7 of the 70s: 7/18/13 (1974)....

Hey gang, it's time for today's 70's throwback, and this week I'm back to 1974, the year Sarasota newscaster Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on-air on her Sunday program.

Paul Anka with Odia Coates - "(You're) Having My Baby"
from the album Anka (1974)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1
Songwriter: Paul Anka

In time for the royal baby announcement, here's the treacly ballad that got Paul a bit of flack for it's "you didn't have to keep it" line...

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Sister Janet Mead - "The Lord's Prayer"
from the album With You I Am (1974)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4
Songwriter: The Lord

The second nun (after the Singing Nun's "Dominique") to have a top-10 hit, this Australian clergywoman's take on the prayer every Christian known is way more suited to the Hair generation.

David Essex - "Rock On"
from the album Rock On (1973)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5
Songwriter: David Essex

This song was featured in the Essex-starring movie That'll Be The Day, where he was in a band called The Stray Cats....

Jim Croce - "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song"
from the album I Got A Name (1973)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9
Songwriter: Jim Croce

The sweetest and realest make-up song that went to #1 on the easy-listening chart after Jim's untimely death.

Stevie Wonder - "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing"
from the album Innervisions (1973)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16
Songwriter: Stevie Wonder

A nod to the man taking a stand by refusing to play in Florida (or anywhere where there's a "Stand Your Ground" law) after the travesty of justice in the Zimmerman trial.

Shirley Brown - "Woman To Woman"
from the album Woman To Woman (1975)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #22
Songwriters: James Banks, Eddie Marion, Henderson Thigpen

This Grammy-winning song about a woman confronting her man's lover was, of course, written by three men.

Dickie Goodman - "Energy Crisis '74"
from the album Mr. Jaws & Other Fables (1975)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #33
Songwriter: Dickie Goodman

As gas prices went up 20 cents in two days, a reminder that everything old is new again.

That's it for this week's 70s trip...I'll return later with 8 from 1984...Groovy!