{"id":557840,"date":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557840\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:14:10","slug":"4-songs-from-1976-every-kid-heard-while-riding-in-the-family-car-to-school-each-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557840\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Songs From 1976 Every Kid Heard While Riding in the Family Car to School Each Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in <a href=\"http:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/1970s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1976<\/a>, if you were a kid, you likely listened to a ton of great songs on the radio while your parents drove you to school. The following four songs were all over the radio that year, and I bet at least a few of them bring back a few disco-flavored memories. Let\u2019s take a look!<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty\u201d by KC And The Sunshine Band from \u2018Part 3\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785773649_306_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KC And The Sunshine Band weren\u2019t messing around in the 1970s. And this iconic disco jam is one of their most memorable singles from the middle of that decade. \u201c(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty\u201d has a touch of disco and soul. Plenty of listeners resonated with this very danceable track. The song peaked at No. 1 in the US and Canada and reached No. 22 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tVideos by American Songwriter\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSilly Love Songs\u201d by Wings from \u2018Wings At The Speed Of Sound\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785773649_942_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSilly Love Songs\u201d by Wings is one of those disco-funk songs from a very particular era that you just can\u2019t forget once you\u2019ve heard it. Paul McCartney proved yet again that he knew how to keep his thumb on the pulse of what was popular in then-modern music and pen a hit accordingly. Interestingly enough, this song was a bit of a rebuttal against critics who said that McCartney was only good at writing sappy love songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisco Lady\u201d by Johnnie Taylor from \u2018Eargasm\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785773650_279_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Remember this classic disco-funk tune from Johnnie Taylor? \u201cDisco Lady\u201d was very indicative of its time, considering how much of a disco anthem it remains today. Listeners at the time were obsessed with it. The song made it all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it stayed for four entire weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlay That Funky Music\u201d by Wild Cherry from \u2018Wild Cherry\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785773650_115_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Even if you\u2019re not a 70s kid, this song is just way too catchy to forget. Hear it once, and it\u2019s lodged in your brain forevermore. I\u2019m not complaining, though. \u201cPlay That Funky Music\u201d by Wild Cherry is a fun, funky delight. It still gets people moving after all these years. And back in 1976, if you heard this entry on our list of songs on the radio on the way to school, you (and your parents) likely sang along the whole way there.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 1976, if you were a kid, you likely listened to a ton of great songs on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52222,25615,36599,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-557840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1970s","tag-classic-rock","tag-disco","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}