Posted on 08/20/2016 12:03:08 PM PDT by mdittmar
This was mine,The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun (Live 1970)
Ok dude... (or dudess...)
Great description! But- are you going to tell us where "here" is??
The city, the town, the wide spot in the road, whatever??
Aside from Texas' international airports, I have been in texas one time, on a transcontinental driving trip with a European relative, and only for about 20 minutes.
Wait. I lied. I was in El Paso for 10 days after I retired, on one of my wife's business trips. Had to have been 2007 or 2008. Enjoyed it immensely, but that's a different story.
I might my find myself in Texas again, one day, and that sounds like my kind of place!
1970 - I was only 20 years old and still living in San Clemente, California! Good times, beach time!
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Get Ready - Rare Earth
Hitchin’ a Ride - Vanity Fair
Love or Let me be Lonely - Friends of Distinction
Anything by Three Dog Night, Santana, or Moody Blues
I have some North Ireland internet friends about 13 years now, and three generations of them love that song.
Go figure.
You have your good memories. I have not so good ones. That and “Funny Face” played on the radio e-v-e-r-y s-i-n-g-l-e morning before school over and over again. The dj must not have had any other records. Can’t stand either one to this day.
No worries - I thought you were a conservative FR yoot just now discovering music from back-in-the-day ;n)
BTW: I remember hearing Art Bell when I worked third shift.
What characters he had on, not to mention the ocassional trailer park I-recently-saw-Elvis callers.
Lest anyone forget, the 70s gave us sappy commercial drivel and disco. But it also gave us the arena, punk, urban, and progressive forms of rock. Plus heavy metal, new wave, and synthpop.
Best Songs of 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMVY_FWAhmE
Believe it, or not neither my wife, nor myself are country fans. We simply put don’t like country music, but that one song by Charlie Pride, because of it’s association to our relationship I guess is well liked by us both.
The other song you mentioned, funny face I’d never heard before, so I looked it up, and totally agree with your assessment of the song. You-know-where will freeze over before I ever sit down to hear that one again. It was bad. My wife asked me to turn it off LOL. I did.
Smart wife.
Magic carpet ride. The long, whole album side version, not the short version that was played on the AM radio.
How about this??? haha... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj8f30Iguw0
Loved Charlie Pride's music. Class act.
Funny you should mention this.
In '72 and '73 I took my future MIL to Reno, and reserved seats at the Frank Sinatra show playing there at the time.
Unknown to me, who would be the warmup opener to the show? Charley Pride. Had never heard of him, but he awakened my love for Country Music, I'll never forget my favorite from that night, "Kiss an Angel Good Morning."
The SF BART theme song?
: )
Loved that one. My favorite was "Is anybody going to San Antoine"
Loved "Burgers and Fries", loved "Kaw Liga", loved "Mississippi Cotton picking Delta Town."
The first song that came to my mind was, Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where the Lions Are, back when I thought it was a song from 1970’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Lpx6JIMmk
I know a guy who starting pondering eternity listening to this song and came to Christ as a result. He finds out later the song is about Christ.
In a remote part of the county I live in-Bandera co-a couple of miles off the main highway-from there you’d need directions that say “go xx miles and turn onto the next unpaved road”-it is almost all locals-the few tourists or day trippers that find their way there don’t stay long-it isn’t their kind of place, even though it is the kind that people like us enjoy-I think they are afraid of the clientele...
George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag
Crow - Cottage Cheese
Rare Bird - Sympathy
Syd Barrett - Gigolo Aunt
Stephen Stills & Jimi Hendrix - White Nigger
Dave Mason - Only You Know And I Know
Spirit - Nature's Way
Best of 1970—Deep Cuts Version
Samba Pa Ti—Santana
Southern Man—Neil Young
Isn’t it a Pity—George Harrison
Box of Rain—Grateful Dead
Mean Mistreater—Grand Funk Railroad
It’s Just a Thought—CCR
Helpless—CSNY
Burn Down the Mission—Elton John
Heaven on Their Minds—Murray Head (from Jesus Christ Superstar)
John Barleycorn Must Die—Traffic
Rock and Roll—Velvet Underground
Caravan—Van Morrison
13 Questions—Seatrain
Hang on to Your Life—The Guess Who
Done Too Soon—Neil Diamond
Father and Son—Cat Stevens
Time and a Word—Yes
That's why I never presume to define "best" or "worst" of anything.
There is nothing more arbitrary and presumptuous as making a universal statement like that, out of a personal opinion.
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