The Song EVERY OTHER Song is MEASURED By & The ONLY Track In History to Hit #1-3X!—Professor of Rock
11,833Coming up, we jump inside the time machine and travel back to a year of radio magic… as we count down the top song of the bicentennial. Including the story of Bohemian Rhapsody, an epic track that a major label tried to bury because it was too epic... too spectacular… Freddie Mercury got even by leaking it to the radio on purpose. It became the biggest song of the 70s! There was Aerosmith's breakout smash Dream On, which was written when he was barely 14 years old… Then there was the throwaway song 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover that a Paul Simon wrote as a joke with his toddler to teach him how to rhyme… and then there was Take It to the Limit that was written and sung by the backup singer of the Eagles, but his lead vocal was so powerful, it because the show stopper of all their live shows thereafter. Many people buy a ticket just to hear that one note. It’s our countdown of the Top 10 Songs of ’76..NEXT on Professor of Rock.”
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It’s time to go back to the bicentennial and celebrate one of the best years of the 70s. With a countdown that may have the easiest pick I’ve ever made for #1. It’s the top 11 songs of 1976.
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At #11, a song that was written by a toddler…It’s 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon. , a timeless anthem of liberation from a suffocating romantic entanglement. Fashioned by one of music's master lyricists following the breakup of his group, Simon and Garfunkel also coincided with the end of his first marriage. Paul Simon dismissed it as nonsense, a song that was just a joke… a game he was playing with his toddler to teach him how to rhyme simple words. It made his son giggle uncontrollably, so he recorded the song as an afterthought. It was just a joke after all. It was even the last song released from his album…and it became a #1 SMASH… THE BIGGEST OF HIS SOLO CAREER.
At #10, on the countdown of the Top 10 Songs of 1976, it’s the party anthem that turned a bunch of leather-clad misfits masked in face paint into rock gods. “Rock and Roll All Nite” by KISS: So, the first 3 studio albums from KISS, the band that taught us how to rock, were actually big commercial disappointments. It was so bad that their label was circling the drain. It was a desperate time for Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, the principal songwriters of Kiss create a song that would vault them to superstardom and keep the band going for the long haul… So…Gene and Paul, who were roommates at the time, decided it was do-or-die. They needed a song that said exactly what KISS was all about. Something simple & loud. Something the fans could chant.. like a war cry! Gene had a line he’d been toying with that he kept scribbling down, “I wanna rock and roll all nite.” It was sitting there waiting for someone to finish the mantra.
Meanwhile, Paul had been composing melodies, but none of them screamed KISS either. Then one day, Paul was sitting in the dressing room, strumming his guitar and started riffing off of Gene’s stationary line, he randomly began singing “I Wanna Rock and Roll All Nite….And party every day.” When Gene heard Paul sing that extension of his lyric, he shouted out to his partner. SO they recorded I Want To Rock and roll all night with confidence knowing it would be a Smash… The problem is it died on the charts. It went to a disappointing #68. So the one thing Kiss knew they had was an explosive live show.