# Great Pop Hits from the 60s and 70s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576 "2009-08-15T23:43:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/21 "2009-08-16T06:27:19Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Smoke from A Distant Fire is NOT a ‘disco song’. It is categorized as ‘blue-eyed soul’. Don’t I feel stupid. Thanks. Did I get anything wrong with the other 2 dozen things I posted? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/22 "2009-08-16T07:14:31Z")
[Green-Eyed Lady](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1PHk9FhIk) by Sugarloaf. With one of the finest Hammond B-3 solos ever recorded. Oh geeze - and you can’t forget [Ariel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMfYtiKe6KY) by my buddy Dean Friedman. 70’s pop at it’s best. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/23 "2009-08-16T07:17:07Z")
I Can’t Let Go - The Hollies Night of Fear - The Move Same Old Feeling -Pickettywitch Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - One of the bubblegum groups Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots Here Comes My Baby - The tremeloes Tin Soldier - The faces You Really Got Me - the Kinks ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/24 "2009-08-16T07:21:40Z")
> [@maplekiwi](#): > > Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - One of the bubblegum groups The 1910 Fruitgum Company. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/25 "2009-08-16T11:49:59Z")
Wow, thanks everyone! There a few specific songs (\*The Night Chicago Died \*is one) listed that are definitely ones I remember, and I’ll go through the rest too. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/26 "2009-08-16T13:39:17Z")
I forgot to mention Sugar Sugar by the Archies. (It’s such a happy song!) And the Monkees had quite a few songs that just bring back time and place, clear as a bell. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/27 "2009-08-16T15:23:43Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > … The Spiral Staircase … [The Spiral Starecase](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Today_Than_Yesterday)! Now get off my lawn dammit! CMC fnord! BTW There’s a ton of 70’s music appreciation threads around here, I see what’s still in my “Music” threads folder later. Meanwhile have a look at these; [WABC Top 100 Songs of the Year](http://www.musicradio77.com/music.html) [Super Seventies RockSite!](http://www.superseventies.com/) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/28 "2009-08-16T17:47:00Z")
[Stuck in the Middle with You–Stealers Wheel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJ7QQqaYKA&annotation_id=annotation_578474&feature=iv), I love the bassline in this one [Baker Street–Gerry Rafferty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J8wVlSdi3A&feature=related). I love Gerry Rafferty’s voice. [Hello It’s Me–Todd Rundgren](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsezr0qiFIc). Live vocal. Check out the makeup. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/29 "2009-08-16T17:49:26Z")
This is great–so many memories! I was 10 in 1975 and this is what I heard on the radio from that age onward. It’s great to be reminded of those days when life was easy, my parents paid the bills, and summer lasted forever. I shall be seeking many, many mp3s… ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/30 "2009-08-18T20:21:12Z")
Probably my favorite 70s band is **10cc**. Brilliant harmonies, music… “I’m Not In Love” “Things We Do For Love” “Dreadlock Holiday” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/31 "2009-08-18T21:33:14Z")
There’s a blues program I listen to on the local NPR station most weekends, and the host frequently plays songs by Maria Muldaur. And I always think “Isn’t she the one that sang ‘Midnight at the Oasis’ back in the 70’s? I had no idea she had a career as a blues artist.” Sure enough, this weekend he played “Midnight at the Oasis.” So, hey, there’s one for ya. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/32 "2009-08-18T23:02:32Z")
Al Wilson/Show and Tell (RIP, Al) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTsAFA6jxsQ) Spinners/Could It Be I’m Falling In Love [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLgWxhyt98) Hollies/Air that I Breathe [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7S8-Iewi0) Toto/Hold the Line (RIP Jeff Porcaro) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsIQNUWK2LM) Patty Smith/Because the Night [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0brHGJ6xqbk/hqdefault.jpg "Patti Smith's "Because the Night"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brHGJ6xqbk) Boston/More than a Feeling (RIP Brad Delp) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9br6wqGZGHU) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/33 "2009-08-19T02:30:48Z")
How about: [Concrete and Clay](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axy7-gzAXAM) - **Unit 4+2** or [This Diamond Ring](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSDQrUeaHDg) - **Gary Lewis and the Playboys** or even [Elusive Butterfly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6727qgmRbY) - **Bob Lind** ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/34 "2009-08-19T03:54:52Z")
> [@Myself](#): > > Just about every other tune [on this list.](http://www.popculturemadness.com/Entertainment/Decades/60s-Music.html) NOT\* Girl From Impanena\*, which is actually GREAT. You have to start on the backbeat: not _Wipe Out_ but _In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida_ starts it off. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/35 "2009-08-19T04:06:29Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > There’s a blues program I listen to on the local NPR station most weekends, and the host frequently plays songs by Maria Muldaur. And I always think “Isn’t she the one that sang ‘Midnight at the Oasis’ back in the 70’s? I had no idea she had a career as a blues artist.” Her ex, Jeff Muldaur, is considered a great of the guys keeping the Blues grounded. And I point out to my kids that his sis, [wiki=“[Diana Muldaur - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Muldaur)”]Diana, looks an awful lot like their mother, on whom I had a nasty crush Way Back When. Not every guy gets to marry his dream woman. But yeah, Maria was hot, too, but I’m most familiar with her work with Jim Kweskin. ETA: As for Kweskin, I asked John Sebastian if Mel Lyman was playing God because he was crazy, or because it was a great way to pick up chicks. John refused to enter the discussion, 40 years later. Smart boy. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/36 "2009-08-19T04:25:41Z")
“Signs” - Five Man Electrical Band “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)” - The Temptations “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” - Sugarloaf “Green Eyed Lady” - Sugarloaf “Fire and Rain” - James Taylor “Time in a Bottle” - Jim Croce “Up, Up and Away” - The Fifth Dimension “(Last Night) I Didn’t Get to Sleep At All” - The Fifth Dimension “My Eyes Adored You” - Frankie Valli “Sundown” - Gordon Lightfoot “Dream Weaver” - Gary Wright “Baby Come Back” - Player “Blue Bayou” - Linda Ronstadt “I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues” - Elton John “Empty Garden” - Elton John “Bennie and the Jets” - Elton John “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” - Elton John & Kiki Dee “The Unicorn” - The Irish Rovers “Lookin’ out My Back Door” - CCR “Midnight Special” - CCR “On and On” - Steven Bishop “One Toke Over the Line” - Brewer & Shipley “Hitchin’ a Ride” - Vanity Fair “Lady Marmalade” - Labelle “I Can See Clearly Now” - Johnny Nash “American Pie” - Don McLean “Brick House” - Commodores “My Sharona” - The Knack “Shadow Dancing” - Andy Gibb “Le Freak” - Chic “Arizona” - Mark Lindsay “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)” - The New Seekers “Car Wash” - Rose Royce “Fox on the Run” - Sweet “Magnet and Steel” - Walter Egan “Spirit in the Sky” - Norman Greenbaum “Love the One You’re With” - Stephen Stills “Sunshine” - Jonathan Edwards “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” - Robert John “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” - The Tokens “Runaway” - Del Shannon “Sugar Shack” - Jimmy Gilmer “One Fine Day” - The Chiffons “Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?” - Chicago “Question 67 and 68” - Chicago “25 or 6 to 4” - Chicago “Wooly Bully” - Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs “Those Were the Days” - Mary Hopkin ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/37 "2009-08-22T20:09:16Z")
[Werewolves of London](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MRu8N2K0NY) - Warren Zevon ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576/38 "2009-08-23T12:27:19Z")
Strawberry Alarm Clock- Incense and Peppermints Procol Harum- Whiter Shade of Pale The Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen version of Hot Rod Lincoln Paul Revere & the Raiders- Indian Reservation (Cherokee People) Lulu- To Sir With Love Linda Ronstadt & the Stone Poneys- Different Drum The Fifth Dimension version of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-pop-hits-from-the-60s-and-70s/506576.md?page=1)