I Love 70's Soundtrack
With a repeat showing of I Love The 70s on BBC 2, Virgin are issuing a 43 track double CD to accompany the series covering glam-rock, motown, punk, ska and disco (but unfortunately no Leo Sayer).
A veritable who's who of 70's artists, this album illustrates perfectly how daft band names don't just belong to current chart toppers (yes that's you N'sync, JJ72 and Snoop Dogg). Mungo Jerry offer us their biggest ever hit 'In The Summertime' (did they have another?), Boomtown Rats ponder the wisdom of being a school teacher with 'I Don't Like Mondays', and Mott The Hoople, heroes to surfers everywhere, sing 'All The Young Dudes'.
If you didn't have a silly name then the other two major ways to have a hit in 70s were to wear OTT clothes or to have a voice like molasses. Exponents of the latter form of hit making are Issac Hayes, with probably the coolest vocal of all time in 'Shaft', and Barry White 'You're My First, My Last, My Everything'. In the former camp (if you'll pardon the pun) are T-Rex ('Jeepster'), Elton John ('Goodbye Yellow Brick Road') and Mud ('Tiger Feet').
Add to this smatterings of Wings, Abba, Slade, ELO, Madness, David Bowie, and Hot Chocolate and you've got enough retro rock to make Abigail party.
CD 1
01 Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
02 Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
03 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown
04 Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
05 Slade - Coz I Love You
06 T-Rex - Jeepster
07 Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
08 David Bowie - Changes
09 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
10 Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling
11 Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair
12 Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
13 Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
14 Hot Chocolate - Brother Louie
15 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
16 Carly Simon - You're So Vain
17 David Essex - Gonna Make You A Star
18 Paul McCartney & Wings - Live And Let Die
19 Pilot - Magic
20 Mud - Tiger Feet
21 Sweet - Blockbuster
22 Queen - Killer Queen | | |
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