The Top 10 Songs of 1976 (UK)

As well as being the top selling song of 1976, Brotherhood of Man's Save Your Kisses For Me was also the UK's winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest that year. It received a total of 164 points, representing the highest relative score for any entry to date. The track is also the highest selling winning song from the Contest so far.

It went on to top the charts around the world, selling more than five million copies in the process. Two successful cover versions were released in the US, one by Bobby Vinton and the other by Margo Smith.

This was the song that took Elton John to the summit of the UK charts for the first time, although he had enjoyed this success in the US several times previously. Kiki Dee had been recording for some time with limited success on the UK chart, most notably a hit recording of Amoreuse, before joining Elton on this monster record.

The story goes that the accompanying video is one of the cheapest ever to be made. The director, who was engaged with another artist, found an unused sound stage, made it appear like a recording studio and got the duo to perform the song in one take.

Pussycat were a little known band in the UK, although the group had enjoyed substantial success on continental Europe, until this country-tinged tune topped the British charts.

The band was made up of three Dutch sisters, Tonny, Betty and Marianne Kowalczyk along with Lou Wille, Tonny's husband, Theo Wetzels, Theo Coumans and John Theunissen. Mississippi enjoyed a four week run at Number One in late 1976, but their follow up singles proved less popular.

This was ABBA's third chart topping song in the UK in 1976, following on from the success of both Fernando and Mama Mia. It went on to surpass these preceding releases in both number of weeks at the chart summit and in sales, becoming their biggest selling single internationally. It hit Number One in thirteen countries and achieved this feat in the US in April of the following year - the only time that this would happen with one of ABBA's songs.

According to United World Charts, Dancing Queen is the 33rd most successful song in music history.

A Little Bit More was Dr. Hook's second hit song in the UK, following on from their success four years earlier with Sylvia's Mother.

It couldn't quite manage to reach the top spot on the British charts, stalling at Number Two for five weeks behind Elton John and Kiki Dee's hit, although the band did manage to get to Number One three years later with When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman.

This was Chicago's third hit in the UK, and their first British chart entry in six years, following 25 or 6 to 4 and I'm A Man in 1970.

The song topped the US charts too, and went on to win Grammy Awards for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus.

Fernando was ABBA's second UK Number One song of 1976, following the earlier success of Mama Mia, and their third of a total of nine UK Number Ones.

Originally written for and recorded in Swedish by ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the song was rewritten in English by Bjorn Ulvaeus and became one of ABBA's best-selling singles ever. It went on to top the charts in twelve countries and peaked at Number 13 in the USA.

Tina Charles had originally been a backing singer until her first solo single release in 1969. She then provided lead vocals to the UK Top Five hit I'm On Fire by 5000 Volts in 1975.

It wasn't until early 1976 that she got her big break, when she was given the song I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance), produced by then hot producer, Biddu. The song went all the way to Number One and spent three weeks there in March. Charles went on to record further hit songs, but none as big as this one.

The only Number One single in the UK for Greek singer, Demis Roussos, which was actually the only EP to make the top of the charts in the 70s.

The song Forever and Ever was the lead track from the EP, and its success in the UK came some three years after selling well in the rest of Europe. The other tracks on the EP are So Dreamy, My Friend the Wind and Sing An Ode To Love.

The Four Seasons only Number One in the UK is this Bob Gaudio/Judy Parker song taken from the group's album, Who Loves You?

It reached the peak of both the UK and US charts in 1976, and has since been remixed and re-released in America (in 1994) to hit the Top Twenty there once more.