BLACK WATER - DOOBIE BROTHERS - 1975

BLACK WATER – Doobie Brothers

#1 March 15th, 1975

NEWS

• President Ford escapes 2 assassination attempts!
• John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
• Jimmy Hoffa disappears.
• NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
• The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Jaws” “Dog Day Afternoon” & “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” 
• T.V.:  “Wonder Woman” “Wheel of Fortune”, “Beretta”.  “Saturday Night Live” premiers. (George Carlin is the first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests). 
• The “VCR” would wildly change how we watched TV.
• Atari’s home version of “Pong” was the hot video game.

DEAD

• Rod Serling 
• Larry & Moe of the 3 Stooges

#1@1

• From the album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits.
• The song was originally released as the B-side to "Another Park, Another Sunday"
• They have sold over 30 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present
• Early in their career they were mostly a power trio.
• They began playing motorcycle club parties for the Hell’s Angels.
• A song that was inspired by Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. 
• Here’s the Doobie Brothers & “Black Water” Your #1 @ 1 from March 1975.