Who remembers the Energy Crisis of the early 1970’s? More importantly who remembers the satire record by Dickie Goodman called “Energy Crisis ’74?” Here’s more about the record from Wikipedia: The record is a satire of the 1973 energy crisis in the United States, and was moderately successful; it peaked at #33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the first Top 40 hit for Goodman as a solo artist…
What a great live performance! For those who aren’t familiar with the band, Montrose was a California-based band formed in early 1973 and which originally featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar, future Van Halen frontman, Sammy Hagar, bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi. Their self-titled debut album, produced by Ted Templeman, was released on Warner Bros in late 1973, and while it was not a big seller at the time…
Don’t know much about this video, other than it was filmed early in 1974, not long after Rush released their first self-titled album. Rush was released on March 1, 1974 by the band’s own label Moon Records in Canada and by Mercury Records in the United States and internationally. According to interviews over the years, the members of Rush were fans of such bands as Led Zeppelin and Cream, and those…
No video of the band to go along with this–although there are some cool videos and special effects timed to the music–but if you ever wondered what it was like to be at a complete Pink Floyd concert back in the day, here’s your chance. This audio was recorded back in November of 1974 at Wembley Arena as part of the band’s British Winter Tour that year and features the…
The band Three Dog Night had an incredible 21 Billboard Top 40 hits–with three of those hitting No. 1–in a short span of time between between 1969 and 1975. One of their oddest hits during that period was a song called ‘The Show Must Go On’ originally written and released by British singer Leo Sayer (of ‘Long Tall Glasses’ fame) that used circus life as an analogy to the troubles…
“Can’t Get It Out of My Head” was written by Jeff Lynne and recorded by his band, The Electric Light Orchestra (aka ELO) and was released off the band’s fourth album Eldorado in November of 1974. The song went on to became the band’s first top 10 single in the United States, reaching number 9 on March 5, 1975, and helped boost public awareness of the band in the United…
Steely Dan’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” was released in early 1974 and was the opening track of their third album Pretzel Logic. It also turned out to be the most successful single of the group’s career, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the summer of 1974. Along the way, the song has been interpreted by a number of fans, many today who claim that…
The song that was born from a broken guitar string! On this day back in 1970 (5/9) the Guess Who started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘American Woman.’ The song was the group’s sixth Top 30 hit but their only chart topper. According to rock and roll legend, the song was born by accident when guitarist Randy Bachman was playing a heavy riff on…
Been seeing billboards around town announcing the return of Steve Martin to the stage, with friend and fellow comedian Martin Short. This made me think about the impact Steve had when he first burst onto the comedy scene in the early 1970’s and the impact he would have on generations of comedians to come. Found this video of his first appearance with Carson (and guest Sammy Davis, Jr.) in 1974….