 I'm Wank Martindale. The history of rock and roll continues now with more number one music from 1977. And up now is a lady from Leland, Mississippi, who had been acclaimed for a long time, but somehow had never managed to score her breakthrough hit. But all that changed when Thelma Houston decided to breathe new life into a song first recorded by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. This song, in April 1977.