# Best of the Rest of the Top 40: 1978 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313 "2015-02-10T18:19:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/21 "2015-02-11T03:52:05Z")
Great year for music. I went with Baker Street. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/22 "2015-02-11T04:26:48Z")
I’m a sucker for ABBA. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/23 "2015-02-11T19:47:19Z")
I’ve been waiting for this year so I can vote for “Baker Street.” And I did. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/24 "2015-02-12T02:59:26Z")
I had a hard time picking. There is a lot of good songs here. Finally, I checked the results and picked a song that needed them sine most of my other choices are doing well. I wish there were some votes for Last Dance. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/25 "2015-02-12T09:45:16Z")
Easy: **Gerry Rafferty** - _Baker Street_. Great melodies, nice chord progressions, a very evocative atmosphere. One of my desert island songs. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/26 "2015-02-12T18:45:26Z")
It has to be Barry Manilow’s [\*Can’t Smile Without You \*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFVGk6NVegM), for me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/27 "2015-02-12T19:39:36Z")
Tough choices this year. Culled it to 7 with 3 of the top 4 (sorry Kansas, just never cared for ya) vote getters in the mix, but in the end none of them got my vote. Bonnie Tyler’s voice carried it. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/28 "2015-02-12T23:53:21Z")
Damn Queen biting at Gerry Rafferty’s heels. Freddie, Roger, John and Brian are something else. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/29 "2015-02-13T00:30:16Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > Damn Queen biting at Gerry Rafferty’s heels. Freddie, Roger, John and Brian are something else. I didn’t even know they were posters here! There is some funny business going on. We are the Champions is a fine song but Baker Street deserves this year. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/30 "2015-02-13T03:46:34Z")
> [@justmeetee](#): > > Tough choices this year. Culled it to 7 with 3 of the top 4 (sorry Kansas, just never cared for ya) vote getters in the mix, but in the end none of them got my vote. Bonnie Tyler’s voice carried it. You voted for Rod Stewart? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/31 "2015-02-13T21:49:18Z")
This vote is getting tighter than a Texas tick on a bull’s scrotum on the Fourth of July. 28 for Queen, 28 for Gerry Rafferty. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/32 "2015-02-15T01:05:56Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > This vote is getting tighter than a Texas tick on a bull’s scrotum on the Fourth of July. 28 for Queen, 28 for Gerry Rafferty. In 1978, “Baker Street” sat at #2 for six weeks while Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing” held on to #1. I hope we don’t see something similar happen again with this poll. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313/33 "2015-02-24T09:01:52Z")
Hot Blooded is a really rockin tune…plus I always remember it for the Les Nesman scene in WKRP… Last Dance is one of Summer’s stalwart songs… and “sally” is really one of Slowhand’s underrated songs. I had to go with the popular kids… Baker Street… it… just … is… and Navarro’s cover was nice… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1978/712313.md?page=1)