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Wings had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Silly Love Songs", the number one song of the year. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1976 . [ 1 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1976, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 8, 1975 through ...
The Blank Generation (1976) is the earliest of the released low-budget DIY punk rock films from the No Wave scene in New York City in the mid-1970s. Inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, it was filmed by No wave cinema filmmaker Amos Poe and Patti Smith Group member Ivan Kral.
"I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" is a song by the American punk rock band Ramones. Written by drummer Tommy Ramone , it was released on the first Ramones album. [ 1 ] It was also released as the Ramones' second single, following " Blitzkrieg Bop ."
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1976. That year, 15 acts earned their first number one songs, such as The Bay City Rollers , C. W. McCall , Rhythm Heritage , Johnnie Taylor , The Bellamy Brothers , The Sylvers , Starland Vocal Band , The Manhattans , Kiki Dee , Wild Cherry , Walter Murphy , Rick Dees , and Chicago .
"Blitzkrieg Bop", titled "The Blitzkrieg Bop!!" on its single release, is a song by American punk rock band Ramones, released in February 1976 as their debut single in the United States. It was the opening track on the band's self-titled debut album .
In 1976, "This Masquerade" was a top-ten pop and R&B hit for jazz guitarist/vocalist George Benson, who recorded it on his 1976 signature album Breezin'. It was his first single release. Benson's rendition is the only charting version of the song in the U.S. It reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Hot Soul Singles ...
The Boomtown Rats appear on Top of the Pops. The first punk/new wave band to appear. Roxy deejay Don Letts begins filming The Punk Rock Movie, taking London punk scene video footage and editing it into a documentary. In December, Elvis Costello is banned from Saturday Night Live and NBC.
Combining a Buzzcocks-style pop punk sound with bawdy subject matter, gross-out toilet humour and profanity in their songs, the band released their debut single "Bend and Flush" b/w "Throbbing Gristle" in 1977 on Wood Records, a subsidiary of Caroline Records UK created specifically for the band. [1]