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Hell yeah !

yes!!!

Yes!

Marley's album Catch a Fire was the first released on Island Records a year before Clapton's cover of I Shot the Sheriff. We were all into Marley in 1973 after Catch a Fire came out. I suspect around the same time Clapton got hip to Marley also.

I'm still a bigger fan of Marley than old slow hand. Jim

Truth

I think he robbed it off some one else, not quite original kiddies !

@@bert0522 Frankly you'd be crazy in the coconut not to be.

Definitely top three greatest female singers in the pop era, if not number one

Surprised no Linda Ronstadt songs in there (You're No Good?). I think Karen and Linda were easily the premier female voices of the 70s. And, I had a massive crush on Linda.

Nah 60's and 80's better

Thank god "leisure suits" did not come back.

I was 8 in 1970 too.

Guess what, I was 8 to 18 in the 80s, that's why I knew nearly all of the songs from the 80s video :) Still, I know a lot of those 70s tunes as well and also like many of them.

Me too! 8 to 18 yo...in México It was kind of hard to get english music in those days, but I know a lot of them !

I was 1 to 11, so know most of these from when my mum was listening to the radio!

I was 4 to 14, so much the same.

composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart.

​@@treetopjones737 Thanks for clearing me up on that. I knew I was in the right neighbourhood, I just had the details incorrect. I do have this information in a copy of an old article, but I should have checked it instead of relying upon a fuzzy memory. Peace and heavenly blessings

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep was a mild it in the US by Mac & Katie Kissoon. It's pretty catchy but also pretty bubble gum. made it to the top 20 in the US

There was also a dozen-or-so songs that never were hits in the US. And certainly not the biggest head of any month. If you look for my comments I pointed out which ones

Same here. Grew up on the hits on AM radio first, then gradually transitioned to more FM "album cuts" by the mid 70s. Not surprised to see all the Elton John, McCartney+Wings and Chicago, those were my first 3 album purchases. But by 1976 I was a full on Progressive Rock guy, hated disco.

Not the charting music maybe, but there is still good music being made.

There was one disco song that really annoyed me. It was called "Dance with Me" with the lyrics "Gotta keep on makin me high, gotta keep on making me high" I think that is when I had enough of it. lol

Record companies put out some dreck in the name of cashing in on the fad - disco Star Wars, Disco Duck, the Hustle, etc.

@@treetopjones737 I'm with you on "Disco Duck" and "The Hustle" but Meco was pretty talented with some of his movie medleys.

Shocking Blue was better, it's so psychedelic and rock n roll.

For some reason, this makes me sad that there wasn't a notable 70s female punk band cover for the song.

Their version will always be my favorite too. 😊

They weren't bubblegum they were mainstream pop except the dozen-or-so from this list that weren't even hits in the US. Bubblegum was more like sugar sugar chewy chewy and yummy yummy

90% of these songs are proof of how shallow 90% of radio was and still is. They've always been good at convincing listeners that's the best there is to offer. 🤘

I wretched a few times. Debby Boone You Light Up My Life. Some of the disco gunk. Etc. In 77 and 78 in HS at parties we would turn off the Disco crap playing on the turntable and slip on ELP's Karn Evil 9 or Yes' Close to the Edge for some laughs. That didn't endear us to the girls who wanted to dance....

I Dj'd parties back in 85' to 90' and played radio rock, pop and dance hits for the ladies but once they started gettin a good buzz they'd dance to anything so I switched it up to hard-rock and some prog. There was always a lot of air guitar and drums when that started. Good times! 🤘💪

You have your rose tints on? I'd certainly agree it's better than the hellhole we've created.

Well Boney M was featured twice in this clip and they were a lip syncing band created by the same german producer who years later created another infamous fake band...Milli Vanilli.

Same, it’s wild how early my music knowledge started. An incredible decade of music

Just incredible aren’t they?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who picked up on the fact that at least a dozen of these songs were not hits on Billboard's mainstream radio top 100 definitely not the biggest hits of the month

Interesting you should say that, as my first thought when I watched some of this "Most popular songs each month" series was how several songs in them did zero here in the UK, yet were in the list, so I assumed it was slanted to the US market, as most online charts are - however, I also spotted a couple that were more specific to the UK (in the 80s, Joe Dolce and Shakin' Stevens, for example). If you check the text of the original posts, apparently they are an aggregate of the most popular in several countries (presumably, mainly US, UK, Canada, Australia and at least some of continental Europe), which is good as at least it is somewhat more representative of the whole decade, rather than just reflecting one side of the Atlantic or the other. What's interesting about this 70s list is how relatively few glam rock and disco hits are in there (which shows that not all countries were so big on them), and also that some major artists of the time barely feature or are missing altogether (eg: David Bowie, Elton John). Again, I guess that reflects that on balance they did not do as well across all the countries sampled, compared to specifically the US and/or UK, where most charts are sourced.

@@coldwhite4240 yes, when I was looking around again I discovered some were number 1 on the Australian charts. So I can now understand there were more charts in the mix here.

The Knack? One hit wonders 😆 Where were the Bay City Rollers on that video? I'm sure that they had a #1 hit (Saturday Night).

Wouldn't someone whose teen years were in the 80s be more of an 80s music fan? You were basically a toddler for almost half of the 70s, 🤣.

​@@kbrewski1 😂😂 yeh I was born 1967 🎉🎉🎉🎉 80s were my growing up and 90smy early 20s 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I don't think disco ever died. It's called house music now. It's the same four to the floor beat.

That's one I've never heard before. But it's always fun discovering new songs. 😊

David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac were album groups

Same. Yes, Genesis, ELP, Floyd, Kansas, Renaissance, Steely Dan etc by the mid 70s.

I love 80s because I like synths in my music!

@@sasapejcin3568 Then you should listen to 70s Prog Rock and listen to the Masters. Wakeman, Emerson, Tony Banks, Kerry Livgren, Jurgen Fritz, Tangerine Dream etc.

@@kbrewski1 I love electronic music from the 70s! That was pure art!😁

Maybe so but Wuthering Heights was not a hit in the US and shouldn't be on this list

US is just 3.8% of the world poppulation

@@greglegakis4177 This must be a British Chart compilation. If it was American we would have seen more Chicago (Saturday in the Park), Steely Dan (Rikki Don't Lose That Number) and more Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. Also saw no Linda Ronstadt (You're No Good) or Neil Young (Heart of Gold).

Like listening to more than 3 seconds of the songs......

Same here. The song named Sailing is one I've never heard before.

They also wrote "Woman in Love" by Barbara Streisand as well, which I think was near the start of the 80's list.