November 11, 1976 –
Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s The Night, with some French cooing by his girlfriend Britt Ekland, hits #1 in America for the first of eight weeks.
The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section played on this song. They were a group of four musicians who started their own studio – Muscle Shoals Sound – in 1969 after doing sessions at FAME studios for Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, and many other popular soul acts. The famous story the musicians tell is that when Stewart arrived at the studios and saw them getting ready, he refused to believe they were the band – he was sure the guys he heard playing on those records were black, and had a hard time accepting that four white guys could deliver so much soul.
The Haus of Dcaligari 