Not a fancy video, but I loved that it captures all those #1 songs from 1974. I let it continue recording past the montage so you would know which song was the #1 song of 1974.
The diversity, creativity, and originality - while commercially popular, these songs represented a time where fun and substance blended well. Today's music cannot be compared because it doesn't compare.
I really enjoyed this good music. It's a good remembrance !! When I was a youngster I used to listen every saturday at 4 pm American Top fourty.!! Thanks for publishing!!🙏🙏Casey Kasem was and is the best countdown announcer through radio broadcast.I was born in 1960 , as a teenager started listening his voice and it was one of the things that inspired me for Learning English Language. Then , at the age of 19 , I became an English Teacher and finally got My master degree when I was 25 . I was getting deep inside this awesome music !! Really good music !! 🙏🙏🙏
Correct. "Rock the Boat" by Hues Corporation was the very first disco song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 5th, immediately followed by "Rock Your Baby" by George McRae. "Dancing Machine", a top 5 hit by the Jackson 5, was also clearly a disco song.
Love it! Not only brings back a ton of almost unbearably sweet memories but reminds me of listening to Casey on VOA when my military family was stationed in Spain. Good times.
I just love all the songs in the 70's. Casey kasem was the best. He had that unique voice, you knew right away it was Casey spinning the records. And I mean spinning the records. ( 45's on vinyl ) great memories.
The year my brother died. Every one of these songs brings memories of that time and him rushing back to me. Especially the ones he had on 45 like Bennie And The Jets, which was #1 when he died.
There were still 3 songs in December of 1974 not mentioned. Due to the fact of the period used to tabulate the year end top 100. Those 3 songs from December of 1974 were "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas [#1 12/7 & 12/14], "Cat's In the Cradle" - Harry Chapin [#1 12/21] and "Angie Baby" - Helen Reddy [#1 12/28]
Thanks so much for pointing that out, David. I’ve always had a problem with the way Billboard determines the top songs of the year. To me, the list would be far more accurate if they waited until a few months into the next year to compile the ranking for a given year. That would avoid ridiculous occurrences such as these: • “Another One Bites the Dust,” which spent all three of its weeks at No. 1 in October 1980, being ranked about the hits of 1981 just because it still happened to be rather high on the Hot 100 during the last week of ’80. It was No. 14 the week ending 12/27. • “Look Away” by Chicago being declared the top single of 1989 when it spent both of its weeks at No. 1 in 1988. It was at the summit in December, but I still think it’s unfair that “My Prerogative” had to settle for No. 2 when it hit No. 1 IN ’89. Those are just a couple examples of many that make the year-end ranking seem insanely premature.
Casey Kasem is one of a kind. His voice is like one of soothing and fun to listen to. I remember listening to him while station in Spain in the late 80's, His America's Top 40 played on Armed Forces radio, he made being oversea's like being home. He will be missed.
I discovered Casey in 1972. He said at #10 Get It On (Bang A Gong) by T-Rex. It was on AFRTS in Goose Bay Labrador!! I'll never forget it. 1 tv channel and 1 radio channel on the air force base. Thanks for all the great memories Casey!!
Great montage . . . surprisingly diverse. Two Beatles on their own, doing well. Two from John Denver. Roberta Flacks' top-charting single stood out for me.
I'm being sarcastic but real here - I was 11 in 1974. I remember all these songs except one. Great songs, great artists, great music decade...period. Once we got to 1980, it started to go downhill with the rest of my life...and here I am in the "Twilight Zone" of 2021.
I wss 16 and 17 in 1974. Great music everywhere. MTV and the 80's was different but still good. Then the 90's yikes. I fell completely out. I managed later to get into Green Day and the Offspring but that was it. So in the 90's I went backwards and started collecting stuff from the 60's and 50's!! At least I have 4 decades of music to enjoy. The 70's being my favorite.
1. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe- Barry White 2. Show & Tell- Al Wilson 3. Love's Theme- Love Unlimited Orchestra 4. Feel Like Makin' Love- Roberta Flack 5. The Way We Were- Barbra Streisand 6. Seasons in the Sun- Terry Jacks 7. Dark Lady- Cher 8. Time in a Bottle- Jim Croce 9. Kung Fu Fighting- Carl Douglas 10. Then Came You- Dionne Warwick & the Spinners
#1 songs of 1974: 1. 'Time in a bottle' (Jim Croce); 2. 'The joker' (Steve Miller Band); 3. 'Show and tell' (Al Wilson); 4. 'You're 16' (Ringo Starr); 5. 'Love Theme' (Love Unlimited Orchestra); 6. 'Seasons in the sun' (Terry Jacks); 7. 'Dark lady' (Cher); 8. 'Sunshine on my shoulders' (John Denver); 9. 'Hooked on a feeling' (Blue Swede); 10. 'Bennie and the Jets' (Elton John); 11. 'The sound of Philadelphia' (Mother, Father, Sister & Brother); 12. 'Locomotion' (Grand Funk); 13. 'The streak' (Ray Stevens); 14. 'Band on the run' (Paul McCartney & Wings); 15. 'Billy, don't be a hero' (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods); 16. 'Sundown' (Gordon Lightfoot); 17. 'Rock the boat' (Hues Corporation); 18. 'Rock your baby' (George McCrea); 19. 'Annie's song' (John Denver); 20. 'Feel like making love' (Roberta Flack); 21. 'The night Chicago died' (Paper Lace); 22. 'You're having my baby' (Paul Anka feat. Odia Coates); 23. 'I shot the sheriff' (Eric Clapton); 24. 'Can't get enough of your love, babe' (Barry White); 25. 'Rock me gently' (Andy Kim); 26. 'I honestly love you' (Olivia Newton-John); 27. 'Nothing from nothing' (Billy Preston); 28. 'Then came you' (Dionne Warwicke & Spinners); 29. 'You haven't done nothing' (Stevie Wonder); 30. 'You ain't seen nothing yet' (Bachman-Turner Overdrive); 31. 'Whatever gets you through the night' (John Lennon feat. Elton John); 32. 'I can help' (Billy Swan); 33. The way we were' (Barbra Streisand).
My favorites of 1974 in this order (not that they weren't all great): #1. Seasons in the Sun #2. Sunshine on My Shoulder #3. Sundown #4. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe #5. TSOP
Gosh do I miss him. He was my Sunday mornings. I think it was like 9am-1:00pm? We did household chores and anything in the house so we could listen to the countdown. Oh and you better listen because if you didn’t know what the top songs were when you went back to sch Mon morning well you were just not cool.
Don Cornelius said that TSOP was the biggest mistake of his career.Gambel and Huff wanted to release the Soul Train theme as a single but,Cornelius thought hey were trying to take advantage of him and refused so the released the musical version.The song broke a lot of records chart wise and he said ll that time I would have been getting the name of the show mentioned.
You are correct. Those were the last three number one songs of the 1974 Billboard chart, with each hitting number one in the month of December. Perhaps Casey recorded the promo after Thanksgiving of that year, accounting for the missing December chart toppers? Just a guess on my part. I was five years old at the time and trying to get through kindergarten, but I still remember the music very well! The songs appear in this promo in chronological order, as Billy Swan's "I Can Help" topped the Billboard charts on 11/23/74 and 11/30/74. "The Way We Were" (which hit #1 on 2/2/74, 2/16/74 & 2/23/74) is the only song that does not appear in chronological order; since it was the number one song of 1974, Casey waited until the end of this promo to announce it. He also says "a montage of the 33 songs" that have hit number one, when in fact 36 songs (including the three you mentioned) hit number one on the chart from January 1, 1974 through December 31, 1974. Any other guesses out there?
@@russellblake6471 The countdown of the top 100 songs of a given year were from December the previous year to November of the current year. For this it was from December 1973 to November 1974.
