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 – 12/09/1976

6	Let ‘Em In	Wings	2
7	16 Bars	The Stylistics	7
8	You Don’t Have to Go	The Chi-Lites	3
9	I Am a Cider Drinker	The Wurzels	23
10	I Only Wanna Be With You	Bay City Rollers	25
11	Blinded by the Light	Manfred Mann’s Earth Band	14
12	Mississippi	Pussycat	21
13	Dance Little Lady Dance	Tina Charles	22
14	Don’t Go Breaking My Heart	Elton John and Kiki Dee	4
15	Baby, We Better Try and Get it Together	Barry White	15
16	What I’ve Got in Mind	Billie Jo Spears	9
17	Extended Play	Bryan Ferry	11
18	I Can’t Ask For Anything More Than You Babe	Cliff Richard	20
19	Here I Go Again	Twiggy	19
20	Nice and Slow	Jesse Green	33
21	You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine	Lou Rawls	10
22	Afternoon Delight	Starland Vocal Band	31
23	Sailing (1976)	Rod Stewart	36
24	A Little Bit More	Dr. Hook	12
25	Heaven is in the Back Seat of My Cadillac	Hot Chocolate	28
26	Loving and Free	Kiki Dee	45
27	You Should Be Dancing	The Bee Gees	5
28	Loving on the Losing Side	Tommy Hunt	29
29	Girl of My Best Friend	Elvis Presley	38
30	In Zaire	Johnny Wakelin	18
31	Dr. Kiss Kiss	5000 Volts	16
32	Y Viva Suspenders	Judge Dread	27
33	Jeans On	David Dundas	24
34	Disco Duck	Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots	New
35	Sweet Home Alabama/Double Trouble	Lynryd Skynyrd	44
36	Shannon	Henry Gross	32
37	The Best Disco in Town	The Ritchie Family	New
38	Work All Day	Barry Biggs	41
39	I Want More	Can	35
40	Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel	Tavares	26
41	Every Nite’s a Saturday Night With You	The Drifters	47
42	I Need It	Johnny “Guitar” Watson	39
43	Destiny	Candi Staton	New
44	Baby I Love Your Way	Peter Frampton	48
45	The Rubberband Man	Detroit Spinners	49
46	Live at the Marquee	Eddie and the Hot Rods	46
47	Breakaway	Gallagher and Lyle	43
48	Disco Music – I Like It	J.A.L.N. Band	50
49	Get Up Offa That Thing	James Brown	New
50	Uptown, Uptempo Woman	Randy Edelman	New

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6	Wings at the Speed of Sound			Wings	7
7	Forever and Ever			Demis Roussos	5
8	No Reason to Cry			Eric Clapton	11
9	A Little Bit More			Dr. Hook	8
10	Spirit			John Denver	18
11	Breakaway			Gallagher and Lyle	14
12	Jailbreak			Thin Lizzy	12
13	Passport			Nana Mouskouri	9
14	Beautiful Noise			Neil Diamond	10
15	Live in London			John Denver	22
16	The Best of Gladys Knight and the Pips			Gladys Knight and the Pips	15
17	Frampton Comes Alive			Peter Frampton	17
18	Their Greatest Hits 1971-75			Eagles	16
19	Changesonebowie			David Bowie	13
20	Viva Roxy Music			Roxy Music	19
21	Blue for You			Status Quo	24
22	Atlantic Crossing			Rod Stewart	21
23	Elton John’s Greatest Hits			Elton John	43
24	Happy to Be			Demis Roussos	20
25	Greatest Hits			Simon and Garfunkel	23
26	Combine Harvester			The Wurzels	34
27	Bigger Than Both of Us			Daryl Hall and John Oates	New
28	Tubular Bells			Mike Oldfield	28
29	Joan Armatrading			Joan Armatrading	47
30	The Dark Side of the Moon			Pink Floyd	26
31	Rolled Gold			The Rolling Stones	36
32	The Roaring Silence			Manfred Mann’s Earth Band	New
33	Wish You Were Here			Pink Floyd	37
34	The Beatles 1966-1970			The Beatles	44
35	The Beatles 1962-1966			The Beatles	30
36	Twiggy			Twiggy	33
37	A Kind of Hush			The Carpenters	38
38	Astonishing Sounds Amazing Music			Hawkwind	New
39	A Night at the Opera			Queen	39
40	The Best of The Stylistics Vol. 2			The Stylistics	New
41	Olias of Sunshillow			Jon Anderson	45
42	Rock ‘n’ Roll Music			The Beatles	25
43	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band			The Beatles	40
44	The Best of John Denver			John Denver	Re-entry
45	I’m Nearly Famous			Cliff Richard	31
46	SAHB Stories			Sensational Alex Harvey Band	48
47	Best of Bread			Bread	Re-entry
48	A Trick of the Tail			Genesis	42
49	Sheer Heart Attack			Queen	Re-entry
50	How Dare You			10cc	Re-entry

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6	Lowdown	Boz Scaggs	7
7	Devil Woman	Cliff Richard	13
8	Summer	War	10
9	If You Leave Me Now	Chicago	11
10	You Should Be Dancing	Bee Gees	6
11	Say You Love Me	Fleetwood Mac	12
12	With Your Love	Jefferson Starship	14
13	Disco Duck	Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots	26
14	Don’t Go Breaking My Heart	Elton John and Kiki Dee	9
15	A Little Bit More	Dr. Hook	17
16	Still the One	Orleans	18
17	Getaway	Earth, Wind and Fire	19
18	Who’d She Coo?	The Ohio Players	20
19	Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang	Silver	21
20	She’s Gone	Daryl Hall and John Oates	22
21	That’ll Be the Day	Linda Ronstadt	25
22	Shower the People	James Taylor	23
23	Rock’n Me	The Steve Miller Band	27
24	Let ‘Em In	Wings	8
25	Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel	Tavares	15
26	Magic Man	Heart	31
27	Street Singin’	Lady Flash	28
28	One Love in My Lifetime	Diana Ross	30
29	This Masquerade	George Benson	16
30	Baby, I Love Your Way	Peter Frampton	24
31	Don’t Fear the Reaper	Blue Oyster Cult	38
32	I Can’t Hear You No More/Music is My Life	Helen Reddy	29
33	Don’t Stop Believin’	Olivia Newton-John	35
34	Kiss and Say Goodbye	The Manhattans	34
35	I Only Wanna Be With You	Bay City Rollers	New
36	Superstar	Paul Davis	40
37	The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether	The Alan Parsons Project	39
38	Get the Funk Out Ma Face	The Brothers Johnson	New
39	It’s O.K.	The Beach Boys	New
40	Sunrise	Eric Carmen	New