The 70s On Vinyl

-DeeT's 70s Records

• Click on John Travolta's hairy chest to hear him singing It Had To Be You seductively on his 1976 album.
• The Bump (from the 1976 Record, Do The Hustle). "I Ain't Gonna Bump No Mo' Wi' No Big Fat Woman." Luckily, this this one's too thin to bump him on the flo'.
• The Foxy Trot (from the 1976 Record, Do The Hustle). Notice the hair and the clothes. They're as much a part of the dance as the footwork.
• Recently I was listening to the old Buffy Sainte-Marie hit Mister Can't You See from 1972 (remember, kids?), and the sax solo sounded exactly like it was being played by Zoot, the sax player muppet. There's even the obligatory bad low note at the end. Check it out!
• I often wondered if the opening guitar riff in Heart's excellent song Magic Man was recorded backwards. Now I'm sure it was. Here the beginning of the song, first forwards, then backwards.
• Mister Jaws! This was a prominent offering in that whole "use samples from other songs for humorous effect" genre. Here it is, in two flavors.
  • The beginning
  • The ending
• Short excerpt from the Theme music for The Rockford Files
• The Monster Mash was a hit in the 60s and again in the 70s
• The Streak
• A selection from The Love Boat theme. This isn't the same performance as they used for the TV show, but it's the same guy singing. I also typed in the lyrics. To hear the way the song sounded on the actual show, click here. To see a video clip from the show's introduction, click here.
• Take a bite out of Star Wars (This is the real one... see below!)
• A Fifth Of Beethoven. Prepare to boogie to some Ludwig Van (actually Walter Murphy).
• Here's the ending of Steve Martin's classic King Tut.
• Steve Martin again, this time singing Maxwell's Silver Hammer from the Bee Gees' Sergeant Pepper movie. (If you're considering sending an email telling me that actually the Beatles wrote Maxwell's Silver Hammer, click here.)
• Remember those rip-off record deals from the 70s, where they'd sell you all your favorite hits, as performed by some garage band? Most of these aren't very funny, but here are some clips that are.
  • I Write The Songs Well, you'd never guess Barry Manilow popularized this one, the way this wannabe lounge lizard croons it. (And those backup vocals have got to go!)
  • Star Wars This is a counterfeit of Meco's disco version. It bad. Really bad. But laughable.

I once thought up my Ultimate Late 70s CD. What's yours?

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