During this Christmas Season we look at the music of Christmas Day 19786 and highlight those Christmas records to stir the memory of the 70s music.
Having to use a bit of editorial control here to decide what was a Christmas hit, so if it does not match your criteria, apologies.
This chart comes from the 23rd December 1978.
Father
Following the success of the Smurfs cartoon and comic series
Following the success of "The Smurf Song" earlier in the year it was inevitable that the blue creatures would return for a Christmas hit.
No.1
This successful German session group had huge disco hits in the 1970 pop charts, and this was a great Christmas record to come up with. Originally a hit for Harry Belafonte in the 1950s, he of the co writer fame "We Are the World"