I’m hosting a festival and am in charge of the music. I’m putting together a play list of hits from the late 60’s to the late 70’s. Looking for songs that easily recognizable or easy to sing along with - Pop or light rock.
Suggestions appreciated. Thanks!
What kind of vibe are you going for?
Mellow, trippy?
Anything by John Denver (Annie’s Song, Sunshine on My Shoulders)
Dust in the Wind
Fun, dancy? Kitschy, but fun?
Anything by Abba
I Will Survive
Anything by KC and the Sunshine Band
YMCA
Here’s a link to the Top 5 Songs of every year going back to 1949 (as determined by Billboard). Should be plenty of recognizable tunes in there.
A-a-afternoon delight!
Just from a quick scan of my iTunes
Grazing in the Grass (Friends of Distinction)
Smoke of a Distant Fire (Sanford and Townsend)
September (Earth Wind and Fire)
Let’s Stay Together (Al Green)
Born To Run (Bruce Spr. . . ah hell, you know who did that song)
Thanks so far.
I’m looking for those songs that stand out in terms of melody, maybe even cloying melody. Not necessarily ‘good’ songs, songs that got a lot of airplay. Afternoon Delight (mentioned above) is a good example.
Maybe even one-hit-wonders.
Seasons in the Sun by ??? Terry Jacks, I think the guy’s name was???
Big Bad Leroy Brown
You Sexy Thing
Lady Marmalade
Love Fire
Low Rider
Paloma Bianca
Love Rollercoaster
Rocket Man
Hit The Road Jack
That’s The Way I Like It
SOS
Convoy
The Streak
Smokin In The Boys Room
Spiders And Snakes
Painted Ladies
Mammy Blue
Pretty Lady
When You Say Love
Say Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose
Two Divided By Love
Little Willy
Hocus Pocus
Crocodile Rock
The Free Electric Band
Twisting The Night Away
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
The Twelfth Of Never
Back When My Hair Was Short
Power To All Our Friends
Major Tom
Gypsies Tramps And Thieves
Killer Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
We Are The Champions
Convoy
Driving My Life Away
Crystal Ball
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Charlie Brown
The Battle Of Kookamonga
Gitarzan
Gordon Lightfoot had many songs you don’t know he did, but go oh yah I like that one.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Sundown
The Mountains And Maryann
Boss Man
Bitter Green
Go Go Round
Lots more
Stan Rogers is great.
Jethro Tull:
Heavy Horses
Aqualung
Locomotive Breath
Bungle In The Jungle
Minstrel In The Gallery
Songs From The Wood
London Wainwright:
Smokey Joe’s Cafe
East Indian Princess
Dead Skunk - Funny as hell.
The Royal Guardsmen:
Road Runner
Snoopy For President
The Smallest Astronaut
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron
The Return Of The Red Barron
Mississippi Squirrel Revival
Surfin USSR
Ethyl The Truck Stop Queen
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Oh, yeah. Thanks, Harmonious Discord.
Undercover Angel, by Alan O’Day. (She said, What? I said, Ooo-oo-oo-weee…) 
Wildfire, Michael Martin Murphy
The Hustle, Van McCoy
The Lion Sleeps Tonight, The Tokens
Do not play:
Playground in my Mind, Clint Holmes
Muskrat Love, The Captain and Tennille
That would just be mean. 
Your welcome.
God, Harmonious Discord I know every one of those songs. We must have been in jr. high/ high school at the same time.
Here are a few for the list:
Happy Together and Elenore by the Turtles