Top Ten Time
Sam Salas
1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon..........Tony Orlando and Dawn
2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.....................Jim Croce
3. Killing Me Softly With His Song......Roberta Flack
4. Let's Get It On........................Marvin Gaye
5. My Love.....................Paul McCartney & Wings
6. Why Me..........................Kris Kristofferson
7. Crocodile Rock..........................Elton John
8. Will It Go Round In Circles..........Billy Preston
9. You're So Vain.........................Carly Simon
10. Touch Me In The Morning.................Diana Ross
What were you doing in 1973?
Bruce Harrison
or Alice Cooper. '70s radio was awaste of airspace!!!!!
Bruce Harrison (Class of '76)
U. of Louisville Kidney Disease Program
"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...." [Greg Lake]
Curtis H. Nugent
>Subject: Top Ten Time
>Date: 19 Jul 1994 16:18:55 GMT
I was a Junior in high school smoking my first cigarettes. Fighting with my
father over the length of my hair. First date with my wife (married in 1978
and still are). Learned to drink beer. Must have been worse than I thought
if Tie a Yellow Ribbon was the Nr. 1 song.
Beth Allerton
>
>1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon..........Tony Orlando and Dawn
>2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.....................Jim Croce
>
high-tailed it north to college - what an eye-opener.
My roommate had the infamous Burt Reynolds poster on the ceiling
My suitemates played ?Pink Floyd? til 3am...
Bridge over Troubled waters (guessing here) album came out & I
became an instant Simon & Garfunkel fan....
Didn't M*A*S*H start that year? I remember my ROTC buddies coming
over to consume vast quantities of beer while watching it ...
It was a very good year.
-Beth
David Base
> 1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon..........Tony Orlando and Dawn
> 2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.....................Jim Croce
Sucked, and sucked.
> 3. Killing Me Softly With His Song......Roberta Flack
> 4. Let's Get It On........................Marvin Gaye
> 5. My Love.....................Paul McCartney & Wings
Starting to really miss the Beatles here.
> 6. Why Me..........................Kris Kristofferson
> 7. Crocodile Rock..........................Elton John
> 8. Will It Go Round In Circles..........Billy Preston
> 9. You're So Vain.........................Carly Simon
> 10. Touch Me In The Morning.................Diana Ross
>
> What were you doing in 1973?
11th - 12th grade. Listening to YES, Focus, first heard Zappa that year,
and Joni Mitchell, Genesis (when Gabriel was still in the band). It was a
good year for music. And a bad year for the top 10.
Dave
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson
David Gregory Platt
>> Here are the Top 10 Singles of 1973:
>> 1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon..........Tony Orlando and Dawn
>> 2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.....................Jim Croce
>Sucked, and sucked.
>> 3. Killing Me Softly With His Song......Roberta Flack
>> 4. Let's Get It On........................Marvin Gaye
>> 5. My Love.....................Paul McCartney & Wings
>Starting to really miss the Beatles here.
Don;t know about Paul, but Roberta Flack and Marvin Gaye were brilliant.
>> 6. Why Me..........................Kris Kristofferson
>> 7. Crocodile Rock..........................Elton John
>> 8. Will It Go Round In Circles..........Billy Preston
>> 9. You're So Vain.........................Carly Simon
>> 10. Touch Me In The Morning.................Diana Ross
>>
>> What were you doing in 1973?
Learning to walk.
>11th - 12th grade. Listening to YES, Focus, first heard Zappa that year,
>and Joni Mitchell, Genesis (when Gabriel was still in the band). It was a
>good year for music. And a bad year for the top 10.
Argh. Yes, Genesis. I'm so glad punk and disco kicked these bands' asses.
Dave
Curtis Jackson
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}1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon..........Tony Orlando and Dawn
}2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.....................Jim Croce
}3. Killing Me Softly With His Song......Roberta Flack
}4. Let's Get It On........................Marvin Gaye
}5. My Love.....................Paul McCartney & Wings
}6. Why Me..........................Kris Kristofferson
1-5 were merely boring. "Why Me" was downright horrid!
Some ultra-religious type sang this at a talent show
at our school a couple of years later, and he sounded
much worse even than Kristofferson (if you can believe
that). Poor sod nearly got laughed off the stage.
}7. Crocodile Rock..........................Elton John
Fun.
}8. Will It Go Round In Circles..........Billy Preston
The coolest thing about this song, which was quite danceable,
was watching Billy at the keyboards playing it. I still
think that was the biggest 'fro I have ever seen; it was
almost a self-parody.
}9. You're So Vain.........................Carly Simon
This one I liked. From what I've heard, Warren Beatty richly
deserved every word of it.
}10. Touch Me In The Morning.................Diana Ross
Nice lyrics, but Diana Ross was never torchy enough to sing
it right. Billy Holliday could have done this one justice.
}What were you doing in 1973?
Enjoying 7th and 8th grades in school, fishing and playing
on a small farm outside Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and
generally having fun being alive and 11 years old.
1973 was a billion years ago....
--
Curtis Jackson cjac...@mv.us.adobe.com (preferred) or dod...@aol.com
"I finally figured out why I don't watch baseball...BECAUSE I HAVE A PULSE!
If baseball were any slower it would be farming." -- Brad Stolar (sp?)
Stan Chesnutt
Another great Seventies tune (1974 ?) was "Love Rollercoaster", the 'Say What'
song. As I recall, there was a two-second long scream somewhere in the
recording ... the rumor was that some girl was being killed in the next
sound-recording-studio while the song was recorded. Me a gullible
thirteen-year-old, I believed it.
What other blasts from the past?
- Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army
- "Breaker One-Niner"
- the Hustle
- Saturday Night Live, original cast
- "Happy Days" & "Get Smart"
- the last Beatles album
- the Nixon resignation
Yours in misty-eyed nostalgia,
Stan
Dawn M Kilbourn
>Here are the Top 10 Singles of 1973:
>
I was a terrible two!!
-Dawn
Wee bit crazed
>What were you doing in 1973?
Graduating from High School. Being extreamly happy that the draft ended.
Driving my dad's Pontiac Grand LeMans with a 400 CI engine, going to the
local Gas-O-Mat and putting only a single dollars worth of gas in to cruise
with ($0.29/gal) and dating the girl that would later become my wife of 20
years.
Oh Yea, listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash and going to Three Dog Night
concerts.
"Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end....."
Mark Thomas
: >What were you doing in 1973?
: "Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end....."
Careful, though.."Those Were the Days" was released in 1968..
And by 1973, Mary Hopkin was a has-been.
Or maybe this belongs in the one-hit wonder thread. :-)
Kameran Kashani
the screaming "Hey man, we don't plaaaay that waaaay."
The Players were [in]famous for semi-pornographic ... uh ...
I mean .... erotic album covers.
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How about these interesting "1970s" events ... (from The Official UNIX
Calendar, with some extras by me):
Jan 1 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems), Midnight GMT, 1970
Jan 28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970
Jan 31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970
Feb 15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
Mar 28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
Apr 10 Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
May 4 Four Kent State students, protesting Cambodia incursion, shot by National Guard, 1970
Jun 24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
Aug 26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
Aug 26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970
Sep 18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
Oct 4 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970
Feb 23 Lt Calley confesses, implicates Cpt Medina, 1971
Mar 13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971
Mar 26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971
Apr 20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
May 3 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
Jun 10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
Jun 27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
Jul 3 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971
Jul 6 Louis "Satchel-Mouth" Armstrong dies, 1971
Aug 1 The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971
Oct 25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
Oct 29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
Nov 14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request from McDonald's), 1971
Dec 3 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
Dec 16 Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971
Feb 19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in Britain, 1972
Feb 28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
May 8 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
Jun 17 Watergate Democratic National Committee Break-In, 1972
Aug 12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
Sep 1 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
Sep 23 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
Nov 3 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
Jan 13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973
Jan 27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
Mar 8 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973
Mar 27 Pink Floyd releases "Dark Side of the Moon," 1973
Mar 29 Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973
Jul 28 The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973
Sep 20 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973
Sep 20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
Oct 6 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
Oct 10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
Oct 20 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
Oct 20 OPEC embargo, 1973
Nov 21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
Dec 9 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
Dec 28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
Feb 5 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
Feb 20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974
Mar 22 Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974
Apr 1 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
May 17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
Aug 8 Nixon announces resignation, 1974
Aug 9 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
Sep 8 Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon (the slime!), 1974
Sep 22 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974
Oct 7 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
Mar 25 King Faisal shot to death by nephew in royal palace, Riyahd, 1975
Mar 26 City of Hue falls to North Vietnamese army, 1975
Aug 29 Star in Cygnus goes nova & becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975.
Oct 11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
Nov 11 Angola gains independence from Portugal, 1975
Jan 8 Elvis Presely dies (?), 1976
Jan 10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
Mar 9 Robert "Bobby" Fischer, World Chess Champion 1972-1976, born in 1943
May 31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever--76,000 watts of PA, 1976
Sep 9 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82, 1976
Oct 11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
Nov 25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976
Dec 4 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
Dec 15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
Jan 3 Apple Computer founded, 1977
Mar 27 Two 747 jets collide on runway at Tenerife, killing 577, 1977
Mar 30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
May 12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977
Jun 10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
Aug 10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
Aug 19 Groucho Marx dies, 1977
Oct 7 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
Oct 20 Ronnie Van Zandt, Steve & Cassie Gains (Lynyrd Skynyrd) die in a plane crash, 1977
Jan 25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978
Feb 14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
Jun 28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
Sep 7 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978
Oct 8 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
Oct 26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
Dec 31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
Jan 4 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979
Jan 16 Set uid bit patent issued, 1979
Feb 1 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
Feb 7 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979
Mar 26 Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords, 1979
Mar 28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
May 9 94 degrees, New York, 1979
Jul 12 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979
Oct 7 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
Nov 4 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
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: Another great Seventies tune (1974 ?) was "Love Rollercoaster", the 'Say What'
: song.
Ohio Players, 1976.
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David Base
Kashani) wrote:
> How about these interesting "1970s" events ... (from The Official UNIX
> Calendar, with some extras by me):
I had that album. I had forgotten about that. That was before Duane
Allman died. Great performance.
> Jun 10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
All that evil flute music must have whipped them into a frenzy.
> Feb 19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in Britain, 1972
Anybody know if it still is?
> Dec 9 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973
Was this the movie version, or did The Who not perform Tommy on stage until
this time? It was written and recorded several years earlier.
> Oct 7 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
She must have thought she was with Ted Kennedy.
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