"Airport 1975" released 1974

I suppose the success of Airport in 1970 was the main impetus behind the making of this movie, to which the only connection to Airport 1975 is George Kennedy as Joe Patroni.  Airport 1975, released October 18, 1974, was a box office blockbuster, becoming the third largest grossing film of 1974 behind The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, which starred both George Kennedy and Charlton Heston (Alan Murdock in Airport 1975).

Critics were not impressed, and the movie has been inducted into the Razzie Awards' Hall of Shame (along with its two sequels).

Dana Andrews plays Scott Freeman, the pilot of a twin-engine private Beechcraft Baron, who has a heart attack in flight and crashes into the cockpit of a 747, killing two crew members and blinding the captain.  Airport 1975 was heavily parodied in Airplane!, a comedy taken from Zero Hour! which also starred Dana Andrews.

The cast was star-studded with big names like Gloria Swanson, Karen Black, Efram Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark, Linda Blair, and Helen Reddy.

Reddy garnered the only award nomination as she was nominated for the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer - Female.

Helen Reddy's "Angie Baby" reaches #1 1974

Helen Reddy's eerie tune Angie Baby reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart December 28, 1974.  It also reached #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening and Billboard Cash Box Top 100.

Written by Alan O'Day, Angie Baby is about a young girl who is "touched", not mentally handicapped.  She doesn't have any friends and does not attend  school, so she finds solace in the songs on the radio.  Then a young man "with evil on his mind" visits Angie, but things do not go as he planned.  He disappears and becomes her "secret lover" although everyone thinks he died.

Reddy once said she has never disclosed the real meaning of the lyrics because she loves hearing all the theories listeners have come up with.  She also said  it was the only one of her songs she didn't have to push radio stations to play.