BENNIE AND THE JETS - ELTON JOHN - 1974

BENNIE & THE JETS – Elton John

#1 April 14th, 1974

NEWS

• Nixon refused to pony up 500 tapes pertaining to Watergate and then proclaimed that “One year of Watergate was enough”
• The Energy Crisis became so bad that the country went on Daylight Savings Time 4 months early!  
• G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of the Watergate break-ins.

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIE: Chinatown, Sugarland Express & Blazing Saddles.
• T.V.: “Happy Days” “Rhoda” & “Chico & the Man” .
• Universal Product Code or “UPC” code is scanned for the first time to buy a pack of gum
• The “Rumble in the Jungle” between Mohammed Ali & George Frazier
• “High Times” & “People” magazines begin publishing.
• Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs.
• Streaking was the #1 fad in 1974.

DEAD

• Ed Sullivan, 
• Jack Benny 
• Mama Cass

#1@1

• From the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album.
• Elton John was set against releasing "Bennie and the Jets" on side one of the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, and was against releasing it as a single, believing it would fail.
• The acceptance of "Bennie" on R&B radio helped land Elton John, a huge soul music fan, a guest appearance on the May 17, 1975, edition of Soul Train,
• It would be from an album that would be considered by critics this artist’s “Magnum Opus” and it was a “must have” when it came out.
• Elton John. Here’s “Bennie & The Jets” your #1 @ 1 from April 1974