“Border to Border, Coast to Coast”
And it was, indeed!
Peace,
mangeorge
Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E’s in Love
Working my way back to you - The Spinners
<Hangs head in shame>
I liked some Abba (Knowing Me, Knowing You especially) because dayum, they could sing some scorching harmony. Much Guess Who. Even Debbie’s “You Light Up My Life” because I was totally sucked in (she was singing it to God?!)—much like “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.”
Andy Kim: Rock Me Gently…yeah. Baby I Love You…yeah. Donny? “Down by the Lazy River” (technically the Osmonds, I think)…yeah.
Hell, there’s even one song by Barry Ma----no, I’ve said too much already.
Now that I’m thoroughly weaned of AM, I’ve gone back and listened to some of the recordings in much higher-fi. I swear, for all the shitty sound, some of the good sonic qualities of the recording came through even in mono. IIRC it was Ray Davies who said (words to the effect), “Abba’s records are sprinkled with fairy dust or something,” i.e. praising the clean recordings.
Or maybe I’m just a masochist? 
:eek::smack:
<Slinks away, tail between legs>
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
House of the Rising Sun
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Me And You and A Dog Named Boo
And in Denmark
(summer of '72):
La La – Paul McCartney (?)
Mammy Blue – Olsen Brothers
(vinter of '72-'73):
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
Huh. Sorry about that, those used to be free.
(You’ve Blown It All) Sky High
Wild Fire
Fly Robin Fly
Shannon
Pina Coladas
It’s Magic
Africa {which was by Toto, I think, but I ain’t sure and I simply refuse to look up any of these sonic chancres to find out who was responsible-- hearing them all over and over again forever-and-a-day was hard enough on me, I’m not giving them any more of my energy}
…and then there was that freakin’ abominable thing that started out
***“OOGA-chacka OOGA-chacka OOGA-chacka OOGA-CHACKA!”
The 1970s was a very weird decade in many ways, but especially wrt music: while some of the finest rock music ever heard was made then, the turds (most of which have been mentioned by now…shudder) sure did fly thick and fast, and there was apparently a whole lot of idjits–errrr, people who dug 'em enough so they got played and played and played and played and played, until they were certain to live on in infamous memory forever.
“Boo” was slang for marijuana among beats I knew back in the '60s. Don’t know about the dog.
And; I liked a lot of Abba’s stuff.
Africa, yes Toto, but still 1970s…? Checks Wikipedia…1982.
WRT my previous post, “Sky High” is another one that the recording engineers really mastered. Plus, I’d just broken up with this girl you see and… 
Blue Swede’s version has a special place in my memory for a weird reason. I had a chorus teacher who threatened me and a couple other boys that if we didn’t shape up, she’d make us sing it at a choral concert.
Funny thing is, we wanted to sing it
Thunder and Lightning by Chi Coltrane. I actually have that on iTunes.
OTOSOTC, I could go the rest of my life without hearing either The Night Chicago Died or Another Brick In the Wall. Talk about overplayed.:rolleyes: