1976 Charts

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A sneak-peak at the music charts in both the UK and the USA from this week in 1976 – 50 years ago…

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No.	Song	Artist	Previous
1	Fernando	Abba	1
2	Save Your Kisses for Me	Brotherhood of Man	2
3	Jungle Rock	Hank Mizell	3
4	S-S-S-Single Bed	Fox	5
5	More, More, More	Andrea True Connection	18
6	Arms of Mary	Sutherland Brothers and Quiver	16
7	Convoy G.B.	Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks	4
8	Get Up and Boogie	Silver Convention	7
9	Silver Star	The Four Seasons	6
10	Can’t Help Falling in Love	The Stylistics	14
11	No Charge	J.J. Barrie	26
12	Life is Too Short Girl	Sheer Elegance	9
13	Fallen Angel	Frankie Valli	11
14	Fool to Cry	The Rolling Stones	22
15	Love Hangover	Diana Ross	19
16	I’m Your Puppet	James and Bobby Purify	27
17	Let Your Love Flow	Bellamy Brothers	20
18	Disco Connection	Isaac Hayes	10
19	All By Myself	Eric Carmen	12
20	Reggae Like it Used to Be	Paul Nicholas	23
21	Love Me Like I Love You	Bay City Rollers	17
22	My Resistance is Low	Robin Sarstedt	46
23	I’ll Go Where Your Music Takes Me	Jimmy James and the Vagabonds	30
24	Devil Woman	Cliff Richard	41
25	Movie Star	Harpo	24
26	Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)	Diana Ross	8
27	Disco Lady	Johnny Taylor	25
28	You’re the Reason Why	Rubettes	28
29	Silly Love Songs	Wings	New
30	Midnight Train to Georgia	Gladys Knight and the Pips	48
31	Love Me Like a Lover	Tina Charles	31
32	Girls Girls Girls	Sailor	13
33	Combine Harvester	The Wurzels	New
34	Requiem	Slik	45
35	The Winkle Man	Judge Dread	39
36	Music	John Miles	15
37	Shake it Down	Mud	New
38	I’m Mandy Fly Me	10cc	21
39	Show Me the Way	Peter Frampton	43
40	Soul City Walk	Archie Bell and The Drells	44
41	This Is It	Melba Moore	New
42	Jolene	Dolly Parton	New
43	Toast of Love	The Three Degrees	36
44	Hurt	Elvis Presley	37
45	Baby I’m Yours	Linda Lewis	38
46	Blueberry Hill (1976)	Fats Domino	42
47	The Flasher ft, Lloyd Michaels	Mistura ft. Lloyd Michaels	New
48	Tracks of My Tears	Linda Ronstadt	49
36	The Two of Us	Mac and Katie Kissoon	New
50	Fooled Around and Fell in Love	Elvin Bishop	New

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No.	Song		Artist	Previous
1	Greatest Hits		Abba	1
2	Black and Blue		The Rolling Stones	4
3	Wings at the Speed of Sound		Wings	7
4	Rock Follies		Original Television Soundtrack	2
5	Instrumental Gold		Various Artists	3
6	Presence		Led Zeppelin	6
7	How Dare You		10cc	10
8	Their Greatest Hits 1971-75		Eagles	8
9	No Earthly Connection		Rick Wakeman	11
10	Juke Box Jive		Various Artists	5
11	Diana Ross		Diana Ross	9
12	The Best of Gladys Knight and the Pips		Gladys Knight and the Pips	15
13	Some of Me Poems and Songs		Pam Ayres	21
14	Desire		Bob Dylan	17
15	Rastaman Vibration		Bob Marley & The Wailers	30
16	Blue For You		Status Quo	22
17	Here and There		Elton John	New
18	Love, Life and Feelings		Shirley Bassey	New
19	The Best of John Denver		John Denver	12
20	Who Loves You		The Four Seasons	16
21	Love and Kisses From		Brotherhood of Man	23
22	I Want You		Marvin Gaye	New
23	Live in London		John Denver	New
24	Cry Tough		Nils Lofgren	42
25	Breakaway		Gallagher and Lyle	28
26	Rebel		John Miles	13
27	Brass Construction		Brass Construction	27
28	Patrick Moraz		Patrick Moraz	40
29	Hit Machine		Various Artists	New
30	Jailbreak		Thin Lizzy	47
31	Pat Boone Originals		Pat Boone	18
32	Still Crazy After All These Years		Paul Simon	35
33	Amigos		Santana	25
34	A Trick of the Tail		Genesis	24
35	Windsong		John Denver	19
36	Tubular Bells		Mike Oldfield	48
37	The Best of Helen Reddy		Helen Reddy	34
38	Atlantic Crossing		Rod Stewart	Re-entry
39	Happy To Be		Demis Roussos	41
40	Doubly Devine		Sydney Devine	14
41	24 Original Hits		The Drifters	29
42	A Night at the Opera		Queen	33
43	Station to Station		David Bowie	Re-entry
44	Penthouse Tapes		Sensational Alex Harvey Band	49
45	Reach for the Sky		Sutherland Brothers and Quiver	New
46	Too Old to Rock ‘N’ Roll Too Young to Die		Jethro Tull	New
47	Let the Music Play		Barry White	50
48	Road Hawks		Hawkwind	New
49	Carnival		Manuel and His Music of the Mountains	Re-entry
50	Trouble		Sailor	New

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No.	Song	Artist	Previous
1	Boogie Fever	The Sylvers	3
2	Welcome Back	John Sebastian	1
3	Silly Love Songs	Wings	5
4	Fooled Around and Fell in Love	Elvin Bishop	4
5	Love Hangover	Diana Ross	7
6	Show Me The Way	Peter Frampton	6
7	Get Up and Boogie	Silver Connection	8
8	Right Back Where We Started From	Maxine Nightingale	2
9	Happy Days	Pratt and McClain	19
10	Shannon	Henry Gross	12
11	Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again	Barry Manilow	13
12	Sara Smile	Daryl Hall and John Oates	14
13	Fool to Cry/Hot Stuff	The Rolling Stones	20
14	Misty Blue	Dorothy Moore	17
15	Strange Magic	Electric Light Orchestra	16
16	Rhiannon	Fleetwood Mac	18
17	Let Your Love Flow	Bellamy Brothers	9
18	Disco Lady	Johnnie Taylor	10
19	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen	11
20	Happy Music	The Blackbyrds	24
21	Love in the Shadows	Neil Sedaka	28
22	Young Blood	Bad Company	26
23	Come On Over	Olivia Newton-John	23
24	Sweet Love	The Commodores	22
25	Love Really Hurts Without You	Billy Ocean	29
26	More, More, More	Andrea True Connection	30
27	Don’t Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye	Glen Campbell	27
28	Union Man	The Cate Brothers	32
29	I’ve Got a Feeling	Al Wilson	33
30	Hurt/For the Heart	Elvis Presley	34
31	Shop Around	The Captain and Tennille	40
32	Movin’	Brass Construction	37
33	Anytime	Paul Anka	35
34	Baretta’s Theme	Rhythm Heritage	38
35	I Want You	Marvin Gaye	39
36	Fallen Angel	Frankie Valli	36
37	Takin’ it to the Streests	The Doobie Brothers	New
38	One Piece at a Time	Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three	New
39	I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do	Abba	15
40	Love is Alive	Gary Wright	New