Top 10 Songs of 1976
(one of the charts)
1. Silly Love Songs,
Paul McCartney and Wings
2. Don't Go Breaking My
Heart,
Elton John and Kiki
Dee
3. Disco Lady,
Johnnie Taylor
4. December, 1963 (Oh,
What A Night),
Four Seasons
5. Play That Funky Music,
Wild Cherry
6. Kiss And Say Goodbye,
Manhattans
7. Love Machine (Part 1),
The Miracles
8. 50 Ways To Leave Your
Lover,
Paul Simon
9. Love Is Alive,
Gary Wright
10. A Fifth Of Beethoven,
Walter Murphy and The Big
Apple Band
Another Song List
1.
"Saturday Night"
Bay City Rollers
2.
"Canvoy"
C.W. McCall
3. "I
Write the Songs"
Barry Manilow
4. "Theme
from 'Mahogany'"
Diana Ross
5. "Love
Rollercoaster"
Ohio Players
6. "50
Ways to Leave Your Lover"
Paul Simon
7. "Theme
from 'S.W.A.T."
Rhythm Heritage
8. "Love
Machine Pt. 1"
The Miracles
9.
"December, 1963"
The Four Seasons
10.
"Disco Lady"
Johnnie Taylor
Tony
Awards
Best
Play: "Travesties" ... Tom Stoppard
Best
Musical: "A Chorus Line"
Best
Actor in a play: John Wood ... "Travesties"
Best
Actress in a play: Irene Worth ... "Sweet Bird of Youth"
Best
Actor in a musical: George Rose ... "My Fair Lady" "
Best
Actress in a musical: Donna McKechnie ... "A Chorus Line"
Academy Awards
Best
Picture: "Rocky"
Best
Director: John G. Avildsen ... "Rocky"
Best
Actor: Jack Nicholson ... Peter Finch ... "Network"
Best
Actress: Faye Dunaway ... "Network"
Grammy Awards
Record of
the Year:"This Masquerade" George Benson
Best
Song: "I Write the Songs"
Bruce Johnson
Best
Album: "Songs in the Key of Life" Stevie Wonder
Male
Vocalist: Paul Simon ...Stevie Wonder ... "Songs in the Key of Life"
Female
Vocalist: Linda Ronstadt
"Hasten
Down the Wind"
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Top 12 Movies of
1976
Gross Income
1. Rocky
2. To Fly!
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. All the President's Men
5. The Omen
6. The Bad News Bears
7. Silent Movie
8. Midway
9. Murder by Death
10. Jaws
(re-release)
11. Blazing Saddles (re-release)
12. Lucky Lady
March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas'
Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the best
business decisions in film history, Lucas cuts his directing fee by
$500,000 to gain ownership of merchandising and sequel righ
Sports
NBA:
Boston Celtics vs. Phoenix Suns Score: 4-2
NCAA
Football: Pittsburgh
Record: 12-0-0
Heisman
Trophy:Tony Dorsett,
Pittsburgh, RB points: 2,357
Stanley
Cup:
Montreal Canadiens vs.Philadelphia FlyersSeries: 4-0
Super
Bowl X:
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys Score: 21-17
US Open
Golf: Jerry Pate Score: 277 Course: Atlanta AC Location: Deluth, GA
World
Series: Cincinnati Reds vs.New York Yankees Series: 4-0
Packer
News
1976: The Packers continue to struggle, and finish
in last place in the NFC Central with a 5-9 record, as the QB position
begins to resemble a revolving door, as Lynn Dickey becomes the latest
young QB to struggle with Interceptions.
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Most
Popular Television Shows of 1976
1. Happy
Days (ABC)
2.
Laverne & Shirley (ABC)
3. ABC
Monday Night Movie (ABC)
4.
M*A*S*H (CBS)
5.
Charlie's Angels (ABC)
6. The
Big Event (NBC)
7. The
Six Million Dollar Man (ABC)
8. ABC
Sunday Night Movie (ABC)
9.
Baretta (ABC)
10. One
Day at a Time (CBS)
Most
Popular Books
Fiction:
1. "Trinity" by Leon Uris
2. "Sleeping Murder" by Agatha Christie
3. "Dolores" by Jacqueline Susann
4. "The Deep" by Peter Benchley
5. "1876" by Gore Vidal
Nonfiction
1. "The Final Days" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
2. "Roots" by Alex Haley
3. "Your Erroneous Zones" by Dr. Wayne Dyer;
4. "Passages" by Gail Sheehy
5. "Bom Again" by Charles Colson
The
Olympics, broadcast from Montreal, Canada, draw an estimated one
billion viewers worldwide.
Matsushita
introduces the VHS home video cassette recorder to compete
with Sony's Betamax system.
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama:
Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante,
Marvin Hamlisch & Edward Kleban ... "A Chorus Line"
Fiction:
Saul Bellow ... "Humboldt's Gift"
History:
Paul Horgan ... "Lamy of Santa Fe"
International
Reporting:Sydney H. Schanberg ... "New York Times"
National
Reporting: James Risser ... "Des Moines Register"
Public
Service: "Anchorage Daily News"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM N., U.S.A., Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, b. 1919:
"for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of
chemical bonding"
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Literature
BELLOW, SAUL, U.S.A., b. 1915:
"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture
that are combined in his work"
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WILLIAMS, BETTY, Northern Ireland, b. 1944; and
CORRIGAN, MAIREAD, Northern Ireland, b. 1944: Founders of the Northern
Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
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Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to:
BLUMBERG, BARUCH S., U.S.A., The Institute for Cancer Research,
Philadelphia, PA, b. 1925; and
GAJDUSEK, D. CARLETON, U.S.A., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
MD,
b. 1923:
"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and
dissemination of infectious diseases"
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Physics
The prize was divided equally between:
RICHTER, BURTON, U.S.A., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford,
CA,
b. 1931;
TING, SAMUEL C. C., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Cambridge, MA, (European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva,
Switzerland), b. 1936:
"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary
particle
of a new kind"
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