NEW KID IN TOWN - EAGLES - 1977

NEW KID IN TOWN – Eagles

#1 February 26th, 1977

NEWS

• Jimmy Carter was sworn in and quickly decided to give the canal back to Panama and signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son of Sam.
• The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• The world's first personal computer, the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago.
• MOVIES: “Star Wars”, “Annie Hall” , “The Goodbye Girl”, “Saturday Night Fever”.
• T.V.: American Bandstand turned 25 years old. Captain & Tennille” “Donnie & Marie”,  “Hee-Haw” and “Roots”. 

DEAD

• A plane crash in Mississippi with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd on board kills 4.
• Elvis Presley : January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977
• Groucho Marx: October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977
• Freddie Prinze : June 22, 1954 – January 29, 1977
• Joan Crawford : March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977

#1@1

• They would win a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement for Voices with "New Kid In Town".
• The vinyl record pressings had custom picture labels of a blue Hotel California logo with a yellow background.
• “Hotel California” is their best-selling studio album, with over 16 million copies sold to date in the U.S.
• The Eagles “New Kid in Town” your #1@1 from February 1977.