My Top 100 Singles of 1975
Here's the Spotify playlist:
1. Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"
2. Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil
Woman"
3. Aerosmith - "Sweet Emotion"
4. David Bowie - "Fame"
5. Earth, Wind & Fire - "Shining
Star"
6. Sweet - "The Ballroom Blitz"
7. Average White Band - "Pick Up The
Pieces"
8. Natalie Cole – “This Will Be”
9. Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
10. Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell
Campbell and Charles Gray – “Time Warp”
11. Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue"
12. Ohio Players - "Fire"
13. War - "Low Rider"
14. Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You"
15. Bob Marley & The Wailers - "No
Woman, No Cry (live)"
16. Ace - "How Long"
17. The Doobie Brothers - "Black
Water"
18. Pete Wingfield – “Eighteen With A Bullet”
19. David Bowie - "Young Americans"
20. Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"
21. Bee Gees - "Jive Talkin'"
22. Rush - "Fly By Night"
23. Styx - "Lady"
24. Labelle - "Lady Marmalade"
25. Barry White - "You're The First, The
Last, My Everything"
26. ZZ Top - "Tush"
27. Bruce Springsteen - "Tenth Avenue
Freeze-Out"
28. The Eagles - "One Of These Nights"
29. Bad Company - "Feel Like Makin'
Love"
30. Roxy Music - "Love Is The Drug"
31. The O'Jays - "I Love Music"
32. Supertramp - "Bloody Well Right"
33. Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoaster"
34. Pink Floyd - "Have A Cigar"
35. Steely Dan - "Black Friday"
36. Bay City Rollers - "Saturday
Night"
37. Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Saturday Night
Special"
38. Nazareth – “Hair of the Dog”
39. Bee Gees - "Nights On Broadway"
40. Led Zeppelin - "Kashmir"
41. America – “Sister Golden Hair”
42. Parliament – “Chocolate City”
43. Bob Seger - "Katmandu"
44. The Spinners – “Sadie”
45. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – “Bad
Luck”
46. Dwight Twilley Band – “I’m On Fire”
47. Stevie Wonder - "Boogie On Reggae
Woman"
48. East L.A. Car Pool – “Like They Say In L.A.”
49. The Isley Brothers - "Fight The
Power"
50. Elton John - "Someone Saved My Life
Tonight"
51. Little Feat - "All That You Dream"
52. Willie Nelson - "Blue Eyes Crying In
The Rain"
53. Freddy Fender - "Before The Next
Teardrop Falls"
54. Simon & Garfunkel - "My Little
Town"
55. KC & The Sunshine Band – “That’s The Way
(I Like It)”
56. Earth, Wind & Fire – “That’s The Way Of
The World”
57. Bad Company - "Good Lovin' Gone
Bad"
58. Steely Dan - "Bad Sneakers"
59. War - "Why Can't We Be Friends?"
60. Linda Ronstadt - "When Will I Be
Loved"
61. 10cc - "I'm Not In Love"
62. Pilot – “Magic”
63. Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone
Cowboy"
64. Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head"
65. Crack The Sky - "She's A Dancer"
66. Barry Manilow - "Mandy"
67. The Who - "Squeeze Box"
68. Average White Band - "Cut The
Cake"
69. The Eagles - "Best Of My Love"
70. Bad Company - "Shooting Star"
71. The Spinners – “Games People Play”
72. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – “Who
Loves You”
73. Led Zeppelin - "Houses Of The
Holy"
74. Captain & Tenille – “The Way I Want To
Touch You”
75. Silver Convention – “Fly, Robin, Fly”
76. Ronnie Laws – “Always There”
77. Al Green - "Full Of Fire"
78. The Staple Singers – “Let’s Do It Again”
79. Funkadelic – “Red Hot Mama”
80. Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road"
81. Elton John - "Philadelphia
Freedom"
82. Morris Albert – “Feelings”
83. Earth, Wind & Fire – “Sing A Song”
84. Bad Company - "Run With The Pack"
85. Supertramp - "Dreamer"
86. Led Zeppelin - "Trampled Under
Foot"
87. Thin Lizzy – “Rosalie”
88. The Doobie Brothers - "Take Me In Your
Arms (Rock Me A Little While)"
89. Fleetwood Mac – “Warm Ways”
90. The Captain & Tenille - "Love Will
Keep Us Together"
91. Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony -
"The Hustle"
92. Little Feat - "Long Distance Love"
93. Jefferson Starship – “Miracles”
94. Bob Seger – “Beautiful Loser”
95. Jigsaw – “Sky High”
96. America – “Lonely People”
97. John Denver - "Thank God I'm A Country
Boy"
98. C.W. McCall - "Convoy"
99. Thin Lizzy – “Wild One”
100. Joe Cocker - "You Are So
Beautiful"
There are 99 songs on the Spotify playlist, and the missing track is #48 on the list, "Like They Say In L.A." It's the sole release by the group East L.A. Car Pool, and it peaked at #72 on the Hot 100, and I only stumbled upon it because I comb through random weeks of the Hot 100 to try and make sure I don't miss any essential songs on these lists. A true one hit wonder! You can hear a scratchy vinyl rip on YouTube, it's pretty catchy! As far as I can tell the group only made 3 songs, including the B-side of "Like They Say" and a song that turned up on a British compilation of obscure soul and funk in 2002. The B-side, "Linda Chicana," was written by jazz pianist/trombonist Mark Levine (a sideman for Stan Getz and Joe McPhee, among others), who died in 2022.
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