Wayzata Class of 1976

Top 100 Songs

#	Single	Artist	Peak	Weeks @ Peak	Weeks Top 10	Weeks Top 40
1	If You Leave Me Now	Chicago	1	7	11	18
2	Right Back Where We Started From	Maxine Nightingale	1	5	9	15
3	Don't Go Breaking My Heart	Elton John & Kiki Dee	1	4	11	21
4	Silly Love Songs	Paul McCartney & Wings	1	4	8	16
5	Rhiannon	Fleetwood Mac	1	4	8	15
6	Tracks Of My Tears	Linda Ronstadt	1	3	9	18
7	Tonight's The Night	Rod Stewart	1	3	8	16
8	Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)	Bee Gees	1	2	8	17
9	Theme from 'Mahagony'	Diana Ross	1	2	7	14
10	Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover	Paul Simon	1	2	7	14
11	Afternoon Delight	Starland Vocal Band	1	2	5	14
12	Love So Right	Bee Gees	1	1	10	20
13	December 1963 (Oh What A Night)	4 Seasons	1	1	10	18
14	Takin' It To The Street	Doobie Brothers	1	1	10	18
15	More, More, More	Andrea True Connection	1	1	9	16
16	Let 'Em In	Paul McCartney & Wings	1	1	9	14
17	Misty Blue	Dorothy Moore	1	1	8	16
18	Get Closer	Seals & Crofts	1	1	8	16
19	Love Hangover	Diana Ross	1	1	8	14
20	I'll Be Good To You	Brothers Johnson	1	1	8	14
21	Fly Away	John Denver	1	1	6	15
22	Get Up & Boogie	Silver Convention	2	3	10	16
23	Take It To The Limit	Eagles	2	3	8	17
24	Love To Love Ya Baby	Donna Summer	2	3	7	15
25	You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine	Lou Rawls	2	3	6	16
26	Love Is Alive	Gary Wright	2	2	8	18
27	Let Your Love Flow	Bellamy Brothers	2	2	8	17
28	Feelings	Albert Morris	2	2	8	15
29	Just You And I	Melissa Manchester	2	2	7	16
30	I Write The Songs	Barry Manilow	2	2	6	16
31	She's Gone	Hall and Oates	2	2	6	16
32	Still The One	Orleans	2	2	6	15
33	Show Me The Way	Peter Frampton	2	1	7	14
34	Turn The Beat Around	Vicki Sue Robinson	2	1	5	17
35	Lonely Night (Angel Face)	Captain & Tennille	3	3	7	16
36	Sarah Smile	Hall and Oates	3	3	7	13
37	Lowdown	Boz Scaggs	3	3	4	14
38	You Should Be Dancing	Bee Gees	3	2	7	18
39	Moonlight Feels Right	Starbuck	3	2	6	16
40	Break Away	Art Garfunkel	3	1	6	15
41	Fly Robin Fly	Silver Convention	3	1	6	12
42	Fooled Around And Fell In Love	Elvis Bishop	3	1	6	12
43	Dream Weaver	Gary Wright	3	1	5	14
44	You Are The Woman	Firefall	3	1	5	14
45	I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do	ABBA	4	1	6	15
46	Come On Over	Olivia Newton-John	4	1	6	12
47	You're My Best Friend	Queen	4	1	5	15
48	Inseperable	Natalie Cole	4	1	4	14
49	Over My Head	Fleetwood Mac	4	1	4	13
50	I'd Really Love To See You Tonight	England Dan & John Ford Coley	4	1	4	13
51	Play That Funky Music	Wild Cherry	4	1	3	14
52	Breaking Up Is Hard To Do	Neil Sedaka	5	2	6	14
53	Let's Do It Again	Staple Singers	5	2	4	15
54	Rock 'N Me	Steve Miller Band	5	2	4	14
55	Best Disco In Town	Ritchie Family	5	2	4	14
56	All By Myself	Eric Carmen	5	1	6	14
57	Beth	KISS	5	1	4	14
58	This Will Be	Natalie Cole	5	1	4	13
59	Skyhigh	Jigsaw	5	1	4	13
60	Summer	War	5	1	3	16
61	Baby I Love Your Way	Peter Frampton	6	2	4	14
62	Let The Music Play	Barry White	6	2	4	12
63	You've Got Someone	Tanya Tucker	6	2	4	11
64	Disco Lady	Johnnie Taylor	6	2	3	11
65	The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald	Gordon Lightfoot	6	1	4	15
66	Only Love Is Real	Carole King	6	1	4	14
67	Fool To Cry	Rolling Stones	6	1	4	9
68	That'll Be The Day	Linda Ronstadt	6	1	3	14
69	Do You Feel Like We Do	Peter Frampton	6	1	3	13
70	Devil Woman	Cliff Richard	6	1	3	10
71	Shower The People	James Taylor	6	1	2	15
72	Got To Get You Into My Life	Beatles	7	2	3	16
73	Fox On The Run	Sweet	7	2	3	12
74	Dream On	Aerosmith	7	2	3	12
75	Can't Hide Love	Earth, Wind, & Fire	7	2	3	12
76	You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate	7	1	3	14
77	Kiss And Say Goodbye	Manhattens	7	1	3	11
78	I Never Cry	Alice Cooper	7	1	2	12
79	Strange Magic	ELO	7	1	2	10
80	Shake Your Booty	K.C. & The Sunshine Band	8	2	4	14
81	Evil Woman	ELO	8	2	3	11
82	Getaway	Earth, Wind, & Fire	8	2	3	11
83	My Little Town	Simon & Garfunkel	8	2	2	16
84	Sophisticated Lady	Natalie Cole	8	1	2	13
85	Walk Away From Love	David Ruffin	8	1	2	12
86	Love Hurts	Nazareth	8	1	2	12
87	Sweet Thing	Rufus	8	1	2	11
88	Boogie Fever	Sylvers	8	1	2	10
89	I'm Easy	Keith Carradine	9	2	3	12
90	Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel	Tavares	9	2	2	15
91	Saturday Night	Bay City Rollers	9	2	2	11
92	Sailing	Rod Stewart	9	2	2	8
93	Mamma Mia	ABBA	9	1	2	12
94	(Don't Fear) The Reaper	Blue Oyster Cult	9	1	2	12
95	It's Over	Boz Scaggs	10	2	2	10
96	There's A Kind Of Hush	Carpenters	10	1	1	14
97	Say You Love Me	Fleetwood Mac	10	1	1	13
98	Magic Man	Heart	10	1	1	13
99	Squeeze Box	The Who	10	1	1	12
100	This Masquerade	George Benson	10	1	1	12

Top TV

Six Million Dollar Man

We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

When ace test pilot Colonel Steve Austin's test plane crashed, he was nearly dead. Deciding that "we have the technology to rebuild this man", the government decides to do just that. Fitting him with cybernetic components, giving him superhuman strength and speed, the now secret agent/operative fights injustice where it is found.

(1974-1978)

One Day at a Time

Always remember, and please never forget...

This sitcom follows recently divorced mother (Ann Romano) and her two teenage daughters (Barbara and Julie) as they start a new life together in Indianapolis, They are befriended by the building superintendent (Dwayne Schneider), who treats them like family. Together, these four main characters face life's challenges together.

(1975-1984)

MAS*H

Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean War. With little help from the circumstance in which they find themselves, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable. Nevertheless, the war goes on.

(1972-1983)

Happy Days

Ayyyy!

Set in 1950s and 1960s Milwaukee, this tells the story of the Cunningham family -- father Howard, mother Marion, son Richie and daughter Joanie. Howard owns a hardware store, while Marion stays at home. Richie's best friends are Potsie and Ralph. Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli is the local bad boy, riding a motorcycle, fixing cars and dating girls.

(1974-1984)

Laverne & Shirley

Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney were best friends and roommates coping with dates, neighbors, and each other During the late '50s and early '60s they worked as bottlecappers for Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee. They moved to Burbank, California in 1965 to start a new life when they got replaced at the brewery by an automated bottlecapper.

(1976-1983)

Baretta

A different kind of cop

Tony Baretta is a street-smart, maverick undercover cop with the NYPD, who won't hesitate for a second to toss the rule book out the window if it stands between him and taking some bad guy off the street. His unconventional methods often land him in hot water, but as long as Baretta was getting the job done, there wasn't much they could do.

(1975-1978)

The Big Event

ABC Monday Night Movie

ABC Sunday Night Movie

Charlie's Angels

With THESE Angels around, you can count on all hell breaking loose!

Television series about a wealthy mystery man who runs a detective agency via a speakerphone and his personal assistant, John Bosley. His detectives are three beautiful women, who end up in a variety of difficult situations. The cast changed substantially over the life of this show, as actresses left for various movie, television, and modelling deals.

(1976-1981)

Top Movies

ROCKY

You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest bicentennial in history!

Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time.

To Fly!

...an irresistible fantasy

The premier film for the Theatre of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. A brief summary of the history of flight, from 19th century balloons through 21st century space probes, while simultaneously showing off the new Imax film medium. The evolution of flying technology is portrayed in parallel with the story of the westward exploration of America and the rural-to-cosmopolitan transformation of American society.

King Kong

"Lights! Camera! Kong!"

When a research ship is sent to explore an island thought to be rich in oil, paleontologist Jack Prescott sneaks aboard, having heard strange rumors about the island. En route, the crew rescues Dwan, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. When they arrive, they find native people living in fear of a monster called Kong. The natives kidnap Dwan and sacrifice her to what turns out to be an enormous ape. Dwan is eventually rescued, and the ape captured for a gala exhibit.

All The President's Men

...it might cost them their jobs, reputations, and even their lives.

In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself.

A Star is Born

The evergreen Oscar winner ablaze with music and stardust.

Talented rock star John Norman Howard has seen his career begin to decline. Too many years of concerts and managers and life on the road have made him cynical and the monotony has taken its toll. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. As one of his songs in the movie says "I'm gonna take you girl, I'm gonna show you how." And he does. He shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.

The Omen

Today is the 6th Day of the 6th Month of 1976. You Have Been Warned

Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

The Enforcer

The "dirtiest" Harry of them all!

A threatening terrorist group called "The People's Revolutionary Strike Force" demand a ransom to be paid, otherwise they plan to blow the city apart. While Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is in limbo following his unorthodox method during a robbery, he's sent to dispatch the terrorist group, by playing their game. This time, he has a new partner, Inspector Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), which might prove the task to be somewhat more difficult than ever, unless the two can work together.

Midway

A war's defining battle. A nation's defining moment.

May 1941. After the Doolittle Raid Japan aims to expand its territory in the Pacific, to make such raids less likely. Their next target: Midway Island. However, the US Navy is intercepting their messages and has partially cracked their encryption code, forewarning them of Japan's intentions. Two US aircraft carrier task groups are sent to Midway, resulting in the one of the most important battles in history.

The Bad News Bears

At last, a picture of kids as they really are.

Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming with confidence, the Bears look to sweep into the championship game and avenge an earlier loss to their nemesis, the Yankees.

Silver Streak

Nothing can stop the Silver Streak

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Academy Awards

Award	Recipient
Best Picture	Rocky
Best Actor	Peter Finch (Network)
Best Actress	Faye Dunaway (Network)
Best Supporting Actor	Jason Robards (All the President's Men)
Best Supporting Actress	Beatrice Straight (Network)
Best Director	John Avildsen (Rocky)

Sports Championships

Championship	Winner (Result)
Super Bowl X	Pittsburgh Steelers (vs Dallas Cowboys 21-17)
World Series, 73rd Edition	Cincinnati Reds (vs. New York Yankees 4-0)
Stanley Cup Finals	Montreal Canadiens (vs. Philadelphia Flyers 4-0)
NBA Championship Series	Boston Celtics (vs. Phoenix Suns 4-2)

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