# Need help with a songs play list **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549 "2007-07-12T21:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guy\_Betty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Guy\_Betty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Betty)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/1 "2007-07-12T21:40:56Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/2 "2007-07-12T22:18:05Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/3 "2007-07-12T22:31:14Z")
Here’s a link to the [Top 5 Songs](http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_index.jsp) of every year going back to 1949 (as determined by Billboard). Should be plenty of recognizable tunes in there. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/4 "2007-07-12T23:05:55Z")
A-a-afternoon delight! ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/5 "2007-07-13T01:27:59Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Betty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Guy\_Betty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Betty)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/6 "2007-07-13T03:22:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/7 "2007-07-13T03:25:44Z")
Seasons in the Sun by ??? Terry Jacks, I think the guy’s name was??? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/8 "2007-07-13T03:54:35Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/9 "2007-07-13T04:41:40Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Betty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Guy\_Betty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Betty)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/10 "2007-07-13T05:22:17Z")
Oh, yeah. Thanks, **Harmonious Discord**. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/11 "2007-07-13T13:05:47Z")
Undercover Angel, by Alan O’Day. (She said, _What_? I said, Ooo-oo-oo-weee…) 😃 Wildfire, Michael Martin Murphy The Hustle, Van McCoy ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/12 "2007-07-13T13:16:34Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/13 "2007-07-13T14:19:01Z")
[QUOTE=Guy Betty] Oh, yeah. Thanks, **Harmonious Discord**. [/QUOTE] Your welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-songs-play-list/411549/14 "2007-07-13T14:32:30Z")
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