During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

Easy listening icon Percy Faith, in one of his last recordings, recorded a disco version of his famous " Theme from A Summer Place " in 1976.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

It contains 35 of Young's songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point.

It was shelved until the following year, where it appeared with two songs removed from the original tracklist ( a live version of " Don't Cry No Tears " recorded in Japan in 1976, and a live version of " Pushed it Over The End " recorded in 1974 ).

" Secret Agent Man " had been recorded first in 1974 for Devo's first film and performed live as early as 1976.

* In 1976 The Kinks recorded the song " Father Christmas ".

Musician Joe Walsh recorded chats with Moon, finding it remarkable how witty and alert the inebriated drummer managed to stay, ad-libbing his way through surrealistic fantasy stories à la Peter Cook, which Cooper reaffirms, saying he was not even certain he ever knew the real Keith Moon, or if there was one. Keith Moon showing off atop his drumkit Toronto, 21 October 1976

Murphy stayed on for two more albums, Lost in a Dream and This Time We Mean It, before Cronin returned to the fold in January 1976 and recorded R. E. O., which was released that same year.

The last major outbreak of the disease in humans occurred between 1974 and 1976, where an estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 cases were recorded.

* 1976: Jazz guitarist Pat Martino recorded an instrumental version of the song for We'll be Together Again

They recorded the album Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers ( 1976 ), but Robinson again left after Richman persisted in reducing the size and volume of his drum kit, and was replaced by D. Sharpe.

* The Modern Lovers ( recorded September 1971 and March 1972, released 1976 )

In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".

That same year, the group recorded soundstage performances with country singer Emmylou Harris (" Evangeline ") and gospel-soul group The Staple Singers (" The Weight "); Scorsese combined these new performances, as well as interviews he had conducted with the group, with the 1976 concert footage.

1976 saw the first recorded outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a highly lethal virally transmitted disease.

Nicks originally wrote " Secret Love " in 1976 and recorded a demo of it for Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours.

As co-leader of the Dicey Ross Band with harmonica player Bill Dicey, Ross recorded with Big Joe Turner in 1976 for Spivey Records, a Brooklyn label owned by Victoria Spivey and Lenny Kunstadt.

During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina, recorded there, and on at least one occasion had lunch with the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.

" Bonzo's Montreux " by Led Zeppelin is named after the city where the drums session of John Bonham was recorded in 1976.

* In 1976 he recorded a promotional flexi-disc for Heinz called " The Noodle Doodle Man ".

Stella Parton, Dolly's sister, recorded " Ode to Olivia " and Newton-John recorded her 1976 album, Don't Stop Believin ', in Nashville.

On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.

*" Big Dipper ", a song by Jethro Tull from their 1976 album Too Old to Rock ' n ' Roll: Too Young to Die!

The second was their breakthrough album, 2112, released the following year in 1976.

Diana Ross was one of the first Motown artists to embrace the disco sound with her hugely successful 1976 outing " Love Hangover " from her self-entitled album.

With her 1976 album All I Can Do, co-produced by herself with Porter Wagoner, Parton began taking more of an active role in production, and began specifically aiming her music in a more mainstream, pop direction.

Featuring a starkly lit set, the Isolar – 1976 Tour highlighted songs from the album, including the dramatic and lengthy title track, the ballads " Wild Is the Wind " and " Word on a Wing ", and the funkier " TVC 15 " and " Stay ".

The group toured extensively from 3 February till 13 April 1976 promoting the album in the US, playing 68 shows in 76 days ( see Face the Music ).

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

The album also shed the customary ELO logo that had appeared on every album since 1976.

Included amongst the remastered album tracks were unreleased songs and out-takes, including 2 new singles " Surrender " which registered on the lower end of the UK Singles Chart at number 81, some 30 years after it was written in 1976.

The official band logo, designed in 1976 by artist Kosh, was first seen on their 1976 album A New World Record and is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker.

After her 1976 album, I've Got You, Gaynor shifted from her hit production team, to work with other productions.

* New England ( Wishbone Ash album ), a 1976 album by Wishbone Ash

The singer Renaud repopularized the term amongst the young generation with his 1976 album Amoureux de Paname (" In love with Paname ").

The Ramones ' 1976 Ramones ( album ) | debut album laid down the musical " blueprint for punk ," while its cover image had a similarly formative influence on punk visual style.

In 1976 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) revised the definition of the AU for greater precision, defining it as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant ( k ) takes the value when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and time.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of, because Wozniak " liked repeating digits " and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $ 500 plus a one-third markup.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Only two fragments of the overall plan were ever realized: the Finlandia Hall concert hall ( 1976 ) fronting Töölö Bay, and an office building in the Kamppi district for the Helsinki Electricity Company ( 1975 ).

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

* 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡ All-Time Quarterback!

* The city in the 1976 film Logan's Run is entirely self-contained for all resources, except power, which is said to be supplied by water moved by the tides.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

It is controlled by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology ( WHOCC ), and was first published in 1976.

The AIM-7F, which entered service in 1976, had a dual-stage rocket motor for longer range, solid-state electronics for greatly improved reliability, and a larger warhead.

When Brown retired as head coach following the 1975 season and appointed Bill " Tiger " Johnson as his successor, Walsh resigned and served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.

The synthesis of bohrium was first attempted in 1976 by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna using this cold fusion reaction.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

Seating stands for viewing the American Bicentennial " Operation Sail " flotilla parade were set up on the completed landfill in July 1976.

Freed for a US $ 60 million ransom ( the largest on record at that time ), the ordeal triggered the company headquarters ' relocation to São Paolo, Brazil, and contributed to the March 1976 coup.

Robert G. Bailey almost developed a biogeographical classification system for the United States in a map published in 1976.