1979
🎂 What music raised you?
Drop your birthday and we'll rewind to your golden era — the years the songs imprinted for life.
🔙 Backtrack — 1979
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
In 1979, a perfect afternoon didn't need much: The Pink Panther, a packet of Fun Dip, a can of Hawaiian Punch, and nowhere important to be.
🎬 At the movies
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Scooby-Doo👕 tee →
- Super Friends👕 tee →
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- The Pink Panther Show
- Hong Kong Phooey
- The Jetsons
- The Flintstones
Billboard Year-End Hot 100
📊 Full chart →- 1
My SharonaThe Knack - 2
Bad GirlsDonna Summer - 3
Le FreakChic - 4
Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?Rod Stewart - 5
ReunitedPeaches & Herb - 6
I Will SurviveGloria Gaynor - 7Hot StuffDonna Summer
- 8
Y.M.C.A.Village People - 9
Ring My BellAnita Ward - 10
Sad EyesRobert John - 11
Too Much HeavenBee Gees - 12
MacArthur ParkDonna Summer - 13
When You're in Love With a Beautiful WomanDr. Hook - 14
Makin' ItDavid Naughton - 15
FireThe Pointer Sisters - 16
TragedyBee Gees - 17
A Little More LoveOlivia Newton-John - 18
Heart of GlassBlondie - 19
What a Fool BelievesThe Doobie Brothers - 20
Good TimesChic - 21
You Don't Bring Me FlowersNeil Diamond & Barbra Streisand - 22
Knock on WoodAmii Stewart - 23
Stumblin' InChris Norman & Suzi Quatro - 24
Lead Me OnMaxine Nightingale - 25
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)The Jacksons
More from 1979
🎤 Big in 1979
🎚️ 1979 genres
🎛️ Behind the boards & the pen — 1979
The hands behind 1979 — the producers and songwriters who actually shaped that year's records. John Boylan was on 3 of them.
🎬 Movies of 1979
All soundtracks →The soundtracks that scored 1979 — every song and where it played.
🎚️ Related vibes
All themes →Themed rooms that lean on the sound of 1979.
What does 1979 remind you of?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1979.
Community Memories
How well do you remember 1979?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
📼 Take this tape with you
Build this in your own Spotify in two taps — free, no account needed here. (For Apple Music or YouTube, open songs one-by-one below.)
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🎵 1979 albums on vinyl
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