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| Don't Tug on Superman's Cape or Mess Around with My '70s Music! |
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Travis Cottrell spent some time compiling a list of his favorite '80s music on his blog today. I was a teen in the '80s, but had older sisters who sowed their wild oats in the '70s and took me along for the ride. Without my precious big sisters, I might still think "I've Got a Mansion," is the most rockin' tune ever. Although I still like that song a lot (and In the Garden), I cut my musical eye teeth on popular music in the '70s and feel like I need to represent for my fellow flower children.
I have to say first, though, that my most favorite popular song in the history of history is Respect by Aretha Franklin. I even named my Ford FiveHundred Aretha. I am serious. Ask my kids. Since that amazing song was done in the late '60s, I can't officially put it on this list. Just know it's #1 on any list for me.
The title of this blog entry comes from one of the songs listed here. Any idea which one?
Now, without further ado, the best of the '70s according to me:
I Go Crazy (No smarmy comments, please. Too obvious.)
Just The Way You Are (Sing to me, Billy!)
The Closer I Get To You (I'm getting swoony!)
Reminiscing (top ten for sure)
Always And Forever (theme for my 8th grade graduation)
Whenever I Call You Friend
Car Wash (Go ahead, start clapping to the beat!)
Fly Like An Eagle
Easy (like Sunday mornin'. Yeah.)
Don't Stop
Cold As Ice
Boogie Nights
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
Love Machine
Boogie Fever
Right Back Where We Started From
Baby, I Love Your Way
Shining Star
Best Of My Love
I'm Not In Love
When Will I Be Loved (Those three listed consecutively like that make me look pathetic)
You Are So Beautiful
How Sweet It Is (to be loved by you)
Show And Tell
Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce wrote it for his newborn son. Sweet)
Then Came You
Crocodile Rock
You're So Vain
Superstition
Midnight Train To Georgia
Papa Was A Rolling Stone (kind of an angry sort of song, but I really dig it)
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Lean On Me
You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Joy To The World (Jeremiah was a bullfrog)
You've Got A Friend
Aint No Sunshine
Amos Moses (One of the great story songs of the '70s)
Mr. Bojangles
Proud Mary
If (Don't judge me)
Close To You
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
O-o-h Child
Signed Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)
Fire And Rain (It's cool to hear my name in a song even if this particular Suzanne met an untimely end)
Admittedly, most of these songs are from the early 70's. Something happened in the music industry in the latter part of that decade that no one seems to be able to explain. (My Sharona? Y.M.C.A?)
So, did I leave any of your faves off the list? |
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| To add a comment to "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape or Mess Around with My '70s Music!" |
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| February 19, 2008 |
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| Some great tunes on that list, to be sure!! Um, technically Proud Mary is a 60's song, I believe. Wasn't that on CCR's very first album ('68)? I could be wrong though. And as for Reminiscing, that happens to be off one of the greatest albums of all time. Sleeper Catcher by Little River Band...outstanding! And also the first record album I ever bought...so I could be biased. :-) |
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| February 19, 2008 |
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CCR recorded Proud Mary in the late '60s, but Ike and Tina made it their own in 1971, so I guess you're right, technically. But, c'mon, that's Tina's song!
I've been humming Reminiscing all night! |
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| February 19, 2008 |
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| Before I was alive! LOL!!!! Great pics Sooz~ Love~ |
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| February 20, 2008 |
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| The title came from "You Don't Mess Around With Jim". Fun little time capsule there. What no Lamb Lies Down or Runaround, guess you didn't listen to the same things I had. Great list though. Good fun |
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| February 20, 2008 |
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Gold star, Glenn!! I love that Don't Mess Around song...so sassy!
Had to look up Lamb Lies Down and Runaround. I'm ashamed to say I had never heard them before. My sisters sheltered me more than I knew, I guess. Those are some angst-ridden songs! |
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| February 20, 2008 |
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| yeah, I was an angst-ridden youth. ; ) |
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| February 21, 2008 |
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| Hey, what about some of the old Anne Murray tunes...You Needed Me, Shadows in the Moonlight, I Just Fall in Love Again...and I would add Rocket Man to my Elton John tunes from then... |
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| February 22, 2008 |
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Oh, Rocket Man! How could I leave that one off?! Anne Murray is classic, too. Thanks for the additions!
I also left off "Delta Dawn." I love singing that one really loud and off key when I want to annoy my kids! |
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| February 22, 2008 |
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If you include "Rocket Man", don't you also have to add "Space Oddity"?
Oh, I guess I didn't even realize you were referring to Ike/Tina Turner's rendition.
You remember the Starland Vocal Band? Can you say "tacky seventies music"? |
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| February 22, 2008 |
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| Disco Duck. |
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| February 23, 2008 |
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I had totally forgotten about Delta Dawn...what's that flower you have on...could it be a faded rose from days gone by...
Going to go to the beach now with Bay and guess what song will be stuck in my mind! |
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| February 23, 2008 |
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While I really do like secular music, the 70's really was a time for the awakening of CCM.
My favorites of the 70's include:
Lamb: Comfort Ye My People and Clap Your Hands
John Michael Talbot: Would You Crucify Him
Larry Norman: Try any and all of his stuff
Love Song
Second Chapter of Acts W/ Phil Keaggy; How the West Was Won
2nd Chapter of Acts; Yawheh and Easter Song
Randy Matthews; Now Do You Understand- it's my favorite live album ever, of any medium.
And of course the lady, Honeytree, she sang a wonderful version of I am A Servant.
They bring back the joy of my youth, and how my excitement was similar to Heather and Kris and other young ones who are also here around us.
Thanks Soozanne for reminding me...... |
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| February 24, 2008 |
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| Ooo! Those are GREAT!!! Thanks for the additions! |
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| February 24, 2008 |
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| Answer: You don't mess around with Jim- Jim Croce. |
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