This year, Every Sunday Evening, Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT will be featuring a full album at 8:00 PM from the halcyon musical days of 1976. 1976 was one of the top Years in Album Rock history. Another year of tough choices every week. So many great ones to choose from. After 52 Weeks of featuring so many of the great albums that debuted in 1975, next Sunday we will be moving on to another amazing year of ALBUM ROCK EXCELLENCE, 1976.
We hope you’ll tune in at 8:00 PM, Next Sunday, February 8, 2026, for “Frampton Comes Alive!”, the double live album by Peter Frampton, released in 1976 by A&M Records.
Following four wonderful studio albums with little success and sales, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for Frampton and is one of the best-selling live albums ever. "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", and "Do You Feel Like We Do" were released as singles; all three reached the top 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and frequently receive airplay on ALBUM ROCK radio stations.
Released on January 15,1976, Frampton Comes Alive! debuted on the charts at No. 191. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 the week ending April 10,1976, spending 10 non-consecutive weeks in the top spot through October. It was the best-selling album of 1976 and has sold over 8,000,000 copies in the United States.
Frampton Comes Alive! was voted "Album of the Year" in a 1976 Rolling Stone readers' poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still No. 14 on Billboard's 1977 year-end album chart. It was ranked No. 41 on Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time" list. Readers of Rolling Stone ranked it No. 3 in a 2012 poll of all-time favorite live albums.
In 2020, Frampton Comes Alive! was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
This is a Great album. A classic. Two records full of Peter Frampton at his best -- and where he is best: In concert. Great guitar work, strong vocals, and the electrical crackle of excitement as he connected musically with the audience. "Show Me the Way," and the extended "Do You Feel Like We Do" are the stuff of album oriented rock radio legend; and deservedly so. His "Jumping Jack Flash" provides a fitting tribute to the Rolling Stones, interpreted in a more deliberately paced manner shows that shows Frampton's vocal and guitar prowess in a very un-Frampton tune. His lilting vocals on "Wind of Change" and gentle guitar-play on "Penny for your Thoughts" both show the versatility of Frampton's talents. As a concert album this is the rock-lovers big enchilada: It. is well recorded and produced, it's hard rocking and soft rocking, and it shows a rock legend (of his time) in peak form. This is a must-have album for any serious Album Rock aficionado's collection.
Tune In and Turn On Sunday evening, February 8th, and every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM for The GOAT'S "The Long Play with Al Neff”.
