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1970s music draft- Link to google spreadsheet in first post (1 Viewer)

23.xx - Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston (1976 song)

This cover is one of my favorite disco songs. :pickle:  To escape my brother's torment, I used to lock my door and dance in my room, but he would peak under the door and say, "I see you dancing." I kept a squirt gun loaded, and would squirt it under the door. The little ******* would eventually learn to unlock my door.  <_<

 
My draft would not be complete without some Zeppelin.

23.XX Over The Hills and Far Away--Led Zeppelin (1973 Song).

I am going to hit submit right now before I change my mind to No Quarter.

 
We’re gonna do a little party tune for you here,
This is an old rhythm and blues boogie woogie number,
called “Boom, Boom Out Go the Lights”, alright, eh
Okay, now there’s an opportunity in this song
for us all to do a little shouting out here, okay?
When I say “boom, boom”, I want you all to answer me back with:
“Out go the lights”, right.  
“Boom, boom,” and you say “out go the lights”,   
Let me see those hands up above your head way up high, way up high,
way up high, way up high, above your heads

22.xx  "Boom Boom, Out Go the Lights"   - The Pat Travers Band   (hard rock/classic rock song)

 
I need a Beatles selection and Ringo's hasn't gotten any love here, so here goes:

23.xx No No Song - Ringo Starr (Wildcard Song). I like other Ringo songs better, and the Wildcard Category saves me ( and Ringo) here as I have a guilty pleasure song to put in the year category. I think this song totally plays to his affable persona and fits into my 70s breezy and cheezy genre quite well.

The song was written by Hoyt Axton ( the dad in Gremlins) who wrote several other popular rock songs and who's mom wrote Heartbreak Hotel for Elvis

ETA: I could've sworn there was an "official" video for this song, but couldn't find it. So I'll use this trio with the  Smother Brothers instead.

 
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I'm ridin' in your car ...
You turn on the radio ...

23.10: "Fire", Pointer Sisters  [link]  (1978 song)

Bruce Springsteen attended one of Elvis Presley's last live performances in May 1977. A lifelong fan of The King, Springsteen was moved after the show to write a song for Presley to record. Springsteen penned "Fire" and sent a demo off to Graceland. The Boss never heard back from Presley or his estate, but always presumed that Elvis died before he ever heard or received his demo.

Late in 1977, Springsteen recorded "Fire" and over 50 other tracks for possible inclusion on his upcoming album. "Fire" was a late-in-the-game cut for the album, but would soon become a live staple for The Boss. Meanwhile, Springsteen played "Fire" for a friend, rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, and assented to Gordon and Link Wray recording the song for Gordon's 1978 album.

In the months since Springsteen mailed off his demo to Elvis, that same demo made the rounds in the music industry. A copy got to famed producer Richard Perry, who played the demo for an act he had just picked up -- the re-formed Pointer Sisters (Bonnie Pointer had left to go solo). Springsteen sang in a low pitch on the demo, and the sister assumed that Perry would want the deeper-voiced Ruth Pointer to sing lead. Instead, Perry asked Anita Pointer to try it. The result was a 70s soul classic and Springsteen's highest-charting composition to date (#2 Hot 100).

Initially, Springsteen was non-plussed that "Fire" was a runaway hit for another act. The royalty checks softened the blow.

...

The vocals are what the Pointers' "Fire" is famous for, but the instrumentation is well worth an attentive listen -- the gradual soulful bass opening, the jive piano solo, the soaring organ toward the end.

 
Eephus said:
Great song.  I had the Robert Gordon album on my medium list for 78
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For a long while, only live versions of Gordon doing "Fire" were available on YouTube. I just checked and it looks the studio version is there now, so I guess some red tape got cleared. Going to listen to it later on :thumbup:

 
otb_lifer said:
Eephus said:
Mick Ralphs was still in the band for this album and the one that followed (Mott).   In fact, Ralph's song "Ready For Love" appeared both on the All the Young Dudes album and later on Bad Company's debut.

Bender came on board just for the The Hoople album.  Mick Ronson toured behind that with Mott the Hoople and then both he and Hunter left and the band cratered. 

ETA:  :nerd:




 
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was referencing Bender for the '74 live version, not the "Dudes" studio sessions 

:banned:




 
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Know how Ariel got his name?  (Luther Grosvenor)

At times he talks of his alter-ego as another person.

"If I had a pound for every time someone asked me about the name I would be a millionaire,” he says.

"Mott had done a gig in Germany with Lynsey de Paul and I don’t think it was a good gig for them. They came out of the show and I think Mick (Ralphs) was a bit pissed off and started bending these car aerials. Lynsey de Paul said ‘look, Aerial Bender - what a great name for a guitar player.’

 
Binky The Doormat said:
This is fun, but difficult.  Just so many tough choices, hate leaving so many good ones on the table.
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I've done a ton of this :yes:  

And, I've made mini-lists of great songs I love from individual years. Then a few days pass, and I think of a whole 'nother song and think "THIS will be a better pick!" -- and the new song I just thought of will leapfrog all the other stuff I listed previously.

Sometimes, that's happened more than once with individual lists.

 
20.03:  Roll Away the Stone - Mott the Hoople - 1974 Song

One of my favorite groups of all time.  This was released in the UK in November of '73 but '74 in the US.  

song link

As much as I want to put one of my favorite Todd songs in here ...I'm not.  The rest of this draft my goal for this exercise is to bring some tunes/groups that typically get a little less attention these days.  Hopefully bring some good "new" stuff to the younger people in here and bring back some forgotten memories for the rest of us.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
20.03:  Roll Away the Stone - Mott the Hoople - 1974 Song

One of my favorite groups of all time.  This was released in the UK in November of '73 but '74 in the US.  

song link

As much as I want to put one of my favorite Todd songs in here ...I'm not.  The rest of this draft my goal for this exercise is to bring some tunes/groups that typically get a little less attention these days.  Hopefully bring some good "new" stuff to the younger people in here and bring back some forgotten memories for the rest of us.  
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Glad somebody picked this song. 

It was a perfect track for the band to exit on. 

ETA:  and by band, I mean Ian Hunter because the rest soldiered on for an album or two.

 
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Binky The Doormat said:
This is fun, but difficult.  Just so many tough choices, hate leaving so many good ones on the table.
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That's why I stopped putting too much pre-planning into this - I was driving myself crazy. Even on the albums, but moreso on the songs it depends on what minute I happen to be thinking about the category that determines what I'll pick. Even though there's judging, I'm just picking stuff I like in the moment and not even necessarily what I think is "best" (from a critical standpoint).

 
We haven't really talked about the judging. 

Anybody can judge whatever category they want. I'm happy to judge as many categories as necessary but leaving my own picks out. 

Or we can just not have judging if nobody's interested. 

 
timschochet said:
We haven't really talked about the judging. 

Anybody can judge whatever category they want. I'm happy to judge as many categories as necessary but leaving my own picks out. 

Or we can just not have judging if nobody's interested. 
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Maybe, once the draft is done, we could list a category at a time and let folks comment (instead of "ranking"). I know we've commented as we've gone along, but this would be like reshuffling the deck for a fresh look. Just a thought.......

 
Not the same as judging, but:

Could do, for each category, a multi-poll that allowed FBGs to simply vote for each song/album they liked. So, you'd have, say, a list of 20 Disco/Funk/Soul Albums, and FBGs could vote for however many they liked -- essentially a simple YES/NO vote for each item.

Yeah, a few jokers would vote for all of them "because I can, har". And maybe the votes would be skewed toward the popular names and leave some of the more obscure, but worthy stuff, out in the cold. Just putting the idea out there.

 
21:19:  Remote Control - The Tubes - 1979 Album

Ok. I kind of violated my own rule with back-to-back albums from the same group.  With a few exceptions, the late 70s started to get pretty lean for me music-wise.  The late-60s/early 70s rock sound was primarily gone and disco was still humming.  Punk was a mainstay for me but I didn't want to live in that stage of angst constantly.  I had latched onto these guys a few years before and now that Todd was enlisted to help them change to a more radio-friendly sound - I was hooked.  

- I love this album so much - its crammed full of hard, pop-rock without a bad song on the album

- It is so completely different than the live "What do you want from Live" album 

Give this a try guys.  

Full album

 
Doug B said:
Not the same as judging, but:

Could do, for each category, a multi-poll that allowed FBGs to simply vote for each song/album they liked. So, you'd have, say, a list of 20 Disco/Funk/Soul Albums, and FBGs could vote for however many they liked -- essentially a simple YES/NO vote for each item.

Yeah, a few jokers would vote for all of them "because I can, har". And maybe the votes would be skewed toward the popular names and leave some of the more obscure, but worthy stuff, out in the cold. Just putting the idea out there.
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I like this idea. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Maybe, once the draft is done, we could list a category at a time and let folks comment (instead of "ranking"). I know we've commented as we've gone along, but this would be like reshuffling the deck for a fresh look. Just a thought.......
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I like this idea. 

 
I love lots of songs, but I love this more than most.

Heroes by David Bowie, 1977 song

ETA: Should be pick 20.xx

ETA part deux: " "

 
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