Best Hit Songs From the 70’s You’ve Forgotten or Never Heard
Remember when they used to make good music? You may have forgotten, but they actually used to do that very thing. Here’s a list of great songs from the 1970’s that maybe you’ve never heard before, or if you have, your ears will be glad to hear them again.
These are not never-released songs from obscure albums. These were hit singles! And if you ask me, the 1970’s started in 1967, so there are songs here from ’67 through ’69. So let’s go…
Chi Coltrane – Thunder and Lightning
Q – Dancin’ Man
City Boy – 5.7.0.5
The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – (I Don’t Wanna Love You But) You Got Me Anyway
Pilot – January
Moon Martin – Rolene
Ambrosia – Holdin’ on to Yesterday
Sniff ‘N the Tears – Driver’s Seat
Sanford Townsend Band – Smoke from a Distant Fire
Gary Wright – Phantom Writer
Starz – Cherry Baby
Mr. Bloe – Groovin’ With Mr. Bloe
Badfinger – Day After Day
Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy
Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking
T Rex – Telegram Sam
New England – Don’t Ever Wanna Lose Ya
Addrisi Brothers – Slow Dancin’
Elton John – Mama Can’t Buy You Love
Melanie – Brand New Key
Starbuck – Moonlight Feels Right
Bonnie Tyler – It’s a Heartache
Pacific Gas and Electric – Are You Ready?
100 Proof – Somebody’s Been Sleeping
Christie – Yellow River
Tee-Set – Ma Belle Amie
Mark Lindsay – Arizona
Brotherhood of Man – United We Stand
The Friends of Distinction – Love or Let Me Be Lonely
The Kinks – Lola
Marmalade – Reflections of My Life
Melanie – Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
The Five Stairsteps – O-o-h Child
Dawn – Candida
Wadsworth Mansion – Sweet Mary
Mac and Katie Kissoon – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – Never Ending Song of Love
Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over the Line
Tommy James – Draggin’ the Line
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight?
1910 Fruitgum Company – 1, 2, 3 Red Light
The Status Quo – Pictures of Matchstick Men
People! – I Love You
The Box Tops – Soul Deep
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon
The Cowsills – Indian Lake
The Turtles – You Showed Me
Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie
The Flying Machine – Smile A Little Smile For Me
The Grass Roots – Wait a Million Years
The Detroit Emeralds – Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)
Bill Withers – Use Me
Arlo Guthrie – City of New Orleans
Daniel Boone – Beautiful Sunday
Mouth And MacNeal – How Do You Do
B.W. Stevenson – My Maria
Helen Reddy – Delta Dawn
The Stylistics – Rockin’ Roll Baby
The Spinners – Mighty Love
The Hollies – The Air That I Breathe
The Amazing Rhythm Aces – Third Rate Romance
Dwight Twilley Band – I’m On Fire
Leo Sayer – Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)
Sugarloaf – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You
Wet Willie – Keep On Smilin’
Lee Michaels – Do You Know What I Mean?
George Harrison – What Is Life
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