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

My top 9 of favorite songs of the year 1976 (out of 16 listed here):

1. Paco de Lucia – Entre dos agua **
2. The Jacksons – Show you the way to go **
3. Ocho – Mamey colorao **
4. Cheo Feliciano – Si por mi llueve **
5. Black Truth Rhythm Band – Ifetayo **
6. Paul McCartney & Wings – Let ‘em in
7. Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke **
8. Parliament – Give up the funk (Tear the roof off the sucker) **
9. Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – Cherchez la femme **

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

• Benitez And Nebula – Mariposa **
• Bill Conti – Gonna fly now **
• BZN – Mon amour #
• Catherine Ferry – 1, 2, 3 #
• Funkadelic – If you got funk, you got style **
• Peter Allen – I go to Rio **/#
• Stevie Wonder – I wish **