RIP, Andrew Gold

[DanOregon]

I looked up the year-end Billboard Hot 100 for '77 when Lonely Boy came out. Amazing how many of those songs still hold up. Or maybe it's just me.
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1977.htm

 

[jr/shotglass]

Year of the Cat, baby!!

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

 

[CarltonBanks]

I am curious as to everyone's favorite 70's song. You know, the one that takes you back every time you hear it. Mine is pretty easy, Brandy by Looking Glass. Still love that song and every time I hear it think about my childhood.

My mother was a big Helen Reddy and Carole King fan, so those two kind of provide the soundtrack of my childhood. I Feel the Earth Move Under my Feet always takes me back to living in our old house, a little hose my parents paid $12,000 for that burned to the ground a few years after we moved out.

Amazing what music can do.

 

[Bob Cook]

I looked up the year-end Billboard Hot 100 for '77 when Lonely Boy came out. Amazing how many of those songs still hold up. Or maybe it's just me.
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1977.htm

A lot of those songs make the case for why punk had to happen.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I looked up the year-end Billboard Hot 100 for '77 when Lonely Boy came out. Amazing how many of those songs still hold up. Or maybe it's just me.
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1977.htm

A lot of those songs make the case for why punk had to happen.

There is a bunch of garbago on that list, along with the good ones. Shaun Cassidy, David Soul, 'I Like Dreamin', which I'm highly embarrassed to admit I can remember that song.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

You can complain about the schmaltz in the 70's all you want, but the reality is that AM ruled back then and to those of us who came of age during that time, there is a very strong nostalgia attached to those songs. Those songs were more innocent than the songs that the youth have gravitated towards in the past 25 years and for that I am grateful. There's no need to grow up so fast. (Of course many of the "innocent" songs were thinly disguised adult themes, e.g. Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight.")

RIP Andrew Gold, I'll always fondly remember your tunes.

I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key....

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I am curious as to everyone's favorite 70's song. You know, the one that takes you back every time you hear it. Mine is pretty easy, Brandy by Looking Glass. Still love that song and every time I hear it think about my childhood.

My mother was a big Helen Reddy and Carole King fan, so those two kind of provide the soundtrack of my childhood. I Feel the Earth Move Under my Feet always takes me back to living in our old house, a little hose my parents paid $12,000 for that burned to the ground a few years after we moved out.

Amazing what music can do.

My top two would be 'Brandy' and 'I Can See Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash. Follwed closely by 3 Dog Night's 'Black and White' (talk about cowbell) and Blood, Sweat and Tears, 'When I Die'.

 

[CarltonBanks]

I am curious as to everyone's favorite 70's song. You know, the one that takes you back every time you hear it. Mine is pretty easy, Brandy by Looking Glass. Still love that song and every time I hear it think about my childhood.

My mother was a big Helen Reddy and Carole King fan, so those two kind of provide the soundtrack of my childhood. I Feel the Earth Move Under my Feet always takes me back to living in our old house, a little hose my parents paid $12,000 for that burned to the ground a few years after we moved out.

Amazing what music can do.

My top two would be 'Brandy' and 'I Can See Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash. Follwed closely by 3 Dog Night's 'Black and White' (talk about cowbell) and Blood, Sweat and Tears, 'When I Die'.

The Johnny Nash song is a great song. ****ing disco KILLED 70's schmaltz.

 

[DanOregon]

I was surprised how much crap was at the top of '76 and then you have stuff from Foreigner, Heart and Aerosmith down lower that still packs a punch.

 

[holy bull]

Now I can't get Lido Shuffle out of my head, which is not necessarily a bad thing ... for the time being.

 

[shockey]

Now I can't get Lido Shuffle out of my head, which is not necessarily a bad thing ... for the time being.

oh, man, did that 'silk degrees' hit my turnstile often when a young lady visitor was in my dorm room.... sigh... good times... great lp. the ladies and i loved us some boz scaggs....

 

[holy bull]

Now I can't get Lido Shuffle out of my head, which is not necessarily a bad thing ... for the time being.

oh, man, did that 'silk degrees' hit my turnstile often when a young lady visitor was in my dorm room.... sigh... good times... great lp. the ladies and i loved us some boz scaggs....

You look at these lists, and the wave of nostalgia is almost overwhelming.

 

[DanOregon]

I read that Michael McDonald is doing a show with Boz Scaggs in Southern Oregon over the summer.

I bought one of those 70's collections from Time-Life. It's pretty good and kind of amazing to listen to how much the music changed from 1970 to 1979, everything from the Grateful Dead to Donna Summer.

 

[qtlaw]

One of my favs from the 70's is "In the Heart of the Night" by Poco.

 

[Huggy]

Now I can't get Lido Shuffle out of my head, which is not necessarily a bad thing ... for the time being.

oh, man, did that 'silk degrees' hit my turnstile often when a young lady visitor was in my dorm room.... sigh... good times... great lp. the ladies and i loved us some boz scaggs....

"Lido Shuffle" kicks all kinds of ass.

 

[jr/shotglass]

The Boz Scaggs song for me, which was on another album, was "Look What You've Done To Me."

One hell of a slow-dance song.

 

[93Devil]

I have posted this here before, but this just drips of the great 1970s, and it just freaking rocks.



And that is the best band you could put together back then not called E Street.

 

[qtlaw]

Loved "Silk Degrees", one of my favorite LPs of all-time. "Lowdown" was/is great.

 

[DanOregon]

Look What You've Done To Me - from a David Foster thing on PBS from a year or so ago.

 

[dooley_womack1]

And there's so much stuff from the 1970s that didn't get played because of radio being segmented between AM, disco and hard rock. Stuff from Chilliwack, Nantucket, Michael Stanley Band, early REO, Suzi Quatro, hell, even early Segar ...you'd hear that stuff only on KSHE[/hicaptain]