THE LOCO-MOTION - GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - 1974

THE LOCO-MOTION – Grand Funk

#1 May 4th, 1974

NEWS

• Nixon resigned in disgrace
• G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of the Watergate break-ins.
• A group called the Symbionese Liberation Army abducted Patty Herst.
• We had to drive 55
• Gasoline prices continued to rise

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Blazing Saddles” & “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
• TV: “Happy Days” “Rhoda” & “Chico & the Man” hit on the tube.
• “The Brady Bunch” was cancelled
• Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs
• “Post-It”
• 1974 Mustang II was Motor Trends car of the year.
• Expo 74 Worlds Fair opens in Spokane, Washington.

DEAD

• Jack Benny: February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974, he died of pancreatic cancer
• Mama Cass: September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974, found dead in her room in London from an apparent heart attack after two weeks of sold-out performances.
• Duke Ellington: April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.
• Charles Lindbergh: February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974, Flew New York to Paris in May, 1927

#1@1

• Written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King.
• The song appears in the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade:  Little Eva in 1962. Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 and Kylie Minogue in 1988.
• It is also one of only nine songs to reach the US Number One by two different artists.
• Grand Funk Railroad version was produced by Todd Rundgren.
• Grand Funk Railroad and The Loco-Motion…your #1@1 from May 1974.