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Topic: music history

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Friday, 7/3, 06:38 PM

The One-Hit Wonder That Scored America's Bicentennial Summer

  • In the patriotic summer of 1976, the song that actually topped the charts wasn't a march or an anthem — it was a winking little tune about a midday tryst.
  • The Starland Vocal Band's 'Afternoon Delight' hit No.
  • 1 on July 10, 1976, and half a century later it remains the unlikely soundtrack of America's Bicentennial.

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