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Subject: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: whistledog on 06/10/09 at 10:12 am
Fill in your Top 5 70s favourites of the following categories:
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
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TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
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TOP 5 ALBUMS
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Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: whistledog on 06/10/09 at 11:07 am
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1. The Homecoming - Hagood Hardy
2. Peter Piper - Frank Mills
3. Bongo Rock - Incredible Bongo Band
4. Surprise - André Gagnon
5. Theme From S.W.A.T. - T.H.P. Orchestra
TOP 5 DISCO SONGS
1. Let's All Chant - Michael Zager Band
2. Ma Baker - Boney M
3. We All Need Love - Domenic Troiano
4. (Boogie Woogie) Dancin' Shoes - Claudja Barry
5. A Little Lovin' (Keeps the Doctor Away) - The Raes
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
2. Dancin' (on A Saturday Night) - Bond
3. Armageddon - Prism
4. Oowatanite - April Wine
5. Love Takes Time - Orleans
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Could You Ever Love Me Again - Gary and Dave
2. Every Kinda People - Robert Palmer
3. You Can't Dance - Jackson Hawke
4. I May Never See You Again - Gary and Dave
5. Leaving For Maui - Footloose (video contains two songs. 'Leaving for Maui' begins at 4:15)
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1. WKRP in Cincinnati
2. Happy Days (Pratt and McClain)
3. Laverne and Shirley (Makin' Out Dreams Come True - Cyndi Greco)
4. Mork & Mindy (Disco version from 1979)
5. Family Feud
TOP 5 ALBUMS
1. Star Power (K-Tel)
2. Starburst (K-Tel)
3. Midnight Hustle (TeeVee Records)
4. Manifesto - Roxy Music
5. Dancin' Up A Storm - The Raes
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: star80 on 06/10/09 at 12:42 pm
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1. Theme From A Summer Place ~ Percy Faith and his Orchestra
2. Telstar ~ The Tornadoes
3. The Lonely Bull ~ Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
4. Soulful Strut ~ Young-Holt Unlimited
5. Hawaii Five-O ~ The Ventures
TOP 5 DISCO SONGS
1. Disco Inferno ~ The Trammps
2. Last Dance ~ Donna Summer
3. Tragedy ~ The Bee Gees
4. More Than A Woman ~ The Bee Gees
5. If I Can't Have You ~ Yvonne Elliman
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Beast Of Burden ~ The Rolling Stones
2. All Along The Watchtower ~ Jimi Hendrix
3. Love Walks In ~ Van Halen
4. Stairway To Heaven ~ Led Zeppelin
5. Satisfaction Guaranteed ~ The Firm
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Woman In Love ~ Barbra Streisand
2. Look What You've Done To Me ~ Boz Skaggs
3. Evergreen ~ Barbra Streisand
4. I Will Always Think About You ~ New Colony Six
5. Something Stupid ~ Frank and Nancy Sinatra
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1. Crime Story (Runaway by Del Shannon)
2. Green Acres
3. The Brady Bunch
4. Petticoat Junction
5. The Jeffesons (Movin' On Up ~ Ja'net Du Bois & gospel choir)
TOP 5 ALBUMS
1. French Kiss ~ Bob Welch
2. Houses Of The Holy ~ Led Zeppelin
3. Some Girls ~ The Rolling Stones
4. Dark Side Of The Moon ~ Pink Floyd
5. Please, Please Me ~ The Beatles
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: Frank on 06/10/09 at 2:03 pm
Since this is for the 70's, here is my list (for this week at least)
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1. Wow - Andre Gagnon
2. Music box dancer - Frank Mills
3. Peter Piper - Frank Mills
4. Popcorn - Hot Butter
5. Love's theme - Barry White
TOP 5 DISCO SONGS
1. Everlasting love - Andy Gibb
2. Nights on Braodway - Bee Gees
3. More than a woman - Bee Gees
4. Night fever - Bee Gees
5. Play that funky music - Wild Cherry
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
2. Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
3. Hide in your shell - Supertramp
4. We are the champions - Queen
5. Life's been good - Joe Walsh
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Colour my world - Chicago
2. Your song - Elton John
3. If - Bread
4. Long and winding road - Beatles
5. Superstar - carpenters
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1. Brady Bunch
2. Love American Style
3. Chico and the man
4. SWAT
5. Good times
TOP 5 ALBUMS
1. The Stranger - Billy Joel
2. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
3. Trick of the tail - Genesis
4. Crime of the century - Supertramp
5. Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 06/10/09 at 2:57 pm
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1. Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band
2. Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills
3. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
4. Nadia's Theme - Barry Devorzon & Perry Botkin, Jr.
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TOP 5 DISCO SONGS
1. Night Fever - Bee Gees
2. The Groove Line - Heatwave
3. You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
4. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
5. Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. My Life - Billy Joel
2. Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - CCR
3. Cool Change - Little River Band
4. Count On Me - Jefferson Starship
5. Listen To The Music - Doobie Brothers
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty
2. Everything I Own - Bread
3. Desperado - The Eagles
4. Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
5. Time Passages - Al Stewart
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1. Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
2. What's Happening? - ?
3. Good Times - ?
4. Three's Company - ?
5. The Love Boat - Jack Jones
TOP 5 ALBUMS
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Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: Michael C. on 06/10/09 at 5:51 pm
WOW.....HARD TO PICK JUST 5 IN EACH CATEGORY......
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1.Dennis Coffey - Scorpio
2.Billy Preston - Outta Space
3.Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
4.Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
5.Gato Barberi - Theme from Last Tango in Paris
TOP 5 DISCO SONGS
1.Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real
2.The Andrea True Connection - More,More,More
3.Donna Summer - Heaven Knows
4.St. Tropez - One More Minute
5.Machine - There But For the Grace of God
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1.Nazareth - Love Hurts
2.Heart - Magic Man
3.Aerosmith - Dream On
4.Toto - Hold the Line
5.Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1.Beverly Bremers - Don't Say You Don't Remember
2.Al Wison - Show and Tell
3.Keith Carradine - I'm Easy
4.Dan Fogelberg - Heart Hotels
5.Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1.Baretta -Great vocal by Sammy Davis Jr.
2.The Mod Squad
3.Ironside
4.Hawaii Five-0
5.The ABC Movie of the Week {Nikki by Burt Bacharach}
TOP 5 ALBUMS
1.Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
2.Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3.Isaac Hayes - Shaft - Original Soundtrack
4.The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue
5.Carole King - Tapestry
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: zcrito on 06/10/09 at 8:17 pm
Only 5 ??
Anyway, they're in no particular order...
(and on some I cheated and gave two songs)
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1. Breezin' - George Benson
2. Shaker Song - Spyro Gyra
3. Arabesque No. 1 - Isao Tomita
4. Breathless - Todd Rundgren
5. City, Country, City - War
TOP 5 *DISCO* SONGS
1. Night Fever/More Than a Woman - Bee Gees
2. The Hustle - Van McCoy
3. The Groove Line - Heatwave
4. Disco Nights - GQ
5. Don't Stop ('Til You Get Enough) - Michael Jackson
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Surrender - Cheap Trick
2. Suffragette City/Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie
3. Hair of the Dog - Nazareth
4. Baba O'Riley - The Who
5. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band
2. The Stranger - Billy Joel
3. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
4. I'll Be Around - The Spinners
5. Make It With You - Bread
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1. Angela "Taxi" - Bob James
2. The Rockford Files - Mike Post
3. Nadia`s Theme - Barry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin, Jr.
4. The ABC Movie of the Week Theme - Burt Bacharach
5. ?
I thought of a good #5.
The WGBH Boston logo. It reminds me of a lot of good television shows that got their start in the '70s, like NOVA, This Old House, and Frontline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHyxC5PoaOU
TOP 5 ALBUMS
1. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
2. Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
3. Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
4. The Stranger - Billy Joel
5. In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: coqueta83 on 06/10/09 at 8:31 pm
Fill in your Top 5 70s favourites of the following categories:
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
2. Machine Gun - The Commodores
3. Manhattan Skyline - David Shire
4. A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy
5. Nadia's Theme - Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
TOP 5 DISCO SONGS
1. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
2. Disco Nights - GQ
3. Good Times - Chic
4. Fly Robin Fly - Silver Convention
5. More More More - Andrea True Connection
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Runnin' With the Devil - Van Halen
2. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
3. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
4. L.A. Woman - The Doors
5. Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Close the Door - Teddy Pendergrass
2. When I Need You - Leo Sayer
3. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
4. Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson
5. I Go Crazy - Paul Davis
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1. Mork and Mindy
2. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
3. WKRP in Cincinnati
4. Welcome Back, Kotter
5. All In the Family
TOP 5 ALBUMS
1. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975)
2. The Cars - The Cars (1978)
3. Carole King - Tapestry
4. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
5. The Doors - L.A. Woman
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: loki 13 on 06/11/09 at 5:39 pm
TOP 5 INSTRUMENTALS
1. Fanfare For The Common Man...Emerson Lake & Palmer
2. Hoedown....Emerson Lake & Palmer
3. Homebound....Ted Nugent
4. Viva Pompeii....Triumvirat
5. Panic On Fifth Ave. .......Triumvirat
TOP 5 DISCO SONGS (I was going to say none but there are two I can tolerate.)
1. Fifth Of Beethoven.....Walter Murphy
2. If I Can't Have You....Yvonne Elliman
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TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Layla....Derek And The Dominoes
2. Celluloid Heroes....The Kinks
3. Go Your Own Way....Fleetwood Mac
4. Children Of The Grave....Black Sabbath
5. Something's On The Move....Jethro Tull
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Vincent....Don Mclean
2. You And Me.....Alice Cooper
3. Changes.....Black Sabbath
4. Tears.....Rush
5. Sounds Of Silence....Simon And Garfunkle
TOP 5 TV THEME SONGS
1. M*A*S*H
2. Mannix
3. Starsky And Hutch
4. The Flinstones
5. Gilligan's Island
TOP 5 ALBUMS
1. Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends, Ladies And Gentlemen Emerson Lake And Palmer
2. Spartacus....Triumvirat
3. Stormwatch....Jethro Tull
4. Recycled....Nektar
5. Seconds Out.....Genesis
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 06/22/09 at 3:34 pm
Fill in your Top 5 70s favourites of the following categories:
here's a few, there are easily more songs that could make the top 5 depending on my mood 8)
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Takin Care Of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive
2. Radar Love - Golden Earring
3. Bang A Gong (Get It On) T.Rex
4. No Matter What - Badfinger
5. It's Late - Queen
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
2. Fire and Rain - James Taylor
3. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
4. Everything I Own - Bread
5. Rocket Man - Elton John
*added my 5th soft rock song*
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 06/22/09 at 4:21 pm
here's a few, there are easily more songs that could make the top 5 depending on my mood 8)
TOP 5 ROCK SONGS
1. Takin Care Of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive
2. Radar Love - Golden Earring
3. Bang A Gong (Get It On) T.Rex
4. No Matter What - Badfinger
5. It's Late - Queen
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
1. Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
2. Fire and Rain - James Taylor
3. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
4. Everything I Own - Bread
5.
Love these two! 8)
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 06/23/09 at 1:07 pm
Love these two! 8)
I'm with you Karen, I loved them the day I first heard them 8)
Subject: Re: Survey - A 1970s Top 5
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 07/01/09 at 7:42 pm
TOP 5 POP (or SOFT ROCK) SONGS
i already picked 5 so this 6th one at least gets honorable mention
Tonight's The Night (Gonna be Alright) - Rod Stewart