Memories from 1979
A Few Top 100 Songs
- My Sharona, The Kack (#1)
- Bad Girls, Donna Summer (#2)
- Tragedy, Bee Gees (#16)
- My Life, Billy Joel (#28)
- The Gambler (Kenny Rogers (#40)
- Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy, Bad Company (#54)
- Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Michael Jackson (#91)
- Somewhere in the Night, Barry Manilow (#93)
- Strange Way, Firefall (#100)
Movies
- 10
- Apocalypse Now
- Breaking Away
- China Syndrome
- Electric Horseman
- Escape from Alcatraz
- The Jerk
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Mad Max
- Meteor
- Norma Rae
- North Dallas Forty
- Richard Prior Live in Concert
- Rocky II
- Star Trek - The Motion Picture
- The Rose
- When a Stranger Calls
Top News Stories
- Inflation
- Soaring energy, food, housing costs
- Increased medical costs
- Dollar under increasing pressure due to rising oil costs, oil-company profits checking in with three-digit percentage increases, causing a political and public cry for a windfall-profit's tax
- Trouble at Three Mile Island atomic-power plant
- Consumer borrowing binge
- First test-tube baby born
- The Shah leaves Iran, Margaret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister