I remain mystified by the love for Springsteen…
Anyway, I staunchly refuse to vote for any disco songs even though “Staying Alive” is a truly great song. I had to go with “Miss You”, which is an excellent Stones song, and I’m not even a big fan of theirs.
Props to “Hot Child” for it being my favorite song in 1978 as I plastered my ear to the radio listening to Kasey Kasum while I lived in Schofield Barracks. I absolutely LOVED that song but IMO it hasn’t aged very well at all.
A lot of people consider “Miss You” to be disco.
It’s not disco. It’s disco-ish. There’s a difference.
Thanks for your analysis.
For some reason, although I love this song, it never occured to me to try and play it. I’ve checked the chords progression and like you said, there’s a nice little back and forth between major and minor. Lovely.
Yeah, “Beast of Burden” was a fantastic song.
What’re ya going to do, dig him up so you can hang him? He’s been dead for years… The first of the Gibb brothers to die, despite being the youngest. The massive doses of cocaine probably didn’t help his longevity…
I can’t even.
Though hardly the jewel in the crown of The World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band, “Miss You” does manage to transcend the rest of this list.
Huh, I didn’t know that originally came out in '78. It seems it was re-issued in the UK in '81 (making number 1), and that’s where I remember it from. They were even more ahead of their time than I thought 
Yeah, that’s weird - it was originally on The Man-Machine album in '78, but it wasn’t released as a single at the time - they put it on the b-side of “Computer Love” in '81, and when DJs started playing it on the radio, they released it as an a-side. Thanks, Wikipedia!
Sorry, but this is another “I can’t really vote for any of them” year.
“Miss You” isn’t horrible, but part of me can’t support it because it was so obviously The Stones pandering to a current style, when they should have been leading the way. I remember visiting an old girlfriend in Florida in this year, who had completely changed her stripes from the sort of hippie chick I knew to a disco diva. She dragged me to a club where the band played nothing but disco…until they played this song, which was at least bearable.
All of the Bee Gees’ disco output kind of runs together for me, and I kept expecting “Nights on Broadway,” the ONLY song of theirs from this era I can say I actually sort of like, to show up. Turns out it came out way back in 1975, and only reached #7.
It’s interesting how quickly they fell off the face of the earth after their last #1 from the era, 1979’s “Love You Inside Out.” A #30 and a #24, and then NOTHING until 1989.
“Baby Come Back” is an OK song too, but kind of got played to death both in the day and on Oldies stations. Player’s follow-up that no one remembers, “This Time I’m in It For Love,” is actually a better song.
Mercifully, disco’s reign would soon come to an end…and in 1979, I found it easy to vote for one of the songs that helped show it the door: “My Sharona.”
“Miss You” is a good song and “Some Girls” was the last truly good Stones album.
Yvonne Elliman… If I can’t have you…just beat out Le Freak for me…Just a perfect disco era song…the melodies soar…She sings the hell outta of it too…
This NOT a bad year - it is a drill-holes-in-your-eardrums-cause-the-crap-is-inesccapable year.
Yeah, I’m not even going to try on this one.
Thankgawd for the 8-track in the car.
Too many good ones to choose from. But since you asked for one, I picked “Hot Child in the City”. Still a pretty catchy tune if you ask me.