Greatest 70s One Hit Wonder - "Countr/Folk Rock" Edition?

YellowSnow

Fishpo31

Amie - Pure Prairie League

JFC, what a great list of songs…atta boy, Yella!

YellowSnow

One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley

Fishpo31 said:

JFC, what a great list of songs…atta boy, Yella!

As I mentioned to @RaceBannon I felt the field for the 70's would trump the 80s or 90s in its vastness. Ergo, it felt necessary to split things out into sub genres.

YellowSnow

One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley

One Toke Over The Line always reminds me of @UW_Doog_Bot driving out to Burning Man or some other weirdo shit like that in the desert.

PurpleThrobber

American Pie - Don McLean

True defenders of truth, justice and liberty know every word of American Pie by heart.

Commies.

RaceBannon

American Pie - Don McLean

Hate it now but it was the biggest hit of the 70s

YellowSnow

One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley

RaceBannon said:

Hate it now but it was the biggest hit of the 70s

Man, I fucking hate it. Exhibit A of song ruined by over play. Not Don's fault other that he couldn't write a bunch of other great hates to take the pressure off.

chuck

Amie - Pure Prairie League

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Hate it now but it was the biggest hit of the 70s

Man, I fucking hate it. Exhibit A of song ruined by over play. Not Don's fault other that he couldn't write a bunch of other great hates to take the pressure off.

Ditto.

Swaye

American Pie - Don McLean

This one should be a blowout.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

I Can Help - Billy Swan

Most of these songs are cringe worthy now but after the limited offerings of the 50's and early 60's [while radio stations were playing legendarily bad tunes such as "purple people eater" and tip toeing through the tulips" ] this kind of sound, as a holdover from previous era's, got massive airplay. For fun, this is a look at the top Billboard tunes in 1958.



Note that "Tequilla" comes in at number 8... here is the video...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uyl7GP_VMJY

booker14

Dave Mason - We Just Disagree

I thought Let it Flow was a well engineered album and sounded great on vinyl - I think it was one of the first albums I bought.

YellowSnow

One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley

booker14 said:

I thought Let it Flow was a well engineered album and sounded great on vinyl - I think it was one of the first albums I bought.

Can confirm. I bought it in the used bins a while back for like $3.00. Sounds great.

LebamDawg

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

Well here is the rest of the list that I was trying to remember on the rock pole

Edit: I friggin' hate this song

USMChawk

Cat's In the Cradle - Harry Chapin

I missed American Pie when I scanned the list. That’s my actual vote.

Fishpo31

Amie - Pure Prairie League

YellowSnow said:

One Toke Over The Line always reminds me of @UW_Doog_Bot driving out to Burning Man or some other weirdo shit like that in the desert.

I was just listening to this last week...great cut

Tequilla

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Hate it now but it was the biggest hit of the 70s

Man, I fucking hate it. Exhibit A of song ruined by over play. Not Don's fault other that he couldn't write a bunch of other great hates to take the pressure off.

Fucking this

JoeEDangerously

Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel

RaceBannon said:

Hate it now but it was the biggest hit of the 70s

Yeah as someone who didn’t grow up with it, it’s hard to be force fed something and really appreciate it like I probably should