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From Nancy G. -
Mr. PopHistory - Could you give me a rundown of pop history on my
18th birthday - July 27, 1975? BTW, I love your new column and the
60's weeks are not to be missed - keep up the great work!
Mr. Pop History - Thank you and it is
my pleasure...
For the week of July 27, 1975. Here's a pretty good snapshot of
how things were...
Col. Tom Parker who manages Elvis Presley learns that the singer
just bought him his very own airplane for $1.2 million and is on
his way to pick him up in Las Vegas. The plane is a Grumman Gulfstream
and only seats 12. The colonel doesn’t like to fly in big planes.
Elvis is at it again ... In Memphis - Mennie Person
(33) is caught by surprise while she admired Presley’s custom-made
Cadillac outside a dealer. "He said, that one’s mine,
but’ I’ll buy you one." The car she selected was
a gold and white Cadillac, listing for $11,500. When Elvis found
out it was her birthday, he wished her Happy Birthday and told an
aide to writer her a check "to buy some clothes to go with
the car."
Singer Dionne Warwick sues composer Burt Bacharach
and lyricist Hal David for $5.5 million claiming they failed to
produce two record albums under a contract with Warner Brothers
Records. Miss Warwick says the contract was made in 1971 while the
pair acted as her managers.
Singer Minnie Riperton is shaken, but not seriously
injured when a lion for whom she was filming a television commercial
became spooked and lunged at her. Clawless, his paws hit her back
and shoulders leaving red welts.
New albums this week are released from Graham Central
Station, Fleetwood Mac, Gary Wright, B.T. Express and Conway Twitty.
ABC says Harry Reasoner will become the solo anchor
of its nightly network newscast. Reasoner had been co-anchoring
with Howard K. Smith - who will remain on the newscast as commentator.
The change comes official in September. Total network news numbers
are up - more people are watching all three networks for news. Since
1970 - the ABC Evening news increased its national audience 77%,
from 3.5 million homes to 6.2 million homes. That compares to CBS
with a 14% increase and NBC with a 9% increase over the same period.
Bestsellers:
The Moneychangers - Arthur Hailey
Looking For Mr. Goodbar - Judith Rassner
Shogun - James Clavell
Without Feathers - Woody Allen
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
Ragtime - E.L. Doctoraw
TM - Harold Bloomfield, Michael Cain, Dennis Jaffe
Breach of Faith - Theodore H. White
Conversations With Kennedy - Benjamin Bradlee
Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week - Lawrence Morehouse/Leonard
Gross
Judy - Gerold Frank
Actress Ann Francis will make her TV musical debut on an episode
of "Barnaby Jones." She’ll perform her own singing
and dancing.
Thursday Night Television -
CBS - The Waltons, TV Movie "The FBI Story" (1974)
NBC - Gladys Knight and the Pips, Movie
ABC - Debut-Almost Anything Goes, TV Movie - "Smile Jenny,
You’re Dead" (1974)
PBS - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hollywood Television Theater
Almost Anything Goes - Teams compete in off-the-wall competition.
Charlie Jones, Lynn Shackelford and Dick Whittington host.
The Waltons - Mary Ellen buys a second-hand purse
and finds an antique ring in its compartment.
Merv Griffin show (syndicated) guests Sonny Bono, Charles Nelson
Reilly, Richard Lewis, David Groh.
The Tonight Show - McLean Stevenson guest hosts
The Tomorrow show w/Tom Snyder - An airline pilot
discusses hazards in flying.
On the Charts -
Swearin' to God - Frankie Valli
Listen to What the Man Said - Wings
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
The Hustle - Van McCoy
One of These Nights - The Eagles
Please Mr. Please - Olivia Newton-John
Jive Talkin' - The Bee Gees
Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
Rockin' Chair - Gwen McCrae
I'm Not In Love - 10cc
Midnight Blue - Melissa Manchester
Why Can't We Be Friends? - War
Get Down Tonight - KC & the Sunshine Band
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
Love Won't Let Me Wait - Major Harris
Magic - Pilot
How Long - Ace
The Way We Were/Try to Remember - Gladys Knight & the Pips
Mornin' Beautiful - Tony Orlando & Dawn
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - James Taylor
Fallin' In Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
Thank God I'm a Country Boy - John Denver
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
The Rockford Files - Mike Post
Dynomite-Part I - Tony Camillo’s Bazuka
Saturday Night Special - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Top Albums -
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
One Of These Nights - Eagles
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
Cut The Cake - Average White Band
The Heat Is On - The Isley Brothers
Gorilla - James Taylor
Metamorphosis - The Rolling Stones
Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney and Wings
Made in the Shade - The Rolling Stones
That’s The Way Of The World - The Rolling Stones
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits - Cat Stevens
Other Albums -
The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan and the Band
Stampede - The Doobie Brothers
Desolation Boulevard - The Sweet
Redheaded Stranger - Willie Nelson
Check these albums, available from the new record
company - Arista Records:
Manilow I - Barry Manilow - features "Could It Be Magic"
Greatest Hits - Tony Orlando & Dawn
Melissa - Melissa Manchester - features "Midnight Blue"
Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief album - Monty
Python
Funny Lady - original soundtrack album w/ Barbra Streisand
At the Movies -
The Return of the Pink Panther - Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer,
Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom
Tommy - Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Rogert Daltrey, Elton John, Eric
Clapton, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Paul Nicholas, Jack Nicholson,
Robert Powell, Peter Townshend, Tina Turner
The French Connection -
Return to Macon County -
Rebel Rousers - Jack Nicholson
Shampoo - Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn
Funny Lady - Barbra Streisand, James Caan
Journey Back To Oz -
Bit The Bullet - Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ian
Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson
The Fortune - Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing
Once Is Not Enough - all star cast
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing -
Love and Death - Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
7th Voyage of Sinbad -
The Eiger Sanction - George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy
The Wilby Conspiracy - Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson
Hennessy - Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Eric Porter,
Peter Egan, Richard Johnson
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