You.... You've blown it all sky high, by telling me a lie.

[NightTrain]

Without a reason why,
you've blown it all sky hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh!


Ahh, the '70s! :eyes:

[KoKo]

1. Annie Lennox? n/t

[FarLeftRage]

2. Nope, Jigsaw...

Circa 1975.

[KoKo]

4. Wait! Annie isn't 70's...but she has those lyrics on her "Medusa" album..

and the cadence of your post is exactly how Annie does it in a song on that CD.

I have NO IDEA who you're talking about....then...anxious to see what other posters guess. :-)'s

[McKenzie]

3. I'm a 70's kid

and I loved growing up in that era. OK, there is the inevitable temptation to slip into rose-tinted specs syndrome. However, I loved the 70's, the era that taste forgot as some naysayers put it. It was a time for fun and awful haircuts...and I was there!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. It was a "Dirty Lowdown" time. A "Lido Shuffle" time.

[NightTrain]

8. I was born in 1966.

My recollection is that the '70s suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder.

The music you'd hear on Top 40 radio ranged from Adult Contemporary to Middle of the Road to Country crossovers to Soul and Funk to Album Rock to unabashedly corny Teen Pop. If you veered away from the musical mainstream, you could hear pseudo-intellectual Progressive Rock and stripped-to-the-bone Punk from the U.K.

On TV, we had the homespun nostalgia of "Happy Days" and "The Waltons," alongside the in-your-face political and social commentary of "All in the Family" and "Maude," not to mention shamelessly violent cop shows like "Starsky & Hutch," "Kojak," and "S.W.A.T." And on Saturday mornings, we kids could choose between such brainy educational fare as "Sesame Street," "Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids," and "Schoolhouse Rock," and the utter stupidity of "The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan," "Josie & The Pussycats," "Hong Kong Phooey," and "Jabberjaw."

On the movie screen, we had the gritty realism of THE GODFATHER, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Millions of filmgoers also drank in the human destruction rampant in AIRPORT, THE POSEIDON ADEVNTURE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, EARTHQUAKE, and THE SWARM. We also had genuinely frightening horror films like THE EXORCIST and JAWS, and the escapist fantasy of STAR WARS, THE BAD NEWS BEARS, BENJI, and HERBIE THE LOVE BUG.

Perhaps I'm being overly romantic, but I kind of miss the awkward, innocent side of American pop culture.

[McKenzie]

9. this ain't scientific but

I was a happy kid in the 70's. Maybe it was the innocence of youth, who knows? All I know is that I am much less happy today than I was then. I suppose the responsibilities of adulthood are largely to blame.

Nostalgic blubber...sniff...

[Left Is Write]

10. I was a happy kid in the 70s too.

Like Night Train, born in '66.

[McKenzie]

12. 1958 for me

so I was 16 in 1974. I remember going to see Slade live and the Sweet. Sheesh, I saw Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust tour!

Think I'll go and have a nostalgic trawl through my fading Polaroids and 110 colour piccies (remember 110 format?)

[KoKo]

14. ' 58! "ThunderRoad (as opposed to Thunderball) and Robert Mitchum...

and the CLASSIC CHEVY...where you went to the Drive In! Great Times!

[Left Is Write]

15. Ah, Sweet! I have Desolation Boulevard, though I was just 8 years old

when it came out.

I always had a thing for "Fox On The Run" and now my kids do too. :)

And yes - I remember the 110 cameras! I had a Kodak Instamatic you had to use a flash cube with.

[KoKo]

13. ahhhh those "bell bottoms" and "Brady Bunch" thingy's...

The "late 70's weren't so bad." The "early 70's" sucked...depends..

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Wotta memory!

Why did it have to stop?

I thought I was the only one who remembered that song!

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Bring a little rebirth to politics and to Humankind.
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[last_texas_dem]

7. Jigsaw!

I actually like that song a lot; I'm a sucker for cheesy early- to mid-seventies pop.



I found the album for fifty cents or so a couple years ago; it also features their other Top 40 hit, the "Sky High" soundalike "Love Fire": Love fire, higher and higher/ Love fire, higher and higher... My kinda lyrics. haha

[supernova]

11. Argh! Thanks for the earworm, NightTrain!

:P