Songs of 1976 That Should Have Been Bigger Hits

This is an instrumental edition of songs that should have been bigger hits.

Lee Oskar - BLT
The Band of the Black Watch - Scotch on the Rocks
BCG - Street Talk
The Glitter Band - Makes You Blind
Hagood Hardy - The Homecoming
John Handy - Hard Work
Spin - Grasshopper
Michel Polnareff - Lipstick
Tom Scott - Town and Country
Andre Gagnon - Wow!
Walter Murphy - Flight '76

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1976
• Top
• 100
• Bubblers
• Whitburn
• Lee
• Oskar
• Polnareff
• Glitter
• Hagood
• Hardy
• Handy
• Spin
• Grasshopper
• Gagnon
• Band
• Black
• Watch

[tommieparch]

lee oskar / haunted house/ listen to it

[nccvball]

@tommieparch

Just did. It sounds great. He is a master harmonica player.

[LolaCrazy222]

Yeah, I agree with you LosAngeleno1959! A lot of kids today do listen to crappy music. I don't know why a lot of teenagers today listen to rap and hip hop shit. That doesn't mean though there wern't crappy songs back in '76. It boggles my mind why crappy songs like "Disco Duck" and "Afternoon Delight" went to #1 that year and the songs in this video didn't crack the Top 40. Thank you for posting it anyway!

[nccvball]

@LolaCrazy222

What I do not understand is the highly derivative nature of today's music. Many of today's popular tunes use samples of songs from decades earlier or complete remakes of perfectly good hits.

There's nothing wrong with a good remake or re-stylized take on a song but many make me yearn for the original.

[TheStudio475]

the Scotch on the rocks played on this video is not the original recording nor is it the black watch Band, I wish people would get their facts straight

[nccvball]

I do not wish to dispute your claim. It does appear that the Black Watch Band originally released "Scotch" in the UK on the Spark label in 1975. But the version you hear here, is from the US release on the Private Stock label that was released one year later. It is the Black Watch Band but it was produced for the American market.

[LosAngeleno1959]

@acdeucee ,Oh I surely do. All I can say is I'm glad I'm not a teenager today. These kids have some crappy music today. It lacks heart and soul.  I'd go back to 1976 in a heartbeat.

[krakenwave]

The Glitter Band were - oddly - rather good.

[Babyhowdy233]

Polnareff is a genius!

[GINGERALER]

I'm surprised that 'Mississippi' by Pussycat was not mentioned. It was released in 1976 and seemed to be a big hit in parts of Europe but not in the U.S.

[dkshotwell]

These were not bigger hits because, well, they werent that good.

[DaBaldbald]

estan horribles todas

[DaBaldbald]

estan horribles todas , por eso no fueron grandes hits

contrario al rock las canciones pop que no son famosas es por que son horribles

[flibben2]

hahahaha- you are slick, nccvball

[lyubichi]

Wow! "Scotch on the Rocks" took me right back to riding the bus to school along Maldon Road, Colchester in 1975. Amazing what memories can be triggered by hearing a long-forgotten song. To hear "Hard Work" is a treat as well, that one did nothing in UK despite loads of airplay.

[mayena]

@LosAngeleno1959 Same as my grandmother used say nevagative comments to my mother's musical taste during the 1970's.