** = funk/disco/soul/jazz/reggae/world/ska/or combinations
no stars = something else
# = guilty pleasures

My top 12 of favorite songs of the year 1975 (out of 23 listed here):

1. Stanley Turrentine – Vera Cruz **
2. Michael Jackson – One day in your life (Note: 6 years later a Dutch hit) **
3. Pink Floyd – Shine on you crazy diamond (part 1-5)
4. Fela Kuti – Water no get enemy (long version) **
5. Gloria Gaynor – Never can say goodbye **
6. Queen – Bohemian rapsody
7. The Lyman Woodard Organization – Belle isle daze part 1 & 2 **
8. Pink Floyd – Welcome to the machine
9. Pink Floyd – Shine on you crazy diamond (part 6-9)
10. Abba – I do, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do #
11. Bob Dylan – Hurricane
12. Abba – S.O.S.

My other favorites, the ‘subtop’ part (above is the potential ‘all time top 500′ stuff):

• Dave – Danser maintenant
• Dizzy Man’s Band – The opera #
• The JB’s – Here we come here we go here we are **
• Julio Iglesias – Quiero #
• Kool & The Gang – Summer madness **
• Labi Siffre – I got the **
• Mandrill – Disco lypso **
• MFSB – K-Jee **
• Minnie Riperton – Minnie’s lament
• Pussycat – Missisippi
• Teach-In – Ding-a-dong #