April, 2010 | My Seventies Music

United Balls – “Pogo In Togo”, “Good Understanding”, “Blackbird”, “Gisela”, “Gänseblümchen”, “No More Feelings” and “Sur Le Pont D’Avignon”

April 10th, 2010 by Paul

I think it was 1978 on a trip to Germany, before I lived there, that I came across German band United Balls, whose 1981 album “Pogo In Togo” I would later acquire, with songs like “Blackbird”, Good Understanding”, “Gisela” and the title track “Pogo In Togo”. What I of course couldn’t know was that I […]

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Don McLean – “American Pie”, “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)”, “Crying”, “Since I Don’t Have You” and “Castles In The Air”

April 9th, 2010 by Paul

I can’t remember a time without Don Mclean singing “American Pie” and Vincent”, and yet it was only 1971 when the former was released and 1972 when it topped the charts for weeks on end. Like the phrase it coined, “The day the music died”, it has been a part of our culture ever since. […]

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Cold Chisel – “Khe Sanh” and “Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)

April 8th, 2010 by Paul

Going out on a limb here: I don’t actually know any songs by Australian rock band Cold Chisel, who I saw live in Auckland, New Zealand as support act for Alice Cooper in April 1977, so I’m just going to present what I have read is their signature tune from the Seventies, “Khe Sanh”, and […]

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Mi-Sex – “Graffitti Crimes”, “Computer Games” and “But You Don’t Care”

April 7th, 2010 by Paul

Mi-Sex was a top New Zealand band that went to Australia in the late Seventies and had a lot of success there, culminating in their first album “Graffitti Crimes”, featuring the title track as well as songs like the Australian No. 1 single “Computer Games” and their recent other single from 1979, “But You Don’t […]

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Johnny Nash – “I Can See Clearly Now” and “Tears On My Pillow”

April 6th, 2010 by Paul

Johnny Nash had been singing quite a while when his single “I Can See Clearly Now”, which had been moving slowly up the charts for about a month, shot to the top in two weeks in 1972. Around this time he was producing future reggae icons Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. The Wailers were the […]

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