Traverse City Senior High School Class of 1974 - 1974 in Review
Capture the significant events of your graduation year here
U.S. Statistics
President: Richard M. Nixon
Vice President: Gerald R. Ford
Population: 213,853,928
Life expectancy: 72.0 years
Economics
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $11,197
Consumer Price Index: 49.3
Unemployment: 5.6%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.08 ($0.10 as of 3/2/74)
Entertainment
Record of the Year: 'Killing Me Softly With His Song,' Roberta Flack
Album of the Year: Innervisions, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown)
Song of the Year: 'Killing Me Softly With His Song,' Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, songwriters
Movies: Chinatown, The Godfather Part II, Day for Night, Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno
Top 25 Hits of 1974
# 1. Takin Care Of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO)
# 2. The Loco-motion - Grand Funk
# 3. Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk
# 4. Piano Man - Billy Joel
# 5. You're My First, My Last, My Everything - Barry White
# 6. Dancing Machine - Jackson Five
# 7. Jungle Boogie - Kool and the Gang
# 8. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe - Barry White
# 9. Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens
# 10. Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
# 11. Wildwood Weed - Jim Stafford
# 12. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
# 13. Billy Don't Be A Hero - Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
# 14. TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) - MFSB
# 15. Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder
# 16. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynrd
# 17. The Bitch Is Back - Elton John
# 18. Waterloo - Abba
# 19. Doctor's Orders - Carol Douglas
# 20. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Rolling Stones
# 21. Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Sude (1990's 'the dancing baby song')
# 22. For The Love Of Money - O Jays
# 23. My Melody Of Love - Bobby Vinton
# 24. It's Only Rock and Roll - Rolling Stones
# 25. The Payback - James Brown