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Another song from 1978. It was an interesting year in music. For me, it was the year I got a cassette radio and started recording music off the radio. I remember recording and playing this song. I'd started collecting records about a year earlier.

Disco gets a bad rap for having ruined a whole decade of music, but it was popular only a couple years, and 1978 was probably its very short peak, following Saturday Night Fever in 1977. It had worked its way into culture enough to be the subject of a movie, and it was with the movie that it got recognition and popular appeal. And it was done to death by 1979 and has-been by 1980.

In 1978 progressive rock was still a thing and analog synthesizers had matured into real instruments. What has come to be known as classic rock was at its peak. Older acts were still producing big hits and newer acts were releasing what would become their best work. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was released in 1977. The Who's Who Are You was 1978. Steely Dan's Aja was 1977. Supertramp Even in the Quietest Moment 1977. Styx Pieces of Eight 1978. Rolling Stones Some Girls 1978. Pink Floyd Animals 1977.

And all of this was on the radio. There were pop stations and there were album rock stations, and every city had home-grown broadcast personalities. This was before media consolidation and shareholder value ruined popular culture.

1978 again.

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