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 [...]
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
The 1970s began just like the 60s ended, at least at the top of the charts. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head sung by B.J. Thomas, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid spent 4 weeks at Number 1. The first week was [...]
With Carole King, the song’s composer backing him on piano.
This is James Taylor’s only number 1 on the Billboard charts reaching the top spot on July 31, 1971.
The album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, the album where this song first appeared, peaked at the Number 2 spot on the albums charts. [...]
During the last days of 1971 and into 1972 everyone was listening to and trying to determine what the lyrics meant in Don McLean’s American Pie. Other than alluding to the deaths of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens on February 3, 1959, a day many have called the ‘Day the Music [...]
The song was written by Bobby Russell. Russell was a popular songwriter in the late 60’s and early 70’s having written the hits Little Green Apples and Honey. He also wrote and recorded a a song about the everyday man having a normal Saturday titled Saturday Morning Confusion.
The song was offered to Cher, [...]
Two clips of Edwin Starr singing his 1970 war protest song War. One is from the 70’s. Not sure when the second one is from, but it’s obviously much later than the first.
The song was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. It was Edwin Starr’s most successful song as well as [...]
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) [...]
By 1976 Johnny Cash had already been performing for 20 years and for many of those years he was at the top of the Charts.
it was in 1976 that he did the story song One Piece at a Time. It’s the story of an auto assembly line worker built a car with one stolen [...]
To many when they think of the song I will Always Love You, they will think about the version that Whitney Houston sang from the movie My Bodyguard. But long before that it was done by its composer Dolly Parton.
Parton wrote the song in 1973 and released it as one of the songs on [...]
This was originally posted in August of 2008 with a video of a 1973 performance by Terry Jacks. That video has been removed and I can’t find a 70s version of the song only this one from the mid 2000s.
Seasons in the Sun, the story of a dying man, bidding farewell to friends and [...]
In 1979 Rupert Holmes recorded perhaps the only song that he wished he never did. Even though he wrote songs before this as well as afterward, it is this song that he is best known.
It’s a story song about a man who due to changing feelings towards his mate decides to answer a personal [...]
Posting this in tribute to Ellie Greenwich who passed away on August 26, 2009.
Not everyone may know her name, but we do know the music that she and her writing partner Jeff Barry wrote in the early 1960s.
Among some of her songs were this one Da Do Ron Ron first done in 1963 by the [...]
Janis Joplin was one of the many performers at Woodstock. She didn’t perform Me and Bobby McGee at the show, it may not have even been written yet. It was one of the songs that she recorded for her 1970 album Pearl as well as being part of her set during the summer of [...]