Commodores - Midnight Magic

This month marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Midnight Magic, the seventh studio album from the Commodores. It went to number 15 in the UK, number 3 on the US Billboard Album chart (a forty-one week chart life total) and number 1 on the US Billboard R&B chart.

Commodores - Natural High

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Saturday

This month marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Natural High, the sixth studio album from the Commodores. This May of 1978 release peaked at number 8 on the UK charts and number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 200. It also provided the band with its first number 1 single outside of the US Billboard R&B charts.

Thank God It's Friday (soundtrack)

Welcome to another edition of Soundtrack Sunday.

Continuing on with my birthday weekend celebration, I thought I would dig back into the movie music vaults for another disco classic. This time, we are looking at the soundtrack to the film Thank God It’s Friday which hit the theaters on May 19th, 1978.

The movie tells several intertwining stories of the patrons and staff at a fictional Los Angeles disco club called the Zoo (a real LA club called Osko's on South La Cienega Blvd. was used for the set). It starred Jeff Goldblum, Debra Winger, Valerie Landsburg (who would later star on the TV show Fame), Terri Nunn (of Berlin), and singers Paul Jabara and Donna Summer.