Computer Magic - Running (Hiding Verson)

[link] This is in a current Lexus commercial but I may have heard it first on DKFM. It is a really superb song.

Talk Nerdy to Me

These are my people.

Gary Wright - Love is Alive

[link] This was the #10 song of 1976.  Has multiple hooks and seems to anticipate stuff like Steve Winwood's and Peter Gabriel's solo work, although they were both active at this time.

Bread - Lost Without Your Love

[link] Part of a subgenre of soft rock.  Really earnest ballads.  Manilow, Air Supply, and a whole bunch of others made songs like this. The composition, instrumentation, and production carry huge amounts of the thematic and narrative content even without the lyrics. The semi-happy little instrumental part is kind of weird in this one.

Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle

[link] This song was #74 from 1977.  This sound bridges Billy Joel and Elton John. I'm sure I've heard it hundreds of times in the background, but never really listened to it from beginning to end.

Just a Song Before I Go - Crosby Stills and Nash

This song was number 47 in the Top 100 of 1977. A prime example of slow rock from the 70s with their unparalleled harmony work. It's kind of a defining characteristic of my musical aesthetics that I came of (first) age during this time of a lot of ambivalent, melancholy, relationship-song, rock with country and folk influences.  Rock history documentaries tend to talk about the 70s as a time of recovery from the 60s.  There was a lot of disillusionment and people trying to get their lives straight from all the drugs and chaos.

Jennifer Warnes - Right Time of the Night

Was taking a look at the Billboard Top 100 of 1977. This song was #34. I've always really liked it. She has a great country-pop voice. There's a lot of pop sophistication in both the verse and the chorus.  And the transition between the last line of the verse and the chorus is very nice. The song was written by Peter McCann, who wrote for a lot of 70s and 80s artists. The song kind of runs out of steam in the C part and the end, but that's sort of typical for pop songs of the period.  Just an idea or two, not too much else.