Get Your Car Washed, it's January 1977!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in January 1977 was 'Car Wash' by Rose Royce.
1977 Federal Government
President: Gerald Ford (R-Michigan) (until January 20), Jimmy Carter (D-Georgia) (starting January 20)
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller (R-New York) (until January 20), Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota) (starting January 20)
Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger (Minnesota)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma) (until January 3), Tip O'Neill (D-Massachusetts) (starting January 4)
Senate Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield (D-Montana) (until January 3), Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) (starting January 3)
Congress: 94th (until January 3), 95th (starting January 3)
January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
January 3 - Lovers and Friends and Shoot for the Stars tv shows premiere on NBC.
January 3 - Holly Hallstrom becomes the third model on the CBS game show The Price Is Right along with Janice Pennington and Dian Parkinson.
January 6 – William Gropper, American artist, dies. (b. 1897)
January 7 - The Sentinel movie premieres.
January 9 – Super Bowl XI: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Minnesota Vikings 32–14 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Here's a nice recap of the game from YouTube:
January 10 - Circus of the Stars tv special premieres on CBS.
January 14 – Peter Finch, English-born actor, dies. (b. 1916)
January 15 - Bill Murray joins the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live, replacing Chevy Chase.
January 17 – In the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United States, Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
January 17 - Busting Loose tv series premieres on CBS. The New Mickey Mouse Club premieres in syndication.
January 18 - Pumping Iron movie premieres.
January 19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida for the first time in its history.
January 19 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka “Tokyo Rose”). During September 1945 Iva, a Japanese-American disc jockey for a propagandist radio program in Japan, attempted to return to the United States. She was accused of being the "real" Tokyo Rose, arrested, tried, and became the seventh person in U.S. history to be convicted of treason. She was eventually paroled from prison in 1956.
January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.
January 21 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
January 23 – Roots begins its successful run on ABC.
January 23 – Toots Shor, restaurant proprietor, dies. (b. 1903)
January 25 - Providence movie premieres.
January 28 – The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo, New York.
January 28 - The Late Show movie premieres.
January 29 – Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian, dies. (b. 1954)
January 30 - The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries tv series premieres on ABC.
January 31 - Andros Targets premieres on CBS.
The contiguous US average monthly minimum temperature of 12.52 °F or −10.82 °C for January is the coldest for any month since nationwide records were first compiled in 1895.
1977 Lincoln Continental:
Playboy playmate of the month, Susan Lynn Kiger, and Playgirl man for January, Tom Gagen:
Albums released in January (Album / Artist):
Flight Log / Jefferson Airplane
Hard Again / Muddy Waters
Leave Home / Ramones
Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! / Bootsy's Rubber Band
Low / David Bowie
Deep in My Soul / Smokey Robinson
An Evening with Diana Ross / Diana Ross
Playing the Fool / Gentle Giant
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes / Jimmy Buffett
So So Satisfied / Ashford and Simpson
Animals / Pink Floyd
Spiral Scratch / Buzzcocks
The Nielsen top 10 programs for the week ending January 16th: Little Ladies of the Night, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Six Million Dollar Man all ABC; M.A.S.H. CBS; Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, and ABC's Friday movie ABC; One Day at a Time CBS; Little House on the Prairie NBC; and 60 Minutes CBS.
Ms. Marvel comic for January:
Rona Barrett's Hollywood magazine for January:
Seventeen magazine for January:
Time magazine for January 24, 1977:
Big Deal game (released 1977):
Peanuts comic strip from January 1977:
For detailed news/info on what happened each day in January 1977, check out this really good site:
ultimate70s.com
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