This week, Annalisa took us to 1978 on Saturday Morning Flashback from 9am to Noon Saturday. The year that brought National Lampoon’s Animal House to big screens, NASA’s first group of women astronauts and The Garfield comic strip to newspapers.
9 AM
Cheap Trick- “On Top of the World”
Bruce Springsteen- “Adam Raised a Cain”
Heart- “Dog and Butterfly”
Blondie- “Sunday Girl”
Robert Palmer- “Every Kinda People”
Ramones- “Needles and Pins”
Joe Walsh- “At the Station”
Jefferson Starship - “Runaway”
The Who- “Had Enough”
Ten CC- “Dreadlock Holiday”
Wreckless Eric- “Whole Wide World”
10 AM
Bob Seger- “Feel Like a Number”
Grateful Dead- “I Need a Miracle”
Ian Dury & The Blockheads- “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”
Eric Clapton- “Promises”
Warren Zevon- “Excitable Boy”
Jimmy Buffett- “Son of a Son of a Sailor”
Dire Straits- “Down to the Waterline”
Todd Rundgren- “Can We Still Be Friends”
Blues Brothers- “Soul Man”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers- “Listen to Her Heart”
John Prine- “Fish and Whistle”
Neil Young- “Comes a Time”
David Johanson- “Funky But Chic”
11AM
Elvis Costello- “Radio Radio”
Van Morrison- “Wavelength”
Talking Heads- “Artists Only”
Rolling Stones- “Respectable”
Buzzcocks- “What Do I Get”
The Kinks- “Rock N Roll Fantasy”
The Cars- Moving In Stereo”
Steely Dan- “FM”
Sweet- “Love Is Like Oxygen”
Linda Ronstadt- “All That You Dream”
Devo- “Uncontrollable Urge”
Peter Gabriel- “D.I.Y.”
Next week, Johnny Mars takes us to 1986. The year The Chicago Bears took down The New England Patriots for their first NFL championship since 1963, Chicago’s Oprah Winfrey Show went national and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” showed off our city all over big screens.