Your favorite 70s song(s) (classics, 1970's, greatest, American)
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I remember one called, "Its So Nice to be With You" by Gathering. It was on the charts and of course ended up on a K-Tel Album. Inevitably brings me back to my childhood.
Was part of my Mum's guitar reportoire and we used to sing it all the time!
I'm struggling a little with this genre 6/3. Everything I like that's a hippie song seems to have been prior to 1970 and the ones I like from the 70s don't seem to be hippie songs. I'll keep thinking. Great thread.
I kind of agree with Loose Cannon on post #5, although I would take it up to 1971 or so, not further than that. Want hippie schtick? Get David Crosby's first solo LP, aptly titled If I Could Only Remember My Name. Hmm!! Actually, not bad! Here's a few others. Signs-Five Man Electrical Band (reference to long haired freaky people need not apply), Hair-Cowsills (yea, bubblegum too!), Truckin'-Grateful Dead. Hippie schtick isn't necessarily limited to just hippie music as you have Cheech and Chong LP's to work with. But I love it!
This music by artists mentioned by the OP was also known as "folk rock" slightly more modern version of the old folk sounds of the Kingston Trio, Limelighters, Peter Paul and Mary, etc. Quite hip in those days to be sure!
A few more. Get Together-Youngbloods, Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues-Tom Paxton, Volunteers-Jefferson Airplane. Been thinking the song Woodstock to be the anthem on this subject, and everyone has heard Joni's and CSNY's version. But a great version is done by Matthews Southern Comfort. Who? They were formed by Ian Mathews. Who???Ian Mathews has been on the music scene a long time; sadly, this song went top 20 in the Spring of '71 and few people remember it now. Their version was off the album Later That Same Year, released on Decca. I recommend it!
This music by artists mentioned by the OP was also known as "folk rock" slightly more modern version of the old folk sounds of the Kingston Trio, Limelighters, Peter Paul and Mary, etc. Quite hip in those days to be sure!
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