This week, Johnny Mars hosted a flashback to 1977. The year Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th president of the United States, Star Wars debuted in movie theaters, and Apple released its new Apple II computer featuring a whopping 48 kilobytes of RAM for a mere $2,638 (equivalent to $13,400 in 2023). Here’s the entire playlist:
Iggy Pop - "The Passenger"
Doobie Brothers - "Echoes Of Love"
Fleetwood Mac - "Gold Dust Woman"
Jimmy Buffett - "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes"
Styx - "Fooling Yourself"
Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Exodus"
Marvin Gaye - "Got To Give It Up (Part 1)
Peter Gabriel - "Solsbury Hill"
Robin Trower - "Sweet Wine of Love"
Steely Dan - "Aja"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "What's Your Name"
Cheap Trick - "Downed"
Jackson Browne - "Rosie"
Clash - "Police And Thieves"
Robert Gordon with Link Wray - "Red Hot"
Bob Welch - "Ebony Eyes"
Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
Eddie Money - "Two Tickets To Paradise"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Turn To Stone"
Little Feat - "Hi Roller"
Crosby, Stills, & Nash - "Shadow Captain"
Heart - "Barracuda"
Billy Joel - "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)"
Grateful Dead - "Estimated Prophet"
Blue Öyster Cult - "Godzilla"
Bad Company - "Burnin' Sky"
Neil Young - "Like A Hurricane"
Dave Edmunds - "Here Comes The Weekend"
Eric Clapton - "Cocaine"
Linda Ronstadt - "Poor Poor Pitiful Me"
David Bowie - "Sound And Vision"
Next week, Frank E. Lee hosts a flashback to 2003 - when Jimmy Kimmel Live! debuted, the 74th MLB All Star Game was held at Comiskey Park, and we experienced three epic, end-of-era "finals" - Michael Jordan played his final basketball game, Concorde made its final supersonic, transatlantic flight, and the final classic body Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line.