Best 1970s Song
JoeBuck
There were a BUNCH of what I would consider very-good -- even great
-- pop tunes to come out of the 1970s.
And YES, some of these were disco tunes, as well.
Needless to say, many of the Bee Gees songs from "Saturday Night
Fever" remain classics of the era, and are (to me) eminently
listen-able today.
"How Deep is Your Love" is probably my fave.
BTW, just remembered: I bought three of the CD's from the Rhino set
"Soul Hits of the '70s" -- lemme tellya, this collection is CHOCK FULL
of some GREAT music (and no, I don't work for Rhino Records!)
Remember any of these gems?:
"Grazing in the Grass" -- The Friends of Distinction (a fine, very
Fifth Dimension-like group)
"Oh Happy Day" -- Edwin Hawkins Singers
"Color Him Father" -- Winstons
"Take a Letter Maria" -- RB Greaves (much better than Tony Orlando's
version, IMO)
"Rainy Night in Georgia" -- Brook Benton (one of my ALL-TIME favorite
songs; a real masterpiece, IMO)
"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" -- Delfonics
"Viva Tirado" (all instrumental -- you'd know it if ya heard it,
believe me) -- Chicano
"Turn Back the Hands of Time" -- Tyrone Davis
"O-O-H Child" -- Five Stairsteps
"Band of Gold" -- Freda Payne
"Love Train" -- O'Jays
"The Love I Lost" -- Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
I know others out there can think of some more great '70s tunes --
c'mon and remind us all of 'em!
kevxu
joe...@ix.netcom.com (JoeBuck) wrote:
(list of songs deleted)
> I know others out there can think of some more great '70s tunes --
>c'mon and remind us all of 'em!
>
>
Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye
Everybody Plays the Fool, Main Ingredient
Lean on Me, Bill Withers
Reach Out, I'll Be There, The Four Tops
Try a Little Tenderness, Otis Redding
Sunny, Bobby Herb/Hebb?
Two-fisted Love, Phoebe Snow (plus several others fr 2nd Childhood
album.)
Bad Girls, Donna Summer
Found a Cure, Ashford and Simpson
Jack
Doran
JoeBuck wrote:
> There were a BUNCH of what I would consider very-good -- even great
> -- pop tunes to come out of the 1970s.
> Needless to say, many of the Bee Gees songs from "Saturday Night
> Fever" remain classics of the era, and are (to me) eminently
> listen-able today.
> "How Deep is Your Love" is probably my fave.
> Remember any of these gems?:
> "Grazing in the Grass" -- The Friends of Distinction (a fine, very
> Fifth Dimension-like group)
> "Oh Happy Day" -- Edwin Hawkins Singers
> "Color Him Father" -- Winstons
> "Take a Letter Maria" -- RB Greaves (much better than Tony Orlando's
> version, IMO)
> "Rainy Night in Georgia" -- Brook Benton (one of my ALL-TIME favorite
> songs; a real masterpiece, IMO)
> "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" -- Delfonics
> "Viva Tirado" (all instrumental -- you'd know it if ya heard it,
> believe me) -- Chicano
> "Turn Back the Hands of Time" -- Tyrone Davis
> "O-O-H Child" -- Five Stairsteps
> "Band of Gold" -- Freda Payne
> "Love Train" -- O'Jays
> "The Love I Lost" -- Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
> I know others out there can think of some more great '70s tunes --
> c'mon and remind us all of 'em!
"Tell Me Something Good" -- Chaka & Rufus
"Dazz" -- Brick
"September" -- Earth, Wind, & Fire
"Give Me The Night" -- George Benson
"Black Cow" -- Steely Dan
wand...@voicenet.com
JoeBuck wrote:
>
> There were a BUNCH of what I would consider very-good -- even great
> -- pop tunes to come out of the 1970s.
> Fever" remain classics of the era, and are (to me) eminently
> listen-able today.
> "How Deep is Your Love" is probably my fave.
> "Soul Hits of the '70s" -- lemme tellya, this collection is CHOCK FULL
> of some GREAT music (and no, I don't work for Rhino Records!)
>
> "Grazing in the Grass" -- The Friends of Distinction (a fine, very
> Fifth Dimension-like group)
>
> "Oh Happy Day" -- Edwin Hawkins Singers
>
> "Color Him Father" -- Winstons
>
> "Take a Letter Maria" -- RB Greaves (much better than Tony Orlando's
> version, IMO)
>
> "Rainy Night in Georgia" -- Brook Benton (one of my ALL-TIME favorite
> songs; a real masterpiece, IMO)
>
> "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" -- Delfonics
>
> "Viva Tirado" (all instrumental -- you'd know it if ya heard it,
> believe me) -- Chicano
>
> "Turn Back the Hands of Time" -- Tyrone Davis
>
> "O-O-H Child" -- Five Stairsteps
>
> "Band of Gold" -- Freda Payne
>
> "Love Train" -- O'Jays
>
> "The Love I Lost" -- Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
>
> I know others out there can think of some more great '70s tunes --
> c'mon and remind us all of 'em!
lonew...@aol.com
Does anyone remember the name of the song, well...the singer sort of
talked through it... about this guy who goes into a bar and sits next to
an alien? The only line I remember is , "..and I FREAKED! 'Cause the guy
sitting next to me was a MARTIAN!".... What a goofy song, but I loved it
as a kid. Anyone? Anyone?
DaHeretic
Instant Karma, Number 9 Dream, Whatever Gets You Through the Night
- John Lennon
"Betcha-by-golly-wah" by the Chi Lites (which the artists formerly
known as Prince has BUTCHERED recently)
"I'm So In Love With You." "I'm Still In Love With You." Al Green
"Could it Be I'm Fallin' In Love?" The Spinners
"I'm Hooked on a Feeling (remake.. Uga Chaga!)" can't remember who.
"Joy!" (a fast synthesized version of Bach's Ode to Joy). can't
remember who.
"Pinball Wizard." sung by Elton John.
"Funeral for a Friend." Elton, too.
"Oh Very Young." "Morning Has Broken." "Moonshadow." by Cat Stevens
"Taxi" "Cat's In the Cradle" by Harry Chapin
"Got to Get You Into My Life" Earth, Wind, and Fire version.
"Shining Star." can't remember who.
I could go on and on...
G. Jeffrey Gower
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, DaHeretic wrote:
> "I'm Hooked on a Feeling (remake.. Uga Chaga!)" can't remember who.
Blue Swede
> "Joy!" (a fast synthesized version of Bach's Ode to Joy). can't
> remember who.
Apollo 100
> "Shining Star." can't remember who.
E,W,&F
DaHeretic
Charles Held wrote:
>
> In article <32A94D...@ix.netcom.com>,
> DaHeretic <bsam...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> ="Could it Be I'm Fallin' In Love?" The Spinners
>
> The Rhino Very Best of Spinners is a fantastic record.
Atlantic has a double CD that is fantastic, too.
> ="I'm Hooked on a Feeling (remake.. Uga Chaga!)" can't remember who.
>
> Blech! B.J. Thomas
>
I don't think so.. he did "Raindrops Keep Fallin on my Head."
> ="Joy!" (a fast synthesized version of Bach's Ode to Joy). can't
> =remember who.
>
> Huh? The Ode To Joy is the main theme of the Finale of Beethoven's Ninth
> Symphony. Bach did write "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" as a chorale in one of
> his Cantatas. Not sure which one you're referring to.
Sorry.. you are absolutely correct. I had just listened to the the
9th the other day.. apparently still had Beethoven on my mind.
= Shining Star
>
> I assume you're talking about the ballad that goes "You are my shining star",
> which is by the Manhattans. EW&F did a song called "Shining Star" as well but
> it's a more upbeat number.
"Shining Star for you to see..
What your life can truly be."
> Wake Up Everybody and Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
"If you don't know me by now!" That too.
> Back Stabbers - O'Jays
I just remembered.. "Respect Yourself" by the Staple Singers.
> Best disco songs for dancing:
>
> More Than A Woman - Bee Gees 106 beats per minute
> Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn 116 beats per minute
> Disco Inferno - Trammps 130 beats per minute
I saw the Tramps at a Disco show, several years ago.. Don't forget
"Rollercoaster" which, apparently, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have
covered for the Bevis & Butthead movie.
Re Disco: Funkytown, (don't gag.. when they play it on Disco night,
these days, everybody hits the floor): Copacabana.
Can't remember if it's late 70s or early 80s, but Rick James's
"Superfreak". Hot.
Steve Ellis
>Charles Held wrote:
>>
>> In article <32A94D...@ix.netcom.com>,
>> DaHeretic <bsam...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> ="Could it Be I'm Fallin' In Love?" The Spinners
>>
>> The Rhino Very Best of Spinners is a fantastic record.
>Atlantic has a double CD that is fantastic, too.
>
>> ="I'm Hooked on a Feeling (remake.. Uga Chaga!)" can't remember who.
>>
>> Blech! B.J. Thomas
>>
>I don't think so.. he did "Raindrops Keep Fallin on my Head."
>
Yes, B. J. Thomas did that one. However, the remake you're thinking of (73 or
74) was done by Blue Swede.
JoeBuck
ch...@bosnet.net (Charles Held) wrote:
>Best disco songs for dancing:
>More Than A Woman - Bee Gees 106 beats per minute
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn 116 beats per minute
>Disco Inferno - Trammps 130 beats per minute
Now, I find this interesting.
The beautifully-1970s-mellow "More Than a Woman" really isn't in the
same league, musically nor speedwise, w/the hyper "Disco Inferno,"
IMO.
Yes, "More" certainly WAS a great disco dance tune, but I never
realized it approached REALLY speedy disco ditties such as "Inferno."
helen
How can we forget "JOY TO THE WORLD" by the 3 dog nights!!!
Jason LeBouef
JoeBuck wrote:
> >Best disco songs for dancing:
>
> >More Than A Woman - Bee Gees 106 beats per minute
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn 116 beats per minute
> >Disco Inferno - Trammps 130 beats per minute
"Funkytown" by Lipps, Inc.
"Play that Funky Music" by Wild Cherry
"That's the way uh huh uh huh" by KC & the sunshine band
"I Feel Love" Donna Summer
"Popcorn" by Hot Butter?
"Sky High" by Jigsaw.
And the GREATEST tune from the 70's
"Papa was a Rollin Stone" by the Temptations.
It was an icon of the 70's. It had a wah-wah guitar, a hypnotic type
bass/drum beat, and depressing lyrics. There is a 11 minute version on
the album "All Directions" - Motown.
lonew...@aol.com
All I have to say it....
You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up...
You put the lime in the coconut, call the doctor wake him up..
say, 'DAAAAACtor.... is there nothing I can take..."
I say, "DAAAAACtor...to relieve this belly ache..."
lonew...@aol.com
Three words: FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE
lonew...@aol.com
No one remembers the song about the Martian? It wasn't some Doctor Demento
type song, it was a song by some 70s group. All I can remember from it is
that this guy went into a bar, ordered a hamburger or something and then
he said, "...and I FREAKED! Cuz the guy sitting next to me was a Martian!"
I can't remember the title or the band (maybe Boomtown Rats, but I don't
think so), but they played the shit out of it in the early/mid-seventies.
mben...@aol.com
In article <19961208203...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
lonew...@aol.com writes:
>.and I FREAKED! Cuz the guy sitting next to me was a Martian!"
The line caused a spark of a memory but I could neither place it nor
remember anything else about the song. But I can just "hear" that voice
saying that line!! Dammit, I wish I could remember. Maybe I will sit up
from a dream tonight singing it.
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"Lonely and dreaming of the West coast.." Everclear
Risser
Formerly Fictio...@usa.pipeline.com, now residing at
MBEn...@aol.com
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DaHeretic
Almost sounds like something by Ray (The Streak) Stevens?
Kelly Shimanek
lonew...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Three words: FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE
ah, yes, I remember it well...most of it...must of been all that cheap
beer we had someone else buy.....LOL
woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand...whose wine, what
wine, where the hell did I dine...Sorry, love that part....
On thing tho....how could anyone ever forget that one hit wonder...
MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS....Maria Muldaur
thanks for humoring me
kelly class of 74
Brandon M. Gorte
Charles Held (ch...@bosnet.net) wrote:
:
: Best disco songs for dancing:
:
: More Than A Woman - Bee Gees 106 beats per minute
: Disco Inferno - Trammps 130 beats per minute
I'm gonna add a few more...
Last Dance - Donna Summer (8:14 version)
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
Give Up The Funk - Parliament
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (7 minute version)
Bad Girls - Donna Summer (best when mixed with Hot Stuff)
Music, Harmony, & Rhythm - Brooklyn Dreams
I hope you're talking about the 11 minute Disco Inferno.
BMG
robbin decker
I always liked a lot of the stuff by the Good Rats, from "we are..."
to "Rat City in Blue" and so on. Good hanging out in the backyard
polishin the bike music
Bill
Shane Hill
Charles Held <ch...@bosnet.net> wrote in article
> ="I'm So In Love With You." "I'm Still In Love With You." Al Green
>
> Right Stuff label has reissued remastered versions of ALL Al Green!!!
I think you are referring to "Let's Stay Together" in the first title. It
came out in 1972 and is my all time favorite 70's tune.
Kent Parks
: ="I'm So In Love With You." "I'm Still In Love With You." Al Green
Do you mean I'm STONE in Love with You, by Stylistics?
: ="I'm Hooked on a Feeling (remake.. Uga Chaga!)" can't remember who.
: Blech! B.J. Thomas
He did the original, but the "Ooga-chugga" [ptooie!] remake was Blue
Swede, in 1974.
: ="Joy!" (a fast synthesized version of Bach's Ode to Joy). can't
: =remember who.
: Huh? The Ode To Joy is the main theme of the Finale of Beethoven's Ninth
: Symphony. Bach did write "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" as a chorale in one of
: his Cantatas. Not sure which one you're referring to.
"Joy" was by the Apollo 100, in 1972. It was indeed a 'modernized'
version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--has nothing whatsoever to do with Jseu,
Joy of Man's Desiring" <???>
: ="Shining Star." can't remember who.
: I assume you're talking about the ballad that goes "You are my shining star",
: which is by the Manhattans. EW&F did a song called "Shining Star" as well but
: it's a more upbeat number.
Well, since the previously mentioned songs were EW&F, I think he probably
meant them (the Manhattan's one, which IS a great song, was 1980 anyway)
: Songs to add:
: Strawberry Letter #23 - Brothers Johnson
I like "I'll Be Good to You" better of theirs
: Wake Up Everybody and Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Huh? "Don't Leave Me This Way" was by Thelma Houston--I guess you mean a
different song, but it never charted, if so...
: Games People Play - Spinners
Yes! GREAT one!
: Best disco songs for dancing:
: More Than A Woman - Bee Gees 106 beats per minute
Yuck!
: Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn 116 beats per minute
This is the QUINTESSENTIAL disco song! Never get tired of it!
: Disco Inferno - Trammps 130 beats per minute
On the other hand, there is no song I am MORE tired of than this one! We
call it "Disco Eternal"...
Kent
Kent Parks
: I saw the Tramps at a Disco show, several years ago.. Don't forget
: "Rollercoaster" which, apparently, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have
: covered for the Bevis & Butthead movie.
"Love Rollercoaster" was the Ohio Players
: Re Disco: Funkytown, (don't gag.. when they play it on Disco night,
: these days, everybody hits the floor): Copacabana.
Funkytown was 1980, technically not '70s but close enough to count :)
: Can't remember if it's late 70s or early 80s, but Rick James's
: "Superfreak". Hot.
Summer of '81--it always reminds me of my orientation week at college,
where it was on the radio nonstop!
robbin decker
pa...@ruby.ils.unc.edu (Kent Parks) wrote:
>: Strawberry Letter #23 - Brothers Johnson
>I like "I'll Be Good to You" better of theirs
"Thunder thumbs and Lightening Licks" was a lot of fun on a good
system,
Bill
wand...@voicenet.com
> : Wake Up Everybody and Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
>
> Huh? "Don't Leave Me This Way" was by Thelma Houston--I guess you mean a
> different song, but it never charted, if so...
Harold Melvin did "Don't Leave Me This Way" before Thelma Houston
and in my opinion it was a much better version. I have it on a cassette
of their greatest hits. Their song, "The Love I Lost", was in my
opinion, one of the best songs ever written. Regards
JoeBuck
wand...@voicenet.com wrote:
Actually, it was TEDDY PENDERGRASS -- then a member of "Harold
Melvin and the Blue Notes" -- who was the lead singer in ALL of the
above tunes.
I have a CD compilation of the best of HM&TBN's and the liner notes,
if I recall correctly, accurately describe Pendergrass's voice as
"ferocious."
LONEWOLF64
"Oooooooo....Jackie Blue......"
Steve Carras
fun one to read is Precious and few.
Some really weird instrumentals in the early 1970s were...
SCORPIO-Dennis Coffey November 1971
JOY-Apollo 100 with
Tom (NOT ELvis' manager) Parker January 1972
POPCORN-Hot Butter July 1972
ROCK AND ROLL PART TWO-Gary Glitter July 1972
HOCUS POCUS-Focus March 1973
BTW Does any one remember those (ROCK AND ROLL PART TWO of course is the
unofficial jock anthem...)
AND one vocal song that never made it but which WAS played in Southern
California (here on KFI-AM/640 radio) by some dude named Adriano
Celenatno-the only word longer than a certain MARY POPPINS tune
startin'with the letter SUP---OUS, only it was called
PRISE-something-ESI-NAINCISSOUl,a novelty hit that stiffed. Celentano I
think was pretty big in Italy but for some reason that 1974 tune never
made ikt. Would anyone fill me in...and there is a 1960s song, KITES ARE
FUN by a group known as Free Design, produced by big band leader and
violinist Enoch Light, on Project Three records, by three guys and Bruce
and Chris and a gal named Sandy.
Ed Kaz, a writer from New Jersey who writes for COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC
(Issue No.2, Ferrante and Teicher issue, green cover), mentioned this and
got the album, and described the specifics.
I think the song went, though maybe Ray Conniff did it,
Life, or something that rhymes with it-is a tr-e-e-e(choir here,
crooning over strings really realy high).
(note-these following lyrics are MY estimation),gentle as a
bree---zee,(like Ray Charles, Ray COnniff, Fred Waring et al. The group I
think it is, is Enoch Light and Free Design, tho I'm not sure..)
another obscure one.......
Anyway, good luck if anyone can help out, and any comments on any of
these songs!
My web page..<a href=carras.htm><u>http://Steve Carras Web
Page//netscape</u></a>
jim and/or ann
Kent Parks wrote:
>
>
> "Joy" was by the Apollo 100, in 1972. It was indeed a 'modernized'
> version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--has nothing whatsoever to do with Jseu,
> Joy of Man's Desiring" <???>
Must beg to differ. Apollo 100's "Joy" is indeed a speeded-up version
of "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring," because my 45 gives the composer's
credit to J.S. Bach. There was a pop version of Beethoven's "Ode To
Joy" by Miguel Rios somewhere around 1972.
> : Games People Play - Spinners
>
> Yes! GREAT one!
My favorite song of all time, actually.
jim
("Right, wrong, they just can't stop it.")
robbin decker
Steve Carras <car...@cosmoslink.net> wrote:
>robbin decker wrote:
>>
>> pa...@ruby.ils.unc.edu (Kent Parks) wrote:
>>
>> >: Strawberry Letter #23 - Brothers Johnson
>>
>> >I like "I'll Be Good to You" better of theirs
>> "Thunder thumbs and Lightening Licks" was a lot of fun on a good
>> system,
>> BillThere is a book out, actually two, We had Joy, we had fun but the really
>fun one to read is Precious and few.
>Some really weird instrumentals in the early 1970s were...
>SCORPIO-Dennis Coffey November 1971
>JOY-Apollo 100 with
>Tom (NOT ELvis' manager) Parker January 1972
>POPCORN-Hot Butter July 1972
>ROCK AND ROLL PART TWO-Gary Glitter July 1972
>HOCUS POCUS-Focus March 1973
More instrumental memories...
"Autobahn"-Kraftwerk
"Tubular Bells" Oldfield....which was actually another really great
album on a good system, I actually think it suffered from the
"Exorcist" connection as it was never looked at as much other than a
soundtrack.
Bill Decker
Jason LeBouef
robbin decker wrote:
> >Some really weird instrumentals in the early 1970s were...
> >SCORPIO-Dennis Coffey November 1971
> >JOY-Apollo 100 with
> >Tom (NOT ELvis' manager) Parker January 1972
> >POPCORN-Hot Butter July 1972
KICK ASS!
> >HOCUS POCUS-Focus March 1973
AWESOME GUITARS
> More instrumental memories...
> "Autobahn"-Kraftwerk
> "Tubular Bells" Oldfield....which was actually another really great
> album on a good system, I actually think it suffered from the
> "Exorcist" connection as it was never looked at as much other than a
> soundtrack.
How about...
"Also Sprach Zarustra (or whatever) - Theme to 2001"
That funky version (who did it)
And the Kazoo version
"In the mood" - Henhouse five plus too.
David L. Campbell
Best '70's song? No doubt in my mind.
"Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)" by Elton John.
However, I must give the silver and bronze medals to "Baker Street" by
Gerry Rafferty and "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, the first "hard rock"
song I ever truly loved.
DLC
will...@netcom.com
"Harry doesn't mind
if he doesn't....
make the scene.
He's got a daytime job,
he's doin' alright."
--
William Homer|will...@netcom.com|ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/wi/william1/weh.html
helen
Playground in my Mind
djd
In <32B2F5...@popalex1.linknet.net> Jason LeBouef
<jleb...@popalex1.linknet.net> writes:
>> More instrumental memories...
>> "Autobahn"-Kraftwerk
>Weird but cool.
Excellent getting stoned album.
>> "Tubular Bells" Oldfield....which was actually another really great
>> album on a good system, I actually think it suffered from the
>> "Exorcist" connection as it was never looked at as much other than a
>> soundtrack.
>Scares my girlfriend.
Try the flipside. "Piltdown Man" oughta' make her really freak.
>
>How about...
>"Also Sprach Zarustra (or whatever) - Theme to 2001"
> That funky version (who did it)
Emir Deodata, I think.
Duane
djd...@ix.netcom.com
JoeBuck
helen <kil...@whidbey.net> wrote:
>Playground in my Mind
Do you mean "Playgrounds of My Mind"? That title rings a bell . . .
who wrote it/sang it? (Reminiscent of Jimmy Webb's great "Where's the
Playground, Susie?" as sung by Glen Campbell, from the previous
decade.)
wand...@voicenet.com
Doran wrote:
>
> Vic Moore wrote:
>
> > Disco music was never really intented to be heard anywhere but the
> > dance floor.
>
> You think so? I could spend hours listening to disco. In my opinion,
> there are lots of classics:
>
> "Good Times," Chic
> "Dazz," Brick
> "September," "Serpentine Fire," EW&F
> "Pick Up The Pieces," AWB
> "Got To Be Real," Cheryl Lynn
> "Rock With You," Michael Jackson
> "Feels So Good," Chuck Mangione
> "Knee Deep," Funkadelic/Parliament
>
> Some of those songs had a harder funk edge, while others had more of a
> pop-radio sound.
I love Disco also. How about some of those Trammps classics:
"Hold Back The Night", "Where Do We Go From Here", "Where Were You When
The Lights Went Out", etc. I will pass on the overdone "Disco Inferno"
though. Regards
Doran
Francis McGill
I have Billboard's Joel Whitburn Top 40 Hits book and according to it,
Apollo 100's "Joy" is based on "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Bach,
NOT the Ode to Joy by Beethoven.
Kent Parks (pa...@ruby.ils.unc.edu) wrote:
: "Joy" was by the Apollo 100, in 1972. It was indeed a 'modernized'
: version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--has nothing whatsoever to do with Jseu,
: Joy of Man's Desiring" <???>
: Kent
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wand...@voicenet.com wrote:
: I love Disco also. How about some of those Trammps classics:
: "Hold Back The Night", "Where Do We Go From Here", "Where Were You When
: The Lights Went Out", etc. I will pass on the overdone "Disco Inferno"
: though. Regards
I believe you left out "Where The Happy People Go". ;^)
Martin Sagara "Visualize Whirled Peas"
University Of Colorado Trivia Bowl Alumnus
1981, "We Need Your Help Barry Manilow"
msa...@rmii.com
Mark Schneider
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:52:07 -0400, Marlene Blanshay
<blan...@vir.com> wrote:
>I always hated disco, but had to admit "Don't leave me this way" was a
>pretty good song,even if it was disco. The problem with most disco was
>that once you took away the beat, the songs themselves were just
>terrible.
>
>One of my faves, Non-disco: All the Young Dudes.
Yeah, but that can apply to mainstream rock too. Let's look at this
popular tune as poetry:
Red skys Tonite
Red skys Tonite
whoa
whoa
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Vinny Hrovat
In our last episode, onb...@ma.ultranet.com (Mark Schneider) spoke thusly:
>On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:52:07 -0400, Marlene Blanshay
><blan...@vir.com> wrote:
>>I always hated disco, but had to admit "Don't leave me this way" was a
>>pretty good song,even if it was disco. The problem with most disco was
>>that once you took away the beat, the songs themselves were just
>>terrible.
>Yeah, but that can apply to mainstream rock too. Let's look at this
>popular tune as poetry:
>
>Red skys Tonite
>Red skys Tonite
>whoa
>whoa
<etc. . . . .>
Actually the song spoke of "red skies at night" but no matter . . . another
aphoristic pop song that comes to my mind was done by John
Mellencamp/Cougar/whatever he called himself at the time:
R - O - C - K in the USA, yeah yeah
Rocking in the USA.
Someone told me that this song was from early in Cougar/whatever's "grown-up"
phase, far beyond his childish "I Need a Lover Who Won't Drive Me Crazy" (which
i thought was an ok song that said what it had to say quite nicely). I'm REALLY
glad this person explained that to me because i never would have realized that
the "R - O - C - K" song was a coming of age anthem. At least it exhibited
impeccable spelling . . . .
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David Donnelly
In article <596gbn$6...@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>,
djd...@ix.netcom.com(djd) wrote:
"Thus Spake Zarustha"
>
>Emir Deodata, I think.
>
>Duane
>djd...@ix.netcom.com
>
In a similar vein how about anything from "Dark Side of the Moon" - I know
that it's cliche but it's still awesome.
Some favorites from the '76-'79, non-disco, AOR set:
"Armed Forces" - Elvis Costello - "What's So Funny (About Peace, Love, and
Understanding)"
"The Tubes" - The Tubes - "Malegena sal la Rosa"
"Talking Heads '77" - Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
"Le Chat Blue" - Mink DeVille - "Heaven Stood Still"
"Siren" - Roxy Music - "Love is the Drug"
"Live ! In the Air Age" - Be Bop Deluxe - "Sister Seagull"
"Heavy Horses" - Patti Smith - "Because the Night"
Too trite ? Too obscure ? Too many ? To Sir with Love ?
G. Jeffrey Gower
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, JoeBuck wrote:
> Do you mean "Playgrounds of My Mind"? That title rings a bell . . .
> who wrote it/sang it? (Reminiscent of Jimmy Webb's great "Where's the
> Playground, Susie?" as sung by Glen Campbell, from the previous
> decade.)
It was "Playground in my Mind" by Clint Holmes ("My name is Michael, I
got a nickel, I got a nickel shiny and new....."). Not exactly the
quality of Webb's tune, eh?
Jeff
David Donnelly
In article <59f5in$1a...@node2.frontiernet.net>,
kb2...@pop3.frontiernet.com (robbin decker) wrote:
>David Donnelly <m-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> "Heavy Horses" - Patti Smith - "Because the Night"
>I have this on the "Easter" album, is it on more than one?
>Bill
>
>
Oooh, snagged. Yeah, it's "Easter". I couldn't recall and didn't eant to
dig out the vinyl. Good catch !
DAD
robbin decker
David Donnelly
In article <59gspr$s...@node2.frontiernet.net>,
kb2...@pop3.frontiernet.com (robbin decker) wrote:
>David Donnelly <m-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <59f5in$1a...@node2.frontiernet.net>,
>> kb2...@pop3.frontiernet.com (robbin decker) wrote:
>
>> Oooh, snagged. Yeah, it's "Easter". I couldn't recall and didn't eant
to
>>dig out the vinyl. Good catch !
>>DAD
>Hey, Maw, carve another notch on the leg of the record player, we
>caught us another one! Us old burnouts remember Patti, although I
>could never quite come up with the proper chemical combination to
>enable me to make sense out of "Babelogue" although I envied her
>guitar.......(inside PS fan comment).
>Bill
>
I (barely) remember an all-nighter acid trip, smoking something blonde from
the middle east, watching the sun melt up over the Sierras (from the Central
Valley floor), and having PS playing - and making sense ! Thank you, my
friend, for sparking that flashback !
DAD
robbin decker
Brian
In article <59foqr$c...@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com>, David Donnelly
<m-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> In article <59f5in$1a...@node2.frontiernet.net>,
> kb2...@pop3.frontiernet.com (robbin decker) wrote:
>
> >David Donnelly <m-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "Heavy Horses" - Patti Smith - "Because the Night"
> >I have this on the "Easter" album, is it on more than one?
> >Bill
> >
> >
>
> Oooh, snagged. Yeah, it's "Easter". I couldn't recall and didn't eant to
> dig out the vinyl. Good catch !
>
> DAD
Patti Smith had a great album called "Horses." "Heavy Horses" was an album
by Jethro Tull.
For my money, the Who's Quadrephenia is probably tied with Springsteen's
"Born To Run" album for godhead '70's albums. "Backstreets" is just about
my all-time favorite song-- Springsteen at his overwrought, blustery best.
Brian
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>For my money, the Who's Quadrephenia is probably tied with Springsteen's
>"Born To Run" album for godhead '70's albums. "Backstreets" is just about
>my all-time favorite song-- Springsteen at his overwrought, blustery best.
>Brian
I totally agree about the album, but for me, it was "Jungleland". Probably had
something to do with my having listened to "West Side Story" about 15,000
times when I was growing up.
Steve
SCarras
Best 1970s songs?
Well, I was born in 1960, so....I was the bubble gum age then (and as a
Casnova with a Brady Bunch poster....you can tell what kinda singer
*I*-emphasis-wanted to be..)
MA BELLE AMIE-1970-Tee Set
LOVE GROWS-`1970-Edison Lighthouse
SPIRIT IN THE SKY-1970-Norman Greenbaum
JULIE,DO YA LOVE ME-1970-Bobby Sherman
I THINK I LOVE YOU-1970-Partridge Family
SWEET MARY-1971-Wadsworth Mansion
JOY-1972-Apollo 100
POPCORN-1972-Hot Butter
ROCK AND ROLL PART TWO-1972-Gary Glitter
OH BABE WHAT WOULD YOU SAY-1972-Hurrican Smith
MY DING A LING-1972-Chuck Berry
And anything the Brady Bunch or OSmonds did. Or the DeFranco family. SO
SHOOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve Carras
Bill Trettin
> who wrote it/sang it? (Reminiscent of Jimmy Webb's great "Where's the
> Playground, Susie?" as sung by Glen Campbell, from the previous
> decade.)
kid's song?
SCarras
Cheryl LYNN?How about Cheryl Ladd-Josie and the Pussycats? (I was 10 in
1970. :))
SCarras
Eumir Deodato it was. On Jazz Producer Creed Taylor'sd CTI label. Classic
composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote it in 1896. Too bad Paul
Whiteman didn't do it in the 20s as a RHAPSODY IN BLUE follow, up :)
(Note-Mr.Whiteman's RHAPSODY IN BLUE WAS done by Mr.Deodato! :))
SCarras
Yup., (Of course,with a name like Susie intead of Susan..:the Glen
Campbell song also sounded like a little kids song.:))
SCarras
Incidentally that Henhouse five plus Too group is none other than
Mr.Gitarzan himself Ray Stevens (also wrote "The Streak"-another 7os
tune).
Jason LeBouef
Hey, I was born in 1970 and I still listen to that on the oldies
station. (and I have some 45's and cd's too) All the music from the
70's was good.. er emmm... uuh... groovy :) yeah that's the word.
Peace on earth, goodwill toward VW's. Peace.
http://www4.linknet.net/jlebouef
SCarras
Far out!
Kent Parks
: >Playground in my Mind
: Do you mean "Playgrounds of My Mind"? That title rings a bell . . .
: who wrote it/sang it?
No, she means "Playground in My Mind", just as written.
By Clint Holmes, 1973.
Kent
Michael Warner
In alt.culture.us.1970s, SCarras <sca...@aol.com> wrote:
[....]
>(Note-Mr.Whiteman's RHAPSODY IN BLUE WAS done by Mr.Deodato! :))
(Shouldn't Mr. Gershwin get a little credit here too? =))
--
Michael Warner
war...@wsu.edu
Brand1974
I would have to say the best 70's songs were American Pie by Don Mcclean
and any of the songs by the Bee Gees mainly off the Saturday Night Fever
Soundtrack.
If you live your life by the expectations that other people set for you, you will never be able to set them. They will expect more from you sooner or later.
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