Your OFFICIAL "70's Throwback Song Of The Week" Thread

[maddafinga]

Here's one you never ever hear anymore, but it gets me every time :  Hocus Pocus, by Focus : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaVUApDVuY

[katanaso]

Doesn't someone from the Marshal Tucker Band fly AcesHigh?

Am I remembering that correctly?

+Sax (of the Nomads back in AW) is who you're thinking of -- Jerry Eubanks.  Great guy.

I'm not sure what his name was in AH when he played.


mir

[Blooz]

I remember when ABC used that song for their sept programming roll-out..and drove the song into the ground...ala " bob seger's "like a rock"  that said..I still dig that song.  I put Orleans into that "poco, firefall, pure prarie league, pablo cruize" genre.....good chillaxin stuff...summer music.

Yup, good stuff.

I was a bit young for the early 70's (born in 64) and my taste then was top 40 pop music so that's what I remember. From about 74 to 76 lots of good "one hit wonders". From 76 on it was mostly disco for me (roller rinks and strobe lights WOO!) until heavy metal came on the scene with Ozzy's "Crazy Train" and AC/DC's "Back in Black". I went backwards and got into heavy 70's style rock after I tired of metal.

It's all good!

[lyric1]

Only because I was there on the day this AC/DC clip was shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iR2Wi3u5o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr3JO0MhFTY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6JX5w7HgHI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Env5iMrBjws&feature=related

[Xtrepid]

Humble Pie... one of my favorite bands from 60's-70's... and beyond.

30 Days In The Hole - Nice Highlight Vid of Steve Marriott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXjm8pZMws

Black Coffee - No Arguement... Awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsMKvkzdwc

Natural Born Woman - Maybe a little earlier than the 70's... but not much. (Check out Peter Frampton)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAZlf_9ObLg

Stephen Peter Marriott (30 January 1947 - 20 April 1991) RIP - You were "one of a kind".


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[ZetaNine]

after clicking on many of the links......one thing's for sure.... Music these days...for the most part.... is DEAD.  we've got an entire generation of kids who don't even play instruments...they just sample sounds and talk (rap)... for a second I thought I sounded like my parents in the 1960's.......but at least our generation encorporated the guitar, piano & keyboard, actual drums (and not a machine).....and actual vocals...aka: singers.

[maddafinga]

after clicking on many of the links......one thing's for sure.... Music these days...for the most part.... is DEAD.  we've got an entire generation of kids who don't even play instruments...they just sample sounds and talk (rap)... for a second I thought I sounded like my parents in the 1960's.......but at least our generation encorporated the guitar, piano & keyboard, actual drums (and not a machine).....and actual vocals...aka: singers.

Nah man, you just have to dig a bit below the hip hop and r & b and boy bands and like that.  There's an absolute ton of good music out there, you just have to dig for it now.  Radio has turned into a corporate sales tool and isn't a vehicle for exposing you to good art anymore. 

For example, check out one of my favorite bands, Clutch.  They started out as a sort of a hard heavy kind of semi metal band, and evolved into a rocking bellybutton blues/rock band.  For example: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0HUBWdDkU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab6lr2b66Ig&feature=related

[Mano]

Don't forget Ray Stevens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM&NR=1&feature=fvwp

 

 

[kilo2]

I missed the 70s but I am posting anyways because as zeta nine said music today just doesn't feel the same to me as music from back then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hBYTkI-sE&playnext_from=TL&videos=hB6mQKCH3E0

Great song real mellow....

[Grind]

Little Feat- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEOlTZGuLKM

Van Morrison - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVFgFDage0

Allman Brothers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIY8CoMILgU

[Masherbrum]

Rapids - T. Rex - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sTG09H57E

Kodachrome - Paul Simon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po

Bell Bottom Blues - Derek & The Dominoes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKAYGVIkbok


A forbidden pleasure for me, from the 70's (I was also born in 73 TODAY):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgnc6Ey0q0

[maddafinga]

Rapids - T. Rex - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sTG09H57E

Kodachrome - Paul Simon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po

Bell Bottom Blues - Derek & The Dominoes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKAYGVIkbok


A forbidden pleasure for me, from the 70's (I was also born in 73 TODAY):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgnc6Ey0q0

Hey happy birthday man!!


I was going to put a Zappa clip up here, but there are too many good ones, so just take your pick!

[Grind]

And finally......

Spiderbait - BlackBetty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1VfYYKMDk

Happy Birthday Masherbrum and great pick on the Raspberries!

 

[Xtrepid]

A forbidden pleasure for me, from the 70's (I was also born in 73 TODAY):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgnc6Ey0q0

Raspberries on The Mike Douglas Show...   

Happy Birthday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lh525NYjzY


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[morfiend]

here's a few!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhM1XZsh6o


   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHitXfnSgvA


   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AIszddHZEs

 and who could forget this last 1,AM radio played it to DEATH!!!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqMKf7r7Xg

  enjoy