If you want to support my channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/somerandomguy1 The original video, uploaded last June, was blocked due to copyright infringement, because it featured 7 seconds of Golden Earring's 'Radar Love'. In this video, I had to mute the audio to Gordon Lightfoot's 'Sundown', again due to copyright issues.
Unfortunate to have to cut back on the Radar Love,but this list is cool. I knew all of these bar a baker's dozen or so,and they bring back so many happy,fuzzy memories for me as a 9 - 10 year-old at the time. There were three songs I only heard different versions to these of in the 70s: Everlasting Love sung by Robert Knight,If You Go Away being done in un-whispery fashion by Neil Diamond (though I heard Tim in a Bottle by Jim Croce quite a bit) and Barry Biggs having a big UK hit in late 1976 with Sideshow.
How lucky was I to be 12 years old in 1974 and just getting into pop music? So many classics, so many different styles....and punk just over the horizon.
What about Elton's classic song on the flip side of "Benny and the Jets"? Didn't hear it until 1991 when it got lots of airplay when i traveled a lot in Norcal, love the flute solo. Flute solo? Arguably one of his best songs ever, in my opinion. The song? "Funeral For A Friend " Once you hear it, it will be your FAVORITE Elton John song. I waited 17 years before I heard it. Pure Elton GOLD!
@@fordmasters4352 There were five Elton songs in 1974; he really was rockin'. He' Still Standing after all these years. I've been listening to and loving him for 51years and counting.
I was only around 6 years old when these songs came out, but my favorite thing to do at that age was play with my Barbie dolls while playing the radio. My mom and I would sing a lot of different songs together back then. I really miss those days and wish that my mom was still here on this earth.
You and I must be related. I would spend hours building things with my Legos while listening to WKRC Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. I really enjoyed the great music. Like you, I wish my mom was still here. She died last Sept 9, 2021 age 78.
@@sassykaren7587 and I'm sorry for the loss of your mom as well. We both only have the wonderful memories of the things our mothers did for us. There ain't nobody like a mother.
It's the diversity that I love about the 70s. Country, R and B, straight ahead rock, pop, soft rock, disco and everything in between sharing a chart together. You don't see that anymore.
Ok, boomer. Yes, you do. These days, we have pop, country, R&B, hip-hop, electronic, and some rock music (albeit either a heavily pop influenced version of rock or the pop-punk revival) all sharing chart space. You’re just salty that it’s not your childhood anymore.
i grew up in the 70's...virtually every one of these songs had the stigma of "AM" radio...even though they played on FM radio...these songs are not demonstrative of the true talents and song writing of the 70's....yuk!
The 1970's was so diverse.The music back then could be enjoyed by everyone in their own way. That is one thing that I miss about the 1970's. I miss that time in my life. It' like will never happen again.
1974 is a very nice musical year, with the beginnings of the disco (MFSB, Hues Corporation, Carl Douglas....). ABBA and The Rubettes ruled ! Thanks for the video !
Thank you, thank you, thank you, so many memories of being mostly 13, then 14 in the youth club, a few songs I didn’t know, but all the rest absolute favourites, many I haven’t heard for years, definitely going on my 70’s playlist, can’t thank you enough. 🌹
Thank you especially for Carefree Highway by Gordon Lightfoot, I had totally forgotten about that song and how great it was. I also had the pleasure of seeing Ms Gloria Gaynor about 10-12 years ago at a show called disco ball, that woman can still bring the house down
hatte ich damals auch. mich noch gut erinnere wie ärgerlich es war wenn mal wieder bandsalat war bei einer meiner lieblingskassetten. war meine teeniezeit. sehr gerne mich zurückerinner. solche videos helfen gut dabei.
John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, ABBA and Aretha Franklin have always been family favorites 🎶my brother really likes Paul McCartney and the wings 🎵 All I need is the air that I breathe and to love you🎸I enjoy it all and this is the year I was born🌅 great job ✌️💜🤗
Wings rule: Uncle Albert/ Admiral Halsey was/is so over the top. Cars were awful in '74 but the music sure isn't. How about "Funeral For A Friend" (flip side Benny and the Jets)
This really messes with my head, but in a bittersweet way....I'm trying to remember where I was in life at that time, going back to things that were happening in my world back then, some of it cloudy and some of it clear, many of these songs seem to shift my memory back and forth, hard to believe that they go back that far. Others seem like they are from a short time ago. When I do the math and realize that that was almost 40 years ago, it just blows my mind...The power of music and memory...
Summer. 1974. I’m 16. Driving at night through Illinois with my dad. WLS on the radio. Over the next six hours I hear same songs including “Band on the Run,” “Sundown,” “Midnight at the Oasis,” Help me,” And, another song that I really, really liked but, for the life of me I cannot remember the name of the song, the artist, or anything. I can hear it in my mind. Female lead. Starts out kinda low and slow. I’ve looked and looked over the internet and, I can’t find that song! It’s driven me nuts for over forty years!
It surely was not some random guy I was with in 1974! Lord only knows, and me and now, anonymously all you good folks, I dream about him to this very day! OK? The music brings it back in a different way but he was the one that got away-if I ever really had him, how pitiful do I sound-I', a 70 + year old woman, who has experienced so much, but he's never "left" me- in my mind or heart. No matter what. And obviously won't. The music, thank you.
Was a young boy in the early seventies and can vividly remember my mother asking me to play these songs on the eight track while she played canasta on Friday and Saturday nights with her friends. It was a great time to be a kid. My love of all music comes from those times. This was a great trip down memory lane! Thanks for posting it!
1974 i was 15/16 (my birthday is middle of the year) left school at Easter only had to go back for exams , starting my Apprentiship in September , great weather in SE London happy memory's . Who could have thought that in 2022 people would still be listening to these great sounds . Someone build a time machine so i can go back to when living in UK was so much simpler
I was born during that year 1974. Now at 50 years of age can't believe these songs are are still heard off and some have been remaked by new artists today. Wow. Regards from Bougainville Island, PNG.❤😂
I remember my time in service, i was stationed in ramstein airbase for one year as a member of nato soldier of german airforce. One of my best years in life.😅
If your gonna put sweet rubettes mud bay city rollers and showaddywaddy on this list surely you must add the excellent angel face from THE GLITTER BAND
I was 16 in 1974 and remember most of these songs. A lot them still sound good 48 years later, although those clothes. I had platform shoes, print polyester shirts and one of those white caps. I thought I was bad. lol My brother used to say bad all the time. "Hey man listen to this record. These guys are bad! Listen to that bad guitar! He is bad! '74 was about two years from when"dude" became popular. My friend Jim was the first guy I ever heard say dude. "Hey dude! You wanna come over to my house and listen to some Kiss records? We'll smoke some bad Mary do you wanna?" lol 😅
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The original video, uploaded last June, was blocked due to copyright infringement, because it featured 7 seconds of Golden Earring's 'Radar Love'.
In this video, I had to mute the audio to Gordon Lightfoot's 'Sundown', again due to copyright issues.
Unfortunate to have to cut back on the Radar Love,but this list is cool. I knew all of these bar a baker's dozen or so,and they bring back so many happy,fuzzy memories for me as a 9 - 10 year-old at the time. There were three songs I only heard different versions to these of in the 70s: Everlasting Love sung by Robert Knight,If You Go Away being done in un-whispery fashion by Neil Diamond (though I heard Tim in a Bottle by Jim Croce quite a bit) and Barry Biggs having a big UK hit in late 1976 with Sideshow.
Miss John Denver!
How lucky was I to be 12 years old in 1974 and just getting into pop music? So many classics, so many different styles....and punk just over the horizon.
I was 9/10 at the time, and was into my paint-by-numbers phase. Some of these songs, when I hear them, I can still smell the oil paints.
It's a wonder we got anything done with all the good music to listen to that year!
For eleven minutes and thirty two seconds, I forgot it was 2022 .. Thanks, great list
Forgot it is 2024.
No wonder I've loved music so much. I was born in 74 so I was carried around listening to this for 9 months. Thanks mom and dad.😎
Lol.
I was a sophomore in high school. Great times! 👍🏻❤️
Got my driver's license that year and cranked up the FM!
I was born in 74, but when I got older I remember all of these songs over the years and I love them all.❤
I am also a 74 baby and know most of these songs
Took me right back,wish I was still there sometimes.
Songs are fantastic: a single note and you're back 50 years in 1 second at a specific moment in your life.
This was a magical time in my life. I was 12 years old and heading into Junior HS. What a great time to be a kid!
I was so lucky to grow up in the seventies, I tell people it was the best decade for music.
80 cool to.
Same here.
I see ABBA and Billy Joel, and I instantly click! Elton John is also a huge bonus! 😍💖
What about Elton's classic song on the flip side of "Benny and the Jets"? Didn't hear it until 1991 when it got lots of airplay when i traveled a lot in Norcal, love the flute solo. Flute solo? Arguably one of his best songs ever, in my opinion. The song? "Funeral For A Friend " Once you hear it, it will be your FAVORITE Elton John song. I waited 17 years before I heard it. Pure Elton GOLD!
Elton lost a lot of hair.
@@fordmasters4352 There were five Elton songs in 1974; he really was rockin'. He' Still Standing after all these years. I've been listening to and loving him for 51years and counting.
Elton John ruled the 70s.
I was 13 when these Gems came out. Hi 👋 from Morocco.
Annie’s Song, Back Home Again, and Sunshine on my Shoulder by John Denver. Wonderful! We lost him far too soon.
I was only around 6 years old when these songs came out, but my favorite thing to do at that age was play with my Barbie dolls while playing the radio. My mom and I would sing a lot of different songs together back then. I really miss those days and wish that my mom was still here on this earth.
You and I must be related. I would spend hours building things with my Legos while listening to WKRC Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. I really enjoyed the great music. Like you, I wish my mom was still here. She died last Sept 9, 2021 age 78.
@@Jdwify thank you so much for your reply, and I’m so sorry for the loss of your mom. 😢
@@sassykaren7587 and I'm sorry for the loss of your mom as well. We both only have the wonderful memories of the things our mothers did for us. There ain't nobody like a mother.
@@Jdwify thank you so much for your kind words. My mom was amazing and I’m glad that she raised me up right.
@@sassykaren7587 I forgot to mention that you look like a very attractive woman. I hope you get to enjoy your weekend.
I love ABBA ❤️
Don't we all, don't we all!
Agnetha from abba most beautiful woman out
Me too ❤❤❤
I did
same
I was only 9 years old and just started listen to the music...it was wonderful period of my life😊 Thank you for these great memories🤩
Μe too!
It's the diversity that I love about the 70s. Country, R and B, straight ahead rock, pop, soft rock, disco and everything in between sharing a chart together. You don't see that anymore.
Ok, boomer. Yes, you do. These days, we have pop, country, R&B, hip-hop, electronic, and some rock music (albeit either a heavily pop influenced version of rock or the pop-punk revival) all sharing chart space. You’re just salty that it’s not your childhood anymore.
@@JaredtheRabbit …your attitude is salty
i grew up in the 70's...virtually every one of these songs had the stigma of "AM" radio...even though they played on FM radio...these songs are not demonstrative of the true talents and song writing of the 70's....yuk!
@@davidgreene7676 mate the top 20 never is, or nobody would ever heard of Tony Orlando and Dawn, or Boney M!
@@JaredtheRabbit We do but streaming has made music much more siloed.
The 1970's was so diverse.The music back then could be enjoyed by everyone in their own way. That is one thing that I miss about the 1970's. I miss that time in my life. It' like will never happen again.
I agree. Definitely something for everyone.
Sad but true.
Ahhhh the memories. 💚. This was my era, had just started my first job and discovered disco’s. Sweet 16.
Some of these songs are timeless, just as good as in the 70-ties😃thank’s for this🙏
Some of these bands like Mud and the Rubettes were unknown in America and I don't know why...the songs are great!
Wonderful memories . I wish i could go bsck
😢
We all do
Best music the seventies i was so very lucky to grow up inthis era
Wow.
What a list. Made me forget all about 2024.
Midnight at the Oasis - what a beautiful, lilting song - just takes you away….
ABBA FOR ME, THE GREATEST MUSICAL GIFT TO THE WORLD😘😘😘😘
ABBA couldn't put a foot wrong!
@@JohnLee-pt5jz That's right. Happy new year 🥳
The best Swedish band.
I grew up listening to this great music.
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today
There was some good music back then but there was also a lot of really bad music. I forgot just how bad it could be. Thank for the memories.
The 70s were the best time to be alive. Change my mind.
A wonderful time for music. So many great artists and classic songs.
Beautiful compilation from all over the world.
Great stuff from this Australian.
1974 is a very nice musical year, with the beginnings of the disco (MFSB, Hues Corporation, Carl Douglas....). ABBA and The Rubettes ruled ! Thanks for the video !
Don't forget Supertramp's "Crime of the Century " (PS: I know where the band lives!)
Olivia makes my heart skip a beat...
Fly high angel
1974 and 1984, 2 of the best years in music.
Such diversity with regards to musical creativity, I loved those days.
Thank you for great content and memories 😊🌹
Özel bir araştırma yapıyorum ve bu video çok işime yarayacak! Teşekkürler. Türkiye'den selamlar! 🇹🇷
Truly the best time for music! Awesome musicians where their music actually had meaning! Thanks for bringing me back to a happy place.
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today..
R.I.P. OLIVIA NEWTON JIM CROCE.
Amen.
Great compilation, 1974 lasted about 4 years 😎👍🥳 thanks for helping me recall the music that helped me through puberty and high school 😎👍
Thank you, thank you, thank you, so many memories of being mostly 13, then 14 in the youth club, a few songs I didn’t know, but all the rest absolute favourites, many I haven’t heard for years, definitely going on my 70’s playlist, can’t thank you enough. 🌹
Thank you especially for Carefree Highway by Gordon Lightfoot, I had totally forgotten about that song and how great it was. I also had the pleasure of seeing Ms Gloria Gaynor about 10-12 years ago at a show called disco ball, that woman can still bring the house down
The music was so diverse in the 70’s, something for everyone to enjoy. Loved it!
Perfect words
Remember it well SRG 🍻'S TOP CHANNEL.
This was the year when the 70s kicked in and solidified the decade of AM gold. It was never ending. So good
great compilation keep it up 😀
48 years ago! Time flies, etc...
I like all these tracks. Not often can you say that about every artist from the same year.
Vielleicht das beste Jahr der 70er. Das Jahr, in dem ich meinen ersten Kassettenrecorder bekam.
hatte ich damals auch. mich noch gut erinnere wie ärgerlich es war wenn mal wieder bandsalat war bei einer meiner lieblingskassetten. war meine teeniezeit.
sehr gerne mich zurückerinner. solche videos helfen gut dabei.
Mich auch,fur mein 10th Geburtstag! Mit hand behalten Mikrophon.
John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, ABBA and Aretha Franklin have always been family favorites 🎶my brother really likes Paul McCartney and the wings 🎵 All I need is the air that I breathe and to love you🎸I enjoy it all and this is the year I was born🌅 great job ✌️💜🤗
Wings rule: Uncle Albert/ Admiral Halsey was/is so over the top. Cars were awful in '74 but the music sure isn't. How about "Funeral For A Friend" (flip side Benny and the Jets)
Kung Fu Fighting, Sweet Home Alabama, Waterloo, Piano Man, AND Cat’s in the Cradle?! This is arguably one of the greatest years in music PERIOD!!
Oh. My. God.
The worst year in history music
@@omarcrucescervantes3725
That’s 1999. Two words… Brittany… Spears…
@@patrickchaney wtf/
Still too much Country and Western, though.
I see ABBA, I click ❤️
This really messes with my head, but in a bittersweet way....I'm trying to remember where I was in life at that time, going back to things that were happening in my world back then, some of it cloudy and some of it clear, many of these songs seem to shift my memory back and forth, hard to believe that they go back that far. Others seem like they are from a short time ago. When I do the math and realize that that was almost 40 years ago, it just blows my mind...The power of music and memory...
I know what you mean
49 years ago.
@@steveholder1956 Almost 50. Thanks, I feel even older now. Lol
49 years ago... I was 14 then... some good songs.... I used to love Cat Stevens... what a monster he turned into....
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us...best single of 1974
Fantastic - and,though that one really was the bees' knees,I loved their follow-up single Amateur Hour too.
@@rjjcms1 Agreed. Loved the album Kimono My House, which included both singles, absolutely fantastic stuff. Ron Mael is a genius.
And best band
This is just the greatest music of all time! Who could ever forget these songs from 1974.
There was a lot of great music back in 1974 when I was 10 years old. I must point out that "Love's Theme" came out in December, 1973.
the title was best of 74, songs came out when ever, more than on
of these was out before 74,, take care. great music here.
Summer. 1974. I’m 16. Driving at night through Illinois with my dad. WLS on the radio. Over the next six hours I hear same songs including “Band on the Run,” “Sundown,” “Midnight at the Oasis,” Help me,” And, another song that I really, really liked but, for the life of me I cannot remember the name of the song, the artist, or anything. I can hear it in my mind. Female lead. Starts out kinda low and slow. I’ve looked and looked over the internet and, I can’t find that song! It’s driven me nuts for over forty years!
It surely was not some random guy I was with in 1974! Lord only knows, and me and now, anonymously all you good folks, I dream about him to this very day! OK? The music brings it back in a different way but he was the one that got away-if I ever really had him, how pitiful do I sound-I', a 70 + year old woman, who has experienced so much, but he's never "left" me- in my mind or heart. No matter what. And obviously won't. The music, thank you.
Was a young boy in the early seventies and can vividly remember my mother asking me to play these songs on the eight track while she played canasta on Friday and Saturday nights with her friends. It was a great time to be a kid. My love of all music comes from those times. This was a great trip down memory lane! Thanks for posting it!
Never heard of many of these songs! Graduated HS in 76 🤷🏻♂️
1974 i was 15/16 (my birthday is middle of the year) left school at Easter only had to go back for exams , starting my Apprentiship in September , great weather in SE London happy memory's . Who could have thought that in 2022 people would still be listening to these great sounds . Someone build a time machine so i can go back to when living in UK was so much simpler
Wow! What a time it was! There’s a lot of them that I forgot and have to go look up. And a whole bunch I hope to never hear again.
Great Abba, Barry White, George McRae, Olivia Newton-John, Hues Corporation, Rubettes, Bee Gees, ELO, John Denver...uffff!!! And now?? Reggaeton 😭
I remember some of these hits from work, they had the radio on. This was a peak Disco year.
Fantastic year.
I was 14 and so much great music, that was best years of my life.
For me the best song for the year was the one by The Three Degrees When will I see you again.
These are awesome
se nota que los músicos de antes sabían hacer canciones de verdad
Alvin Stardust used to scare the crap out of me. Bear in mind I was only 7.🤣
Great compilation
Thanks for that..
Really great
What a year!!!
I was born in 1974. Great music.
I remember being in a bar when someone played Billy Don't be a Hero SIX Times in a row! Man, I came to really hate that song after that experience!
When i hear Beach Baby, my memory pops the image of those tight white jeans into my head.
Is it really possible that all of these songs came out in the same year? I was 13. I could almost taste some of these classic memories!
Thanks a lot great reupload, you''re the best!
Awesome video 📹!!1974 Awesome year
Best year - best music - best collection - thank you so much!
I was born during that year 1974. Now at 50 years of age can't believe these songs are are still heard off and some have been remaked by new artists today. Wow. Regards from Bougainville Island, PNG.❤😂
I remember my time in service, i was stationed in ramstein airbase for one year as a member of nato soldier of german airforce. One of my best years in life.😅
I was born this year!😁
Great year, greater songd. Thank you for including Mr. Natural
Throw a penny... 😊
1974. One of the Greatest Year in Music 🎵🎶 from the 1970s.
Cat Stevens. John Denver excellent 💯🇬🇧
Thanks For Sharing!
These are awesome I was about 13 or 14 great memories thank you
I had completely forgotten some of these songs 😃
Great music in the year that I graduated from high school!!
If your gonna put sweet rubettes mud bay city rollers and showaddywaddy on this list surely you must add the excellent angel face from THE GLITTER BAND
Down with Country and Western! Acoustic guitars make good firewood.
Been a diehard fan of Billy Joel for just over 43 years and counting 😃😃And when I say diehard, I do mean diehard!!!!!!
I was 16 in 1974 and remember most of these songs. A lot them still sound good 48 years later, although those clothes. I had platform shoes, print polyester shirts and one of those white caps. I thought I was bad. lol My brother used to say bad all the time. "Hey man listen to this record. These guys are bad! Listen to that bad guitar! He is bad! '74 was about two years from when"dude" became popular. My friend Jim was the first guy I ever heard say dude. "Hey dude! You wanna come over to my house and listen to some Kiss records? We'll smoke some bad Mary do you wanna?" lol 😅
Was the year I bought my first Car , dragging Main was the pass time, with that music 🎶
What an amazing year. But surprised not to see some acts: e.g., Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who
led zeppelin didn't used to release singles
John Denver👍 from Spain.