This 70s Top 10 Will Make You Wonder What The HELL Happened To MUSIC? | Professor of Rock

It’s time for another Hit Song Redux This Time we’re going behind the top 10 songs of this VERY same week from the year 1975 47 years ago. This top 10 has some of the greatest songs of all time that we still hear today and as usual we have the actual artists tell us the stores.? Who is the real #1 all of these year later Is it the Doobie Brothers, Is it the Eagles, Or Grand Funk Railroad? or Stevie Wonder. Find out next on the Hit Song Redux of 70s We Have New MERCH! Thank you to this Episodes Sponsor, Zenni Optical Incredible Prices on New Glasses - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Bobby Alcott, Eric Farque, Peter Kim, Scratchers J Scratcherton Esq, Neil Gardner, Moon Comix, Walter O. Wrright II, Zachery Perry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access To Backstage Content Become a Patron - Check Out My Hand Picked Selection Below Professor’s Store - 100 Best Selling Albums - Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie - 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art - Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon - Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here for Premium Content: ​ ​#70s #Rock #Story Hey music junkies and vinyl junkies Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest 70s rock songs of all time for the music community and vinyl community with music history video essay’s. If you’ve ever owned records, cassettes and CD’s at different times in you life or still do this is your place Subscribe below right now to be a part of our daily celebration of the rock era with exclusive stories from straight from the artists and click on our patreon link in the description to become an Honorary Producer. It’s time for another edition of our show the Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of the rock and roll and re rank the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on how much the world has listened to them since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. With the actual artist commentary Your stories and your dedications To clarify, this isn’t my top 10. It’s the actual top 10 from this exact week 39 years ago. We count them down as they were then and then we run them through a recalibration system which tells us what the real top 10 is based on all time streams and views. This program is a tribute to the great Casey Kasem’s american top 40 which we all grew up with… this time we travel back to this exact week in the year 1975.. like I said 47 years ago. When someone says 47 years ago I think of the 1940s. It doesn’t seem like almost 50 years ago would be the mid 70s it’s crazy town. So if you went to catch a movie at the local cinema you would’ve chosen from the Godfather part 2 one of my personal favorite films well as the man with the golden Gun with Roger Moore you also had the Stepford Wives and Shampoo with Warren Beatty on TV WHeel of Fortune and the Jeffersons both Debuted in January and the shows KUNG FU and Odd Couple both were in their final seasons Let’s get into it. So coming in at #10 It’s a former Beatle with his 8th solo top 40 hit. It’s John Lennon with #9 Dream So apparently John Lennon was fascinated with the recurrence of the number nine throughout his life, for instance… Lennon was born on October first home was at 9 Newcastle Road, Wavertree, Liverpool - three names which each contain nine letters. Also the Beatles’ first gig at The Cavern Club took place on February 9, 1961.. Brian Epstein, The Beatles’ manager, first saw them perform on November 9 that same Beatles’ contract with EMI was confirmed on May 9, 1962. and the biggest 9 event Lennon’s son Sean shared his father’s birthday. So The mystery voice that calls Lennon’s name “John“ during the first bridge was performed by his lover, May Pang - on the second bridge he reversed the tape of her saying his name. According to May Pang’s book Loving John, Lennon told her that he did not know what the song was about, but it wasn’t about her. He also did not “convince“ her to sing the vocals, she sang them because the female vocalist that was scheduled for the session was a now show
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