'America', 'Bread', 'Guess Who', and other early 70s bands

Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:39 pm

I have a weakness for early 1970s rock.

The band 'America' is one of my favorites- here are a couple of their songs-

'Lonely People'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu4h4xqdJ_8

'Tin Man'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-VGxYAVx-0

'Sister Golden Hair'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzUQZw3wfro

'Horse with No Name'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KKGdb4qUY

Another early 70s rock band I love was 'Bread'

Here is their song 'make It With You':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFa5E8q-940

'Diary'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4

A great Canadian band was the Guess Who- they had some amazing songs-

'Share The Land'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQJ4toj-JY

'Undun'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLMF5GM0Kt8

American Woman (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tZ5cwm4jQc

Another great early 70s band was 'Seals and Croft'
here is their song 'Summer breeze':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLfDBcu_U0

Any other fans of early 70s 'soft rock'?

Post by **BallroomDays67** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:54 am

They may not have been the most consistent band, but The Guess Who did indeed have some amazing songs. The same goes for Bread.

Speaking of Bread, had you noticed this? http://www.thefreedomman.com/forum/view ... hp?p=37803

Post by **hardrockcafe** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:57 am

I assume you guys have read the blog entry by the lead singer of the Guess Who where he recounts hanging out with Jim Morrison in 1969?

http://www.officialburtoncummings.com/b ... ember.html

Post by **BallroomDays67** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:01 am

I have, and it's a great story.

Post by **StrangeNightOfStone** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:44 am

hardrockcafe wrote:I assume you guys have read the blog entry by the lead singer of the Guess Who where he recounts hanging out with Jim Morrison in 1969?

http://www.officialburtoncummings.com/b ... ember.html

What an awesome account- I love the Guess Who, and never realized lead singer Burton Cummings was such a hardcore Doors fan...and his comments about Jim are about the most positive I've read in a long time...

Post by **twilla** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:27 pm

Article on 70's bands
vote for your favorite
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32512052/ns ... ent-music/

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:12 am

Some Great bands! Guess Who's "American Woman" is a fantastic LP
and most consistent.....No Sugar Tonight & New Mother Nature....
"Bag o' goodies and a bottle o' wine, gonna get it on right tonight!"

"Horse With No Name" is great..when I first heard it on the radio,
I thought it was CSN&Y...Neil on lead vocals!

Emitt Rhodes (formerly of LA's Merry-Go-Round)
is a favorite of mine......he played all instruments, wrote and sang
vocals, produced and mixed...all recorded in his home studio.

Four great songs from Emitt's 1st LP... YOU MUST LIVE TILL
YOU DIE, YOU MUST FEEL TO BE ALIVE!
Give him a listen...turn it up loud!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CvzawbXLS8

BADFINGER...one of my all time favorites!!!

Post by **BallroomDays67** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:01 am

I'm a Badfinger fan too. I met Joey when he was a guest at one of the L.A. Beatlefests. He got up on stage in the main ballroom and spoke about Badfinger and answered questions, performed a few songs with his Badfinger band, and then signed autographs. His Badfinger band was LOUD!

I asked him why they didn't perform "Come and Get It" considering it was Beatlefest and the song was written by Paul McCartney. He said that they were working up a new arrangement.

Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:50 am

BallroomDays67 wrote:I'm a Badfinger fan too. I met Joey when he was a guest at one of the L.A. Beatlefests. He got up on stage in the main ballroom and spoke about Badfinger and answered questions, performed a few songs with his Badfinger band, and then signed autographs. His Badfinger band was LOUD!

I asked him why they didn't perform "Come and Get It" considering it was Beatlefest and the song was written by Paul McCartney. He said that they were working up a new arrangement.

I love Badfinger!!

Here is Paul Mccartney's demo of 'Come And Get It":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1xss8MlwCk

And Badfinger's version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk57K4OGrAg

Badfinger's epic 'No Matter What'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBMRiNLJm5o

Post by **twilla** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:56 am

Cat Stephens
Peace Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52Z84vF ... re=related

Morning has Broken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-3ozwEE ... 07&index=1

Jim Croce
Operator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8Xct ... PL&index=2

I got a Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqauC49 ... PL&index=5

Gordon Lightfoot
If you could read my mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2DjqB0S ... re=related

Sundown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOOs-MqD ... re=related

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:38 am

Badfinger's "Straight Up" is their masterpiece. I have a German pressing with the songs all in a different order than the USA release...
it works better! I wonder which track listing was preferred by Badfinger.
Has there been a more tragic ending for a band...two suicides by hanging?!

Some great ones here. I love Lightfoot, twilla.... & Croce.

Cat Stevens..perfect!
I remember when he was detained at Bangor (Maine) international airport because of his new Muslim name.....
they were a bit freaked since the 911 terrorists came undetected thru Maine airports. Not sure if they let him thru after he sang a song....

Post by **StrangeNightOfStone** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:52 pm

twilla wrote:Cat Stephens
Peace Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52Z84vF ... re=related

Morning has Broken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-3ozwEE ... 07&index=1

Jim Croce
Operator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8Xct ... PL&index=2

I got a Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqauC49 ... PL&index=5

Gordon Lightfoot
If you could read my mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2DjqB0S ... re=related

Sundown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOOs-MqD ... re=related

Great ones! I really like Gordon Lightfoot, 'Sundown; in particular....

I always wondered had Jim lived and stayed with the Doors, if they would have gone in the directiuon of the 'soft rock' trend that defined much of early-mid 1970s rock...People shouldn't knock 'soft rock', some amazing tunes can be found in that rock sub genre...

Post by **StrangeNightOfStone** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:54 pm

BallroomDays67 wrote:I'm a Badfinger fan too. I met Joey when he was a guest at one of the L.A. Beatlefests. He got up on stage in the main ballroom and spoke about Badfinger and answered questions, performed a few songs with his Badfinger band, and then signed autographs. His Badfinger band was LOUD!

I asked him why they didn't perform "Come and Get It" considering it was Beatlefest and the song was written by Paul McCartney. He said that they were working up a new arrangement.

I didn't realize how much tragedy surrounded 'Badfinger'..

Post by **twilla** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:18 pm

Good music is good music

Post by **fpicks** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:35 pm

Pick up the new "Big Star" box set. It is amazing

Post by **StrangeNightOfStone** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:11 pm

Here is Jim Croce doing an amazing performances of 'Bad Bad Leroy Brown'- He precedes this performance of the song with the story of what the song is all about...
Watch this- anyone who walks away not seeing Croce as amazing musician must be high...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeqjobpADvU

The guitarist playing with him (I forget his name) also died in the plane crash which took Croce's life....

Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:19 pm

Another favorite-

'Hold Your Head Up' by Argent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnSWJHawQQ

Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:23 pm

One of my favorites songs from the 1970s was 'Baker Street' by Gerry Rafferty . One of the best sax solos ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU

Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:33 pm

Then there are some of the 'hokey' songs from the 1970s- which are good, but a bit silly-

Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE

'There's Got To Be A Morning After' by Maureen McGovern
(Made famous in 'The Poseidon Adventure)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLazPauA1c

'You Light Up my Life' by Debbie Boone (the spawn of Pat Boone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07-yKnKRMQ

'Fernando' by ABBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io

Post by **twilla** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:49 pm

StrangeNightOfStone wrote:Then there are some of the 'hokey' songs from the 1970s- which are good, but a bit silly-

Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE

'There's Got To Be A Morning After' by Maureen McGovern
(Made famous in 'The Poseidon Adventure)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLazPauA1c

'You Light Up my Life' by Debbie Boone (the spawn of Pat Boone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07-yKnKRMQ

'Fernando' by ABBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io

oh yuk those were hokey
I hated you light up my Life

and how about
Thank you for being a friend by Andrew Gold
http://www.last.fm/music/Andrew+Gold/_/ ... g+a+Friend

Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:02 am

twilla wrote:
StrangeNightOfStone wrote:Then there are some of the 'hokey' songs from the 1970s- which are good, but a bit silly-

Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE

'There's Got To Be A Morning After' by Maureen McGovern
(Made famous in 'The Poseidon Adventure)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLazPauA1c

'You Light Up my Life' by Debbie Boone (the spawn of Pat Boone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07-yKnKRMQ

'Fernando' by ABBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io
oh yuk those were hokey
I hated you light up my Life

and how about
Thank you for being a friend by Andrew Gold
http://www.last.fm/music/Andrew+Gold/_/ ... g+a+Friend

Andrew Gold....ugh

Remember Meri Wilson's 'Telephone Man'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO18k215gpk

or
Michael martin Murphey's "Wildfire"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl4Y4FWWkn0

Post by **twilla** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:13 am

Here is one I always liked
Steely Dan
Do it Again
http://www.last.fm/music/Steely+Dan/_/D ... ?autostart

Post by **twilla** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:15 am

StrangeNightOfStone wrote:
twilla wrote:
StrangeNightOfStone wrote:Then there are some of the 'hokey' songs from the 1970s- which are good, but a bit silly-

Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE

'There's Got To Be A Morning After' by Maureen McGovern
(Made famous in 'The Poseidon Adventure)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLazPauA1c

'You Light Up my Life' by Debbie Boone (the spawn of Pat Boone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07-yKnKRMQ

'Fernando' by ABBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io
oh yuk those were hokey
I hated you light up my Life

and how about
Thank you for being a friend by Andrew Gold
http://www.last.fm/music/Andrew+Gold/_/ ... g+a+Friend
Andrew Gold....ugh

Remember Meri Wilson's 'Telephone Man'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO18k215gpk

or
Michael martin Murphey's "Wildfire"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl4Y4FWWkn0

I thought Telephone man was funny
yeah baby tell me where you want it and I'll put where I can do la le la le
get it anyway you can

Michael Martin Murphey lives in Red River NM part of the time

Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:16 am

Being a child of the late 60s/early 70s, my first exposure to music was on Sat. morning, in between the cartoons; in the form of the 'Schoolhouse Rock' musical cartoon shorts..
I remember watching the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons on tv way back in '73

Here are my favorites-

'Conjunction Junction'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo

'No more kings'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofYmhlclqr4

'Interjections'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM

'Interplanet Janet'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPEvKsme-c

'The Tale of Mr Norton'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7S_B9GcRI0

'Rock Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOaty7FpwMI

Post by **twilla** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:21 am

OMG

I can't believe you remember those

Post by **jamestkirk** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:01 am

God, I wore this one out back in '71...!!!

"AMERICAN PIE" Don McLean

"Bye bye miss American pie, drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry....
And them good 'ol boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singing, "this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9IXqQwC ... re=related

Post by **StrangeNightOfStone** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:39 am

jamestkirk wrote:God, I wore this one out back in '71...!!!

"AMERICAN PIE" Don McLean

"Bye bye miss American pie, drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry....
And them good 'ol boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singing, "this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9IXqQwC ... re=related

Great song!

I loved Weird Al Yankovic's 'Star Wars- The Phanton menance' spin on 'American Pie'; 'The Saga Begins':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrN7vifyoKc

Madonna's cover of 'American Pie' wasn't bad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlxVvOeoz6I

Of course for a woman in her 50s gyrating like she was still 23...well, that's a bit creepy....When I was in high school in the early/mid 1980s, Madonna was hot, in an uber slutty sort of way...

But she's since withered and rotted like grapes left on the vine..

Post by **jamestkirk** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:42 pm

....so much for aging gracefully. I believe some cultures still honor the older and believe that aging is a beautiful and enlightening process....to be revered. Maybe I'm just OLD....what do you young folks here think?
Am I just a relic of the golden age and should just curl up in a corner and be quiet about such things as aging gracefully?

The far out subject of The Picture of Dorian Gray has become a modern day nightmare reality...beauty without-- ugliness within....let's get our priorities straight World!

Post by **MistyJm** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:41 pm

The hype of botox and all that stuff does freak me out a bit.
All these woman walking around with plastic. And faces completely stretched to the backside of their head. I like natural beauty. Nothing can ever beat that.
If you take good care of yourself and age with confident you can look very young and beautiful getting older.
Problaby even more without the botox and operations.

If I look at Madonna and Nicole Kidman for example. Then I'm thinking, are they out of their feakin minds. They look like robots. No emotion. So unreal. They all look the same. What message does that give to young girls?
It makes girls feel even more insecure about there physical appearance wich is sad.

I'm perfectly happy with my inside and outside. Not wanting doctors or injections at all. Beside the fact that I hate hospitals.

It's just not something for me. Who knows maybe I would change my mind in the future but I work out, and take good care of my skin. So I don't see myself changing my mind.

Beauty does come from the inside. So true Scott.
I'm not denying that we all wanna look good. Nothing wrong with that. But where are the bounderies? When is it enough?
The hype that is going on now I don't like.

But that's just my personal opinion.

Post by **twilla** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:59 pm

My office does the botox, collegen injections, laser all that
Laser can be a good benefit for some, the i don't know about the other
I think the collegan injections mess their faces up and make them look distorted.
some have so much plastic surgery and then injections and look like freaks to be frank.