# Best Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles:1975 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877 "2015-09-28T22:03:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/1 "2015-09-28T22:03:53Z")
Thirty two songs hit # number 1 in 1975 Canada. Which ones would you vote for? YOU MAY VOTE FOR MORE THAN ONE SONG(for those who never pay attention)😉 Older polls: 1964-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18667052](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18667052) 1965-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18673179](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18673179) 1966-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18675977](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18675977) 1967-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18681008](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18681008) 1968-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18685809](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18685809) 1969-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18692506](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18692506) 1970-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18703701](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18703701) 1971-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18702354](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18702354) 1972-[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18709173](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18709173) 1973-[Best Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles: 1973 - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=769837) 1974-[Best Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles: 1974 - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=770060) Paul Anka and Bachman-Turner Overdrive are the only Canadian artists to send singles to #1 in their home country in 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/2 "2015-09-28T23:18:18Z")
I was 13 at the time and really just starting to get into music. To be honest, I loved some really sappy stuff at that age, and I’m going to vote for them all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/3 "2015-09-29T00:39:34Z")
The TOP three of my votes are 10cc, Sweet and James Taylor’s great rendition of Marvin Gaye’s tune. The other songs got my vote, Wings, Van McCoy, KC and Bee Gees with their disco beginning. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/4 "2015-09-29T01:18:54Z")
Kung-Fu Fighting? From a better 1975 album than any that gave us those songs, > [@Flo and Eddie](#): > > Boy, that song really sucks! > > You know, that’s really interesting, cuz we could come from different ethnic groups or races or creeds or background and stuff, and we might not have anything at all in common except one thing…that song su-u-u-u-cks! > > So if you didn’t buy it…and I know I didn’t buy it, who the fuck bought it? > > Oriental Negroes, that’s who! Watch out for them! However, “Black Superman” was remarkably stupid with a great Ska beat, so I never turned it off. But “Ballroom Blitz” let me prove to a dorm-room of girls that I was capable of playing something popular, though it was really a rare case of my tastes intersecting theirs. I restrained myself from saying, “Oh, so you LIKE Chapman and Chinn songs,” and pulling out the Suzi Quatro. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/5 "2015-09-29T01:24:49Z")
This list seems to be shallower than 1974, but without as many absolute piles of feces. I picked “LSD,” “Philadelphia Freedom,” “I’m Not in Love,” and “Get Down Tonight.” “Get Down Tonight” was featured in [this delightful Budweiser commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONb2c56x6sE) with ingenious ants about 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/6 "2015-09-29T01:35:07Z")
Christ on a crutch, those ALL suck. I don’t blame Canada. I blame 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/7 "2015-09-29T09:34:26Z")
_I’m Not In Love_ - **10cc** I’m still amazed that this song is 40 years old. It wouldn’t have been out place in mid-to-late 80s. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1975/732877/8 "2015-09-29T17:32:26Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > _I’m Not In Love_ - **10cc** > > I’m still amazed that this song is 40 years old. It wouldn’t have been out place in mid-to-late 80s. I agree. When I first heard it back in the 70s, I noticed it sounded distinctly out-of-place among all the other songs on the Top 40. Maybe some of the stuff Roxy Music was doing at the time comes closest.