BLINDED BY THE LIGHT – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
#1 February 19, 1977
NEWS
• The space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden flight above the Mojave Desert
• Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th President of the United States
• Gary Gilmore becomes first person executed in United States since 1967.
• British Airways introduces a regular supersonic Concorde service between London and New York City.
• Apple introduces the Apple II computer.
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” “Star Wars” “Annie Hall” and “Saturday Night Fever”.
• TV: “Captain & Tennille” “Donnie & Marie” “Hee-Haw” and “Roots”
• Seattle Slew won the Triple Crown!
• Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.
• Volkswagen squashed the Beetle in this country while, at the same time, giving birth to a Rabbit.
• January 19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida for the only time in its history.
DEAD
• A plane crash in Mississippi with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd on board kills Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray.
• Elvis Presley: January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977
• Groucho Marx: October 2, 1890– August 19, 1977
#1@1
• Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light." from 1973's Greetings from Asbury Park, album has a folky, acoustic sound.
• At the time, Manfred Mann's Earth Band set a Hot 100 record, for the group with the longest time between #1 hits. Manfred Mann had previously hit #1 with Do Wah Diddy Diddy in 1964.
• Manfred Mann’s Earth band went back to #1 in February 1977
• ”Blinded by the Light”
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