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Up Around The bend--CCR-1970-#4

M&L--John C. Fogerty

Rock in 1970 was the sound of things beginning to fall apart.The music--and the hype surrounding it--had represented an unprecedented show of unity through the rock boom of the late 60s.Wheather it was true or not,musicians and fans had all been perceived as sharing a common vision,which grew out of the fact that as members of the same generation they shared a common experience.

If any single event shattered that illusion,it was the Rolling Stone's free concert at Atlamont Speedway near San Franscisco on 12/06/69.During the performance a gun-waving black youth was knifed to death by Hell's Angels serving as security guards.Three others died that afternoon,as did the idea of a generation of gentle hippies united behind their music,an image framed by the events at the Woodstock festival earlier that year.

HOTEL CALIFORNIA...song & album released late 1976...M&L for song, Felder, Henley, Frey. This song is NOT about satanism; Hotel California is a euphemism for cocaine addiction in some areas.


VICTIM OF LOVE...same album, M&L by Don Felder, Don Henley, J.D. Souther, & Glenn Frey

Just two of many great Eagles' hits/albums of the 70s

Dancing in the moonlight - king harvest

Although king harvest was a one hit wonder, many consider this song to be one of the best of the 70's

Fell apart in 1970? oh man...I didn't see that...and I was there..Geesh..in 1970 no Americans had even heard of Pink Floyd yet, let alone bought one of their albums.

Rolling Stones?....don't get that...don't understand how they made it period. Anyway...perhaps the Viet Nam War ending changed things more than anything..that removed the cultural bind that many of the youth had. That lead to the 'gulp' Disco Movement! oh no!

War-Edwin Starr--1970-#1

M&L---Norman Whittfield and Barrett Strong

War was first cut by the temptations for the album Psychedelic Shack.This was during the peak of the anti-Vietnam era.

Working Man - Rush, March 1974

One of the better rock songs of the 70's and got Rush into the limelight(no pun intended).

Boston's "Boston", The best selling debut album of all time! Over 17 Million copies sold and counting. Released in 1976 and still one of my favorites to this day.

Domino-Van Morrison-1970-#9

M&L--Van Morrison


Mama Told Me (Not To Go)--Three Dog Night--1970-#1

M&L--Randy Newman

In 1967 Eric Burdon recorded this song
Newman had better luck with someone else doing his songs

The Rapper-The Jaggerz--1970-#2

M&L--Dominic Ierace

This was the sole hit for The jaggerz,named after the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.

I saw Boston at the Convo in 1977, along with Donovon as the warm up band, and it was one hell of a show.

Definitely one of my all time favorite bands.

Uncle John's Band-The Greatful Dead-1970-#69

M&L--Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter

The Greatful Dead,primary organizers of the disastrous Altamont concert,had heretofore been known for their long,spacey,electric jams.By 1970,though,the Dead were arranging concise,well-rehearsed songs.Some of their best work is on Workingman's Dead,anacoustic album of countrified harmony tunes.

Spirit in the Sky--Norman Greenbaum-1970-#3

M&L--Norman Greenbaum

Greenbaum lived as a chicken farmer in the hippie Promised Land of Marin County,just north of San Francisco-in the town of Petaluma,self-proclaimed "Egg Capital of the World"

The Letter-Joe Cocker-1970-#7

M&L--Wayne Carson

This is an old Box Tops soulful teen hit of 1967

Black Magic Woman--Santana--1970-#4

M&L-Peter Green



Love on a Two-Way Street--The Moments--1970-#3

M&L--Sylvia Robinson

He Ain't Heavy,He's my Brother--The Hollies-1970-#7

M&L--Bobby Scott

This song based on the slogan from a Father Flanagan-Boys Town poster Scott recalled from his Catholic chilhood

ABC-The Jackson Five-1970-#1

M&L-- RichardsPerren,Mizell and Gordy



American Woman--The Guess Who-1970-#1

M&L--Randall Bachman,Burt Cummings,Garry Peterson and Michail james Kale

The Guess Who was a Canadian Group

After midnight-Eric Clapton-1970-#18

M&L--John J. Cale

Eric Clapton had been a member of the English blues-rock trio,Cream,one of the first bands to achiece so-called "super group"status.He then helped found Blind Faith,the first working band consciously put together as a "supergroup" (they broke up after onr album)

Green-Eyed Lady--Sugarloaf--1970#3

M&L--Jerry Corbetta,J.C. Phillips and David Riordon

Fire and Rain--James Taylor-1970#3

M&L---James Taylor

James Taylor had not been a hit in the 60s.In fact Fire and Rain,his breakthrough recording,referred specigically to the failure of his group,the Flying Machine,with its line "sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground" Taylor ,whose drug addictions were documented by himself and the pop press for years,had spent time in a mental institution with the Suzanne of this song.

The Tears of a Clown-Smokey Robinson-1970#1

M&L--Henry Cosby,Stevie Wonder and William Robinson Jr.




Lonely Days-The Bee Gees-1970-#3

M&L--The Gibb Brothers