7 of the 70s: 6/13/13 (1979)...

It's time to take another trip to the 70s, and this week I'm back to 1979, the year McDonald's introduces the "Happy Meal"...

Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
from the album Love Tracks (1978)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1
Songwriters: Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren

The songwriting team behind this disco classic also penned another chart-topping single in 1979 - Peaches & Herb's "Reunited". Recently Leah McCall sang a slowed down showstopping version of the tune on The Voice UK.

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Toto - "Hold The Line"from the album Toto (1978)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5
Songwriter: David Paich

The studio-wizard rock group got their start with this delectable slice of piano chord heaven.

Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk"
from the album Tusk (1979)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8
Songwriter: Lindsey Buckingham

This, probably the most forgotten of FM's top-10 hits, was by far the highlight of their recent tour, which I'm lucky to have seen in Kansas City.

Chicago - "No Tell Lover"
from the album Hot Streets (1978)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14
Songwriters: Peter Cetera, Lee Loughnane, Danny Seraphine

A breezy love song from the group's non-numbered set, I have always been a fan of this song even as a kid.

The Doobie Brothers - "Depending On You"
from the album Minute By Minute (1978)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25
Songwriters: Michael McDonald, Patrick Simmons

My father had the 8-track of this song, and as a kid in his car I would wait in anticipation for this song to come on since we couldn't "fast forward".

Barbara Mandrell - "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right"
from the album Moods (1978)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31
Songwriters: Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Raymond Jackson

The cosmopolitan country star transformed the Luther Ingram R&B hit into a seductive bedroom coo that it seems Jesus himself would even approve of.

Jimmy Buffett - "Fins"
from the album Volcano (1979)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35
Songwriters: Jimmy Buffett, Barry Chance, Ton Corcoran, Deborah McColl

One of the Parrotheads' favorite songs, about a woman trying to avoid the "sharks", men coming to take advantage of the tourist women in town.

That's it for this 70s cruise...I'll be back later with 8 more from the 80s...