Top Songs for 1974
Billy, Don't Be a Hero by Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods Seasons In the Sun by Terry Jacks
Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas T
he Loco-Motion by Grand Funk
The Streak by Ray Stevens
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) by MFSB with the Three Degrees
The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand
Having My Baby by Paul Anka
Annie's Song by John Denver
I Can Help by Billy Swan
1974 Prices US President
Bread: $0.28/loaf Gerald R. Ford
Milk: $1.39/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.24/doz Nelson A. Rockefeller
Car: $4,440
Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.53/gal Best Picture: The Godfather Part Ii
Directed By Francis Ford Coppola
Best Actor: Art Carney
in Harry And Tonto
Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn
in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
House: $38,900
Stamp: $0.10/ea
Avg Income: $14,711/yr
Min Wage: $2.00/hr
DOW Avg: 616
People born on December 29
1800 - Charles Goodyear inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
1945 - Adje Roland Dutch disc-jockey
1947 - Ted Danson San Diego CA, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby)
1721 - Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1928 - Bernard Cribbins Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show)
1949 - Angel Tompkins actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law)
1743 - Alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer
1931 - Barbara Steele England, actress (Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows)
1767 - Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer
1792 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian (History of Europe)
1974 - James Darling linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1808 - Andrew Johnson Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th President (1865-69)
1809 - Albert Pike Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1876 - Pablo Casals Vendrell Catalonia Spain, cellist/conductor/composer
1831 - Adam Badeau Bvt Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1985 - Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley
1843 - Elisabeth queen of Romania/poet (Rumänische Dichtungen)
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland Bethlehem PA, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker)
1938 - Jon Voight Yonkers NY, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
1974 - Brad Hodge cricketer (promising Victorian middle-order batsman)
On TV in 1974
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
All in the Family
M*A*S*H
Hot New Toys in 1974
Evel Knievel Stunt Stadium
Planet of the Apes figures
Evel Knievel Dragster
Rubik's Cube
Sit 'N Spin
Connnect Four
Monchhichi
Star Trek figures
Digger the Dog
Top Books in 1974
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Working by Studs Terkel
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
