Super Hits of The 70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 18

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this is obviously Afternoon Delight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYK2H0ldbo

"Right Back Where We Started From" x 1000--one of my favorites for the whole decade. Also like England Dan & John Ford Coley's soft-rock simpering.

voted Elvin Bishop, because one day about a dozen years ago I heard this mutated version on WFMU:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eq9p1h9agb0dmgi/01%20Fooled%20Around%20and%20Fell%20In%20Love%20%28Fucked%20Up%20Version%29.mp3?dl=0

sky rockets in flight

This is obviously "Let Your Love Flow".

"Afternoon Delight" would be the winner of most other polls. I also like the Starbuck song. Don't know many of the rest.

Oh, and "Right Back Where We Started From" of course, written by Pierre Tubbs!

Getteright back where we started from...

Might vote for the Laverne and Shirley theme though - that thing is phenomenal

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/2LAGGpLAy3kWTr5DOlUbzI?si=mkGErB33SdmFfxPJluY5iQ

(all here for once, but "Right Back Where We Started From" might be a rerecord)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Tlz_NfaVw

this volume is aces, probably the best one i have seen, though admittedly i haven't been keeping up. "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" has just the right amount of cheese, so it gets my vote here.

"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" forever tainted for me by the garbage Rod Stewart version (from one of the zillion covers albums he released in the 2000s) that I was forced to hear on a daily basis for several months at my horrible old record store job.

holy fuck i missed volume 17 entirely, anyway this is obviously starbuck, they had a MARIMBA PLAYER!

The Starbuck song is some soft rock with serious hair on its chest. The singer even laughs mockingly at the listener.

Second the Slap Shot love, they overuse the Maxine Nightingale song to great effect. The liner notes call it disco, but it's never sounded like that to me. Same thing with Jigsaw's "Sky High."

Lotta great stuff here but it's easily "Dream Weaver" for me with its pop-psych cocktail.

i have heard precisely one other song by starbuck besides "moonlight feels right". i wrote a report on it last september. i'm not going to repost it here but i recommend that anybody who likes "moonlight feels right" listen to their song "a fool in line".

Toss-up between "Let Your Love Flow" and "Right Back Where We Started From"--lemme go listen to them on repeat about a dozen times to decide.

Love the Moog (?) basslines in "Dream Weaver."

haven't looked at this series of polls since like vol 7, but had to see where it had got off to. this is _definitely_ maxine nightingale, song is just straight fire.

This is a tough call, basically could vote for pretty much anything except for the two Garry Marshall theme songs and the Marmalade song I can’t recall hearing.

Dream Weaver
Let Your Love Flow
Right Back Where We Started From
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Afternoon Delight
Moonlight Feels Right
I'd Really Love to See You Tonight

are all A+ songs!

Guess I will be the only one voting the great Freddy Fender.

Actually pretty much anything goes except Afternoon Delight. I burned out on that one in real time. It’s a toxic ear worm.

if anyone votes for shannon i will meet them in the parking lot with a piece of 4x2

my vote is for Elvin Bishop bcz I looooove Mickey Thomas’ vocals on this so much. but it could easily have gone a few diff ways.

Used well in Boogie Nights when Scotty J first sees Dirk.

Guess I will be the only one voting the great Freddy Fender.

Love this song immensely and it came close, but I've been on a large Elvin Bishop kick of late. Saw him perform twice recently, bought his most recent albums, went back to listen to old stuff...

Honorable mention award to Maxine Nightingale.

I'd Really Love To See You Tonight

Which of these songs inspired the Casey Kasem Snuggles meltdown? He never actually says the song title in the bit, just called it one of “those uptempo goddamn numbers”.

I am also proudly voting for Freddy Fender.

XP "Shannon", which is about Carl Wilson's dead dog. The uptempo song in question apparently was "Dare Me" by the Pointer Sisters.

christ, shannon, wrinkles, "my solution"... what is it with the beach boys and their fucking dead dogs?

XP "Shannon", which is about Carl Wilson's dead dog. The uptempo song in question apparently was "Dare Me" by the Pointer Sisters.

― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain)

i love that the internet has done extensive research into this question, which honestly never occurred to me to ask

Pretty perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLnQ9R9j5A

This is obviously "Moonlight Feels Right".

^That's certainly my discovery of this poll. But in the end voted England.

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Finally sitting down w/the Spotify list...for the longest time I thought that Marmalade song was one of the Frankie Valli/Four Seasons comeback hits.

Given that like 3% of my total music-related synapses are “Right back where we started from,” i’m preparing to be, welp.

"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (Parker McGee) – 2:37

2:37! And yet there's nine parts: verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, chorus.

Flip (Bellamy Brothers)
Flop (Maxine Nightingale)
Flip (Bellamy Brothers)
Flop (Maxine Nightingale)
Flip (Bellamy Brothers)
Flop (Maxine Nightingale)

Flop it is!

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