Obscure songs from the '70s that you love to share with people

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Spacer22, Jan 26, 2016.

  1. Digital-G

    Digital-G Senior Member

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    Cool thread! I'll have to wait until I get home from work to really check it out though.

    Here's one or two. Some of you around in the early 1970s might remember these, but they were lost on my young ears. The second one might sound a bit like his more famous brother.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vzZzj5XKSc
     
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  2. chronic kebab

    chronic kebab Forum Resident

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  3. geo50000

    geo50000 Forum Resident

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    Also from spring of '72 one of Apple records' more obscure acts, Chris Hodge "We're On Our Way":
     
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  4. Kliph

    Kliph Senior Member

    How about this one.....1968 tho.

    .......................Kliph


     
  5. Chris C

    Chris C Music was my first love and it will be my last!

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    Another overlooked potential "hit" …

    Average White Band - "One Look Over My Shoulder" (1977-78)

     
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  6. Chris C

    Chris C Music was my first love and it will be my last!

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    And …, while we're looking over someone's shoulders, how about this rare gem of a demo, from the late Christopher Rainbow (sometimes vocalist for The Alan Parsons Project & Camel)

    "Looking Over My Shoulder" (1976)

     
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  7. 86mets

    86mets Counting Crows #1 Fan

    Giving some love to a Rosedale LI native...Billy Falcon Friday Night

     
  8. 86mets

    86mets Counting Crows #1 Fan

    And one from Elliott Murphy...

     
  9. Spacer22

    Spacer22 Forum Resident Thread Starter

    I'm glad someone posted this. It actually was going to be the next song I posted here. The song is strangely compelling, and the video is a real hoot. Apparently, the singer is a really famous Italian middle of the road guy, but just for this one song he went completely out of his mind and wrote what is arguably one of the world's first rap songs. Except the lyrics are merely English sounding gibberish (with the exception of the phrase "all right"), as a kind of a parody of English language songs he would hear on the radio and didn't understand. Check it out, and remember that there was nothing like this in 1972!
     
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  10. Spacer22

    Spacer22 Forum Resident Thread Starter

    That reminds me of another Marvin Gaye from the same time that I like just as much. It's even more obscure because I don't think it was released until many years later.

    The World Is Rated X - Marvin Gaye (1973)

     
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  11. catnip nation

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  12. CliffL

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    I definitely think this could have been a big hit in 1973...it's fantastic, as was virtually all of Marvin's work during this era. I suspect Berry Gordy nixed it as being too controversial.
     
  13. bekayne

    bekayne Senior Member

    Members of a another band called Bluebird:
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  14. piston broke

    piston broke Forum Resident

    Praise the Lord for youtube. I heard this song maybe thrice in 1979 and never forgot it.

    Bit of powerpop for y'all.

     
  15. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Tony Kingston, Faith Hope and Charity:

     
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  16. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Frijid Pink, Lost Son:

     
  17. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    I'm not sure if the OP wants both singles and non-singles, and I'm not sure if this is one of the former, but here's ...

    Arlyn Gale, Back to the Midwest Night:

     
  18. bekayne

    bekayne Senior Member

    The Young Canadians "Automan" (1979)
     
  19. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

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    Laurie Styvers - Beat the Reaper (1972)



    A-1-2-3, 1-2-3...
     
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  20. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

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    Jackson Heights - Long Time Dying

     
  21. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

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    Plainsong - YoYo Man (1972)

     
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  22. PacificOceanBlue

    PacificOceanBlue Senior Member

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    Moxy - Fantasy
     
  23. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

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    Ace - No Future In Your Eyes (1975)

     
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  24. Eleventh Earl of Mar

    Eleventh Earl of Mar Somehow got them all this far.

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  25. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

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    The Zeros - Wimp (1977… when else!)

     
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