1979 Saturday Morning Flashback Playlist- January 25, 2025

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This week on Saturday Morning FlashbackAnnalisa set the time machine to 1979 when Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the UK, Star Trek: The Motion Picture premieres, Breakfast In America becomes the #1 selling album in the U.S., Pink Floyd releases The Wall, Disco Demolition disrupts Comsikey Park and causes the White Sox to forfeit the second game of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers, Dustin Hoffman wins Best Actor and Sally Field wins Best Actress Oscar, and President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King. Jr. birthday become a national holiday. Tune in Saturday mornings from 9 to noon and stream from anywhere using the free Audacy app. Here's what she played.

9AM
Joe Jackson- “Look Sharp”
Bonnie Raitt- “I Thank You”
Graham Parker- “Local Girls”
Fleetwood Mac- “Tusk”
Neil Young & Crazy Horse- “My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”
Eagles- “Heartache Tonight”
Ian Hunter- “Just Another Night”
Bob Dylan- “Gotta Serve Somebody”
Flash & The Pan- “Hey St. Peter”
Rickie Lee Jones- “Chuck E.’s In Love”
The Clash- “Brand New Cadillac”
Lene Lovich- “Lucky Number”
10AM
The Cars- “Dangerous Type”
The Kinks- “Low Budget”
George Harrison- “Blow Away”
Elvis Costello- “Green Shirt”
Dire Straits- “Lady Writer”
Electric Light Orchestra- “Don’t Bring Me Down”
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army- “Are ‘Friends’ Electric”
The Police- “Bring On The Night”
Talking Heads- “Memories Can’t Wait”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers- “Even The Losers”
Iggy Pop- “I’m Bored”
Patti Smith Group- “So You Want To Be (A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star)”
11AM
Cheap Trick- “Dream Police”
The Knack- “My Sharona”
Led Zeppelin- “Southbound Suarez”
Dave Edmunds- “Girls Talk”
Pink Floyd- “Young Lust”
B-52’s- “Planet Claire”
Bad Company- “Gone Gone Gone”
Nick Lowe- “Cruel To be Kind”
Steve Forbert- “Romeo’s Tune”
Marianne Faithfull- “Broken English”
Supertramp- "Breakfast In America"

Next week, Johnny Mars takes us to 1968. The turbulent year of The Democratic National Convention in Chicago & the chaos that followed, the incredible loss of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr & Robert F. Kennedy and NASA’s Apollo 8 becoming the first human spaceflight to reach the moon & back.

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