BEST 70'S SONGS

Update:  Here's the thing. This list is SEVENTIES SONGS; Seventies music. There are genres of music like rock, metal, Motown, etc. There is no doubt that Born To Run, the song and the album are pure genius. And as a song, Jungleland or BTR cannot compare with, say, That's The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia or Undercover Angel. But TTNTLWOIG is by far a better SEVENTIES song, emblematic of Seventies music, than Thunder Road. Thunder Road is a classic that stands the test of time. But Lights or Leroy Brown  is a better Seventies song.  So no Stones or Dead or Aerosmith or Bruce. But we've added Night Fever, because it was THE disco seventies song, and disco was Seventies music. 

Remember, as the Spinners sing in Rubber Band Man: "So much love and grace and debonair in one man? Nah." 

Update: A careful and alert reader writes in support of  Hello it's Me by Todd Rundgren, Definitely a top twenty song of the seventies. Coming in right around twenty or so. 

Another reader mentions "Brandy You're a Fine Girl" which we put right at or outside the top ten. 

Another reader has the most complete list so far, including Rock the Boat, You Don't Have To Be A Star (Marilyn McCoo), Come And Get Your Love (Redbone), September (Earth Wind and Fire) , Running On Empty (Jackson Browne), and Could It Be I'm Falling In Love (The Spinners). And other readers have chimed in and we have taken all of those comments and started populating our top 25 list:

1.That's The Night That The Lights Went Out In Georgia (Vicki Lawrence not Reba McEntire); 2. Lets Get It On (Marvin Gaye);  3. Night Fever (Bee Gees); 

4 Taking Care of Business (BTO): 5. Spirit In The Sky (Norman Greenbaum);  

6. Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce); 7. Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knights and the Pips); 8. American Pie ( Don McClean);  9. Dancing Queen (ABBA); 10. Brandy You're a Fine Girl;  11;  More Than A Feeling (Boston) ; 12 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne).; 13 Could it Be I'm Falling In Love (The Spinners):  14 Come and Get Your Love (Redbone) ;  15; You Don't Have To Be A Star (Marilyn McCoo): 16 Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell): 17 Baby Blue (Bad Finger and a great song to end Breaking Bad and the tortured life of one Walter White); 18 Rubber band Man (The Spinners): 19 Touch Me In The Morning (Diana Ross); 20 Undercover Angel (Alan O'Day); 21_Don't Leave Me This Way (Thelma Houston); 22 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (BJ Thomas); 23 Rock The Boat (The Hues Corporation) ; 24 Still The One ( Orleans) ; 25 Car Wash. 

 

Feeling a little creative this holiday weekend, we've been thinking about the best songs from 70's, which, along with the 60's, are the two best decades for music (sorry Madonna fans from the 1980's). 

If you want to send us your list, we will create a top ten or top twenty.  There is a clear number one, and if you need a hint, he just announced a European Tour for 2023. We will post that on Monday. 

This song, which epitomizes all that was in the 1970's, comes in for us right around 25. Not the best by far, but a prototypical song,  attached to a prototypical and iconic 1970's fun movie, with appearances by George Carlin, Richard Pryor,  and that 70's icon Professor Irwin Corey (who BTW died at age 102 in 2017). 

Coming in at NUMBER 25 on Rumpole's list, from 1976, the song and the movie.... Rose Royce's 

CARWASH!

WHEN WILL I SEE YOU AGAIN?

 Item: The music from the 1970's is the best. Period. We will not entertain any additional motions for rehearing or reconsideration. 

We were listening to Sirius/XM's 70s on 7, as is out wont on Sunday, when we heard the familiar first notes from The Three Degrees "When Will I See You Again?" hit,  and we began to wonder which of our favourite judges in the REGJB are humming that same tune? 

When should trials begin again? (As Judges Soto and Sayfie reach for their shot glasses, as they have had their fill of us on this point,  we press on). 

Initially, March seemed like a good target date. But then the feds screwed up the vaccine distribution. Actually that's not true. The feds had NO plan for vaccine distribution until we got POTUS46 and now they are admirably scrambling to come up with something. They are even scrapping the bottom of the proverbial barrel with the FDA's approval of the use of a special syringe to wring a sixth shot out of the vial of five doses (for which Pfizer, which negotiated a per dose charge with the feds, immediately sought to renegotiate their payments for six doses per vial, not five. What are civil lawyers for if not to get an additional 20% for their client out of a deal?). 

Then the virus mutations became troubling. The virus is now more contagious. Just ask anyone in California. The new and more contagious British strain  may also, as per British PM Johnson, be more than 30% more deadly. President Biden has warned and intoned that our darkest virus days are before us. 

This is no time to say "enough" and ask trial lawyers to emerge from their den of virus hibernation and stand up on their hind legs and wobble into court Ursine-like. 

It is always  darkest before the dawn, and we humbly suggest to our chief judges, state and federal alike, that it is wise to wait just a wee bit more. Let the lawyers and judges and clerks and officers and court reporters and jurors get their two vaccines. We still need to socially distance (best thing about covid-19 is that we can now claim social distancing and never be in close proximity to a black robe again) and wear masks, but once we are jabbed, let's pick six.  That next "not guilty" may well be the sweetest, but aren't they all wonderful? Does not a rose by any other name smell as sweet my dear Montague? 

Until we are all safely jabbed, renew your Netflix (the new HBO Max is great!) , stay home a bit more,  and send us the bill, and enjoy the song. 

(We  will do a little talk up for ya..... That was "Car Wash" coming at ya on WIOD the wonderful isle of dreams. It's a beautiful day in Miami, the Magic City, and at 11:07 in the morning, it's not only 77 degrees going to a high of 80, but it's The Three Degrees and When Will I See You Again? [guaranteed we would have hit the post] ).