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.
let’s not forget the Pina Colada song by Rupert Holmes, or Waylon Jennings Amanda.
How about one by Candi Slice?
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:
BTW, wasn’t it Don Williams that had the hit of this?
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
Don Williams may have sung it too. I’m not sure.
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)
It was about 1990 when I finally understood the song title. Yes, I am quite the square.
I checked and you’re right. He did it in 1973. Waylon in 1979.
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:
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.
Neil Diamond.
Though at the time I thought it was Reverend Blue Jeans.
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.
You may be on to something there.
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 by Barry Mannilow.
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!
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.
OMG! Yes!
Young hearts run free _ Candi Staton
Living for the city - Stevie Wonder
First song that came to my mind (and will hopefully not stay there long) is Seasons in the Sun.
Dancing Machine by the Jackson 5
Dancing Machine = The Robot = the 70s
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.