In the summer of 1976, Eddie Pelto began hearing “Afternoon Delight” on AM radio several times a day, for months. He was seven years old, lived in northern Massachusetts, and loved the Starland Vocal ...

There's a scene in the supremely dumb 1994 college comedy PCU where cool, rebellious fratboy Jeremy Piven locks the uptight, fun-killing dean in her office and tortures her by putting the Starland ...

This oral history is adapted from an archival Washington Post article that was originally published in 2011. On July 10, 1976, as the smoke was still clearing from America’s big bicentennial ...