Reacting to The Most Popular Song Each Month in the 70s

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Komentáře • 478

  • @danielhoehne801
    @danielhoehne801 Před rokem +114

    Cool that the Carpenters seemed to have clicked with you. Karen was an incredible talent, amazing voice...and she was a drummer as well.

    • @JenniJewell
      @JenniJewell Před rokem +7

      It touched me how moved he was listening to Karen sing.

    • @almostyummymummy
      @almostyummymummy Před rokem

      Her vocal control was something else. Gave her so much power to all those wonderful songs.
      No. Genuineness.

    • @LadyIarConnacht
      @LadyIarConnacht Před rokem +1

      The Carpenters had a sister-brother act and were famous for soft rock or easy listening. They very often appeared on live TV on music variety shows which were very popular during this era.

  • @samueltabo3390
    @samueltabo3390 Před rokem +85

    Abba was massive all over the world in the 70s and early 80s. I'm loving it that the unique and lush vocals of Karen Carpenter of the Carpenters grabbed your attention. She had one of the best voices in music

    • @marydavis5234
      @marydavis5234 Před rokem +8

      ABBA actually released a new Cd last year

    • @Dragoncurse4
      @Dragoncurse4 Před rokem +8

      @farscape Abba was most definitely massive in North America.

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 Před rokem +1

      @farscape Oh, YES they were, I was there. I was a radio DJ and I PLAYED their stuff from the beginning in 1974 to 1983 when they bowed out. They were regulars at or near the top of the Rock Hot 100 charts all through the late 70's and early 80's.

    • @marydavis5234
      @marydavis5234 Před rokem +7

      @farscape Where did you get your false information that ABBA was not massive in NA, they were on all the US talk shows during the 1970s and all the albums sold out in every US record store.

    • @alexioverdo5225
      @alexioverdo5225 Před rokem +1

      @samueltabo Karen is imo the best standalone contralto female voice ever recorded.

  • @theblackbear211
    @theblackbear211 Před rokem +53

    Michael Jackson's singing career started at the age of 6, with his brothers as part of "The Jackson 5", by the age of 14 he was releasing solo albums.
    He was well established by 1979, when he was 21.

    • @greendragonpublishing
      @greendragonpublishing Před rokem

      I came here to say this - here's a video of a very young MJ! czcams.com/video/y2bVIBwpCTA/video.html I think he's 10 here?

    • @Zejoant
      @Zejoant Před rokem +2

      Thats insane

  • @nancyrinkers9723
    @nancyrinkers9723 Před rokem +50

    The 70’s were the age of Disco. The reason there were so many BeeGee hits in the late 70’s is because the movie Saturday Night Fever came out and was a huge hit and so was the soundtrack.

    • @myst0dreamer
      @myst0dreamer Před rokem +3

      I believe that the first Bee Gees song on the list came out in 1975-ish, and you can immediately hear the funk background and the dance and music style of disco. But just before that was a song called The Hustle which introduced (or made famous) the dance in the title. Everyone tried to learn that dance, and Disco practically overnight replaced the prior pop music style. Before that soft rock had a period of time of popularity (I think people just wanted calm music as a change of pace from prior). I'm pretty sure that this list was from the pop music charts, and therefore things like metal or rock were generally excluded unless the piece of music broke through. Some of the music was a throwback to '60's pop and some was a foretaste of the '80's. There was some Soul and Funk thrown in. Elton John and some others were Glam Rock. A few Country music were mentioned. Kate Bush was an entry out of maybe what you would call Alternative music today. Blondie was the first sign of Punk Rock, although they did other styles as well. Oh, and I probably should mention that there was a bigger gulf between the British charts and the American charts back then, I think it was the internet that made people aware of songs they never would have otherwise internationally.

    • @RandomJane104
      @RandomJane104 Před rokem +3

      Staring who else but John Travolta. 😆

    • @Jimbodisfan
      @Jimbodisfan Před rokem

      ​@@myst0dreamer "Jive Talkin'" appears on the Bee Gees' 1975 album *Main Course*.

    • @myst0dreamer
      @myst0dreamer Před rokem

      @@Jimbodisfan You are right, my time order is wrong. But from my subjective pov when I was in high school at the time, the hustle, as a dance, was inextricably entwined with the music's development and popularity. Also the movie "Saturday Night Fever" contributed greatly. That movie didn't come out until 1977. Music took time to spread in those days, it depended a lot on the programming choices of radio DJ, and which station you listened to, and TV, which, remember, was mostly broadcast. So it seemed to me that all three appeared simultaneously.

    • @Jimbodisfan
      @Jimbodisfan Před rokem +3

      @@myst0dreamer You're not wrong. I simply clarified where that song came from. If Luka goes down the 1970s musical rabbit hole, he may decide to stay awhile.

  • @andrewjosepholson
    @andrewjosepholson Před rokem +19

    Wow. This was my childhood. Every. Single. Song. unleashes a flood of memories.

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 Před rokem +3

      The soundtrack of your life. It is MINE for sure..

  • @CamoJan
    @CamoJan Před rokem +35

    You actually knew quite a few of them! Good on you!
    The 70's was a great decade for music. You could listen to rock, soft rock, pop, funk, soul, country, disco, etc all on the same station! We had a wide genre of music to listen to! Glad you're doing these! ♥

  • @LuxRoyale
    @LuxRoyale Před rokem +41

    I'm 22 and love classic rock, know most of these. Glad to see you branch out more musically, and know that a lot of people I know my age also dig classic rock!

  • @christined6321
    @christined6321 Před rokem +16

    😂😂😂yes you heard them in the ‘80s & ‘90s because they’re classics!!!! Never gets old! I can’t believe you never heard Pina Colada😩

  • @caseyflorida
    @caseyflorida Před rokem +12

    I'm 60 years old and I know most of these. Remember loving them when I was a teenager!

  • @Winnywoo
    @Winnywoo Před rokem +18

    I was born in '75 so knew 90+% of these songs. I always liked 60's and 70's songs even if a little before my time. The Carpenters were well known for their beautifully layered vocal harmonies. I lol when he said "That song's from Shrek!". I've heard that said several times before from younger coworkers who think 70's and 80's songs were created for those animated movies.

  • @greendragonpublishing
    @greendragonpublishing Před rokem +14

    Yeah, Abba and the Beegees were absolute powerhouses in the 1970s. Abba was in the Eurovision qualifiers one year, and exploded on the scene. They won Eurovision in 1974 with Waterloo.

  • @douglasmcclelland
    @douglasmcclelland Před rokem +13

    You might know of ABBA but what you don’t know is that they are the 2nd top selling band OF ALL TIME, after the Beatles who are number 1. ABBA ruled the pop music world from 1974 to 1982 when they disbanded only to return 40 years later in 2021 with a new album and amazing ground breaking concert still running daily in London!

  • @HermanVonPetri
    @HermanVonPetri Před rokem +12

    That funky bass rhythm you were curious about was a staple of the disco genre.

  • @robertdinmore1971
    @robertdinmore1971 Před rokem +19

    ABBA ( Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid “ Frida “) is a band from Sweden who were initially active from 1972-1982. The Name comes from the 4 members initials. They were 2 married couples but both marriages ended in divorce in the late 70’s / early 80’s. Their big break came from winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with Waterloo. They have sold over 400 million albums worldwide and the best selling act of the 70’s. They were approached a few years ago to put on new concerts using digital versions of themselves as they were in the 1970’s and as a result of this they decided to record a couple of new songs to be performed as well as their older hits. They enjoyed recording them so much that they decided to do a new album called Voyage which was released on 5th Nov 2021 almost 40 years after their last Album The Visitors and has sold over 2.5 million so far. Their Greatest Hits Album entitled ABBA GOLD which was 1st album to spend 1,000 weeks on the UK charts enjoying 3 spells at number 1 (1992, 1999 & 2008) and today it is still in the charts.

    • @christianoazzuro6711
      @christianoazzuro6711 Před rokem +4

      Voyage album was no1 in 18 countries and ended 2nd best selling album of 2021 worldwide and no8 with incl.streaming.

    • @rogers.5153
      @rogers.5153 Před rokem +2

      Fun fact: Olivia Newton-John represented Great Britain in the 1974 Eurovison Song Contest and came in 4th! On one of her tv specials later, Olivia hosted ABBA and Andy Gibb (he was the younger brother of the 3 Gibb brothers, Maurice, Robin and Barry, that made up the Bee Gees). There are videos on CZcams of the special. Check them out!

    • @rogers.5153
      @rogers.5153 Před rokem

      @tecdessus Thank you, I made the correction.

  • @jlpack62
    @jlpack62 Před rokem +34

    I know all these songs. This is the soundtrack of my childhood and adolescence. The music out of the 70s was special.
    You should react specifically to the Carpenters. Karen Carpenter had perfect pitch and a voice like no other. Sadly she died young in the early 80s due to anorexia.

    • @myst0dreamer
      @myst0dreamer Před rokem

      I know about 95% of the songs but oddly the local radio stations (the way we listened to new music in the old days) didn't play a lot of these songs, and I learned about them by chance or later on.

  • @klb9142
    @klb9142 Před rokem +5

    I Honestly Love You was sung by the same woman that sang Your The One That I Love, with John Travolta. She passed away this year. R.I.P. Olivia Newton John.

  • @dudermcdudeface3674
    @dudermcdudeface3674 Před rokem +16

    The piano-singing combo is a trope of the "singer-songwriter", which seems to have been a big thing at the time. Someone who combines composing, lyrics writing, and performing in the same person tend to like either a piano or an acoustic guitar a lot of the time. It's the extreme opposite of big-production pop groups that are assembled by a producer to lip-sync things written, composed, and largely performed by others. About Zeppelin, you can imagine based on the softness of everything on this list how super-hard and edgy they would have sounded against that backdrop (I mean, they still are, and music isn't nearly as soft today), which would tend to scare away a basic pop audience.

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 Před rokem

      AbbA was based around the piano, so was Billy Joel.

    • @hectorsmommy1717
      @hectorsmommy1717 Před rokem

      The "singer-songwriter" was very much a thing in the late 60's into the 70's. Many would accompany themselves with a guitar and thus frequently got lumped in with folk singers, even though they really weren't. The songs were personal, introspective, and minimally produced. Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, Jim Croce, Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, James Taylor, Harry Chapin, Carly Simon, Carole King, etc. were considered singer-songwriters.

  • @TB-tr3cm
    @TB-tr3cm Před rokem +13

    Well done. This was fun. I was in high school and college in the 70's -- so I know all of these songs. I was actually surprised that you recognized as many as you did. Good job.

  • @1964paulsmith
    @1964paulsmith Před rokem +8

    Abba had more number 1's than anyone else in the 70's in the UK and not many groups could create as much of a buzz as they did when they made a comeback after 40 years. True legends!

  • @79BlackRose
    @79BlackRose Před rokem +17

    ABBA were massive! They had 9 #1 singles.

    • @frankdeboer1347
      @frankdeboer1347 Před rokem +5

      They were the number 2 export of Sweden, second only to Volvo.

    • @christianoazzuro6711
      @christianoazzuro6711 Před rokem +4

      And 5 no1 albums(out of 10 that was from 1976 plus their 2021 comeback).Unfortunately this list misses 2 of their hugest hits."Knowing me knowing you'1977 and "Chiquitita' 1979 and still an hymn in LAtin America.

    • @79BlackRose
      @79BlackRose Před rokem +6

      @@christianoazzuro6711 Chiquitita is my favourite song of theirs.

    • @christianoazzuro6711
      @christianoazzuro6711 Před rokem +3

      @@79BlackRose Yeah We all got an Abba fave and not just one.They are F_ABBA.

  • @ericdemeo5249
    @ericdemeo5249 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I was born in ‘75 and grew up listening to all theses songs!

  • @rbeattymd
    @rbeattymd Před rokem +3

    70's was the era of Disco, so most of the songs fit the dance craze

  • @frankdeboer1347
    @frankdeboer1347 Před rokem +4

    Just so you know, Andy Gibb was the younger brother of the Bee Gees (Brothers Gibb) and died early in the 80's.

  • @Jeff121456
    @Jeff121456 Před rokem +5

    MJ was 21 in 1979. He first charted in '68 with the Jackson Five.

  • @SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish.

    I’m 42 and I knew almost every single one of these… because my parents listened to them. Also a great song by The Carpenters: “Close to You”

  • @Liamshavingfun
    @Liamshavingfun Před rokem +5

    This is back when they could sing and didn't need autotune. I knew everyone!

  • @douglasostrander5072
    @douglasostrander5072 Před rokem +6

    Never felt soooo old. Knew every song and I was pretty young in the early 70s. This is what I grew up listening to on a clock radio as I was going to sleep.

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 Před rokem

      Woke up to it too. Played it in the car, on CASSETTES and the radio.

    • @dansby37
      @dansby37 Před rokem

      And this list just scratches the bare surface of that decade, where is Donna Summer, Carly Simon, Carole King and plethora of others, this has to be from another countries perspective on the most popular songs of each month.

  • @Tarzan91303
    @Tarzan91303 Před rokem +15

    The Carpenters have the one of the highest selling albums of all times. Elton John, Queen, Abba, and The Eagles ruled in the 70s. You should definitely check them all out. Also, some songs are classics but never reached #1, so if they only reached #2 or #3, they won't make this list.

  • @firebird7479
    @firebird7479 Před rokem +8

    Andy Gibb was the youngest brother to the Bee Gees. The hit song by The Bay City Rollers is a cover of a 1964 hit by The Four Seasons, who turn up later on this video and whose lead singer turns up further into the video, Frankie Valli, who had the hit record "Grease".

  • @danpals7678
    @danpals7678 Před rokem +1

    Woah! All my teenage years just flashed before my eyes and ears. Thanks

  • @Swampzoid
    @Swampzoid Před rokem +6

    8:01 The Carly Simon song is definitely from the early 70's but a video was added to the original 1970's song in the early 2000's. I knew every one on the list. I am 61 years old.

  • @frankisfunny2007
    @frankisfunny2007 Před rokem +3

    Alot of these videos came from the artist's CZcams page. Which they added a video later on, or touched up a video. That's why the visual quality looks good. Especially for the 1970s

  • @Fridge56Vet
    @Fridge56Vet Před rokem +3

    Don't worry, I can't keep a straight face through the "My Ding-a-Ling" song either.

  • @DarkSideMaceWindu
    @DarkSideMaceWindu Před rokem +3

    MJ was 21 in October of 79. His birthday is the end of August so he might have still been 20 when the video was shot.

  • @AnnaMarie66
    @AnnaMarie66 Před rokem +1

    Loved this thanks hun! What a great stroll down memory lane of my childhood! I knew every single song lol 🥰🎶

  • @grahamparks1645
    @grahamparks1645 Před rokem +3

    The hustle was like Gangnam style in the 70’s

  • @LeveyHere
    @LeveyHere Před rokem +1

    a lot of good songs on here, glad you're getting into music stuff!! And when you shouted "daddy" 💀💀

  • @DalekNazi
    @DalekNazi Před rokem +9

    Abba were the biggest selling group in the UK in the 70’s and had 23 top ten hits of which 9 got to no:1..In the US The Carpenters were the biggest group in terms of singles sales in the 70’s and became equally as popular in the UK…a few years back a UK programme called “The Nations favourite Carpenters songs” was broadcast..it’s an hour long but well worth watching as it tells their life story and also what we voted from all of their hits or music faberge eggs as I call them.

  • @JKM395
    @JKM395 Před rokem +3

    I Honestly love you too, Olivia.

  • @3251JOE
    @3251JOE Před rokem +2

    The Bee-Gees had two main phases. Harmonic melodies in the late sixties-early seventies and the disco phase for the movie "Saturday Night Fever", starring John Travolta as a disco dancer in Brooklyn, N.Y. Bee-Gees stands for Brothers Gibb. Andy Gibb, who had two monthly hits in this video, was their younger brother.

  • @MaikKellerhals
    @MaikKellerhals Před rokem +2

    "Is this pop music?" Well these are the most popular songs each month. So by definition it's "Pop" music ;)

  • @juanramirez-wk8ty
    @juanramirez-wk8ty Před rokem +6

    Abba are amazing with loads of absolute classic tunes and this is coming from an old Heavy Metal head, LOL!

  • @Dreamer-gp8ye
    @Dreamer-gp8ye Před rokem +3

    Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive is Disco

  • @TheChadwick1972
    @TheChadwick1972 Před rokem +3

    Dude, this has got to be one of my favorite videos you've ever done. I feel so old now, but your reactions made me smile and laugh so hard! I'm such a fan...

  • @marysweeney7370
    @marysweeney7370 Před rokem +2

    A lot of these songs, especially from the first half of the 70's would have been played on AM radio. Am radio is all most people listened to - in their cars, on their small transistor radios. There were all sorts of styles played - motown, pop, soft rock, folk, disco, rock hits ( like Beatles, Elton John), blues, country...you name it, it was on the radio if it was a hit . We didn't make such distinctions among styles/genres. It was just music, and most of the songs were top hits on the charts. Later, there was FM rock stations that played harder rock, progressive rock.

  • @SomeRandomOldFatGuy
    @SomeRandomOldFatGuy Před rokem +1

    It was so fun to watch your mind boggle again and again.

  • @scenicdrive725
    @scenicdrive725 Před rokem +2

    "I will survive" you didnt know, but thought was in Shrek. The last song, Escape "The Pina Colada song", was definitely in Shrek when Lord Farquod is choosing his bachelorette.

    • @Aboz
      @Aboz Před rokem

      There are parts of I Will Survive that sound similar to I Want a Hero, which was in Shrek. Explains the confusion

  • @sonofroderick4255
    @sonofroderick4255 Před rokem +3

    That's when music was good. The lyrics were clear. Music wasn't raunchy, nasty, no expletives. Music will never be what it was.

  • @c.michellesparks2925
    @c.michellesparks2925 Před rokem +20

    Mostly Pop and what we called soft rock at the time. Still great stuff! Edit: You have to keep in mind that these are the Top 40 hits only. Hard Rock didn't get radio play at the time.

    • @frankisfunny2007
      @frankisfunny2007 Před rokem +4

      Later in the video, disco dominated the mid-to-late 1970s

    • @firebird7479
      @firebird7479 Před rokem

      Hard Rock had its own format on the radio... Album Oriented Rock.

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 Před rokem

      As a DJ back then I can so some of it did, Not Black Sabbath or much Zeppelin, but you had Boston, Queen and others..

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 Před rokem

      @@firebird7479 Usually on FM and late at night.

    • @firebird7479
      @firebird7479 Před rokem

      @@ntvypr4820 I don't know which stations you are talking about. I worked for Friday Morning Quarterback. We had a weekly Tip Sheet for Top 40/AC/RB/MOR and we had another strictly for AOR...24/7 Album Oriented Rock. WMMR in Philadelphia has been on the air, playing AOR 24/7/365 since 1968. They aren't the only ones.

  • @dr_waffle_house
    @dr_waffle_house Před rokem +3

    "does she love me?" 😂

    • @jawala9113
      @jawala9113 Před rokem

      His reaction to Olivia Newton-John is priceless.

  • @3251JOE
    @3251JOE Před rokem +1

    "Mull of Kintyre" was on the Scottish coast where Paul and Linda McCartney raised their family on a farm. The song spent nine weeks at #1 on the British pop charts and was once the highest selling record in British history. Today it is #$4 after "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, "DoThey Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid and "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John.

  • @elunedlaine8661
    @elunedlaine8661 Před rokem +1

    The songs were brilliant back in the day, but this was sad, seeing all the talent that have passed away - but their legacies live on

  • @ESUSAMEX
    @ESUSAMEX Před rokem +8

    "I'm so confused" is said so often in Lav Luka's videos that I am beginning to think that he earns money each time he says it.

  • @lukeh8891
    @lukeh8891 Před rokem +1

    11:47 seeing Elton John singing that song really threw me for a loop, I had no idea he made a cover of it 😂

  • @BadAssSykO
    @BadAssSykO Před rokem +1

    The thing about music is there are a TON of covers of songs.

  • @TheCsel
    @TheCsel Před rokem +1

    so much nostalgia and I wasnt even alive in the 70s

  • @Notric
    @Notric Před rokem +1

    John Travolta was an actor and he played a part in a musical, Grease. I think you will find many actors were Singers and Dancers as well.

  • @heatherlynnfairfield9597

    “Is that a word for that?”
    Yes. We call them pianists. 😂

  • @charlayned
    @charlayned Před rokem +1

    This is kinda long but I hope I can add some context to this. I loved your reactions to the music.
    I grew up in this era. I graduated high school in 1975 and I knew all of these. This was the “Hot Top 40” music from that era. We had our transistor radios and cassette tape recorders and we had to make our own “mix” tapes off the radio and hope like heck that the DJ wouldn’t talk over the opening. Our music wasn’t really portable except for that, we had vinyl records (33 rpms) and the smaller 1-song per side 45 rpms that both took a record player, which wasn’t portable. I also saw the advent and demise of the 8-track tapes. My 1968 AMC Marlin car (my first) had factory 8-track player and air conditioning (which didn’t come in until then). I had the Carpenters on 8-track, I loved their stuff. I saw them in concert. They were a brother/sister group. They had a good run but Karen Carpenter battled anorexia and died basically of starvation at what was the height of their fame. It was so sad.
    You talked about Paul McCartney and Wings. That was the band he formed with his wife Linda after the Beatles broke up. They did quite a bit of music up until 1980. Linda got sick and passed from Cancer in 1998. After Wings broke up, McCartney went single artist.
    Simon and Garfunkel-Paul Simon teamed up with Art Garfunkel to make some good stuff, Bridge over Troubled Water, The Boxer, Sound of Silence, and so much more. They had a bad split and Paul Simon has gone on to do a great career solo.
    Michael Jackson: Started at age 5 with his brothers to do the Jackson 5. He split as a teen and had a fabulous career up until his death. I was a huge fan of his. Also: see The Osmonds, who were the other brother group from the same period.
    The 1970s music was a ‘bridge’ music. We went from the pop and protest songs of the 60s to the world of Disco. The early period was coming out of the Vietnam War (ended 1974) and we were looking for happy stuff. This was the era of the variety shows on TV that had comedy and music, bell bottoms and hot pants (very short shorts). We had different music, the soft folk music style evolved with people like John Denver. The middle music style was the pop stuff. On the fringe was the beginning of the hard rock era, bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith (yeah, Stephen Tyler is old!!), AC/DC and Kiss, among a LOT more. The radio stations seemed to be a bit afraid to put the hard rock into their pop rotations so we got very little. There were a couple of rock stations but not many, especially in the more rural areas (I grew up in Amarillo Texas).
    The era ended with the Disco music of 1976-early 1980s. I hated Disco. This was the dance stuff you saw in the list. Abba, BeeGees, and more. Yes, Abba was popular back then. I found the Mamma Mia movie fun because it’s all Abba music. BeeGees were Saturday Night Fever. This was the era of platform shoes and rhinestones.
    I was a DJ in the late 1980s, at what they called an “easy listening” station. We played the softer stuff from the 70s-80s and the weekends had Solid Gold Saturday Night with the 60s and70s music. I was on the radio board for that one, then when it was over, I did “Pillow Talk” which was the soft love songs from the 70s and 80s. It was fun, right up until the station got sold and went into Tejano music and all the DJs from the easy listening station got fired.
    If you’re interested in music from the era and the people who made it, I can highly recommend the Professor of Rock CZcams Channel. He’s great and has a lot of interesting people he interviews. He's a bit critical of today's music, but loves the stuff you just played. www.youtube.com/@ProfessorofRock

  • @elainelee7250
    @elainelee7250 Před rokem

    Born in the 60's spent my teenage years in the70's. We had the greatest music !

  • @colleenmonell1601
    @colleenmonell1601 Před rokem +11

    Funny but I am totally OK with you knowing any of these songs from something other than just knowing the artists. BTW, Michael Jackson began signing for the masses as a child in the 60's with his brothers, The Jackson 5.

  • @thefogfriendlyoldguy1627

    It's one of things I've noticed as time has gone by - people getting all bent out of shape trying to peg songs into specific genres. I'm 74 now so, naturally I recognized all these songs and, back in the day, they would all have played on the same radio station. The word we used for it was - music.

  • @teej0813
    @teej0813 Před rokem +1

    You've got it right, this list is focused on popular music. Missing from this list is a lot of superb hard rock, acid rock, progressive rock, funk, R&B, and country. Bands like Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Yes, The Who, Moody Blues, Frank Zappa, and Jethro Tull wouldn't have been considered 'popular' at the time. Yet, they produced much of the very best music of the 70s decade.

  • @kimlindseyOH
    @kimlindseyOH Před rokem +2

    You knew a LOT of these songs! Way more than I would know of today's pop music (the 70's were high school and college for me).Good job! Thanks for posting 😀

  • @claytonskids6764
    @claytonskids6764 Před 3 měsíci

    Thanks 👍. I enjoyed watching you discover these tracks….. Like your approach to discovering stuff too…subbing right now 🤗

  • @nickallain
    @nickallain Před rokem

    Convoy by C.W. McCall has a great story behind it. It was based on true events about a trucker protest. The government had dropped all speed limits to 55mph, which completely screwed over the truckers on top a bad economy and high gas prices. They basically all ended up taking an additional pay cut because they couldn't deliver as much freight. Convoys of trucks organized themselves over CB radio to break the speed limit with the idea that police couldn't catch them all if they stuck together. The song is all about that and integrates trucker lingo: "Swindle sheets" are logbooks, "chicken coops" are weigh stations, and "bears" are police.

  • @pambarab5506
    @pambarab5506 Před rokem

    The 70s were the end of the hippie era, the 2nd/3rd generation of rock, the beginning of disco, and other genres thrown into the mix. It was a fabulous mix of music.

  • @jrag9435
    @jrag9435 Před rokem +2

    The last song was actually in the movie Shrek…

  • @SGlitz
    @SGlitz Před rokem +1

    Real music real talent no Digital BS

  • @Ojisan642
    @Ojisan642 Před rokem

    Simon and Garfunkel’s “A Concert in Central Park” is one of the greatest concert movies of all time.

  • @dameinnoble3995
    @dameinnoble3995 Před rokem +1

    Ahhhh The Carpenters, absolute bliss.

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 Před rokem +1

    This music is from 50 years ago. Way before your time so don’t feel bad about not knowing these songs.

  • @JoanRudith
    @JoanRudith Před 8 měsíci +1

    “MJ was in 79?!” 😂😂😂 yes and already had a decade in the business.

  • @okie-kan9240
    @okie-kan9240 Před rokem +1

    I remember most all of them. I was born in 1970 so I know most of them.

  • @geraldsettlemyer4033
    @geraldsettlemyer4033 Před rokem

    This is the era where musicians played instruments as well as sang

  • @annmc3878
    @annmc3878 Před rokem +1

    It is always sad that people forget music of the past. There are songs that became popular over time and others stop being popular even though they were good. Some has to do with an artist dying or quitting the industry and sometimes a popular artist will cover a older artists song making it popular again later.

  • @YetiUprising
    @YetiUprising Před rokem +1

    2:01 lmao I always thought this song was made for those women's razor commercials

  • @helenahopkinson381
    @helenahopkinson381 Před rokem +1

    John Travolta was in Saturday night Fever, Staying alive movies from the disco era

  • @lynnpinson4008
    @lynnpinson4008 Před rokem

    This is the great music time in history. I know all the songs and artist of the 1970's. I graduated high school in 1976.

  • @evorock
    @evorock Před rokem

    Bye bye baby was number 1 when i was born (March 24th 1975) and spent 6 weeks at no 1.
    bloody good tune!

  • @denisemarcus5633
    @denisemarcus5633 Před rokem +1

    I remember as a kid on Saturday in the late 70's early 80's, hearing "Kung-fu Fighting" and some bad dubbed Chinese Kung-fu movies would play. 🤣🤣🤣 Perfect Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-fu movies.

  • @disoriented1
    @disoriented1 Před rokem +2

    At 9:11 when you stated that was 'easy on the ears'...the voice was that of Karen Carpenter. Even if the songs the Carpenter's performed meant nothing to you..that voice...beautifully haunting. I am biased, because that is the sound of my youth from about age 5 to age 10 in the U.S., where the group was more well known.

  • @gacaptain
    @gacaptain Před rokem +1

    I think the funky sounding music you were asking about the genre of was disco. It was extremely popular in the late 70s. I'm surprised there weren't more disco songs on the chart.

  • @banjobanjo2
    @banjobanjo2 Před rokem +1

    "If You Like Pina Coladas" WAS in Shrek.

  • @codyfromhumanresources6435

    I knew most of these, but I didn’t know chuck berrys my ding a ling and I had a similar reaction to yours 😂

  • @raybrown3667
    @raybrown3667 Před rokem +2

    The Carpenters (brother-sister duo consisting of Richard and Karen Carpenter) were enormously popular in the 1970s and not just in the U.S. They were huge in the U.K. (among other overseas markets), and their recordings continue to sell well there to this day. ITV featured the duo for one of its The Nation's Favourite Songs programs in 2016, paired with a CD release that debuted and peaked at #2 on the U.K. charts. For an early broadcast appearance in the U.K., seek out their performance at the BBC in September 1971, featuring the duo performing their early hits and concert-only selections.

  • @______ai5158
    @______ai5158 Před rokem +1

    Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is the Beatles BTW

  • @jimgreen5788
    @jimgreen5788 Před rokem

    Lav Luka, I got my wires crossed earlier, and just realized it now. So, to my comment on "You're the one that I want"--that was, I believe, the main song in "Grease".

  • @SGlitz
    @SGlitz Před rokem +1

    Billy Joel, The Piano Man.

  • @greendragonpublishing

    John Travolta dances in almost every film he's in :)

  • @bobclarke1815
    @bobclarke1815 Před rokem +2

    Karen died of anorexia nervosa at the age of 33, the light went out that day.

  • @3251JOE
    @3251JOE Před rokem

    The Beatles last hit was "Let It Be"in early 1970 released just as they were breaking up. All four released great music under their individual names for many years after.

  • @chrisstott4100
    @chrisstott4100 Před rokem +5

    Glad you knew a few of the songs, Thurston! I still need to send you a ton of CDs of 70's artists to bring you up to speed.:-) Ray Stevens is comedy/country artist. You should listen to his song "the streak".:-) Karen Carpenter had one of the voices ever in music. You should listen to the Carpenters. Yes, ABBA was extremely popular in the 70's and today. 70's one of the great decades of music.

    • @karlamackey4675
      @karlamackey4675 Před rokem

      "The Streak" is a must! You'll love it. Would love to see your reaction 🤣🤣🤣😋

  • @matthewvulpe3302
    @matthewvulpe3302 Před rokem

    Glad you started reacting to music content! You'll really enjoy it! Especially if you ever get around to reacting to the "Every Number 1 song of the 70s/80s/90s" videos that cover every number 1 hit song on the American Billboard charts here in the US (where I am). Also, you'll totally get a kick out the 4-part video series "33 Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers".

  • @theblackbear211
    @theblackbear211 Před rokem +2

    Something to Remember - MTV, which was originally all music videos, didn't begin broadcasting until August of 1981.
    So, many of these are either promotional videos, or recordings of performances, that were turned into videos later.

    • @frankdeboer1347
      @frankdeboer1347 Před rokem +1

      Many were recorded for a show called "Toppop" by a Dutch network called AVRO.

    • @theblackbear211
      @theblackbear211 Před rokem

      @@frankdeboer1347 just out of curiosity... do you know when they were recorded?

    • @frankdeboer1347
      @frankdeboer1347 Před rokem +1

      @@theblackbear211 No, I just remember my older brother making us change the channel whenever toppop was on.

  • @rhiahlMT
    @rhiahlMT Před rokem +1

    Piano playing has been around a long time Thurston. These songs are off the Top 40 charts of the day. Popular music. My Ding-A-Ling is a classic, LOL. The single largest selling Pop artist of the 1970s was Elton John. Karen Carpenter was instrumental in bringing awareness to eating disorders. Unfortunately, it took her death to anorexia. ABBA, later Bee Gees was Disco. Michael Jackson was in the Jackson 5 in the early 70s. The artists in the 90s wish they were as good as those in the 70s. 😂

  • @secolerice
    @secolerice Před rokem +1

    I turned 13 in January of 1970, so this is most of my era (along with the 60s). There are so many that are not on this list that should be. Some of these I don't know at all. And I don't know why I missed all of the ABBA stuff except that when disco hit, I tuned it out and listened to the folk stations and what is now called Prog rock (Jethro Tull). I wonder what the Billboard lists would look like. I was also a huge John Denver fan but there is only one song here. As a big Beatle fan, I was so bummed when they split, so I followed all their separate careers. I saw the Carpenters perform in Seattle. It was an amazing concert! Karen played a mean set of drums.

  • @robertmills538
    @robertmills538 Před rokem +1

    Abba, The Bee Gees Disco it was the thing.
    Just Remember, a whole new universe could be assembled out of what you don't know

  • @YetiUprising
    @YetiUprising Před rokem +1

    10:52 Ya know that conspiracy about reptile aliens being in the government or whatever? I've never seen someone look so much like a reptile.

  • @muyleche6466
    @muyleche6466 Před rokem +5

    As an American, I'm finding it hard to accept that you don't know the last song. Lol 😅