# Top 100 songs of the 70s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132 "2008-05-30T13:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/41 "2008-05-31T04:46:33Z")
OK. So, after being more than five years absent from this board, I have to respond to _this_ thread. Olivers Army. Kind of obvious, huh? ---
**Author:** ![iturntoyou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e36b37/32.png) [@iturntoyou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iturntoyou)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/42 "2008-05-31T05:48:27Z")
The problem with lists like this is what is influencial now wasn’t necessarily then. You Light Up My Life the biggest song of the 70s hasn’t lived much, but The Long And Winding Road is pretty much a standard (or as close as you get in the rock era) The MTV list (with VH1) is too heavily dependent on songs with a video. The problem with the 70s is everyone thinks Disco. But from 1970-1975 the overwhelming theme was soft (very soft) rock, as noted with the Carpenters or Olivia Newton-John (along with Rod Stewart one of the few artists to last the entire decade and a bit more, even Elton John died in the late 70s to come back in 84). So you have to look at influence at what was the time. Clearly a song like Stayin’ Alive did more than hit the top of the charts it changed the direction of the top 100. So it really depends on how you want to define it ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/43 "2008-05-31T12:25:57Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Beach Baby (Canadian Lighthouse) [/QUOTE] I’m just going to be nitpicky for a moment and state that “Beach Baby” was by a band called First Class. The band Lighthouse, which was indeed a Canadian group, did exist, but instead of “Beach Baby,” its hits included “One Fine Morning,” “Pretty Lady,” and “Sunny Days.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/44 "2008-05-31T13:47:15Z")
Noted. Three more: Clap for the Wolfman (The Guess Who) Please Come to Boston (Kenny Loggins) Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/45 "2008-05-31T14:32:26Z")
The “Have a Nice Day” series of compilation discs from Rhino contains many “One Hit Wonders” > **[| Rhino](https://www.rhino.com/store/SeriesList.lasso?Series=havaniceday)** E.g. Skylark/Wildflower [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LyKXW3ioY1Q/hqdefault.jpg "SKYLARK (DAVID FOSTER) WILDFLOWER") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyKXW3ioY1Q) E.g. Jo Jo Gunne/Run Run Run [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYfQQZkeeVU) E.g. Pilot/Magic [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7I6G8zAiE) E.g. Reunion/Life is a Rock (but the Radio Rolled Me) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/16kh-AP4OCU/hqdefault.jpg "Reunion - Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kh-AP4OCU) And I don’t know if Rhino has it on one of these volumes, but: Stampeders/Sweet City Woman: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeuR3l8a_wE) She feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons… Bon, c’est bon, bon bon c’est bon bon! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/46 "2008-05-31T14:38:26Z")
Y’all are phillistines. Where is the love for **Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show**? Sylvia’s Mother (1972) The Cover of the Rolling Stone (1972) Only 16 (1976) A Little Bit More (1976) Sharing the Night Together (1978) When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman (1979) Sexy Eyes (1980) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/47 "2008-05-31T15:03:09Z")
“Please Come to Boston” was written and sung by Dave Loggins, not his second cousin Kenny Loggins. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/48 "2008-06-05T14:23:37Z")
It eill depend where you were but one of the super groups was Slade- Darling be home Soon and Cum Feel the Noize. Bay City Rollers? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/49 "2008-06-05T16:38:21Z")
A nominee I just remembered, know the song title but not the band. Who did “One Toke Over the Line”? ---
**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:** [June 5, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/50 "2008-06-05T16:57:42Z")
Brewer & Shipley ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/51 "2008-06-06T02:22:02Z")
Who Are You–1978 ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/52 "2008-06-06T02:59:08Z")
IMHO the definitive list is WABC’s [“Top 100 of 197#”](http://www.musicradio77.com/music.html). CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132/53 "2008-06-06T08:15:41Z")
Well, as usual, I’ll offer some of my obvious Cooper contributions (shame on no one else for having done so already – tsk, tsk!)… I’m Eighteen No More Mister Nice Guy School’s Out Welcome to my Nightmare [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-100-songs-of-the-70s/451132.md?page=2)