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#76 2016-05-31 12:44:55

Chipper
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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

 

#77 2016-05-31 13:09:24

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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands


'I am a closet optimist' Leonard Cohen.

 

#78 2016-05-31 14:24:41

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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#79 2016-05-31 14:47:48

Chipper
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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

I remember visiting my cousins around 1970 or so and hearing them geek all over the place about their 8-tracks, telling me I needed to replace all my LPs with them. It was uncanny hearing the same kind of thing when CDs came out. These days I'm glad I stuck with my old-fashioned records.

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#80 2016-05-31 17:37:26

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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

http://www.musicfromthewestcoast.com/

Nick Mawsom does a good job with this, covering that 70s radio vibe


Charlie Kasso

 

#81 2016-06-02 08:52:20

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Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound

 

#82 2016-06-02 09:24:20

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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

here are some personally selected good but smaller early-to-mid-1970s Hot 100 hit singles from the middle to lower reaches of the chart, some pure AM, some FM, soul, and country crossovers too, not included in the above year-by-year Hot 100 lists, plus a few assorted others:

1970:

"Love Bones" - Johnnie Taylor"
"Wonderful World, Beautiful People" - Jimmy Cliff
"The Letter" - Joe Cocker
"Turn Back The Hands Of Time" - Tyrone Davis
"What Is Truth" - Johnny Cash
"Brother Rapp (Part 1)" - James Brown
"It's All In The Game" - The Four Tops 
"Hand Me Down World" - The Guess Who
"Only You Know And I Know" - Dave Mason
"Uncle John's Band" - The Grateful Dead
"After Midnight" - Eric Clapton
"Cry Me A River" - Joe Cocker
"Stand By Your Man" - Candi Staton
"Still Water (Love)" - The Four Tops
"Heaven Help Us All" - Stevie Wonder
"If I Were Your Woman" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
"Uncle John's Band" - Grateful Dead
"Black Magic Woman" - Santana
"King Of Rock & Roll" - Crow
"No Matter What" - Badfinger
"Maggie" - Redbone
"Precious, Precious" - Jackie Moore
"Stop The War Now" - Edwin Starr

1971:

"I Really Don't Want To Know" - Elvis Presley
"Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)" - The Four Tops
"Remember Me" - Diana Ross
"Hey Tonight" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" - The Temptations
"Sweet Mary" - Wadsworth Mansion
"Chairman Of The Board" - The Chairmen of the Board
"Cool Aid" - Paul Humphrey and the Cool-Aid Chemists
"Could I Forget You" - Tyrone Davis
"What Is Life" - George Harrison
"Right On The Tip Of My Tongue" - Brenda & the Tabulations
"Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)" - The Staple Singers
"Man In Black" - Johnny Cash
"Want Ads" - The Honey Cone
"Albert Flasher" - The Guess Who
"Nathan Jones" - The Supremes
"K-Jee" - The Nite-Liters
"Them Changes" - Buddy Miles
"Wild Horses" - The Rolling Stones
"Make It Funky (Part I)" - James Brown
"Stick-Up" - The Honey Cone
"Everybody's Everything" - Santana
"Life Is A Carnival" - The Band
"You Think You're Hot Stuff" - Jean Knight
"Truckin'" - Grateful Dead

1972:

"Stay With Me" - Faces
"Do Your Thing" - Isaac Hayes
"Taurus" - Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band
"Baby Blue" - Badfinger
"Someday Never Comes" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Take A Look Around" - The Temptations
"Tumbling Dice" - Rolling Stones
"People Make The World Go Round" - The Stylistics
"Honky Tonk (Part 1)" - The James Brown Soul Train
"Go All The Way" - The Raspberries   
"Happy" - Rolling Stones
"Power Of Love" - Joe Simon
"You Wear It Well" - Rod Stewart
"All The Young Dudes" - Mott the Hoople
"If You Don't Know Me By Now" - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
"Elected" - Alice Cooper
"Keeper Of The Castle" - The Four Tops
"Harry Hippie" - Bobby Womack

1973:

"I Got Ants In My Pants" - James Brown
"Today I Started Loving You Again" - Bettye Swan
"Masterpiece" - The Temptations
"Sail On Sailor" - The Beach Boys
"Leaving Me" - The Independents
"Steamroller Blues" - Elvis Presley
"Why Me Lord" - Kris Kristofferson
"Are You Man Enough" - The Four Tops
"Doing It To Death (Pt. 1)" - Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s
"I Believe In You (You Believe In Me)" - Johnnie Taylor
"Bongo Rock" - The Incredible Bongo Band
"Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)" - The Temptations
"Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" - Elton John
"Sexy, Sexy, Sexy" - James Brown
"Twistin' The Night Away" - Rod Stewart
"Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces" - Cheech & Chong
"Raised On Rock" - Elvis Presley
"Cheaper To Keep Her" - Johnnie Taylor - swinging
"If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)" - The Staple Singers
"Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up" - Barry White
"Frisky" - Sly & the Family Stone
"Hangin' Around" - The Edgar Winter Group
"Jim Dandy" - Black Oak Arkansas
"Stoned To The Bone - Part 1" - James Brown


"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#83 2016-06-02 12:28:49

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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

So many good ones! Wild Horses! Probably my favorite song by anyone, anytime, hands down. First time I heard it, on AM, shortly after it came out, I felt like I had to get my hands on an acoustic guitar and learn how to play. It was one of the first songs I learned to play start to end.

What Is Life. Happy. No Matter What. Baby Blue. Wow, what memories those bring back.

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#84 2016-06-03 08:23:26

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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

/\  Wild Horses was plugged into the cosmos it's true, a very beautiful song .... hanging out with Gram Parsons .....


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#85 2016-06-03 08:28:34

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Yep. I was disappointed with the Stones for not continuing the Parsons/country vibe post-Exile. They could have made much stronger albums that way. In fact, I think they could have had a whole new interesting thing as a country-rock band instead of becoming the parody of a rock band as they did.

 

#86 2016-06-03 08:49:11

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well, there were a couple more countryesque tunes out of them after Gram but it was Keith's thing really, and he checked out for a long while .....

they were still interested in country I think, e.g., Till the Next Goodbye, but remained more focused on soul/R&B

they never quite finished their version of We Had It All but they did come up with Far Away Eyes, my favorite track on Some Girls (followed by Before They Make Me Run)


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#87 2016-06-03 09:09:10

Chipper
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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

True. Love Til the Next Goodbye. I want to like Faraway Eyes, and I find it amusing, but it really verges on parody--intentionally, I'm sure--whereas the SF and Exile-era songs sound sincere.

 

#88 2016-06-03 09:30:23

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/\  bang on, it was the sincerity that never in my opinion reappeared after Black and Blue ... Far Away Eyes is in the long tradition of jokey country songs by country artists like Red Sovine, I've always loved it, but most people ignored it ....


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#89 2016-06-03 18:23:41

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Otter : Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon : I thought you were pre-med.
Otter : What's the difference?

 

#90 2016-06-03 19:16:37

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/\  Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band ftw


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#91 2016-06-04 09:13:36

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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#92 2016-08-03 13:43:38

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Chakachas roool!


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#93 2016-08-11 11:36:34

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Norman Whitfield everything.


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#94 2016-08-11 11:39:39

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Barry White's drummers, including Ed Greene and Alvin Taylor.


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#95 2016-10-05 23:23:27

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https://youtu.be/gH0l7nIMfw0

Just reading about Jim Sullivan... bit of a sad tale culminating in his disappearance in the early 70s.. lovely sound on this title track from his 1st album.. UFO

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#96 2016-11-28 13:18:45

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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#97 2016-11-28 15:27:35

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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#98 2016-11-28 19:30:33

Chipper
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#99 2016-11-28 23:21:14

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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#100 2016-11-29 05:11:51

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Re: 1970 AM Radio Rock Bands

Love Billy's Outta Space single, too.

 

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