Get Your Groove On - 70s

As a follow up to Cliffs post about what music inspired him over the years, I am going to do the same.  However, I am going to do this in four parts.  Yes, I need to get four posts out of this!  So I am going to cover my music influences over the past four decades.  Yes, I am old enough to do this, so I will start with the 70's!

Well, in the 70's music was played on a Record Player.  Yes you youngins, vinyl disks!  My mom and dad had one of those giant big ass stereo's in their living room, but I had a little portable record player for my music.  I remember that I had the typical child records like Alvin and the Chipmunks, but then one day I got my very first grown up record.  It was a 45 of  KC and the Sunshine Band.  Aaaaah..that's the way, uh huh, uh huh I like it..uh huh uh huh!   Yes, this was the era of Disco and it was 1975. 

It was also the era of K-Tel Records.  Yes, where else could you get compilations of music - they were sold everywhere, even Woolco had the lastest selections.  Some of the albums that I had were:

Believe in Music
Some fav toons - Brandy, Long Cool Woman, Sunny Days, too many to say.  Long Cool Woman by the Hollies is still a favorite to this day.  It's got an excellent groove that I still enjoy.  The video and sound quality not so great anymore, but give a listen.

Fantastic 
Some fav toons - Crocodile Rock & Lean on Me

Goofy Greats 
This was also the time of the goofy songs.  Being that I was also still a kid we did go for the Goofy Greats.  These were a collection of silly songs that seemed to be played whenever I went to another kids bday party.  Some of the more popular songs were the Lion Sleeps Tonight, Purple People Eater and Ahab the Arab.  These weren't exactly the days of political correctness.

 Another Album that was pretty popular in the 70's was Elton John's Captain Fantastic.  I never had the album myself, but I remember friends did and everyone thought it was the bomb.  I think it was the whole Elton John persona with the crazy giant glasses and freakyness that went so well with the Disco era.  It was also the album cover...it was like art.  In those days if you bought an album, you poured over the cover and the inside for hours.  Sit up in your room, play the songs and think how cool an album looked. 

This album cover had a menagerie of weirdness on it that was fascinating, and Elton John was rocking it out.

As the mid to late 70's approached I started to form my own opinion about music.

I already liked many types of music and so did my friends.  I would go and hangout in the basement of my neighbor gary's house with my cousin and a few other kids.  We would sit around and play Nazareth for hours.  We looked almost identical to the kids on That 70's show, glittered T-Shirts and all, except for the pot.  Unlike TV land, parents can smell "the weed" upstairs!

I think i will close out the 70's with one of the biggest Albums of that decade.  It was 1977 and Fleetwood Mac released Rumours.  It was probably one of the biggest releases of the decade, and took home all kinds of awards.  There were so many wonderful songs, and being a female, I loved the unusual and raspy voice of Stevie Nicks.

So that are some of my memories and influences from the 70's.