Posted on 02/28/2023 1:41:34 PM PST by Kevin in California
Streaming music as I work and this song popped up. Been many years since I've heard it last but loved it growing up. One of Paul's best. I love the line in the song "I never thought to ask her what the letter G stood for, but I know it wasn't good"!
Sally G.....enjoy.
https://youtu.be/zuMTuSDM094
Wow. Musician hippy chicks. What can one say.
I can’t believe that nobody’s brought up Minnie Ripperton’s “Loving You”!!
Or how about the ‘song’ - “I Got Fever”?
And thinking how ugly guys looked back then and knowing you could still get a lot of tail, I think I missed out.
25 or 6 to 4. A hit song about how hard it is to write a song.
WOW!
Donny on the keyboard got my old dog up and barkin’.
Not bad for the Osmonds.
Remember Donny and Maries version of”Deep purple”?
Nino Tempo and April Stevens did it first
My local classic rock radio station had a weekend of “vinyl” - where listeners could vote immediately on whether or not the song would stay or go. If the song was a “go” - they’d rip the needle across the record, ruining it.
This McCartney song came on (Junior’s Farm) - and the needle was ripped across the song within seconds, so many people had weighed in. I was in the car at the time and had to pull over from laughing.
A lot of the worst rock songs ever came out of the 70s.
“You Light Up My Life” by Debby Boone - apparently the #1 song of 1977.
I heard a long-time, classic rock DJ say that no one had ever requested that song in all the years he’d been on the radio.
Where’s Dickie Goodman on that list? How do you have any best of the 70’d and not include Dickie Goodman
Btw, 70’s was an awesome time for music. From rock to Soul. Even some disco was pretty good. Yacht Rock is very 70’s
No STDs yet, no herpes. Feminism wasn't a force yet, if you were young. Maybe just a little, but it was easy to "read the room," so to speak. Social mores had collapsed due to The Pill, the counterculture movement. "Sexual liberation."
We all know what happened next.
Bee Gees “One nighy only” is an outstanding live album.
ELO “Wembley or bust” is also top notch.
That leaves payola, which was a thing then, right?
Women's liberation
Came creepin' all across the nation
Oh, the music was absolutely top-notch. The engineering, recording studio technique, was unbelievable. All before digital audio took over. Real artistry.
One of the goals of recording studios at the time was “transformerless” design. No stray magnetic fields anywhere, so zero AC hum.
There was artistry on both sides of the microphone, and I took it for granted as a listener. Not so anymore.
Oh yeah! The Groove Line by Heatwave, written by Temperton. One of the great disco classics.
It’s tragic to watch a female seek things that lay her to waste.
It was like society got hit by a freight train.
Nice.
Never heard it before.
Puttin’ on my playlist.
“Life Is A Rock, But The Radio Rolled Me”
Heatwave was a great disco band.
Hot Chocolate was another great band.
I guess I was thinking of the "railroad" motif of the song, with the chorus hooting like a train whistle.
There's some good stuff about Rod Temperton on YouTube. He came out of nowhere to become a highly respected pop composer. Quincy Jones couldn't get enough of him.
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