A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
It was 1976 when former Guess Who lead singer and composer Burton Cummings released “Stand Tall”. This is another one of those Seventies songs that I knew, and always instantly recognise, but I didn’t really connect the name of Burton Cummings with The Guess Who. In fact I must confess that, while I knew the […]
Jon English has been a leading light of the Australian music scene for decades, but I mainly remember him for his version of “Turn The Page” (by Bob Seger) in 1975. I also remember him playing Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the Seventies. Although Australian, English was […]
Two songs from JJ Cale that stand out for me are “Cocaine” and “After Midnight”, both of which have been most famously covered by Eric Clapton. In fact I was just reading that it was Clapton’s 1970 cover of “After Midnight”, at a time when Cale was “languishing in obscurity” and not doing very well […]
In 1978 Gerry Rafferty wrote or at least released his hit song “Baker Street”, on his album “City To City” and as a single. Some time later, can’t remember if it was at the end of that year or on another visit to the UK a few years later when I was living in Germany, […]
Tags: Back Of My Mind, Baker Street, Busker, City To City, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty Baker Street, Half Years, Hd, Joe Egan, Kate Bush, Living In Germany, London Underground, Music, Music of the Seventies, National Express Bus, Occasions, Right Down The Line, Saxophone Solo, Saxophone Song, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Museum, South West Scotland, Stealers Wheel, Stereo Version, Stuck In The Middle With You, The Kick Inside, Tube Station, Wheel“Indiana Wants Me” was a hit for Canadian-born Motown artist and songwriter R. Dean Taylor in 1970, going to Number One in his native Canada, No. 2 in the UK and reaching No. 5 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In addition to his own moderate success as an artist in […]
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