This 70s Top 10 Will Make You Wonder What The HELL Happened To MUSIC? | Professor of Rock

It’s time for another Hit Song Redux This Time we’re going behind the top 10 songs of this VERY same week from the year 1975 47 years ago. This top 10 has some of the greatest songs of all time that we still hear today and as usual we have the actual artists tell us the stores.? Who is the real #1 all of these year later Is it the Doobie Brothers, Is it the Eagles, Or Grand Funk Railroad? or Stevie Wonder. Find out next on the Hit Song Redux of 70s
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It’s time for another edition of our show the Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of the rock and roll and re rank the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on how much the world has listened to them since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. With the actual artist commentary Your stories and your dedications To clarify, this isn’t my top 10. It’s the actual top 10 from this exact week 39 years ago. We count them down as they were then and then we run them through a recalibration system which tells us what the real top 10 is based on all time streams and views.
This program is a tribute to the great Casey Kasem’s american top 40 which we all grew up with… this time we travel back to this exact week in the year 1975.. like I said 47 years ago. When someone says 47 years ago I think of the 1940s. It doesn’t seem like almost 50 years ago would be the mid 70s it’s crazy town. So if you went to catch a movie at the local cinema you would’ve chosen from the Godfather part 2 one of my personal favorite films ever..as well as the man with the golden Gun with Roger Moore you also had the Stepford Wives and Shampoo with Warren Beatty on TV WHeel of Fortune and the Jeffersons both Debuted in January and the shows KUNG FU and Odd Couple both were in their final seasons Let’s get into it.
So coming in at #10 It’s a former Beatle with his 8th solo top 40 hit. It’s John Lennon with #9 Dream So apparently John Lennon was fascinated with the recurrence of the number nine throughout his life, for instance… Lennon was born on October 9.His first home was at 9 Newcastle Road, Wavertree, Liverpool - three names which each contain nine letters. Also the Beatles' first gig at The Cavern Club took place on February 9, 1961.. Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager, first saw them perform on November 9 that same year.The Beatles' contract with EMI was confirmed on May 9, 1962. and the biggest 9 event Lennon's son Sean shared his father's birthday. So The mystery voice that calls Lennon's name "John" during the first bridge was performed by his lover, May Pang - on the second bridge he reversed the tape of her saying his name. According to May Pang's book Loving John, Lennon told her that he did not know what the song was about, but it wasn’t about her. He also did not "convince" her to sing the vocals, she sang them because the female vocalist that was scheduled for the session was a now show

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: What songs would head up your perfect 70s 8-track playlist?

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Good question: 1)The Faces, Stay With Me. 2) Thin Lizzy, The Boys Are Back In Town. 3) Procol Harum live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Conquistador. 4) Peter Frampton, Baby I Love Your Way. 5) Cheap Trick, I Want You To Want Me. 6) The Steve Miller Band, Take The Money and Run. 7) The Grass Roots, Sooner Or Later. 8) 3 Dog Night, Joy To The World. 9) Led Zeppelin, The Crunge. 10) ELO, Turn To Stone. There are others, but these are among them. Cheers! ✌️

[@Paul-D-Hoff]

Sorry, but I never owned a 8-track. Too much wow and flutter, pianos sounded terrible.

[@surlechapeau]

Stevie Wonder- Sir Duke; Steely Dan- Deacon Blues; Bruce Springsteen- Rosalita; Carole King- I Feel The Earth Move; Supertramp- Goodbye Stranger; Chicago- 25 0r 6 To 4; Bachmann-Turner Overdrive- Taking’ Care Of Business; Earth, Wind & Fire- September.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Others would include the following. 11) Linda Ronstadt doing the Neil Young song, Love Is A Rose. 12) Heart, Crazy On You. 13) Carly Simon, Nobody Does It Better. 14) Dr. Hook, The Cover Of The Rolling Stone. 15) 25 Or 6 To 4, by Chicago. 16), Sweet Baby James, by James Taylor. 17) Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver. 18) Do It Again, by Steely Dan. 19) Lido Shuffle, by Boz Scaggs. 20) Welcome Back Kotter, by John Sebastian.

[@surlechapeau]

@Anna Trail I never had an 8 track either! just pick your best 8 :)

[@delcrowe9712]

I was a teenager throughout the 70s. I'm amazed that all the music I loved is still a staple on the radio today. The 70s was the golden age of Rock.

[@livenhfree]

I'll add the 80s as well. 90s were also very good, but not like the 70s/80s. After 2000, things really started going downhill. Too much auto-tune. Too little creativity.

[@YahshuaLovesMe]

@@livenhfree also the sixties.

[@royjohnson465]

@@livenhfree ~I graduated from high school in the 1970's, yes still some very good music in the 1980's but in the 80's music just started to go very bad down hill with the Ramones, Metallica, Punk music, etc.

[@livenhfree]

@@royjohnson465 I'm not a punk fan, so I get it. Metallica I'm OK with. But those are just genres. So much other great stuff that came out of the 80s. Just a lot of happy, partying, dance-worthy music!

[@royjohnson465]

@@livenhfree ~Yes a lot of great music in the 80's.! I agree Metallica is okay and not garbage, just not as good as...I was meaning. But Punk 'was' garbage music. "For me" the 60's and 70's were the best and better than the 80's. But the worst possible example is way, way over repetitive diarrhea c"RAP" tin ear trash that started in about 1989.

[@dwaynehunt7095]

There never was or ever will be another decade of music that could match the 70s. I was lucky to be a teenager during that time.

[@marypruitt444]

I was a teen through the 80's but I truly love the 70's, too! What a time to be alive... when life was simpler and we were young!! 🙋🏻‍♀️💕😎

[@silviac221]

Me too!

[@mikehenson819]

Amen

[@lucyhare5799]

Agree, graduated in 76, listening to the best music ever.

[@themaggattack]

Can't overlook the late 60's.

[@bryantrowan6799]

I'm so lucky to be born in 68 with a sister who is 10 years older than me and had such great taste in music. I would sit up at night and listen to the music coming from her room at night.

[@AFmedic]

Born 1968??? Egads! That was when I graduated from High School. I think I was luckier than you being born in 1950 with a sister 5 yrs older than me. I got to experience the tail end of the Do-Wop era, Buddy Holly & the Everly Brothers (both were inspirational to later artists including the Beatles), Temptations, 4-Tops, Chicago, Santana, etc. etc. etc.

[@58MrMike]

I was born in ‘58 with a sister 10 years older and listened to her records

[@patriciaann5637]

Born in 68 with brothers 15, 13 and 10 years older. I loved all the music they played.

[@johnkarantanes2359]

Growing up preteen in the 70s was magical,with the great variety in music,everything from Billy don't be a hero, The night Chicago Died,Season in the sun,and the next minute getting pumped over Lenard Skinnerd, Zeppelin, Boston,and so on,from A to Z and all great,we were very lucky to be there and witness it in that infinitely small speck of time.

[@tomcartwright7134]

Adam , you are not old enough to have heard this music when it was all new, but I really appreciate the respect and honor you give to the music of this era. I’m nearly 70 , and as time marches by , this music becomes even more dear to my heart . Thank you Sir for your care and insight.

[@audiobooksproject4829]

1970s music sucks. 1960s can s**k a bag of you know what. And today's music is even worse. All of it sucks. You need to go back farther than the 1970s to find quality. I want Boomer music to die too. Let's just undo this entire 1960s to 2020s era already.

[@hippojuice23]

@@audiobooksproject4829 1920s, you rekon?

[@jonvecchione5879]

As Kurt Vonneguts uncle used to say, "If this ain't happy I don't know what is."He says we must be satisfied. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder.

[@tomwolf8721]

Tom, Tom Wolf here. Another old timer from GA 67?

[@johnypitman2368]

I was 10 in 65 so for me the late 60s through the 70's were my time. I almost always gravitate there when I need some "tunes"

[@juliesipes8007]

When I hear Frankie Vallie’s “My Eyes Adored You” I tearfully think of my father (who died from Covid on 11/9/2020). My father was a quintessential musician, music teacher, and band director. He loved jazz but was not a fan of rock-and-roll, and he and I would have battles over that. But he loved “My Eyes”. I love that song more b/c of him. Sweet memories. I miss him so much. 💜

[@marypruitt444]

I'm so sorry 😞...

[@LazyIRanch]

I'm so sorry you lost your sweet Dad, especially to this awful disease that took so many loved ones from us. As a music teacher who shared his passion with others, I'm sure he inspired and was loved by his students. I would have loved to have met your father and hear him talk about jazz. My mother loved black jazz music from the 30s and 40s and she got to hear some famous musicians live back then whose names meant nothing to me until I was much older. As a stupid teenager, I thought that old music was "lame", but now I love it so much! I discovered this fantastic music by looking up songs on YT that I remembered my mother singing and dancing to when I was a kid (she was the jitterbug queen), but I'd never heard the originals. Now I'm kicking myself for not making this discovery sooner, while Momma was still here and I could ask her about her favorite old songs. Some of them were really funny and even a little risque! A few months ago I was listening to a radio program about the music of "Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five", and realized I knew every song of his they played but only heard Mom sing them. "Saturday Night Fish Fry" is a hoot! I thought Mom was making up some of those hilarious "naughty" lyrics, such as: "...Now the women were screamin' and jumpin' and yellin' The bottles was flyin' and the fish was smellin'..." She obviously loved his music a lot and I wish I could talk to her about him now. I wish I could share KZbin with her, she would have loved this interview for sure, because OF COURSE she loved Frankie Valli! It would have been so much fun to look up old songs with her. I even found "The Burglar Man" song from the 1920s that my aunt used to sing, not exactly "PC" but I think it's a funny song. Now I sing it, but have added some pantomime to make it even sillier when I sing it to kids.

[@markberryhill2715]

It was one of my favorites as well,and a serious memory song thinking about my little girlfriend at the time.

[@SleepyJukebox-vv9dy]

😢

[@Jake1968bc]

Today's music couldn't hold a candlestick to the music of the 70s!!!!

[@ianramage1593]

I grew up in the 70's and IMHO, it was the best decade of music. Like them or loathe them, artists in the 70's were true musicians unlike most of the garbage that passes for music today.

[@jaydenp4975]

Yes! “Music” today is awful.

[@mattcremer4348]

If I may agree while disagreeing at the same time ... :) ... yes, popular music in the 70's was performed by true musicians. However there's sooo much music these days, it's everywhere, it's so easy to produce & record ... but the stuff that's popular, that's what's (let's be overly kind to it) "not great". :) But if you do some hunting, truffling around sifting through the mud, you can actually turn up music which is made by musicians that're easily as musiciany as Fleetwood Mac or The Eagles, and which is to your own taste. It's just not what all the kiddies listen to, and the kiddies is where the money is - as it was in the 70's when it was good musicians & good musicianship that the kiddies were into.

[@rojoeditor]

The 70s got a bad reputation because in addition to the best music the 70s also had the worst music.

[@williambergman3840]

@@rojoeditor hey it’s not rap garbage n that makes me love the old music even more. I don’t emwatch any money when/ if rap music starts. Nothing but garbage imo

[@williambergman3840]

No movies with rap. Period.

[@tanyalarose8907]

I was 12 years old in 1975 but very much into music. With two older step siblings, I was introduced to bands like America and The Doobie Brothers. I'm so grateful I was around in the 70s!!

[@dustietu]

I was 13 in 1975 and for Christmas that year I received a little cassette player and a cassette of Rod Stewards "every story tells a story" and a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle . A Christmas to remember!

[@williambergman3840]

Yes love those bands beautiful harmonies and great musicians 💜🤩

[@gregorybolling6280]

Same here. I was 11. Best music of all time.

[@dgtom]

I was also 12 in 1975, and in October of that year, I attended my first concert, Elton John at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

I was 12 in '75 and had two older half-brothers myself. The oldest one died 15 years ago tomorrow. Posting 4-5-22.

[@idagirl814]

I won a transistor radio in 1974, and heard many of these songs for the first time on that tiny hand held device. They still sounded amazing. It was my most prized possession.

[@douglasstrother6584]

KHJ 930AM!

[@BushcraftingBogan]

When I was 7 I found a small, square transistor radio in a box of the neighbors garbage. It was missing the battery cover but other than that seemed OK. I took it back home and put a 9v in it and Presto! I had my own radio. A little duct tape over the battery and I was in business. At night I tuned in to the rock station that all the older kids listened to and the rest is history. I use to try to write down all the songs and I'd patiently wait for the DJ to list the songs. I was a sponge. This was probably the same year, 1974. Even though I grew out of that little square, black transistor, It was still on my dresser when I graduated in 1984.

[@douglasstrother6584]

@@BushcraftingBogan Nice!

[@stillhere1425]

My sister was always working, earning money to buy things, mostly records, or stereo equipment, and the merchants often gave away cheap transistor radios as a premium. She would carelessly pass these along to me, one by one as they lost the capacity to tune into a single station. I would lie awake in bed long after I should have been fast asleep, staring at the ceiling and listening to music on the latest tinny-sounding little radio.

[@josephliptak]

I was 10 in 1970 and 20 in 1980 so I spent the best years of my young life in the 1970s and there were so many bands putting out top 10 hits like no other decade. Best era for all genres of music.

[@FRAME5RS]

Same age here. 20 in 1980. Good times

[@jackdaniels2000]

Well, guess there's three of us

[@ROB-xm5fv]

No......4

[@rosshart9514]

5th

[@andysmith2417]

Im number 6 then 😊

[@realjaxon]

1975 brings back great memories for me. I graduated from high school in '75. Lots of great tunes.

[@theodoreritola7641]

How did he forget the movie JAWS in 1975 though . His writers must have been drunk lol All in fun

[@angelrivera2339]

That was the year that I was born...

[@deannacechowski2927]

I also graduated in '75

[@shannonblanchard8195]

I was six!!! Love it all!!

[@rb67mustang]

I was almost 15 years old that week in 1975. I know all of those songs very well, and they are still favorites to me now in my 60's. Great music is timeless isn't it?

[@scotchbudmeister9018]

Born in '60, grew up with the best music. I had no clue that these songs I heard the radio every day would still have so much weight almost 50 years later or that I'd still be listening to them on something called a playlist. Thanks for the look back Professor!

[@wakeupuk3860]

Me too, I try listening to today's music but it is so bad and as you say so correctly, so much of the everyday pop music which we took so much for granted has so much 'weight'. Just think of so many multi-million dollar films and TV series have such songs at the pivotal moments of the film. For example Guardians of the Galaxy , who would have thought Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede, Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and Come and Get Your Love and Redbone the type of songs Terry Wogan he would play on Radio 2 made that film what is was. Just think today's generation around the world 175,088,991 of them had listen to KZbins Guardians of the Galaxy playlist. That is 175 MILLION !! for our bands like Blue Swede and Redbone who really were just one hit wonders. I doubt very much if we are still around on this planet young people in 50 years will be wanting to listen to Adele or Sheeran let alone some one hit wonders of today. Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga [Verse 1] I can't stop this feeling deep inside of me Girl, you just don't realize what you do to me When you hold me in your arms so tight You let me know everything's all right [Chorus] I'm hooked on a feeling I'm high on believing That you're in love with me

[@jennifertarin4707]

@@wakeupuk3860 whenever this comes up on my playlist, I can't help but belting it out along with the singers (assuming of course, that I am not on a crowded subway car or bus, but sometimes even then)

[@mattelfesso]

I agree, the staying power of these songs is amazing. I can’t imagine the same will be said 5 decades from now about the current top 10.

[@Fuzcapp]

What a talent Linda Ronstadt was. So sad to hear what is happening with her now. She was simply brilliant in the day.

[@mljones655]

She remains my favorite female singer!

[@goobfilmcast4239]

She had her share of health problem but had an incredible run and still inspires many singers today.

[@judycolson6047]

My idol and wannabe of the 70’s, my teen years🎉

[@idagirl814]

Yes, she was incredible in every way.

[@dianewilliams1125]

Saw her on Broadway in Pirates of Penzance! With Rex Smith and Kevin Kline! Long time ago! Great show!😊😊😊

[@michelemoneywell8765]

We were blessed to have grown up with the best music EVER!

[@marypruitt444]

The absolute BeSt!! 🎉🎤😎🎷🎶🙋🏻‍♀️🥳💋

[@michaelmueller7962]

... and with much more freedom and tolerance than young people have today

[@dwaynewladyka577]

The 1970s sure had great music. I'm glad I was around then. Cheers! ✌️

[@sherylw4599]

same! These are all so great! and The Professor brings them all back with fondness and warmth. I LOVE this channel!

[@rayfabris2512]

that's why music in the 80's were great because of the influences from music of the 70's and was lost in the 90's listen to Slash in his interviews there's soul in his playing not a thousand bpm crap 😳

[@TheAgentAssassin]

These songs are ingrained into my brain.

[@johnnyk7304]

Wow didn't have much cash for albums or concerts so we listened to the top songs on the radio and now I'm so glad we got to enjoy them all!

[@edryba4867]

I’m glad I was on the RADIO then!

[@1allanbmw]

I turned 16 in early '75. Learned how to drive while "Black Water" played on the radio of the Chevy Nova they had for us at school. Just turned 63. I heard all of these tunes back in the day. Kinda makes me wonder after us old guys are gone, will this music from this era survive? Every one of those songs remind me of a place, person or moment in time... in THAT time, that partly make the music so special for me. I guess one can only hope it touches new generations to come as it did for those of us who heard it when it was brand new. Thanks for the countdown brother!

[@reverendg5937]

I was 10yrs old and heard "Black Water" every morning on the way to school on the school bus until school let out for summer that year. Life couldn't have been any better.

[@sheilafontaine9021]

Your story is my story. Turned 14 in 1975 and drove to school in a Chevy nova. My Golden Childhood. Loved the Doobies too.

[@KiroPhoto]

I learned in a yellow AMC Gremlin.😆 I don’t miss it but I still love the Doobie Bros.

[@ellencourtney7187]

Thank you!!! I was 15 in 1975-met my husband that year. Where does the time go? Great music never gets old

[@Marcus-p5i5s]

About 8 years ago I drove past a High School parking lot while school was letting out. Students in their cars were streaming out of the lot. Most had music blaring with their windows down. ALL were playing classic rock music from the 70's. When we were young in the 70's we weren't playing music from the 30's. THAT tells you EVERYTHING ya need to know about the quality of 70's rock vs ANY time after.

[@michaelmueller7962]

So true - my daughter listens to all the great old stuff and so do many of her friends.

[@Marcus-p5i5s]

@@michaelmueller7962So do my children. By choice.

[@cyndifoore7743]

I saw Linda in concert at the Wheeling Civic Center and she was amazing! I never saw an artist get the response from an audience like she did. She didn’t say much but as soon as she started singing and the audience was totally silent, no cat calls, whistles or even talking to each other. When the last note left her lips there was deafening applause, then when she started singing again, total silence. Everyone was completely mesmerized by her. She’s always been my favorite female voice. It’s so sad that she now has Parkinson’s and can no longer sing, I cried when I heard this. Love you Linda.

[@johntiggleman4686]

Have you seen that "documentary" about her, "The Sound Of My Voice?" Not sure who has it streaming...but it is a great one to watch. Linda is my favorite female singer from the 70s. Love her albums with Nelson Riddle doing old standards.

[@hannabaal150]

I remember when she was the First Mama of California and have loved her all my life. What a set of pipes. She lived in that high register with her unmistakable clarity, like one of the ancient Sirens reborn to sing again. And sooo saucy...long live Linda! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqKVl4lsoLp9itk

[@jimmcdonald7201]

Saw her in Charleston. She could sing anything. Check her later albums.

[@PNZV]

I saw Sha Na Ana there in the late 70’s. I just thought I’d add that since I saw Wheeling Civic Center in a post. I don’t see that every day.

[@racketman2u]

@@PNZV no, that caught my eye too, since Neil Sedaka released a song about Wheeling West Virginia in the 70s that not even many Americans know about ! mainly because for some strange reason he released it in Australia, where it actually became quite popular.

[@michaelszczys8316]

Recently been listening to billboard top 100 for 1960, 61, 62 ( when I was little kid ) and its hard to fathom just how many amazingly terrific tunes came to life in such a short time. And it doesn't stop there

[@BeverlySkyles-id3oi]

I loved a lot of the 60s music when it was new. I still love it. And I like the Big 80s music more than the 70s.

[@steelbat54]

Born in 1954 and heard it all from the beginning with Elvis, ( I’m sure I heard him but wasn’t aware till the early 1960’s), I feel very privileged and fortunate to have heard Rock an Pop progress and grow as it came out in real time. To listen to it for the first time decades later is just not the same although the appreciation can still be there.. 👍

[@edbrediger2680]

I grew up in the deep south until 1974, then moved West at age 14. Before then my only music access was 3 mono AM stations. 70% Motown, 30 religious, on a cheap 5 transistor 9v radio. Imagine my surprise when I hit the West coast, got a proper FM sound system and had 8 Rock stations available. Never had I heard the stuff of legends, 70's Rock until I was 15 in '75. I was reborn! Absolutely fell in love!

[@lorensims4846]

My favorite memory from '75 is when I went over to my old Jr. High School to put up a poster for our spring musical that I was starring in. Just as I was putting up the poster, as the kids were leaving for the day, a group of girls came tripping down one of the grand staircases, singing the acapella portion of Black Water. They sounded really great, with perfect harmony, and left running out the door laughing.

[@davefk]

I turned 13 in 1970, so my teenage years were just amazing living in England. So many great songs, films and new innovations. The music of the 50's to the 90's will live forever, as a testament to a wonderful age.

[@Rev22-21]

As a 57 born baby...I can relate. What gets me is that we had a new hit every week and we're spoiled to that. Now....it's all trash.

[@kevinkliegl9315]

@@Rev22-21 57er myself, and I agree with you. A fantastic time to be alive, all those great concerts.

[@thomasreynolds9713]

Became a teenager in 1970 too. I grew with the music of the 70's and came of age with it.

[@helen9289]

they just dont write real songs any more

[@jvyoung1258]

I was 12 in 1970

[@brendawoods4750]

I was a kid and this music had a profound impact on me. My friends never quite understood. This was a perfect year to highlight. Damn. I am fortunate. The diversity in the music and the people around me helped shaped who I am. 💕💕💕

[@areneesouder]

America's harmonies were always so spot on and clean. Love them so much and still listen to them.

[@mljones655]

They were sorely underrated!

[@charliedontsurf70]

Ballads and love songs ruled the charts in the 70's. It was a golden ,mellow time.

[@tracytuten5116]

Don Henley and Glenn Frey were both in Linda Ronstadt's band and that time together led to the formation of the Eagles. My mother played Linda Ronstadts album constantly in 1975, I was 8 years old and knew every song. When I got married at the age of 22 that album came with me.

[@cindyreeves5048]

Same.

[@bocajrs7628]

Same with me. Many people became fans of the Eagles after Hotel California in 1977. Like you, I beame a fan after their first album.

[@lynby6231]

It’s true that if you take on a Don Henley vocal you’re going to come second

[@jmw689]

Black Water is my all time favorite song. The pictures it paints in my mind....I love it. The Doobies are pure talent.

[@pipermccool]

Reminds me of cruisin’ on a Saturday night . . .

[@patigulat4126]

I adore the Doobie Brothers... have seen them in concert 3 times. ❤

[@kurtb8474]

The Only Doobies song that appealed to me.

[@michele-kt]

I turned 12 in 1970 and am the youngest of 4 children. Throughout the 70s I got to listen to my sister's music like Iron Butterfly, CS&N, to both of my brother's music like the Stones, Lennon, McCartney, the Doors, James Taylor and Led Zeppelin. I loved the Pop music too and like most in my age group, I spent the mid and late 70s in Discos!

[@beginningguitar1017]

Ah…1975…the year I graduated HS. Thanks for the walk down memory Lane!

[@dianewilliams1125]

Me too!😊😊😊

[@sp-lc1fy]

I graduated from 8th grade in 75.

[@EvelynKnuth]

Me too!

[@troysmom2132]

I way a freshman...such great music. It dominated our lives. I don't believe there will be another time when music captures the soul of a generation. Todays youth have so much else to do with their time, TV 24/7 & social media 24/7. Our TV went off at midnight but late at night, in the midwest, we could get WLS Chicago on the radio. Such great memories.

[@lsrose]

Boy this brought back some memories of my teen years! I can say that I’m honored to have experienced the music of the 1970s.

[@Heartwing37]

Just starting collecting vinyl (again) and falling in love all over again with music from the 70s and 80s!

[@barbaralavoie1045]

The 70’s were the greatest years of music. Loved it. Late 60’s as well. From 1965 onward, great time to live. Loved the 70’s the best.❤️🥰💞👍

[@wakeupuk3860]

So true Barbara and I would like to say 'thank you' us guys back then so were lucky as oppose young men of today, as you 'ladies' were fun, pretty, so sexy in the gear you wore, no tattoos, no fake body parts and did not smother your faces with makeup and most of all you did not have the arrogance girls now have. And on top of that the great music with the slow ones where if a guy was luckily got a kiss (ie a snog) that really made his day. .

[@natashatomlinson4548]

I graduated from high school in 75 so I remember this well. I admit that I’m a huge Linda Ronstadt fan, but listening to the other versions of “ You’re No Good” shows me that Linda sang it the best in great part because she interpreted the song best . It’s what she does. The song is best sung with bitterness, regret and disdain , which I don’t hear that much in the other earlier versions.

[@edeledeledel5490]

She also sang the lead female part in Gilbert & Sullivan's light opera Pirates of Penzance, live on Broadway for many months in the early 80s ; and she was f. good.

[@jamesdaniel3326]

NOTHING MATCHED her 'Heat Wave'!

[@markportier5466]

@@jamesdaniel3326 Right on. Those yeah-yeahs. Hot DAMN, girl!

[@2wheels42]

Im 52 year old music fan and still discovering amazing music from the 70s and 80s.

[@pdmullgirl]

I love this series! I’m always amazed at the variety of music that was popular back then. And I was born in the sixties so I grew up listening to that music! I just never really paid that much attention to all the different genres that was on the radio. Or because that’s the way it was, it wasn’t anything you would necessarily pay attention to. Those were certainly good times. The world was young and a whole lotta fun! Wouldn’t trade those days for nothing! Listening to the top forty count down every Sunday with Casey Kasem. Hoping it will be your favorite song and being disappointed when it plays at number three! So you know it’s not gonna be number one! Thanks Professor, your videos make me smile! ❤️💜💚

[@710p5]

@ Page Mull ; Vu jade' 😉😊

[@emmetee9675]

I agree! As a kid in the 70’s/80’s, I remember listening to all the songs on the radio and appreciating all genres of music and not even knowing what “genre” meant back then. 😊 My friends and I feel like we grew up during a great time in music. Because of all the music we heard growing up we were open to all types of future music such as Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal, Alternative, Grunge, Rap, Hip Hop, and R & B, Country, and any songs that have a great sound.

[@nalk20]

I have that same feeling too. I have a feeling that the supposed lack of quality and diversity of contemporary pop music comes down to algorithms. If you google something you get more of the same the more you google. The same thing can be observed on KZbin, Spotify and a whole host of other media sites. Your recommended videos gets geared towards what you initially search for. Thus you will experience less diversity. You will never be challenged. Sadly the record companies are wise to this and therefore put out music that caters to these algorithms, is my theory. The really bad thing about these algorithms is, that they are not just used for music. Libraries use those same algorithms extensively, which actually make the users less informed, dumber if you'll pardon my expression, which is at the root of the problem with needing to lower passing grades in schools, colleges etc. Librarians used to inform people of which books on a subject were good and which were bad and they'd even go as far as recommend books to challenge you a little bit once in a while once they got to know you a little. Those things have for the most part been taken over by algorithms that just cater to the ordinary, lazy people. Actually pretty much every webstore and music service uses algorithms like these and the damage they do to society as a whole is pervasive and extremely destructive , because the increase in our screen time and subsequent isolation make us narcissistic and less informed. I also believe that narcissism is a big part of what lies at the root of the socalled cancel culture. That narcissism. I believe another decade or two will find every grown up human in a corner of each their own room in a fetal position sucking their thumbs drooling, all humming the same nonthreatening, single monotone tone, which is what music will finally end up being, while robots change their diapers an do the shopping according to God the almighty algorithm. Thus the human race will fall to Skynet. Not with a bang, but with a single tone.( That's a joke btw.) Seriously though, having grown up in the 70s-80s it is on some days frankly a terrifying thing to look back on the last 10-15 years of societal development.

[@pdmullgirl]

@@nalk20 Enjoyed your comment. And sadly, I think you are right. And I liked your joke. Got a good chuckle out of that. ❤️💜💚

[@pdmullgirl]

@@emmetee9675 Let’s not forget Disco! ❤️💜💚

[@elflordsjourneys]

Grew up in the 60s and 70s, still listening to the music. It's the best😊

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

What I love about the songs in that era are the sincere lyrics and harmonious melodies.

[@mljones655]

I am lyric oriented! The 70s were great in all genres becuz of lyrics.

[@Tom-ev4rg]

Songs from a time when honest-to-goodness professional musicians and real singers crafted sophisticated music.

[@beelbrother1648]

they still do, but theyre not on the radio

[@JackTheRabbitMusic]

We are still writing great songs, but nobody listens. My channel is a testament to this fact. Since I've been sharing my music, I've got nothing but great reviews...but I'm not making money or being heard by a large audience. It is disappointing, but KZbin hates small channels, especially those making original music.

[@beelbrother1648]

@PeopleAreDumbNow you're out of your element. bands still play music. bands still tour. people still buy records, and tapes, and CDs, AND digital downloads. please see the following record labels: Ipecac Records, Robotic Empire, Southern Lord, Deathwish Records, SST Records, Jade Tree, Suicide Squeeze, Touch and Go, Dischord Records, PC Music, Mexican Summer, Editions Mega, Software Records, Warp Records.

[@Tom-ev4rg]

@PeopleAreDumbNow agreed. Even established acts say they now only make any real money on touring and merchandise.

[@sandysmom100]

Yes! The real thing not this dumb fake stuff now with auto tune

[@thephantomeagle2]

Wow. What an amazing list. In Junior high school choir we did “Black Water” in counterpoint. We had chimes, and tambourines. At the end with Take me by the hand, come and dance with me, funky Dixie land were all sung buy groups of kids. We got a standing ovation at a basketball game halftime with the marching band playing. Being a long time Michigander I’ve always loved GFR.

[@leslieperkins2722]

I was 18 in 1975 and graduated high school. I love and miss the 70’s. Best music ever.

[@bernadettesandoval3990]

Me, too!!! You're so right!

[@frednovak506]

75 also

[@donniecothern9842]

Me to class of 75 take me back !!!!!

[@stevenhays5541]

I was also a grad from 1975.

[@claybladzik6755]

Ditto. 75 did ROCK.

[@DoubleMrE]

I’m a boomer and I consider the period from 1965-75 to be the greatest period in the history of Rock music. The cool thing is that we really knew and appreciated what a great period in music we were living through. To paraphrase Joni Mitchell…we did know what we got ‘til it was gone.

[@darrelltiencken9421]

Actually what I was thinking also 1965 to 1975 music was transforming before 65 to innocent after 75 to much dico

[@matthewadam7615]

I think I would go from 65 to 85. Two decades of the best music of all time.

[@DoubleMrE]

@@matthewadam7615 Well, maybe if you don’t count disco. Hehe…jk. 😜

[@mrcryptozoic817]

@@matthewadam7615 I also am a boomer, I'm with you on rock from 65 to 85.

[@kathleenking47]

Millenials love the 50s-early 90s music as well

[@StressJudoCoaching]

I've been playing Grand Funk for the past several months. I always liked them as a kid but Holy Crap they were good! They do not deserve to be forgotten.

[@joer5627]

Ok, I will have to pull out my 2 GFR albums.

[@waynejohanson1083]

Did you know that Some Kind of Wonderful was a cover version.

[@StressJudoCoaching]

@@waynejohanson1083 I didn't know that.

[@madbrowniac7871]

One great Detroit Band covering astutely Great Original Music from a Detroit based Genre group.🚘🛣🎤🎼🎵🎶🎸🎹🥁B.W.

[@mikehenson819]

They weren’t good. They were frikin off the chain GREAT!!! I had all their albums.

[@samjones2439]

This is the first time watching your program! Very impressed. I used to be a DJ in nightclubs from 77’-83’. So appreciate what you are doing here. Always loved the back stories of how the song was written or made it to where it is today! Great job!! Love that Joni Mitchell story. Mountain View parking lot. Won’t forget that one. We tend to forget how much R&B influence we had from the 70’s. 😎

[@Vonlang001]

I was a competitive swimmer through high school in the 70's and for away swim meets where we would be take a school bus Black Water would be a song we would sing as a group on the bus. Not the whole song, just the end part with all the vocals. Singing this would bring us together as a team. It was a great time in my life.

[@Soundofsilence-j4d]

Love swimmers schools dead now

[@48tomw]

@@Soundofsilence-j4d Yep it seems that was a thing back in those days. My best friend and I would sing Ole Black Water during road trips to Yosemite Valley. His parents grew to hate it when we did that so you know what we did of course! I can see those memories with so much more clarity than I can remember what I did a day ago.Yikes!LOL

[@Soundofsilence-j4d]

@@48tomw YES MEMORIES IN PAST NEVER LEAVE GOOD THINGS. I CAN REMEMBER CLARITY OF DAY AND GOING FROM GAS PUMP TO AMUSEMENT BEACH. EVERY THING WAS HAPPY IN GENERAL. I WAS MORE OF MOD SOUND. I CAN REMEMBER WHEN ABBEY ROAD BY BEATLES WAS OUT. BUT I CAN SEE HOW THAT SONG YOU SANG GOT ON PARENTS NURVES. BUT ITS ALL GOOD. He he.

[@KraftyChris]

I was born in 1960 and a teen through the 70's. The music from those days is timeless and moving. I play 70's music for my grand daughters ( 4 and 8). They absolutely love it 😊

[@ayyjayess2304]

Wow, crazy memories from that year. I was just 8 years old. Music was the only escape I knew from a tough childhood. This means a lot to me. Thanks so much, Prof!

[@manfredmann2766]

Same here, 7 years old for most of the year 1975, and I had a small orange turntable where I played my 45s and 2 KTEL albums. The music and the sitcoms in that year were the only things that made me happy in my household.

[@theodoreritola7641]

I HAD a fantastic child hood , I was RAISED In Kodiak Alaska My did was a shrimp fisherman The ECONOMY in Alaska Was very strong From 1965 till 1977 As a teen in the 70sI lived by a very pretty lake had good friends A close family ,I Loved school ; I had the best 10 years EVER IN THE 70s I moved back to Astoria Oregon in 1977 With my family, I Had a good job In 1978 at Bumble Bee tuna ,The economy was Strong in Astoria In the late 70s Also ,

[@idagirl814]

​@@manfredmann2766me too. A very unstable home life, and the music was like a friend and a beautiful escape at the same time

[@LisaGemini]

All of these songs are classics. Nothing like these songs nowadays. Nothing can touch them!

[@catherinehoffpauir6323]

Love these stories. Graduated from high school in 1974. Now I have been listening closely to this decade’s music. The stories behind the music are fascinating, but filled with sorrow. Love yr channel. You have much more info than i have. Appreciate the hard work.

[@rogerdodger6025]

The Top 40 in 1975 was much improved over 1974. In '75 I was 13 and had just started to follow music a little bit closer. My personal favorite from this year as a kid (surprisingly didn't make the list) was "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John. Another favorite of mine from this year was "Jackie Blue" by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. The music of '75 is close to my heart and what I listen to when I want to get away from it all for a while. Great memories!

[@thomastimlin1724]

I gradated HS in 1974...With a few exceptions Elton John, Chicago, a few others], I totally agree. When you go from a stupid 1974 song like Billy Don't Be A Hero or the Night Chicago Died, or Seasons in the Sun...to Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975...well duh!!!

[@robertsettle2590]

I was fortunate to grow up around the OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS and saw many times. It was a big deal when "JACKIE BLUE" was a big hit. Those were the very best times for different music. We are blessed to have experienced it all.

[@stshnie]

Philadelphia Freedom didn’t make the list because this is only the top ten for the week of 14 February 1975. According to another commenter Philadelphia Freedom hit number one in April that year. But yeah, great song.

[@foozjen]

I was 14 at the time and also loved both of those songs.

[@amyrussell860]

@@robertsettle2590 I know it was years later 1989? 1990? They performed at a 4th of July celebration where I live. They were very good.

[@birdie9680]

Wow!! Every song on this countdown brings back so many memories. Unfortunately, many of them are bad ones. It seems like everyone I know has lost a loved one to drugs. I lost my brother to alcohol poisoning five years ago and my daughter died of a post-surgical Fentanyl overdose in 2020. Music has helped me get through so many tough times. God bless the music makers!!

[@andrewdowney1654]

God bless you, Robin!

[@ObieGuppies]

My best friend had the first boy-girl party in our grade. She was turning 12. "Best of My Love" was one of three songs that we played over and over that night. The others were Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here" and Helen Reddy's "Angie Baby," bothof which felt so sad and haunting to us preteens. That is the most memorable party I have ever gone to, due to the unfamiliarity of a party with boys and dancing to those three wonderful songs. The Eagles were my favorite band from then into college, and it all started (for me) with "Best of My Love."

[@TheWorldTeacher]

DEFINITELY one of the finest years for rock music. 🕺

[@ProfessorofRock]

For sure!

[@TheWorldTeacher]

@@ProfessorofRock, “#9 Dream" is arguably Lennon's GREATEST masterpiece. 🎼

[@theodoreritola7641]

How did BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Make the top 10 ? WHAAAAT , It was huge in 1975, WHAAAAAT

[@theodoreritola7641]

@@ProfessorofRock 1976 Was way more of a hit for the 70s though

[@itrasheditgood]

The 70’s was the supreme era of rock music, the sound quality of recording and playing recorded music was top notch and the talent bred in that time was absolutely elite. Even the instruments were killer. To be a an artist you had to have several things going for you, you had to know how to sing and hit the notes perfectly, you had know how to play your instruments with precision, you had know your music well a be entertaining all at the same time. Now a days being the perfect artist is not even necessary, with the help of technical “aids” it’s possible to make decent music with a sub par voice and not even having to have a full band in person. Kids at home can make music with the right ingenuity and equipment. The sound quality of this era suffers, but Hey it’s the trade off of easy to make music. I’m not saying you don’t need talent, but the tools are so much easier to use and way more assessable to the masses.

[@LouiseKernow2024]

Also you had to get "noticed" the old fashioned way, performing, demo records, no internet promotion then.

[@antonnym214]

My Perfect 70s Playlist includes: More Than a Feeling, Mandy, Free Bird, American Pie, Superstar, Limelight, My Sharona, Hot Child in the City, Night Movies, Go Your Own Way, Born to Run, Hotel California, Saturday Night, Baker Street, She Did It, First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Band of Gold, Frankenstein, Children of the Sun, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, S.O.S., Lido Shuffle, Two Tickets to Paradise, Seasons in the Sun, Do You Believe in Love, Crazy Train, and Rejoice in the Sun.

[@poldidak]

I wonder how many people even remember Billy Thorpe’s “Children of the Sun”! The intro just pulls you in, then hits you with that slammin groove.

[@sandysmom100]

@@poldidak i remember it .Heard it on utube the other day.

[@kevinstaggs5048]

Crazy Train came out in 1982.

[@bnic9471]

Not bad! Except I never liked "My Sharona" much. The rest of that album was forgettable, except for that one other song . . . the name of which I have forgotten. 😉 😜

[@timothykozlowski2945]

Love More than a Feeling and Seasons in the Sun.

[@Sasquatch64]

The 70's were the most creative decade by far.

[@theodoreritola7641]

EASY hands and Feet down

[@beastbee0118]

90s with it's alternative scene was pretty good too, but 70s beats any decade by a mile.

[@jerickson725]

Just discovered your channel and had to immediately subscribe! I love everything 70's music; in the 70's I was age 6-15. One of my sisters was 10 years older so I was introduced to great music at an early age. 😊 Best music ever!

[@margaretkiser6305]

I was born in '69, but my stepbrother was born in '59. He introduced us (my full siblings and our parents) to so much excellent music! I feel very grateful for his influence, and our dad played "oldies" all the time - which was from the 60's and 70's. (My mom preferred Ron Chapman's choices. BLAH.) I got to hear "Paint It Black" more often than elevator music. This is a good fact!

[@The_Lord_has_it]

Those of us that were there when this music came out are wondering what happened to a heck of a lot more than just music!

[@marypruitt444]

🤔 indeed...😞

[@dwaynemcallister7231]

You got that right!

[@jeanettepugh6017]

Truly baffling…

[@SBCBears]

It was and is the socialist's long march thru educational institutions.

[@mournblade1066]

Ah, _City to City_ by Gerry Rafferty. What a great album! "Mattie's Rag" is the hidden gem on that one. "Baker Street," of course, is one of the ten greatest rock songs ever recorded.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

“Baker Street” is one of my favorite songs of all time. Such a classic.

[@sjs1555]

I agree 100%. My favorite song is Island. Listen to it on every beach vacation.

[@lisadc4681]

I know!! City to City one of the greatest albums of all time in my opinion!! Been listening to it in some form on a regular basis since it was released. ISLAND has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever written!!

[@emmetee9675]

Great album! Baker Street is so great even the Foo Fighters did a great remake of it in the 90’s.

[@lawrencefeldman7744]

The Arc is an epic track!📻

[@ediecarter1518]

I was a very young teen at this time, but having so much. I still had the innocence of a child, but was figuring out the world for myself. These songs take me back to an easier time. They relax me as if I were sitting right next to my mom, singing our lungs out to the radio. Thank you for these happy memories 💖

[@Irridia]

GFR was the first concert I went to because Bowie tickets were already sold out. It was awesome and I was 7 rows from the front at the Houston show. Both Some Kind of Wonderful and Blackwater are among my favorites to practice harmonies and counter melodies with.

[@justsittinhere72]

I saw them in 1972 at the War Memorial in Syracuse, New York. My ears were ringing!

[@d.thomas1541]

My first outdoor concert, too…Phoenix (Tempe) AZ 1975

[@justsittinhere72]

Do you mean Black Water by the Doobie Brothers?

[@Irridia]

@@justsittinhere72 Yep.

[@justsittinhere72]

@@Irridia The early Doobies were great. I didn't care for the stuff that came out in the mid to late 70's.

[@chrisvanuden]

What an amazing top 10, although I was only 3 in 1975 (born in 1972) the music from this era always spoke so much more to me than anything else (although the 80s and early 90s also had great music. Remembering watching TopPop with my mom before I had to go to bed (a music program that covered the dutch top 40 in the 70s and 80s, yes I’m dutch), which is such a great childhood memory. I hope you treat us with your video’s for a long time Adam, I enjoy each and every one of them!

[@manfredmann2766]

Love the band Golden Earring, especially during the 70s

[@johnglielmi6428]

Adam I really enjoy how you bring todays music into perspective with these classics of yesterday. There doesn't seem to be any heart and soul to todays music. It's all about the base, if you get my meaning. I was born in 1960 and the the Beatles were my big favorite, the the 70's came along and my mind was completely blow away by all the big sounds. The 70's is my favorite era of music for sure. don't get me wrong there are good bands and music that came out of the following decades, but for me none seemed to quite match the power that the music of the 70's had.

[@bobadams2673]

Hey Doc, another great Show, but I wouldn't expect anything less! Thank as always as the power of music heals in so many ways...

[@mayorb3366]

I consider 1968-1982 to be the magic 15 year span in music. The list of strong, substantial works is endless. Excellence was the standard of the day. Many great songs did not make the Billboard Top Ten because there were BETTER songs out then! Compare to 2008 through today.

[@johnkom2339]

Yes. Sort of like how a number of great movies were not Oscar winners because too much competition. But today? Maybe they should change it, maybe only issue an Oscar when it's deserved so we might go a couple of years with NO oscars awarded. Most movies these days stink.

[@SandwichGlitch]

Funny you left out 1983 - 2007........because your argument would be invalid because of the indie, Grunge, Garage Rock and Nu Metal Revolution

[@mayorb3366]

@@SandwichGlitch I hear you. But save for Nirvana and a few other bands, (especially post 1990, the volume of brilliant content is just not there. Much of the music in the 80's was "fun", party music, because the 80's was a time to have fun. And it WAS certainly fun! But it was "paint by numbers" music. Current music is even worse. The artists are indistinguishable from one another. I know that we are most influenced by the music that came out during our formative years. But I believe that the music from the period I mentioned will have a lot more staying power than the era which you have brought up. Here's a reminder.... Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queen, The Allman Brothers Band, Rush, ZZ Top, Genesis, AC/DC, Yes, Steely Dan, Blue Öyster Cult, Chicago, Grateful Dead, Kansas, Journey, Bad Company, The Doobie Brothers, King Crimson, Styx, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Boston, Blondie, Ramones, Talking Heads, Heart, Van Halen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, The Clash, Foreigner, The Police. And that's only the ROCK music part of the list!

[@davestewart2067]

You are way too generous. The decline began way before 2008.

[@Annunaki_0517]

I think it’s a longer span, 1965-1995. Ending at 1982 omits too many great artists and landmark albums.

[@gr8flyerfan]

The Doobie Brothers were my first "big girl" concert! 😂 Saw them more than once, always a great concert!

[@safromnc8616]

Did you happen to see them @ UD Arena ? & did Thin Lizzy open for them ? I saw them @ OU.

[@williambergman3840]

They’re great n I wish I’d gotten a chance to see them

[@michaelmartin4552]

The biggest difference between then and now can be shown in who listens to "Top 40" music. During all my time growing up and well after, my dad would listen to the same Top 40 songs that I did. And even my grandfather would listen to the same station. However, by the 1990s all three of us had largely left Top 40, as it was becoming dominated by rap. And today it is all just generic autotune nonsense that I can not even comprehend ever liking in the first place. On average, I might like a small handful of Top 40 songs in a year. There is no variety, no "soul", no real feelings. And even my kids agree, all of them preferring to listen to songs from the 80s and before.

[@arteCee]

yeh..and it's all being done by design.

[@HiroForever]

Yep. You can actually find a huge number of 20-40 somethings online doing reaction videos to 70’s-90’s music!!! Jamel aka Jamal Just Jammin TwinsthenewTrend Are a few to check out😀

[@misslora3896]

@@arteCee Nice to see someone else wise to this fact.

[@LisaGemini]

Rap is crap. Even David Cassidy knew that speaking during a song was a BAD idea. When his record company insisted on him speaking on Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted, he balked, big time. He said NO. Sadly, though, his contract made him do it anyway! True story.

[@janach1305]

@@LisaGemini In the world of theatre, speaking during music is called melodrama. I don’t think that’s what rappers have in mind. Rap has never been my cup of tea, but I do give it credit for bringing back clever lyrics that rhyme. I’m not saying I like the content of those lyrics, but you can tell someone has put some work into them. It’s not Cole Porter or Ira Gershwin, but it’s also not just two lines of lyrics constantly repeated that don’t even rhyme.

[@kazilziya830]

I was 22yrs old during this week and I'm still amazed how long ago it was. During the 70s I must have gone to 50 concerts. Wouldn't trade those days for anything. Peace and keep it rocking.

[@williambenner5550]

This was the year I graduated high school and moved from Glendale California up into the wilderness in Trinity County California. I love all these songs, but Black Water was probably my favorite of this list! Professor you are quickly becoming the new Casy Kasen of the 21 century!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks William! Casey's my hero so that's very cool to hear.

[@russmoore1036]

Oh man, you can really bring the nostalgia. At this time in 75 I was trying to get my head straight because I was going to be married on the 25th, my 18th birthday. I was listening to Aerosmith, Allman Bros, stuff like that, I never was one for the top ten. I love the way you can bring those feelings back though. The Stevie Wonder stuff was great. I'm not sure what year it was but Paul Simon got an award and when he was thanking people he said he was most thankful that Stevie Wonder didn't make an album that year. Anyway, I love your show my friend, keep it up

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Married at 18?wtf?

[@russmoore1036]

@@LarsRyeJeppesen Still married to her

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

@@russmoore1036 congrats I guess. Way too early for most people. Way way.

[@belle9438]

As I grew older the music became more than just a good tune. I found the beauty in the music. I started listening to the words and the voice and the instruments separately and understood how amazing some songs really are and how much actually went into creating that one song. I actually listen instead of singing along. The musicians and the singers amaze me. I am in awe of their talent. One thing that hasn't changed though is that I still think Steve Perry has the most incredible voice I've ever heard.

[@jonasbarbury4013]

Now we've traded stairway to heaven for WAP. I guess that says it all

[@brucegwynn8509]

Wow adam, this was possibly my favorite episode, I was born in 67 so I was bouncing around the car to all of these , thanks so much for bringing me back home, the human mind memory bank opens up with music, again, excellent job and you're the best at what you do!!!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks Bruce. So glad to hear it. Love it when music is a time machine!

[@ericcarpentervoicetalent4578]

I’m hooked! I watched one of your videos just over two months ago…and I was immediately sucked in. I love the storytelling and pure love you have for what you do. My music influences started in the 70’s. Thank you.

[@Juliana65]

I MISS the 70's... and 80's. Both decades produced great music. These days music does suck!! I can't stomach it, so, I happily remain in the past with music and listen to my favorites from those two decades.

[@glennweeks7176]

Another great episode Professor! Appreciate you brother, keep up the good work my friend. I was 12 years old in '75 but thought I knew everything. I prided myself on having the best music collection around. Actually I probably only owned about 50 records but to me it was like millions.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks! Will do!

[@neolithicnobody8184]

I remember all of these old classics as I was growing up during the 70s. It was a great era for some of the best songs, but I didn't really get into music that much until the early 80s. My siblings and cousins were older than me, so they got to experience all of these Greats on a different level than myself. Being the youngest of the pack I would get a lot of hand-me-downs from different ones. I ended up with lots of t-shirts acquired from concerts over the years, including the Eagles, Steve Miller, ABBA, Dr. Hook, the Beatles and many more. But the one item that changed me the most, as well as develop a love for Art and Optical Illusions, was a poster of Linda Ronstadt from her album Get Closer. Her dress was one of the coolest Illusions I've ever seen. Up close it was just a bunch of polka dots, but as you stepped away from it you could actually see the flowing ruffles in detail. Until then, I had never really given much thought as to who she was or her music. I had been listening to her music for years and didn't even realize it at the time. To this day that poster still remains one of my favorite optical illusions of all time and it's THAT poster that led to my love for the great music of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

[@hazelwray4184]

The polka dots bring to mind Roy Lichtenstein's artwork. Also to some extent, early (German artist) Polke. Very 1980's - see the sleeve of Wham's, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. Despite the "pop" aesthetic, It's interesting how American music rarely strays far from a country/blues, roots. Just an observation; not a criticism.

[@markcatanzaro9699]

Just looking at the picture of the stack of 8-track tapes brings back so many great memories of growing up in the 70's and 80's!!! Adam i am SO GLAD I found your videos here! Even when it's a song, group, or artist I'm not interested in, you STILL make it interesting!!! You have CLEARLY found your purpose here in this life and wow- what an incredible gift from God to you and THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT! You're a full blown music nerd 🤓 just like me! If I knew you growing up, we definitely would have been friends! Keep up the amazing work 👏 it's wonderful to watch

[@ralphfiligenzi6180]

Memories memories memories, what a great decade the 70's was.

[@DonRRicks]

Ah, the last February of my teens. In three weeks, I would enter my 20s. My wife and I had been married for eight months and life was good. The music was great as disco had not yet dominated the airwaves. Now, 47 years later I’m entering my latter 60s, and my wife and I are approaching 48 years of marriage and life is still great. The music, not, so much.

[@eileenh4772]

Was 15 in 1975. Love the music still miss people we lost around them. Listened to Casey every Sunday after church. Fire very important song, married firefighter played every party still going. Linda one of my favorites. Thank you❤

[@SevenThunderful]

1975, Led Zeppelins Physical Graffiti. The best album from the best band. It will never be equaled. They eschewed singles for the most part, but 10 years gone is one of the best rock and roll songs of all time.

[@MuzixMaker]

LZ IV ?

[@masonbooth2363]

Agree..Physical Graffiti was their peak..right before heroin addiction..LZIV is great..but PG is on another level..

[@michaelszczys8316]

My brother had Led Zep 1 , and I had no.2 , but I really started getting into them after hearing Cashmere which I had trouble with whether it was really real. It was so bizarre the first times hearing it. I got totally into it with Presence just in time for them to totally crash. I thought In Through the Out Door was a total disappointment. Achilles Last Stand still messes with my central nervous system after 45 years

[@Elwaves2925]

The 80's were definitely my formative years for music but the 70's were my introduction, even if some of those acts started pre-70's. Standouts for me are Queen, the Eagles and The Who plus many others. A Don Henley Eagles vocal can only be beaten by a Don Henley solo vocal and vice versa. 🙂

[@JoyceGentry-op4lb]

The 70s music means so much to me. I had older sisters listening to this music. I'm a late 60's baby. My school bus driver had a radio installed on our bus. I had the same driver from kindergarten until my senior year. Initially she played the top 40 station then started playing the rock station. My senior year Black Water came on. The whole broke into the Black Water. Luckily we finished before my stop.

[@benk3999]

70's was the best decade and Not just for Music. Man, those were the days

[@theodoreritola7641]

Yep Jaws Star wars Rocky Rocky 2 Grease .Saturday night fever The God Father ,Animal House , Aliens,, Blazing saddles. . Smokey and the Bandit Taxi Driver , Clouse Encounters of the third kind . Superman .. Star Trek the motion Picture T,V SHOWS ,, Dallas , Starsky and Hutch , Columbo The Dukes of Hazzard , 3s company. The Jeffersons .Good times , Stanford and son , All in the family, The Brady Bunch , The Partridge Family , Maude Welcome back Kotter ,Fantasy Island ,The Love Boat, Mash, Kojak ,The Streets of San Francisco The Increbilble Hulk , Mannix ,Heart to Heart , Mcmillan and Wife Hawaii Five O, ,,Chips , Soap ,Different Strokes, I dream of Jeanie , The Odd couple ,That Girl And Hot Cars 77 Trans am ,, Bell bottom pants And Feathered Hair On the foxy ladies , Man i miss the 70s

[@lanagorgeous9485]

One of the greatest songs ever came out in 1975 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody- (kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHuco4iwfrKWkLM) I remember we heard it on the radio in the fall of 1975 as we were driving my older sister to college. My sister who was a music major knew even then that we were hearing something that was an instant classic and important.

[@theodoreritola7641]

@Judd St John 70s GOLD GOODIES

[@SusanBame]

I graduated in 1975. This is my playlist of my senior year. Blackwater, man...when that came out, I was in love with that song.

[@albertaaardvark966]

Can you imagine having an opportunity to sing at a John Lennon recording session and NOT showing up. Another great video.

[@ProfessorofRock]

No kidding.

[@SlickArmor]

It would be interesting to find out why. Hopefully or maybe not that it was more than just blowing it off. It could be something absolutely horrific why she wasn't able to make it.

[@twoofuswearingraincoats34]

Thats exactly what I was thinking. Like, wtf?

[@lloydkline1518]

Hard to believe

[@3TEXAN]

In 1975 I was 15. I'm watching this with my 15 year old son. The 1970's rocked.

[@theodoreritola7641]

Ya no kiddin Im a Big time 70s Brat lol

[@thomaskline]

Barry Byrd Burton’s guitar and James Hookers piano anchor one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. The Amazing Rythym Aces “Dancing the Night Away. Russell Smith was the writer and the singer. The guitar outro still lifts the hairs on my arms after almost 50 years!

[@Jay-gc9bb]

Been enjoying " Year of the cat" and " Time passages" lately. They are so much better than new music in my opinion. Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts , The Isley brothers and Type o negative make a nice triple play....

[@livenhfree]

Ah, yes. Al Stewart. Great stuff. Definitely brings me back.

[@leewagner2945]

@Jay I guess that you already knew that "Type O Negative" did a very good cover of "Summer Breeze"! It's different from the original, but Peter Steele put his own spin on it.

[@oldcougar65]

I saw most of your fav's in concert -- Seals and Crofts at Hershey just after they released an anti-abortion song and were being picketed by N.O.W. My college brought in the Isley Brothers for a free dance concert in maybe '66. How cool is that? Then saw Al Stewart at the now defunct Valley Forge Music Fair in the round.

[@scottmarshall6766]

Linda, Joni, and Carly. They could sing anything and just take you somewhere else. Amazing talent of my younger days, I miss it so, and regret I took it for granted back then. Thanks for another great video, I love these looks back to a "better banished time"

[@swinde]

Don't forget Carole King.

[@stanphillips7277]

I wonder how many people got that. "Better Banished Time" from Rush-Red Barchetta. If so though Geddy sings "Better Vanished Time" Banished is closed thematically to 2112 huh? 😂 I'm thinking it's just a typo. I love these eclectic mixes too man! I remember the actor Billy Bob Thornton of all people saying something to the effect of "It's not the same as our parents pumping their fist's when the Beatles came along and saying that today's music is not as good as the music from their day, that transition was from one type of good music to another type of good music. They just didn't get it but this is different. Today's music really isn't as good." I'm paraphrasing but that's the essence of what he was saying anyway and I remember thinking yeah, that's about right. Sinatra fans might not have liked Elvis or Buddy Holly, and those fans might not have liked the popular music of the 60s like Cream or Stevie Wonder and on and on straight through the 70s, 80s, and 90s there were great artists. Alas, today's music finds us for the first time in history with A.I. generated, autotuned, talentless "artists" with nothing to offer ESPECIALLY by comparison. This will likely be my only comment, I'm reminded of David Bowie's Starman lyric..."needed to phone someone so I picked on you ooh ooh" See ya around Scott ✌️🎸🎹🥁🎤🎶

[@scottmarshall6766]

@@stanphillips7277 That's a really good point, the transition our parents made were Big Band to Jazz and then Rock, we saw Rock devolve to Pop and Rap and finally to commercialized manufactured music. Some people like the modern stuff, but I've introduced a few of my sons (mid 20's age) friends to the old music on an old vinyl system (Altec 604s fed by JVC class A 100w/channel) and they've all been awestruck. Every one of them was stunned by Tom Sawyer (my usual "attention getter", With Money as a follow up. I think part of the problem is the modern youngster has nothing but manufactured music reproduced by mediocre equipment to judge by. Once they hear what we took for granted, a whole new world opens up to them. I love a lot of my parents music as well. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, played on an old tube console was my hook. Been on the hook since I was 6. ("For 50 odd years" ... the truth be told, pretty close to 60) Sadly we're losing our beloved artists, Linda has Parkinsons and can't sing anymore, Neil Peart is gone. For many of our favorites, we will see no more of their genius. It's sad. Thanks for your thoughtful response.

[@swinde]

@@stanphillips7277 On another site is was reported that the 60s through 90s music is streamed more often than the music from 2000 through today.

[@stanphillips7277]

@@swinde I wouldn't doubt it, the people who made listened to it back when it was new are still around. Kids are turned on to it by their parents and then turn their friends on to it. Quality doesn't grow old, these songs that we say are "timeless" really are just that. People still love France Sinatra and even classical stuff like Beethoven hasn't gone anywhere. There's so much here today, gone tomorrow being produced and listened to for 15 minutes but their are some really young Led Zeppelin fans out there trying to play like John Bonham 😂 One young girl is always on KZbin shorts covering Zeppelin and I'm a Zeppelin fan as much as any other band. I used to say favorite but now it's more like asking me if I prefer Steak or Ice Cream.... which is my favorite right? I like a variety of stuff but Zeppelins right up there. Which site were you referring to if you recall? It's not important, just curious. It's good to know right? It's an affirmation that in this age of A.I. generated music and autotune that people still love the good stuff lol🤣🎸✌️

[@bobjordan8283]

I was in high school and graduated before this amazing music was on the airwaves brings back the memories of friends and innocence lost but not forgotten!

[@oldschoolfunkster1]

Ah yes. Just one year before I graduated from high school, I knew just about every song playing on the radio. Tower of Power was my go-to band. Couldn't get enough of them. But EVERY genre had beautiful gems that were game changers. Ever so morphing into other genres that would set the styles of future music. MANY great classics would evolve from this tremendous decade of music from using real instruments instead computerized. Big name singers would constantly be coming out with new albums. Constantly buying new needle styluses for my record player. Wish we had Amazon back then. Would've been easier to search for them. Remember that? Lol. Even my children, while driving in my car, picked up memories of me playing these gems. To this day they remember that eras music because of my car cassette mixes.

[@aovermont]

1975 was a monster year for music. KISS released their 3rd studio album, "Dressed to Kill" on March 19, and then their first real breakthrough album, "Alive!", the template for all live rock albums to follow, on September 10. Fun times! Love the channel

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for watching!

[@LillyMarz777]

KISS? 🤮. My little brother loved them. Drove me nuts.

[@nope5445]

Never cared for Kiss or any of the "cartoon" bands. I had nothing in common with 10 year olds when I was 15 in 1975.

[@LillyMarz777]

@@nope5445 Same with me. 15 and 10 we were. Man, I hated those no talent freaks.

[@jimjungle1397]

KISS didn't get radio play and had to tour all of the time to promote their music.

[@angiehill5884]

I was 9 in 75 but 70s music is still my favorite!! I was totally in love with Don Henley 😊 I still know all the words to all those songs in the 70s, I even love disco 😊 My mind was blown then when I found out a lot of my favorite songs in the 70s were by the Eagles!! 😂 Now I'm 56 and listening to 5FDP and Godsmack, but I still love the oldies!!

[@misslora3896]

Was only 6 in 1975, but it's the time in which I fell in love with music. Refused to go to sleep unless I could play the little radio next to my bed all night. Was a teen in the 80's and really enjoyed that music at the time, but the 70's music scene is where my heart truly resides.

[@GMTPoet]

I enjoyed your info and enthusiasm for these songs, but every time I see a top ten list from 74-76, all I can say is, "This is why punk rock had to happen."

[@javiermori1710]

There was a song called " Devil Woman" which was a modest hit in 70s. One of first songs i remember hearing on radio when my sister and i got ready for school. Must have been 76 as i was in kindergarten. Loved that song😊

[@jeffrobson5246]

Cliff Richard

[@maryannschumacher1370]

1975 was a pivotal year as I turned 21 that year. It was a grand and fun time in my life that I'll always remember. These songs and many others really bring up fond memories of that time in my life. ❤