Best 70's tunes please.
(Probably been done hundreds of times before, but what the hell...)
Feel free to include any memories relating to your chosen song(s).

Here are a couple to get us going.

The Motors - Airport.
Remember my brother had a Motor's poster on his wall at the time... a smiling Jayne Mansfield with the slogan "I lost my head over the motors."

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

Gary Gilmore's eyes - The adverts
After being told the story of Gary Gilmore, I would actually cry when this record was played!(I was only 7).So its not really a favourite just memorable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ggFF3pCno

Good idea, what would any decent '70's compilation be without a track from these?

ELO - Mr blue sky

(I found the original promo vid )

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=98P-gu_vMRc

Why do I feel rather embarrassed to say I own a ELO greatest hits?
They made great feel-good songs.

This is just about my favourite ABBA song, pure pop with great songwriting and vocals:

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance...ce-on-me_music

So assuming you are male, was it Frieda or Agnetha you liked best?

If you're female was it Benny or ........errr forget it.

It had to be Agnetha. Very nice indeed.

The inimitable Kate Bush.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfGc4wcil2g

A few faves off the top of me bonce......

The Beach Boys - Lady Lynda
Olivia Newton-John - A Little More Love
Sally Oldfield - Mirrors
Siouxsie And The Banshees- Playground Twist
Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most
The Corgis - If I Had You
The Dooleys - Wanted
Dean Friedman - Lydia
Cats UK - Luton Airport
Convoy - CW McCall
Hello, This Is Joanie - Paul Evans
Living By Numbers - New Musik

Random choice from The Feelgoods - Including WILCO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuvYL2AnSeE

Quite a mix there Terrence.

Remember Luton airport well.......

*Luton airport eewwwweeeeoooooo*

KC & The Sunshine Band Queen Of Clubs

I was only born in 1974, but my 2 elder sisters (who are a good few years older than me)when they left home gave me a lot of their records. And this was 1 of them and I absolutley love it

Yes, an eclectic mix of crap.........

Wasn't Lorraine Chase in Cats UK? I think she was, you know.......

I knew there was a connection but she was not in the band.
Looked it up on Wiki.
Song was inspired by the Campari ad she was in. I vaguely remember it. Especially the "Luton airport" bit.
Funnily enough Lorraine Chase ended up working with Deena Payne (who was a member of Cats UK and is Viv in Emmerdale)

Doctor, Doctor - UFO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qyYGdG8WZU

Some nice melodic guitar by Michael Schenker

Ah, I must have been thinking of the advert. What a coincidence that they both ended up in Emmerdale!

Hmm, then again maybe not....perhaps Chase rang up Payne twenty years later and said "look, I'm down on my luck. When I gave you the inspiration for that seventies hit, you said if there was anything you could do in return...."

It was quite a decade music wise the seventies. Such a mixture of music in the charts. Something for every age group. I remember rock music from Alice Cooper and Hawkwind. Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. From the early seventies. Then around 1972 we had glamour rock from David Bowie, Marc Bolan, The Sweet and Roxy Music. The West Coast sound in the middle seventies with acts like The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and disco music from Earth Wind and Fire, The Commodores etc. Then into punk and New Wave mid seventies.
That was the thing I remember about the music back then was the variety that was on offer.

Yes, what with Celebrity Squares and Blankety Blank ending she was probably quite desperate.


Care to share some of your favourites then Radio Memories?

'School's Out' by Alice Cooper.
'Silver machine' by Hawkwind.
'Black Night' by Deep Purple.
'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath.
The Jean Genie, by David Bowie
'Starman'by David Bowie
'Get it on' by Marc Bolan and T Rex
'Raniny Days and Mondays' The carpeners
'Song for you' by The Carpenters.
'Lyin' Eyes' The Eagles
'Hotel California' The Eagles.
'Walking in Rhythm' by The Blackbirds.
'Boogie Wonderland' Earth Wind and Fire
'After the Love has gone' Earth Wind and Fire.
'Afternoon Delight' The Starland Vocal Band
'Disco Inferno' The Tramps
'The Tracks of my Tears' by Linda Ronstadt
'Brickhouse' The Comordores
'Young heart Run free' Candi Staton
'More More More' by Andrea True Connection
'The Hustle' by Van McCoy
'Heaven Must be Missing an Angel' by Tavaris
'Do you know where your'e going to' by Diana Ross

I'm sure the last time I spoke to you on here we ended up debating who the presenters were on Name That Tune.........

EDIT: I thought so!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...name+that+tune

I have an elephantine memory for nonsense........

Oh yes......I thought it was Des O'Connor and you pointed out it was.....errrr someone else.

The Witch Queen Of N ew O rleans Redbone and John Kongass hes gonna step on you again

Sam - Olivia Newton-John
Desperado - The Eagles
Roxanne - The Police
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
American Pie - Don McLean
Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
Music - John Miles
I Only Want To Be With You - Bay City Rollers
A Horse With No Name - America
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
You're So Vain - Carly Simon
Could It Be Forever - David Cassidy
Silver Lady - David Soul
Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens
Walk on The Wild Side - Lou Reed
Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood
The Logical Song - Supertramp

I could put more down. I have a couple of hundred or so on my Zen.

ok then showing my age here - what about White Plains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b05HnDvCSU

Edison Lighthouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33kyqdNhk9k

& the lovely David Essex


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_mzadEFuP4

Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon - Blame it on the Pony Express
Focus - Sylvia
Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
Squeeze - Up the Junction
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Joni Mitchell - River
Carly Simon - Nobody Does it Better
ELO - Mr Blue Sky
The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Kirsty Maccoll - They Don't Know
Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army

Dreamer - Supertramp: Distinctive, original and brilliant

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty: Even nearly 30 years on it still sounds good

The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy: A superbly put together piece of classic rock

Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Crackingly rollicking tribute

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen: The Rock Athem's Rock Anthem