{"id":6569,"date":"2017-09-08T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=6569"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:45:35","slug":"friday-playlist-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/friday-playlist-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very special playlist this week. I don\u2019t listen to a ton of 70s music &#8211; there\u2019s some OG punk and very early new wave that sneaks in, along with a pinch of classic rock &#8211; as I generally skew towards 80s music when listening to the old stuff. But my love of music came from my parents always having music on when I was young. And their parents, too, for that matter. I don\u2019t think any of my grandparents were huge music fans, but as the local radio station was a generic, 70s, Top 40 station, I still heard plenty of that stuff when I spent summers with them. I do have the <em>70s on 7<\/em> plugged into my SiriusXM favorites, and these are all songs I heard while flipping past it over the last week or so.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/39UThVZcmSplfmWFiK0RJT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet Your Love Flow\u201d &#8211; The Bellamy Brothers. Here\u2019s everything great about AM pop radio in the 1970s: part country, part pop, it was a #1 hit in the spring of 1976. I dare you not to sing along to the chorus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAin\u2019t No Stoppin\u2019 Us Now\u201d &#8211; McFadden &amp; Whitehead. Disco was dying, but its influence remained. This song has one foot in the disco world, one in more straight-forward R&amp;B. #13 in 1979, it\u2019s had a long life, being used as the theme song for several sports teams, in political campaigns, and on the <em>Boogie Nights<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning On Empty\u201d &#8211; Jackson Browne. Browne is one of those artists who did not age well, at least at first. He fell into a certain category of music that was discarded as time passed. While his contemporaries like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac remained popular, if uncool, somehow Browne remained neither. Which is a shame because he has a handful of amazing songs, most notably this one which peaked at #11 in 1978. I always think it\u2019s crazy to get to the end and hear the crowd and realize the track was recorded live at a concert. It has a tightness you would presume came from being carefully worked over in a studio. I\u2019ve reconsidered his music &#8211; along with Bob Seger\u2019s &#8211; thanks to the War on Drugs references back to their era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSundown\u201d &#8211; Gordon Lightfoot. As with the Bellamy Brothers, Lightfoot epitomizes a certain sound, the early 70s folk-pop sound. This is a pretty solid jam &#8211; it went to #1 in 1974 &#8211; but he has a better song I\u2019ll share in about seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Thelma Houston - Don&#039;t leave me this way\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AKrRrGLqpLo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Leave Me This Way\u201d &#8211; Thelma Houston. The greatest song of the disco era. Not sure anyone in the audience realized how privileged they were to be watching Ms. Houston throw down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very special playlist this week. I don\u2019t listen to a ton of 70s music &#8211; there\u2019s some OG punk and very early new wave that sneaks in, along with a pinch of classic rock &#8211; as I generally skew towards 80s music when listening to the old stuff. But my love of music came from my parents always having music on when I was young. And their parents, too, for that matter. I don\u2019t think any of my grandparents were huge music fans, but as the local radio station was a generic, 70s, Top 40 station, I still heard plenty of that stuff when I spent summers with them. I do have the 70s on 7 plugged into my SiriusXM favorites, and these are all songs I heard while flipping past it over the last week or so. https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/39UThVZcmSplfmWFiK0RJT \u201cLet Your Love Flow\u201d &#8211; The Bellamy Brothers. Here\u2019s everything great about AM pop radio in the 1970s: part country, part pop, it was a #1 hit in the spring of 1976. I dare you not to sing along to the chorus. \u201cAin\u2019t No Stoppin\u2019 Us Now\u201d &#8211; McFadden &amp; Whitehead. Disco was dying, but its influence remained. This song has one foot in the disco world, one in more straight-forward R&amp;B. #13 in 1979, it\u2019s had a long life, being used as the theme song for several sports teams, in political campaigns, and on the Boogie Nights soundtrack. \u201cRunning On Empty\u201d &#8211; Jackson Browne. Browne is one of those artists who did not age well, at least at first. He fell into a certain category of music that was discarded as time passed. While his contemporaries like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac remained popular, if uncool, somehow Browne remained neither. Which is a shame because he has a handful of amazing songs, most notably this one which peaked at #11 in 1978. I always think it\u2019s crazy to get to the end and hear the crowd and realize the track was recorded live at a concert. It has a tightness you would presume came from being carefully worked over in a studio. I\u2019ve reconsidered his music &#8211; along with Bob Seger\u2019s &#8211; thanks to the War on Drugs references back to their era. \u201cSundown\u201d &#8211; Gordon Lightfoot. As with the Bellamy Brothers, Lightfoot epitomizes a certain sound, the early 70s folk-pop sound. This is a pretty solid jam &#8211; it went to #1 in 1974 &#8211; but he has a better song I\u2019ll share in about seven weeks. \u201cDon\u2019t Leave Me This Way\u201d &#8211; Thelma Houston. The greatest song of the disco era. Not sure anyone in the audience realized how privileged they were to be watching Ms. Houston throw down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13557,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions\/13557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}