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Light Up Your Life with November 1977!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in November 1977 was 'You Light Up My Life' by Debby Boone. This song held the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten consecutive weeks and topped Record World magazine's Top 100 Singles Chart for a record thirteen weeks.

November 3 - Pete's Dragon movie premieres.

November 4 - Heroes movie premieres.

November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

November 8 – San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.

November 8 - Ed Koch is elected mayor of New York City.

November 13 – The comic strip Li'l Abner ends a 43-year run in newspapers.

November 14 - The Turning Point movie premieres.

November 16 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind movie premieres.

November 18 - Semi-Tough movie premieres.

November 22 – British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

November 27 – The Rankin/Bass animated film The Hobbit premieres on NBC.

November 30 - Commentator Eric Sevareid completed his final two-minute segment on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, after 48 years at CBS News.

November 30 - The Goodbye Girl movie premieres.

1977 Mercedes Benz 450SL:

Avengers comic for November:

Hardy Boys wristwatch (released 1977):

Playboy playmate of the month, Rita Lee, and Playgirl man for November, Paul Vonderlin:

Nielsen top shows for the week ending November 13th: Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Love Boat, Three's Company, Big Event "The Godfather" Sunday installment, Little House on the Prairie, Eight is Enough, 60 Minutes, NBC Monday Movie "Aspen", Rhoda, Welcome Back, Kotter, Big Event "The Godfather" Saturdav installment, All in the Family, NFL Monday Night Football, What's Happening, On Our Own, Soap, ABC Sunday Movie "The Poseidon Adventure", Donny and Marie.

Albums released in November (album / artist):
Foot Loose and Fancy Free / Rod Stewart
Rocket to Russia / The Ramones
I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight / Neil Diamond
Death of a Ladies' Man / Leonard Cohen
Saturday Night Fever / Bee Gees et al.
Thankful / Natalie Cole
Broken Blossom / Bette Midler
All 'n All / Earth, Wind and Fire
Chic / Chic
Slowhand / Eric Clapton

Better Homes and Gardens for November:

National Lampoon for November:

Sport magazine for November:

Peanuts comic strip from November 1977:

For detailed news/info on what happened each day in November 1977, check out this really good site: ultimate70s.com

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 1 - Jacqueline Allene Means becomes the first woman to be regularly ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church.

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:

Super Bowl XI Highlights

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.