Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)


I'm not a big on sci-fi or aliens, but for some reason I bought a package of movie trading cards for this one:


Having hauled these around for 40 years and never looking at them, I've decided to unload them on eBay just to see if I can get 10¢ for them. But isn't this (allegedly) a music blog?

The discofied version of the John Williams theme peaked at #13 on the Billboard pop chart in 1978.


The inferior Meco disco version peaked at #25 on the Billboard chart in 1978.


Today's music education lesson: the hand signs used in the movie are the actual Solfege hand signs for the movie's five note theme motif:





But there was more to November, 1977 than the release of the Close Encounters movie. Here's a reminder as to what was topping the Billboard charts on November 19, 1977.

Top LP
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
Hot 100
"You Light Up My Life"
Debby Boone
Soul Album
Brick
Brick
Soul Single
"Serpentine Fire"
Earth, Wind & Fire
Country Album
Elvis in Concert
Elvis Presley
Country Single
"The Wurlitzer Prize"
Waylon Jennings
Adult Contemporary 
"You Light Up My Life"
Debby Boone
Classical Album
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
London Symphony Orchestra



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