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A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies... - Part 5

Crystal Gayle – “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”

I only really know one song by American country singer Crystal Gayle, but I really like it, especially the piano accompaniment: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”. The song was a hit worldwide in 1977, reaching Number 1 on the U.S. Country charts and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album it […]

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Bob Marley And The Wailers – “Positive Vibration”, “I Shot The Sheriff”, “No Woman, No Cry”, “Lively Up Yourself”, “Is This Love?”, “Get Up, Stand Up” And “Exodus”

In April 1979 I attended a live concert of reggae musicians Bob Marley and The Wailers that was part of the Babylon By Bus Tour, featuring songs like “Positive Vibration”, “I Shot The Sheriff”, “No Woman, No Cry”, “Lively Up Yourself”, “Is This Love?”, “Get Up, Stand Up” and “Exodus”. It was an afternoon concert […]

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Mother Goose – “Baked Beans” And “This Is The Life”

Last night by chance I came across an old favourite from New Zealand in the Seventies: Mother Goose singing their slightly ludicrous “Baked Beans” – which just goes to show you can make a rock song outof anything! I had forgotten about Mother Goose, but they actually did pretty well for themselves, having coming up […]

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The Scavengers – “Mysterex” And “True Love”

The Scavengers were one of the first New Zealand punk bands in the late Seventies (along with The Suburban Reptiles), most well known locally for their songs “Mysterex” and “True Love”. The band was actually formed pre-punk in the mid Seventies by graphic design students at the Auckland Technical Institute and renamed The Scavengers in […]

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The Knack – “My Sharona” And “Good Girls Don’t”

One song I remember from 1979 was “My Sharona” by The Knack. It was apparently the biggest hit of the year and spent six consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart as well as five weeks at No. 1 in Australia. The followup single “Good Girls Don’t”, from the […]

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