This thread is for any long songs from the 1970's. (5 minutes or longer)

Exact song times can be found at www.discogs.com



Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain / Closer To Home {1970} 9:47

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MYsii4DZY


Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven {1971} 7:55

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcL---4xQYA


Loggins & Messina - Angry Eyes {1972} 7:46

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


Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird {1973} 9:08

http://www.imeem.com/people/rD10SA/music/7U2vSoux/lynyrd-skynyrd-freebird/


Atlanta Rhythm Section - Angel (What In The World's Come Over Us) {1974} 5:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_DTFssf4CA


Rush - Working Man {1974} 7:07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59mDlBSt7o


Styx - Suite Madame Blue {1975} 6:32

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


Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone {1975} 6:55

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


Doobie Brothers - I Cheat The Hangman {1975} 6:38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luv1fvtj4bQ


Little River Band - It's A Long Way There {1975} 8:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZyG0KJqik


Ted Nugent - Stranglehold {1975} 8:22

http://www.imeem.com/jukeboxmusic12/music/Vd7f9d-X/ted-nugent-stranglehold


Boston - Foreplay / Long Time {1976} 7:56

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQifd7O_N5k


Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do {1976} 14:15

http://www.imeem.com/heartwork/music/r72AeAsr/do-you-feel-like-we-do/


Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments {1977} 6:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUtOFtg-uI4


Triumph - Hold On {1979} 6:00

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



Dan

What about that infamous yodelling song, 'Hocus Pocus' by Focus?

What about that infamous yodelling song, 'Hocus Pocus' by Focus?


I forgot that great song! lol

Focus - Hocus Pocus {1971} 6:35

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


Dan

American Pie (Don McLean) ~ 8:30
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot) ~ 6:50
War Pigs (Black Sabbath) ~ 8:00
2112 (Rush) ~ 20:30
Thick As A Brick (Jethro Tull) ~ 44:30

Ant

Eric Clapton - Let It Rain {1970} 5:17

http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Clapton/_/Let+It+Rain


Deep Purple - Highway Star {1972} 6:05

http://www.imeem.com/people/O-3W7W/music/qC9at0t-/deep-purple-highway-star/


Derek & The Dominos - Layla {1972} 7:10

http://www.imeem.com/people/zSEP-5w/music/y1azEMXJ/derek-and-the-dominos-layla/



Dan

Love is Like Oxygen-Sweet (6:57)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRVwcPTnug8




Cat

Whilst the above songs were played in their entirety on the FM stations, the AM boys 'butchered' a lot of them in order to squeeze more songs on the airwaves per hour...

'Lyin' Eyes' by The Eagles was trimmed horrifically, thus ruining the 'story' element of the song...

And the hatchet job on Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' made no sense at all!  :P

The instrumental bit at the end of Layla by Derek and the Dominos is never played on the radio.

Somebody done somebody long song?
:-\\

The instrumental bit at the end of Layla by Derek and the Dominos is never played on the radio.

It is in Canada, usually.

Regarding long songs, as a fan of &0's Pink Floyd and 70's Genesis, they haev LOTS and LOTS of long songs, if you like that type of music and genre.

Genesis's "the carpet crawl", "Ripples", "Cinema show" are 3 great songs
"Time" by Pink Floyd, a classic.

Elton John - Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) {1973} 11:08

http://www.imeem.com/tinafozz/music/Gpmfa1ob/elton-john-funeral-for-a-friend-love-lies-bleeding/


Marshall Tucker Band - Take The Highway {1973} 6:10

http://www.imeem.com/people/oOporH/music/KkBFdwHt/marshall-tucker-band-take-the-highway/


Genesis - Squonk {1975} 6:27

http://www.imeem.com/rockmusic4/music/9jcu82Hx/genesis-squonk/


Steely Dan - Deacon Blues {1977} 7:26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inz9Sa_CVFs


Jefferson Starship - Love Too Good {1978} 6:03

http://www.imeem.com/woofthis/music/ZZGXTpNY/jefferson-starship-love-too-good/


Scorpions - Loving You Sunday Morning {1979} 5:38

http://www.imeem.com/people/QWAWzsD/music/l75CHLR-/scorpions-loving-you-sunday-morning/




Dan

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is 5:56

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is 5:56


Oddly, at the time there was much consternation whether to release it as a single becuase of its length...

...yet at exactly the same time, 'Queen' Elton was releasing singles which regulary broke the 5+ minute barrier with no problem... ???

The instrumental bit at the end of Layla by Derek and the Dominos is never played on the radio.

They always play the full version on my local New York station.

They always play the full version on my local New York station.
Maybe I should tune into your radio station.

The 8:08 version of Donna Summer's "Last Dance", the one on the "Thank God It's Friday" soundtrack. This has always been my favorite mix of the song.

How long is the original version of Chuck Berry's 1972 hit My Ding-A-Ling

I Walk On Gilded Splinters (over 23 minutes)
&
I'm Ready (over 8 minutes)  both by Humble Pie

Miracles - Jefferson Starship (close to 7 minutes long)

The 8:08 version of Donna Summer's "Last Dance", the one on the "Thank God It's Friday" soundtrack. This has always been my favorite mix of the song.


Or the long version of "I Feel Love."

Of course, once you get into disco mixes...

Let's see without going to TOOOO many prog rock jams and space rock ramblings...just some:

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (17:00) 1974
Incredible String Band: Ithkos (19:30) 1974
Rush: The Fountain of Lamneth (20:00) 1975
Soft Machine: Moon in June (19:20) 1970
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno: Swastika Girls (18:45) 1973
Yes: The Ancient--Giants Under the Sun (18:40) 1973
Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother (23:45) 1970
Pink Floyd: Dogs (17:06) (1977)
Heldon/Richard Pinhas: Perspective VI (21:45) 1976
Frank Zappa: The Adventures of Gregory Peccary (20:40) 1978
Frank Zappa: Billy the Mountain (24:47) 1972

More songy songs:

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Free Bird (LP version) (09:10) 1973
Sugarhill Gang: Rappers Delight (12" version) (14:37) 1979
Neil Young: Ambulance Blues (08:57) 1974
Rolling Stones: Memory Motel (07:07) 1976
Pink Floyd: Us and Them (07:34) 1973
Pink Floyd: Welcome to the Machine (07:30)*
Frank Zappa: Willie the Pimp (09:16) **
Don McLean: American Pie (LP version) (08:11) (1971) +
Meatloaf: Paradise by the Dashboard Light (LP version) (08:48) 1977
Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven (08:02) 1971

* I didn't pick "Shine on You Crazy Diamond because it is divided into nine discrete parts
** True, it is 2/3 hard blues-rock instrumental, but it has a conventional song structure w/ lyrics and is a studio track, not a live jam
+ Usually cited as longest #1 song, but the version for radio play was under five minutes.

The instrumental bit at the end of Layla by Derek and the Dominos is never played on the radio.



They always play the full version on my local New York station.


They always play it on radio stations in L.A. too! I know I've heard the whole thing on KLOS, a classic rock station, and KCBS-FM (aka "Jack fm"), which plays all kinds of pop and rock from the 60s thru today.

They always play the full version on my local New York station.


They always play it on radio stations in L.A. too! I know I've heard the whole thing on KLOS, a classic rock station, and KCBS-FM (aka "Jack fm"), which plays all kinds of pop and rock from the 60s thru today.


I really love the Jack FM format! We have it here too, KKJJ 100.5. I also listen to The Point KXPT 97.1. I don't think I've heard the full version of "Layla" on either station yet.

How long is the original version of Chuck Berry's 1972 hit My Ding-A-Ling


Close to fifteen minutes...personally, I wouldn't give it fifteen seconds!  :P

I really love the Jack FM format! We have it here too, KKJJ 100.5. I also listen to The Point KXPT 97.1. I don't think I've heard the full version of "Layla" on either station yet.

What I like about the Jack format is that they play a wide variety of stuff, and they don't have onair personalities talking all over the music. :)

Anyways...one that hasn't been mentioned yet is Creedence Clearwater Revival's cover of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (1970), which is a whopping eleven minutes long!! :o

Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' guzzled up one side of a whole LP...

But unlike the similar hatchet job performed on Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells', the single edit worked nicely!

Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' guzzled up one side of a whole LP...
Were there tracks on Kraftwerk's Radioactivity long?

Were there tracks on Kraftwerk's Radioactivity long?


Not really, they seem to have 'calmed down' a bit by that point!

Not really, they seem to have 'calmed down' a bit by that point!
I remember the album, but not the tracks, the meain titled track Radioactivity was still 6:41.

Were there tracks on Kraftwerk's Radioactivity long?


That's my favorite Kraftwerk album!
:)