The U.K. 70s Singles & Albums Chart General Discussion Thread.

Sure was. I'll put my 1971 albums up next. Maybe this evening...

 

Nice one!

 

My albums from 1971 (UK)...

Killer - Alice Cooper
Love It To Death - Alice Cooper
America - America
Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs
The Time Has Come - Anne Briggs
Cahoots - Band
Rosemary Lane - Bert Jansch
Moments - Boz Scaggs
She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Tapestry - Carole King
Teaser And The Firecat - Cat Stevens
Curtis - Curtis Mayfield
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Fireball - Deep Purple
American Pie - Don Mclean
The Sun, The Moon & Herbs - Dr. John
Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra
Pictures At An Exhibition - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Future Games - Fleetwood Mac
Moving Waves - Focus
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Can I Have My Money Back? - Gerry Rafferty
Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson
Distant Light - Hollies
Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon - James Taylor
Pearl - Janis Joplin
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Blessed Are… - Joan Baez
Imagine - John Lennon
Bless The Weather - John Martyn
Faro Annie - John Renbourn
Second Winter - Johnny Winter
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Judee Sill - Judee Sill
Living - Judy Collins
Muswell Hillbillies - Kinks
The Singer And The Song - Labi Siffre
Zozo - Led Zeppelin
Sing Children Sing - Lesley Duncan
Fog On The Tyne - Lindisfarne
Landfall - Martin Carthy
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Earth Song / Ocean Song - Mary Hopkin
Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby - McGuinness Flint
Brain Capers - Mott The Hoople
Wildlife - Mott The Hoople
Message From The Country - Move
The Gypsy - Mr. Fox
Electronically Tested - Mungo Jerry
You Don't Have To Be In The Army - Mungo Jerry
Here Comes The Sun - Nina Simone
Olivia Newton-John - Olivia Newton-John
Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney
Reflection - Pentangle
Quiet Fire - Roberta Flack
Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
The North Star Grassman And The Ravens - Sandy Denny
No Roses - Shirley Collins & The Albion Band
Dog Of Two Head - Status Quo
Please To See The King - Steeleye Span
Ten Man Mop Or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again - Steeleye Span
Electric Warrior - T. Rex
Summer Solstice - Tim Hart & Maddy Prior
The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
Who's Next - Who
Fragile - Yes
The Yes Album - Yes

 

According to both Wikipedia and Rate Your Music, the single edit is 5.06. I have the full version on a 70s comp, over eight minutes long, but the other version I have is on Now 100 Hits - Forgotten 70's, which is 6.07...

 

Another strong with a few on my wants list. Currently, we have these in common:

Yes - Fragile & The Yes Album
Hart & Prior - Summer Solstice
T Rex - Electric Warrior
Steeleye Span - Please To See The King & Ten Man Mop
Shirley Collins & The Albion Band - No Roses
Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman & The Ravens
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Mr Fox - The Gypsy
McGuiness Flint - Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby
Mary Hopkin - Earth Song/Ocean Song
Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Focus - Making Waves
ELP - Tarkus & Pictures At The Exhibition
ELO - S/T
Cat Stevens - Teaser & The Firecat
America - S/T

Apart from that, I also have:

Marvin, Welch & Farrar -Second Opinion
The Woods Band - S/T
Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself#
Cowboy - Reach For The Sky
Jasper Wrath - S/T
Ricky Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band - Rudy The Fifth
Billy Joel - Cold Spring Harbour
Tom Pacheco & Sharon Alexander - S/T
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Cressida - Asylum
Loggins & Messina - Sittin' In
Poco - From The Inside & Deliverin'
Bread - Manna
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey & Pink
Loudon Wainwright III - Album II
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Stephen Stills - 2
Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners
The Strawbs - From The Witchwood
Renaissance - Illusion
Barclay James Harvest - Once Again & And Other Stories
The Byrds - Byrdmaniax & Farther Along
Gene Clark - S/T
Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side Of Life
Fairport Convention - Angel Delight & Babbacombe Lee
REO Speedwagon - S/T
Comus - First Utterance
Dulcimer - And I Turned As I Had Turned As A Boy
Tudor Lodge - S/T
Melanie - Gather Me
The Faces - Long Player & A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse
UFO - 2
The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Ian Matthews - If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
Shelagh McDonald - Stargazer
Sea Train - The Marblehead Messenger
The Sweet - Funny How Sweet Coco Can Be
The Guess Who - So Long Bannatyne
Fresh Maggots - S/T
Salamander - The Ten Commandments
America - S/T
Marc Ellington - Rains/Reins Of Change

 

It was a very good year, probably the best for albums. Talking of Marvin, Welch & Farrar, I can still remember hearing their single, 'Marmaduke', on the radio before school one morning; I'm not sure I've heard it since, but I can still remember it. Same with Al Stewart's 'You Don't Even Know Me' from around the same time. I started school in 1971, but I can still remember all that stuff ('Horse With No Name', etc.) on the radio before setting off to school on bleak, rainy mornings, looking around in vain for that Ready-Brek glow... Damn those advertising creeps!

I'm off to get my 1972 albums up here now... See you later!

 

My 1972 albums (UK)...

School's Out - Alice Cooper
My Real Name Is 'Arold - Allan Clarke
Homecoming - America
Straight Up - Badfinger
Let's Make Up And Be Friendly - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Catch Bull At Four - Cat Stevens
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
Dr. John's Gumbo - Dr. John
Honky Chateau - Elton John
Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Bare Trees - Fleetwood Mac
Focus III - Focus
Free At Last - Free
Foxtrot - Genesis
Son Of Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson
Romany - Hollies
Naturally - J.J. Cale
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Come From The Shadows - Joan Baez
For The Roses - Joni Mitchell
Everybody's In Showbiz - Kinks
Crying Laughing Loving Lying - Labi Siffre
Bright Phoebus - Lal & Mike Waterson
Earth Mother - Lesley Duncan
Dingly Dell - Lindisfarne
Sailin' Shoes - Little Feat
Transformer - Lou Reed
Album III - Loudon Wainwright Iii
Shearwater - Martin Carthy
Seventh Sojourn - Moody Blues
All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
Boot Power - Mungo Jerry
Harvest - Neil Young
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Paul Simon - Paul Simon
Solomon's Seal - Pentangle
Sail Away - Randy Newman
Henry The Human Fly - Richard Thompson
Never A Dull Moment - Rod Stewart
Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Sandy - Sandy Denny
Framed - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Slade Alive - Slade
Slayed? - Slade
A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing - Sparks
Piledriver - Status Quo
Below The Salt - Steeleye Span
Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan
Music Of My Mind - Stevie Wonder
The Slider - T. Rex
Merrimack County - Tom Rush
Rock 'N' Roll Gypsies - Vinegar Joe
Vinegar Joe - Vinegar Joe
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Close To The Edge - Yes
Rio Grande Mud - ZZ Top

 

Ike & Tina - Nutbush City Limits (UK#4 October 1973):

 

That record was totally different to everything else in the charts back then.

 

Memories of being on the Cyclone with Dad at Hull Fair, October 1973...

 

I love both the Marvin, Welch & Farrar records. The Shadows did what they did but, for me, at least, those two albums are real classics. Don't know Marmaduke, though. Was that a stand-alone single?

I'm enjoying the trawl through your Seventies collection. You have eclectic tastes!

 

From your list I have:

Yes - Close To The Edge
Steeleye Span - Below The Salt
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Rod Stewart - Never A Dull Moment
Richard Thompson - Henry The Human Fly
Neil Young - Harvest
Martin Carthy - Shearwater
Slade - Slayed
Loudon Wainwright III - Album III
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
Lindisfarne - Dingly Dell
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
ELP - Trilogy
Cat Stevens - Catch Bull At Four
Badfinger - Straight Up
America - Homecoming

I also own:

Aphrodite's Child - 666
Dr Hook & The Medicine Show - Dr Hook & Sloppy Seconds
Pamela Polland - S/T
Magic Carpet - S/T
Clifford T. Ward - Singer Songwriter
Mason Proffit - Rockfish Crossing
Head Hands & Feet - Tracks
Plainsong - In Search Of Amelia Earhart
The Floating House Band - S/T
Country Gazette - Traitor In Our Midst
Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Eagles - S/T
Loggins & Messina - S/T
Poco - A Good Feeling To Know
Bread - Baby I'm A Want You & Guitar Man
Nash & Crosby - S/T
Manassas - S/T
Al Stewart - Orange
Styx - S/T
Dan Fogelberg - Home Free
Renaissance - Prologue
Barclay James Harvest - Baby James Harvest
Gordon Lightfoot - Don Quixote & Old Dan's Records
REO Speedwagon - REO/TWO
Rick Roberts - Windmills
Pure Prairie League - S/T & Bustin' Out
Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band - Garden Party
Linda Ronstadt - S/T
Harry Chapin - Heads & Tails
Black Widow - IV (recorded in'72, released in '97)
Skip Battin - S/T
Ashley Hutchings & Friends - Morris On
Caravan - Waterloo Lily
Joan Baez - Come From The Shadows
The Dillards - Roots & Branches
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Powerglide & Gypsy Cowboy
Batdorf & Rodney - S/T
Coulson, Dean, McGuiness & Flint - Lo & Behold
Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
The Guess Who - Rockin'

 

Yes, it must have been a stand-alone single, about Jan-Feb 1972. I know the Al Stewart track was on the Orange album, which I used to have on vinyl for a while. I didn't know who the artists were on either of these tracks at the time.

I'm glad you're enjoying the trawl through my 70s collection. I thought it might kick things around here into action a little, but only you have really taken the bait so far. We can only try, can't we? I'll put 1973 this evening.

 

You have a mighty collection, carlwm! Actually, I have the two Cass Elliot albums from 1972 as well, but they're not on the list I did on Excel for some reason. Thank goodness for copy and paste, but I still have to re-arrange them after pasting them here. A tedious task.

 

Starting with the UK there are some truly naff singles here. "My Love"

But also some great ones...


06 - 01 - 01 - Wizzard - SEE MY BABY JIVE
04 - 02 - 02 - The Sweet - HELL RAISER
02 - 34 - 05 - Suzi Quatro - CAN THE CAN
08 - 04 - 08 - Gary Glitter - HELLO! HELLO! I'M BACK AGAIN
07 - 08 - 09 - Hot Chocolate - BROTHER LOUIE
07 - 06 - 16 - David Bowie - DRIVE-IN SATURDAY (SEATTLE - PHOENIX)
02 - 35 - 18 - Stevie Wonder - YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE
02 - 47 - 23 - 10C.C. - RUBBER BULLETS
02 - 48 - 24 - The Partridge Family Starring David Cassidy - WALKING IN THE RAIN
11 - 22 - 31 - Gilbert O'Sullivan - GET DOWN
12 - 30 - 39 - Roxy Music - PYJAMARAMA
13 - 37 - 41 - O'Jays - LOVE TRAIN
11 - 36 - 45 - Cliff Richard - POWER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS
1 - NEW - 46 - Peters And Lee - WELCOME HOME
26 - 41 - 48 - Little Jimmy Osmond With The Mike Curb Congregation - LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL

Stevie is the pick of the bunch

 

And now the US and like the UK a fair bit of granny music... Dawn Wings Donny Osmond..

The good ones..



08 - 05 - 03 - Elton John - DANIEL*
11 - 01 - 05 - Stevie Wonder - YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE*
14 - 07 - 08 - Dobie Gray - DRIFT AWAY**
12 - 11 - 11 - Steely Dan - REELING IN THE YEARS****
02 - 59 - 34 - George Harrison - GIVE ME LOVE - (GIVE ME PEACE ON EARTH)*
06 - 47 - 44 - Jim Croce - BAD, BAD LEROY BROWN**
05 - 49 - 46 - The Rolling Stones - YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT**
14 - 24 - 48 - Carpenters - SING**

 

I had a listen to Marmaduke on-line. Good track. Big fan of Al Stewart and I regard Orange as a tad under-appreciated. It was, essentially, the album where he started to transition away from the persona; & kitchen sink observations and started taking on broader themes.

 

Cheers!

The only solo Cass Elliot I've ever heard is Dream A Little Dream For Me. Are the albums any good?

 

They're okay. A bit M.O.R., but in the best possible way. She did a version of Hurricane Smith's 'Oh Babe What Would You Say', which is what encouraged me to get it. It's three albums on two CDs.

She also had a top 10 hit in 1969 with 'It's Getting Better', which I can just about remember, though again, at the time, I didn't know who it was.

 

Not sure if they'll be for me but if I ever found that double CD at a reasonable price, I'd be tempted to take the risk.

 

Ike & Tina just behind Eye Level, Daydreamer and My Friend Stan in the charts. Strange, but happy days.

 

Haven’t you heard It’s Getting Better? That always seems to be on oldies radio.

Make Your Own Kind Of Music is another Cass classic.

 

Don't recognize the titles. Might know them if I heard them, I suppose.

 

I bet you know both. They still get airplay if you listen to the right stations.

 

I'll look 'em up!