# What song best encaspulates the 70's for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745 "2007-05-04T15:16:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/41 "2007-05-04T20:03:23Z")
Another vote for “Saturday in the Park.” Or “Afternoon Delight.” Christ, I feel old. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/42 "2007-05-04T20:05:52Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] When I saw that, I thought, “What an horrific oversight.” But thinking a little further, it seems that Led Zeppelin is one of those bands that, at its best, was truly timeless. I don’t think 70s (or late 60s) when I hear them. I just think it’s really good stuff. [/QUOTE] Yep, Zepplin reminds me of the '70s, '80s '90s, '00s and will certainly continue to for every other decade I’m on this Earth. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/43 "2007-05-04T20:11:12Z")
**What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud** by James Brown -released in 1969, but played repeatedly in the 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/44 "2007-05-04T20:13:59Z")
**Ariel** by Dean Friedman sends me right back to 1977 and falling asleep with the radio on. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/45 "2007-05-04T21:35:18Z")
Good luck getting this one out of your head: [Moonlight Feels Right](http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B0000032ZG001011/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_011/102-6505165-3311355). You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/46 "2007-05-04T21:43:45Z")
For me it would be Stevie Wonder’s _Superstition_, with that funky clavinet/guitar line and the brass section. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/47 "2007-05-04T21:51:35Z")
**None of you are being shallow enough!** _Do The Hustle_, or perhaps _Disco Duck_, sums the decade up best. Obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Alwrong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Alwrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alwrong)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/48 "2007-05-04T22:32:47Z")
Okay, there must have been something special about 1975 because the first three songs that I thought of were:\* I’m not in love\*, _Bohemian Rhapsody_, and _Love will keep us together_. Oh yeah, now I remember … ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/49 "2007-05-04T22:43:32Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] I Show Me The Way–Peter Frampton [/QUOTE] I was going to say “Do You Feel Like We Do”. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/50 "2007-05-05T01:42:24Z")
“Listen to what the man said”–Wings Kung Fu Fighting (I was born in 1967) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/51 "2007-05-05T01:50:07Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] **None of you are being shallow enough!** _Do The Hustle_, or perhaps _Disco Duck_, sums the decade up best. Obviously. [/QUOTE] A song called, _My Ding-a-Ling_, isn’t shallow enough for you?\* Geez, what does it take? \*Although released in 1972, is set the stage for the “Me” Decade of the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/52 "2007-05-05T15:38:36Z")
Am I the only who waited in a ticket line overnight to get good seats for **Bachman-Turner Overdrive**? That pretty well sums up the 70’s for me. Unless you want to consider: Brownsville Station Seals & Crofts Loggins & Messina Ted Nugent The Partridge Family all of that hideous disco stuff the one-hit wonderfulness of David Soul and John Travolta I can go on like this for hours, if you’d like. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/53 "2007-05-07T12:41:46Z")
[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel] Am I the only who waited in a ticket line overnight to get good seats for **Bachman-Turner Overdrive**? [/QUOTE] I’d wait in a line overnight if it meant I _wouldn’t_ have to see BTO. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/54 "2007-05-07T13:23:49Z")
“Ohio” by CSNY. I’ve always said the 1960s ended on [May 4, 1970](http://www.may4.org/). ---
**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:** [May 7, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/55 "2007-05-07T13:28:35Z")
American Pie - Don McLean We were singing, “bye-bye, miss american pie.” Drove my chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry. Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye And singin’, "this’ll be the day that I die. “this’ll be the day that I die.” I can’t define the 70’s by a song. Here’s the one I pick over the others. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/56 "2007-05-07T13:46:59Z")
Speaking of the “break-in” songs, I DO have a soft spot for Mr. Jaws. I also could listen to Kung Fu Fighting over and over and over again. It was one of the songs I taped off the air on my brand-new Christmas tape recorder, from Casey Kasem’s top songs of the year countdown…whatever year that was. '75 maybe? I think the Muhammad Ali song was on there, too. _Muhammad! Muhammad Ali! Floats like a butterfuly, sting like a bee. He moves like the black superman. He calls to the other guys, I’m Ahhh – Ahhh – Lee! Catch me if you can!"_ That is totally from memory. I’m off to find the lyrics to see if I’m remotely close. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/57 "2007-05-07T13:50:35Z")
Anything Peter Frampton Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley (Robert Palmer, baby!) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/58 "2007-05-07T13:55:24Z")
_Back Stabbers_, the O’Jays. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/59 "2007-05-07T13:58:01Z")
I was into Southern Rock: _Freebird_ by Lynyrd Skynyrd _Heard it in a Love Song_ by Marshall Tucker _The South’s Gonna Do It Again_ by Charlie Daniels and others of that genre… ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-best-encaspulates-the-70s-for-you/402745/60 "2007-05-07T13:58:33Z")
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