(Started February 7th, 2021) Part 2 of The Best 70's Love Songs, Songs 18-34

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On this Super Bowl Sunday, Go Bucs!! Congratulations to the Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers!!

Each decade has all kinds of amazing music, the 70's is no different. But it had so many different kinds of music. It had the end of the psychedelic and hippy rock, also pretty much the entire history of Disco music started, peaked and fizzled. Then of course there was a bunch of great funk, soul, r & b, country, pop and all kinds of rock. It's the decade were both Led Zeppelin and Donna Summer had their peaks. It was a very weird, yet amazing, decade for music. Anyway this blog is starting cataloging the greatest love songs of the 70s. 

When most people think of a love song, they think of a ballad. But there are all kind of love songs. Of course ballads are probably the largest percentage, but there are upbeat love songs, sad and regretful love songs and with a tip of the hat to Paul McCartney silly love songs.

Many of these songs came from: https://spinditty.com/playlists/100-Best-Love-Songs-of-the-70s

18) Neil Diamond "Shilo":

19) Tyrone Davis "If I Could Turn Back The Hands of Time": 

20) Joe Cocker "The Letter":

21) Jim Croce "Time In A Bottle":

22) Lobo "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo":

23) Ronnie Milsap "Pure Love":

24) Charlie Rich "Behind Closed Doors":

25) Queen "You're My Best Friend:

26) Pink Floyd "Us and Them":

27) Anita Ward "Ring My Bell":

28) Atlanta Rhythm Section "So Into You":

29) Donna Fargo "Funny Face":

30) Elton John "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me":

31) Dan Hill "Sometimes When We Touch":

32) Major Harris "Love Won't Let Me Wait":

33) 10CC "The Things We Do For Love":

34) Olivia Newton-John "I Honestly Love You":

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(Finished February 7th, 2021) Part 1 of The Best of 70's Love Songs, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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On this Super Bowl Sunday, Go Bucs!! Congratulations to the Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers!!

Each decade has all kinds of amazing music, the 70's is no different. But it had so many different kinds of music. It had the end of the psychedelic and hippy rock, also pretty much the entire history of Disco music started, peaked and fizzled. Then of course there was a bunch of great funk, soul, r & b, country, pop and all kinds of rock. It's the decade were both Led Zeppelin and Donna Summer had their peaks. It was a very weird, yet amazing, decade for music. Anyway this blog is starting cataloging the greatest love songs of the 70s. 

When most people think of a love song, they think of a ballad. But there are all kind of love songs. Of course ballads are probably the largest percentage, but there are upbeat love songs, sad and regretful love songs and with a tip of the hat to Paul McCartney silly love songs.

Many of these songs came from: https://spinditty.com/playlists/100-Best-Love-Songs-of-the-70s

1) Tanya Tucker "What's Your Mama's Name":

2) Conway Twitty "You've Never Been This Far Before":

3) Paul Simon with The Jesse Dixon Singers "Loves Me Like A Rock":

4) Rod Stewart "Maggie May":

5) Kiss "Calling Dr Love":

6) The Carpenters "They Long To Be Close To You":

7) Climax "Precious and Few":

8) Alan O'Day "Undercover Angel":

9) The O'Jays "Love Train":

10) Marty Robbins "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife":

11) Tony Orlando and Dawn "Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Around The Old Oak Tree)":

12) "The Fifth Dimension "Last Night I Didn't Get To Sleep At All":

13) Smokey Robinson "Cruisin":

14) Abba "Chiquitita":

This song would not be kosher now and is a bit creepy. 15) Dr. Hook "Only Sixteen":

16) Dan Fogelberg "Longer":

17) The Doobie Brothers "What A Fool Believes":

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(Started February 5th, 2021) The Best of Psychedelic Rock

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1) Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit":

2) Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride":

3) The Doors "Strange Days":

4) Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road":

5) Aphrodite's Child "End of the World":

6) Iron Butterfly "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida":

7) The Animals "San Franciscan Nights":

8) Canned Heat "On The Road Again":

9) The Cowsills "Hair":

10) The Chambers Brothers "Time Has Come Today":

11) "Born To Be Wild":

12) Canned Heat "Going Up The Country":

13) The Electric Prunes "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)":

14) Ten Years After "I'd Love To Change The World":

15) Paint It Black":

16) Donovan "Season of the Witch":

17) Procal Harum "White Shade of Pale":

(Started February 4th, 2021) In Honor of Valentines: The Best Songs About Being Alone/ Lonely

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1) Lady Antebellum "Need You Now": 

2) Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine":

3) Whitney Houston "Just The Lonely Talking Again":

4) Heart "Alone":

5) Gavin DeGraw "The Best I Ever Had":

6) Whitesnake "Here I Go Again":

7) Linkin Park "Numb":

8) REO Speedwagon "One Lonely Night":

9) Lifehouse "All In":

10) Three Dog Night "One Is The Loneliest Number":

11) The Carpenters "Goodbye To Love":

12) "Hey There Lonely Girl":

13) Elvis Presley "Are You Lonesome Tonight":

This feels to happy to be a song about being alone. 14) Marshmello "Alone":

15) Lewis Capaldi "Someone You Loved":

16) David Bowie "Space Oddity":

17) Chicago "Explain It To My Heart":

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(Finished March 12th, 2023) Part 1 of Heaven and/or Hell:Who Has The Better Music?

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Are you going to Heaven or Hell? Here's a road trip playlist for either. It looks like as of now that Heaven has the lead in quality songs. First up songs about, or that mention, Heaven.

1) Guns N' Roses "Knocking On Heaven's Door":

2) Led Zeppelin "Stairway To Heaven":

3) Meat Loaf "Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)":

4) Foxy Shazam "Heaven On Their Minds":

5) Belinda Carlisle "Heaven Is A Place On Earth":

6) Bee Gees "Too Much Heaven":

7) Brooks and Dunn "Good Girls Go To Heaven":

8) Bryan Adams "Heaven":

9) Warrant "Heaven":

10) Bryan Adams "Thought I'd Died and Gone To Heaven":

11) Cake "Sheep Go To Heaven":

12) Carrie Underwood "Inside Your Heaven":

13) Def Leppard "Heaven Is":

14) The Cure "Just Like Heaven":

15) Delta Rae "Cold Day In Heaven":

16) Tracy Byrd "Holdin' Heaven":

17) Dio "Hungry For Heaven":

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(Finished February 2nd, 2021) The Best "Girlfriend" Songs, Part 2: Songs 13-30

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I'm not saying all of these songs are great, but some of them are very good songs. 

13) Badflower "Girlfriend":

14) Blotto "Girlfriend":

15) Meiko "Boys With Girlfriends":

16) Avril Lavigne "Girlfriend":

17) N'Sync "Girlfriend":

18) Morrissey "Driving Your Girlfriend Home":

19) Annie "I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me":

20) Smokey Robinson "Girlfriend":

One of the best "girlfriend" songs. 21) Alicia Keys "Girlfriend":

22) The Bohicas "Girlfriend":

23) Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend":

Although I've likely heard this song hundreds of times I still haven't come close to getting sick of it. 

24) The Dead Milkmen "Punk Rock Girl":

"She's the only one I got". 25) Supertramp "Breakfast In America":

Not a theory, you will be a dead man if you call your girlfriend bad. 26) Theory of A Deadman 

"Bad Girlfriend":

27) Icona Pop "Girlfriend":

She has an intriguing voice. 28) Elizabeth Cook "Girlfriend Tonight":

29) Eric Clapton "Wonderful Tonight":

30) Chris DeBurgh "Lady In Red":

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(Finished February 1st, 2021) Part 1 of The Best 70's One Hit Wonders, Songs 1-17

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As much as possible I tried to locate true one hit wonders, meaning having only one song in the Top Ten. And some of these musicians had multiple country hits, I'm focusing on songs that made the Top Ten in the Billboard Hot 100. Thanks to Ranker.com for the idea for this blog.

1) Van McCoy "The Hustle":

2) Robert John "Sad Eyes":

3) Henry Gross "Shannon":

Also this song only went to #12, that's just not right!! He should've had two Top Ten hits. 4) Nick Lowe "Cruel To Be Kind":

Bonus song: The above song should have been his first Top Ten and this should have been Lowe's second Top Ten song "I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock and Roll":

5) Carl Douglas "Kung Fu Fighting":

One of the saddest, and best, songs of the 70s. 6) Michael Martin Murphey "Wildfire":

7) Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight":

8) Tom Clay "What The World Needs Now Is Love (Abraham, Martin and John)":

9) Randy Van Warmer "Just When I Needed You The Most":

10) First Class "Beach Baby":

11) Patrick Hernandez "Born To Be Alive": 

12) Minnie Ripperton "Lovin You":

13) M "Pop Muzik":

14) Red Sovine "Teddy Bear":

15) The Hillside Singers "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing":

16) John Sebastian "Welcome Back":

This is a pretty cool song although the video isn't quite as cool. 17) Paul Nicholas "Heaven On The 7th Floor":

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