Is there any song that possibly captures the 70’s better than “Rock the Boat” by the Hues Corporation (what an awful name for a band, by the way) back in 1974? It’s infectious disco beat and catchy lyrics took it to Number 1 in July of that year, and it seems to have become a radio staple ever since. Here’s more on the song from Wikipedia: “Rock the Boat” is…
“Cruel to Be Kind” is a song by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz bandmate Ian Gomm. Written by Lowe and Gomm while the pair were in Brinsley Schwarz, the song was saved on a demo until Columbia Records convinced Lowe to release it. Here’s a performance from 1978 on Britain’s “Top of the Pops.”
Great live performance on the UK show “Top of the Pops” in 1979. “Only You Can Rock Me” was off UFO’s seventh studio album, Obsession, which was released in 1978 and reached #50 on the charts in 1978. Here’s more about UFO from Wikipedia: UFO are an English rock band that was formed in London in 1968. They became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal and…
We looked really hard for a true LIVE version of this song from the time it came out in 1974-75 but no luck. We did find this funky performance on Britain’s Top of the Pops TV show from December of 1975. Here’s more on the song from Wikipedia: “Fox on the Run” is a song by the British band Sweet, first recorded in 1974. It was Sweet’s first single that…