A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes (from his “Partners in Crime” album) was the very last Hot 100 No. 1 of the Seventies, hitting Number One in late December of 1979. After dropping to No. 2 in the first week of January, 1980, it went back to No. 1 the next week. This […]
Every time I open a certain web editing program I think of the Gary Wright song “Dream Weaver” that came out in 1975. And when I think of that song, I think of my room in the student hostel in my first year of university, because that was where I heard it a lot, in […]
The song “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” suddenly popped into my mind while I was doing the weather report for a newsletter I edit (all the places are sunny this week, after a few mixed weeks) so I looked it up, and found Bill Withers sang it in 1971. The name didn’t really mean […]
Robert Palmer, who joined his first band in England in 1964, released his first solo album “Sneakin Sally Through The Alley” in 1974 – strongly influenced by the funk of Little Feat. It was recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here’s the title track, “Sneakin Sally Through The Alley”: And “Sneakin Sally Through The Alley” live […]
Tags: Addicted to Love, Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor Doctor), David Letterman Show, Every Kinda People, funk, Johnny and Mary, Little Feat, Music of the Seventies, Robert Palmer, Simply Irresistible, Sneakin Sally Through The Alley, Some Guys Have All the Luck, Soul Music, You Are In My SystemArlo Guthrie, the famous son of the famous American folk singer Woody Guthrie, was already a legend himself by the early Seventies when “City Of New Orleans” hit the airwaves. In particular he had made his name with the 18 minute 34 second long “talking blues song” “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, better known simply as “Alice’s […]
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