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{{Infobox album
| name = The Hissing of Summer Lawns
| type = studio
| artist = [[Joni Mitchell]]
| cover = Joni hissing.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 17, 1975<ref name=rw>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/75/RW-1975-11-15.pdf |title=Here, There and Everywhere |magazine=Record World |last1=Mayer |first1=Ira |last2=Skopp |first2=Roberta |page=25 |date=November 15, 1975 |access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref>{{fv|date=May 2025}}
| recorded = 1975
| studio = [[A&M Studios|A&M]] {{small|(Hollywood)}}
| genre =
*[[Soft rock]]
*[[jazz pop]]<ref>The following sources label the album [[jazz-pop]]:
*{{cite web |last1=Corcoran |first1=Michael |title=Fifteen nails in the coffin |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/fifteen-nailsin-the-coffin-6404063 |website=Dallas Observer |date=December 13, 1995 |access-date=3 March 2023}}
*{{cite web |last1=Hurt |first1=Edd |title=Brian Blade and his Fellowship Band live where jazz meets pop |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/brian-blade-and-his-fellowship-band-live-where-jazz-meets-pop/article_b127c3bd-40cb-5c78-ad47-8bc0dbb5a5cd.html |website=Nashville Scene |date=March 7, 2013 |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[art rock]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gill |first1=Andy |title=The academics have got pop wrong - here are the years when music really changed things |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-academics-have-got-pop-wrong-here-are-the-years-when-music-really-changed-things-10237305.html |website=The Independent |access-date=9 October 2022 |date=9 May 2015}}</ref>
*[[folk jazz]]<ref>The following sources label the album [[folk-jazz]]:
*{{cite web |last1=Himes |first1=Geoffrey |title=Herbie Hancock and Joni Mitchell: Music & Lyrics |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/herbie-hancock-and-joni-mitchell-music-lyrics/ |website=Jazz Times |date=April 25, 2019 |access-date=9 March 2023}}
*{{cite news |last1=Connors |first1=Bruce |title=Joni 'jazzes' folk style in recent album Print-ready version |url=https://jonimitchell.com/library/originals/jmOriginal_4154.pdf |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=The Bona Venture |date=January 30, 1976}}</ref>
*[[avant-pop]]<ref>The following sources label the album [[avant-pop]]:
*{{cite magazine |last1=Hermes |first1=Will |title=Joni Mitchell Album Guide |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/joni-mitchell-album-guide-908048/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=3 March 2023}}
*{{cite web|last1=Grimstad|first1=Paul|title=What is Avant-Pop?|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/9/music/what-is-avant-pop|website=[[Brooklyn Rail]]|date=September 4, 2007 |access-date=October 1, 2016}}</ref>
| length = 42:34
| label = [[Asylum Records|Asylum]]
| producer = Joni Mitchell
| prev_title = [[Miles of Aisles]]
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = [[Hejira (album)|Hejira]]
| next_year = 1976
| misc = {{Singles
| name = The Hissing of Summer Lawns
| type = studio
| single1 = [[In France They Kiss on Main Street]]
| single1date = January 1976
}}}}

'''''The Hissing of Summer Lawns''''' is the seventh studio album by the Canadian [[singer-songwriter]] [[Joni Mitchell]], released in November 1975 on [[Asylum Records]]. It continues the jazz-influenced sound of Mitchell's previous album, ''[[Court and Spark]]'', with more unconventional and experimental material. It features synthesizers such as the [[Moog synthesizer|Moog]] and [[ARP Instruments|ARP]], [[Sampling (music)|sampling]], backing from the [[Jazz fusion|jazz-rock]] groups the [[L.A. Express]] and the [[The Crusaders (jazz fusion group)|Jazz Crusaders]], and contributions from [[James Taylor]], [[David Crosby]], and [[Graham Nash]].

The lyrics focus on women's experiences with [[patriarchy|patriarchal]] norms, male dominance, and suburban life, as well as on culture and the music industry. As with many of her albums, Mitchell created the cover art. It depicts a painting of a group of men carrying a large snake superimposed over the [[Beverly Hills]] suburbs; Mitchell's house is shaded in blue.

While it did not spawn a major hit single like its predecessor, ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' reached number 4 in the US and remains Mitchell's last top-10 album. "[[In France They Kiss on Main Street]]", the only single, reached number 66 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].

''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' initially received negative reviews, with critics finding the jazz stylings a disservice to Mitchell's lyrics and comparing it negatively to ''Court and Spark''. However, it later became one of her most acclaimed works. It appeared at number 258 in ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s 2020 edition of its list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]], and at number 217 in the third edition of [[Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' in 2000.

==Background==
The slick [[jazz-pop]] sound Mitchell developed on ''[[Court and Spark]]'' (1974) would be pushed into more adventurous territory on ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns''.<ref name="Ankeny 2011">{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r13213 |title=The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell | AllMusic |first=Jason |last=Ankeny |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |year=2011 |access-date=July 19, 2011}}</ref> Some tracks reflect a fusion of [[jazz]] and "shimmering [[avant-pop]]".<ref name="Ankeny 2011"/> The album also uses an [[ARP synthesizer]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Macpherson |first1=Alex |title=Joni Mitchell at 70: bolt from the Blue |work=The New York Times |date=January 14, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/14/arts/pop-view-three-women-their-journeys-song-too-feminine-for-rock-rock-too-macho.html |access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref>

On "The Jungle Line", Mitchell is credited with the first commercially released song to include a [[sampling (music)|sample]], featuring a looped recording of percussion by the African ensemble the [[Drummers of Burundi]].<ref name="SN">{{cite book |last=Nelson |first=Sean |author-link=Sean Nelson |year=2007 |title=33 1/3: Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CzUAwAAQBAJ&q=Sean+Nelson+Court+and+Spark. |isbn=9780826417732}}</ref> This interest in [[world music]] presaged the work of [[Peter Gabriel]] and [[Paul Simon]] in subsequent years.<ref name="Ankeny 2011"/> In a 1983 interview for ''[[Musician (magazine)|Musician Magazine]]'' Mitchell was asked what prompted her to use the drums. Mitchell explained: "Because I loved that Burundi warriors passage. It had a [[Bo Diddley]] lick in it which I took out and made into a loop and then ran this black cultural poem under it. I thought I was black for about three years. I felt like there was a black poet trapped inside me, and that song was about [[Harlem]]—the primitive juxtaposed against the Frankenstein of modern industrialization; the wheels turning and the gears grinding and the beboppers with the junky spit running down their trumpets. All of that together with that Burundi tribal thing was perfect. But people just thought it was weird."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=199|title=Joni Mitchell Library - Joni Mitchell is a Nervy Broad: Musician Magazine, January 1983|website=jonimitchell.com}}</ref>

==Songs==
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The first track, "[[In France They Kiss on Main Street]]", is a jazz-rock song about coming of age in a small town in the 1950s [[rock & roll]] era. (The song was released as the single from the album and reached number 66 on the [[Billboard charts|''Billboard'' charts]].) "The Jungle Line" uses a field recording from Africa of the [[Royal Drummers of Burundi|Drummers of Burundi]] (called 'warrior drums' in the credits), onto which are dubbed guitar, [[Moog synthesizer]] and the vocal line. The lyrics pay homage to the works of the French Post-Impressionist painter [[Henri Rousseau]]. Mitchell blends details of his works with imagery of modern city life, the music industry and the underground drug culture.

"Edith and the Kingpin" marks a return to jazz in a story of a gangster's new [[Gun moll|moll]] arriving in his home town. "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" is an acoustic guitar-based song with [[Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)|stream-of-consciousness]] lyrics, focused on women standing up to male dominance and proclaiming their own existence as individuals. "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" is an orchestral-based piece about a modern [[southern belle]] basing her life and self-image on the stereotypes of the [[Scarlett O'Hara]] character from ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]''.

The second side begins with the title track, "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", which is about a woman who chooses to stay in a marriage where she is treated as part of her husband's portfolio. "The Boho Dance" comments on people who feel that artists betray their artistic integrity for commercial success, with an ironic glance at those who said this of Mitchell herself and parallels [[Tom Wolfe]]'s ''[[The Painted Word]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mitchell |first=Joni |url=http://www.jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=38 |title=Boho Dance – lyrics |publisher=Joni Mitchell |date= |access-date=May 29, 2018}}</ref><ref name =RS/> "Harry's House / Centerpiece" concerns failing marriage as example of the loneliness of modern life and frames the jazz standard "[[Centerpiece (song)|Centerpiece]]" by [[Sweets Edison|Harry "Sweets" Edison]] and [[Jon Hendricks]]. "Sweet Bird" is a sparser acoustic track that is a slight return to Mitchell's so-called 'confessional' singer-songwriter style and addresses the loss of beauty power with ageing. Its lyrics indicate that it may also be a reference to Tennessee Williams's ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]''. The final track is "Shadows and Light", consisting of many [[overdub]]s of her voice and an [[ARP Instruments, Inc.|ARP]] String Machine (credited as an ARP-Farfisa on the album sleeve).

The African theme of "The Jungle Line" also features on the album sleeve, with an image of dark-skinned people carrying a large snake (both were embossed on the original vinyl album cover). Mitchell's own house is marked in blue on the right side of the front cover.

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Ankeny 2011"/>
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2score = B<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|access-date=March 8, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev4 = [[MusicHound]]
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Graff |editor-first1=Gary |editor-last2=Durchholz |editor-first2=Daniel |year=1999 |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|location=Farmington Hills, MI|publisher=Visible Ink Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/769 769]|isbn=1-57859-061-2|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/769}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5score = 10/10<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17269-the-studio-albums-1968-1979/|title=Joni Mitchell: The Studio Albums 1968–1979 {{!}} Album Reviews|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=November 9, 2012 |access-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6score = (mixed)<ref name =RS>{{cite magazine|url=http://rollingstone.com/artists/jonimitchell/albums/album/214346/review/5945041/the_hissing_of_summer_lawns |title=Joni Mitchell: The Hissing Of Summer Lawns : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |first=Stephen |last=Holden |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |year=2011 |access-date=July 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124143109/http://rollingstone.com/artists/jonimitchell/albums/album/214346/review/5945041/the_hissing_of_summer_lawns |archive-date=January 24, 2009 }}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Joni Mitchell |pages=547–48 |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-first=Christian |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |year=2004 |publisher=Fireside |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&q=rolling%20stone%20joni%20mitchell%20blue&pg=PA547 |access-date=September 8, 2009 }} Portions posted at {{cite web |publisher=rollingstone.com |title=Joni Mitchell > Album Guide |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/joni-mitchell/albumguide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731021221/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/joni-mitchell/albumguide|archive-date=July 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 29, 2018 }}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]''
| rev8Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lewis |first=Alan |date=13 December 1975 |title=Joni: poet of the human jungle |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Sounds/70s/Sounds-1975-12-13-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]] |page=25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131112724/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Sounds/70s/Sounds-1975-12-13-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=31 January 2023 |access-date=3 August 2023}}</ref>
| rev9 = [[Martin C. Strong]]
| rev9score = 8/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strong |first1=Martin C. |title=The Great Rock Discography |date=2004 |publisher=Canongate |location=New York |page=1013 |ol=18807297M}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10score = 9/10<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 2022 |title=Buyer's Guide: The Asylum Years, 1972–1975 |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |issue=305 |page=93}}</ref>
}}

The album initially received harsh criticism. In ''Rolling Stone'', [[Stephen Holden]] wrote that the album's lyrics were impressive but the music was a failure. "If ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' offers substantial literature, it is set to insubstantial music... Four members of Tom Scott's [[L.A. Express]] are featured on ''Hissing'', but their uninspired [[jazz-rock]] style completely opposes Mitchell's romantic style... ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' is ultimately a great collection of pop poems with a distracting soundtrack. Read it first. Then play it."<ref name =RS/> Critic [[Robert Christgau]] called the musical accompaniment "the most ambitious of her career," but criticized Mitchell's choice of session musicians and opined that "only on a couple of cuts — 'The Jungle Line' and 'Don't Interrupt the Sorrow' — do these skillful sound effects strengthen the lyrics. The result is that Mitchell's words must stand pretty much on their own."<ref name="CG"/>

The record's reputation has grown in stature over the years. Music writer [[Howard Sounes]] has called ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' Mitchell's masterpiece, "an LP to stand alongside ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]''".<ref>{{Cite book|title = Seventies: The Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade|last = Sounes|first = Howard|publisher = Simon & Schuster Ltd|year = 2006|isbn = 0743268598|location = New York|page = 244}}</ref> [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], a lifelong fan of Mitchell, praised it in interviews;<ref name="Errett">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/prince-toronto-women-1.3547314|title=Prince loved Toronto and these 5 Toronto women|last=Errett|first=Joshua|date=April 22, 2016|work=CBC News|access-date=May 7, 2016}}</ref> he reportedly called it "the last album I loved all the way through."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hermes |first1=Will |title=Joni Mitchell Album Guide |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/joni-mitchell-album-guide-908048/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> Critic [[Jessica Hopper]] of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' noted that the album was originally felt as a betrayal by some listeners, but stated that while "it doesn't have the rhapsodic rep as ''[[Blue (Joni Mitchell album)|Blue]]'', it's unquestionably one of Mitchell's finest albums, and it is certainly her most timeless."<ref name="auto"/>

===Accolades===
In 1977, at the [[19th Grammy Awards]], Mitchell was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]] for the album.

It was voted number 217 in the third edition of [[Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2006|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=105}}</ref> The album was included in Robert Dimery's ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|title = 1001: Albums You Must Hear Before You Die|editor-last = Dimery|editor-first = Robert |publisher = Cassell Publishing|year = 2013|isbn = 978-1844037353|location = London|page = 323}}</ref> in 2020, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the album at number 258 in the 2020 edition of its [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 greatest albums of all time]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/merle-haggard-down-every-road-1962-1994-1062949|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 284–213|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=September 25, 2020}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| all_writing = Joni Mitchell, except where noted
| title1 = [[In France They Kiss on Main Street]]
| length1 = 3:19
| title2 = The Jungle Line
| length2 = 4:25
| title3 = Edith and the Kingpin
| length3 = 3:38
| title4 = Don't Interrupt the Sorrow
| length4 = 4:05
| title5 = Shades of Scarlett Conquering
| length5 = 4:59
| total_length = 20:26
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = The Hissing of Summer Lawns
| writer1 = Joni Mitchell, [[John Guerin]]
| length1 = 3:01
| title2 = The Boho Dance
| length2 = 3:48
| title3 = Harry's House" / "[[Centerpiece (song)|Centerpiece]]
| writer3 = Joni Mitchell; [[Jon Hendricks]], [[Harry Edison]]
| length3 = 6:48
| title4 = Sweet Bird
| length4 = 4:12
| title5 = Shadows and Light
| length5 = 4:19
| total_length = 22:08
}}

==Personnel==
Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album.
*Joni Mitchell – vocals, acoustic guitar (tracks 1–4, 9), [[Moog synthesizer|Moog]] (2), piano (5, 9), keyboards (7), [[ARP Instruments|ARP]] and [[Farfisa]] (10)
*[[Victor Feldman]] – [[Rhodes piano|electric piano]] (1, 5), [[conga]]s (4), [[Vibraphone|vibes]] (5), keyboards and percussion (6)
*[[Joe Sample]] – electric piano (3), keyboards (8)
*[[Larry Carlton]] – electric guitar (3–5, 9)
*[[Robben Ford]] – electric guitar (1), [[Dobro]] (4), guitar (8)
*[[Jeff Baxter]] – electric guitar (1)
*[[James Taylor]] – background vocals (1), guitar (6)
*[[David Crosby]] and [[Graham Nash]] – background vocals (1)
*[[Max Bennett (musician)|Max Bennett]] – bass guitar (1, 5–8)
*[[Wilton Felder]] – bass guitar (3, 4)
*[[John Guerin]] – drums (except 2), Moog and arrangement (6)
*[[Royal Drummers of Burundi|The Warrior Drums of Burundi]] (2)
*[[Chuck Findley]] – horn (3), trumpet (6, 8), [[flugelhorn]] (7)
*[[Bud Shank]] – saxophone and flute (3, 6), [[bass flute]] (7)
*[[Dale Oehler]] – string arrangement (5)

'''Technical'''
*Joni Mitchell – producer, cover design, illustration
*[[Henry Lewy]] – engineer, mix with Mitchell
*Ellis Sorkin – assistant engineer
*[[Bernie Grundman]] – mastering
*[[Joe Gastwirt]] – re-mastered at Ocean View Digital Mastering in W. Los Angeles for 1997 HDCD release <ref>{{cite web | url=https://jonimitchell.com/news/newsitem.cfm?id=260 | title=Joni Mitchell - News Item }}</ref>
*[[Norman Seeff]] – photography

==Charts==
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{{col-2}}
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Weekly chart performance for ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns''
! scope="col"| Chart (1975–1976)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite Kent}}</ref>
| 62
|-
{{album chart|Canada|7|chartid=4078a|rowheader=true|access-date=April 7, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|UK2|14|date=19760201|rowheader=true|access-date=November 29, 2024}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|4|artist=Joni Mitchell|rowheader=true|access-date=April 7, 2021}}
|-
! scope="row"| US ''[[Cash Box]]'' Top 100 Albums<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1976/Cash-Box-1976-01-03.pdf|title=Cash Box Top 100 Albums |magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]|date=January 3, 1976|page=25|access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref>
|align="center"| 5
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Weekly chart performance for ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' Vinyl Reissue
! scope="col"| Chart (2024)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|BillboardAlbumSales|19|artist=Joni Mitchell|rowheader=true|access-date=July 17 2024}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardVinyl|6|artist=Joni Mitchell|rowheader=true|access-date=July 17 2024}}
|}
{{col-2}}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Year-end chart performance for ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns''
!Chart (1976)
!Position
|-
! scope="row"| Canada (''RPM'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5175&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5175.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5175|title=RPM: Top 100 albums of '76|publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=November 29, 2024 |last1=Canada |first1=Library Archives |date=July 17, 2013 }}</ref>
|align="center"|58
|}
{{col-end}}

==Certifications==
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==References==
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