Coming this weekend to theatres near you is the 40th anniversary of "Close Encounters of The Third Kind". I also read about the 40th anniversary of the "Bat Out of Hell" soundtrack and recently picked up the book Phillip Caputo's "A Rumor of War". Which I'm sure you guessed is celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year. Also 1977 is the year of my favorite movie ever, "Star Wars", the discorific "Saturday Night Fever" and the hilarious hockey movie "Slap Shot".
Some of the best albums of 1977 include Styx's "The Grand Illusion", Billy Joel's "The Stranger", ELO's "Out of the Blue", Boston's self-titled debut, the "Star Wars Soundtrack" and one of the all-time best CDs ever Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors".
The songs, well there are just too many. Keep your eye open for a few blogs highlighting that year's great music.
As for books there's Stephen King's "The Shining", a book that hasn't been bettered by a movie based on the book. The fantastic heartbreaking kids book "Bridge To Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. Other great books include Robin Cook's "Coma", Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Michael Herr's "Dispatches".
Anyway all these amazing things and so many other things released in 1977 inspired me to eventually write a series of blogs highlighting so many of the great pop culture moments of this amazing year. First though I'd like to start with great songs from movie soundtracks and the broadway soundtrack for "Annie".
Obviously this blog will be dominated by "Saturday Night Fever", which means this blog will be dominated by The Bee Gees.
From "Saturday Night Fever":
The Bee Gees
"Stayin' Alive":
"Jive Talkin'":
"Jive Talkin'":
"Night Fever":
"How Deep Is Your Love":
Yvonne Ellman's "If I Can't Have You":
Walter Murphy "A Fifth of Beethoven":
Tavares "More Than A Woman":
From "The Spy Who Loved Me":
Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better":
From "Star Wars":
"Main Title":
"Imperial Attack":
"The Moisture Farm":
From "The Goodbye Girl"
Truly one of the best ballads of all-time. David Gates "The Goodbye Girl":
"Close Encounters of The Third Kind":
From "Smokey and the Bandit":
Jerry Reed's "Eastbound and Down":
From "Annie":
"Tomorrow":
"Hard Knock Life":
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