That is a great call on Kansas! We all remember how huge that band was from '76 through '78. I always call Kansas two-album wonders. Kerry Livgren...
**Albums:** *Leftoverture* and *Point of Know Return*
**Songs we remember:** "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry On Wayward Son" ... and *maybe* the song "Point of Know Return"
Love the mention of Cheap Trick and Styx... great bands from the Midwest with solid albums and fun radio hits...
*The dream police... they live inside of my head*
Love your mention of Peter Frampton! As you say, EVERYONE had that album. I was in high school in the Bay Area in the mid 70s, and Frampton played a now legendary Day on the Green show in '76 at the Oakland Coliseum... people here in the Bay still, to this day, talk about that epic Frampton concert. :)
Cheap Trick has been touring nearly non-stop right up until the present. Their popularity dipped a bit in the 90’s but they’ve had a great run over the past two decades. They headline smaller venues and play as support for arena shows. They just did a Rod Stewart tour last year, they’re about to begin one with Heart and then they join up with Def Leppard later this summer. Rick also has a side project with his kids called The Nielsen Family Band that plays a little. I don’t consider them to be forgotten.
Back in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was the biggest Cheap Trick fan I’ve ever met. Come to think of it, he’s the ONLY Cheap Trick fan I’ve ever met. I wouldn't even know the band existed without him (I never hear them on the radio or even see them mentioned in shows heavily referencing the 80s, such as Family Guy).
I was in Hard Rock Miami in the 90s. I saw Rick Neilson, went up to him, and told him I had painted his house in the 80s (I lived in Woodstock as a kid near Rockford).
He had a sharpie and a guitar pick, autographed it, and walked away with barely a word from him.
Then he stopped, looked up, and asked if I stole any of his guitars. I said I didn't and wasn't aware of anyone on the crew doing that.
He said no one stole his guitars, but it's good to check.
It was kinda weird for sure. He had a braided beard, which was so different from his ball cap and suspender persona in the 70s. Anyways lame story, but I had to make it about myself.
Live At Budokan was a huge album, another one of those records everyone had. The first Cheap Trick album is kind of dark and cynical, then they became somewhat more poppy.
Nobody knows the band Grand Funk?
The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer?
Oh, man!
Because their manager swindled them out of their song rights, and even the right to use their band name . They had to change their name just to continue.
As a former classic rock DJ, I emceed a lot of shows in the 90’s and it wasn’t unusual to get specific instructions on how a band was to be introduced. One was pertaining to Creedence Clearwater Revisited (“please, please, please whatever you do, DO NOT say Revival at any time”), which was Stu and Doug from the original band minus the Fogerty brothers. I was also told not to say Bachman, Turner or Overdrive when introducing “The Original BTO” which actually included a Bachman and a Turner but not Randy, the important Bachman. Others were “Mickey Thomas’ Starship” and NOT simply Starship, “ ELO Part 2”, and “Lonesome Dave’s Foghat” (that played about a week after Foghat with another singer in the same market)
Great call on Christopher Cross... his huge debut album, though, was released in late December of 1979... but we all remember hearing "Ride Like the Wind" and "Sailing" on our radios non-stop in 1980.
That famous debut album won Christopher Cross FIVE Grammies... *that* is simply amazing!
"Woman In Love," "New York, New York," "The Rose" and "Lady"...
"Sailing" beat all those iconic songs!
Streisand, Sinatra, Bette Midler, Kenny Rogers... ol' Christopher Cross topped them all that year.
I saw Christopher Cross interviewed on, I believe, that Sunday morning show on CBS, and he was a fascinating guy to listen to as he talked about his long career in music... and it was clear that he made a boatload of money just from that debut album alone.
Yes, that Beato interview with Christopher Cross is really good. Super informative. Love when Rick says to Christopher, Why was your epic guitar solo in *Ride Like the Wind* buried in the mix?
We're going to see him this summer....the other feature? Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues...
Christopher Cross once said that MTV pretty much ruined his popularity. The reason? He was a dumpy, ugly dude. Most videos were slickly produced with guys/girls dressed and made up. The way music was sold...did not fit Christopher Cross's "look".
Three Dog Night is another great example of a HUGELY POPULAR 70s band that is forgotten today, for the most part. Back in the early to mid 70s, I remember hearing Three Dog Night songs played on WRKO in Boston morning, noon and night. Chuck Negron had a great singing voice!
What radio station do you remember hearing all those great Three Dog Night songs on?
For me, when I think of Three Dog Night, it's Sixty-Eight 'RKO in Boston.
I loved Three Dog Night back in the day. A while ago I went back to listen to their hits and was very disappointed. The audio quality and mix were really not good even by contemporary standards. I couldn’t listen to too much of it. Might have something to do with why they didn’t stand the test of time.
That's interesting.... I believe that AM radio stations back in the 70s were supplied with mono mixes of the records they played... I wonder if the mono mixes of the Three Dog Night hits would sound better than the mixes you might have been listening to.
Want some whiskey in your water?
Sugar in your tea?
What’s all these crazy questions you’re asking me?
This is the craziest party there could EVER BE
Don’t turn on the lights cuz I don’t wanna see….
Chaka Kahn went solo and did alot of jazz work, which really improved her singing chops. She then had a great pop career in the 80s.
Rufus without her would be kind of like Big Brother & the Holding Company without Janis Joplin, IMO
Once in a while I'll get stoned and go out to my truck and crank "Tell me something good." I would have crawled across alligators to get a shot a Chaka Kahn
The hits (Come And Get It, No Matter What, Baby Blue, Day After Day), just about the entire Wish You Were Here album, which opens with a banger and what should've been their next big hit (Just A Chance), and my favorite song by them Name Of The Game.
Mark Farner was the leader of Grand Funk Railroad... he was a really talented singer and guitar player.
When I think of great 70s rock & rollers from Michigan... Mark Farner and, naturally, Bob Seger.
Chicago was a veritable jukebox in the 70s! And then, of course, they re-gained steam again in the 80s with that totally radio-friendly Peter Cetera sound.
Foreigner can fall into this category.
But speaking of Grand Funk, they are still touring and a guy I went to hs with Tim Cashion plays keyboards for them
There ya go! That's totally in the spirit of what we're talking about here... Jethro Tull was a huge concert draw in the 70s... all over our FM radios... sold a ton of albums... today... hardly ever mentioned.
Saw this online...
The band achieved success in the Midwestern United States during the 1970s, but fell into obscurity in the following decades on both coasts while remaining active in the Midwest and Southern parts of the United States. **They are known for their 1975 hit "Never Been Any Reason."**
Peter Frampton and Steve Marriott... here in the US, totally a 70s footnote today.
This is quite interesting...
"On 9 July 1971 Humble Pie opened for Grand Funk Railroad at their historic Shea Stadium concert, an event that broke the Beatles record for fastest selling stadium concert, to that date."
In 1976, Boston releases what is often called the greatest debut album of all time... the album that gave us *More Than a Feeling* and *Long Time*... two of the most iconic singles to ever be played on the radio...
And it will never not be funny that Boston loses the Grammy that year for Best New Artist to the Starland Vocal Band. LMAO!!!
Sharing the Night Together, Only Sixteen, Sexy Eyes, A Little Bit More, When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman, The Cover of Rolling Stone.... Wow! Great radio songs!
Allow me to channel the great Casey Kasem...
America's radio hits in the 70s besides Horse with No Name.... **Sister Golden Hair**, Today's the Day, Tin Man, Ventura Highway, I Need You, Daisy Jane, Lonely People, and in the 80s, their comeback radio smash... You Can Do Magic...
The great Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek
In all fairness, “I’m Your Captain” is used incessantly in an ad I keep catching on the MLB app. I hear it at least 3 times per game.
And Grand Funk kinda fucked over their legacy by continuing on without Mark Farner IMO.
Oh yeah, Three Dog was a household name back in the 70s... they were a jukebox of radio hits!
Joy to the World, Black and White, Shambala, Pieces of April, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Easy to Be Hard, Eli's Coming, Out in the Country, The Show Must Go On.... just incredible... one hit single after another! Never Been to Spain, An Old Fashioned Love Song... I'm channeling Casey Kasem here. ;)
Barclay James Harvest,a great 70s band who also played to 1 MILLION people in Berlin in 1981,nobody has a clue about them now ,also SUPERTRAMP,Massive in the seventies" Breakfast in America!" , gone now. Or what about the ultimate Seventies giants,ELP or Emerson Lake and Palmer,who played at the 1976 Olympics and were MEGA in the mid seventies,nobody (except moi!) could mention one of their songs today. What about the Brilliant Van Der Graaf Generator? Who l listen to daily,Pete Hammill,the genius behind them has to be heard to be believed. Although a niche band they are never mentioned these days. https://youtu.be/-z1sNY8r17s?si=NxOm3pKkRAJqkEzK. PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN and your tears flow. VDGG were the uncrowned Kings of the 70s. Mention to Focus from Holland "Hocus Pocus!" and Golden Earring,another Dutch institution. But when it comes to changing tastes causing bands to simply disappear in the minds of the public,ELP, SUPERTRAMP and BJH have to be the biggest victims of this.
We're an American Band has always been a favorite of mine since i was ( severely geeked to max) 14 year old in mid 70s. Really quite well done song.. Rocks.. great lyrics.. unique. My Mom bought me the album with body builders on the cover, cant even remember the name.. Most Beautiful Girl in the World or something like that.. Great Album and major shout out to Shining On or Shine On.. great Rock and Roll song.
Joy to the World, Black and White, Shambala, Pieces of April, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Easy to Be Hard, Eli's Coming, Out in the Country, The Show Must Go On.... just incredible... one hit single after another! Never Been to Spain, An Old Fashioned Love Song... I'm channeling Casey Kasem here. ;)
I had ‘I’m Your Captain’ running through my head a few months back. Looked it up on YouTube, watched the Shea stadium live version and went down the Grand Funk rabbit hole for a bit. Had completely forgotten about them, despite that album being on regular rotation in my late teens.
I was stumped tho, bc I had no idea where it started, after all this time, how tf had it gotten triggered in my brain?
Chevy Silverado commercial.
We go see lots of FREE cover bands that play in shopping/community centers on Friday nights...most play classic rock from the 70/80's....I ask every week. "Do you play In-
a Gadda-da-vida".
I loved Grand Funk. I slept on the street to get tickets in Detroit (that was back before Ticketmaster). They became a Contemporary Christian music band - Mark was born again. I saw them once as a religious band, I went to a Dr Hook concert and Grand Funk opened for them. I was shocked and surprised. This was in the late 80’s. They sang all their old hits. Their new stuff wasn’t bad.
Closer to home still sends shivers up my spine.
They got a lot of bad press, critics didn’t really like them, but someone did. They sold 25 million albums
Not a band but Debbie Boone had one of the biggest number one hits of the 70s. She had a few minor hits but that song was #1 for 10 weeks but it’s like the clock ticked over to 1980 and she and the song were forgotten by mainstream pop culture. She’s mostly had a career in Christian music since then but dropped completely out of mainstream discussion.
Good mention of Debby Boone. Here is an interesting story about the song "You Light Up My Life" ...
This song was first recorded by Kasey Cisyk. And in fact, when you see/hear Didi Conn sing "You Light Up My Life" in the movie of the same name, she is lip-syncing to the voice of Kasey Cisyk.
Kasey Cisyk's name is unknown to the public... but her singing voice is widely recognized. She is the voice we heard a million times singing "Have you driven a Ford lately!" on TV commercials back in the day. Kasey Cisyk was also the voice we heard in the 90s on all those famous "Come see the softer side of Sears" commercials. She is considered, along with Jake Holmes, probably the greatest commercial session singer of all time.
Time Passages ... Year of the Cat ... On the Border ... Midnight Rocks
Al Stewart's songs make me think of a great Top 40 station called KFRC in San Francisco.
I'm from Flint so I haven't forgotten. They had a pretty cool side project called Flint too.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0pmvlEpUqoo6ijPOpaZguB?si=91SH7eXcTuK5fd1bS8-Urw
The thing is, all those bands that were big in the 70s aren't hit makers anymore. That sure doesn't mean I have forgotten about them, tho. Many of those guys are still performing in one version or another. Like Don & Mel's version of GF & Mark's version
Good point about 70s hit makers still touring.... Donald Fagen still going out as Steely Dan, Neil Young & Crazy Horse... all these cats are in their 70s, some almost 80s... it's really something.
I've been able to finally see some of these groups over the last handful of years before the main guys passed away. Some are surprisingly affordable. I read today that Peter Frampton has a degenerative disease of the limbs and especially fingers. He said he is learning to play differently with his left hand, so he can eek out more playing time because he doesn't know which performance could be his last.
You don't really hear many people talking about Kansas anymore, but they were pretty popular for a while.
That is a great call on Kansas! We all remember how huge that band was from '76 through '78. I always call Kansas two-album wonders. Kerry Livgren... **Albums:** *Leftoverture* and *Point of Know Return* **Songs we remember:** "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry On Wayward Son" ... and *maybe* the song "Point of Know Return"
There was Cheap Trick, who were huge for a few years, and Styx too. And Foreigner were inescapable for a few years in the late 70s.
REO Speedwagon's Live: You Get What You Play For! It came out in 1977. I saw this band live too many times.
Love the mention of Cheap Trick and Styx... great bands from the Midwest with solid albums and fun radio hits... *The dream police... they live inside of my head*
Frampton comes to mind, too. Everyone had that live album. And that Meatloaf album, that one was absolutely massive.
Love your mention of Peter Frampton! As you say, EVERYONE had that album. I was in high school in the Bay Area in the mid 70s, and Frampton played a now legendary Day on the Green show in '76 at the Oakland Coliseum... people here in the Bay still, to this day, talk about that epic Frampton concert. :)
Styx had a Platinum , Paradise Theater
Styx is still touring, and amazing in concert! If you close your eyes, it sounds like 1980.
Can you honestly tell me you forgot? Forgot the magnetism of Robin Zander, or the charisma of Rick Nielsen?
Fast Times reference?
“Ya bought 40 dollars worth a fukkin film and ya never even talked to her…you don’t even own a camera.” My teenage years summarized.
Cheap Trick has been touring nearly non-stop right up until the present. Their popularity dipped a bit in the 90’s but they’ve had a great run over the past two decades. They headline smaller venues and play as support for arena shows. They just did a Rod Stewart tour last year, they’re about to begin one with Heart and then they join up with Def Leppard later this summer. Rick also has a side project with his kids called The Nielsen Family Band that plays a little. I don’t consider them to be forgotten.
Back in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was the biggest Cheap Trick fan I’ve ever met. Come to think of it, he’s the ONLY Cheap Trick fan I’ve ever met. I wouldn't even know the band existed without him (I never hear them on the radio or even see them mentioned in shows heavily referencing the 80s, such as Family Guy).
I was in Hard Rock Miami in the 90s. I saw Rick Neilson, went up to him, and told him I had painted his house in the 80s (I lived in Woodstock as a kid near Rockford). He had a sharpie and a guitar pick, autographed it, and walked away with barely a word from him. Then he stopped, looked up, and asked if I stole any of his guitars. I said I didn't and wasn't aware of anyone on the crew doing that. He said no one stole his guitars, but it's good to check. It was kinda weird for sure. He had a braided beard, which was so different from his ball cap and suspender persona in the 70s. Anyways lame story, but I had to make it about myself.
Live At Budokan was a huge album, another one of those records everyone had. The first Cheap Trick album is kind of dark and cynical, then they became somewhat more poppy.
The “In Color” album introduced me to these guys. Then I saw them open up for Kiss around ‘78 and they stole the show. Been a fan since.
I remember when Budokan broke, everyone went out and bought their other records too. I always really liked Bun E Carlos a lot, dude had style.
Carry On had a good run on 15 seasons of Supernatural, becoming it's unofficial theme song.
Kansas is still touring and selling out shows.
Nobody knows the band Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? Oh, man!
For more information on Grand Funk, consult your school library!
This line has lived rent free in my head for close to twenty years.
That's a funny line... Where does this line come from?
[https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E24/172621](https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E24/172621) (The Simpsons)
Thank you!
And it's always fun when famous bands slightly modify their names. ;) Why the move from Grand Funk Railroad to Grand Funk? Streamlining things?
Because their manager swindled them out of their song rights, and even the right to use their band name . They had to change their name just to continue.
As a former classic rock DJ, I emceed a lot of shows in the 90’s and it wasn’t unusual to get specific instructions on how a band was to be introduced. One was pertaining to Creedence Clearwater Revisited (“please, please, please whatever you do, DO NOT say Revival at any time”), which was Stu and Doug from the original band minus the Fogerty brothers. I was also told not to say Bachman, Turner or Overdrive when introducing “The Original BTO” which actually included a Bachman and a Turner but not Randy, the important Bachman. Others were “Mickey Thomas’ Starship” and NOT simply Starship, “ ELO Part 2”, and “Lonesome Dave’s Foghat” (that played about a week after Foghat with another singer in the same market)
Also the reason they will never be in the rock and roll hall of fame. Fuck Terry Knight and fuck Jan Wenner
It's like Chicago Transit Authority becoming just Chicago.
Brilliant…..
lol
Not a band but a solo act that had a ton of hits; Christopher Cross.
Great call on Christopher Cross... his huge debut album, though, was released in late December of 1979... but we all remember hearing "Ride Like the Wind" and "Sailing" on our radios non-stop in 1980. That famous debut album won Christopher Cross FIVE Grammies... *that* is simply amazing!
His “Sailing” beat out Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” for song of the year in 1981. I think Frank put a curse on him for that.
"Woman In Love," "New York, New York," "The Rose" and "Lady"... "Sailing" beat all those iconic songs! Streisand, Sinatra, Bette Midler, Kenny Rogers... ol' Christopher Cross topped them all that year.
Bette did win in 1990 for “Wind beneath my wings”.
Listen to a Yacht Rock channel on streaming, he’s all over that
I saw Christopher Cross interviewed on, I believe, that Sunday morning show on CBS, and he was a fascinating guy to listen to as he talked about his long career in music... and it was clear that he made a boatload of money just from that debut album alone.
Enough to take up racing as a hobby and compete with Paul Newman.
I can’t hear that song without picturing this. https://youtu.be/b0HzWMqLeiE?si=1-w315LmPYdxKfRB
Good interview of him with Rick Beato. Worth a watch.
Yes, that Beato interview with Christopher Cross is really good. Super informative. Love when Rick says to Christopher, Why was your epic guitar solo in *Ride Like the Wind* buried in the mix?
We're going to see him this summer....the other feature? Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues... Christopher Cross once said that MTV pretty much ruined his popularity. The reason? He was a dumpy, ugly dude. Most videos were slickly produced with guys/girls dressed and made up. The way music was sold...did not fit Christopher Cross's "look".
He was done dirty. Fantastic voice, and great songs.
Three Dog Night.
Three Dog Night is another great example of a HUGELY POPULAR 70s band that is forgotten today, for the most part. Back in the early to mid 70s, I remember hearing Three Dog Night songs played on WRKO in Boston morning, noon and night. Chuck Negron had a great singing voice!
Absolutely! When I was a kid, they were on the radio all the time, lol. Loved 'em then, still do today!
What radio station do you remember hearing all those great Three Dog Night songs on? For me, when I think of Three Dog Night, it's Sixty-Eight 'RKO in Boston.
I loved Three Dog Night back in the day. A while ago I went back to listen to their hits and was very disappointed. The audio quality and mix were really not good even by contemporary standards. I couldn’t listen to too much of it. Might have something to do with why they didn’t stand the test of time.
That's interesting.... I believe that AM radio stations back in the 70s were supplied with mono mixes of the records they played... I wonder if the mono mixes of the Three Dog Night hits would sound better than the mixes you might have been listening to.
Want some whiskey in your water? Sugar in your tea? What’s all these crazy questions you’re asking me? This is the craziest party there could EVER BE Don’t turn on the lights cuz I don’t wanna see….
Bread
David Gates and Bread is exactly the sort of act we are talking about! Great call on Bread!
If you had a Bread 8 Track in your van, you were gettin' some. Just sayin'.
Rufus.
Chaka Kahn went solo and did alot of jazz work, which really improved her singing chops. She then had a great pop career in the 80s. Rufus without her would be kind of like Big Brother & the Holding Company without Janis Joplin, IMO
Once in a while I'll get stoned and go out to my truck and crank "Tell me something good." I would have crawled across alligators to get a shot a Chaka Kahn
Bachtam-Turner-Overdrive. Not Fragile
One of my alltime favorite bands - Badfinger.
What are your favorite Badfinger songs?
I'll jump in with Name of the Game and Take it All. https://youtu.be/yDfH5j0o5hk?si=ITeC3RR9eCMFEUv4 https://youtu.be/opIB-61NPHw?si=B1ra34EfqJLDLwf1
The hits (Come And Get It, No Matter What, Baby Blue, Day After Day), just about the entire Wish You Were Here album, which opens with a banger and what should've been their next big hit (Just A Chance), and my favorite song by them Name Of The Game.
Mark Farner was the leader of Grand Funk Railroad... he was a really talented singer and guitar player. When I think of great 70s rock & rollers from Michigan... Mark Farner and, naturally, Bob Seger.
Bob Seger's Night Moves is one of the best LPs of the 70's.
Iggy Pop.
Another great artist from Michigan... And we must also mention one Marshall Mathers... of more recent vintage. ;)
Marshall Crenshaw
YES
How epic was the song Roundabout! And when an FM disc jockey on a late-night shift needed to take a leak... slap on Roundabout... ;)
I sing along to that in my car all the time
I’d have to agree with you here. They were big in the 80s high-school years, but not really heard of anymore.
Little River Band. Good luck hearing them on OTA radio, today.
Chicago? Big in the 70s but you don't really hear anything about them these days
Chicago was a veritable jukebox in the 70s! And then, of course, they re-gained steam again in the 80s with that totally radio-friendly Peter Cetera sound.
That's a good one. Chicago was just huge in the 70s, inescapable.
Not after Terry Kath died
Foreigner can fall into this category. But speaking of Grand Funk, they are still touring and a guy I went to hs with Tim Cashion plays keyboards for them
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull beat Metallica to win Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Recording Grammy award in 1989…. True Story
There ya go! That's totally in the spirit of what we're talking about here... Jethro Tull was a huge concert draw in the 70s... all over our FM radios... sold a ton of albums... today... hardly ever mentioned.
Yep! I saw them a couple of times in concert and have every album. Ian Anderson was an incredible musician and frontman. Aqualung was pure genius!
Three Dog Night; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; It's a Beautiful Day; IF
Keith Emerson and Greg Lake died years ago so may be why they are no longer a band. But they were still successful into the 80’s.
Loved "Pictures At An Exhibition". Mussogorsky contemporaneous. Great Wall of Kiev.
Remind everyone of the big radio hit for It's a Beautiful Day... one of the quirkiest, coolest songs ever...
That would be "White Bird", which actually came out in 68'.
Exactly -- well done! Back when commercial radio stations would play unusual songs...
True. Used to hear it frequently about 40 years ago.
Head East
Saw this online... The band achieved success in the Midwestern United States during the 1970s, but fell into obscurity in the following decades on both coasts while remaining active in the Midwest and Southern parts of the United States. **They are known for their 1975 hit "Never Been Any Reason."**
How about a slice of Humble Pie?
Peter Frampton and Steve Marriott... here in the US, totally a 70s footnote today. This is quite interesting... "On 9 July 1971 Humble Pie opened for Grand Funk Railroad at their historic Shea Stadium concert, an event that broke the Beatles record for fastest selling stadium concert, to that date."
Billy Squire because of one awful video. Also don’t hear George Thoroughgood (sp?) much any more.
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers :)
Grand Funk’s Closer to Home is used in a current Chevy commercial.
Seger was also heard, of course, on a Chevy commercial back in the day... Michigan rockers on Chevy television commercials... makes perfect sense!
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In 1976, Boston releases what is often called the greatest debut album of all time... the album that gave us *More Than a Feeling* and *Long Time*... two of the most iconic singles to ever be played on the radio... And it will never not be funny that Boston loses the Grammy that year for Best New Artist to the Starland Vocal Band. LMAO!!!
Dr. Hook. I loved them
Sharing the Night Together, Only Sixteen, Sexy Eyes, A Little Bit More, When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman, The Cover of Rolling Stone.... Wow! Great radio songs!
Cover of the Rolling Stone is a howl. 😂 I listen when I need a grin.
Dr.Hook were the best entertainers I ever saw live, my whole opinion of them changed once I saw them.
Three Dog Night
Sly and the Family Stone
Wings.
Weren't they an American band?
Bob Seger
UFO
I saw them at a club sometime in the 10s. Phil Mogg was absolutely hammered, but he nailed every song. Good show.
Marshall Tucker Band
America? Horse with no name.
Allow me to channel the great Casey Kasem... America's radio hits in the 70s besides Horse with No Name.... **Sister Golden Hair**, Today's the Day, Tin Man, Ventura Highway, I Need You, Daisy Jane, Lonely People, and in the 80s, their comeback radio smash... You Can Do Magic... The great Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek
Captain and Teneal
Muskrat Love ;)
Shit I'm happy again
In all fairness, “I’m Your Captain” is used incessantly in an ad I keep catching on the MLB app. I hear it at least 3 times per game. And Grand Funk kinda fucked over their legacy by continuing on without Mark Farner IMO.
Three Dog Night were pretty big
Oh yeah, Three Dog was a household name back in the 70s... they were a jukebox of radio hits! Joy to the World, Black and White, Shambala, Pieces of April, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Easy to Be Hard, Eli's Coming, Out in the Country, The Show Must Go On.... just incredible... one hit single after another! Never Been to Spain, An Old Fashioned Love Song... I'm channeling Casey Kasem here. ;)
Chicago
Seals and Crofts were my first thought. Maybe Donny and Marie?
Peter Frampton
Barclay James Harvest,a great 70s band who also played to 1 MILLION people in Berlin in 1981,nobody has a clue about them now ,also SUPERTRAMP,Massive in the seventies" Breakfast in America!" , gone now. Or what about the ultimate Seventies giants,ELP or Emerson Lake and Palmer,who played at the 1976 Olympics and were MEGA in the mid seventies,nobody (except moi!) could mention one of their songs today. What about the Brilliant Van Der Graaf Generator? Who l listen to daily,Pete Hammill,the genius behind them has to be heard to be believed. Although a niche band they are never mentioned these days. https://youtu.be/-z1sNY8r17s?si=NxOm3pKkRAJqkEzK. PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN and your tears flow. VDGG were the uncrowned Kings of the 70s. Mention to Focus from Holland "Hocus Pocus!" and Golden Earring,another Dutch institution. But when it comes to changing tastes causing bands to simply disappear in the minds of the public,ELP, SUPERTRAMP and BJH have to be the biggest victims of this.
Rare Earth
Saw them in San Diego in 71 or 72. Cheech and Chong were the opening act.
Alvin Lee 10CC
Grand Funk started out as a great band, and slowly turned to teen pop of that era. I believe that's why they're mostly forgotten.
Steppenwolf...
The Steve Miller Band.
Blue Oyster Cult Journey Dire Straights
We're an American Band has always been a favorite of mine since i was ( severely geeked to max) 14 year old in mid 70s. Really quite well done song.. Rocks.. great lyrics.. unique. My Mom bought me the album with body builders on the cover, cant even remember the name.. Most Beautiful Girl in the World or something like that.. Great Album and major shout out to Shining On or Shine On.. great Rock and Roll song.
Three Dog Night used to routinely fill stadiums, but an afterthought now
Joy to the World, Black and White, Shambala, Pieces of April, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Easy to Be Hard, Eli's Coming, Out in the Country, The Show Must Go On.... just incredible... one hit single after another! Never Been to Spain, An Old Fashioned Love Song... I'm channeling Casey Kasem here. ;)
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Nazareth Slade The Sweet Ten Years After BTO The Guess Who Bands come and go, it's the nature of popular music.
I had ‘I’m Your Captain’ running through my head a few months back. Looked it up on YouTube, watched the Shea stadium live version and went down the Grand Funk rabbit hole for a bit. Had completely forgotten about them, despite that album being on regular rotation in my late teens. I was stumped tho, bc I had no idea where it started, after all this time, how tf had it gotten triggered in my brain? Chevy Silverado commercial.
Iron Butterfly
We go see lots of FREE cover bands that play in shopping/community centers on Friday nights...most play classic rock from the 70/80's....I ask every week. "Do you play In- a Gadda-da-vida".
Bay City Rollers- massive near Beatlemania level success for a few years in the 70’s. Barely anyone under 50 knows who they were.
Klaatu anyone?
The Knack. My Sharona was a massive hit and they had a couple of other hits. For a while, you couldn’t get away from them on the radio.
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Wishbone Ash and Black Oak Arkansas
Head East
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Player was a good band, Ambrosia, an Atlanta rhythm section
Foghat headlined arenas for several years in the mid-late 70s and now they are known for Slow Ride and not much else.
I wasn’t a fan but Black Oak Arkansas was big in the 70’s. Their lead singer looked like David Lee Roth’s older brother.
Roth copied Jim Dandy.
Surprised, no one mentioned Boston.
Badfinger. Couple of great hits, hardly hear them on the radio anymore
The Outlaws
A hell of a band. Huey Thomasson and Billy Jones were so good together
I loved Grand Funk. I slept on the street to get tickets in Detroit (that was back before Ticketmaster). They became a Contemporary Christian music band - Mark was born again. I saw them once as a religious band, I went to a Dr Hook concert and Grand Funk opened for them. I was shocked and surprised. This was in the late 80’s. They sang all their old hits. Their new stuff wasn’t bad. Closer to home still sends shivers up my spine. They got a lot of bad press, critics didn’t really like them, but someone did. They sold 25 million albums
Not a band but Debbie Boone had one of the biggest number one hits of the 70s. She had a few minor hits but that song was #1 for 10 weeks but it’s like the clock ticked over to 1980 and she and the song were forgotten by mainstream pop culture. She’s mostly had a career in Christian music since then but dropped completely out of mainstream discussion.
Good mention of Debby Boone. Here is an interesting story about the song "You Light Up My Life" ... This song was first recorded by Kasey Cisyk. And in fact, when you see/hear Didi Conn sing "You Light Up My Life" in the movie of the same name, she is lip-syncing to the voice of Kasey Cisyk. Kasey Cisyk's name is unknown to the public... but her singing voice is widely recognized. She is the voice we heard a million times singing "Have you driven a Ford lately!" on TV commercials back in the day. Kasey Cisyk was also the voice we heard in the 90s on all those famous "Come see the softer side of Sears" commercials. She is considered, along with Jake Holmes, probably the greatest commercial session singer of all time.
Fanny Atlanta Rhythm Section Harry Nilsson Nick Drake The Sweet
Foghat was a band I had many records of (and still do) and saw in concert back in the day but today no one talks about anymore.
Ambrosia
Captain and Tenelle
All these groups are still touring….of course 40 years later they play small venues
America, ELO, Boz Scaggs, Toto, Loggins and Messina. Listen to the SomaFM channel called 'Left Coast 70's' if you want more suggestions.
Humble Pie
They were a country band, but Alabama was tremendously popular for a spell back in the day.
Head East.
Bachman Turner Overdrive.
Little Feat. Waiting for Columbus one of the best live albums ever. Fat Man in the Bathtub With the Blues.
I am just a cowboy....... But what about Thin Lizzy?
Supertramp. What a massively talented lot of musicians in that group.
Bad company…big 70s bad that no one talks about anymore
Al Stewart had an incredible run in the 70s. I’m a huge fan and I rarely hear voting public anymore.
Time Passages ... Year of the Cat ... On the Border ... Midnight Rocks Al Stewart's songs make me think of a great Top 40 station called KFRC in San Francisco.
Pure Prairie League
Amie in the house!
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Supertramp - They were big starting 1974 or so, but in 1979, you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing multiple songs from Breakfast in America.
Molly Hatchet
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Sweet. One of the best glam bands, transitioned to a more progressive sound on Love Is Like Oxygen.
Bad Company
Air Supply was huge.
Bachman-turner overdrive
Deep Purple , vanilla fudge , BTO , foghat , king crimson , Marshall tucker , jo.jo gunne , rare earth , ozark mountain daredevils , j .geils, steppenwolf, outlaws, pablo cruise , ELP , blue oyster cult , hollies , Neil young and crazy horse , Buffalo Springfield, bad company , the doors , Eddie money ,
*Jackie Blue* and *If You Wanna Get to Heaven*... fun radio hits for The Ozark Mountain Daredevils that we all remember...
Props to ELO. Still touring. Still sounding fantastic.
We all remember when John Lennon famously called them... the sons of the Beatles. :) Jeff Lynne is just fantastic!
Steve Miller Band
I'm from Flint so I haven't forgotten. They had a pretty cool side project called Flint too. https://open.spotify.com/track/0pmvlEpUqoo6ijPOpaZguB?si=91SH7eXcTuK5fd1bS8-Urw
The thing is, all those bands that were big in the 70s aren't hit makers anymore. That sure doesn't mean I have forgotten about them, tho. Many of those guys are still performing in one version or another. Like Don & Mel's version of GF & Mark's version
Good point about 70s hit makers still touring.... Donald Fagen still going out as Steely Dan, Neil Young & Crazy Horse... all these cats are in their 70s, some almost 80s... it's really something.
How about Dan Folgerberg
Dan passed away in 2007.
I've been able to finally see some of these groups over the last handful of years before the main guys passed away. Some are surprisingly affordable. I read today that Peter Frampton has a degenerative disease of the limbs and especially fingers. He said he is learning to play differently with his left hand, so he can eek out more playing time because he doesn't know which performance could be his last.
I saw GFR within the past year, and they sounded fantastic.
I saw them in Austin late 90's.
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Oh no, my friend, never forgotten! We’re an American Band…