Breezy '70s pop/rock/folk songs

I’m looking for tune suggestions similar to Lobo’s Me and You and a dog named Boo and Albert Hammond’s It Never Rains in Southern California. Early to mid '70s pop/rock/country/folk. Thanks in advance.

Seals and Crofts, Summer Breeze

“The Free Electric Band”–also by Albert Hammond

Pretty much anything by Gilbert O’Sullivan–if it’s not too sappy for you.
Take it Easy and “Peaceful Easy Feeling” by the Eagles

and if you don’t mind the weird (to me) combination of breezy tune and depressing lyrics:
“Streets of London” -by Ralph Mctell, and, I think, many others
“Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks

I heart Gilbert O’Sullivan. :slight_smile:

Spiders and Snakes by Jim Stafford
Beautiful Sunday by Daniel Boone

Probably because of the thread title, the first thing that came to my mind was Windy. Turns out that was released in the late 60s though. I always thought it was very early 70s.

Signs” by the Five Man Electrical Band
Back When My Hair Was Short” by Gunhill Road

“Laughter in the Rain” - Neil Sedaka
“Escape” (the horrible pina colada song) - Rupert Holmes

Ah I can accept late-'60s stuff too. I’m not that particular, just more the vibe man, the vibe.

Breezy pop/rock/folk songs?

Among the leading practitioners of that broad genre in the Seventies…

America (songs like “Horse With No Name,” “I Need You,” “Tin Man,” “Don’t Cross the River,” “Sister Goldenhair”)

Firefall (“Just Remember I Love You,” “Strange Way,” “You Are the Woman”)

Ambrosia (“Holdin’ on to Yesterday,” “How Much I Feel”)

Bread (“Everything I Own,” “Guitar Man,” “Lost Without Your Love”)

Pure Prairie League (“Amie”)

Orleans ("Dance With Me’)

Poco (“Crazy Love”)

Three Dog Night (“Shambala”)

Linda Ronstadt (“When Willl Be Loved,” and lots of similar stuff)

Gordon Lightfoot (“Carefree Highway,” “Sundown”)

Loggins & Messina (“Angry Eyes,” “Your Mama Don’t Dance”)

Doobie Brothers (“Listen to the Music,” “Long Train Running,” “Take Me in Your Arms”)

I may have misunderstood “breezy” though. Windy’s vibe, if it can be said to have one is light and pop-py. If breezy connotes mellow or cool , or possessing any sort of groove, then I retract it.

You should check out Poco, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Gram Parsons. Maybe also Loggins & Messina.

And maybe America… “Horse With No Name”, “Sister Golden Hair”, “Ventura Highway”, etc.

How about Brewer & Shipley… “One Toke Over the Line”, “Tarkio Road”, “Oh Mommy”.

And even some Grateful Dead, like “Ripple” and “Uncle John’s Band”.

New Riders of the Purple Sage – “Henry

From 1968, the Byrds doing Dylan’s “You Ain’t Going Nowhere

Charlie Daniels Band, “Uneasy Rider

"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy), Simon & Garfunkel

How about “Sunny Days” by Lighthouse?

“South City Midnight Lady”
“Rio”

Both by the Doobie Brothers

“Three Roses” by America

Harry Nilsson’s a good source for breezy. “Me and My Arrow,” “Best Friend” (technically late 60’s and apparently never released as a record, but still pretty damned breezy), and “The Puppy Song,” to name a few. His “Everybody’s Talkin’” probably qualifies too.

Chestnut Mare by the Byrds, from 1971, their country rock phase.

I would recommend the entire Loggins & Messina album “Full Sail”.

It is one of those rare albums that you can listen to from beginning to end and not feel that you should have skipped a song. It contains some you might be familiar with and some not.

The longest track “Pathway to Glory” has some great instrumental work where the violin blends into the horns, which blend into the guitar, etc, all seamlessly. Although I have almost zero 70’s pop/fluff in my library, this album is one of my favorites.

This is from 1980 but the first song that comes to mind is Sailing by Christopher Cross.

“(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding, which is technically a sixties song but sounds like a seventies song.