Number Two Hits, 1976-1979

Lots of good songs here, but seems pretty silly that "Love to Love You Baby" and "Baker Street", two of the most recognizable songs of the 70s, never hit #1.

gonna throw a vote to "Dim All the Lights"

Others:

We Are Family
Fire
Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
After The Love Has Gone
Double Vision

This is another ridiculously hard decision for me. Probably one of these:

Roberta Flack w/ Donny Hathaway - The Closer I Get to You
Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find a Love Like Mine
Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From

Rudipherous, oddly enough, those are three of the only songs here I don't think I've ever heard before (this whole list is before my time).

"Baker Street" easily

those are three of the only songs here I don't think I've ever heard before

Check them out. The Maxine Nightingale is probably the most immediately catchy.

I was just going to add that it's probably been in a few soundtracks by now and sure enough the first Spotify result is from a Shrek soundtrack album.

Steve Miller tbh

Voted Lou Rawls. That song is insanely great. Total Gamble & Huff Philadelphia sound classic.

Voted for Larry

Any of these ten eleven:

Donna Summer - Dim All the Lights
Earth, Wind & Fire - After the Love Has Gone
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Pointer Sisters - Fire
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
The Floaters - Float On
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find a Love Like Mine
Gary Wright - Love Is Alive / Dream Weaver

Nightingale did "Lead Me On" too. Hmmm. I had to play it to remember it, but it sounded like something I should know.

Hard to choose between Baker Street and After The Love Has Gone, but I feel like the latter is going to be more neglected in this poll so have to vote for it.

The *right* answer, in terms of song I'm most surprised was never number 1, is We Are Family.

I'm shocked Float On got as high as #2. Love that song.

Boogie Nights.

something happened along the way
what used to be happy is sad
BYOWWWWW
SOMETHING HAPPENED ALONG THE WAY
AND YESTERDAY WAS ALL WE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

My favorite here is "Love To Love You", but the one I'm most surprised didn't go #1 is "Y.M.C.A.". The 70's "Gangnam Style" I guess.

My favorite would be "We Are Family" (without re-listening to anything now, because then, who knows… "You'll Never Find", "After The Love Has Gone", …), but voting for "Y.M.C.A.", because: so good, and ^^^ what LeRooLeRoo said.

Thinking Steve Miller, maybe Sister Sledge, YMCA? But voted "Baker Street" just for the sax solos.

was fire vs baker street until i saw maxine

The Floaters :D

yeah, another vote for Larry

I didn't realise Dim All the Lights was such a big hit. What a great song. But not quite as good as Nobody Does It Better.

OK obviously I did know "Right Back Where We Started From". Never knew what that was called or who it was by.

Another honorable mention for Maxine Nightingale. Sounds better and better whenever I hear it today.

Just heard that song tonight at Sprouts. Some of these 70s hits were exciting to rediscover and identify in the 80s and 90s, but I'm a little burned out after hearing them over and over again in contexts like that.

I put the Sirius 70's channel on every so often. You hear some of these after a long absence, and remember how good they were.

1. "Right Back Where We Started From," 2. "Keep It Comin' Love," 3. "The Closer I Get"

"Baker Street" easily

Baker Street

I'm not talking about movin' in
And I don't want to change your life
But there's a warm wind blowin' the stars around
And I'd really love to see you tonight

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two great songs -- baker street and dream weaver -- fight for the right to be runner-up to love to love you baby.

baker street over love to love you baby, fly like an eagle, nobody does it better

man, i don't know how, but right back to where we started from? that seems like impossible, but it jumps right up at me.

Went with "Dim All the Nights" -- perfect L.A. disco.

*Lights

"The Rubberband Man" is being overlooked here

Just voted Rubberband Man over Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

"Keep It Coming Love", KC had better dance songs but no better pop songs; one that had the most impact on me was Gordon Lightfoot.

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Domination!