Favorite "warm 70's" album or song

Years ago, I remember one of those Rolling Stone special editions of The Greatest Rock Albums. In the preface, it was stated that there were no albums in it by artists like Elton John, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, etc. because the guys at Rolling Stone considered them "anti-rock." I always thought that was a really snobby perspective.

 

I got this 1975 album for my birthday in 1978 and the whole album still flashes me back to that golden year in my life, especially "Win" and "Right."

 

I Got a Name - Jim Croce
Sweet Life - Paul Davis
I Like Dreaming - Kenny Nolan
Make It With You - Bread
Sweet Baby James (the whole album) - James Taylor

 

The Have a Nice Day box set is loaded with feel-good '70s songs, but what R. Dean Taylor's "Indiana Wants Me" (a disturbing song about a murderer running from the police) is doing on it is anybody's guess.

 

Jimmie Spheeris- Isle Of View
Dan Fogelberg- High Country Snows
Simon & Garfunkel- Old Friends

 

Stevie Wonder - I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
Three Dog Night - Out In The Country
Elton John - Harmony
Doobie Brothers - Another Park, Another Sunday
Boz Scaggs - It's Over

And the first Christopher Cross album.

 

Cat Stevens

Katmandu
Lilywhite
Into White
Silent Sunlight
Home In The Sky

 

Little River Band - Reminiscing.

 

Elton

I Need You To Turn To
Come Down in Time
Amoreena
Love Song (Lesley Duncan)
Tiny Dancer
Friends
Harmony

 

Jefferson Starship - With Your Love

 

I've a bunch as well, but here's a couple:
Maria Muldaur's 'Midnight at the Oasis'
"Moonlight Feels Right' and 'Dancin' in the Moonlight'...reminds me of mushroom pizza and summer nights.

 

War - The Cisco Kid

LOVE the entire "World is a Ghetto" LP, however - very laid-back sound, although with some serious lyrics.

We met down on the fort of Rio Grande...

 

Out In the Country - Three Dog Night (A song I think is worthy of it's own discussion thread, I always feel better after I hear it.)

We May Never Pass This Way Again - Seals & Crofts

 

joni Mitchell - blue

 

You may hear "disturbing" and "murder"; others may remember it for its' immense song hook, and it being a tender story about a guy saying goodbye to his girl from circumstances he couldn't control. The '70s had a lot of those "from the downtrodden's point-of-view" songs, humanizing tragedy from the protagonists' perspective. That maybe the most emotional hit on the radio of the day, involving a police standoff and reign of bullets.

 

From 1978, just a bunch of old standards he liked a lot, but he didn't write a single one.

 

Jackson Browne's Asylum debut which is generally referred to as "Saturate Before Using"..(not actual title) has that warm 70's SoCal sound.

 

Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection