# Absolute monster 1970s AM radio hits **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 11, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160 "2008-09-11T21:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/41 "2008-09-12T19:05:54Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > Did anybody mention “Heart of Glass” by Blondie yet? It should be there. > > “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles (normally associated with the 80s, but it was definitely a late 70s hit.) > > “Come Sail Away” – Styx. > > “Staying Alive” - the Bee Gees. > > And as much as I’ve always hated the song, “Seasons In the Sun” by whatsisiname was an undeniable hit. Terry Jacks! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/42 "2008-09-12T22:39:29Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > Psst! Post #14! Damn, and I carefully scanned the posts before mine to see if it was already mentioned! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/43 "2008-09-12T22:54:44Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Hi there! [These should bring back memories.](http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/wlsac.html) Hey, thanks! Quite the blast from the past…if I only weren’t too cheap to pony up, I could listen ☹ but it’s pretty cool, remembering some of the dj’s. I wonder if they’re out and about and some guy comes up to them, says, “Hey, you’re {DJ’s name here} from WLS, right?” DJ: “Well, yeah…” Guy punches his lights out. DJ: “What was that for?!” Guy: “_Hot Child in the City_, asshole! Just be glad I don’t punch your sorry ass one time for every time you played it!” ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/44 "2008-09-12T22:59:17Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Hey, thanks! Quite the blast from the past…if I only weren’t too cheap to pony up, I could listen ☹ but it’s pretty cool, remembering some of the dj’s. > > I wonder if they’re out and about and some guy comes up to them, says, “Hey, you’re {DJ’s name here} from WLS, right?” > > DJ: “Well, yeah…” > > Guy punches his lights out. > > DJ: “What was that for?!” > > Guy: “_Hot Child in the City_, asshole! Just be glad I don’t punch your sorry ass one time for every time you played it!” I think you need to pound the program director for that one, not the DJ. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/45 "2008-09-12T23:11:56Z")
Here are some more songs that reached #1 the year I graduated from high school (1974): Sundown- Gordon Lightfoot Rock The Boat- Hues Corporation Annie’s Song- John Denver (You’re) Having My Baby- Paul Anka Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe- Barry White Rock Me Gently- Andy Kim Then Came You- Dionne Warwicke & The Spinners Whatever Gets You Through The Night- John Lennon Cat’s In The Cradle- Harry Chapin And that all-time classic, Kung Fu Fighting- Carl Douglas ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/46 "2008-09-12T23:31:21Z")
What, no love for America? Especially “Horse with no name”, but all their hits got played a LOT in the 70s. \ Satch ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/47 "2008-09-12T23:32:00Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > I think you need to pound the program director for that one, not the DJ. Could be right. OTOH they don’t sing his name on the air, so perhaps the DJ could pass the suggestion along 😃 ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/48 "2008-09-13T00:40:20Z")
Geez, if you really want to abuse yourselves with this just get an XM or Sirius radio and tune it to the '70’s channel. Kill yourself with it. Not that it was all bad but, Abba?, The Guess Who?, Debbie Boone?, Andy Kimm?, Donny Osmand? Suicide is a better option. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/49 "2008-09-13T00:49:30Z")
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/50 "2008-09-13T01:02:55Z")
Touch me in the morning - Diana Ross ABC - The Jackson 5 Ben - Michael Jackson Got to Be there - Michael Jackson ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/51 "2008-09-13T01:25:08Z")
You all have mentioned all the ones I can think of, plus more. I just want to say how much those of us teens who were stuck in Nashville West (Bakersfield) loved our evenings listening to ol’ WLS in Chicago during the late 50s, early 60s. “Border to Border, Coast to Coast” And it was, indeed! Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/52 "2008-09-13T01:30:11Z")
Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E’s in Love ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/53 "2008-09-13T01:32:35Z")
Working my way back to you - The Spinners ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/54 "2008-09-13T01:33:21Z")
> [@Spartydog](#): > > Geez, if you really want to abuse yourselves with this just get an XM or Sirius radio and tune it to the '70’s channel. Kill yourself with it. Not that it was all bad but, Abba?, The Guess Who?, Debbie Boone?, Andy Kimm?, Donny Osmand? > > Suicide is a better option. \ I liked some Abba (Knowing Me, Knowing You especially) because dayum, they could sing some scorching harmony. Much Guess Who. Even Debbie’s “You Light Up My Life” because I was totally sucked in (she was singing it to God?!)—much like “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” Andy Kim: Rock Me Gently…yeah. Baby I Love You…yeah. Donny? “Down by the Lazy River” (technically the Osmonds, I think)…yeah. Hell, there’s even one song by Barry Ma----no, I’ve said too much already. Now that I’m thoroughly weaned of AM, I’ve gone back and listened to some of the recordings in much higher-fi. I swear, for all the shitty sound, some of the good sonic qualities of the recording came through even in mono. IIRC it was Ray Davies who said (words to the effect), “Abba’s records are sprinkled with fairy dust or something,” i.e. praising the clean recordings. Or maybe I’m just a masochist? 😕:eek::smack:😉 \ ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/55 "2008-09-13T02:09:39Z")
You Are the Sunshine of My Life House of the Rising Sun Bridge Over Troubled Water Me And You and A Dog Named Boo And in Denmark (summer of '72): La La – Paul McCartney (?) Mammy Blue – Olsen Brothers (vinter of '72-'73): I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/56 "2008-09-13T02:32:02Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Hey, thanks! Quite the blast from the past…if I only weren’t too cheap to pony up, I could listen ☹ Huh. Sorry about that, those used to be free. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/57 "2008-09-13T02:34:26Z")
_(You’ve Blown It All) Sky High Wild Fire Fly Robin Fly Shannon Pina Coladas It’s Magic Africa_ {which was by Toto, I _think_, but I ain’t sure and I simply refuse to look up any of these sonic chancres to find out who was responsible-- hearing them all over and over again forever-and-a-day was hard enough on me, I’m not giving them any more of my energy} …and then there was that freakin’ abominable thing that started out \*\*\*“OOGA-chacka OOGA-chacka OOGA-chacka OOGA-CHACKA!” * * * The 1970s was a very weird decade in many ways, but especially wrt music: while some of the finest rock music ever heard was made then, the turds (most of which have been mentioned by now…_shudder_) sure did fly thick and fast, and there was apparently a whole lot of idjits–errrr, _people_ who dug 'em enough so they got played and played and played and played and _ **played** _, until they were certain to live on in infamous memory forever. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/58 "2008-09-13T02:41:21Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > You Are the Sunshine of My Life > House of the Rising Sun > Bridge Over Troubled Water > Me And You and A Dog Named Boo > > And in Denmark > (summer of '72): > > La La – Paul McCartney (?) > Mammy Blue – Olsen Brothers > > (vinter of '72-'73): > > I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing “Boo” was slang for marijuana among beats I knew back in the '60s. Don’t know about the dog. 😉 And; I liked a lot of Abba’s stuff. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/59 "2008-09-13T02:41:34Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > _(You’ve Blown It All) Sky High > Wild Fire > Fly Robin Fly > Shannon > Pina Coladas > It’s Magic > Africa_ {which was by Toto, I _think_, but I ain’t sure and I simply refuse to look up any of these sonic chancres to find out who was responsible-- hearing them all over and over again forever-and-a-day was hard enough on me, I’m not giving them any more of my energy} > > …and then there was that freakin’ abominable thing that started out > \*\*\*“OOGA-chacka OOGA-chacka OOGA-chacka OOGA-CHACKA!” > > * * * > > The 1970s was a very weird decade in many ways, but especially wrt music: while some of the finest rock music ever heard was made then, the turds (most of which have been mentioned by now…_shudder_) sure did fly thick and fast, and there was apparently a whole lot of idjits–errrr, _people_ who dug 'em enough so they got played and played and played and played and _ **played** _, until they were certain to live on in infamous memory forever. Africa, yes Toto, but still 1970s…? Checks Wikipedia…1982. WRT my previous post, “Sky High” is another one that the recording engineers really mastered. Plus, I’d just broken up with this girl you see and… ☹ Blue Swede’s version has a special place in my memory for a weird reason. I had a chorus teacher who threatened me and a couple other boys that if we didn’t shape up, she’d make us sing it at a choral concert. Funny thing is, we wanted to sing it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160/60 "2008-09-13T02:42:30Z")
_Thunder and Lightning_ by Chi Coltrane. I actually have that on iTunes. OTOSOTC, I could go the rest of my life without hearing either _The Night Chicago Died_ or _Another Brick In the Wall._ Talk about overplayed.:rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-monster-1970s-am-radio-hits/463160.md?page=4)