Night In The Ruts  by Aerosmith

The completion of the sixth studio album for Aerosmith was an endless adventure and a Golgotha. The previous album had not sold as expected and Columbia pressured them to release a successful record, Steve Tyler was immersed in his drug addiction and couldn't write a lyric, Joe Perry quit and left halfway through the recording, while producer Jack Douglas did something similar, and Gary Lyons took over. Meanwhile, the money for the recording had run out, and the company arranged some performances to bring in revenue (!), so they also had to prepare for live shows.

Amid this crisis the band was going through, the fact that Night In The Ruts was released in November 1979 was a small miracle. The only single from the album was the cover of the song Remember (Walking In The Sand) by The Shangri-Las from 1964, which had moderate success on the Billboard reaching No. 43, far from what the people at Columbia wanted. The album contained two more covers, proving the band's inability to focus and produce new material.

Nevertheless, Night In The Ruts reached No. 14 on Billboard, sold 1,000,000 copies in the U.S., and was also well-received in Canada, reaching No. 8 on their success chart. Aerosmith closed the 1970s in the worst possible way. They would have to wait about a decade to return to the position (or perhaps even higher) that they held in the mid-decade, which had just ended.