Another vote for “Saturday in the Park.”
Or “Afternoon Delight.”
Christ, I feel old.
Yep, Zepplin reminds me of the '70s, '80s '90s, '00s and will certainly continue to for every other decade I’m on this Earth.
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.
Ariel by Dean Friedman sends me right back to 1977 and falling asleep with the radio on.
For me it would be Stevie Wonder’s Superstition, with that funky clavinet/guitar line and the brass section.
None of you
are being
shallow
enough!
Do The Hustle, or perhaps Disco Duck, sums the decade up best.
Obviously.
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 …
I was going to say “Do You Feel Like We Do”.
“Listen to what the man said”–Wings
Kung Fu Fighting
(I was born in 1967)
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.
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. 
I’d wait in a line overnight if it meant I wouldn’t have to see BTO.
“Ohio” by CSNY. I’ve always said the 1960s ended on May 4, 1970.
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.
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.
Anything Peter Frampton
Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley (Robert Palmer, baby!)
Back Stabbers, the O’Jays.
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…
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy