1970s Top Pop Songs Of The Years
summary page number one pop
songs for each year in the 1970s with song links
and links to number one calendars and more
at Tunecaster music encyclopedia
Click
on the pictures to see full artist hit song discographies
with chart data
Bridge
Over Troubled Water was the 1970
top song of the year, and also won
the Grammy
Awards for both Song
Of The Year and Record Of The Year.
The song featured piano player Knechtel
from Bread.
The song was from the album Bridge
Over Troubled Water. Paul
Simon wrote the song.
Alone
Again (Naturally) was the 1972
top song of the year. The video
featured here is a live performance.
The song was from the album Himself.
Gilbert O'Sullivan wrote the song.
Killing
Me Softly With His Song was the
1973
top song of the year. The year
before, Roberta Flack had the
second biggest song with The First
Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Both
songs won the Grammy
Awards for Song Of
The Year and Record Of The Year.
The video featured here is an
alternate version. In 1996,
Fugees Featuring Lauryn
Hill remade Killing
Me Softly, shortening the title,
and reached number
one again. The Roberta
Flack song was from the album
Killing Me Softly. The
writers were Charles Fox and Norman
Gimbel.
Seasons
In The Sun was the 1974
top song of the year, and a
top 20 one
hit wonder for Terry
Jacks. The video featured here
was a live performance. Terry
Jacks received some airplay
with other songs, and he and
his sister Susan Jacks were
members of The Poppy Family.
About ten years earlier, in
1964,
The Kingston Trio recorded its
version
of Seasons In The Sun. The Terri
Jacks version was from the album
Seasons In The Sun. Jacques
Brel wrote the song.
Love
Will Keep Us Together was the
1975
top song of the year, and won
the Grammy
Award for Record
Of The Year.
The writer of the song Neil
Sedaka recorded his version
of the song in 1974. The Captain
& Tennille song was from the
album Love Will Keep Us Together.
I
Just Want To Be Your Everything
was the 1977
top song of the year, edging
out You Light Up My Life by
Debby Boone due to higher
pop music airplay. I Just
Want To Be Your Everything
became the top song of the
1970s,
while You Light Up My Life
became the second biggest
song of the decade. I Just
Want To Be Your Everything
was from the album Flowing
Rivers. Barry
Gibb wrote the
song.
Stayin'
Alive was the 1978
top song of the year, and
became an anthem song of the
disco era. The song was from
the album and movie Saturday
Night Fever, which, at
one point, took the top
three positions
of the weekly pop top 20 countdown.
Stayin' Alive was co-written
by Barry
Gibb, who also
wrote the top song of the
prior year. The co-writers
were other Bee Gees, Maurice
Gibb and Robin
Gibb.
Da
Ya Think I'm Sexy was the
1979
top song of the year as established
rock artists moved into the
disco arena. The song was
from the album Blondes
Have More Fun. The writers
of this song were Carmine
Appice and Rod Stewart.
