early morning television
ain’t what it used to be.
Wait, maybe it is. I’m watching an infomercial with Barry Williams called “the 70’s music explosion”
Good lord.
I used to have a lot of this crap on 8-track.
– Chicago: Saturday In The Park
– Blue Swede: Hooked On A Feeling
– Terry Jacks: Seasons In The Sun
– John Sebastian: Welcome Back
– Looking Glass: Brandy
– Captain & Tennille: Love Will Keep Us Together
– Seals & Crofts: Summer Breeze
– The O’Jays: Love Train
– Pilot: Magic
– The Five Stairsteps: O-o-h Child
– Carly Simon: You’re So Vain
– Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: December 1963 (Oh What A Night)
– America: A Horse With No Name
– Chairmen of the Board: Give Me Just A Little More Time
– Daryl Hall & John Oates: Rich Girl
– Albert Hammond: It Never Rains In Southern California
– B. W. Stevenson: My Maria
– Anita Ward: Ring My Bell
yes, folks, 150 of the worst earworms money can buy. All brought to you with the help of Barry Williams and Erica Shaffer. And the video clips- Sweater vests, mullets, the Starland Vocal Band, Harry Chapin. Dancing that makes Roy Orbison look spastic. Pants so tight that John Ford Coley has cameltoe. What the fuck were we thinking?
Ya know, everyone of those damn songs are stuck right in the middle of my brainpan now.
Damn you!!!!!!
Damn you to hell! lmao!
Hell, DIck, go to the Time Life website and look at the list of 150 of them. They even have samples. You can get “billy, don’t be a hero” stuck in your noggin.
I may be in error, but I think a few of those titles were actually late ’60s rather than ’70s.
All of which serves to remind me that my teacher for 8th grade health class was Frank Zappa’s brother.
Now wait a minute . . . “Ring My Bell” was a good song. As opposed to all those other wastes of electrons that get stuck in your head.
Speaking of songs from the disco era (Shouldn’t that be capitalized? It’s like, say, “Jurassic Era.” And is almost as far back.), I keep hearing these songs over and over again . . . in commercials. I think there ought to be a moratorium at least on “Disco Inferno,” though I’m happy for the Trammps, they’ve made more money off that song than they did when it first was a hit.
Jenny
Burn that mother down.
I remember those songs…. and we actually thought if they were playing on the radio, while we were tooling along in our AMC Gremlin, we might get lucky?? Oh, wait a min, the was the Bread eight track, never mind.
Oh dear lord, I not only remember all of them, I loved them! THEN!
*singing* I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name it felt good to be out of the rain
Greeeaaaat….THANKS OG!
You’re evil
Thanks so much for sharing.