I started a couple threads in here about 70s music. One is about hits and other songs that you somehow missed, back in the day. The other is about songs that got horrendously overplayed and ate up the airwaves. Seems we have a bunch of 70s-philes…MY PEOPLE! Rock on, ooh, ma soul!
I propose to show a little love for songs that got it right, in your humble opinion. I’m talkin’ 'bout tunes that never got their due, that would make you turn up the radio even today…maybe they’re guilty pleasures or maybe that you just never tire of from that halcyon days between the 60s and the 80s. One(derful) hit wonders welcome. Bring on those blasts from the past!
But wait, if you act now you can avoid shipping and COD! I’m allowing a cheat. That is, post a song that didn’t quite arrive in the 1970s or maybe arrived a little to the party. 1967? 1982? Bring’em on! As near as most of us remember, it was 70ish and that’s good enough. If you label, you might avoid hassling from fellow dopers…'cause they might not think you know it wasn’t technically the 70s! Hey, didn’t we all attend the Freedom School with Billy Jack? I’m just concerned that someone…might…go…BERSERK!
Youtube or other links appreciated but not required. I’ll start.
Sweet City Woman/The Stampeders (bon, c’est bon…)
Feel Like Makin’ Love/Roberta Flack
Go All the Way/Raspberries:
Dancin’ in the Moonlight/King Harvest
Beach Baby/First Class
My cheat: Born to Be Wild/Steppenwolf (1968). IMO this guitar lead makes this song nothing short of distilled sex.
I’ll end with a guilty pleasure…one of the greatest love songs ever, from Roberta Flack. I would have posted this in the “Songs that make you weepy” thread if I were half a man:
I see your cowbell, and raise it with Chicago performing a lesser-known cover of the Spencer Davis Group hit.
Montrose, Space Station #5 the album cut with Sammy Hagar.
Montrose, Space Station #5 the live version without Sammy
Ruby Starr with Black Oak Arkansas.
And here’s Black Oak Arkansas playing a lesser-known version of a ZZ Top song. You can’t top the Top, but this version has it’s own charm. Would’ve loved to see them do this live, or at least HEAR a live version. From what I’ve seen on Youtube, they put on a great show.
My Cheat: Joe Cocker, from Woodstock(captioned for the clear-headed )
“Because the Night”, what a great tune! Springsteen’s writing and Smith’s performance just went together perfectly. I never got the cultish love for Smith I’ve seen. . .nothing else she did ever grabbed me, but this song was epic.
Yeah, I can’t get over the 70’s. Just last week I decided to play “Hot Child in the City.” Then me and the guy started to have “Afternoon Delight.” My husband came home and I couldn’t hide my lyin’ eyes. I yelled “Run Joey, Run” but it was too late. My OL’ man wouldn’t give him three steps and the next thing you knew, he saw the dreaded “Stairway to Heaven”
Man, I wish I could find the clip of Belushi AND Cocker singing on the same stage. But we gotta have something, so here he is with Raquel Welch…doing “Superstar,” no less:
Amen on “Because the Night.” Someone commented on TV that the song was a mix of the sacred and the profane; works for me.
OK_must_have_more_tunez.
I’m Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band/Moody Blues
Everybody Plays the Fool/The Main Ingredient (starring Don Cornelius’ righteous 'fro!)
O-o-h Child/Five Stairsteps
Love the One You’re With/Stephen Stills
Cheat du Post: Conquistador/Procol Harum (1967)
The fuck fuck fuckity fuck brigade of near misses:
“How Can I Be Sure” by the Rascals
“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by CSN&Y
“Crystal Blue Persuasion” by Tommy James & the Shondells
Board: That’s kinda cheating on your cheat allowance lobotomyboy…
lobotomyboy: Er, right.:smack:
Good links. I have a real weakness for concert footage on Youtube. Most of my clips I post here are of live music. . .and so, here are some more.
Taking a cue from Lobotomyboy’s list: Chicago- “Make Me Smile”, in concert. It’s raw footage.
Chicago- “Colour my World”, live.
25 or 5 to 4-Live. Video’s not great, but a good performance.
Damn, I love Terry Kath’s guitar and vocals. See my earlier post in this thread for Chicago’s, “I’m A Man.”
I’m not going to cheat. I’m gonna set fire to the rules and stomp all over the charred ashes with this next pick. Not close to being done in the 70’s, not a 70’s sound, and recorded in Russia, here is one of my all-time favorite harmonica pieces. Too good not to tell EVERYONE about.
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