Soft rock was quite a popular subgenre in 1979, and the following songs were some of the best to hit the airwaves that very year.

The late 1970s was one of the wildest eras ever in music, as genres formed and imploded with random, rapid flair. In 1979, “Pop Muzik” seemed to anticipate the decade to come in the way that it melded ...

Pre-1979 Iranian pop is largely unfamiliar outside the country itself and the expat community. Googoosh isn't the only Iranian singer in LA, others include Shohreh Solaty, Mansour and Bijan Mortazavi.

"An annotated index of over 18,000 American popular songs, cumulating and updating eight volumes of Popular music ..." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...