Most evocative '70s songs - Page 3

becca · #31 06-15-2006, 12:13 AM

Pussycat seem to have had a lot of different looks, but I must have missed the dresses. They did have some unusual outfits at times. I remember Abba when they started out looked ridiculous, like an Oxfam rack had fallen on them all!

BZN came to Canada but Pussycat never did, and other than Mississippi never seem to have been played in America at all.

Pas op! Better avoid my Pussycat fan page.

becca · #32 06-15-2006, 12:20 AM

BTFLCHLDs CDs I begged for arrived today and I am awash in old Canadian music today, I'm sure I haven't heard some songs in over twenty five years, so here is a new addition...

Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor
One Tin Soldier - The Original caste
One Fine Morning - Lighthouse
And As The Years Go By - Mashmakan
Painted ladies (And A Bottle Of Wine) - Ian Thomas
(Make Me Do) Anything You Want - A Foot In Cold Water
Sweet City Woman - The Stampeeders
Oh What A Feeling - Crowbar
The Snowbird - Anne Murray
Put Your Hand In The Hand - Ocean
Five Man Electrical band - Signs

The Catdancer · #33 06-15-2006, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by becca

Pussycat seem to have had a lot of different looks, but I must have missed the dresses. They did have some unusual outfits at times. I remember Abba when they started out looked ridiculous, like an Oxfam rack had fallen on them all!

BZN came to Canada but Pussycat never did, and other than Mississippi never seem to have been played in America at all.

Pas op! Better avoid my Pussycat fan page.

I just took a peek and went over to their official website. Here's a link with the pics of the way they were dressed: http://www.pussy-cat.nl/pussycatonline.html

I'm sure you've seen them. Did you spend some time in Holland? Ever seen them on Toppop?

becca · #34 06-15-2006, 05:06 PM

The multi colored look from when Daddy was a single. I kind of like that now but at the time I remember thinking it was a bit over the top. I have seen a few Toppop shows from home videos but only one had Pussycat and they were about the same as Abba on stage, hamming it up a little.

We had some relatives from Holland visit in 1978 and they have been back many times since bringing music and other stuff, and my Father visits them every few years. He always brought back a lot of casettes and a few record albums, and later videos. I also had some Ollie B. Bommell comic books and grandparents who spoke de Nederlandse more than de Engels. If I weren't terrified of flying I'd have been over I'm sure.

I think Pussycat had some great songs by Werner Thuennisen and Tony's voice is just awesome. It's hard to find a song I actually dislike. Maybe... Don't Play Casanova, I didn't like that one.

becca · #35 06-15-2006, 05:09 PM

The english version of Silver Bird by Tina Rainsford brings back memories too. They actually released it in Canada so it might have received radio play. Andrea Jurgens had a song I vaguely remember liking in the '70s as well.

The Tower · #36 06-15-2006, 05:13 PM

The main ones for me are:

"Summer Breeze" Seals and Croft
"Philadelphia Freedom" Elton John
"Saturday in the Park" Chicago

and....

"You Make Loving Fun" FM, of course.

They all have different stories behind them.

amber · #37 06-16-2006, 05:21 AM

I just realized - to be honest, Tom Petty songs are a huge part of my most evocative seventies songs. Eagles even more. And then FM.

There were many sixties songs that were evocative to me in the seventies, but that's not what you said. Sime and Garf. Jeff Air.

But for sheer volume of evocative songs by group, for the seventies, it would be Eagles, TP, and FM.

So. Ubiquitous. Can't. Escape. Gaaackkqq!

Add Elton John, good lord.
Also Rolling Stones. Always. Basically the background music of most of my young life.

But wait, has someone already mentioned (70's? 60's? I thought 60's, so that would be cheating) -
"Dark ladeh played black magic 'till the clock struck on the twelve *duhduhduhduhduhduh*, danced to her gypsy music till the somethingsomething *duhduhduh!...It was in myyy owwwn roo-ooo-oom! "

Or -

"Gypseys, tramps and theives! Etc.! ...But every night, the men would come around...and lay their money down" *insert sinister notes and vocal*. "

All that, very evocative for me. Cause I heard it on the radio.

becca · #38 06-16-2006, 03:16 PM

Gypsys Tramps And Thieves was played a lot and is very evocative for me also. I remember Cher on tv with a gypsy's caravan doing the song. Knock Three Times (On The Ceiling) by Tony Orlando also makes me think of the same time.