With its outlaw / party-hearty image, tough southern rock, and solid touring, Skynyrd quickly became one of the top bands of the 1970s, scoring such hit albums as 1974's Second Helping, 1975's Nuthin ' Fancy, 1976's Gimme Back My Bullets and One More from the Road, plus 1977's Street Survivors -- and such hit singles as " Free Bird " and " Sweet Home Alabama.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.

Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles ( including Nicks's song " Dreams ", which was the band's first and only US number one ) and remained at No. 1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world.

Finally, Nilsson recorded what he later considered to be his favorite album, 1977's Knnillssonn.

He collaborated with The Faces ' bassist and fellow Meher Baba devotee Ronnie Lane on a duet album ( 1977's Rough Mix ).

The success of Who Loves You increased the popularity of the Four Seasons as a touring group and reignited recording unit, but when 1977's Helicon album was released by Warner Bros., the climate was changing again, both for the group and for Valli.

Jaco Pastorius, an innovative fretless electric bass player, joined the group in 1976 on the album Black Market, was co-producer ( with Zawinul ) on 1977's Heavy Weather, and is prominently featured on the 1979 live recording 8: 30.

The full album is currently unavailable on CD in its original mix ( though " Brown Sugar ", " Goin ' Down to Mexico " and " Just Got Back from Baby's " are available in their original mix on 2003's Chrome, Smoke & BBQ boxset, and " Backdoor Love Affair " is available on 1977's The Best of ZZ Top ).

They went on to continued success with the 1976 album Takin ' It to the Streets, 1977's Livin ' on the Fault Line, and particularly 1978's Minute by Minute, which spent five weeks as the # 1 album in the U. S. and spawned several hit singles ; Baxter's work on the album includes a noted performance at the end of " How Do the Fools Survive?

The Boones twice reached Billboard's AC charts with 1975's " When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes " ( No. 25 ), a remake of the Supremes ' first top 40 hit, and 1977's " Hasta Mañana " ( No. 32 ), a cover of a track from ABBA's Waterloo album.

Steve's guitar-picking and songwriting skills were a major revelation to the band, as proven on his one studio album, 1977's Street Survivors.

This style failed to catch on, and their first two LP's, 1974's Magician's Holiday and 1977's The Gap Band ( not to be confused with their 1979 album ) failed to chart or produce any charting singles.

Pink Floyd has used the talk box in " Pigs ( Three Different Ones )" from 1977's Animals album, and in " Keep Talking " from 1994's The Division Bell.

Also the album cover art ( by Risto Vuorimies ) has become a classic: it was the only Finnish album cover in 1977's Hipgnosisin and Roger Dean's work Album Cover Album ( Dragons, World Book ).

A year later her debut album, 1977's Portfolio, would be released.

Peaking at # 56 on Billboards album chart, Arrival was the band's first album that did not receive at least gold status, since 1977's Next.

It includes all their singles, in their single version, except for 1977's Capital Radio ( which, whilst not eligible for chart entry is still considered a single ) as well as 1985's " This Is England " due to the Cut the Crap album being disowned by the band at that time.

Her first of four albums on the Casablanca label was 1977's Love Shook ( the album was credited as Pattie Brooks & The Simon Orchestra ), and the whole album peaked at # 2 on the US Dance Chart.

Steinman started to work on Bad for Good, the album that was supposed to be the follow-up to 1977's Bat out of Hell, in 1978.

Their first album, 1977's Pezband, received a great deal of critical acclaim, with Record World declaring them the " Most Promising New Act of the Year ," with more positive reviews from Billboard and Trouser.

The result, 1977's Here You Come Again, became her first million-seller, topping the country albums chart and reaching No. 20 on the pop albums chart ; the Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil-penned title track topped the country singles chart, and became Parton's first top-ten single on the pop charts ( reaching number three ).

Merrill has thus far acted in twenty-two motion pictures, including 1957's Desk Set, 1959's Operation Petticoat ( with Cary Grant, who was married to her cousin, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton ), 1960's The Sundowners and Butterfield 8, 1961's The Young Savages, 1963's The Courtship of Eddie's Father, 1977's A Wedding, 1991's True Colors, and 1992's The Player.

She made her second film, 1977's horror film Orca ; which was a take-off of the 1975 horror film, Jaws.

Kahn's roles were primarily comedic rather than dramatic, though the 1970s found her originating roles in two plays that had both elements: 1974's In the Boom Boom Room and 1977's Marco Polo Sings a Solo.

His first film was 1977's Berlinguer ti voglio bene, also by Bertolucci.

Nolte's first major film role was starring opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Shaw in 1977's The Deep.

The first is 1977's Slap Shot, directed by George Roy Hill and featuring Paul Newman as an aging hockey player / coach.

It is also one in a series of first person space shooters ( including 1977's Starhawk and 1979's Star Fire ) that appeared in the late-1970s and were arguably predecessors of the later seen first-person shooter genre.

The rendition by Stevens lasts a little over 1 minute and was his first chicken-clucking performance since 1977's " In the Mood ," released under the alias " The Henhouse Five Plus Too.

Metheny's next recording, 1977's Watercolors, was the first to feature pianist Lyle Mays, Metheny's most frequent collaborator.

Bryson's greatest solo hits include 1977's " Feel the Fire " and " Reaching for the Sky ", 1978's " I'm So Into You " and " Crosswinds " 1982's " Let the Feeling Flow ", 1984's " If Ever You're in My Arms Again " ( his first Top 10 single, at # 10 in the US ), 1989's " Show and Tell ", and the 1991 hit " Can You Stop the Rain ".

Louis Clark returned to conduct the strings once more and violinist Mik Kaminski appeared on an ELO recording for the first time since 1977's Out of the Blue, playing a violin solo on the track " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King.

One of the first albums the label released was 1977's Bat Out of Hell by Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf which has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.

Original guitarist Henry Paul returned to the band for the first time since 1977's " Hurry Sundown ".

Their debut single " Shadow ", the first release on Beggars Banquet Records, was voted by John Peel's listeners as twelfth best track of the year in 1977's Festive Fifty.

It was Friedkin's first film for Paramount Pictures since 1977's Sorcerer, the production of which would strain his relationship with the studio for years.

** July 7 — " Love Without End, Amen " by George Strait is Billboards first five-week No. 1 song, matching 1977's " Here You Come Again " by Dolly Parton.

But the success of 1977's Star Wars, which used the 4-channel system to great effect, encouraged owners of smaller theaters to install stereo equipment for the first time.

Living & Dying in 3 / 4 Time and A1A both followed in 1974, Havana Daydreamin ' appeared in 1976, followed by 1977's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, which featured the breakthrough hit song " Margaritaville ".

Although many fantasy novels of this time proved popular, it was not until 1977's The Sword of Shannara that publishers found the sort of breakthrough success they had hoped for.

Subsequent albums, such as 1977's When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All yielded such hit singles as " Lady Love ".