In July of 1973 Grand Funk Railroad released their 7th album We’re An American Band. This was also the first of three Albums where the group was simply call Grand Funk. The first single released from the album was the title song We’re An American Band.
The song was their first Number 1 single. It was [...]
In 1971 in Netherland the duo Mouth and MacNeil (Big Mouth (born Willem Duyn, March 31, 1937) and Maggie MacNeal (born Sjoukje van’t Spijker, May 5, 1950) came together. They recorded a few songs and were more popular in Europe, especially Germany, than they were in the United States. How Do You Do, [...]
Note:The following was originally published at 6 Things To Consider. We thank Steve Atkinson for allowing us to republish this.
It was on Friday the 13th, February 1970 that the album that many consider the first Heavy Metal album was released. It was released in the United Kingdom. The debut album of a [...]
Pinball Wizard
Baba O’Riley
Who Are You
See Me, Feel Me
Won’t get Fooled Again
As far as I am concerned this is the best song that Rod Stewart has recorded. It was written by him and Ron Wood while they were both members of Faces.
The song originally appeared on their 1971 album A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…To a Blind Horse
Have you seen the CVS commercial. The one about receiving Double Bucks. The song that they are using is Double Lovin’ by the Osmonds.
After their big success with their self titled Osmonds album and their single from it One Bad Apple they recorded a follow-up album. The album was called Homemade and [...]
A medley of Dawn’s first three releases. This was before it was Tony Orlando and Dawn as well as a time that Tony was clean shaven.
Songs:
Candida – Top 10 song from late 1970
Knock Three Times – Number 1, January 1971
What Are You Doing Sunday – Barely reached the Top 40
From the Carol Brunett Show. 1976 with Vicki Lawrence
from their show mid-1970s
By the time of their fourth album, Crazy Horses, the brothers not only were playing all of the instruments they were also writing the songs. They were also moving away from the bubblegum pop of their first couple of albums to be more Rock and Roll. It can be considered their first real [...]
1971 may have been the biggest year for The Osmonds as a group, but in 1972 they were still one of the biggest acts around. Sure they may have had a young audience and didn’t draw the same type of crowds as The Who, Santana or Chicago, but they could rock. Here they [...]
This performance from the 1972 Ohio State Fair features the Osmonds doing a song that opened many of their shows in the early 1970s. Motown Special is a medley of songs of Motown.
Not only was it the opening song of their shows it was also the opening song of their self-titled first album released [...]
At 12:22 on Monday May 4, 1970, 29 members of a group of 77 National Guard troops from A Company and Troop G fired shots towards a group of students at Kent State. 13 seconds and about 67 shots later it ended. Some shots were in the air as warnings, others to induce injury [...]
The song One Tin Soldier was written by the songwriting team Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. It was recorded in late 1969 by the Canadian group The Original Caste and was a minor hit in the United States, but a big hit, reaching Number 1, in Canada.
Most people will remember the version of the [...]
Boogie Oogie Oogie was the first single from the self-titled debut album, A Taste of Honey. It was their biggest hit single spending three weeks at Billboard’s Single Chart at Number 1.
The group formed in Los Angeles, California, and originally consisted of Janice Marie Johnson (vocals, bass), Hazel Payne (vocals, guitar), Perry Kibble (keyboards) [...]