This week in 1976, a cargo ship with 17 crew members vanished in the Bermuda Triangle, the Reds won the World Series in four straight games over the Yankees, the FDA banned the use of red dye No. 4, and a singer from Dublin, Texas, scored his 25th charted song and first No. 1.

Some hit songs take a strange road to the recording studio, and according to Sonny Throckmorton, Johnny Duncan’s 1976 No. 1, “Thinkin’ of a Rendezvous” was one of those tunes.

Sonny commented, “That was the summer that I was barely 18 years old and I had worked all summer laying pipe to make enoug...

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