Billboard Top 10
1) We Are The Champions - Queen
2) Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder
3) It's A Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
4) Take A Chance On Me - Abba
5) Baby Come Back - Player
6) Reminiscing - Little River Band
7) Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
8) If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
9) Kiss You All Over - Exile
10) I Go Crazy - Paul Davis
Top Albums
1) 52nd Street - Billy Joel
2) Don't Look Back - Boston
3) Grease - Soundtrack
4) Live and More - Donna Summer
5) Saturday Night Fever - Soundtrack
Grammy Winners
Album of the Year - Saturday Night Fever
Best New Artist - A Taste of Honey
Best Pop Duo or Group: Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees
Best Pop Female Vocal: You Needed Me - Anne Murray
Best Pop Male Vocal: Copacabana - Barry Manilow
Record of the Year: Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel
Song of the Year: Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel, songwriter
TV & Movies
TV Favorites Top 20
1) Laverne and Shirley
2) Three's Company
3) Mork and Mindy
4) Happy Days
5) The Ropers
6) What's Happening!!
7) Alice (8:30)
8) M*A*S*H
9) All in the Family
10) Taxi
11) 60 Minutes
12) Charlie's Angels
13) Angie
14) Alice (9:30)
15) All in the Family
16) WKRP in Cincinnati
17) Soap
18) Eight Is Enough
19) Barney Miller
20) CBS Sunday Night Movie
Top Movie $$$ Makers
Grease $181,484,409
Animal House $141,600,000
Superman $134,218,018
Jaws 2 $102,922,376
Halloween $ 47,000,000
Other Movie Releases
An Unmarried Woman
Autumn Sonata
Coming Home
Days of Heaven
Every Which Way But Loose
Foul Play
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Halloween
Interiors
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Midnight Express
Pretty Baby
Revenge of the Pink Panther
The Deer Hunter
Up In Smoke (Cheech & Chong)
Academy Awards
Best Actor: Jon Voight: Coming Home
Best Actress: Jane Fonda: Coming Home
Best Director: Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter
Best Picture: Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, John Peverall: The Deer Hunter
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken: The Deer Hunter
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith: California Suite
Emmy Awards
Drama
Best Drama - Lou Grant (CBS)
Best Actor - Ron Leibman, Kaz
Best Actress - Mariette Hartley, The Incredible Hulk: “Married”
Supporting Actor - Stuart Margolin, The Rockford Files
Supporting Actress - Kristy McNichol, Family
Comedy
Best Comedy - Taxi (ABC)
Best Actor - Carroll O'Connor, All in the Family
Best Actress -Ruth Gordon, Taxi: “Sugar Mama”
Supporting Actor - Robert Guillaume, Soap
Supporting Actress - Sally Struthers, All in the Family: “California Here We Are”
Best Variety - Steve and Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin (NBC)
Sports
- Tom Landry leads the Dallas Cowboys over the Denver Broncos in the Superbowl 27-10.
- Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg rule the tennis world. A youngster, John McEnroe, begins to challenge their reign.
- Yankees beat the Dodgers in the World Series.
- Washington Bullets win the NBA Championship.
- Joe Namath retires.
- Muhammed Ali 36 beats Leon Spinx to regain heavywieght title.
- Pete Rose signs 3.5 million-dollar contract with the Phillis.
- Affirmed wins "Triple Crown".
- Gary Player wins Masters.
A bit of Trivia....
Many BHS Class of 1978 members were born in 1960. Did you know that according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, 1960 was a "Year of the Rat"?
Well, so is the year 2008, the year of our 30th Reunion!
Here's what the Chinese have to say about the Rat zodiac sign:
People born in the Year of the Rat are noted for their charm and attraction for the opposite sex. They work hard to achieve their goals, aquire possessions and are likely to be perfectionists. They are basically thrifty with money. Rat people are easily angered and love to gossip. Their ambitions are big and they are usually very successful.