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Mike Lookinland was famous as Bobby on The Brady Bunch, but when the show ended he faced serious choices about his future.

While the group of singers and actors known as the Rat Pack knew how to party it up, there was a dark side to this group of hard-drinking and swinging men. Frank Sinatra was the unofficial chairman of the board, and he ruled over the others with an iron fist. Sometimes it was his way or the highway. And then, as the five men got older, each had to pay for their many sins with twists of fate that none of them saw coming.

Looking Glass reached No. 1 on the charts in 1972 with "Brandy", but singer-songwriter Elliot Lurie eventually decided to leave the band.

Some musicians fit cleanly into one record store category, but these ones needed a space of their own somewhere between country and rock.

Some of the most recognizable songs of the 1970s sound inseparable from the artists who made them famous. Yet behind the scenes, writers, producers, managers, and record executives were constantly moving songs from one singer to another. These hits could have sounded dramatically different if the original plans had worked out.