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While the Bee Gees still reigned supreme with "How Deep Is Your Love" from the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, a band from Los Angeles would score their first, and only chart-topper in the start of 1978. The band, Player, a then-four-man group which had the distinction of having Ron Moss; a guitar player and also a star on the hit soap opera: "The Bold and The Beautiful" as a band member. The pop/rock ballad with a small tinge of country music was the most popular song of the start of the year, knocking the three Aussie/UK brothers off the top spot on January 14. Their stint lasted three weeks until the brothers knocked them off with the movie's disco anthem: "Stayin' Alive".
The Brothers Gibb still held on strong with their chart-topping ballad: "How Deep Is Your Love" at number two. Dolly Parton, who was a country music superstar and a darling on the country charts, would finally score her first pop hit in "Here You Come Again" which made it's way to number three and peaked there. UK rocker, Rod Stewart was bucking for his third number one smash hit with "You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)", which, if it had hit, would've been his third number one rock ballad to score the top. Instead, it had to settle for the number four position. But, as the year closed out, Stewart would then score his third number one after all, but with a rock/disco record: "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" which hit number one at the start of 1979. The Greensboro, NC funk/soul band, L.T.D. which stood for Love, Togetherness & Devotion, would drop to number five after peaking at number four on the pop chart, while hitting number one on the soul chart and placing in the top 20 on the then-Disco Charts.
Player Baby Come Back Video
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