Here are more 1976 pop #1s. The first group includes songs that reached #1 on the Billboard charts but spent 7 weeks or fewer in the top 10.
Boogie Fever – Sylvers (Capitol), gold record
Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To – Diana Ross (Motown)
You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees (RSO), gold record
Let Your Love Flow – Bellamy Brothers (Warner Curb)
Convoy – C.W. McCall (MGM), gold record, novelty; also #1 CB and RW for three weeks each
Welcome Back – John Sebastian (Reprise), gold record. Theme from Welcome Back, Kotter TV show
Love Machine (Part 1) – The Miracles (Tamla). Post Smokey
Theme from S.W.A.T. – Rhythm Heritage (ABC), gold record, instrumental;
Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers (Arista), gold record
Rock’n Me – Steve Miller (Capitol)
#1, non-BB
The next grouping contains the songs that reached #1 on the pop charts in Record World (RW) and/or Cash Box (CB) but NOT on Billboard.
All By Myself – Eric Carmen (Arista), #1 on CB and RW, #2 for three weeks on BB, gold record
Dream Weaver – Gary Wright (Warner), #1 on CB and RW, #2 for three weeks on BB, gold record
Right Back Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale (United Artists), #1 on CB and RW, #2 for two weeks on BB, gold record
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot (Reprise), #1 on CB, #2 for two weeks on BB. “The true story of an ore vessel, named after a Milwaukee civic leader, that sank in Lake Superior on 11/10/1975.”
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) – Silver Convention, #1 on CB and RW, #2 on BB, gold record
Lonely Night (Angel Face) – Captain and Tennille (A&M), #1 on CB and RW, #3 for three weeks on BB, gold record
Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer (Oasis), #1 on RW; #2 for two weeks on BB, gold record
Lowdown – Boz Scaggs (Columbia), #1 on CB, #3 for two weeks on BB, gold record
Let ‘Em In – Wings (Capitol), #1 on CB, #3 on BB, gold record. “Phil and Don.”
More, More, More – Andrea True Connection (Buddah) – #1 on RW, #4 on BB, gold record
