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.

1976 was an amazing year for popular music, and for popular culture in general. Whether it was the best year for music depends of course upon one’s own personal tastes, but there can truly never have been a time when rock, glam, disco and punk drew together so seamlessly to create the unique vibe that was 1976 in the scorching sun.

There are lots of things we remember 1976 for, and for many of us there will never be another year like it. The hits just kept coming, and that we still remember so many with fondness a whole half-century later is surely testimony to their quality and endurance.

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UK Singles Chart – 15/08/1976

6	Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel	Tavares	4
7	Now is the Time	Jimmy James and the Vagabonds	5
8	Dr. Kiss Kiss	5000 Volts	8
9	You Should Be Dancing	The Bee Gees	10
10	Here Comes the Sun	Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel	16
11	What I’ve Got in Mind	Billie Jo Spears	22
12	Misty Blue	Dorothy Moore	9
13	Mystery Song	Status Quo	11
14	Extended Play	Bryan Ferry	15
15	Harvest for the World	The Isley Brothers	14
16	The Roussos Phenomenon	Demis Roussos	6
17	You Don’t Have to Go	The Chi-Lites	17
18	You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine	Lou Rawls	21
19	16 Bars	The Stylistics	27
20	Love On Delivery	Billy Ocean	20
21	Kiss and Say Goodbye	The Manhattans	12
22	The Killing of Georgie	Rod Stewart	New
23	Dancing Queen	Abba	New
24	(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty	KC and the Sunshine Band	26
25	Nice and Slow	Jesse Green	35
26	Afternoon Delight	Starland Vocal Band	33
27	Young Hearts Run Free	Candi Staton	19
28	Morning Glory	James and Bobby Purify	32
29	Baby, We Better Try and Get it Together	Barry White	New
30	You’re My Best Friend	Queen	24
31	Jailbreak	Thin Lizzy	39
32	You Are My Love	Liverpool Express	18
33	A Fifth of Beethoven	Walter Murphy	28
34	It Only Takes a Minute	100 Ton and a Feather	25
35	If You Know What I Mean	Neil Diamond	41
36	Here I Go Again	Twiggy	49
37	The Boston Tea Party	Sensational Alex Harvey Band	30
38	Night Fever	The Fatback Band	46
39	Loving on the Losing Side	Tommy Hunt	New
40	I Recall a Gypsy Woman	Don Williams	29
41	(Light of Experience) Doina de Jale	Georghe Zamfir	New
42	Lullaby of Broadway	Winifred Shaw	47
43	Dance Little Lady Dance	Tina Charles	New
44	Aria	Mr. Acker Bilk	New
45	It’s So Nice	The New Seekers	50
46	I Can’t Ask For Anything More Than You Babe	Cliff Richard	New
47	Make Yours a Happy Home	Gladys Knight and the Pips	New
48	Satin Sheets	Bellamy Brothers	New
49	Better Use Your Head/Gonna Fix You Good	Little Anthony and the Imperials	42
50	Heaven is in the Back Seat of My Cadillac	Hot Chocolate	New

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6	A Night on the Town		Rod Stewart	7
7	Greatest Hits		Abba	9
8	Wings at the Speed of Sound		Wings	10
9	Viva Roxy Music		Roxy Music	6
10	Changesonebowie		David Bowie	8
11	Greatest Hits 2		Diana Ross	14
12	Beautiful Noise		Neil Diamond	17
13	Happy to Be		Demis Roussos	13
14	SAHB Stories		Sensational Alex Harvey Band	11
15	Olias of Sunshillow		Jon Anderson	12
16	Live in London		John Denver	16
17	Jailbreak		Thin Lizzy	20
18	A Kind of Hush		The Carpenters	15
19	Their Greatest Hits 1971-75		Eagles	19
20	Blue for You		Status Quo	26
21	The Best of Gladys Knight and the Pips		Gladys Knight and the Pips	21
22	A Night at the Opera		Queen	25
23	Frampton Comes Alive		Peter Frampton	22
24	The Dark Side of the Moon		Pink Floyd	27
25	Atlantic Crossing		Rod Stewart	30
26	Greatest Hits		Simon and Garfunkel	24
27	Diana Ross		Diana Ross	28
28	Rock ‘n’ Roll Music		The Beatles	34
29	Greatest Hits Volume 1		Don Williams	39
30	Souvenirs		Demis Roussos	41
31	A Trick of the Tail		Genesis	32
32	Wish You Were Here		Pink Floyd	38
33	The Best of John Denver		John Denver	Re-entry
34	One Man Show		Mike Harding	29
35	Tubular Bells		Mike Oldfield	33
36	Alice Cooper Goes to Hell		Alice Cooper	23
37	Combine Harvester		The Wurzels	18
38	Desire		Bob Dylan	50
39	Man to Man		Hot Chocolate	35
40	Rainbow Rising		Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow	37
41	The Beatles 1966-1970		The Beatles	44
42	Elton John’s Greatest Hits		Elton John	43
43	I’m Nearly Famous		Cliff Richard	31
44	Agents of Fortune		Blue Oyster Cult	48
45	The Beatles Tapes		The Beatles	New
46	Twiggy		Twiggy	New
47	Instrumental Gold		Various Artists	36
48	The Beatles 1962-1966		The Beatles	46
49	Rolled Gold		The Rolling Stones	Re-entry
50	Breakaway		Gallagher and Lyle	40

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6	(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty	K.C. and the Sunshine Band	8
7	Rock and Roll Music	The Beach Boys	5
8	Kiss and Say Goodbye	The Manhattans	9
9	Get Closer	Seals and Crofts (featuring Carolyn Willis)	11
10	Turn the Beat Around	Vicki Sue Robinson	10
11	This Masquerade	George Benson	12
12	Play That Funky Music	Wild Cherry	15
13	A Fifth of Beethoven	Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band	14
14	Baby, I Love Your Way	Peter Frampton	16
15	Love is Alive	Gary Wright	6
16	Say You Love Me	Fleetwood Mac	20
17	Afternoon Delight	The Starland Vocal Band	13
18	I’m Easy	Keith Carradine	17
19	Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel	Tavares	23
20	Young Hearts Run Free	Candi Staton	22
21	Summer	War	25
22	Lowdown	Boz Scaggs	27
23	Got to Get You into My Life	The Beatles	19
24	A Little Bit More	Dr. Hook	29
25	With Your Love	Jefferson Starship	32
26	Who’d She Coo?	The Ohio Players	30
27	Still the One	Orleans	38
28	If You Leave Me Now	Chicago	New
29	Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang	Silver	33
30	Devil Woman	Cliff Richard	34
31	Shower the People	James Taylor	35
32	Getaway	Earth, Wind and Fire	37
33	She’s Gone	Daryl Hall and John Oates	39
34	Moonlight Feels Right	Starbuck	18
35	Street Singin’	Lady Flash	40
36	Last Child	Aerosmith	21
37	Springtime Mama	Henry Gross	New
38	I Can’t Hear You No More/Music is My Life	Helen Reddy	New
39	You’re My Best Friend	Queen	24
40	One Love in My Lifetime	Diana Ross	New