Don’t I feel stupid. Thanks. Did I get anything wrong with the other 2 dozen things I posted?
Green-Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf.
With one of the finest Hammond B-3 solos ever recorded.
Oh geeze - and you can’t forget Ariel by my buddy Dean Friedman. 70’s pop at it’s best.
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
The 1910 Fruitgum Company.
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.
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.
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
Super Seventies RockSite!
Stuck in the Middle with You–Stealers Wheel, I love the bassline in this one
Baker Street–Gerry Rafferty. I love Gerry Rafferty’s voice.
Hello It’s Me–Todd Rundgren. Live vocal. Check out the makeup. Love it!
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…
Probably my favorite 70s band is 10cc. Brilliant harmonies, music…
“I’m Not In Love”
“Things We Do For Love”
“Dreadlock Holiday”
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.
Al Wilson/Show and Tell (RIP, Al)
Spinners/Could It Be I’m Falling In Love
Hollies/Air that I Breathe
Toto/Hold the Line (RIP Jeff Porcaro)
Patty Smith/Because the Night
Boston/More than a Feeling (RIP Brad Delp)
How about:
Concrete and Clay - Unit 4+2
or
This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis and the Playboys
or even
Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind
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.
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”]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.
“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
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
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