This week, Johnny Mars takes us to 1978. The year Grease, Superman, and National Lampoon's Animal House opened in theaters across the country, Americans could legally brew beer at home, and synthetic insulin was approved by the FDA. Here’s everything Johnny played:
Grateful Dead - “Fire On The Mountain”
Billy Joel - “My Life”
Blues Brothers - “Soul Man”
Little Feat - “Spanish Moon” live from Waiting For Columbus
Bob Seger - “Brave Strangers”
Cheap Trick - “Surrender”
Gerry Rafferty - “Baker Street”
Heart - “Heartless”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - “Listen To Her Heart”
David Gilmour - “There’s No Way Out Of Here”
Warren Zevon - “Excitable Boy”
Cars - “Just What I Needed”
Genesis - “Deep In The Motherlode”
Eddie Money - “Gimme Some Water”
Talking Heads - “Take Me To The River”
Foreigner - “Double Vision”
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - “Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll”
Dire Straits - “Southbound Again”
Police - “Roxanne”
Ten CC - “Dreadlock Holiday”
Bruce Springsteen - “Racing In The Streets”
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - “Who Do You Love”
Blondie - “Hanging On The Telephone”
Queen - “Don’t Stop Me Now”
Van Halen - “Ice Cream Man”
Ramones - “I Wanna Be Sedated”
Rolling Stones - “Miss You”
Elvis Costello - “The Beat”
Joe Walsh - “Life’s Been Good”
Kinks - “A Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy”
Bob Weir - “Heaven Help The Fool”
Next week, Frank E. Lee takes us to 1988. The year Nike adopted the slogan Just Do It, WSR-88D (the first Doppler weather radar) was installed in Oklahoma, and the first night game at Wrigley Field was played (but cut short due to rain) on August 8.