Marvin Gaye’s version of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” became
his signature song and has since become a landmark in pop music. It
ranked #80 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time. It was also inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for “historical,
artistic and significant value”.

”Angie Baby” became one of Helen Reddy’s biggest-selling
singles.

“Let’s Do It Again”, written by Curtis Mayfield, was part of the soundtrack for the
Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier movie of the same name. It was the last single to reach
the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1975.

In 1999, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Pops Staples
died of complications from a concussion suffered in December 2000. In 2005, the
group was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.  

“Someday We’ll Be Together" is the last of twelve number-one singles for Diana
Ross & the Supremes on the Motown label. It is the final Supremes song featuring
Diana Ross, who left the group in January 1970 to pursue a solo career and was
also the last American number-one hit for the 1960s.

Note: “Someday We’ll Be Together” was also the last record played by Dave
“Record” Stone (shown below) when radio 910 KISN in Portland, Oregon was
silenced on Thursday, September 2, 1976.

Barbara in 1976 with WIGL-FM air personality Ron Tatar

Country music singer Barbara Ann Mandrell become one of country’s most
successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She was inducted into
the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Barbara was the first performer and
is currently one of the few females in country music history to win the Country
Music Association’s "Entertainer of the Year" award twice (the other being
Taylor Swift), and she has also won the CMA’s "Female Vocalist of the
Year" twice.

Mandrell’s first No. 1 hit was 1978’s "Sleeping Single in a Double
Bed”