Music Break: Post Your Favorite 70s Songs...

[prfesser]

I still LOL at Jim Stafford, even 40+ years later.

 

[John Kemker]

 

[K'Tesh]

Man... Can this cat play the guitar...



“Room 8” ( 1947–1968 )
Room 8 was a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, returning when classes started again. This pattern continued without interruption until the mid-1960s.
News cameras would arrive at the school at the beginning of the year waiting for the cat's return; he became famous and would receive up to 100 letters a day addressed to him at the school. Eventually, he was featured in a documentary called Big Cat, Little Cat and a children's book, A Cat Called Room 8. Look magazine ran a three-page Room 8 feature by photographer Richard Hewett in November 1962, titled "Room 8: The School Cat". Leo Kottke wrote an instrumental called "Room 8" that was included in his 1971 album, Mudlark.
As he got older, Room 8 was injured in a cat fight and suffered from feline pneumonia, so a family near the school volunteered to take him in. The school's janitor would find him at the end of the school day and carry him across the street.
His obituary in the Los Angeles Times rivaled that of major political figures, running three columns with a photograph. The cat was so famous that his obituary ran in papers as far away as Hartford, Connecticut. The students raised the funds for his gravestone. He is buried at the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park in Calabasas, California.

 

[Cape Byron]

Another Ramones cover of a classic.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[Cape Byron]

Another great cover from the 70s.

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[samb]

This one Cape Byron ?

 

[Cape Byron]

That's the one!

 

[Tech 68]

One more...

Used to listen to this quite a bit when I was in the service... I like Lee Michaels' version also...

 

[Tech 68]

Sure hope I haven't already posted this...
I am getting a bit old and I sure liked a lot of '70s music.

 

[Doug Holverson]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[prfesser]

Wikipedia says the song title is a play on "Jamaica" spoken quickly with an English accent. Never knew that.

 

[prfesser]

My favorite Three Dog Night song

 

[BEC]

That's not the version I remember (the one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bear_Road_(album) or the one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_McCall:_An_American_Storyteller) but you can still hear those Chip Davis riffs in the accompaniment....Mannheim Steamroller began as C.W. McCall's backup band....

 

[Mugs914]

This is the one I remember from when I was a young'un (and a couple more from C.W., just for fun).

 

[BEC]

My wife and I came over Wolf Creek Pass on the way to NSL in May and we regretted that we didn’t have that song in either of our phones to play in the car as we drove it.

 

[Mugs914]

 

[K'Tesh]

Yes "Roundabout"

 

[Cape Byron]

Loves me some harmonies...

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[KC3KNM]

Probably already posted, but it's been a Billy Joel night at work.

 

[prfesser]

I tend to like individual songs rather than groups or artists. This is the only song that Tower of Power did that I like.

 

[Doug Holverson]

I was reminded this exists....

 

[K'Tesh]

This seems timely...

 

[GlueckAuf]

My favorite Zepp tune of all time. I usually don't care too much for covers, but these gals do it justice...and then some.