Post your 70s favourite songs. Chicago "If You Leave Me Now" (Dial Up warning)

[applegrove]

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[arcane1]

1. No comment needed.

[RebelOne]

9. My absolute favorite of the '70s.

Actually, that song was a one-hit winner. I have a CD with all their songs. Lash LaRue was a good one also.

[CitizenLeft]

43. thanks, I haven't heard that in a long time!

[Boomerproud]

2. Here's one of many

The 70's were my high school, days.

[malthaussen]

3. Given that I was a teenager listening to top 40 and FM...

... for the first half of that decade, it would be a very long list! But I'll put up this trip down memory lane:

-- Mal

[graywarrior]

4. Imagine

[rug]

5. You're no good.

[Jenoch]

7. In case you haven't heard,

Linda Ronstadt has announced that she has Parkinson's disease and she can no longer sing. I used to play her music on the radio back in my announcing days.

[rug]

17. Yeah, I did hear about it this week. Very sad.

What hit home is when she said she can no longer sing a single note.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. "you'll take away the biggest part of me"

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I didn't watch the video - I remembered.

Don't do videos much, or streaming.

My Internet provider is pricey.

Thanks for the memory tho.



CC

[Jenoch]

8. In January 1986 I was a radio announcer on an AC FM station.

We did a news update on the Challenger exploding. This Chicago song was next in the rotation. I was not paying any attention and played it. It did not even occur to me that it was inappropriate, I just not paying attention to the music, I was paying attention to the newswire. Yep, somebody called and complained. Hell, the tasteless space shuttle jokes didn't start until a few weeks later.

[RebelOne]

10. I loved everything Chicago ever recorded. n/t

[applegrove]

11. I had their best of album. Until today I didn't know they were a white band.

[kwassa]

14. You're kidding me. They are whiter than Wonderbread.

[applegrove]

15. I don't know why I assumed they were black.

[kwassa]

18. Here is literally the only Chicago song I like

Differences in taste, of course.

Their cover of the Spencer Davis Group song, and they really rock out on it.

[nomorenomore08]

52. Rather good, yes. But IMO can't touch the SDG version.

Possibly the greatest blue-eyed soul track of all time...

[kwassa]

53. Steve Winwood is a huge talent, one of the best.

as a solo artist, in SDG, Blind Faith, and Traffic.

[nomorenomore08]

54. Agree completely. No white man, even Joe Cocker, has ever nailed the "Ray Charles voice"

like the young Winwood did.

[blueamy66]

34. Me too.

And seeing Chicago in Chicago is religious....oh, then going to Wrigley

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. Here's a few - Springsteen, Bowie, Talking Heads, B52s, Zevon, Deep Purple, Cars

[BainsBane]

28. fantastic choices

especially Heroes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

30. thx. lawyers guns & money an all time fave of mine!

[LWolf]

47. I would have posted Heroes if you hadn't. nt

[kwassa]

13. God Save the Queen

and her fascist regime.

[kwassa]

16. Not Just Knee Deep - Funkadelic

all 15 glorious minutes of it.

turn it up and dance your ass off.

[applegrove]

19. Earth, Wind and Fire "Fantasy"

[Arctic Dave]

20. What! No posted Muskrat Love yet!?

[kwassa]

21. All Down the Line - Rolling Stones

and many of their greatest songs were in the '70s.

Live with Me, Brown Sugar, Street Fighting Man, Tumbling Dice, Rocks Off, You Can't Always Get What You Want, Angie, Sympathy for the Devil, Heartbreaker, It's Only Rock 'N Roll, Miss You, Beast of Burden ....

[kwassa]

22. Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye, imitated currently by Robin Thicke

[applegrove]

23. Don Mclean "Everybody Loves Me Baby"

[steve2470]

24. Peter Frampton, Do You Feel Like We Do ? 1976

the anthem of my freshman semester in college.

[u4ic]

25. Yet another Chicago song:

and a classic:

[blueamy66]

36. great choices....

thanks for this!

[Violet_Crumble]

26. I'm Bored...

They were both very late 1970's, but there wasn't a lot of good going on musically in that decade...

[davidpdx]

27. I've seen them in concert twice

Once in 1997 and again in 2007. The second time was much better. The first time Hall & Oats opened for them.

[BainsBane]

29. Patti Smith, David Bowie, and the Clash for the late 70s

Horses (the song and the album)

Because the Night

I've been in love with David Bowie since I was 12. Picking favorite songs is extremely difficult. Heroes is one of my favorites but has already been mentioned. Today, I'll go with:

Young Americans for nostalgia's sake

I really like the Hunky Dory album.

Andy Warlhol

The Clash, London Calling (1979)

[blueamy66]

37. more great choices....

[Glorfindel]

31. "Baby Blue" by Badfinger

I really, really loved that band. They were almost The Beatles...

[Tom_Foolery]

32. "Barracuda" by Heart from 1977...

Whew! So many great songs from the '70s...

[DFW]

33. Two that guided me through that decade

I always liked Jackson Browne's version of this over that of the Eagles

And one for which I can find no youtube clip: the original Ice Water version of Leo Kottke's "Morning Is The Long Way Home." He originally did it with a small band (just bass and drums on this song). He never sings it live, but he later recorded a solo of just the instrumental break:
https://myspace.com/42008394/music/song/morning-is-the-long-way-home-28446001-28275880

There are brief clips on for-sale download sites, but that's all I could find of the original. e.g. http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,116316-2674320,00.html

[Goalie49009]

35. Eddie Rabbitt

[blueamy66]

38. does 1969 count?

[jakeXT]

39. Some songs..never really listened closely to the lyrics..

[Trailrider1951]

40. Al Stewart

Takes me back to my college days...

[CitizenLeft]

46. was that 1977?

Our high school's mascot was the Bearcat, and that year, our varsity basketball team almost won their division. That was our song.

[Trailrider1951]

51. Oh, that sounds about right

I think that is album, Year of the Cat, came out in early 1977. It was just brilliant, the whole thing.

[walkerbait41]

41. "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills & Nash

I told my kids the story behind this song, I told my grandkids, and now I`m telling my great grandkids.

[CitizenLeft]

42. I apologize - I get carried away

(... I think ... I like long songs. Worse, I like to sting to them. )

My excuse is that I worked in a record store from 1977-1980. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Okay, I'll stop.

All these songs triggers some memory that stays with me to this day.

[CitizenLeft]

44. thank you for starting this thread

... but I think I might've overloaded it, it's taking longer to load than before I posted on it. I was trying to use "link" but I need to change the code to make it work. I think that would help with the dial-up.

[Special Prosciuto]

45. Fotomaker: "Where Have You Been All My Life"

[LWolf]

48. Too many to have "favorites,"

but here are some that I liked then, still like, and haven't already been posted.

And many, many more.

[LWolf]

49. And then there's this one, that,

when I was in 8th grade, got every student on my bus kicked off on the way to school for singing it loudly and changing the protagonist to "the bus driver."

[nomorenomore08]

50. The Clash - "Rudie Can't Fail"

Probably the best-ever fusion of punk and ska/reggae.