First song that comes to mind for me is 'Sultans of Swing' from Dire Straits. If it wasn't for my Dad, I would probably never know about Mark Knopfler and his phenomenal band.
Best EARLY 70’s songs; Who’ll Stop the Rain - CCR I’m Your Captain- Grand Funk RR Pieces of April by Three Dog Night Horse with No Name - America Guitar Man - Bread Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Same artists that made the 70’s great
Wildest thing I ever found out. A few years ago I went down a rabbit hole about Bobby Sherman for some reason and found this out. Eventually, he left the public spotlight and became an emergency medical technician (EMT). He volunteered with the Los Angeles Police Department, working with paramedics and giving CPR and first aid classes. He officially became a technical Reserve Police Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s, a position he still held as of 2017. He was later promoted to Captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. For more than a decade he served as a medical training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy, instructing thousands of police officers in first aid and CPR. He was named LAPD's Reserve Officer of the Year in 1999.
@@judywright4241 No, it's just having a surplus of time these days, ha. My sister was a huge fan of his back at that time, and was always buying buying Tiger Beat to get his pictures to hang on her wall. I stumbled on another article or video about a year and a half ago, and looked him up. Most of the info is just a cut and paste from Wikepedia.
My dad was a pilot in the military, our house was literally at the end of the flight line as close as you could get safely. All day and night the F15 and F 4 s would take off with their after burners glowing in the night and a roar of thunder . I was but 10 years old. The CCR songs would ring out on Wednesday night as the officers played poker at our kitchen table. It was just me and my dad. In the fall, I would go to stay with family as my father’s air unit was deployed. I can still remember the faces of those men, American warrior’s. I was so proud of my father and country. Many of those faces I never seen again. I hear CCR and I am back at that magical time in my life and a tear comes to my eye.
My dad was corpsman in the Navy - west pac - so I grew up in the triangle: San Diego, Seatle, and Pearl. So yeah, Navy brat. My dad did two tours on a tin can in the Gulf of Tonkin. My Dad also had an influence on my musical choices at the time. The driver picks the radio station rule. Anyways, my Dad recently passed and was given full honors. and an appreciation for good music
I was a combat medic and nurse in the military ( US Army) and I worked everything from emergency medicine to various medical instructors positions to Recon and special operations but I started out working High Risk Obstetrics and Labor&Delivery at Fort Hood and while in the middle of that three years I volunteered to go to NTC in the Mojave desert in California for a month with the 2nd Armored Division and I had the luck to have one of those life experiences that seems like a perfectly filmed movie scene while there courtesy of listening to CCR. I was at a forward Mobile Army Surgical Hospital and while walking from one camouflaged tent to another I turned and looked backwards towards the horizon and saw a squadron of Apaches in a V combat formation, nose down nape of the Earth, moving towards me across the desert with the red and orange sunset in the darkening silver sky while I had Fortunate Son playing loudly in my earphones! It was enough to put a lump in your throat and cause your heart, your pulse, to pound in your chest and into your ears! A really impactful memorable experience. 😆
What stands out for me, even above the quality of those songs, is the variety of music on the charts at that time. Folk to hard rock, and almost everything in between, on one chart.
That is one of the things that I liked about the 70s. I remember listening to the radio and hearing so many good songs on the same station and being exposed to such a big variety of styles.
And it will NEVER happen again thanks to corporate America! THEY ARE MUCH HAPPIER KEEPING US ALL DIVIDED BECAUSE THEY MAKE MORE MONEY THAT WAY. RACIST AMERICA DID NOT LIKE THEIR KIDS BONDING OVER MUSIC!!!!
To this day I still love all types of music. We had so many great bands to choose from. Every week it seemed a new band came on the scene and we would get into their music too. The 1970's was the greatest decade for music. If I could I'd go back and live it all over again. 👍👩🦳
Growing up a Zeppelin and CCR fan, I did also have (and still have) an appreciation for the vocal and songwriting talents of Neil Diamond. Dude is legendary.
I'm glad I spent all of my teen years in the 70s. I've said it before, but I loved all of the genres: motown, hard rock, glitter rock, bubble gum, beginnings of punk, etc. I also got into Glenn Miller, Clasical, etc. good music is just a joy to listen to.
A lot of people give me a hard time for liking N. Diamond, but I don’t care. I’m not an elitist, I can appreciate so many talented artists. A great voice, and a great song are undeniable.. at least to me.
A song that makes me cry everytime is GO REST HIGH ON THAT MOUNTAIN BY VINCE GILL my dad passed away in 2003 and whenever I hear it it makes me cry he had a lot of health issues and my mom passed away last June, I want to dedicate that to both of them
God... watching this channel can be so depressing... don't get me wrong... I think this channel is amazingly great.. it's just that it scrapes the wound raw and highlights just how appalling today's music and film/TV is and how wonderfully brilliant those beautiful days of the 70s and 80s were... I'm so glad that I grew up in those two decades... I'd hate to just be reading about it and wishing that I had been there. Keep up the fantastic work Professor.
In 1970, I was 12 years old and collecting 45's of the top 40. My senior in high school older brother brings home Led Zepplin II, tells me, "Listen to this." He puts it on the Hi-fi and the opening riff of Whole Lotta Love and my life changed forever. It was that powerful.
There I was, a 68 yr old woman having coffee and planning a new garden, and suddenly I'm 15 and back in my bedroom at home with my radio blasting. When I get back to 2022 I'm going to download ALL the songs. Especially Bobby Sherman 😍
@@wingandhog if you listen to people like Frankie Beverly and the Maze they will tell you in their song at that golden time of day or listen to David Bowie for the Golden Years, bop, bop, bop
I was blessed to see BJ Thomas a couple years prior to his death.The audience at The Riviera Theater in North Tonawanda,NY was so appreciative of his performance and that got BJ recognized it and said it was one of the best crowds he played in front of in years and told us he would be back again.He was scheduled again to appear but he passed away prior.A concert I will always cherish!
I was born in 1964 and this list feel like the soundtrack to my childhood. All of these songs are so familiar to me, as I heard them on the radio for years.
I must have heard “raindrops keep falling on my head” on the radio as a preschooler. I sang that song ALL the time and I’d tell anyone who would listen that it was my favorite. My Dad loved music and would play records of all sorts for us. Music brings back the Best memories. Thank you Prof 💕
The early '70's, '70 & '71 especially, with a bit of '72 thrown in, could have been its own mini decade. Still had a late '60's vibe to it but not too heavy and not quite like the 1970's as what we have become familiar with. Hard to describe if you didn't live through it. The music was phenomenal and so was that time!
I agree, especially about the ‘time’…it was magical. Tarentino’s ‘Once upon a Time in Hollywood’ comes close to capturing a fraction of the ‘vibe’ back then. Especially the California scene. Cali was a paradise and booming. I spent part of my mid to late teens soaking up the mystery and magic in paradise. On a semi-related note, the manager of Paul Revere & the Raiders was the son of my parent’s friends. Kinda made the magic even more real. So grateful I lived through that time and place.
1968-1969 was when I was becoming more music aware, when the feeling was different, not just nice little songs to hum to anymore, but songs that got inside your being so what a time to be growing up and if there is any 10 year period in the last 100 years of popular music that does it for me it's 1965-1974. The amount of great music in that period is staggering. The last ten years, 2012 to 2021, well it's depressingly sad.
When I was deployed in the 80s we had a Sergeant that was a Vietnam Vet. He had a boombox and a bunch of tapes. As we were heading into our recon areas each day, he would play a tape on the boombox. One of the tapes had "Run Through the Jungle" which is one of my favorite CCR songs.
When you said the first week of 1970, I knew what song it was because I remember my dad saying, then, "This is a great song to start the 70's off with at number #1: This is going to be a great music decade"!! He was 💯% correct
My Mama always let us listen to our music. She loved Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head and sang it often. Her love of music is one of my many memories. P.S. She also sewed mini skirts for all five of her daughter's and herself as well. She was a pretty cool Mama.
I was 9 years old in 1970 and my parents were still in their late 20s. My dad brought home every Zeppelin album that was made. This was the music of my youth & still my favorite. BTW, I haven't thought about Bobby Sherman in years, but like a lot of girls my age I had a huge crush on him. Thanks for the memories.
You talked about the changing 60's social climate and it's effect on Motown. Barry Gordy didn't want Motown to ever get political, he wanted to preserve their 'feel good music' image, so when Marvin Gaye presented him with "What's Going On", it nearly drove Barry crazy. Mr. Gordy kept putting off the release of the album because he was afraid of what it would do to the image of Motown, but he also knew that he had a HUGE hit album on his hands. So, he finally released it and hoped for the best. It did not hurt Motown's image at all, and the album became acknowledged as one of the best of all time. Still is.
Strange my father always reminded me to remember this name " barry gordy " my father was a very good friend of barry and my mother and mrs gordy were also friends and mrs gordy was also my baby sitter ! i still know were barry's old house is or was in gary Indiana ! pretty wild !
@@scottymoondogjakubin4766 That's great! I enjoyed reading this. After Mr Gordy moved to Southern California, my best friend became his driver for a couple of years. My friend had to quit just to catch up on his sleep! Mr Gordy sure keep him busy, but he enjoyed it.
@@resurrectionwaiting9294 wowza ! What a small world we live in ! glad to have found your post scrolling thru the comments ! this is why im a big fan of the professor !
This album opened up the floodgates for more “message songs” on Motown labels like The Temptations and The Undisputed Truth (“Smiling Faces Sometimes”) with producer Norman Whitfield.
I grew up in the 70's. Had a little transistor radio that I'd listen to on my way to sleep every night. I remember CCR, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, a few Paul Simon singles that I loved. The list goes on and on. The Guess Who, James Taylor, Harry Nilsson, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Supremes, the Rolling Stones, so much great music being played in the 70's
The '70s were great time to be young. The radio was still a big deal - FM radio really took over from AM's dominance of the '60s. Music suddenly became so much clearer to listen to and it was as if you were present at a concert. That's my memory of it anyway. Listening to CCR and Led Zeppelin on FM radio was quite an experience after spending the preceding years listening to the scratchy sounds AM radio gave us. '70s radio also never let us forget '60s and '50s sounds too and there was a lot of great stuff from those decades as well.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's best time in history for music. I loved every genre knew most lyrics to hundreds of songs. But to my great disappointment, I never played an instrument and I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I still own much music from these decades and play them daily.
Zeppelin was a hard hitting band, and one of the best of all time! Always thought album #’s 1,2 & 3 were their best. When I was 19, I sang in a garage band and loved singing Whole Lotta Love! Those were the days….🎶
I was in the military (as were many others) from 1967 to 1971. The memories these songs brought back were (literally) breathtaking. Thank you so much for sharing.
When I was a teen I remember mowing the lawn getting five dollars walking across the wash to the mom n pops record store , getting Led Zeppelin II then turning around and walking home with Led Zeppelin II in my hand thru the wash staring at it and couldn’t wait to play it on my record player. Still to this day whenever I hear the guitar solo come in I get chills and the hair on my arm stands it’s one of my favorite guitar solos ever! Now over 40 years later there is a new record store right there at that wash it’s my friends father and son record store and I drew his logo for his record store.
My son was 3yrs old he went around singing Rain drops in the house sadly he died in an automobile accident but when I hear it I can see him and hear him
There is such a timeless quality to music from the 70s it's a time when a full album told a story and we had to imagine what the band members played from the cover photos it was a time of creativity and wonder
The 1970's, best music era of all time. We will never see another decade with so much variety, so much raw talent. These bands weren't professionals, they were kids who self taught themselves to play instruments, write music & lyrics. And they met in their parents garages to practice. Greatest decade ever.
These songs are timeless! The 60’s/70’s/80’s are three of the greatest decades in music period. I have to wonder, in 50 years what will they be playing?
Absolutely right! Still say the 1960's has to be the number one decade though, ok, maybe a toss up for the first half of the 1970's.. Miraculous music😎
I remember "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" being taught to us in my 2nd or 3rd grade music class. (This was when the song first came out and elementary schools still had music classed.) Always brings a smile to my face.
We too also had music classes in elementary school. That song was easy to learn on the ukulele. I was born and raised in Hawaii so ukuleles were the first instrument to learn.
@@gpants3633 We had recorders (as the kids still do now). We were able to move on to real instruments in 4th grade. (I took sax; my older brother the trumpet, older sister the flute.) It was a good time.
@@SatansSimgma We di PPM as well. Also "Joy to the World" (aka Jerimiah Was a Bullfrog) and a few others I can't recall. Buffalo suburb; teacher was probably a low-key hippie.
I saw Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin experience years ago. My gf and I were walking through the lobby and a young boy was walking towards us wearing a bowler derby. I asked him “ Are you Jason’s son?” He said “ Yes” we took pics with him and I got his autograph. Very cool kid. I told him his grandfather was one of the greatest drummers of all time. We took our seats and a couple songs later, Jason introduced him and Jager, his son, did the opening drums for “ When the levy breaks” Jason told story’s of growing up with Robert, Jimmy and John Paul Jones around the house. He showed some old black and white video of him as a young boy and his mom and dad. Great concert.
THE MIGHTY LED ZEPPELIN! There will never be another! Because of there on going battle with critics of the time they refused to release singles...Jimmy Page had FULL Control of the Bands music. He and Grant had bartered the deal with Atlantic Records, one that no one was ever able to do before them. It opened the door for future bands to get better record deals..
My sister and i had a poster of Bobby Sherman (for me) and Paul Revere and the raiders (for her) hanging in our bedroom! Lost her last year but when i watch these videos she's right here with me! Love you Mel ! ❤❤❤ We were also big fans of "Here comes the brides" David Soul was also in it!😊😊😊Cute!
In the early 70s when I was 5, there was a local family restaurant that my family frequented often. Their jukebox had the single “Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head”…and I would ask my parents if we could play that song every time we were there. It was the first commercial song that grabbed my attention and began my love for music. I was obsessed. Today that song doesn’t necessarily stand the test of time, but it is one of those songs in your life that harkens back to a more simple and happy time of your life.
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head has stood the test of time. You just played it so much you wore it out and don't want to hear it anymore. Lol. I have a few , more than a few that I just played too dang much.
I discovered Led Zeppelin, CCR and more on Casey Kasem's Top 40. If my dad heard something he thought I should learn from he would explain what it meant. "Fortunate Son' was one of those. He also explained that as we are from Puerto Rico, if we lived there I could be drafted by a President as my grandfather was for WWII in the segregated 65t Infantry , my uncle for the Korea War, my dad early in the Vietnam Era and my other uncle for Vietnam. My generation of three cousins all volunteered during the Cold War and my Gulf War service. The Truth of "Fortunate Son" has never not been relevant and sadly a reality.
What I love about your channel is the fact that hearing songs from my childhood (in 1970 I was 8 yrs old) and later, suddenly brings back the feeling or sometimes a specific memory as if I'm right there again. The power of music to evoke memories and feelings like that is really unparalleled.
Holly Holy on the original Hot August Night is an amazing live recording.....with the string section in the back of the Greek Theater and Neil's powerful vocal it still gives me goose bumps to this day!
I still remember EXACTLY where I was & what I was doing when I heard the opening riff to Layla! It has stayed with me to this day. The great Duane Allman. WOW - it opened up a whole new world for me.
I’ve often wondered if musicians realize how much their art affects people. For some, a song could be a throwaway piece but to their fans, it could send a heartfelt message and mean the world to them. It could be an anchor in a tumultuous life for them or a mark in time for a happy memory
@@JimRyser I remember your song, I loved it! Oh wow! I love the tone of your voice too. You have a beautiful voice. 😁 I wanted to be in a band badly back then. Still love to sing though. Do you still do any gigs?
How many songs from the 60's and 70's were taught to us in primary school in Australia. My biggest memory was our very own John Farnhams' rendition of Raindrops keep falling on my head. Brings back many memories from school. Great times👍 Thank you again for an in-depth look at some great artist of the time and their music.
Lol. In 1971 I was 13 years old and my folks took me to see.....my hero....Bobby Sherman. By the end of that year I had discovered Zeppelin and given all my B. Sherman and D. Osmond,, Jackson 5 records to my little sister. I never turned back. Still listen to Zeppelin today... .will as long as I can breathe!
I was 3 months ol in the week of this list. These are my first memories of music on the radio. 52 years later I was singing "Raindrops keep falling on my head" as the snow turned into rain today.
David Cassidy had a #1 " I think I Love You " ❤ in November 1970..He became a teen idol legend with this tune. ❤ Partridge Family was a huge as well . In fall of 1970!!
I remember listening to whole lot of love during my break at work, at night, in my car, and off in the distant there was a thunder storm head cloud that gave a spectacular lighting show while that bridge was playing, it was perfect timing with the lightning. I'll never forget that night.
2 anecdotes: 1. I lived in LA, went to college in NJ. Twice a year I'd motor across the country in my 30 HP VW Van, playing CCR as loud as I could to keep me going for 18 hours/day driving. Still some of the best driving music around! 2. In 1971 I took a year off from school and backpacked through Europe. In late August I was in the north Yorkshire moors, in a tiny English village with 1 Pub. As I was preparing for bed, I noticed nearly the entire village gathered around the one small TV set in the Pub. The owner told me this was a weekly ritual. The program? Bonanza!
What a great post once again. I was 12 at this time, just developing my musical tastes. Two older sisters were playing their records. Kathy just loved Herman’s Hermits, Peter Noonan could do no wrong. Susie played The Moody Blues, Zep, Jethro Tull, The Stones, etc. Thank you Susie I followed your tastes. Music was so important to us in the 70’s and it still is. I just love Elton John pre-1978. But my all time favorite song growing up was “ The Smoke From A Distant Fire’”, it had a special meaning to me, not a good one. But oh well it has turned out well my friends.
My wife and I got to share a table with Neil Diamond in a coffee shop in El Jebel Colorado. The place was packed and the was no other tables so he offered for my wife and I to join him at his table. It was loud and he was reading the newspaper, so my wife and I just kept our conversation to ourselves. Then all of a sudden one of Neil Diamonds songs plays over the radio and his head lifts up from his paper as to see if anyone was looking at him. I caught him eye to eye and just gave him a wink and a nod and told my wife this is such a great song! About 10 minutes later he stands up to leave and thanks us for giving him his privacy and we thanked him for the use of his table. He leaves the coffee shop and soon after a man walks in with tickets to his concert that night in Aspen at the DoubleDiamond. Was a super fun time and at the end of the show he pointed out to my wife and I and gave a wink and a nod! EPIC!
Damn, this lineup is incredible. I can't imagine many weeks could compete. Interesting to see how many times a song will be re-recorded, just bouncing from 1 group to another within a studio, until BAM! the right time, the right arrangement, the right group, and it's a top ten.
My first album in the 60's, was Diana Ross & The Supreme's Greatest Hits & I wore that vinyl out!💿 When we lived in Taiwan in the mid-70's, "Leaving On A Jet Plane" was our anthem. ✈ I saw Barry Manilow live countless times, but the best concert I ever went to was Neil Diamond! He sold out 3 times in one weekend & I went to the 3rd concert at midnight, alone, so got to sit in the 6th row! Rod Stewart was great in concert too.💜🎶🎵🎼
I've always liked Raindrops. First time I heard it as a kid, I was on summer vacation with my family in Ocean City and we were shopping at Rose's. The song played in the store. Everytime I hear it I think of summer at the beach. Good memories.
Led Zeppelin, yes! I was in junior high school when I attended a party. I was in a bean chair in a dark room at a party and Whole Lotta Love was blasting. I was listening with a fellow student I didn't know at the time, Sean Slade, and we bonded over the music. The next day he presented his ID bracelet to me and asked me to go steady. He went on to be a music producer and along with Paul Q. Kolderie would produce a ton of popular artists including Radiohead's monster hit "Creep"....
My favourite Led Zep story is that it was a performance review in the New York Times about one of their New York performances, used the most cool set of words to describe the sound…”of heavy metal falling through space” … and think about page’s overdriven sound on say, “Whole lotta love”…rings true, I’d say!
I was 8 years old. You were either a Bobby Sherman, Donnie Osmond or David Cassidy fan. My older sister was a DC fan so that is what we played and watched. 😊 CCR is the soundtrack of my childhood. My 3 brothers graduated 1969, 71, 73 and all went to Vietnam. Thankfully they all returned. My brother in law did not. 🙁 Those stories you share of viewers just make me 😭 Beautiful music!
Neil Diamond has been a favorite of mine for many many years. I have very fond memories of lying down in the living room on a lazy sunday afternoon in a sunbeam listening to the whole 'Hot August Night' double album from Neil Diamond. I can still sing every song in order as soon as I hear the first chord. 'Holly Holy' is one of my favorites, followed very quickly by 'I am, I said'.
I have a similar memory playing with my Barbies one sunny afternoon in my bedroom and hearing Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on the radio somewhere in the house. Every time I hear it I think of that lazy, sunny day in the seventies.
The errors in this video are once again overwhelming. Led Zeppelin's single was not almost 6 minutes, it was 5:33. The promo single sent to radio stations included the short version of 3:12. So AM radio stations were not playing the album version and therefore why it peaked at #4. CCR's "Down On The Corner" lyrics are "Bring a nickel; tap your feet". Supremes had 12 number one songs, not 13. That's just off the top of my head.
@@judgedredd3568 - That's your comeback? You didn't even get the entire point of him bringing the length, which was to spew nonsense about how amazing it was such a big hit nevertheless. Yet the radio stations were playing the 3:12 edit so his point was irrelevant. The number of errors I find in his videos are ridiculous. I discovered the dude is a narcissist because a long time ago I started to correct his mistakes and gave him evidence. His response was something drivel that his research is solid. LOL Young pups like him weren't around to experience what happened. So instead of partnering with actual music historians like myself, he apparently does his own "research". Do you know how much information is wrong on the Internet? But he gets praises from people like yourself who know no better so that feeds the ego.
As a child I lived in Chislehurst Kent, I remember adults talking about the night Led Zeppelin (1974) partied in Chislehurst Caves to launch Swan Song. I recall a friend of my fathers saying if they played Zeppelin may destroy the caves! That guys son showed me Zeppelin Three and Zappa's Hot Rats saying they were amazing, he was correct. Whole Lotta Love was the first LZ I heard, it was utterly mind-blowing, still is. Thanks Professor, great video.
Amazing that CCR takes the top spot in streaming. They got my attention in Cologne Germany in 1970 when we got 1hour of American music on the radio once a week. The only band that eventually surpassed them a few years later were the Eagles. Also saw the Shocking Blue in 1970 in Bergheim, Germany. They were great but ended up as a one hit wonder.
Looking back at the top hits of 1970, Let it Be is the number one hit, according to billboard. Clapton's After Midnight, Free's All Right Now, Santana's Black Magic Woman, Grand Funk's I'm Your Captain, Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?, Sugarloaf's Green Eyed Lady, The Guess Who's American Woman, Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Hendrix's Voodoo Child, just to mention a few songs. But don't forget artists like CSNY, CCR, BS&T, and pop band Three Dog Night. This music era is the most very important artists and songs of my time. True Classic Rock era from about '67 - '74 is the very best in Rock Music.
Hey Prof... lately you are really jogging the memory of younger years!! Another Home Run! Thanks!! Hard to pick favorites; these are timeless classics! CCR baby 👍👍!
1970 was the year I was born. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head was a favorite. I used to take piano lessons playing simple piano pieces and eventually playing more complex classical songs. One time my teacher said, "Why are you not practicing enough?" I told him, "I think this music is boring. I would like to play something on the radio ". "What song would you like to play?" "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head " The next lesson, I brought in the 45, and my teacher put it on the record player. He listened to the song and asked if he could borrow it to write down the notes. I thought, how is he going to do that 🤔? The following lesson, he had written the notes in a composition book for me to play. That's when I realized how skilled my teacher was. He could identify a note just by hearing it. Other piano pieces he let me play were the Theme to Chariots Fire, and Music Box Dancer. The were actually played on the radio. I do remember some instrumental songs, some made popular from Disco Remember the song, "Pop Corn?"
I was born in 1974 and so grew up in the 1980's... and as far as Rock 'n Roll is concerned Led Zeppelin was (and is imo) the greatest rock band of all time. LZ could do it all and sound awesome no matter what they did.
1970 was a monumental year, A golden time for music that will never be repeated. The 70's was a very mellow decade, people were exhausted after the 60's ended and just wanted to relax which would explain the incredible amount of ballads and love songs.
Always fun to go back in the time machine. 1970 was really a transition year, as you mentioned. Music's come a long way since then, hasn't it? (NOT). Thx Adam!
Oh yeah, I grew up watching his hit show American Bandstand from the 1960's through the 1970's, it's how I learned all the new dances every year. And then when I was finally old enough I loved going to the dance clubs and dancing all night. It was great.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' is always be my best memory of my late dad. He used to play the cassettes every night until we the children went to bed. Even my dad set a colourful little lamps to light the night. How so lovely & warm that particular song to my ears. I still remember those songs, my late dad, & Raindrop Keep Fallin' On My Head in particular. Songs of the 60's 70's & early 80's are magical. I feel so grateful for those childhood moments with those songs. Thank you, dad. 🌟 😊❤✨
Don't know if I've mentioned this before, but back in the day, VH-1 asked a bunch of musicians and music journalists who the greatest rock band of all time (most influential, etc.) was, and the answer was... Led Zeppelin. Whole Lotta Love is one of there best.
Uh NO.........The Beatles hd FAR more influence over music than did overplayed Led Zeppelin, despite anything VH-1 said. A decade before that ..it was Elvis. The only thing Zeppelin did was release a song that was unique by being harder than anything else at the time back in the late 60s It wasnt long until they were equalled and even exceeded by the likes of Black Sabbath, and eventually Dio and Iron Maiden. as well as extreme metal bands. Like Pink Floyd, theres was a cult following., but Floyd brilliantly exploited the niche of "music to trip/get stoned by"......something hugely popular in that era.
In 1970, at age 11, I moved to Eugene, Oregon where we listened to the radio every day because "If you're the first caller..." I won the CCR 45 Commotion/Green River. Played it every day.
Once when I was dancing on the stage at a gig during a storm, the pa went out and water started gushing through the roof so I started tap dancing while singing Raindrops 🤣🤣🤣 Memories 🕺
1970 was a great year for music. It was the year of the first album by Tower of Power "East Bay Grease" on the old San Francisco Record label. A killer record that stands today.
Here come the brides was popular in that time with a cast of guy hunks like Robert Brown. Also...Bobby was quite an accomplished instrumentalist. All these hits bring back wonderful memories.
My sister was a fan of Bobby Sherman so I heardplenty of his music. I still will listen to him and David Cassidy in my 70s rotation. Even the Carpenters are in the list. As for CCR they were and are number 1 in my mind.
@@ProfessorofRock Because of my sister we watched Here Come the Brides. Actually his career life has been unusual and worth an episode. The fact that he gave up his career to be an EMT and ended up as a Captain of the LAPD and served as the Police Academy's medical training officer is impressive.
Although I consider myself an 80s kid the first half of my second decade, my early teens, was in the 70s so I do love the music from that era. I wasn't much for disco but have learned to like the best of it now that I'm older. The Jackson Five were so loved by us! I remember being in love with Michael all the way to Thriller. He was one of my first crushes 😀
For me, the tunes that tend to get stuck in my head are those where I only remember a few lines of the lyrics. I once had to learn all the words for La Cucaracha to finally get it out of my head.
Raindrops keep falling on my head holds a special place in my heart. My grandparents took me camping when I was little, and I remember Grammy puttering about the trailer and singing this song. When BJ Tomas passed of cancer like Grammy I cried. Cancer sucks. Thanks for this.
I remember CCR playing when we deployed to Desert Storm. Fortunate Son being one of them. To me Fortunate Son is one of those quintessential protest songs that can apply to any era. One of my all time favorite songs.
Some good music. But when I see Led Zeppelin performing I just get goose bumps. Takes me back, and just stimulates a lot inside from back in the day. Guess they're just in my soul, babee!
I get goosebumps, i get all tearyeyed, and i always have a laugh plus i always have great memories when i hear the music from 60 and 70's .Theres never going to be music like this again and i am so privileged to have lived through that era .
@@annbutler2144 I so agree Ann, Sometimes I wonder if I'm just so old (68) that this is all I have left. Today's music, "stars", social media etc just leave me cold. But I get vey emotional when I hear the music from "the day".
I still have the 45 of “Raindrops” on Scepter/Wand Forever records. One of my earliest purchases in grade school. Even as a kid, I like many, felt “Jet Plane” was about people going off to war. Always loved seeing the Jackson 5 on TV. “I Want You Back” released 10/6/69 was the first of 4 #1’s over 11 months for the Jackson 5. That’s in Elvis and The Beatles territory!
Two quick stories .....I was born in 1951 and grew up with with mostly 60's music and then in the late 60s I was living in the attic of my parents home and i had this little phono player that had one speaker and my best friend had two copies of Led Zeppelins 1st album so he gave one to me so I started playing it and i hated it maybe because i was at that time into the early 60's music but later after i was able to purchase a nice stereo with 8 track and record player i finally heard how great Led Zeppelin really was and til this day i cant get enough of them.......now my 2nd story is in 1970 I was stationed at Sheppard AFB Texas amd was getting ready to go to South Vietnam and I heard that BJ Thomas was coming there for a concert and I paid I think a total of 3 dollars and to my surprise the first intertainer was BB King and WOW I LOVED him and he turned me on to the Blues........then came BJ Thomas and he was also great and that night I will never forget. Now I have been living for over 30 years in the Philippines and watching your videos Professor of Rock keeps me going I have almost kicked the bucket over 10 times I guess I am a cat hahahahhaa thank you for all your great stories of Rock music
I was only 5 in late 1970, and wasn't paying much attention to the radio yet. But a year or two later, I had a couple of Bobby Sherman songs cut out of cereal boxes that I'd play on my portable record player, along with Anne Murray's Snowbird, and the Sesame Street version of Simple song (Sing a Song). My appreciation for most of the other songs would have to wait until later, when I really got into music.
In 1970 I was 14 wow…I was at the perfect age to experience and to grow with everything that was about to come in the 70’s….by ‘72 I was 16…it was the best time EVER and musically living as a teenager! It was just a fabulous time and I feel so blessed to have been part of it all. Every great band was in its peak then: Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull, and so many more…Cheers!
Bobby Sherman and “Here Come the Brides” were my FAVORITES!! B.J. Thomas was ALWAYS a favorite of mine too. I had such a crush on him. It broke my heart when he passed recently, He was a true Texas gentleman. I was born in 1959 and I work with many people half my age. I tell them stories of how great the 70’s were, they seem to hang on every word with stars in their eyes 🤩I ended up marrying a musician, there’s a lot of vinyl in our house and music 🎶 on multiple external hard drives. My husband is a Nashville trained Pedal Steel Guitar player from the late 70’s and is unable to live without music 🎶 ThankYou for keeping OUR music alive 🙋🏽♀️💕
I love this format inspired by the Casey Kasem's Top 40. I was lucky enough to listen to the last years of the show during the 90s and my favorite moment was the letter reading and song request. I got teary eye more that once and I was in my early teens so nothing made me emotional cause I knew everything 😂. Amazing video Professor, congratulations and happy new year!
Poll: Let's celebrate the 70s: Give me your best songs, albums and artists that made the era so magical! What are your picks?
First song that comes to mind for me is 'Sultans of Swing' from Dire Straits. If it wasn't for my Dad, I would probably never know about Mark Knopfler and his phenomenal band.
Anything by Queen or ELO.
Best EARLY 70’s songs;
Who’ll Stop the Rain - CCR
I’m Your Captain- Grand Funk RR
Pieces of April by Three Dog Night
Horse with No Name - America
Guitar Man - Bread
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Same artists that made the 70’s great
"Paris" - Supertramp
"City to City" - Gerry Rafferty
"Brain Salad Surgery" - ELP
@@DC4260Productions Love it.
Wildest thing I ever found out. A few years ago I went down a rabbit hole about Bobby Sherman for some reason and found this out. Eventually, he left the public spotlight and became an emergency medical technician (EMT). He volunteered with the Los Angeles Police Department, working with paramedics and giving CPR and first aid classes. He officially became a technical Reserve Police Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s, a position he still held as of 2017. He was later promoted to Captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. For more than a decade he served as a medical training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy, instructing thousands of police officers in first aid and CPR. He was named LAPD's Reserve Officer of the Year in 1999.
Thanks for taking the time to post the update on Bobby, must’ve been a very cool rabbit hole you found yourself in🌹
@@judywright4241 No, it's just having a surplus of time these days, ha. My sister was a huge fan of his back at that time, and was always buying buying Tiger Beat to get his pictures to hang on her wall. I stumbled on another article or video about a year and a half ago, and looked him up. Most of the info is just a cut and paste from Wikepedia.
And he was on an episode of Emergency! Makes sense now!
@@steffg9321 I think it was mentioned that that episode made him want to follow that career path.
Good info🎶
My dad was a pilot in the military, our house was literally at the end of the flight line as close as you could get safely. All day and night the F15 and F 4 s would take off with their after burners glowing in the night and a roar of thunder . I was but 10 years old. The CCR songs would ring out on Wednesday night as the officers played poker at our kitchen table. It was just me and my dad. In the fall, I would go to stay with family as my father’s air unit was deployed. I can still remember the faces of those men, American warrior’s. I was so proud of my father and country. Many of those faces I never seen again. I hear CCR and I am back at that magical time in my life and a tear comes to my eye.
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My dad was corpsman in the Navy - west pac - so I grew up in the triangle: San Diego, Seatle, and Pearl. So yeah, Navy brat. My dad did two tours on a tin can in the Gulf of Tonkin. My Dad also had an influence on my musical choices at the time. The driver picks the radio station rule. Anyways, my Dad recently passed and was given full honors. and an appreciation for good music
I was a combat medic and nurse in the military ( US Army) and I worked everything from emergency medicine to various medical instructors positions to Recon and special operations but I started out working High Risk Obstetrics and Labor&Delivery at Fort Hood and while in the middle of that three years I volunteered to go to NTC in the Mojave desert in California for a month with the 2nd Armored Division and I had the luck to have one of those life experiences that seems like a perfectly filmed movie scene while there courtesy of listening to CCR. I was at a forward Mobile Army Surgical Hospital and while walking from one camouflaged tent to another I turned and looked backwards towards the horizon and saw a squadron of Apaches in a V combat formation, nose down nape of the Earth, moving towards me across the desert with the red and orange sunset in the darkening silver sky while I had Fortunate Son playing loudly in my earphones! It was enough to put a lump in your throat and cause your heart, your pulse, to pound in your chest and into your ears! A really impactful memorable experience. 😆
Hamilton AFB Marn County! We played lil league end of Runway, listening to top 70s
Bless your dad and his friends had a brother who was a Nam vet
What stands out for me, even above the quality of those songs, is the variety of music on the charts at that time. Folk to hard rock, and almost everything in between, on one chart.
Yep, much more variety.
That is one of the things that I liked about the 70s. I remember listening to the radio and hearing so many good songs on the same station and being exposed to such a big variety of styles.
And it will NEVER happen again thanks to corporate America! THEY ARE MUCH HAPPIER KEEPING US ALL DIVIDED BECAUSE THEY MAKE MORE MONEY THAT WAY. RACIST AMERICA DID NOT LIKE THEIR KIDS BONDING OVER MUSIC!!!!
@@terryhazelett2105 doesn't matter, our music bonded us anyway. It's what made the 1970's so great
To this day I still love all types of music. We had so many great bands to choose from. Every week it seemed a new band came on the scene and we would get into their music too. The 1970's was the greatest decade for music. If I could I'd go back and live it all over again. 👍👩🦳
*Professor not only are you musical encyclopedia, historian, you bring the human story, how these songs affected people beautifully. Thank YOU!* 😊
Growing up a Zeppelin and CCR fan, I did also have (and still have) an appreciation for the vocal and songwriting talents of Neil Diamond. Dude is legendary.
For sure. What a time eh?
I'm glad I spent all of my teen years in the 70s. I've said it before, but I loved all of the genres: motown, hard rock, glitter rock, bubble gum, beginnings of punk, etc. I also got into Glenn Miller, Clasical, etc. good music is just a joy to listen to.
Yes !!!
A lot of people give me a hard time for liking N. Diamond, but I don’t care. I’m not an elitist, I can appreciate so many talented artists. A great voice, and a great song are undeniable.. at least to me.
@@immortal2u I dig Neil Diamond and Pantera and John Coltrane.
Our generation was so lucky to have the greatest music in history! Which begs the question...what the Hell happened to popular music???
A song that makes me cry everytime is GO REST HIGH ON THAT MOUNTAIN BY VINCE GILL my dad passed away in 2003 and whenever I hear it it makes me cry he had a lot of health issues and my mom passed away last June, I want to dedicate that to both of them
God... watching this channel can be so depressing... don't get me wrong... I think this channel is amazingly great.. it's just that it scrapes the wound raw and highlights just how appalling today's music and film/TV is and how wonderfully brilliant those beautiful days of the 70s and 80s were... I'm so glad that I grew up in those two decades... I'd hate to just be reading about it and wishing that I had been there. Keep up the fantastic work Professor.
In 1970, I was 12 years old and collecting 45's of the top 40. My senior in high school older brother brings home Led Zepplin II, tells me, "Listen to this." He puts it on the Hi-fi and the opening riff of Whole Lotta Love and my life changed forever. It was that powerful.
Me too, class of 76'
There I was, a 68 yr old woman having coffee and planning a new garden, and suddenly I'm 15 and back in my bedroom at home with my radio blasting. When I get back to 2022 I'm going to download ALL the songs.
Especially Bobby Sherman 😍
I was born in 1960. I LOVED everything about the 70’s, especially the music.
Also born in 60 and have always loved the music we grew up on. But it does suck to rapidly approach 62 years of age
@@wingandhog 😆😆😆I feel ya. But, I did apply for Social Security this month for my birth month is March. I said the heck with it I ain’t waiting. 🤙🏽
@@gpants3633 … good deal! I retire in July but undecided about taking early SSI
@@wingandhog if you listen to people like Frankie Beverly and the Maze they will tell you in their song at that golden time of day or listen to David Bowie for the Golden Years, bop, bop, bop
1963 here. Mom & Dad had a reel-to-reel tape player, & it was always on. All of these songs bring back great memories.
I was blessed to see BJ Thomas a couple years prior to his death.The audience at The Riviera Theater in North Tonawanda,NY was so appreciative of his performance and that got BJ recognized it and said it was one of the best crowds he played in front of in years and told us he would be back again.He was scheduled again to appear but he passed away prior.A concert I will always cherish!
I was born in 1964 and this list feel like the soundtrack to my childhood. All of these songs are so familiar to me, as I heard them on the radio for years.
Same.
Same here!!!!!☮️
born in 64 too! i agree!
I was born in early 1961. Same for me....
🙋 Last of the Boomers we '64 kids.
I must have heard “raindrops keep falling on my head” on the radio as a preschooler. I sang that song ALL the time and I’d tell anyone who would listen that it was my favorite. My Dad loved music and would play records of all sorts for us. Music brings back the Best memories. Thank you Prof 💕
Harry Nielsson: Nielsson Schmilsson, Todd Rundgren: Something Anything are both brilliant and frequently left out of best albums lists.
I love Nielson and Donovan, both under rated.
Music is magic it stirs something in man’s soul, a true gift from god.
The research and production that Adam and his team put into Professor of Rock brand consistently make them the most enjoyable videos.
The early '70's, '70 & '71 especially, with a bit of '72 thrown in, could have been its own mini decade. Still had a late '60's vibe to it but not too heavy and not quite like the 1970's as what we have become familiar with. Hard to describe if you didn't live through it. The music was phenomenal and so was that time!
Yes it was, those years my family and I were in Stuttgart Germany
Yes 🙌 indeed 👍
I agree, especially about the ‘time’…it was magical. Tarentino’s ‘Once upon a Time in Hollywood’ comes close to capturing a fraction of the ‘vibe’ back then. Especially the California scene. Cali was a paradise and booming. I spent part of my mid to late teens soaking up the mystery and magic in paradise. On a semi-related note, the manager of Paul Revere & the Raiders was the son of my parent’s friends. Kinda made the magic even more real. So grateful I lived through that time and place.
The musical output from '69-'71 was astounding!!
1968-1969 was when I was becoming more music aware, when the feeling was different, not just nice little songs to hum to anymore, but songs that got inside your being so what a time to be growing up and if there is any 10 year period in the last 100 years of popular music that does it for me it's 1965-1974. The amount of great music in that period is staggering. The last ten years, 2012 to 2021, well it's depressingly sad.
@@terrythekittieful Couldn't agree more!!
1963-1975 greatest musical output in history, imo!!
@@lisadc4681 : I would even extend it to -78.
@@raggeragnar OK, probably right, just getting a little too close to disco around then to include late 70's! 🙄 Cheers
Born in 1956 and in this year was madly in love with Paul Rogers from Free and Eric Clapton. My taste hasn’t changed much over the years!
When I was deployed in the 80s we had a Sergeant that was a Vietnam Vet. He had a boombox and a bunch of tapes. As we were heading into our recon areas each day, he would play a tape on the boombox. One of the tapes had "Run Through the Jungle" which is one of my favorite CCR songs.
When you said the first week of 1970, I knew what song it was because I remember my dad saying, then, "This is a great song to start the 70's off with at number #1: This is going to be a great music decade"!! He was 💯% correct
My Mama always let us listen to our music. She loved Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head and sang it often. Her love of music is one of my many memories.
P.S. She also sewed mini skirts for all five of her daughter's and herself as well. She was a pretty cool Mama.
I was 9 years old in 1970 and my parents were still in their late 20s. My dad brought home every Zeppelin album that was made. This was the music of my youth & still my favorite. BTW, I haven't thought about Bobby Sherman in years, but like a lot of girls my age I had a huge crush on him. Thanks for the memories.
I had a Bobby Sherman poster on my wall. You always remember your first crush!
You talked about the changing 60's social climate and it's effect on Motown. Barry Gordy didn't want Motown to ever get political, he wanted to preserve their 'feel good music' image, so when Marvin Gaye presented him with "What's Going On", it nearly drove Barry crazy. Mr. Gordy kept putting off the release of the album because he was afraid of what it would do to the image of Motown, but he also knew that he had a HUGE hit album on his hands. So, he finally released it and hoped for the best. It did not hurt Motown's image at all, and the album became acknowledged as one of the best of all time. Still is.
I'm 58 and this is true first time I've ever seen heard that song was political.
Strange my father always reminded me to remember this name " barry gordy " my father was a very good friend of barry and my mother and mrs gordy were also friends and mrs gordy was also my baby sitter ! i still know were barry's old house is or was in gary Indiana ! pretty wild !
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That's great! I enjoyed reading this. After Mr Gordy moved to Southern California, my best friend became his driver for a couple of years. My friend had to quit just to catch up on his sleep! Mr Gordy sure keep him busy, but he enjoyed it.
@@resurrectionwaiting9294 wowza ! What a small world we live in ! glad to have found your post scrolling thru the comments ! this is why im a big fan of the professor !
This album opened up the floodgates for more “message songs” on Motown labels like The Temptations and The Undisputed Truth (“Smiling Faces Sometimes”) with producer Norman Whitfield.
I grew up in the 70's. Had a little transistor radio that I'd listen to on my way to sleep every night. I remember CCR, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, a few Paul Simon singles that I loved. The list goes on and on. The Guess Who, James Taylor, Harry Nilsson, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Supremes, the Rolling Stones, so much great music being played in the 70's
The '70s were great time to be young. The radio was still a big deal - FM radio really took over from AM's dominance of the '60s. Music suddenly became so much clearer to listen to and it was as if you were present at a concert. That's my memory of it anyway. Listening to CCR and Led Zeppelin on FM radio was quite an experience after spending the preceding years listening to the scratchy sounds AM radio gave us. '70s radio also never let us forget '60s and '50s sounds too and there was a lot of great stuff from those decades as well.
Back then everyone had a pocket 9v AM transistor radio in their back pocket.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's best time in history for music. I loved every genre knew most lyrics to hundreds of songs. But to my great disappointment, I never played an instrument and I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I still own much music from these decades and play them daily.
Me too. I have a lot of great vinyl albums. Pink Floyd The Wall, Led Zeppelin II, CCR, Elton John, Bad Company, just to name a few.
Me too. I've been listening a lot to Allman Brothers, Eagles, & Derek and The Dominos lately. Best ever!
Me too, I also have a terrible singing voice but sing along anyway. Much to the neighbours disappointment🤣❤👍👍
Zeppelin was a hard hitting band, and one of the best of all time! Always thought album #’s 1,2 & 3 were their best.
When I was 19, I sang in a garage band and loved singing Whole Lotta Love!
Those were the days….🎶
Same for me, 1 2 and 3 were the best!
1,2 and 5 for me. But all were great!
Your autocorrect was acting up, it put “one of” in front of the best of all time, an obvious typo. I hate my autocorrect too brother!
I was in the military (as were many others) from 1967 to 1971. The memories these songs brought back were (literally) breathtaking. Thank you so much for sharing.
When I was a teen I remember mowing the lawn getting five dollars walking across the wash to the mom n pops record store , getting Led Zeppelin II then turning around and walking home with Led Zeppelin II in my hand thru the wash staring at it and couldn’t wait to play it on my record player.
Still to this day whenever I hear the guitar solo come in I get chills and the hair on my arm stands
it’s one of my favorite guitar solos ever!
Now over 40 years later there is a new record store right there at that wash
it’s my friends father and son record store and I drew his logo for his record store.
My son was 3yrs old he went around singing Rain drops in the house sadly he died in an automobile accident but when I hear it I can see him and hear him
Beautiful memory. So sorry for your loss. He got his great taste from his Mother
I'm so sorry for your loss. :(
So sorry for your loss.
Bless your heart and his memory. You've honored him well.
Sorry for your loss...🙏
There is such a timeless quality to music from the 70s it's a time when a full album told a story and we had to imagine what the band members played from the cover photos it was a time of creativity and wonder
I agree 1000%.
Along with some of the greatest concerts known to man !!! As I have told my kids "it was a great time to be in your early twenties" !!!! 😎
Lmao, most 70s music is not timeless, and you’re very mistaken if you think there’s anything timeless about a 70s genre like disco.
there was great music in other decades too but at 53 i would def. say no doubt the 70's are the king. my nephew was born in 1986 and he agrees!
The 1970's, best music era of all time. We will never see another decade with so much variety, so much raw talent. These bands weren't professionals, they were kids who self taught themselves to play instruments, write music & lyrics. And they met in their parents garages to practice. Greatest decade ever.
These songs are timeless! The 60’s/70’s/80’s are three of the greatest decades in music period.
I have to wonder, in 50 years what will they be playing?
Agreed
Absolutely right! Still say the 1960's has to be the number one decade though, ok, maybe a toss up for the first half of the 1970's.. Miraculous music😎
The same stuff, if they have any fucking taste.
Probably the same crap there listening to today.
I remember "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" being taught to us in my 2nd or 3rd grade music class. (This was when the song first came out and elementary schools still had music classed.) Always brings a smile to my face.
We would be the hell out of Peter Paul and Mary and woody guthery. From north California and the music teacher was a hippie.
We too also had music classes in elementary school. That song was easy to learn on the ukulele. I was born and raised in Hawaii so ukuleles were the first instrument to learn.
@@gpants3633 We had recorders (as the kids still do now). We were able to move on to real instruments in 4th grade. (I took sax; my older brother the trumpet, older sister the flute.) It was a good time.
@@SatansSimgma We di PPM as well. Also "Joy to the World" (aka Jerimiah Was a Bullfrog) and a few others I can't recall. Buffalo suburb; teacher was probably a low-key hippie.
@@FutureZek Indeed, those were good times.
I saw Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin experience years ago. My gf and I were walking through the lobby and a young boy was walking towards us wearing a bowler derby. I asked him “ Are you Jason’s son?” He said “ Yes” we took pics with him and I got his autograph. Very cool kid. I told him his grandfather was one of the greatest drummers of all time. We took our seats and a couple songs later, Jason introduced him and Jager, his son, did the opening drums for “ When the levy breaks” Jason told story’s of growing up with Robert, Jimmy and John Paul Jones around the house. He showed some old black and white video of him as a young boy and his mom and dad. Great concert.
THE MIGHTY LED ZEPPELIN!
There will never be another! Because of there on going battle with critics of the time they refused to release singles...Jimmy Page had FULL Control of the Bands music. He and Grant had bartered the deal with Atlantic Records, one that no one was ever able to do before them. It opened the door for future bands to get better record deals..
My sister and i had a poster of Bobby Sherman (for me) and Paul Revere and the raiders (for her) hanging in our bedroom! Lost her last year but when i watch these videos she's right here with me! Love you Mel ! ❤❤❤ We were also big fans of "Here comes the brides" David Soul was also in it!😊😊😊Cute!
In the early 70s when I was 5, there was a local family restaurant that my family frequented often. Their jukebox had the single “Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head”…and I would ask my parents if we could play that song every time we were there. It was the first commercial song that grabbed my attention and began my love for music. I was obsessed. Today that song doesn’t necessarily stand the test of time, but it is one of those songs in your life that harkens back to a more simple and happy time of your life.
In the Vietnam era, when you shipped, out chances were strong that you wouldn't come out Alive.
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head has stood the test of time. You just played it so much you wore it out and don't want to hear it anymore. Lol. I have a few , more than a few that I just played too dang much.
The diversity of music in the 70's is amazing.
I discovered Led Zeppelin, CCR and more on Casey Kasem's Top 40. If my dad heard something he thought I should learn from he would explain what it meant. "Fortunate Son' was one of those. He also explained that as we are from Puerto Rico, if we lived there I could be drafted by a President as my grandfather was for WWII in the segregated 65t Infantry , my uncle for the Korea War, my dad early in the Vietnam Era and my other uncle for Vietnam. My generation of three cousins all volunteered during the Cold War and my Gulf War service. The Truth of "Fortunate Son" has never not been relevant and sadly a reality.
What I love about your channel is the fact that hearing songs from my childhood (in 1970 I was 8 yrs old) and later, suddenly brings back the feeling or sometimes a specific memory as if I'm right there again. The power of music to evoke memories and feelings like that is really unparalleled.
Holly Holy on the original Hot August Night is an amazing live recording.....with the string section in the back of the Greek Theater and Neil's powerful vocal it still gives me goose bumps to this day!
Yes I've always loved string sections. They're very under rated.
That's such an excellent album!
Agreed!
I still remember EXACTLY where I was & what I was doing when I heard the opening riff to Layla! It has stayed with me to this day. The great Duane Allman. WOW - it opened up a whole new world for me.
I’ve often wondered if musicians realize how much their art affects people. For some, a song could be a throwaway piece but to their fans, it could send a heartfelt message and mean the world to them. It could be an anchor in a tumultuous life for them or a mark in time for a happy memory
I don't think a lot of artist do realize how much their music means to so many. When they get a glimpse of it, they are always touched.
@@JimRyser may I ask what your song was?
@@ProfessorofRock These vignettes in the comments must be a great motivator to keep making the videos.
@R. XLR That's so true!
@@JimRyser I remember your song, I loved it! Oh wow! I love the tone of your voice too. You have a beautiful voice. 😁 I wanted to be in a band badly back then. Still love to sing though. Do you still do any gigs?
I love the 70’s and 80’s. Born in 1964. Most lyrics and music these days can’t hold a candle to those times!
How many songs from the 60's and 70's were taught to us in primary school in Australia. My biggest memory was our very own John Farnhams' rendition of Raindrops keep falling on my head. Brings back many memories from school. Great times👍 Thank you again for an in-depth look at some great artist of the time and their music.
Makes me realize that I had a childhood full of great music. So many memories.
you just CAN NOT beat music like this. My favourite era of music
Lol. In 1971 I was 13 years old and my folks took me to see.....my hero....Bobby Sherman. By the end of that year I had discovered Zeppelin and given all my B. Sherman and D. Osmond,, Jackson 5 records to my little sister. I never turned back. Still listen to Zeppelin today... .will as long as I can breathe!
I was 3 months ol in the week of this list. These are my first memories of music on the radio. 52 years later I was singing "Raindrops keep falling on my head" as the snow turned into rain today.
David Cassidy had a #1 " I think I Love You " ❤ in November 1970..He became a teen idol legend with this tune. ❤ Partridge Family was a huge as well . In fall of 1970!!
I remember listening to whole lot of love during my break at work, at night, in my car, and off in the distant there was a thunder storm head cloud that gave a spectacular lighting show while that bridge was playing, it was perfect timing with the lightning. I'll never forget that night.
2 anecdotes:
1. I lived in LA, went to college in NJ. Twice a year I'd motor across the country in my 30 HP VW Van, playing CCR as loud as I could to keep me going for 18 hours/day driving. Still some of the best driving music around!
2. In 1971 I took a year off from school and backpacked through Europe. In late August I was in the north Yorkshire moors, in a tiny English village with 1 Pub. As I was preparing for bed, I noticed nearly the entire village gathered around the one small TV set in the Pub. The owner told me this was a weekly ritual. The program? Bonanza!
What a great post once again. I was 12 at this time, just developing my musical tastes. Two older sisters were playing their records. Kathy just loved Herman’s Hermits, Peter Noonan could do no wrong. Susie played The Moody Blues, Zep, Jethro Tull, The Stones, etc. Thank you Susie I followed your tastes. Music was so important to us in the 70’s and it still is. I just love Elton John pre-1978. But my all time favorite song growing up was “ The Smoke From A Distant Fire’”, it had a special meaning to me, not a good one. But oh well it has turned out well my friends.
My wife and I got to share a table with Neil Diamond in a coffee shop in El Jebel Colorado. The place was packed and the was no other tables so he offered for my wife and I to join him at his table. It was loud and he was reading the newspaper, so my wife and I just kept our conversation to ourselves. Then all of a sudden one of Neil Diamonds songs plays over the radio and his head lifts up from his paper as to see if anyone was looking at him. I caught him eye to eye and just gave him a wink and a nod and told my wife this is such a great song! About 10 minutes later he stands up to leave and thanks us for giving him his privacy and we thanked him for the use of his table. He leaves the coffee shop and soon after a man walks in with tickets to his concert that night in Aspen at the DoubleDiamond. Was a super fun time and at the end of the show he pointed out to my wife and I and gave a wink and a nod! EPIC!
Damn, this lineup is incredible. I can't imagine many weeks could compete.
Interesting to see how many times a song will be re-recorded, just bouncing from 1 group to another within a studio, until BAM! the right time, the right arrangement, the right group, and it's a top ten.
My first album in the 60's, was Diana Ross & The Supreme's Greatest Hits & I wore that vinyl out!💿
When we lived in Taiwan in the mid-70's, "Leaving On A Jet Plane" was our anthem. ✈
I saw Barry Manilow live countless times, but the best concert I ever went to was Neil Diamond! He sold out 3 times in one weekend & I went to the 3rd concert at midnight, alone, so got to sit in the 6th row! Rod Stewart was great in concert too.💜🎶🎵🎼
I've always liked Raindrops. First time I heard it as a kid, I was on summer vacation with my family in Ocean City and we were shopping at Rose's. The song played in the store. Everytime I hear it I think of summer at the beach. Good memories.
Led Zeppelin, yes! I was in junior high school when I attended a party. I was in a bean chair in a dark room at a party and Whole Lotta Love was blasting. I was listening with a fellow student I didn't know at the time, Sean Slade, and we bonded over the music. The next day he presented his ID bracelet to me and asked me to go steady. He went on to be a music producer and along with Paul Q. Kolderie would produce a ton of popular artists including Radiohead's monster hit "Creep"....
My favourite Led Zep story is that it was a performance review in the New York Times about one of their New York performances, used the most cool set of words to describe the sound…”of heavy metal falling through space” … and think about page’s overdriven sound on say, “Whole lotta love”…rings true, I’d say!
I was 8 years old. You were either a Bobby Sherman, Donnie Osmond or David Cassidy fan. My older sister was a DC fan so that is what we played and watched. 😊
CCR is the soundtrack of my childhood. My 3 brothers graduated 1969, 71, 73 and all went to Vietnam. Thankfully they all returned. My brother in law did not. 🙁
Those stories you share of viewers just make me 😭 Beautiful music!
Great show, Adam! I love taking these trips down memory lane by you. You do a great job each and every time. Many thanks!
Neil Diamond has been a favorite of mine for many many years. I have very fond memories of lying down in the living room on a lazy sunday afternoon in a sunbeam listening to the whole 'Hot August Night' double album from Neil Diamond. I can still sing every song in order as soon as I hear the first chord. 'Holly Holy' is one of my favorites, followed very quickly by 'I am, I said'.
I have a similar memory playing with my Barbies one sunny afternoon in my bedroom and hearing Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on the radio somewhere in the house. Every time I hear it I think of that lazy, sunny day in the seventies.
Holly Holy and I Am, I Said still give me the chills. Fantastic!
I love this top 10 format. The research you put into these, as well as your editing is truly appreciated. Really well done, brother.
Totally Agree
Dear Prof
This Top 10 of the year is a brilliant way to showcase brilliant music from yesteryear
Yes 💯
The errors in this video are once again overwhelming. Led Zeppelin's single was not almost 6 minutes, it was 5:33. The promo single sent to radio stations included the short version of 3:12. So AM radio stations were not playing the album version and therefore why it peaked at #4. CCR's "Down On The Corner" lyrics are "Bring a nickel; tap your feet". Supremes had 12 number one songs, not 13. That's just off the top of my head.
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What's 27 seconds?
Close enough to 6 minutes
@@judgedredd3568 - That's your comeback? You didn't even get the entire point of him bringing the length, which was to spew nonsense about how amazing it was such a big hit nevertheless. Yet the radio stations were playing the 3:12 edit so his point was irrelevant. The number of errors I find in his videos are ridiculous. I discovered the dude is a narcissist because a long time ago I started to correct his mistakes and gave him evidence. His response was something drivel that his research is solid. LOL Young pups like him weren't around to experience what happened. So instead of partnering with actual music historians like myself, he apparently does his own "research". Do you know how much information is wrong on the Internet? But he gets praises from people like yourself who know no better so that feeds the ego.
As a child I lived in Chislehurst Kent, I remember adults talking about the night Led Zeppelin (1974) partied in Chislehurst Caves to launch Swan Song. I recall a friend of my fathers saying if they played Zeppelin may destroy the caves! That guys son showed me Zeppelin Three and Zappa's Hot Rats saying they were amazing, he was correct. Whole Lotta Love was the first LZ I heard, it was utterly mind-blowing, still is. Thanks Professor, great video.
Amazing that CCR takes the top spot in streaming. They got my attention in Cologne Germany in 1970 when we got 1hour of American music on the radio once a week. The only band that eventually surpassed them a few years later were the Eagles. Also saw the Shocking Blue in 1970 in Bergheim, Germany. They were great but ended up as a one hit wonder.
Looking back at the top hits of 1970, Let it Be is the number one hit, according to billboard. Clapton's After Midnight, Free's All Right Now, Santana's Black Magic Woman, Grand Funk's I'm Your Captain, Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?, Sugarloaf's Green Eyed Lady, The Guess Who's American Woman, Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Hendrix's Voodoo Child, just to mention a few songs. But don't forget artists like CSNY, CCR, BS&T, and pop band Three Dog Night. This music era is the most very important artists and songs of my time. True Classic Rock era from about '67 - '74 is the very best in Rock Music.
Hey Prof... lately you are really jogging the memory of younger years!! Another Home Run! Thanks!! Hard to pick favorites; these are timeless classics! CCR baby 👍👍!
Born in 57 , Grew up with Greatest Music timeline ever I Think! !!
1970 was the year I was born. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head was a favorite. I used to take piano lessons playing simple piano pieces and eventually playing more complex classical songs. One time my teacher said, "Why are you not practicing enough?"
I told him, "I think this music is boring. I would like to play something on the radio ".
"What song would you like to play?"
"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head "
The next lesson, I brought in the 45, and my teacher put it on the record player. He listened to the song and asked if he could borrow it to write down the notes. I thought, how is he going to do that 🤔?
The following lesson, he had written the notes in a composition book for me to play. That's when I realized how skilled my teacher was. He could identify a note just by hearing it. Other piano pieces he let me play were the Theme to Chariots Fire, and Music Box Dancer. The were actually played on the radio. I do remember some instrumental songs, some made popular from Disco
Remember the song, "Pop Corn?"
Good music never dies! As a child of the 70s, thank you!
I was born in 1974 and so grew up in the 1980's... and as far as Rock 'n Roll is concerned Led Zeppelin was (and is imo) the greatest rock band of all time. LZ could do it all and sound awesome no matter what they did.
1970 was a monumental year, A golden time for music that will never be repeated. The 70's was a very mellow decade, people were exhausted after the 60's ended and just wanted to relax which would explain the incredible amount of ballads and love songs.
Always fun to go back in the time machine. 1970 was really a transition year, as you mentioned. Music's come a long way since then, hasn't it? (NOT). Thx Adam!
Dick Clark helped promote rock and roll when it was new, the Professor of Rock is keeping that Rock and Roll alive.
Absolutely!!
Oh yeah, I grew up watching his hit show American Bandstand from the 1960's through the 1970's, it's how I learned all the new dances every year. And then when I was finally old enough I loved going to the dance clubs and dancing all night. It was great.
What a great year! Loved every song on that top 10. What a way to kick off the 70s with those hits, can't wait for another revisit, love them.
It's pretty mind-blowing.
@@ProfessorofRock I usually set my watch by your newest installment, you threw my off today, lol, keep them coming
Raindrops Keep Fallin' is always be my best memory of my late dad.
He used to play the cassettes every night until we the children went to bed.
Even my dad set a colourful little lamps to light the night.
How so lovely & warm that particular song to my ears.
I still remember those songs, my late dad, & Raindrop Keep Fallin' On My Head in particular.
Songs of the 60's 70's & early 80's are magical.
I feel so grateful for those childhood moments with those songs.
Thank you, dad. 🌟
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Don't know if I've mentioned this before, but back in the day, VH-1 asked a bunch of musicians and music journalists who the greatest rock band of all time (most influential, etc.) was, and the answer was... Led Zeppelin. Whole Lotta Love is one of there best.
Agree.
I don't even like Led Zeppelin much, but I cannot deny the sheer magnitude of influence.
Uh NO.........The Beatles hd FAR more influence over music than did overplayed Led Zeppelin, despite anything VH-1 said.
A decade before that ..it was Elvis.
The only thing Zeppelin did was release a song that was unique by being harder than anything else at the time back in the late 60s
It wasnt long until they were equalled and even exceeded by the likes of Black Sabbath, and eventually Dio and Iron Maiden. as well as extreme metal bands.
Like Pink Floyd, theres was a cult following., but Floyd brilliantly exploited the niche of "music to trip/get stoned by"......something hugely popular in that era.
@@donreinke5863 All the Beatles did was write "I am the walrus" achoo achoo
@@grantandrews4826 Please..
In 1970, at age 11, I moved to Eugene, Oregon where we listened to the radio every day because "If you're the first caller..." I won the CCR 45 Commotion/Green River. Played it every day.
Once when I was dancing on the stage at a gig during a storm, the pa went out and water started gushing through the roof so I started tap dancing while singing Raindrops 🤣🤣🤣 Memories 🕺
1970 was a great year for music. It was the year of the first album by Tower of Power "East Bay Grease" on the old San Francisco Record label. A killer record that stands today.
Love Tower of Power!!!
Da bomb!
Your channel brings back so so much great memories! Definitely one of the best channels on RUclips!
Here come the brides was popular in that time with a cast of guy hunks like Robert Brown. Also...Bobby was quite an accomplished instrumentalist. All these hits bring back wonderful memories.
Here come the brides I remember that show!!!
It seems insane the CCR never had a #1 hit, considering how many great catchy songs they had in their career!
Bad luck. There was usually a monster hit that kept their songs out of the top spot.
My fav CCR song is "Born On The Bayou."
Yes and it’s crazy how they have the most #2 hits (5) on the Billboard Hot 100 w/o hitting #1!
CCR the greatest band ever in my opinion!
The Who also never had a #1 hit.
Still get goosebumps when I listen to Whole Lotta Love ❤️
My sister was a fan of Bobby Sherman so I heardplenty of his music. I still will listen to him and David Cassidy in my 70s rotation. Even the Carpenters are in the list. As for CCR they were and are number 1 in my mind.
I can't believe Bobby Sherman's songs have disappeared, so many great tunes.
Ya I was surprised that he has virtually no streams...
@@ProfessorofRock Because of my sister we watched Here Come the Brides. Actually his career life has been unusual and worth an episode. The fact that he gave up his career to be an EMT and ended up as a Captain of the LAPD and served as the Police Academy's medical training officer is impressive.
CCR, essentially John Fogerty and his backing band.
I loved Bobby Sherman’s voice! And he was pretty darn cute too!
I loved Bobby Sherman!!! I still have that album & listen to it often. I also saw him in The Teen Idol tour and he's still gorgeous!!!!!
Although I consider myself an 80s kid the first half of my second decade, my early teens, was in the 70s so I do love the music from that era. I wasn't much for disco but have learned to like the best of it now that I'm older. The Jackson Five were so loved by us! I remember being in love with Michael all the way to Thriller. He was one of my first crushes 😀
Sometime around 1990 amidst the rap and house era a friend turned to me and said "at least in Disco they had real drums and played their own music".
Now I got "Raindrops keep falling on my head" stuck in my head again!
Get the tune out with the Weeknd's Blinding lights!
For me, the tunes that tend to get stuck in my head are those where I only remember a few lines of the lyrics. I once had to learn all the words for La Cucaracha to finally get it out of my head.
@@donnahilton471 he's a devil worshiper
@@Baekstrom mine are really bad commercials, like the pillow guys. 😞
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A good example of the variety of the 70's in regards to popular music.
Raindrops keep falling on my head holds a special place in my heart. My grandparents took me camping when I was little, and I remember Grammy puttering about the trailer and singing this song. When BJ Tomas passed of cancer like Grammy I cried. Cancer sucks. Thanks for this.
I remember CCR playing when we deployed to Desert Storm. Fortunate Son being one of them. To me Fortunate Son is one of those quintessential protest songs that can apply to any era. One of my all time favorite songs.
Some good music. But when I see Led Zeppelin performing I just get goose bumps. Takes me back, and just stimulates a lot inside from back in the day. Guess they're just in my soul, babee!
I get goosebumps, i get all tearyeyed, and i always have a laugh plus i always have great memories when i hear the music from 60 and 70's .Theres never going to be music like this again and i am so privileged to have lived through that era .
@@annbutler2144 I so agree Ann, Sometimes I wonder if I'm just so old (68) that this is all I have left. Today's music, "stars", social media etc just leave me cold. But I get vey emotional when I hear the music from "the day".
I still have the 45 of “Raindrops” on Scepter/Wand Forever records. One of my earliest purchases in grade school. Even as a kid, I like many, felt “Jet Plane” was about people going off to war. Always loved seeing the Jackson 5 on TV. “I Want You Back” released 10/6/69 was the first of 4 #1’s over 11 months for the Jackson 5. That’s in Elvis and The Beatles territory!
No, it's not. Only by raw numbers. The J5 were never in Elvis's or The Beatles' territory, no one was, has ever been. or likely ever will be.
Two quick stories .....I was born in 1951 and grew up with with mostly 60's music and then in the late 60s I was living in the attic of my parents home and i had this little phono player that had one speaker and my best friend had two copies of Led Zeppelins 1st album so he gave one to me so I started playing it and i hated it maybe because i was at that time into the early 60's music but later after i was able to purchase a nice stereo with 8 track and record player i finally heard how great Led Zeppelin really was and til this day i cant get enough of them.......now my 2nd story is in 1970 I was stationed at Sheppard AFB Texas amd was getting ready to go to South Vietnam and I heard that BJ Thomas was coming there for a concert and I paid I think a total of 3 dollars and to my surprise the first intertainer was BB King and WOW I LOVED him and he turned me on to the Blues........then came BJ Thomas and he was also great and that night I will never forget. Now I have been living for over 30 years in the Philippines and watching your videos Professor of Rock keeps me going I have almost kicked the bucket over 10 times I guess I am a cat hahahahhaa thank you for all your great stories of Rock music
I was only 5 in late 1970, and wasn't paying much attention to the radio yet. But a year or two later, I had a couple of Bobby Sherman songs cut out of cereal boxes that I'd play on my portable record player, along with Anne Murray's Snowbird, and the Sesame Street version of Simple song (Sing a Song). My appreciation for most of the other songs would have to wait until later, when I really got into music.
In 1970 I was 14 wow…I was at the perfect age to experience and to grow with everything that was about to come in the 70’s….by ‘72 I was 16…it was the best time EVER and musically living as a teenager! It was just a fabulous time and I feel so blessed to have been part of it all. Every great band was in its peak then: Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull, and so many more…Cheers!
"Snowbird" brings back my childhood!
Bobby Sherman and “Here Come the Brides” were my FAVORITES!! B.J. Thomas was ALWAYS a favorite of mine too. I had such a crush on him. It broke my heart when he passed recently, He was a true Texas gentleman. I was born in 1959 and I work with many people half my age. I tell them stories of how great the 70’s were, they seem to hang on every word with stars in their eyes 🤩I ended up marrying a musician, there’s a lot of vinyl in our house and music 🎶 on multiple external hard drives. My husband is a Nashville trained Pedal Steel Guitar player from the late 70’s and is unable to live without music 🎶 ThankYou for keeping OUR music alive 🙋🏽♀️💕
I love this format inspired by the Casey Kasem's Top 40. I was lucky enough to listen to the last years of the show during the 90s and my favorite moment was the letter reading and song request. I got teary eye more that once and I was in my early teens so nothing made me emotional cause I knew everything 😂.
Amazing video Professor, congratulations and happy new year!