# 3 Top 10 Hits From 1978 That Every 70s Kid Alive Still Remembers Today

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/3-top-10-hits-from-1978-that-every-70s-kid-alive-still-remembers-today/
- Published: 2026-11-14T01:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-14T01:20:37+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
- Original article: https://americansongwriter.com/3-top-10-hits-from-1978-that-every-70s-kid-alive-still-remembers-today/
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- Three memorable US Top 10 hits from 1978 are revisited.
- The songs came from the Bee Gees, Sweet and Barry Manilow.
- Two marked the final US Top 10 hits for their acts.

## Summary

Three US Top 10 hits from 1978 are highlighted as songs likely to remain familiar to people who grew up in the 1970s: the Bee Gees’ “Too Much Heaven”, Sweet’s “Love Is Like Oxygen” and Barry Manilow’s “Can’t Smile Without You”. The article places them among the decade’s memorable releases and notes their chart success.

“Too Much Heaven” was written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, and was the Bee Gees’ last US Top 10 single until “One” in 1989. “Love Is Like Oxygen”, co-written by Sweet’s Andy Scott and Trevor Griffin, was the band’s fourth and final US Top 10 hit. Manilow’s version of “Can’t Smile Without You” appeared on Even Now; the song had previously been recorded by the Carpenters and was one of four tracks on the album he did not help write.

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