The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

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 ".

1979 also brought Devo to Japan for the first time, and a live show from this tour was partially recorded.

* 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

Gaynor also recorded a disco song called " Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away " in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula which featured a number of disco songs.

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

* 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

Karachi's highest recorded temperature is, which was recorded on June 18, 1979, and the lowest is, recorded on 21 January 1934.

* 1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87. 0 kPa ( 870 mbar or 25. 69 inHg ), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.

*" Cricket Star " ( 1979, one sided flexi single recorded under Robert Calvert and the 1st XI )

The ' Opera in Six Scenes ' was subsequently recorded by Decca between March and June 1979 and released on the Argo label in November 1979.

This band recorded the album Rock ' N ' Roll with the Modern Lovers ( 1977 ) and toured until Keranen left to go to college and was replaced by Asa Brebner, who played on the albums Modern Lovers Live ( 1978 ) and Back in Your Life ( 1979 ).

In 1979 they recorded songs under the name of Mental Torture before finally changing their name to The Associates.

In January 1979, the Undertones recorded their eponymous debut album at Eden Studios in Acton, West London, using producer Roger Bechirian, whom the band had worked with for the first time the previous December, when Bechirian had produced the band's second single, " Get Over You ".

Nicks wrote and recorded demos for the solo project during Tusk sessions in 1979 and the Tusk world tour of 1979 – 80.

Nicks recorded the hit duets " Whenever I Call You Friend " with Kenny Loggins in 1978, and " Gold " with John Stewart in 1979.

Similarly, Saddam Hussein's formal rule of Iraq is often recorded as beginning in 1979, the year he assumed the Presidency of Iraq.

The 1979 first single " Killing an Arab " by The Cure was recorded at the same time as their first LP in the UK, Three Imaginary Boys ( 1979 ) but not included on the album.

However, his last known recorded performance of the song, at a November 1979 command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, was a complete version.

* The song was recorded in 1979 by disco group Gary's Gang for their album Gangbusters.

# The Primates ' Meeting ( first met in 1979 ) is the most recent manifestation of international consultation and deliberation, having been first convened by Archbishop Donald Coggan as a forum for " leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation ".

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

Brooks directed his first feature film, Real Life, in 1979.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

The first attempts to synthesize bohrium by hot fusion pathways were performed in 1979 by the team at Dubna.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

Building on this first edition, in 1979, B. Dennis Sustare wrote " Different Worlds Present the World of Druid's Valley: A Bunnies & Burrows Campaign " in Different Worlds, a magazine published by Chaosium.

Since 1979, a facsimile edition of that first edition has been available in four paper-bound volumes.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

Chaosium, from 1979 to 1985, published the thirty-eight first ones and Sleuth Publications, from 1985 to 1987, the nine last ones.

The first Masorti communities in the State of Israel were founded in 1979 by North American olim.

Shark expert and underwater filmmaker Valerie Taylor was among the first to develop and test the mail suit in 1979 while diving with sharks.

In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

He earned his master's degree in theater from The Catholic University of America ( CUA ) in Washington, D. C., where he met his first wife, actress Susan Sarandon ; they divorced in 1979.

The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

Anderson was involved in the fledgling alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s and was the first act to come on stage at The Comedy Store when it opened in 1979.

In 1979, HP released the first alphanumeric, programmable, expandable calculator, the HP-41C.

* 1979 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.

Beginning in 1973, INGRES delivered its first test products which were generally ready for widespread use in 1979.

* 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.

In 1974, Technics released the first SL-1200 turntable, which evolved into the SL-1200 MK2 in 1979 — which, as of the early-2010s, remains an industry standard for DJing.

In 1979, the Sugar Hill Gang released " Rapper's Delight ", the first hip-hop record to become a hit.