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.

In 1976, he recorded a 9-song album for Lou Adler's Ode Records which was unreleased in its entirety until February 2010, when it was made available as a legal download ( 4 tracks from these sessions had been released on a 1990 Rocky Horror box set ).

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.

This logo was placed in the top center of the cover from August 1975 to October 1976.

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.

The cover of the Ramones ' 1976 debut album, featuring a shot of the band by Punk photographer Roberta Bayley, set forth the basic elements of a style that was soon widely emulated by rock musicians both punk and nonpunk.

The " starman " logo first appeared on the back cover of the 1976 album 2112 ( album ) | 2112.

His most famous work is probably its March 29, 1976 cover, an illustration titled " View of the World from 9th Avenue ", sometimes referred to as " A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World " or " A New Yorker's View of the World ", which depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers.

McCoy was on hand to cover the unforgettable Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals in which Garfield Heard made the game-tying basket that sent the game into triple overtime.

* The Sex Pistols recorded the first high profile Stooges cover, " No Fun ", in 1976, introducing the Stooges to a new generation of audiences, particularly in England, where Pop was then based.

Greatly affected by the punk explosion of 1976 which saw Australian bands The Saints and Radio Birdman making their first recordings and tours, The Boys Next Door, as they were now called, began performing punk and proto-punk cover versions, such as " Blitzkrieg Bop " and " Gloria ", and a few original songs.

In 1976, after five years as a cover girl, Basinger quit modelling and moved to Los Angeles to act.

By 1976, ex-The Herd, Judas Jump member and Peter Frampton Band member Andy Bown was brought in to cover keyboards — although as he was contracted as a solo artist with EMI he was not credited as a full-time member until 1982.

Meanwhile, they provided two tracks, " Marijuana Hell " and the Percy Sledge cover " When a Man Loves a Woman " to the Various Artists live album Live at the Station which was released on Lamington Records in 1976.

Heart performed a cover of the song at least once in 1976 ; the 2004 reissue of the band's album Little Queen includes a recording as a bonus track.

Harley also had a surprise Top 10 in the summer of 1976 with a cover version of " Here Comes the Sun ".

A June, 1976 issue of People magazine featured them in a cover article.

Focusing on the post-graduation lives of 30 of Medved's Palisades High School classmates who were featured in a 1965 cover story in Time, the book became a bestseller in 1976.

In February 1976, at the suggestion of the band's agent, Kevin Brenner, Jay Jay was told that the band could only go so far without being able to play Led Zeppelin cover songs and urged Jay Jay to hire Danny Snider ( Dee Snider ).

Steinberg alleged that the movie poster infringed the copyright in " View of the World from Ninth Avenue ", his famous cover illustration for a 1976 issue of The New Yorker magazine.

In his last two Senate campaigns of 1976 and 1982, Proxmire refused to take any campaign contributions, and on each spent less than $ 200 out of his own pocket — to cover the expenses related to filing for re-election and return postage for unsolicited contributions.

A 1976 cover of " Don't Leave Me This Way " by Motown artist Thelma Houston was a number-one hit on the US pop chart ; her version is one of the defining recordings of the disco era.

His career initially took off after he appeared on the cover of Vogue in 1976.

The Pointer Sisters also scored another R & B hit from the album with " Going Down Slowly ", another Allen Toussaint cover, and in 1976 appeared in the classic blaxploitation film Car Wash. Their song from the movie, " You Gotta Believe ", made the R & B top 20 in early 1977.

The cover picture of the single is taken from the 6 October 1976 Massacre in Thailand, and depicts a member of the rightist crowd beating the corpse of a student protester with a metal chair.

The album's cover is a 1976 painting called Meister und Margeritha ( Master and Margarita ) by famous Swiss artist H. R.

According to Zabel and Friedman's original plan, the pilot and first season ( given the overall title " Official Denial ") would cover the period from 1961 to 1969, the second season (" Progenitor ") 1970 to 1976, the third season (" Cloak of Fear ") 1977 to 1986, the fourth season (" New World Order ") would cover 1987 to 1999, and the fifth and final season (" Stroke of Midnight ") would break from the decade-spanning format to encompass the apocalyptic final conflict against the invaders, taking place from 2000 to 2001.