That 70's song-- Name That Tune for old fogeys

“All the Young Dudes” - written by David Bowie, performed by Mott the Hoople

f6) “I’m no schoolboy, but I know what I like.”
“Brown Sugar” - Rolling Stones
f7) “I ain’t no monkey, but I know what I like.”
“Buckets of Rain” - Bob Dylan

/b]Fish42** - f2) “I got a freaky old lady named Cocaine Katie”

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

mdf2) “In a flat Forty-One with my strat on the door
we was goin’ to the country for what we came for.”

f2) “I got a freaky old lady named Cocaine Katie”

Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

Dang it, I WAS pushing the Submit button.

I think it’s The Jokers.

The Unnamed Ones
50. There was a band playing in my head
51. Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
52) It can’t be wrong when it feels so right
Friends call me but I just don’t feel like talking to anyone.
14) “Let’s call this song exactly what it is.”
16) “Your black and white power, is gonna be a crumbling tower. And we who stand divided, so god damned undecided.”
how far off i sat and wondered"
40) Foot wrapped in an old rag, bottle in a brown bag.
45B) I was 16, he was 21
It wasn’t the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the trailers
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
55) “We didn’t get our 40 acres and a mule, but we did get you, C.C.”
By neurotic psychotic pigheaded politicians
61) But I know that he won’t stay
62) One day I met a girl named Sue
64) When the cold wind’s streaming
65) Go sit at the bakery
67) But soon he started in dealing in slaves and something inside of him died
66) call all my reindeer to graze here
68) the bed’s too big the frying pan’s too wide
72) I don’t like what I think I see
69. Somehow I knew it would be you, To change my gray skies to blue
72. I played all my cards, and that’s what you’ve done too
73. Once a story’s told, it can’t help but grow old
74. Or a chinese dentist, or a british queen
79) Magically bored on a quiet street corner.
ddg-1. There’s no double-lock defense
ddg-2. Mamma had the usual to say, that we should, please be good today
ddg-4. We just come from such different sets of circumstance
ddg-5. It was the hexagram of the heavens
ddg-6. Born already ruined, stone-cold dead as I stepped out of the womb
ddg-8. Figured they’d kidnap a rich man’s son, make it in the world of crime
ddg-11. The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood
ddg-12. What good is spilling blood? It will not grow a thing
88) Like a cat and a mouse I thought of going house to house.
89) Baby what’s these things you’re saying behind my back?
90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in.
91)I turned on the music to start my day.
ast2- I had a hole in the place where my heart should have been.
ast4- The head nurse, she blew in just like a tornado.
ast6- He’ll say, “Excuse me- haven’t I seen you somewhere before?”
ast7- Ain’t got much, but what we got’s ours.
ast8- Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don’t envy me.
ast9- I used to go out to parties and stand around.
ast10- The world’s coming to an end. I don’t even care.
f1) “We can deal with rockets and dreams/But reality, what does it mean?”
f3) “One good thing about music/When it hits, you feel no pain”
f4) “He’s got a dream about buying some land/Gonna giveup the booze and the one-night stands.”
f5) “Eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus”

F4- “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty (that one may be the 80s, technically)

F5- “Convoy” by C.W. McCall

  1. There was a band playing in my head

I answered this back near the top of page 2 - isn’t it Neil Young - After the Gold Rush?

  1. sounds like Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not to Come

mdf3 - “Well we made all the hot spots. My money flowed like wine
Then that low down Southern whiskey began to fog my mind”

  1. But soon he started in dealing in slaves and something inside of him died

I think this one was already answered, but it’s “Tangled Up in BLue” - Bob Dylan

90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in.

The Beatles - Fixing A Hole

Not the song I was thinking of.

84 All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople
91 More than a Feeling by Boston
f7. Buckets of Rain by Dylan (beautiful song)

That’s me, right on top of things. Please pretend the last post happened an hour and a half ago. Thanks.

90)There’s a hole in my head where the rain comes in.

“Evil Woman” - ELO

That’s the song I was thinking of.

ddg-5. It was the hexagram of the heavens - Rita Coolidge - Amelia
ast8- Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don’t envy me - “Can’t get it out of my head” - ELO

  1. Baby, what’s these things you’re saying behind my back?

Baby Hold On To Me (?) - Eddie Money

ast 10) Earache My Eye - Cheech and Chong

  1. Jane? (Jefferson Starship - and possibly another 80’s song)

oh, and mdf1) Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac

mdf3 - “Well we made all the hot spots. My money flowed like wine
Then that low down Southern whiskey began to fog my mind”

“Dixie Chicken” - Little Feat

  1. “you say it’s easy, just a natural thing
    like playing music but you never sing”