# What's the "Seventies-est" song?

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777/107 "2010-03-27T04:06:54Z")

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Let’s see: I want a singer/songwriter’s semiautobiographical story-song, but make sure to (a) throw in a section with super-high falsetto, and (b) dwell on flying so hiiiiigh when I’m stoned; there’s a wild-man wizard hiding in me, illuminating my mind – oh, and figure the guy doesn’t get the girl in the end, plus kick the whole thing off by mentioning “Frisco”, with bonus points for working in just how far a buck went in the '70s.

TAXI, by Harry Chapin.

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