Favorite songs from the 1970s

Close to You - The Carpenters

Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most

Kenny Loggins - Danny's Song

Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun

Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore

Olivia Newton-John - A Little More Love

Donna Summer - Lucky, Try Me I Know We Can Make It, Queen for a Day

This was the first hard rock record I bought as a kid - Brown Sugar.

Knights in White Satin by the Moody Blues

Atlanta Rhythm Section.

Stoned Love by the Supremes

"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty

"Misty Mountain Hop" by Led Zeppelin

The1960s favorite song thread from July has over 200 replies and this has under 10 over five hours after being posted. Interesting.

I Love the Nightlife - Alicia Bridges

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

(The original version came out in 1972. The link is to a more recent version performed with the London Symphony Orchestra)

Love Will Keep Us Together. So, they ended up divorcing.

A little Melissa Manchester

I had forgotten about that song R13. One of my favorites.

10cc -- I'm Not In Love

The summer of '75 driving to the beach listening to "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Jive Talkin'" on the radio.

"Love Will Keep Us Together" always reminds me of "Ford to City: Drop Dead."

Linda Ronstadt (with the Stone Poneys) - Different Drum

of the entries so far: Piles of smooth spun sugar and squeaky to cheesy vocals, the illusion that everything is just fine, if a bit misty and romantic = 70's music. except ZEP

Thanks for mentioning Linda, R18, even though "Different Drum" was from 1967. Here's one of my favorites from 1977, "Simple Man, Simple Dreams."

The Eagles - My Man

Richard and Linda Thompson - The Cavalry Cross

Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention - Farewell Farewell

Until I saw the video linked in r22, I'd forgotten that Richard Thompso became a Sufi until Linda took the kids and fled.

I was going to post that r15

I once saw a video linked from DL of some Broadway aids fundraiser that featured that song with batman and robin. Sounds weird but it was powerful and moving. Wish I could find it again...

After their first album the came back with a second, and then left us hanging for years.

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

25 or 6 to 4.

"Carmelita," by Warren Zevon

"Desperados under the Eaves," by Warren Zevon

"The French Inhaler," by Warren Zevon

"Hasten down the Wind," by Linda Ronstadt

"Hasten down the Wind," by Warren Zevon

"Thunder Road," by Bruce Springsteen (live version)

Ahhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"Born to Run," by Bruce Springsteen

The Trashcan Tango, by the Three Trashmen.

Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School -- Warren

"Jungleland," by Bruce Springsteen

"The Neighbourhood Baboon" by Leslie Waite

Land of Make Believe - Chuck Magione ft Esther Satterfield

Heart - Treat Me Well

"Tenderness on the Block," by Warren Zevon. The real star of the Excitable Boy album.

Midnight at the Oasis

Steely Dan - Peg

"The Pretender," by Jackson Browne

Aerosmith - Same Old Song And Dance

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

Black Diamond Bay -- Bob Dylan

Maybe Dylan's best album, R48; definitely my favorite song from it.

oni Mitchell // Miles Of Aisles Live // Carey

That's a great song R49-- I love that whole album, but BDB and Sara are my two favorites from it.

This song will always be the 70s for me though-- Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Blues For Baby And Me - Elton John

Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh

And the music was soothing and they all started grooving...

For Lost New York City --

Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters - Elton John

My favorite Elton John song - Benny and the Jets

Bill Amesbury before he became Barbara Amesbury.

SKATING AWAY~JETHRO TULL

"For a Dancer," by Jackson Browne

My favorite Elton John song, "Friends."

Brian Eno "Everything Merges With The Night"

For A Dancer “I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. He was a really interesting guy. Besides being a great dancer, he was an ice skater — he had a job in the ice follies; and he was a great tailor — he would make his friends clothes. One time he invited this girl to the ballet, and he not only made her a gown, but he made himself an amazing suit. And they just went — in a way, it was his way of competing with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn. They were the ballet. He had this great spirit, and when he died, it was a tragedy to everyone that knew him. He was a painter, too, and a sculptor. He was a Renaissance man. When I wrote him the song –it’s a song I’ve sung many times, other times when people have died — but I was making a metaphor out of the dance. Just the idea that your life is a dance. And there’s a line in it ‘In the end, there is one dance you do alone.’ That’s one of the songs I’ve sung all through the years, and for me, it’s like going to that place, and dealing with the fact that life will end. It’s a sad song, but at the same time, it feels good to sort through that reality and touch base with it, and then go on.”

Is Jackson Browne cut or uncut? (born in Germany to US parents)

Ralph McTell Streets of London

Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith

Cut or not cut, Jackson has always seemed more believable than Darryl or Joni.

Cut -- he was born in an Army hospital.

Jackson Browne, "Shadow Dream Song" in 1971. I was familiar with Tom Rush's version.

Harpo's Blues By Phoebe Snow

This is a song Jackson Browne wrote for Inara George when she was five, memorializing the death of her father Lowell George on June 29, 1979.

Patti Smith-"Redondo Beach"

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin (hey hey momma said the way you move, gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove)

Renaissance - Trip to the Fair

Yes - Roundabout

Dueling Banjos - Deliverance

A Chorus Line Original (1975 Broadway Cast) - 6. Nothing

Winds Of The Old Days · Joan Baez

Fleetwood Mac, from the Bare Trees album just before Stevie and Lindsey joined:

"Spare Me a Little (of Your Love)", written by and lead vocal by Christine. Delicious.

(Stevie and Lindsey appear In the video linked. I wish they'd add this song to their set these days...)

America - Ventura Highway

PETER FRAMPTON - Show Me The Way (1976)

When Frampton makes a wah wah pedal with his mouth...

DIRE STRAITS - Sultans Of Swing

"Still the One" by Orleans

The allman brothers band - In memory of elizabeth reed (Fillmore East 71')

I love this song. *So* damned good.

"Monday Morning" from the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey and Stevie (1975)

Not In Love 10cc

I love the vocal, especially that thick, mid range 70s mix.

Just a note of love to r53~~

I would have guessed I was the only person in the world (let alone on DL) who would ever put " Blues for Baby and Me" on a list like this. 💝🎶

This whole fucking album.

Van Halen--Van Halen I

I'm not a fan of Ed as a guitarist, too much flash, too little taste, but this does kick ass.

Carole King - Home Again

TRAFFIC - THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH-HEELED BOYS

James Taylor - "Mud Slide Slim"

don mclean Til tomorrow

Don McLean - Magdalene Lane

For the tribute to Judy

I will survive - Gloria Gaynor

I had a taste of the real world (don't waste a drop of it)

When I went down on you, girl

How Sweet It Is - James Taylor (1975)

Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney and Wings

Bruce Springsteen - For You

Bruce took a long time to graduate from high school -- he was like 35 or something.

Phantom of The Paradise - Paul Williams

Jim Croce - Operator

Taken by the sky...

Tonight Is a Wonderful Time to Fall In Love

I'm not American, but American pie.

You know you've all been waiting for it...

David Essex "Rock On"

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (1972)

Nice choice, R102. Old Souls is my favorite song off that album.

Free by Deniece Williams.

Everlasting Love by Rufus.

How Deep is Your Love by The Bee Gees.

Live and Let Die by Wings.

Remember What I Told You to Forget by Tavares.

Do What You Wanna Do, Be What Are by Daryl Hall and John Oates.

Get on the Good Foot by James Brown.

You and l by Rick James.

Dancing Machine by the Jackson 5.

Nathan Jones by The Supremes.

That's the Way I Like It by KC and the Sunshine Band.

Inside My Love by Minnie Riperton.

I'm Every Woman by Chaka Khan.

It Seems to Hang On by Ashford and Simpson.

Blondie - Heart of Glass (1979)

ABBA "Dancing Queen"

Almost had your hooks in me, didn't ya dear

You nearly had me roped and tied

You're so Vain

The Babys

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There'd be lots of 1940s threads and the youngsters would complain about them.

This one brings back memories of my older sisters and their record player. Great song. I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash

Donna Summer - Last Dance

Band of Gold - Freda Payne

Did most of the people 50 and over leave DL?

[quote]Did most of the people 50 and over leave DL?

No! Anyone old enough to remember that one, remembers how much they hated it.

I don't like some of the songs on here either but if it's one of their favorite songs (some from their childhood probably) that's fine. It doesn't matter whether I like it or not. I like how you speak for everyone R123.

Dollface, I was just kidding. Don't take things so seriously

This song....this version

Lovin' You by Minnie Ripperton.

Andrew Gold was a talented musician, songwriter and singer. He played on the album that produced this song by Linda Ronstadt. But he died at age 59 from heart failure. Damn, how did that happen?

"Heat Wave"

Andrew Gold at R 117 and R118. Heart failure at 59. Sad.

Hot Butter Popcorn

Melanie....Brand New Key

James Brown -- "My Thang"

The earlier songs posted are better than the later ones from last night and today, but it seems the 70s stands up fine to the 60s.

R123 certainly speaks for me, R124.

And he wouldn't have responded the way he did if R122 hadn't typed "Did most of the people 50 and over leave DL?"

Andrew Gold also played on Hasten down the Wind and Simple Dreams, R128. In fact, his album What's Wrong with this Picture? was produced at the same time in the same studio with the same musicians as Hasten down the Wind.

[quote]Melanie....Brand New Key

I always thought it was kind of draggy, but R128's live version brings it alive and it makes more sense.

Remember this one too? Also better live.

Melanie was the shit until she went crazy. What cracks me up though is the difference between radio now and then. You would have been able to hear most of these songs on the same readio station.

I loved Supertramp in the 70s but people don't tend to post their songs on these kinds of lists. I think this is largely due to their personalities and the way they did or didn't present themselves in the 70's. Warm, they were not. But so many of their songs were marvellous...but in fact blocked (by them) from youtube...continuing their cozy legacy, I guess.

Or maybe they've ended the block >>>

Love Melanie doing Lay Down. Love this song and this performance of it.

[quote]What cracks me up though is the difference between radio now and then. You would have been able to hear most of these songs on the same readio station.

I remember not wanting to get out of the car sometimes the music was so good.

This was on the radio a lot in those days. I never really tired of it.

I'm embarrassed to add this, but...

The Knack

Riders on the Storm - The Doors

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One of my faves from that era is "You" by Rita Coolidge.

I like the schlock of the 70s the best. It was a once in a lifetime era of cheesy music. Things like this. Pilot of the Airwaves

Dream On - Aerosmith

Long, Long Time

Toss up between "Don't Fear The Reaper" and "Carry On Wayward Son"

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey-Paul McCartney

Brand New Key-Melanie

In the Summertime-Mungo Jerry

Snowbird-Anne Murray

Up Around the Bend-CCR

My Little Town-Simon and Garfunkel

Time Passages-Al Stewart

Let Your Love Flow-The Bellamy Brothers

Running on Empty-Jackson Browne

Roll Me Away-Bob Seger

Thunder Road-Bruce Springsteen

Back Home Again-John Denver

I had a one-step plan to prove it

Music after the Boomers became producers.

Sad

"Mr. Blue Sky" by E.L.O

You Can't Hide Love by Earth, Wind and Fire.

Prisoner by Barbara Joan.

Reunion's Life Is A Rock Ludes/THC mix.

Who Loves You - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Cock me gently. Cock me slowly.

This one. Sigh.....

Come and Get Your Love - Redbone - 1974

Stairway to Heaven

You Are My Starship - Norman Connors

Tracks of My Tears/Blue Bayou/You're No Good - Linda Rondstadt.

R61, mine too.

I Want You, Marvin Gaye.

Country Girl - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Angel - Fleetwood Mac

Peace of Mind -- Boston

"Starlight" - ELO

Until You Come Back To Me - Aretha Franklin

Hypnotized, Fleetwood Mac.

You can always count on the Ronstadt troll weighing in elevenseventybillion times.

Supertramp

The Logical Song

Radar Love by The Golden Earring.

Ronnie Dyson - If You Let Me Make Love To You.

Get Off by Foxxy

I see Muriel walking away

Paul McCartney & Wings "Band on the Run"

Way over yonder by Carole King

Anything off the Rumours album.

Badlands/Promised Land

Long, Long Time

Halfbreed/Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves/Dark Lady

If you don't know who did these songs, you shouldn't be here.

More than a Feeling

Yes - Going For The One

Black Cow - Steely Dan

Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group

I'm Your Captain ---Grand Funk Railroad

Makes me cry, makes me nostalgic, makes me horny

"Blues for Baby and Me," Elton John from the Don't Shoot Me album.

All over now, don't worry no more, gonna go west to the sea

Ring My Bell by Anita Ward.....

"How Do You Do" by Mouth and MacNeal

Heroes--David Bowie

Practically every thing Earth, Wind and Fire put out.

Can't Hide Love

September

Got to Get You into My Life

After the Love has Gone

Fantasy

Getaway

Shining Star

Love's Holiday

You and I

Singasong

My favorite: Earth, Wind and Fire!

[quote]Tracks of My Tears/Blue Bayou/You're No Good - Linda Rondstadt

There's only one "d" in Ronstadt, R161.

[quote]You can always count on the Ronstadt troll weighing in elevenseventybillion times.

Or there's more than one Ronstadt "troll," asshole at R169. I certainly didn't post every Ronstadt post.

Take it Easy - The Eagles

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, Yellow River.

Tis Your Kind of Music by Graham Central Station (you hear that Drake?).

Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes. STILL the best Oscar performance EVER!

If You Want Me to Stay by Sly Stone.

Rainy Days and Mondays by the Carpenters. I still have The Tan Album as it was called. That album also had Saturday and the unforgettable classics Superstar and For All We Know.

It's Heaven

"Sara Smile" by Hall and Oates

"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty. Downbeat, but so compelling.

Landslide

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