“The 70’s” would also get #MeToo’d to hell and back. LOL, just listening to some of these lyrics…
I would dance upon a string
Any gifts she’d wanna bring
I would give her anything
If she would just do what I say
“That Lady”, The Isley Brothers.
Here’s one that hits in several categories:
Songs that could only have happened in the 70’s
Funny story songs
Funk mixed with pop
Good for disco dancing
Songs about the band
I therefore propose: Rubberband Man
For the Funkenstein crowd, hard to beat Flashlight or One Nation Under a Groove
But there is no way I can see any one song from the amazing mix of music that was the 70s
It also had yacht rock, though you are forgiven for not mentioning it.
And somehow we both forgot, “The beginning of rap”
And I forgot Southern Rock, one of my favorite genres. I even lumped Lynyrd Skynyrd in with ‘country rock’. For shame.
So… also southern rock (Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, Atlanta Rhythm Section, etc)
Has there been another decade where the top 100 consistently featured such a varied list of genre artists?
What was that band all the middle-aged guys loved in the 70’s. They did, like, sea shanty’s and songs about sailing. Man, I cannot think of the name,or a single song, but it’s stuck in my head now. I want to say they’d be categorized as a folk band, and had maybe also done recordings in the 60’s. 2-3 guys with fairly low voices and the sound of waves in the background.
Dangit this is keeping me awake. . . also, the 70’s are much longer ago than I care to admit, so memories may inaccurate as well as incomplete.
The Irish Rovers?
No, but thanks for trying.
The 70’s is always going to mean disco to me, so Disco Inferno.
“YMCA.” And the Board won’t let me post that until I add more words, so here they are.
Can’t get more 70s than this.
I believe there is no one living in America who, were they in the full flush of youth during the 70s, won’t stagger to their feet and attempt to shake their bootay to this song even today. Even if they throw a hip for the effort.
Myself. I was in the full flush of my youth in the '70s, and I can take the song or leave it.
Oh, well. 
Aww, you don’t think “Bertha Butt Boogie” is played during the break of HR’s sensitivity training sessions? 
We weren’t kung fu fighting.
Everybody do the bump.
Anybody remember this song, which got a lot of airplay during the summer of 1976 (in the UK, anyway):
He’s supersonic, his name is bionic, the Six Million Dollar Man …
but he still has the heart of a man …
BIONIC MAN!
Obviously inspired by the TV show with Lee Majors, but damned if I can find a reference to it anywhere!
Great song! For some reason, I always think that it is Johnny Rivers singing it.
I was too young to remember much of the 70s. But I would nominate “Stayin’ Alive”. Musically, it was a great decade and I don’t know how you’d compare so many different genres.