45 Years Ago - 1978 Jazz artist Bob James has his commercial breakthrough with his sixth album Touchdown.
The album's title is a reference to this being James' sixth solo album and a touchdown being worth six points in football, a pattern also followed by his previous album Heads (featuring a five cent coin on its cover) and next album Lucky Seven.
It’s notable for the song "Angela (Theme from Taxi)" The song was named after a guest character in the third episode of the first season ("Blind Date") of the classic sitcom Taxi, but after hearing the song, the producers made this the show's main theme, replacing their previous choice, which became this album's title track.
And if I ever hear this song, at the end I always say “Goodnight Mr. Walters. (grumble)” which was the production company that produced the show and was the tag at the end.
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