Playlisticle: RADIO & RECORDS AOR SUPER CHART [1978]

In 1978, the highly successful and much despised radio format known as AOR (Album Oriented Rock) was celebrating it's tenth anniversary and radio industry trade magazine Radio & Records published a special issue, The AOR Story (click link to open pdf).  In addition to many profiles of AOR personalities, The AOR Story contained a list of the forty-three most played AOR songs: a Super Chart. Nearly forty years down the dial, many of these songs and artists are the building blocks of what is now commonly referred to as Classic Rock though HERC can honestly state for the record he hadn't heard the Boz Scaggs blues-epic "Loan Me A Dime" in at least 25-30 years until writing today's post.  In Any Town USA, you can turn on the radio right now and hear one (or more) of these songs playing.  While these songs are not all Summer per se, if you're like HERC then one (or more) of them has been part of the soundtrack from a favorite Summer of yours.  Or motion picture soundtrack. Or television show soundtrack.  Or commercial.

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	song	artist	time	year	Hot 100	Rolling Stone 500 [2010]
43	"Stranglehold"	Ted Nugent	0:08:26	1975
42	"More Than A Feeling"	Boston	0:04:44	1976	5
41	"Year Of The Cat"	Al Stewart	0:06:40	1976	8
40	"Hotel California"	Eagles	0:06:30	1976	1	49
39	"Listen To The Music"	Doobie Brothers	0:04:44	1972	11
38	"Jumping Jack Flash"	Rolling Stones	0:03:42	1968	3	125
37	"Your Song"	Elton John	0:04:04	1970	8	137
36	"Kashmir"	Led Zeppelin	0:08:28	1975		141
35	"Gimme Shelter"	Rolling Stones	0:04:31	1969		38
34	"Yesterday"	Beatles	0:02:03	1965	1	13
33	"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"	Bruce Springsteen	0:07:04	1973
32	"Hypnotized"	Fleetwood Mac	0:04:48	1973
31	"She's Gone"	Hall & Oates	0:05:15	1973	7
30	"Rocky Mountain Way"	Joe Walsh	0:05:17	1973	23
29	"All Along The Watchtower"	Jimi Hendrix Experience	0:04:00	1968	20	47
28	"Moondance"	Van Morrison	0:04:35	1970	92	231
27	"School"	Supertramp	0:05:35	1974
26	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"/	Beatles	0:04:46	1967	71
	"With A Little Help From My Friends"					311
25	"Loan Me A Dime"	Boz Scaggs	0:12:30	1969
24	"Green Grass & High Tides"	Outlaws	0:09:49	1975
23	"Henry"/"Maggie May"	Rod Stewart	0:05:48	1971	1	131
22	"Train Kept A-Rollin' "	Aerosmith	0:05:33	1974
21	"Born To Run"	Bruce Springsteen	0:04:34	1975	23	21
20	"Aqualung"	Jethro Tull	0:06:34	1971
19	"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"	Rolling Stones	0:03:44	1965	1	2
18	"Like A Rolling Stone"	Bob Dylan	0:06:13	1965	2	1
17	"Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys"	Traffic	0:11:35	1971
16	"Sympathy For The Devil"	Rolling Stones	0:06:18	1968		32
15	"Funeral For A Friend"/"Love Lies Bleeding"	Elton John	0:11:09	1973
14	"Money"	Pink Floyd	0:06:22	1973	13
13	"Do You Feel (Like We Do)" [live]	Peter Frampton	0:14:16	1976	10
12	"Miracles"	Jefferson Starship	0:06:52	1975	3
11	"Rhiannon"	Fleetwood Mac	0:04:12	1975	11
10	"Hey Jude"	Beatles	0:07:11	1968	1	8
9	"Light My Fire"	The Doors	0:07:05	1967	1	35
8	"A Day In The Life"	Beatles	0:05:35	1967		28
7	"Nights In White Satin"/"Late Lament"	Moody Blues	0:07:24	1967	2
6	"Won't Get Fooled Again"	The Who	0:08:32	1967	15	134
5	"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"	Crosby, Stills & Nash	0:07:28	1969	21	426
4	"Roundabout"	Yes	0:08:29	1971	13
3	"Layla"	Derek & the Dominos	0:07:05	1970	51	27
2	"Free Bird"	Lynyrd Skynyrd	0:09:09	1973	19	193
1	"Stairway To Heaven"	Led Zeppelin	0:08:02	1971		31
		averages	0:06:40	1971	16	98

This list contains songs from 1965-1976. If we were to compile such a list today, with a few extra decades of hindsight and musical possibilities, what songs would make the cut?  Let HERC know in the comments.