Back Stabbers - O’Jays
Love Train - O’Jays
For the Love of Money - O’Jays
Me and Mr’s Jones - Billy Paul
Ooh Child - Dee Dee Sharp
One of a Kind Love Affair - Spinners
The Rubberband Man - Spinners
Surprising lack of disco nominees as well…
Last Dance - Donna Summer
Good Times - Chic
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda (1977 cover of a song originally released in 1965, so if that disqualifies it, so be it)
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Funky Town - Lipps Inc
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Here are the ones already mentioned that I could vote for:
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
American Pie - Don McLean
Annie’s Song - John Denver
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Band on the Run - Wings
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Deacon Blues - Steely Dan
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper by BOC. Yeah, the one with cowbell.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
“Horse With No Name” - America
Hotel California - Eagles
Imagine - John Lennon
Layla - Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton)
Let it Be - the Beatles
Live and Let Die - Wings
“Long Train Runnin” - Doobie Brothers
Melissa - Allman Brothers Band
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
Vincent - Don McLean
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
And I’d add these:
Stormy Monday – Allman Brothers Band
People Gotta Move – Gino Vannelli
Riders on the Storm – The Doors
Lowdown – Boz Scaggs
Just the Way You Are – Billy Joel
Copacabana – Barry Manilow
Two of Us - The Beatles
Use Me - Bill Withers
After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Into White - Cat Stevens
If You Want Me to Stay - Sly and the Family Stone
Pink Moon- Nick Drake
Alison - Elvis Costello
Carey - Joni Mitchell
Living for the City - Stevie Wonder
You Can Close Your Eyes- James Taylor
Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan
Holy crap, America actually DID a version of Muskrat Love!? This knowledge is somehow very disturbing to me. I thought that even the Captain & Tennille version was one too many.
Of course, mon frère. I was asking why nobody had nominated any song(s) by or off of any of the artists and/or their albums which I listed. I nominated School Days, the title (and first) track from that album. I thought my intention was apparent.
“Wish You Were Here” - Pink Floyd
“American Girl” - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Message in a Bottle” - The Police
“Just What I Needed” - The Cars
“School’s Out” - Alice Cooper
“It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)” - AC/DC
“Psycho Killer” - Talking Heads
“Sultans of Swing” - Dire Straits
“Video Killed the Radio Star” - Buggles
“Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)” - Robert Palmer
(“Refugee” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is debatable: the album Damn the Torpedoes is from '79, but the “Refugee” single was released in 1980.)
Some others not already mentioned, that were all Billboard #1s at some point in the 1970s…
Mama Told Me (Not to Come)----Three Dog Night
War----Edwin Starr
Tears of a Clown—Smokey Robinson
Me and Bobby McGee—Janis Joplin
Heart of Gold----Neil Young
Killing Me Softly With His Song----Roberta Flack
That’s The Way (I Like It)—K.C. and the Sunshine Band (Hard for me to think of a song that screams the 1970s more than that one. Unless it’s this next one…)
Night Fever— The Bee Gees (8 weeks at #1)
Tonight’s The Night----Rod Stewart (8 weeks at #1!?)
My Sharona—The Knack
Bad Girls—Donna Summer
Even though they were very localised to an obscure part of the planet, I’d be inclined to include a couple of Split Enz songs from the 70s. Like I See Red and My Mistake.
