The flipSide - 05/09/2016

1977
"Margaritaville" is a 1977 song by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.  This song was written about a drink Buffett discovered at Lung's Cocina del Sur restaurant on Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas, and the first huge surge of tourists who descended on Key West, Florida around that time. "Margaritaville" reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart,  also peaking at #13 on the Hot Country Songs chart.  Billboard ranked it number 14 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart.  It remains Buffett's highest charting solo single.

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​1967
"Groovin" is a single released in 1967 by the Young Rascals that became a number-one hit and one of the group's signature songs. 

1976
"Take It to the Limit" is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album One of These Nights from which it was issued as the third single on November 15, 1975. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also the Eagles' greatest success to that point in the UK, going to No. 12 on the charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1976.

1968
"Mrs. Robinson" (The Graduate) became Simon & Garfunkel's second chart-topper, hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaking within the top 10 of multiple other countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain, among others. In 1969, it became the first rock song to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song has been covered by a number of artists, including Frank Sinatra, the Lemonheads, and Bon Jovi.  In 2004, it finished at #6 on AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Songs  survey of top tunes in American cinema.

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Harv