Daily songs, 1973 - 1970 +

I am continuing gradually working my way back through the years, though there were some unexpected twists.

It is always interesting to see that there are songs you knew, but not by name. One interesting thing was finding that I did know some Steely Dan songs. 

That encouraged me to listen to some other bands where the names were familiar but my impressions were fuzzy, just to get things clarified. I have a better idea now of Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Jethro Tull now, though those are not necessarily for this time period.

Ultimately, I really like knowing stuff.

The other thing that was interesting was how songs off of the Bread album, Baby I'm-a Want You, kept showing up on the charts for 1971 and 1972, but the title track didn't. Had that not charted, but become popular later? No, it charted higher.

The song was released late in 1971. That spread its performance over the two years, keeping it out of either Top 100. In it's own time it reached the number 3 spot.

For that reason I have included it between the two years with an asterisk. 

Then, even though it was released in May, I did the same thing for The Grass Roots' "Sooner or Later", which reached number 9, but did not hold the position long enough to make the end of year lists or something.

It's not a perfect system.

After finding ten songs from 1970, I wasn't quite ready to start the next thing, but I had been to see ELO and they didn't play three of the songs that I wanted. It was a great show anyway, but I put a little section of ELO as well as an A-ha song to commemorate our whale watching excursion (check the travel blog tomorrow for that!).

Then, because we were doing a lot of cool things in September, and it's an awesome song that I think about far more than I mention, I played that too. 

It was nice having a little section reflecting my life. Perhaps in October I will have a brief section of songs reflecting firefighting, pirates, vampires, and Halloween fun.

1973 – 1970

1973

8/1 “Will It Go Round in Circles” by Billy Preston
8/2 “Little Willy” by Sweet
8/3 “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest
8/4 “Sing” by The Carpenters
8/5 “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight & the Pips
8/6 “Dueling Banjos” by Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
8/7 “Reelin’ in the Years” by Steely Dan
8/8 “Stuck in the Middle with You” by Stealers Wheel 
8/9 “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple
8/10 “Higher Ground” by Stevie Wonder

1972

8/11 “Vincent” by Don McLean
8/12 “Alone Again (Naturally)” by Gilbert O’Sullivan
8/13 “Last Night I Didn’t Get to Sleep At All” by The Fifth Dimension
8/14 “Let’s Stay Together” by Al Green
8/15 “I Saw the Light” by Todd Rundgren
8/16 “Back Stabbers” by The O’Jays
8/17 “Doctor My Eyes” by Jackson Browne
8/18 “I’ll Take You There” by The Staple Singers
8/19 “Precious and Few” by Climax
8/20 “Too Late to Turn Back Now” by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

*8/21 ”Baby I’m-a Want You” by Bread
*8/22 ”Sooner or Later” by The Grass Roots

1971

8/23 “Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night
8/24 “Knock Three Times” by Tony Orlando and Dawn
8/25 “What’s Going On” by Marvin Gaye
8/26 “Don’t Pull Your Love” by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
8/27 “Theme from Shaft” by Isaac Hayes
8/28 “Stick-Up” by Honey Cone
8/29 “Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin
8/30 “Love Her Madly” by The Doors
8/31 “I Just Want To Celebrate” by Rare Earth
9/1 “It Don’t Come Easy” by Ringo Starr

1970

9/2 “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon & Garfunkel
9/3 “Hitchin’ A Ride” by Vanity Fare
9/4 “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” by Edison Lighthouse
9/5 “All Right Now” by Free
9/6 “Arizona” by Mark Lindsay
9/7 “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor
9/8 “United We Stand” by The Brotherhood of Man
9/9 “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” by Dionne Warwick
9/10 “Up the Ladder to the Roof” by The Supremes
9/11 “Yellow River” by Christie

+

9/12 “Hold On Tight” by ELO
9/13 “So Serious” by ELO
9/14 “Calling America” by ELO

9/15 “We’re Looking for the Whales” by A-ha

9/16 “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire

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