EP. 126 We Rewind To 1976 To Pick Must Hear Albums Turning 50

1976 is having a moment again, and not as a dusty nostalgia trip. We rewind to the albums turning 50 and lay out a practical listening roadmap for anyone who wants to remember what made the 70s album era so powerful or finally understand why these records still dominate classic rock radio, streaming playlists, and vinyl shelves.

We hit the giants and the curveballs: the Doobie Brothers stepping into a new identity with Michael McDonald, Queen expanding their theatrical rock universe on A Day At The Races, and the hard rock spine of the year through AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and Aerosmith. Along the way, we call out the songs that became lifelong staples, plus the deep cuts that deserve a fresh spin when you’re not relying on the same old greatest-hits loop.

Then we close with a run of debut albums that prove 1976 wasn’t just about established legends. Punk sparks with the Ramones, heartland rock arrives with Tom Petty, The Runaways kick the door open, Johnny Cougar gets his first chapter, and Boston drops one of the biggest debut albums of all time.

If you love classic rock history, 1970s music, and album-by-album recommendations, queue this up, take notes, and tell us what you’re adding to your playlist. Subscribe, rate the show, share it with a friend, and leave a comment with your favorite 1976 album.

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Transcript

How To Support The Show

Why 1976 Still Hits Hard

Beach Boys Comeback That Split Fans

Doobie Brothers Add Michael McDonald

Queen Goes Big With Anthems

Bad Company And Peak FM Rock

Styx Introduces Tommy Shaw

AC/DC Dirt Cheap Then Huge

Ted Nugent Featuring Meat Loaf

Led Zeppelin’s Heavy Late Era

Rainbow Rising And Dio’s Epic Peak

Angel And The Cult Favorite Case

Frampton’s Live Album Breakthrough

Aerosmith Rocks And The Excess Years

Steve Miller’s Hit Making Machine

Eagles Make A Global Classic

Five Debut Albums That Defined Eras

Final Picks And Listener Homework

Closing Requests And Sign Off

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If you don't, you get a pen and paper, start jotting this stuff down, start looking it up. If you want to go buy the vinyl, go buy the vinyl. You know, whether you have a turntable or not, like me. I don't have a turntable, but I buy vinyl just because I love looking at it and I love just kind of having it. Uh, I don't want to say in my collection, but I like having it. Um, but uh you can go out and buy the CDs, you can start streaming this stuff, whatever it is. Okay. Um, but uh I I think that, like I said, for most of you out there, you will know each and every one of these albums that I'm going to be covering today. So let's get right into it. All right, because I I think I have um I don't know, like 14 or 15 of them. I didn't count exactly. So we'll see how that all plays out. Let's get this up on the screen, whoops, right there on the screen. Okay, cool. And then we're ready to roll. Let's just start out right at the top. I've got some, I've got my notes right here ahead of me. This took a long time to put together. What a dummy. You know what? Hang on. You guys don't need to see this other microphone. So let me get it off the table. Besides, it'd probably give me a little bit more room to work as well. Um, yeah, that was left over from the drunk show last week. Okay, so the first one I'm gonna hit you with, and maybe actually some of you may not know this one. I had this one in my collection uh as a kid. I think I got pretty much uh not upon release, but probably within six months to a year after it had been released. And this is the only one that I actually have a cover of. And because it's kind of rare, I'm gonna say rare, but like I said, most of you may not know it. I I did print it out so I could show it to you. And that is this one right here: The Beach Boys 15 Big Ones. Okay. Now, it's what's weird is that title makes you kind of think that it would be like a greatest hits album, and it's not. It's not at all. It was um it was released in, of course, '76, and it was um not really well received critically. And what it is, though, it's a combination, as as the title says, 15, 15 big ones. So it's got 15 tracks on it. It's uh it's a return of Brian Wilson to the group. He returned, um, and it was kind of marketed that way as well. Like, oh, the return of Brian Wilson. Um, and and there's some good stuff on here. I bought it not knowing anything about it, except the fact that I did like the Beach Boys after being introduced to them by um by my good good childhood friend John. Um, I've talked about it before. And I think that 15 Big Ones was probably the second Beach Boy record in my collection. I believe the first one I got was Endless Summer, which was a greatest hits package. So this one here is kind of a kind of a mixture or a combination of um uh songs that were written by the band, original songs written by the band, and some cover tunes. It's it's almost like half and half. Um and of course, the band um shares vocals. You know, Mike Love does primarily the lead vocals, but I think there's a song, a song or two by um Dennis Wilson. I think Carl Wilson has a track or so on here. Even Al Jardine has one or two uh songs that he's got lead uh lead vocals on. So everybody's sharing lead vocals on this album. But the track listing goes like this, and and I really like this version. It's uh it starts off with uh rock and roll music. That's the Chuck Berry tune, been covered by many artists, ones that I know for sure are the Beach Boys and the Beatles. Beach Boys or the Beatles had a really cool version of it, and I really like the Beach Boys version of this song as well. It's a little bit slower, not as fast. And um yeah, just good stuff. Um let's see. Uh It's okay, that's another original song written by Brian uh Wilson and Mike Love. I think it's sung by both of those. I think they trade off on the lead vocals. Then uh track three had Defonia. Track four, you see our first cover here, it's Chapel of Love. And at the time I got this record, I'm what, 11, um, 12 years old. And um, well, at the time that this record was released, it was released in July, July 5th of uh 1976. So, you know, after its release, and I mean I'm my birthday's in August. So yeah, I was I'm sure I was 11 whenever I got it, maybe 12 at that point. And I didn't know that the Chapel of Love wasn't an original song. I had no idea, but I like this version. And then another original tune, Everyone's in Love With You. Then there's a cover uh version, Talk to Me, uh a cover song, I should say. And then uh track seven is that same song written by um, I think it was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love. Then there's the TM song, which is the the transcendental, that's what it stands for, the transcendental meditation song. And it's an odd tune, it's about a minute and a half long, written by Brian Wilson. Al Jardine takes the lead on it, but it it's an like I said, it's an odd track. It starts out with all of the guys screaming and hollering at each other. Um, they're they're all bickering and arguing, and each one's like playing a different role. Um, one guy is like the neighbor down the street. What are you doing? Hey, you call the police and all this kind of stuff. And as a like 11, 12-year-old kid, I thought it was kind of funny. Um, I actually just listened to it um earlier today, prepping uh prepping for this episode. And um I was like, that's kind of stupid. So yeah, we're not too crazy about it. All right. So if you flip the vinyl over, you go to side two. You've got uh track one, Palisades Park. That's a cover of a Chuck Barris song. Then you've got another original, Susie Cincinnati. Track three, a casual look. That is uh a cover song. Then I'm thinking this is the Fats domino song. I don't remember. I honestly don't remember, but it's Blueberry Hill. Uh, not written by Fats, but this one's written by Al Lewis, Larry Stock, and Vincent Rose. Then another original song, um, track five is Back Home. Then it closes out with two covers, In the Still of the Night and Just Once in My Life. Um, like I said, the album got panned by critics. Um, and it the the the um it didn't get much better from fans, the the word on it. It really didn't. So it was kind of a disappointing album for the Beach Boys, even though it was, like I said, it was marketed as Brian's back. Well, it uh kind of fell short of everyone's expectations, but I kind of dig it. I do, I kind of dig it. I really like some of the songs on there, probably half of the songs at least I like on there. So anyway, that's the Beach Boys 15 big ones. Uh let's see, next we've got released on uh March 19th of 1976, the sixth album from the Doobie Brothers. It is taking it to the streets. Um yeah, so this is the first this is the first album to uh to feature Michael McDonald on lead vocals. Uh Michael was taking the place of band leader, pretty much, and and and lead vocalist Tom Johnston, who it was said um was really, I mean, touring was really starting to take a toll on him. He had been diagnosed with ulcers, and so he really stepped back big time from from the band when it went into the uh writing and recording of this album. Um yeah, so I mean his condition had had was so bad that in the previous year when they were touring for their album Stampede, he they had to cancel a lot of shows because uh his condition had gotten so bad. But um Jeff Skunk Baxter, he decided the band wasn't sure what they were gonna do. So Jeff um thought, well, you know what, let me put in a call to my good buddy and my former former uh bandmate with Steely Dan, Michael McDonald. So that's what he did. And and so Michael came in, and he was even unsure at the time if the Doobie Brothers was the right fit for him. Well, I'd say this, it was probably a pretty good fit because the album did pretty well. Um, it was received well. Michael McDonald takes the lead on four of the nine tracks on the album, and then he splits vocals with um Patrick Simmons on one other track. So the new guy comes in and already sings on 50 uh more than 50% of the tracks on the album. Now the the notable the notable ones on on this record are um wait, where is it? I got my like I said, I got my all my notes here. Uh the notable ones are um Wheels of Fortune, it keeps you running, big, big, big uh rock radio or fm radio uh staple in the 70s, the 80s, and even into the 90s a bit. Um the title track, taking it to the streets, same thing, big song. Um the you know it taking it to the streets and keeps you running, huge radio hits. Um so yeah, the album did quite well for them, and then the band carried on. And um, in fact, I think the oh yeah, they I think they're out touring, I think they're out touring this year. I'm trying to remember who the Bill is. Uh oh, Santana and the Doobie Brothers. That's right. They're out touring this summer. So if they come to your neighborhood, why not go check them out? Because I know Michael is back touring with Ben. He spent a lot of years not really touring with them, and then he would make special appearances from time to time, but he's back touring with the band. Okay, next is um the band's fifth studio album. This one was released on December 10th, so almost at the end of the year, December 10th of 76. It is A Day at the Races by Queen. Um, as I said, fifth album. The album reached the the the top of the charts in U in the uh UK, in Japan, and the Netherlands. It was number five on the Billboard Top 200 uh chart. It was Queen's third, third album to ship gold, and it uh subsequently went on to reach platinum status. Uh, you know, pretty big seller. It's got some big, big songs on it. Um let me see here. Big, big tracks on it. I don't, I don't own this one. I never owned this one, but uh the track listing on side one, you've got Tie Your Mother Down, You Take My Breath Away, Long Away, The Millionaire Waltz, You and I, Somebody to Love, White Man, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Uh Drows, and then Uh Teo Torreate. Um, that that uh um that song, that track, The Millionaire Waltz, that was kind of certainly not as long as Bohemian Rhapsody, but that was kind of a their Bohemian Rhapsody-esque song on this album. It is a um, what do you call it? A companion, a companion album to the previous one, A Night at the Opera. Both of those albums, A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, the titles of those were taken from Mark's Brothers movies. So they are kind of companion albums. And the big songs, of course, Tie Your Mother Down, great song, great, great, great song. And um Somebody to Love. Epic song, right? Or I shouldn't say epic, but enormous. Let's put it that way, enormous song. Great, great vocal delivery from Freddie on that one. Uh, just it's a it's a song that um every Queen tribute band has to have in their set. If they don't have that in their set, they're probably gonna get run out of the building. So um, but yeah, good good album, good um good tracks on that. And what was the wait, hang on, let me look at here. Well, I'm trying to think what the follow-up was to that album. I think it was News of the World. Let me see if I have it in my notes here as I bumble and stumble and fumble, and I I can't even separate pages here. Yeah, the follow-up to that was news of the world. That was that was that's probably one of my favorite Queen albums right there. But we're talking about 76, not 77. So let's move forward. Next on your list, because you're writing them all down, right? Is Bad Company, Runin' with the Pack, released January 30th of 1976. This is the third um album by Bad Company that that um it follows their hard rock bluesy um sound that they established on their first two records. The the cover, um, they do they do a cover of the Lieber Stoller um song Youngblood, and that was their the highest charting single at that time in the U.S. Um from this album. It actually might have been altogether, but the um the original songs, the original tracks, um silver, blue, and gold, great song, great song. And the title track, which is one of my all-time favorite bad company uh songs, period, is uh they they are just they were FM staples um constantly on the radio, on rock radio, not just I mean, through the 70s, the 80s, into the 90s, until just until that big old giant musical change, which and and not just musical change, but but industry change in radio and the way we consumed it, the way we played it, um, that kind of stuff. But um in in some critics' opinions, there's a little bit of fatigue that starts to to seep in on this album. Uh the um you know, the band struggle to maintain its out its annual album uh output or um uh um uh their album schedule moving forward with this. Uh another Rock radio tune that got a lot of play on this uh from this album, as well as Live for the Music, another great song. Uh, just to me, it's a it's a fantastic album. Um, and I just I love the songs on it, just so good, so good. And of course, Paul Rogers, what can you know, there's not enough that can be said about Paul Rogers. I mean, tremendous, tremendous um performer, singer, songwriter, um, and dubbed the the singer's singer, you know, just great stuff. And it's a shame that um he's been dealing with the health issues that he's been dealing with the last few years. Um, and he was unable to make the um Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony last year, but Bad Company finally got in. Uh, I know we talked about it a couple of different times on a couple of different episodes. They were more than deserving, should have been in years and years ago, but they finally got in, deservedly so. Unfortunately, you know, um, you know, half of the members of the band, uh, the original lineup are dead, no longer with us. But I'm not gonna go off on a tangent on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That's not why we're here today. So moving forward, but running with the pack. Great album, great band, and um yeah, there you go. So uh next one released uh uh in October of 76, and that is the sixth studio album by Sticks, Crystal Ball. Hard to believe that in 76 this was already their sixth studio album. Now I'm I'm thinking back, I know the previous album was um Equinox, and um but I don't remember there was there was a period of time the band did um they were on a on a uh record label called Wooden Nickel. And I think they put out three albums on Wooden Nickel. And this was probably at least a good 20 years ago, maybe even a little bit longer. I don't even know if those albums are available anymore, but I were I bought there was a special edition, and I bought those those albums. I bought them on uh on CD. I don't even remember the names of them. I've listened to them maybe once or twice, and that was years. I'm probably right when I got them. Um, but it was it was the band minus Tommy Shaw, because if you know, Tommy Shaw is not an original member of the band Styx. He is obviously a member of the classic lineup. Nobody really knew who Styx was outside of the song uh Lady, which was from, I don't remember which album it was, but it was from those wooden nickel years. So, and it really only got like regional radio play way back when. But getting back to Crystal Ball, this is the debut of Tommy Shaw in Styx. Um the album's title track is really still a uh a staple, a concert staple for the band. They still perform it. Um and at that time it was performed on every single tour that Tommy Shaw was a member of the band. But uh the the this album it did not perform as well as its predecessor, Equinox. It only peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Top 200. Um, and it took it took eight years for this album to be certified gold. It was finally it was finally certified gold in 1984. The um, yeah, really the only like big song off of it is Crystal Ball, the track listing. It's got it only has eight songs, eight tunes, which was kind of like a kind of a normal thing back in the 70s. And sticks at this time, they were still really leaning a lot progressive, um, certainly in their early days. But um, so it, you know, when when that happens, the songs are more drawn out, longer songs, less songs on an album. The song, the the running time on the album is 34, almost 35 minutes, and it's only got eight tracks on it. And so side one starts with uh put me on, then uh Mademoiselle, Jennifer, then the title track, Crystal Ball, then if you flip the album over, you've got Shoes, track two, This Old Man, track three, Claire Deloon, and which is really just it's just a very, very short tune and a minute five, and then you've got it uh album closing out with the epic ballerina. So um, if you're huge into sticks, I'm sure you're digging on this album. And uh if not, check it out, check it out. The the critics are not always right, just because you know something isn't critically um well received doesn't mean anything. It all matters what you think. All right, next we have um released in September, September 20th of um 1976. It's the third studio album by ACDC, and it is Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. The album was um was originally released only in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in the year of 1976. In America, in America, this album, we didn't even know about this album. This album wasn't released until until 1981, and it wasn't released until over a year after Bon Scott had had died. Um, so you had you had Bon Scott dying in 1980 coming off the release of the album Highway to Hell. Then the band releases Back and Black. You guys know the story of Back and Black, enormous album, one of the biggest ever in the history of albums. So I think the record company probably wanted to capitalize on the band's big success now, and so they went and they started to release the back catalog um prior to that. And Dirty Deeds was one of those albums. Now, the um the the uh original, the Australian cover of the album. It feels it's it's it's like uh if you guys are familiar with the album, you know the the American version of it, the US version of this album has um a picture of a group of people standing in front of what looks to be like a motor, motor lodge, uh a motel. In fact, it was. It was shot, it was uh the picture was shot in front of a uh motel in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard. That building's no longer there. Um, I think it was sold, demolished in the early 80s. But the original cover of this album is an animated drawing, cartoon drawing of it like Bon Scotty sit standing like at the corner of uh uh a pool table, and he's got his like his arm up in the air and his fist up in the air, and and on his forearm, he's got a tattoo. Um, and it's got the album title on within the tattoo, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. And in the background, it looks like it's probably Malcolm, uh not Malcolm, but uh Angus Young standing kind of in the background. It looks like it could be, you know, like I said, it's cartoonish. So um, but this um this album has gone on to be an incredibly popular and well-sold album for the band. The the the track listing on side one, you've got the the title track, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, a staple on rock radio, played all the time. Uh, Ain't No Fun. There's gonna be some rocking. Then one of my favorites, Problem Child, great song, another staple on on rock radio. Uh, then turn the album over. You've got uh side one on on on side two, you've got, or I mean sorry, track one on side two, you've got squealer, then you've got big balls. Um gets a fair amount of radio play, the double entendre on that song um throughout. Then track seven is uh R.I.P. Rockin' Peace. Then you've got Ride On, and the album closes out with track nine, Jailbreak. Um, so big tunes on that song. I mean, on that album. Gosh, I'm getting a little tongue-tied here. Maybe I need a sip of water. Um, but a big album, and you know, there's there's been this um not division, but you've got different camps when it comes to ACD. So you've got the Bon Scott camp, people appreciate and like the Bon Scott catalog more than the Brian Johnson, and you've got the same thing over on the Brian Johnson side, um, with you know a lot of fans um taking to the Brian Johnson material more than the Bon Scott stuff. Me, I like both. I I don't know if I have a preference. Uh certainly ACDC didn't come on to my radar until Back in Black. And um it's so funny. When when Back in Black was released, that was that album was so considered to be so hard and heavy. Um, I was like, wow, what is this? And um now, I mean, you you might hear you shook me all night long in the grocery store, walking down the aisle. It just it's incredible how things change over the years. But um yeah, that's when that's when ACDC came onto my radar was with um Back and Black. So I I guess if I had to, I'd probably favor the Brian Johnson stuff just because it's it was you know, that's what I was more familiar with at the time. And um, you know, being like 15 years old when Back and Black came out and really kind of grasping more and more musically, um, that kind of thing. So anyway, but um if you go back, you know, and you ask the the hardcore ACDC fans, which I would be more of a casual fan, um, than Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, tremendous album, tremendous album. All right, let me take that sip now. We're like almost halfway there, I think. Something like that. All right, next, released in September of 76, Free For All, is the second studio album from Ted Nugent. Uncle Ted. Uncle Ted, the controversial, always controversial, Uncle Ted, the motor city madman. So as I said, this was the second studio album from from uh second solo album from Ted. Um and at the time of its recording, uh at the time it was completed, um rhythm guitarist and and lead vocalist, Derek St. Holmes, decided that he was going to leave the band. He was um he cited, you know, like personal um uh and creative differences with Ted. So just like two uh two years straight being out on the road, that type of stuff. I guess it just kind of wore on him. So he decided that he was gonna check out. Um actually, this wasn't once the I'm sorry, I said once the recording had completed. No, this was once the recording was starting to begin for this album. So they're getting ready to start this deal, and Derek St. Holmes leaves. So now now, now Ted Ted uh has fronted his band for many, many, many years. And I think over the years, Derek St. Holmes has come in a couple of times to, you know, for special shows, whatever that kind of stuff. They've done stuff together since, but, but Derek has never come back as a member of the of the band since leaving. What's really kind of neat is I think to my ear that Ted and Derek have very, very similar voices, very similar sounding voices. Um, and so it it to me it was uh it wasn't a bad thing. Um uh, you know, it wasn't like, oh, there's a change here, now the songs are gonna completely sound different. However, on this album, check this one out. This one's cool. On this album, a whole year before the album Bat Out of Hell was released, Meatloaf. Yes, Meat himself was brought in uh to do a lot of the singing on this album. He went, he was paid. This is great. So this is what probably 1970, late 75, early 76, when when you know they're in the studio doing all this stuff. And and Meat is paid like a thousand dollars for his services to this album. A thousand bucks, you know, might have been great money in uh in 76. I don't know. But out of the nine um tracks on this album, Derek St. Holmes did cut two. He did cut vocals for two of them, or no, three of them. I'm sorry. Three of them. That was uh Dog Eat Dog, Turn It Up, and Light My Way. Meat being the new guy, even though he's not a member of the band, he just came in to do vocal work. He sang on five tracks, five tracks. That's crazy. So um the the one notable track besides Dog Eat Dog would be the title track, and that one was uh sung by Ted. So you had Free for All beginning the album on side one, then followed up by Dog Eat Dog, track three is writing on the wall, track four, turn it up, turn the album over, track one on side two is street rats, six is together, track seven is uh Light My Way. Then you've got track eight hammered down, and uh closing out the album is I Love You, so I told you a lie. That's the one that closes it out. Sung by Meat Loaf. Meat is closing the album. This um this particular album here was a good seller for Ted. It uh it uh the last time it was certified, it was uh certified platinum, uh double platinum, I'm sorry. So that's two million copies sold. So not bad. Not bad. Who knows the last time it was certified? I'm sure it's more now. Um, probably quite a bit more. Uh let's see, where are we going down the list? Next one is uh Presents from Led Zeppelin. It's the seventh studio album from Led Zeppelin released March 31st. So it's coming up. Coming up on the uh 50th anniversary of that one. Um while the album was a commercial success, um it well, it was let me look at my note. It's yeah, certified triple platinum. Okay, so definitely a commercial success because any artist now would kill to um to just have platinum status. But um it even though it did it did reach triple platinum, um it was kind of mixed reviews critically on the album. The um it was written and recorded mostly at the back end of uh 1975. Uh it was a tough time in the band's history. Robert Plant was recovering from some serious injuries he had suffered in an automobile accident, so he was kind of in and out. Um Jimmy Page took the helm on a lot of it. I think this album is kind of considered the Jimmy Page album, where there's a lot of heavy, uh, heavy electric guitar on here. There's very I think there's like one track, and I don't own this album. I don't own it, although I've probably heard most of it on rock radio. Um, but um, I think there's like one one track on the album that that contains some acoustic guitar. So this was like Jimmy's time to really shine. Um, but the staples on well, I'll just run down the track listing. It's funny. There's only seven songs on this album. Seven songs. This was a 70s thing, really, honestly was. It was a 70s thing where you'd have some long drawn-out songs, um, and um, you know, fewer songs, longer songs, and there you go. But um how crazy to is it to start an album with a 10 and a half minute song? That's nuts, but that's the 70s. That is the 70s for you. All right, so side one starts out with Achilles Last Stand for Your Life. Those are big, big FM radio songs or rock radio songs. Then side one closes out with the third track, yeah, Royal Orleans. Side two opens up with Nobody's Fault But Mine, Rock Radio Staple. You guys know that. Um, track two, Candy Store Rock, Three Hots on For Nowhere. And the album closes out with D for one. So it opens with a 10 and a half minute song, nearly 10 and a half minute song, and it closes with nearly nine and a half minute song. So yeah, book ended with those big epic songs. Great, right? Um, but like I said, the album uh has was certified triple platinum. I'm sure it's sold more than that to this to this date. Um, but a um maybe not a critical favorite, but definitely I think in in um minds of some of a fan favorite in the uh Led Zeppelin catalog. And it is let's see, oh, and it is their next to last uh studio album. The band released, well, okay, technically not, but the next album following this was Song Remains the Same. That was a uh basically a soundtrack album from the movie. Um and then the final album really was the final album. That was In Through the Outdoor, released in 1979. And um after John Bonham's death and the band broke up, yes, Coda was released, but that wasn't uh A thing where the band all came together, you know, the remaining members of the band came together and put that album out. So, yes, that's a studio album, but not one where the entire band was completely involved. So that's why I say that. Um, moving along. Next, released May 17th of 1976. It is the second studio album from the band Rainbow. The title is Rising. Great album cover, if you're familiar with it. Great album cover. This big fist looking like it's coming up out of the ocean with some big rocks around it and a rainbow overhead. Um that album cover was um was done by Ken Kelly, who had now gotten some traction um and notoriety in the music business from his work with KISS. He had done Destroyer, uh, which Destroyer had come out three months prior to this album. Actually, almost uh no, two months, two months, almost two months to the day. But um, but great album cover from Ken Kelly, and um this is um again talking about albums in the 70s that didn't contain a lot of songs on them. Um, as I said, this was the second studio album from from um Rainbow. Six songs on the album. That's it. Six songs. The track listing is Terra Woman, side one, track one, tarot woman, track two, run with the wolf, track three, Starstruck, and the album, uh the the side one closes out with Do You Close Your Eyes? Shortest song on the album at two minutes and 58 seconds. The album length actually is only about there's just a little over 32 minutes, but but six songs. So you know that they're some pretty lengthy songs. You flip the album over to side two, and the first track on side two is this big epic song. It's it and it's considered like probably to be like the the most classic rainbow track, and one of the most classic and iconic tracks in Ronnie James Dio's, you know, uh uh history, and that is Stargazer. It's an eight eight minute, 26 second song. It's just um it's epic. You you you know, if you're familiar, you you know. If you're not familiar, go check it out. It's got some great, great, great uh lyrics, a great vocal performance by Ronnie, and great guitar work from Richie Blackmore. The album closes out with A Light in the Black, another eight-minute plus song. The the sad part is this album did not do very well. The the first or the debut album from Rainbow, um, which, if you're not familiar, Richie Blackmore was the lead guitarist in Deep Purple and left that band to venture out on his own. So the the debut album was titled Richie Blackmore's Rainbow. That did not do very well. Uh, it didn't sell very well. This album here, as iconic as it is, because it is an iconic album, did not again, um, it wasn't a great seller. And then the third album, which what was that? That was Long Live Rock and Roll. That was the last album to feature Ronnie James Dio on lead vocals. Um, he had left. And um, again, not a great seller. You had great music, great songs on these three albums, but they weren't selling. So Ronnie left, and um Richie wanted Richie started to go for a or he wanted to go for a more radio friendly sound, something that they get them more radio play, not just on rock radio, but on um hit radio, top 40 radio. So that's when they called in the services of um Graham Bonnet. And what do you know? They had a hit song on the next album. That was um Since You've Been Gone. So even though this is great stuff on Rainbow Rising, it just not it, you know, and certainly with the Rainbow fans uh and a lot of rock music fans, it just wasn't a big seller, unfortunately. It's too bad. And speaking of albums that were not big sellers, but honestly, tremendous music, tremendous albums as well. The next one here, released in June of 76. It's the second album from one of my favorites, Angel. The title is Hell of a Band. I think it's a fabulous album. Um, again, like with Rainbow, Angel. It this band really didn't catch on, not in the 70s. Um, they they they had a cult following. I've talked about this in the past. I love this band, they are so good. Uh still out there doing it. Actually, they are embarking on their farewell tour. I think it starts up in about a week, and I will be catching a show. They've got two shows here locally. I'll be catching one of them. And uh I know I think I mentioned it last year. I tried to get, I may have mentioned. If I didn't, I'm mentioning it now. I tried to get the band on the podcast last year, and we've talked about it. We batted it around a little bit, couldn't get it to work out. But uh I will try again. This is supposed to be the band's farewell tour. It's going to, it's going to encompass the remainder of this year and then go into next year 2027. We'll see about that, because about a billion bands, billion's a big number, right? Okay, maybe a million, have said that they are done saying goodbye, farewell, blah, blah, blah. We're we're finished. This is our last tour. And then, you know, like six months after the last tour or the last uh date, they're announcing more dates. So we'll see. We'll see if my guys from Angel do that. Um, I don't know. We'll see. I'll uh I'm hoping I'll get to to have a chat with them um and kind of pick their brains on it. Who knows? But the track listing on this is uh uh starts out uh feeling right, which is a staple in their live set still to this day. It they they it is so good. It's it's um there's a big keyboard part of the song that um features now um uh not Greg Jafree, but now it's uh Charlie, Charlie Calve, and he's fantastic. I saw his when I I saw the band last year. I even told his wife I stood next to her um watching him, and I said, Man, he's like a professor back there watching or just watching him play. I said, he's like a professor back there performing on these on his keyboards, and she just like got a big grin on her face. She's like, Yep, that's right. So uh Charlie does a tremendous job for the band, and but there's a big trade-off on feeling right between Punky on guitar and Charlie on on keys, and it's a great song in the set. They generally save it towards the end of the set, you know, not at the end, but towards the end. Then uh track two is Fortune or The Fortune, I should say. Long epic song, which it takes about it takes over four minutes before you hear any vocals on it. So Frank has to wait around for a while, but it's a song that's still in the set to this day. They play it, it's a great song, gets a great reaction. The I guess kind of the cool part about going to see Angel live these days is everyone there is like a hardcore Angel fan. There aren't many casual fans seeing Angel. So that's kind of the cool part. Be great to if there were more casual fans there, but uh, because then you could kind of educate them a little bit. But anyway, um, anyway, leading into the next track is any way you want it. And then track four is Dr. Ice. Side one closes out with mirrors, another song in the set, still to this day. So you can see that this is a big album for the band where they they play quite a few uh quite a few numbers from this album in their live set to this day. Um Feelings, which is a uh a ballad song, really, really good song, featuring Frank's vocals. Um, it just does a tremendous job. They don't really play it in the live set. One of my absolute favorites, other than Feeling Right, Pressure Point. Dig this song, so, so good. Um, a fast song, um screaming song, so good. Then uh track eight is um chicken soup, a funky, funky sounding song. Um and then the album closes out with Angels Theme, was it with which is an instrumental two and a half minute long to close out the album. Um good uh good track. It really is a great album. But as I started to say with Rainbow, not a big seller for for the band. This was not a big seller, um, which is unfortunate. It's uh because it's great music, great musicianship, great vocals, great, it's everything that you want in in a rock album. And at this point, Angel was um on their second, first and second album. You could see some progressive leanings with the band as they as they moved forward um with um the next album on earth as it is in heaven, then white hot, then uh what was the one after that? I think that was um sinful. Um they they didn't they got away from that progressive sound a bit and went more towards uh just a hard rock sound, but more of a mainstream sound that they could, you know, market to radio. And um unfortunately, it it never happened for the band. They got they were too good, really. Honestly, that's just the truth. They were too good, and they were getting kicked off of uh more than one tour that they were the opener for. They would outshine the headliner and then they would uh subsequently be asked to depart. So um, you know, be that as it may, they were not in a position to headline themselves, especially financially. And they didn't have they had their cult following, but not a big enough draw to where they could be headlining uh arenas, that kind of thing. And their show was an expensive show to put uh put together and produce. So it's just one of those things that happened, and it's really unfortunate. Um, I've said this before, and uh I would I would love to discuss this on the podcast with the band. I really, really would. But I've said it before that if they could have held on for like another six or eight months, because they broke up in like late 80, early 81, if they could have held on for another six or eight months, there was this new vehicle for music called MTV. And I think it really could have put a lot of eyes on Angel and maybe changed their fortunes a little bit. Um because they were a very visual band. Very visual. All right. So moving on, the next album released. This one is already has has already celebrated 50. Uh, it was released January 15th of 1976. It is one of the biggest, if not the biggest selling live albums of all time. It is Frampton Comes Alive. Um this one follows it's it's kind of kind of weird a little bit, but it follows a similar path to KISS. KISS released their live album Alive in 75, on the heels of three studio albums that sold okay. Not great, but okay, and they were known for their live show. So that's what launched them was that was Kiss Alive. That's really what catapulted them into uh mainstream. So following four studio albums for Peter that were uh not great as far as the success of them. Frampton comes alive was that breakthrough. It was an opportunity for people to see, or not see, certainly, but listen to how Peter uh listened to his performance live, his live performance, and and um it uh this album it like it took off. The big um it the big songs on this album are um I think you guys know they are um show me the way, baby, I love your way, and my favorite song on the album, it closes out the album, is um Do You Feel Like We Do? It's like 14 minutes long. The like I said, it's a double album. Um it's only got, let's see, four, eight, twelve, fourteen songs on it because there's some pretty lengthy tunes on here, especially when side four contains two songs, a seven-minute uh lines on my face, and then closing out the album, as I said, do you feel like we do? That is such a tremendous song. If you haven't heard that one or you haven't heard it in a long time, man, go check it out. That is just I love every every bit of that song, just everything about it. It is so great. And I love when when Peter gets on the talk box, and you know, it's just it's so good. It's just so good. I don't know how else to describe it other than to say it is so good. The the album did reach um, it did reach number one on the Billboard uh uh top 200 album chart. It it was it spent one week. Well, I shouldn't say spent one week, it reached number one uh at the end of April. So it took about three and a half months to get to number one, climb all the way up to the chart, and then subsequently throughout the rest of the year, it would be back and forth at the top spot. It would so it spent a total of 10 weeks at number one, just not consecutive weeks. But the album was also voted album of the year by uh Rolling Stone Readers poll, and it it stayed on the the album 200 chart for 97 weeks. So great, great album, and this one here definitely uh put Peter Frampton in the spotlight and and really just launched his career. It's a just a great live album. Um, that takes us into an album. Let me turn this over a little bit, please, if I could. That takes us into an album that was released on May 3rd, 1976, the fourth studio album from Aerosmith, the album titled Rocks. It's um by a lot of um by a lot of fans standards. This is the best studio album. This is their favorite studio album from the band. It's definitely uh, it definitely was a tremendous commercial success. It has sold uh last time it was certified. It sold over four million copies. That's a great success, right there. It is certainly by sales numbers, one of the more popular Aerosmith albums. Uh, by the by fan status, it is one of the one of the best albums. Um it is probably my third favorite studio album from Aerosmith. I've said this before, I think I said it last year when we celebrated Toys in the Attic. Um, you know, I probably should have just done a feature on this one all by itself because, like I did last year, I did Toys in the Attic celebrating 50. Um, although nobody watched that episode. So maybe this is better just to kind of bring it in with every everything else here. No one watched it, no one listened to it, no one cared about that episode. And I thought it was good, but Toys in the Attic is my favorite, and then probably Night in the Ruts, and then Rocks. Rocks is a great album, great, great, great songs on it. Um, with the big uh two two of the tracks on there reaching top 40 uh status. That was the opening track, which is Back in the Saddle and then Last Child, great songs at this time. Um the group had you know, they'd already begun to live the rock and roll lifestyle. Um, they were like taking it to the nth degree, um, indulging um their already considerable, you know, appetite for drugs. Um, they were getting big into that, even I should say, even more so. Um Joe Perry actually had was quoted as saying, There's no doubt we were doing a lot of drugs by then, but whatever we were doing, it was still working for us. So even though they were still they were getting whacked out of their skulls, they were still at least able to um get the work done on this album and put out a tremendous one. Uh, certainly coming off the heels of Toys in the Attic, which um was the third album, of course, and it um put Aerosmith in the in the in the mainstream. So coming off the heels of that, great album. I mean the track listing is you know, side one, back in the saddle, last child, rats in the cellar, combination, uh, flip this thing over, and and um side two, track one, sick as a dog. Oh, I love that song. Oh, I love that song. Track two, nobody's fault. Track three, get the lead out, track four, licking a promise. And the album closes out with a uh ballad from Steven Tyler, Home Tonight. It's a great album. Great, great album. Um it's uh, but like I said, unfortunately, I think it's my number three uh Aerosmith album in the catalog. Not bad, not bad considering their catalog. And uh I dig Aerosmith. I dig Aerosmith. And I think I even mentioned it last year when we did um when we did the uh Toys in the Attic episode. Um they were like my second band. Um it's funny. I don't count, I don't count Uriah Heap when I was really taken in music, and Kiss became everything to me. I don't know, Uriah Heap set sat set in uh they they they sat in a separate place. Uh not a bad place, a good a great place, but they sat in this separate area and didn't count them for whatever reason. But it was kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, and I couldn't let anyone else in because it was a threat to my kiss fandom. And Aerosmith was that that band that was able to break through. Um and uh yeah, it was great. Great. Um that's a great and I think they broke I no, no, I think I think when they broke through that that wall, I think it was with get your wings. I think that's what it was with. Anyway, so uh let's move along. We're getting close. We are getting close, and I don't want to keep you guys forever, but I hope you're enjoying this because not only you get a little bit of an education, but you get a list of some great albums that are celebrating 50 years. 50 years, can you guys believe that? 50 years, that's amazing. It's amazing because some of this stuff, it just seems like there's no way it's more than 10 years old. It's just bananas. Okay. So the next one is the ninth studio album for the Steve Miller band, released on May 15th, uh, 1976. It is Fly Like an Eagle. Um it's the the album itself was a great commercial success. It has uh sold over four million copies at the last time of certification. Um it had three hit uh songs on it. Uh uh the title track, Fly Like an Eagle. It had um Take the Money and Run. That is first off, all these songs. Fly Like an Eagle, Take the Money and Run, Rockin' Me, those three songs. Rockin' Me a little bit less, which is weird because it was a big hit. But um you hear Take the Money and Run all the time, all the time. Well, you used to anyway. You might hear it a little less now, but if you listen to like satellite radio and you're listening to what uh classic rewind or whatever, um, what's what channel is that? 25 or something? I don't know. But you'll hear you'll hear Take the Money and Run all the time. You'll hear Fly Like an Eagle all the time. You'll hear Jet Airliner all the time, not on this album though. So those three, those three singles, big hits. When you look at the track listing, though, there's uh see, I'm looking at four, I'm looking at six songs out of the 12, half of them, that end up on the what is the the greatest hits album, the best of the Steve Miller band. I think that's what it's called, the best of the Steve Miller band. Um so you've got space intro, fly like an eagle. Those kind of get played together. So I said there's 12 tracks. There's actually, if you put the space intro and fly like an eagle together, it's one track. Um Wild Mountain Honey, you don't hear that a lot on a radio at all on any rock radio stations, but man, that is a killer song. Killer song. Serenade, another one, another just great song. That one's all these these first four songs that I'm I'm calling out to you are all on the best of the Steve Miller band. Uh so track four with Serenade, yeah, on the on the on the best of. And then Dance, Dance, Dance, good song, just a good groovy song. Uh, then there's Mercury Blues, then flip the album over, track one, side two, take the money and run. Woo-hoo-hoo. So good. That is such a good song. And you got to get the hand claps in too. I don't know if I should do that because sometimes when I clap, it mutes out the mic. So I won't do that. I'll spare it. Um, then I think pro well, I don't know if uh yeah, Fly Like an Eagle is probably the biggest, the biggest uh single off the album, and then probably Take the Money and Run Rockin' Me, probably the third best single or the third most uh popular single off the album. So Rockin' Me is at track eight, then a cover of a Sam Cook song you send me. That's track number nine. Blue Odyssey, which is an instrumental, it's just a minute-long thing. Um, that's track 10. Then track 11 is Sweet Marie. Sweet, oh, wait a minute. I know that one. I was thinking, wait a minute, I haven't heard that one in forever, but just hearing or just saying that title, that just brings something back to me. Oh my goodness. Uh, then uh the album closes out with the window at track 12. Again, a big seller for the Steve Miller band. I would be interested to see the how the follow-up did, um, which was um was that Book of Dreams that's got Jet Airliner and Swing Town, a huge album for the Steve Miller band. Um, be interest interested to see the sales numbers with those two albums there side by side. All right. So the next one released at the end of 1976. It is the fifth studio album from this band. And to be more specific, released December 8th, 1976. It is Hotel California from the Eagles. It is the first the first album to uh feature Joe Walsh, who replaced founding member Bertie uh Bernie Leiden on guitar and vocals. It's the last album to feature Randy Meisner on bass and vocals. Um the album won Record of the Year for nine, or I'm sorry, record of the year for the single New Uh New Kid in Town. Uh it it um it was up for album of the year, and it lost to which I think is weird. It lost to um Fleetwood Mac Rumors. Fleetwood Mac Rumors was released in 77, and this album is 76. I don't I don't know. I don't understand how all that works, so whatever. No big deal. But the um the three the three songs or the three tracks that were released as singles off the album, big, big, big giant hit singles. Those were certainly the title track, Hotel California, New Kid in Town, and Life in the Fast Lane. That's like, you know, life in the fast lane is like dad rock. You know, that song comes on the radio, you got your kids in the backseat or whatever, and you guys crank that because that's dad rock. That's dad rock. We're gonna crank this sucker and and and scream down the scream down the highway. Um, another song that got a lot of FM radio play was uh Victim of Love. Let's just run down the track list. It's side one, Hotel California. We all know that one. I mean, come on. It's a great song with an absolute great iconic guitar solo at the end. There's like not dueling guitars, but it's like three guitar attack on that on that solo. Um life in the fast lane, then uh wasted time. Then if you flip the album over, and uh the first track is Wasted Time, the reprise, which is just an instrumental, then one song that I dig, Victim of Love. You don't hear it very much. We used to hear it a lot in the 70s and 80s on rock radio. Uh, then track three, Pretty Maids, all in a row, then track four, try and love again, and the album closes out with The Last Resort. As you guys know, we've talked about this multiple times. This is one of the greatest selling albums in history. It has sold over 42 million copies worldwide, and I've mentioned it before. It's like there's like three uh there's there's there's really like three albums that kind of fight it out for the very top position, and that's that's well, it's actually there's really two albums, but but but this one's right up there. You've got Michael Jackson's Thriller, you've got um Hotel California, you've got the Eagles Greatest Hits Volume One, also. Those are they're like always fighting it out for the top position as far as um as far as uh uh uh the number of units sold worldwide. Um and then you have Fleetwood Mac rumors right up there as well. You also have ACDC Back in Black. It's crazy. Crazy to think about. But um yeah, Hotel California iconic album, iconic album cover shot at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Um great album, one of the biggest, like I said, biggest of all time. So you guys are probably like, wait a minute, some of you are screaming, hey, you didn't say this one, you didn't say that one, you didn't say this one, hey, what about this one over here? And you know what? I got another list, and I'll knock it out really quick. Give me five minutes. I saved these, I put these down separately because these are kind of well, I would say three of the five that I have here. I think I have five, are pretty iconic albums. Um, two of the um, two of the five, not necessarily iconic, but iconic acts, iconic bands. Okay, so the first on that list was released on April 23rd, 1976. It's the debut, these are all debut albums. I I don't I don't even know if I said it. Sorry if I'm losing my mind here. Um, but these are all debut albums, so that's why I kind of put them on a separate on a separate list. But the first one is the debut album from the Ramones. Um, the Ramones, they didn't start the punk movement, but boy, did they kind of elevate it and begin to take it to the next level. Uh, the big notable track on this album, of course, is Blitzkrieg Bop. So, you know, that iconic band, even though they didn't really hardly, as far as commercial success, no, not much commercial success at all. Uh, not a lot, anyway. But they are um an iconic band in the sense that they are they had a huge cult following and they had a huge impact on culture. Okay. Next, Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's debut album, released um November the 9th, 1976. The notable tracks on that are American Girl, which actually didn't become real popular until 1982, with the um uh with the release of uh Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Um the movie and the album or the uh soundtrack album. So uh, and then the second track, the second real notable track is Breakdown. Love that song. So good, such a great song. Man, that is so good. Um save that one for last. Then you've got The Runaways, their debut album, Cherie Curry on lead vocals, Joan Jett on rhythm guitar and vocals, Lita Ford on lead guitar, Sandy West on drums, and Jackie Fox on bass. The big song that everyone knows is Cherry Bomb. I think it had a couple other minor tracks, but um this album was produced by Kim Fowley. I mentioned Kim Fowley a couple weeks ago, or maybe it was last week when I talked about Kiss Destroyer. Um, but he produced this album. Uh, he also brought in Nigel Harrison from Blondie. Actually, Blondie released their debut album this year, also in 1976. But he brought in Nigel Harrison to play bass on the album. It went uncredited. Jackie Fox got full credit, of course. But um so Nigel was brought in to play bass on this album. Um not a huge commercial success for the runaways, but iconic. And um I don't think, yeah, I still think they're not, I think I still think that they haven't been um recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I think they've been on the ballot once. But um if you put in a band like the go-go's, if you induct a band like the go-go's into the rock and roll hall of fame, all-girl band that wrote all their songs, all that kind of stuff, they should not, there should be a there should be uh an order of seniority. There really should be. And the runaways should go first. If the go-go's go, then the runaway should go, and they should be in before the go-go's. Because if it wasn't for the runaways, there might not be a go-go's. All right, enough of that. We're talking about albums not rock and roll hall of fame. Uh, all right, next, um, and I've got two more. This one and then and then one more, and we're and we're done. Uh, released on October the 1st of 1976. It was the debut album for John Cougar. Although, on although the the this album was uh the title of the album is Chestnut Street Incident, but it's from Johnny Cougar, not John Cougar. And boy, he hated every minute of all that stuff. Hated every minute of that John Cougar stuff, Johnny Cougar stuff, all that, but wasn't able to to really claim his name of John Mellencamp until he got success with um the album from 1982, American Fool, which exploded. Um, he did have um he actually there was like no hits on this album, nothing at all. It was it was pretty widely ignored. He didn't get his first hit single till a few years later. I think it was the year before American Fool, 1980 or 81. He had uh I need a lover. I need a lover that won't drive me crazy. You know that. So uh yeah, the so I saved this one for last. I didn't write it down on my list last, but I saved it for last because it's it's not only is it a a debut album, but it's an iconic album, and that is the debut album from Boston, released August the 25th, 1976. You know, the obviously the big tracks, More Than a Feeling, um Peace of Mind. What is it uh when you hear them together? Um uh for play, long time. I believe the album has eight tracks, eight tracks on it. Every single track on this album is played on rock radio, every single one. This is like a greatest hits album all in its all on its own. Um biggest selling debut album, I believe it is still to this day. It's it has sold over 16 million copies. Tremendous album. It is an absolute shame that this band, Boston, hasn't been recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for its creativity, its innovativeness, um, its bigness. You like that word, bigness? Um yeah, it's an absolute shame. And I mentioned seniority um a couple minutes ago. Um, you know, sadly, what 10 days ago, uh lead singer of the band, Tommy DeCarlo, and yes, he's not the original lead singer of the band, but he picked up and carried on when Brad Delp passed away in I think it was 2007. Tommy DeCarlo picked up, carried on. Um, and he did even record one, I think he recorded one album with uh with Boston. Um, but he passed Tommy passed away about 10 days ago. Um, very, very, very sad. But whether he would have been recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or not, I think that he would have been very proud to see this band, Boston, go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, knowing that he was a part of it. He contributed and he helped, he helped uh march that band forward after the passing of Brad Delp. But anyway, again, I'm getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and we're talking albums here. The debut album from Boston, tremendous album. Like I said, a greatest hits album all unto itself. So, so good. Um yeah. Well, look, that's it. That's it. I that's I just that's why I wanted to close out with those um with those debut albums and close out with Boston because you know, just why not close out with such a huge, huge album? Um, anyway, I hope you enjoyed this. I really do. I hope you were taking some notes um and that you'll go and seek some of this stuff out. All right. Some of it may not be for you, uh, some of it might be just right up your alley, but go uh go check it out. All right. As you guys know, this program is available wherever you get your podcasts. Just search the Ben Maider program. Boom, it's right there. Go with it, download it, very important. Download it, share it. That's even more important. Share it with all your people. All right. Give me a five-star rating, and you can subscribe to it also. But if you've enjoyed some of this right here, and I don't know, I haven't, but maybe you guys have. If you've enjoyed some of this here on YouTube, then uh thank you very much. 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