My Seventies Music

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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Kiss – “I Was Made For Loving You”, “Black Diamond”, “Deuce”, “100,000 Years”, “Strutter”

When I came to write this, at first the only Kiss track I could think of was “I Was Made For Loving You”, but then I kept finding more and more that I recognised from the Seventies, when I was a big Kiss fan.

I had the Kiss double album “Alive!”, which unfortunately was among a number of my record collection that went missing, something I only discovered after I returned from a visit to New Zealand in 1982 and took all my records (at least I thougt thery were!) back to Europe.

Anyway, after I located “I Was Made For Loving You” I then found songs like “Black Diamond”, “Deuce”, “Strutter” and “100,000 Years and the memories came flooding back.

So first, here’s a studio version of “I Was Made For Loving You”. (The text at the end says it’s from the album “Dynasty” in 1997, but that’s wrong, it was 1979!)

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Tags: 100000 Years, Ace Frehley, Black Diamond, Dan Kennedy, Deuce, Gene Simmons, I Was Made For Loving You, Kiss, Music of the Seventies, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Seventies Rock Bands, Sonic Boom, Strutter

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