Trying to build up a 70's collection and trying to remember good 70's songs that are just forgotten like

1. Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
2. Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue
3. Pablo Cruise - Whatcha Gonna Do
4. Stories - Brother Louie
5. Todd Rundgren - Hello Its Me
6. Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
7. Andrea true Connection _ More, More, More
8. Pual simon - fifty ways to leave your lover
9. Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
10. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light


here are the first 10......can you name more

No 70's collection is complete without

"Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band

keep on smiling by wet willie

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diamond,

I could name hundreds, maybe thousands. Is there any particular type that you are looking for? Most of what you listed looks like top 40. There are numerous lists out there on the internet for this type of material, like the one on the left hand side of this page by decade that takes you to a year by year list...

http://top40.about.com/?once=true&


[This message has been edited by Aggie Spirit (edited 7/28/2003 11:17a).]

Midnight at the Oasis by Maria Mulder

"Hold Your Head Up" by Argent.

BQ78: Are you sure that wasn't Captain & Tenille?

Here's mine: MUSKRAT LOVE

Summertime by Mungo Jerry

Buck:

I'm positive, here is the Kewwwwl album cover it came from...



Speaking of the Captain and Tennile they came to Rudder Tower in about 76 or 77 and I took my future wife to see them. The whole band wore Aggie shirts and the Captain never said a word but he wore a cool pair of shades and his little captain's hat. No one yelled "uncover" at him either.

Here's another one for considerations:

"I've Got A Brand New Pair Of Roller Skates (You've Got A Brand New Key)" by Melanie Safka

Whatever became of great music like that?

I guess more like the one hit wonders because i have the Rock stuff like all Zeplin, BOC, BTO, CCR, Rush, ACDC, Earth Wind Fire, Steve Miller. I bought almost all of the best of's from these artist but it is the obscurish types I am interested in such as Ozark MOuntian. I did not know their song was top 40. But neglect the songs like disco duck...that song was a farse.

I am just interested in finding songs that are not commonly being played on an oldie station today still. But the songs you would rarely hear.

Such as Tiny Dancer by Elton John. You know I have all three best of Elton John Discs but none of them contained Tiny Dancer and I forgot about that song until the movie Almost Famous featured it.

Thats what I refering to

Oh yeah. TAMU 91 SOngs that you forgot but now remember.

"Whatever became of great music like that?"

Well it depends on what you mean by "great" - I certainly thought alot of those songs were funny back then, but they only had humor value for me.

In the late 70's I was a Jr. High aged KISS fan. My whole room was wallpapered in KISS posters.

Boogie On Reggie Woman, Stevie Wonder
We Will Rock You, Queen
Back Stabbers, OJays
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell
Blackwater, Doobie Bros.
Brandy, Looking Glass
Bungle In The Jungle, Jethro Tull
Can't Get It Out Of My Head, ELO
Champagne Jam, Atlanta Rhythm Section


more later

Beach Baby by ??? someone
How Long - Ace
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
Daisy Jane - America
Rocky's Hotshop - Peter Frampton

I'll name some more later

terata: "Hey Baby" is a Ted Nugent Song

CollegeStationAgFan: I really, really hated "seasons in the sun"!

Another one I really hated was "Wildfire".

Even as a grade school kid, I couldn't stomach that stuff.

I'm missing something, Buck. The song I'm thinking of is titled Beach Baby, and the lyrics, in part, go something like this....

Beach Baby, Beach Baby, here in the sand....

terata: Sorry, I misread your post - I thought you wrote "Hey Baby" instead of "Beach Baby"

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CollegeStationAgFan: I really, really hated "seasons in the sun"!

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I'm not saying I liked it. The man was asking for forgotten '70's songs, and I bet that one wouldn't have been on anybody's list.



Gig 'Em

How about strawberry alarm clock..

I think that is the name of the song....

Or was it strawberry letter #69


Oh well I am more familiar with todays music.

Songs from artist like Black Rebel Motorcycle club
or the tyde, the warlocks, or the datsuns...

Funny thing is in 30 years if i'm still alive..i'll be posting for people to name those forgotten songs from the bands i just listed.

I better start getting on with my CD collection...But I forgot I was boycotting the RIAA by not purchasing any more CD's

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"Incense and Peppermints," Strawberry Alarm Clock

"Strawberry Letter 23," Brothers Johnson

I like 'em both, but think that the 2nd is an absolute classic.

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AMG REVIEW: Probably the last great psychedelic soul single of the '70s - by 1977, both psychedelia and soul were on the outs, chased by punk and disco - the Brothers Johnson's version of "Strawberry Letter 23" is a note-perfect copy of Shuggie Otis' 1971 original, from his fine Freedom Flight album. The only difference is that this version was produced and arranged by the great Quincy Jones, who by 1977 was polishing the ultra-slick arrangement and production techniques that would make his own solo albums (1981's The Dude, etc.) and more famously, Michael Jackson's classic Off the Wall and Thriller sound so thrilling. This version of "Strawberry Letter 23," unlike Otis' muddy original, is a miracle of musical space, with every instrument set off in its own glittering, velvet-lined display case, yet somehow Jones manages, in subtle cues like the exaggerated breathiness of the "ooo-woo-ooo-whoo-hoo" backing vocals and the slightly-too-prominent placement of the glockenspiel hook in the final mix, to give the whole song a sonic depth and richness that keeps it from sounding too sterile and perfect. And when Lee Ritenour bursts out with that just-right, skittering, reverb-and-phasing-heavy guitar solo near the end, the hallucinatory soundscape is complete. Shuggie Otis' original is a marvel, no question, but this version of "Strawberry Letter 23" is indisputably the classic. — Stewart Mason

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http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS80305281556&sql=X652978

More to come.

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"Flashlight" - Parlament

1.) No problemo, Buck.

2.) More later;
You are the Woman-Firefall
Cinderella-Firefall
Games People Play-Alan Parsons Project
Ventura Highway-America
Whatcha Gonna Do?-Pablo Cruise
Miss You So Badly-Jimmmy Buffet
Time Passages-Al Stewart
Saturday Night-The Babies

3.) Fast Fred, need some help here.....

Damn...forgot about "Strawberry Letter...". I LOVE that song.


Gig 'Em

Okay I did some heavy cogitating here is my more expanded list of songs that annoyed the hell out of me or were pretty funny. Only had to look the artists up on a few of them:

Jim Stafford's "I don't like Spiders and Snakes" and " Wildwood Weed"
Randy Newman's "Short People"
Merri Wilson's (she was managed by the drummer and lead singer of the Texas band Bloodrock who had a one hit wonder called "DOA" but that was in the 60s) "Telephone Man"
Daddy Dewdrop "Chick a Boom"
Loudon Wainwright III's "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road"
Country Joe & the Fish's "Fixing to Die Rag"
Rick Drees' "Disco Duck"
Edgar Winter Group "Frankenstein"
Billy Paul "Me and Mrs. Jones"
Hue's Corporation "Rock the Boat"
Helen Reddy "I am Woman"
Jean Knight "Mr. Big Stuff"
LaBelle "Lady Marmalade"
Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods "Billy Don't be a Hero"
War "Why Can't we be Friends?"

Most of those when they came on the radio I would cringe and change stations.

Oh and don't forget Black Oak Arkansas' "Jim Dandy to the rescue"

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Loudon Wainwright III's "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road"

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Thank You, BQ78, that's one of my favorites. I haven't heard that one in a looooonnnngggg time!

You got me cogitating,now:
Spill the Wine Eric Burden
You and me and a Dog named Boo Lobo
Everything I Own Bread
Rainy Days and MondaysCarpenters
Knock Three Times Tony Orlando and Dawn
Don't Pull Your Love Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds


More later

More:

Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" or "Time in a Bottle."

Baby Come Back -- Ambrosia?
Saturday -- Chicago
Pina Colada Song -- ?
What a Fool Believes -- Doobie Bros.
Ride Like the Wind -- Christopher Cross

It's later and here's more;

Lover's Cross Jim Croce
New York Boy Neal Diamond
Only the Good Die Young Billy Joel
Beth Kiss
Burning For You Blue Oyster Cult

"Pick Up the Pieces" -Average White Band
"Love's Theme"-Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra
Any ELO song.
"Sexy Thing" -White Chocolate
"Hot Child in the City" - Nick ????

Do The Hustle-
You Ex Offender-

HtownAg92 said:

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Baby Come Back -- Player

Pina Colada Song -- Rupert Holmes

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