Lost and Found in the Seventies: Songs You’ll Never Forget is a mixed bag of tunes. I love “I’ll Take You There” by The Staple Singers but I could do without Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz.”
Some of the choices are a bit obscure. I haven’t heard Roxy Music’s “Love Is The Drug” since the Seventies. The same for the Dwight Twilley Band’s “I’m On Fire.”
My favorite song on this CD is Linda Ronstadt’s “You’re No Good.” How many of these songs from nearly 50 years ago do you remember? Any favorites here? GRADE: B
TRACK LIST:
| 1 | Al Green– | Let’s Stay Together | 3:18 |
| 2 | The Staple Singers– | I’ll Take You There | 4:36 |
| 3 | Minnie Riperton– | Lovin’ You | 3:43 |
| 4 | Blue Swede– | Hooked On A Feeling | 2:54 |
| 5 | The Hollies– | The Air That I Breathe | 4:08 |
| 6 | Raspberries– | Go All The Way | 3:20 |
| 7 | The Edgar Winter Group– | Frankenstein | 4:44 |
| 8 | Sugarloaf– | Green-Eyed Lady | 3:33 |
| 9 | Sweet*– | Ballroom Blitz | 4:01 |
| 10 | Roxy Music– | Love Is The Drug | 4:05 |
| 11 | Dwight Twilley Band– | I’m On Fire | 3:17 |
| 12 | Ten Years After– | I’d Love To Change The World | 3:44 |
| 13 | Canned Heat– | Let’s Work Together | 3:11 |
| 14 | Ike & Tina Turner– | Proud Mary | 4:54 |
| 15 | Joe South– | Games People Play | 3:30 |
| 16 | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band– | Mr. Bojangles | 3:37 |
| 17 | Melanie (2)– | Brand New Key | 2:24 |
| 18 | Jim Croce– | Time In A Bottle | 2:28 |
| 19 | Linda Ronstadt– | You’re No Good | 3:40 |
| 20 | Don McLean– | American Pie | 8:27 |
I remember every single one of them—which I’m sure is no surprise to everyone here. However, I think of “Games People Play” as a late-sixties song and “Love Is the Drug” as very proto-eighties: neither of them really feel as much like the seventies as the rest of the collection. My favorites here include the aforementioned “Love Is the Drug”, Ike & Tina’s version of “Proud Mary”, and “I’m on Fire”—an obscure gem from a one-hit wonder (who passed away not long ago).
Most of the Seventies passed me by musically but I still recognize and like half a dozen of these songs. I could do without the Minnie Riperton and the Melanie choice, and I much prefer Betty Everett’s take over Linda Ronstadt. The Staple Singers, Ike and Tina, Nitty Gritty, Jim Croce, and Don MacLean are my favorites here. I’d add Canned Heat just o n principle but I don’t recognize the song.
I remember all but five. As Deb notes, “Games People Play” was released in August 1968, as I was preparing for freshmen year in college. ’68 and ’69 were transitional years between the sounds of the ’60s and those of the ’70s, the breakups of the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel on the distant horizon, Diana Ross on her way to divorcing the other Supremes. Joe South and Al Green are favourites.