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1970s music draft- Link to google spreadsheet in first post (2 Viewers)

Pretty sure I need a punk song and wildcard song.  

I'll take the wildcard now. I would have liked to take the album but oh well. ..

The Star Wars theme song, John Williams

Few songs immediately bring back as good memories of childhood, we all loved the original trilogy.  I spent a LOT of time watching the movies, playing with the action figures, pretending to be Luke or Han, and my kids did the same.  While a movie franchise, it is so much more.  The theme is brilliant, although we probably underestimate the impact the theme itself had on movies for the past 40 years. Mr.  Williams is as talented as anyone taken in this draft and has had at least an equal impact. 

Star Wars often is credited as heralding the beginning of a revival of grand symphonic scores in the late 1970s. One technique in particular is an influence: Williams's revival of a technique called leitmotif, which is most famously associated with the operas ofRichard Wagner and, in film scores, with Steiner. A leitmotif is a phrase or melodic cell that signifies a character, place, plot element, mood, idea, relationship or other specific part of the film. It is commonly used in modern film scoring as a device for mentally anchoring certain parts of a film to the soundtrack. Of chief importance for a leitmotif is that it must be strong enough for a listener to latch onto while being flexible enough to undergo variation and development.

"Main Theme/Overture" (all episodes) – Easily the most recognizable melody of the saga, the main theme is variously associated with Luke Skywalker, heroism, and adventure. It is heard over the opening crawl at the beginning of all the films and forms the basis of the end-title as well. The theme is most prominent in the first film, Star Wars, in which strong brass treat it as a fanfare for Luke; throughout subsequent films, it is relied upon less frequently, though this restraint lends it a greater impact. The opening bars of this theme bear a striking resemblance to Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opening theme for the 1941 film Kings Row. Also, the much recognized seven note sequence of the theme is seemingly taken directly from Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut where it is featured prominently in the fourth act.

 
rd.28 

"So Tough" - The Slits  (wildcard song)

... and 'wild' it is 

the girls were mates with all the punk royalty, most notably the Clash ... drummer Palmolive (nicknamed by Paul Simonon) was Strummer's live-in gf for a bit, and she and guitarist Viv Albertine (ex London SS w/Mick Jones) decided to form their own group - recruiting 14 year old Ari Up (future step daughter of Johnny Rotten/Lydon) for vocal duties.

the all-female punk band was the first in the English scene, and they combined a dizzying mix of punk/reggae/jazz/world/post-punk/new wave ... they sounded like none other. 

this tune was the centerpiece of their debut album 'Cut' (where they appeared topless and mud smeared on the cover), and is an homage to punk icon Sid Vicious ('don't #### things up by getting sick ... AGAIN')

a groundbreaking fusion of genres, and the girls really made a unique mark with their experimentation ... just a dynamite tune, and a perfect example of the DIY/Empowerment ethos of that era -  love it to death, and it always sounds as fresh as first time i heard it some 36 years ago.

 
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29.xx - Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (soft-rock/singer-songwriter song)

Considered a number of other songs for this slot, but kept coming back to this one.  Only saw him 2x, both at Jazz Fest in the past five years.  Wish I had listened to him more before finally catching him live, but the appreciation for his work grew in those five years and this signature song.  Met him once in the parking lot to the blues tent at Jazz Fest when we were lost going to the exit and he was heading to his Mercedes.  Just as cool and unassuming as you would expect.

 
28.xx:  NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush (singer/songwriter song)

29.xx:  BLACK SABBATH - The Wizard (hard rock/classic song)

 
28:03: Driver's Seat - Sniff N the Tears - 1978

I had a couple of other more familiar, maybe more critically acclaimed but this song is so "of that time."  And one of my personal favorites.  
1. That backup singer :cool: looks like the only guy who's having anything resembling a good time :headbang: . Everyone else, especially the drummer is :help:

2. This was a relatively popular song back in the day. You'd think somebody could have gotten the keyboard guy a stand that'd keep his rig from shaking like a stoned weeble

3. "Dryer Sheets" in the comments :lol:

 
Pretty sure I need a punk song and wildcard song.  

I'll take the wildcard now. I would have liked to take the album but oh well. ..

The Star Wars theme song, John Williams

Few songs immediately bring back as good memories of childhood, we all loved the original trilogy.  I spent a LOT of time watching the movies, playing with the action figures, pretending to be Luke or Han, and my kids did the same.  While a movie franchise, it is so much more.  The theme is brilliant, although we probably underestimate the impact the theme itself had on movies for the past 40 years. Mr.  Williams is as talented as anyone taken in this draft and has had at least an equal impact. 

Star Wars often is credited as heralding the beginning of a revival of grand symphonic scores in the late 1970s. One technique in particular is an influence: Williams's revival of a technique called leitmotif, which is most famously associated with the operas ofRichard Wagner and, in film scores, with Steiner. A leitmotif is a phrase or melodic cell that signifies a character, place, plot element, mood, idea, relationship or other specific part of the film. It is commonly used in modern film scoring as a device for mentally anchoring certain parts of a film to the soundtrack. Of chief importance for a leitmotif is that it must be strong enough for a listener to latch onto while being flexible enough to undergo variation and development.

"Main Theme/Overture" (all episodes) – Easily the most recognizable melody of the saga, the main theme is variously associated with Luke Skywalker, heroism, and adventure. It is heard over the opening crawl at the beginning of all the films and forms the basis of the end-title as well. The theme is most prominent in the first film, Star Wars, in which strong brass treat it as a fanfare for Luke; throughout subsequent films, it is relied upon less frequently, though this restraint lends it a greater impact. The opening bars of this theme bear a striking resemblance to Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opening theme for the 1941 film Kings Row. Also, the much recognized seven note sequence of the theme is seemingly taken directly from Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut where it is featured prominently in the fourth act.
More betterer version  :fro:

 
Question for all you 70s rock gurus. There's a relatively well known song that I can't remember for the life of me. It starts off with like a minute or two drum solo and then the guitars slowly start to come in. I remember liking the hell out of it, but it's totally slipped my mind who or what the title is. I thought it was by someone like Robin Trower or Dio, but I didn't see it in their song list and can't remember who the heck it was. Anybody got a clue?

TIA

 
The Boomtown Rats- "I Don't Like Mondays" 1979 song

The silicon chips inside her head get switched to overload

And nobody's gonna go to school today, she's gonna make them stay at home

 
Question for all you 70s rock gurus. There's a relatively well known song that I can't remember for the life of me. It starts off with like a minute or two drum solo and then the guitars slowly start to come in. I remember liking the hell out of it, but it's totally slipped my mind who or what the title is. I thought it was by someone like Robin Trower or Dio, but I didn't see it in their song list and can't remember who the heck it was. Anybody got a clue?

TIA
Cheap Trick at Budokan doing aint' that a shame?

 
29.xx - Magic - Pilot - Wildcard Song

Another "this was all over the radio when I was a kid" song. About the only place you'll hear it now is if you catch a top 40 countdown on XM.

 
Question for all you 70s rock gurus. There's a relatively well known song that I can't remember for the life of me. It starts off with like a minute or two drum solo and then the guitars slowly start to come in. I remember liking the hell out of it, but it's totally slipped my mind who or what the title is. I thought it was by someone like Robin Trower or Dio, but I didn't see it in their song list and can't remember who the heck it was. Anybody got a clue?

TIA
If it started with a minute and a half of thumping bass instead, I'd suggest Stealin'

 
Late pick for me too.

29.xx Brass in Pocket-Pretenders (1979 song)

I am still going to be way short of balance in my draft when it comes to female artists. 

 
29.xx 1977 Song I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb - I don't have any Bee Gees so I'll take the honorary one. Any guy that was Bee Gee blood, singing duets (and maybe more) with Olivia Newton John and Marie Osmond (no Osmonds made the cut??) and was shagging Victoria Principal deserves mention in this draft. Link to video with him and Abba

 
I NEED to change my 1976 Song pick from BTO's Lookin' out for #1 to this iconic gem of the times. Everyone has their '76 pick in, so I'm not sniping.

For your listening enjoyment I give you....Maestro, drum roll please!!

CONVOY!!!!!!! By C.W.McCall   /Judging!!  <- I couldn't find Cecil's "It's a wrap" closing to put here, so you'll have to sing it yourself

Who didn't have a CB back in the day!!

"Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy"

 
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I NEED to change my 1976 Song pick from BTO's Lookin' out for #1 to this iconic gem of the times. Everyone has their '76 pick in, so I'm not sniping.

For your listening enjoyment I give you....Maestro, drum roll please!!

CONVOY!!!!!!! By C.W.McCall   /Judging!!  <- I couldn't find Cecil's "It's a wrap" closing to put here, so you'll have to sing it yourself

Who didn't have a CB back in the day!!
we just ain't gonna pay no toll

 
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I'll take an Osmond song - I only have wild card song left to draft - but someone needs to take my original W/C song as it fits this draft really well. 

 
I NEED to change my 1976 Song pick from BTO's Lookin' out for #1 to this iconic gem of the times. Everyone has their '76 pick in, so I'm not sniping.

For your listening enjoyment I give you....Maestro, drum roll please!!

CONVOY!!!!!!! By C.W.McCall   /Judging!!  <- I couldn't find Cecil's "It's a wrap" closing to put here, so you'll have to sing it yourself

Who didn't have a CB back in the day!!

"Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy"
There's a funny ### show on called "The Detour". Here's a link to the Pilot episode . The whole clip is friggin hilarious but if you skip to the 12 minute mark, you'll get the trucker scene.

 
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Spill the wine, Eric burdon and war 1970 song

Simply a fun song anyone with a pulse can't help but turn it up and sing along 

Even uncle Phil digs it

I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movieAnd that I was the star of the movieThis really blew my mindThe fact that me an overfed long haired leaping gnomeShould be the star of a Hollywood movie, hmmmBut there I wasHmm, I was taken to a placeThe hall of the mountain kingsI stood high by the mountain topsNaked to the worldIn front ofEvery kind of girlThere was long one's, tall ones, short ones, brown onesBlack ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones...
I'm probably stupid for just realizing this now - but the guy from the Animals sung this song!  Holy crap!

 
I NEED to change my 1976 Song pick from BTO's Lookin' out for #1 to this iconic gem of the times. Everyone has their '76 pick in, so I'm not sniping.

For your listening enjoyment I give you....Maestro, drum roll please!!

CONVOY!!!!!!! By C.W.McCall   /Judging!!  <- I couldn't find Cecil's "It's a wrap" closing to put here, so you'll have to sing it yourself

Who didn't have a CB back in the day!!

"Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy"
so we crashed the gate doing 98

I said let them truckers roll, 10-4

 
Hope this Spotify link works. I created a playlist of the 15 individual songs I drafted.

Meh news: No Willis Alan Ramsey on Spotify, so I subbed in a Jimmy Buffett cover.

Great news: I found a 13:51 version of Wild Dogs by Tommy Bolin. The last third+ of the song is other-worldly. Would love to jet through inter-stellar space with this one cranked up to eleven.

 
30, finale, kaput

Punk song

Train in vain, the clash 

The hidden track whose name is sometimes hard to recall.  On the original vinyl copy of the album "Train Is Vain" isn't listed on the tracklisting on the sleeve. The story is that the song was recorded for an NME promotional flexi-disc once the London Calling sessions were done, and the flexi-disc idea then fell through, leaving the song with no home. The band hastily tacked the song onto the end of the album just before vinyl pressing, but the sleeve had already been designed and there was no time to add it to the tracklisting. The only clue of it's existence is in the run-out groove on Side 4, where the name is carved into the vinyl. On all subsequent releases (including the CD copy) "Train In Vain" is included on the tracklisting on the sleeve.
The title of The Clash song comes from the train rhythm in the song combined with the theme of being lost, as well as being a reference to Tammy Wynette's 1975 hit single "Stand By Your Man" ("you say you stand, by your man, tell me something, I don't understand").

Surprisingly, it is the clash's most covered song.  

 
Just coming in to post that Eric Burdon and War's Spill the Wine had earwormed me for the past few days. 

Spill the wine, dig that girl. 

 
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Just coming in to post that Eric Burdon and War's Spill the Wine had earwormed me for the past few days. 

Spill the wine, dig that girl. 
How many people misunderstood what they were singing? "still I, dig that girl" No idea why I couldn't get this straight. Sometimes I still think he's singing something else until I remember the title. :shrug:

 
30.xx - Barry Manilow - Copacabana (wildcard song)

To be honest, I really considered "I Write The Songs" as my Manilow tune for the singer/songwriter category.  But, as I discovered set listing at his show a year ago, HE DID NOT WRITE THAT SONG.  Completely mind blown when I read that.  

But, as was spotlighted earlier, the man who had so many singles in the 70's still deserved representation on my draft board and I had to pivot.  Insert Toussaint for my singer/songwriter song, leaving me with Manilow in the wildcard slot and apologies for skipping Rush, Queen, The Police, and a dozen other artists who I have seen in concert but are not represented on my final draft board.  When I realized that my list was shockingly short of anything resembling a disco tune, what better way to represent than with "the hottest spot north of Havana".

Thanks guys - this was fun and thanks @timschochet for kicking this off.  Will check back regularly to see how things wrap up and see how Mel Kiper and the boys grade out my draft class.

 
For my final wildcard pick: 

Fred Blassie- "Pencil Neck Geek"- wildcard song

How many of you guys listened to Dr. Demento? 

Added bit of trivia: the guitarist on this song was Billy Zoom of X fame. 

 
simsarge said:
29.xx 1977 Song I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb - I don't have any Bee Gees so I'll take the honorary one. Any guy that was Bee Gee blood, singing duets (and maybe more) with Olivia Newton John and Marie Osmond (no Osmonds made the cut??) and was shagging Victoria Principal deserves mention in this draft. Link to video with him and Abba
This is your 30th pick. You picked Powderfinger as your 29th.

 
ScottNorwood said:
I'm probably stupid for just realizing this now - but the guy from the Animals sung this song!  Holy crap!
How many people misunderstood what they were singing? "still I, dig that girl" No idea why I couldn't get this straight. Sometimes I still think he's singing something else until I remember the title. :shrug:
Wine and girls >> pearls (and heroin)

 
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simey said:
simsarge said:
I NEED to change my 1976 Song pick from BTO's Lookin' out for #1 to this iconic gem of the times. Everyone has their '76 pick in, so I'm not sniping.

For your listening enjoyment I give you....Maestro, drum roll please!!

CONVOY!!!!!!! By C.W.McCall   /Judging!!  <- I couldn't find Cecil's "It's a wrap" closing to put here, so you'll have to sing it yourself

Who didn't have a CB back in the day!!

"Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy"
so we crashed the gate doing 98

I said let them truckers roll, 10-4
I (of course) loved this song as a kid, and bought into the whole CB craze, getting a home CB (complete with huge antenna on the roof) for my 10th birthday. 

The song itself doesn't quite hold up for me (the chorus is just so weak sounding for a "tough" trucker song), but that doesn't make it any less nostalgic. 

 
30.xx Behind Blue Eyes-The Who (wild card song)

I could not go through the draft without something from The Who (although I did not get any Springsteen, a tactical error that will haunt me).

Just like all my football and baseball drafts, I feel like I had a great draft and only injuries can stop me now. 

 

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