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===World impact: 1976=== [[File:Bay City Rollers 1978.jpg|thumb|right|The Bay City Rollers achieved international success during the 1970s.]] As the group's popularity swelled to superstardom in the UK, a concerted effort was made by [[Arista Records]] (the record company that evolved from Bell) to launch the Rollers in North America. The new Arista head [[Clive Davis]] was instrumental in grooming and overseeing the project. His work paid off, as in late 1975 the Rollers reached No. 1 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] with "[[Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers song)|Saturday Night]]". "Saturday Night" had missed the UK chart completely two years earlier.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> The Rollers gave the track their American debut, via a satellite-link performance on ''[[Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell|Saturday Night Live, with Howard Cosell]]''. In Canada, it fared equally well, hitting No. 1 on the ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' national singles chart on 10 January 1976.<ref name="Canada">{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6474a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 |title=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |access-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015035031/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6474a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 |archive-date=15 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The ''[[Bay City Rollers (album)|Bay City Rollers]]'' (1975) album (North American release only) hit No. 1 in the same chart on 7 February.<ref name="Canada"/> A second North American hit came with "Money Honey", written by Faulkner and Wood, which hit No. 9 in the US. In Canada, it fared better, following its predecessor to the top, giving them their second No. 1 in the ''RPM'' national singles chart on 13 March 1976.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4101a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 |title=Item Display β RPM β Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |access-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015035341/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4101a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 |archive-date=15 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The North America/Japan release album ''[[Rock n' Roll Love Letter]]'' (1976) jumped from No. 25 to the top position in a single week in Canada. This deposed their own ''[[Bay City Rollers (album)|Bay City Rollers]]'' (1975) at No. 1 on the national chart, on 27 March 1976,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4087a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 |title=Item Display β RPM β Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |access-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020031139/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4087a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=kjerdnvbvl3a8p4jfufutrc7u6 |archive-date=20 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, it only managed to achieve the No. 31 spot on the U.S. ''Billboard'' chart. They were also extremely popular in Australia. On October 23, 1976 they appeared on the long-running Australian music TV show ''[[Countdown (Australian TV series)|Countdown]]'', a date which happened to coincide with a [[Solar eclipse of October 23, 1976|total eclipse]] of the sun. The show's director [[Ted Emery]] recalled:<ref>Wilmoth, Peter β ''Glad All Over β The Countdown Years 1974β1987'' McPhee Gribble/[[Penguin Books]], 1993. p. 149</ref> {{blockquote|(there)... were thousands of kids done up in tartan pants that didn't reach the top of their shoes, constantly bashing on the [[plexiglas]] doors. They would do anything...to get into that television studio. There's 200 kids bashing on the door and a total eclipse of the sun occurred. I'd never seen one. On this day we all stopped in the studio and the Rollers went up on the roof. We stood out there and watched the flowers close up and all the automatic street lighting come on. It was chilling, the most fantastic thing you'd ever see. Downstairs the kids never turned around, staring into the plexiglas waiting to see the Rollers come out of the studio, go down the corridor and into the canteen. (They) never noticed the total eclipse of the sun.}} Alan Longmuir had left the group by early 1976, due to both the pressures of the band's success and feeling discomfort at being a member of a teen band whilst in his late twenties.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> He was replaced for seven months by 17-year-old Ian Mitchell from Northern Ireland; he was the first band member born outside Edinburgh.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> With Mitchell, the group released an album titled ''[[Dedication (Bay City Rollers album)|Dedication]]'' (1976), and hit the chart with a cover version of the [[Dusty Springfield]] song "[[I Only Want to Be with You#Bay City Rollers version|I Only Want to Be with You]]. " The song reached US No. 12, as well as "Yesterday's Hero" (featuring live material from a 1976 personal appearance in Toronto's [[Nathan Phillips Square]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=des89c-lkRI | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202022510/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=des89c-lkRI| archive-date=2017-02-02 | url-status=dead|title=Youtube.com |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=15 June 2009 |access-date=16 July 2011}}</ref> and "Dedication".
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