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AT40 - This Week in 1974 (1 Viewer)

12. "T.S.O.P." - M.F.S.B.

This was the point when Philly soul usurped Motown as the Sound Of Young America.

 
10. "Lord's Prayer" - Sister Janet Mead

I think this is Sister Jean in disguise. She done tore her bracket sheets up. Go on, Loyola-Chicago!

 
Great thread! :pickle:

Would be cool to have a link to the song in YouTube or something, since some of us don't remember some of these!!

 
8. "Come & Get Your Love" - Redbone

Look up "kicks every kind of ###" in the dictionary, and this record pops up.

 
Mr. Ected said:
Great thread! :pickle:

Would be cool to have a link to the song in YouTube or something, since some of us don't remember some of these!!
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I'd love to provide links, but I'm listening in real time and most of these songs are under 3 minutes.

Plus, I'm doing laundry :bag:

 
6. "Mockingbird" - Carly & James Taylor.

I hate this record with the heat of a thousand suns. It's up there with "Sugar Shack" and "Seasons In The Sun". This is a horrible record and if any of you chime in to say you like it, I will have you banned from this board.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
8. "Come & Get Your Love" - Redbone

Look up "kicks every kind of ###" in the dictionary, and this record pops up.
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:thumbup:    My personal #2 on this countdown behind Until You Come Back To Me by Aretha. 

For you Marvel fans lurking... this is the song Star-Lord is dancing/evading traps to in an early scene in the first Guardians Of The Galaxy.

 
5. "Dark Lady" - Cher

Better than that awful "Mockingbird" crap at #6, with James ####### Taylor trying to sound like a black guy. Jesus, I may never get over hearing that damned thing again.

 
4. "Bennie & The Jets" - Elton John

This is probably my least favorite of Elton's big hits, but it got him on Soul Train.

 
3. "Seasons In The Sun" - Terry Jacks

:X :hot: :cry: :X

I'll pay for the plane flight if one of you want to fly here to put me out of my misery. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
3. "Seasons In The Sun" - Terry Jacks

:X :hot: :cry: :X

I'll pay for the plane flight if one of you want to fly here to put me out of my misery. 
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“When I hear this song it makes me wish I was deaf instead of blind.” - something Stevie Wonder is probably too full of love to even think, much less say out loud

 
Uruk-Hai said:
6. "Mockingbird" - Carly & James Taylor.

I hate this record with the heat of a thousand suns. It's up there with "Sugar Shack" and "Seasons In The Sun". This is a horrible record and if any of you chime in to say you like it, I will have you banned from this board.
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####......yeah......ing........ye-eah......hate.......yeah.......this song.....yeah.......####### hate this song.....yeah.........

now, everybody have you heard

they made a song from a flaming turd

and if that flaming turd wont light

James & Carly will find other ways to bite

o-yes-indeed-o

 
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1. "Sunshine On My Shoulders" - John Denver

Better than ####### "Mockingbird". God, I feel like I want to puke.

This is actually a pretty good song, though it's whitebread-as-hell.

 
wikkidpissah said:
####......yeah......ing........ye-eah......hate.......yeah.......this song.....yeah.......####### hate this song.....yeah.........

now, everybody have you heard

they made a song from a flaming turd

and if that flaming turd wont light

James & Carly will find other ways to bite

o-yes-indeed-o
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I can never tell if you're agreeing with me or not

 
Uruk-Hai said:
1. "Sunshine On My Shoulders" - John Denver

Better than ####### "Mockingbird". God, I feel like I want to puke.

This is actually a pretty good song, though it's whitebread-as-hell.
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The night “We Are The World” was recorded and all those great American vocalists from the 60s/70s/80s were in the same studio... Paul Simon looked around and joked, “if a bomb drops on this place, John Denver is back on top.”

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
The night “We Are The World” was recorded and all those great American vocalists from the 60s/70s/80s were in the same studio... Paul Simon looked around and joked, “if a bomb drops on this place, John Denver is back on top.”
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That's rich coming from that uptight little #######.

But, it IS funny

 
wikkidpissah said:
i agree, yes-indeed-o, yo, yes-indeed-o, yeah, yeah, wo wo wo wo wo now
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dude must've had one hell of a ####, 'cause Carly was perhaps the finest lady on the scene there for awhile ... he's an insufferable twit, and that song ... that ####### song - the nadir.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
21. "Mighty Love" - Spinners

Philly Soul running on high octane fuel.
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omg - what a song.  I'm posting to make it easy for people to check it out if they haven't heard it - or doesn't ring a bell.  I liked it when it came out, but was so into other stuff than Motown I didn't pay enough attention.  Knowing how much my hero, Todd Rundgren, grew up with the Philly sound he also covered this song on his A Cappella album, where he did all the vocals and no instruments  - this is where it really hit me.  I love both versions.  

Spinners - Might Love

A Cappella is a 1985 album by Todd Rundgren. The album is one of Rundgren's most unusual in that every sound is the product of the artist's voice. Rundgren employed overdubbing techniques and an E-mu Emulator (an early sampler), electronically manipulating the sound of his voice in order to mimic conventional rock instruments, handclaps, and other sounds.[4] This unique approach to music making was later explored by artists such as Mike Patton and Björk.

Todd Rundgren - Mighty Love

 
Thanks for this list UH.  Good top 40 music in '74, but it was also in a time where album music was maturing and so different than what was on top 40 radio. 

I have heard that averages say that an adult male's favorite music comes from when they were around 14.  Like otb here - this is a wheelhouse area.  

ETA:  already rabbit-holing youtube songs from then.  

 
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Binky The Doormat said:
Thanks for this list UH.  Good top 40 music in '74, but it was also in a time where album music was maturing and so different than what was on top 40 radio. 

I have heard that averages say that an adult male's favorite music comes from when they were around 14.  Like otb here - this is a wheelhouse area.  

ETA:  already rabbit-holing youtube songs from then.  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE  :homer:

 
Uruk-Hai said:
40. "Dancing Machine" - Jackson Five

This ain't nothing BUT groove. The closest Michael and the rest ever came to gut-bucket funk. Also, I think this is the song Michael broke out the robot dance on.
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This is, probably unsurprisingly, my favorite song of the countdown save for anything by the Spinners, even though I haven't heard that particular song. Thanks for doing the countdown, Uruk. Never in my wheelhouse, and therefore, always interesting.  

 
:thumbup:

Great list this time... And I remember a lot of these (I was six, so more a Seasons in the Sun target audience)

 
Uruk-Hai said:
32. "Let It Ride" - BTO

When I first heard this, I thought these guys were black. I have no idea why, as they were the pastiest-of-pasty white guys from Canada.

Don't care - this ####### record rocks, boys & girls.
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I remember finding out much later that BTO rose from the ashes of The Guess Who. Pretty much a  "Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"  moment for kids across Canada.

You have to love Fred Turner's gravelly vocals.

 
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