# What's the "Seventies-est" song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 25, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777 "2010-03-25T18:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/61 "2010-03-26T03:53:12Z")
After finding the damned Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep song, I thought I’d make a couple of CDs of great, cheesy, and just plain fun 70s music. This thread’s another goldmine. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/62 "2010-03-26T04:10:48Z")
let’s not forget the Pina Colada song by Rupert Holmes, or Waylon Jennings Amanda. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/63 "2010-03-26T04:30:37Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > [Here’s an antidote.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl4IvNnQPo) How about one by Candi Slice? ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/64 "2010-03-26T04:32:48Z")
Undercover Angel? Pina Colada Song? Afternoon Delight? Okay, but what about this one? There’s no “real” video for it, so this will have to do: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BETtELFGJm0/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/BETtELFGJm0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque > [@](#): > > …Waylon Jennings Amanda BTW, wasn’t it Don Williams that had the hit of this? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/65 "2010-03-26T04:39:54Z")
I first heard it in the late 70’s with Waylon. He also had a hit with Luckenbach Texas around the same time. Outlaw Country was huge in the late 70’s thanks to Waylon and Willie Nelson. Waylon singing Amanda [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1knCF94GRu0) Don Williams may have sung it too. I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/66 "2010-03-26T04:41:02Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > How about one by Candi Slice? Re Patti Smith’s You Light Up My Life~ I occasionally like her songs, but whew! Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not that cover! Although the expression on her face after she forgets the lyrics is cute. Oh yeah- here’s my nomination (horrid video but great audio) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qhYLz63csS0/hqdefault.jpg "Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhYLz63csS0) It was about 1990 when I finally understood the song title. Yes, I am quite the square. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/67 "2010-03-26T04:55:53Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > BTW, wasn’t it Don Williams that had the hit of this? I checked and you’re right. He did it in 1973. Waylon in 1979. > **[Amanda (Don Williams song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_%28Waylon_Jennings_song%29)** > > "Amanda" is a 1973 song written by Bob McDill and recorded by both Don Williams (1973) and Waylon Jennings (1974). "Amanda" was Waylon Jennings's eighth solo number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for three weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. > As recorded by Jennings, "Amanda" had been a track on his 1974 album The Ramblin' Man, but was not released as a single at that time; two other tracks, "I'm a Ramblin' Man" and "Rainy Day Woman," were. More than 4½ ye... ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/68 "2010-03-26T05:11:16Z")
The 70’s was a generation of overplayed music. Some was good and some was just awful over and over again. Some of the ones that made me gag were: YMCA- Village people Ring My Bell- ? Rhinestone Cowboy- Glen Campbell Forever in Blue Jeans- ? Tie a Yellow Ribbon round The Old Oak tree- Tony Orlando Closer to the Heart- Rush American Pie- Don Reid You Light Up My Life- Debbie Boone Take the Long Way Home- Supertramp Can’t smile Without You- Barry Manillo There was another one but it escapes me…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/69 "2010-03-26T05:30:11Z")
I haven’t even heard of half of these songs, and I lived right through the entirety of the 70s. Shows how much regionalism can matter. This is not a good example of a 70s song, but it’s one of my strongest memories of music in that era: [Mull of Kintyre](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhKmMWG3WE). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/70 "2010-03-26T05:32:44Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > Forever in Blue Jeans- ? Neil Diamond. Though at the time I thought it was _Reverend Blue Jeans_. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/71 "2010-03-26T05:38:14Z")
ok, I got it. 😉 It has to be Shaft by Isaac Hayes. The Single (Theme from Shaft) went #1 on Billboard and the Album was #1 on Billboard Shaft was a double Album. It was mostly instrumental and took about 90 minutes to get through. > **[Shaft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft_%28album%29)** > > Shaft may refer to: ---
**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:** [March 26, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/72 "2010-03-26T12:04:16Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > The correct answer is [Baker Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU). You may be on to something there. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/73 "2010-03-26T12:24:24Z")
Hmmmm. Hard to say… there are some seventies songs that you can still listen to and appreciate, some that seem timeless. Wait I think I have it. This ditty is scratched deep into my brain as deep as the scratch on the B side of my Frampton comes Alive LP. This song is everything I didn’t like about the seventies. Over produced, self indulgent, self centred, easy listening crap that could **only** exist in the seventies and no other time in history. [I write the songs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMBycZq66ks) by Barry Mannilow. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/74 "2010-03-26T12:28:21Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > The correct answer is [Baker Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU). I’d say so. Man,I loved that song when I was kid. Another one would be _Band On The Run._ Or Maybe _Hot Child In The City_! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/75 "2010-03-26T12:28:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I haven’t even heard of half of these songs, and I lived right through the entirety of the 70s. Shows how much regionalism can matter. > > This is not a good example of a 70s song, but it’s one of my strongest memories of music in that era: [Mull of Kintyre](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhKmMWG3WE). Thanks, I never heard that one before in the US. I was just listing some overplayed 70’s tunes that stuck in my craw. That was pretty and I like Irish music. I was about 5 and had a little record player and an album that my Dad would play for me. I just remember one song, “Has anyone there seen Kelly”? I loved that one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/76 "2010-03-26T12:31:02Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > hmmmm. Hard to say… There are some seventies songs that you can still listen to and appreciate, some that seem timeless. Wait i think i have it. > > This ditty is scratched deep into my brain as deep as the scratch on the b side of my frampton comes alive lp. > > This song is everything i didn’t like about the seventies. Over produced, self indulgent, self centred, easy listening crap that could **only** exist in the seventies and no other time in history. > > [i write the songs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmbyczq66ks) by barry mannilow. OMG! Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/77 "2010-03-26T13:18:40Z")
Young hearts run free \_ Candi Staton Living for the city - Stevie Wonder ---
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First song that came to my mind (and will hopefully not stay there long) is _Seasons in the Sun_. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/79 "2010-03-26T13:38:13Z")
Dancing Machine by the Jackson 5 Dancing Machine = The Robot = the 70s [Jackson 5 on the Merv Griffin Show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD2OsUcgb00) ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/80 "2010-03-26T13:47:27Z")
You’re all wrong. It’s obviously **Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo** by Rick Derringer! Seriously, I agree that it depends on what 70s you experienced. For me the music was a mixture of cheesy pop, hard rock, punk rock, and folk. I didn’t directly listen to a lot of the songs mentioned, but they were definitely in the background and part of that era’s soundtrack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777.md?page=5)