Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some Good Tunes from the ’70s

The '60s rule, of  course, since no decade in Anglospheric popular music was richer or more creative.  I say Anglospheric because great stuff came out of the U. K., Canada, and Australia. I don't know about New Zealand. But let's not ignore the cream of the '70s. 

Jackson Browne, The Pretender.  This great song  goes out to Darci M who introduced me to Jackson Browne. Darci was Lithuanian. Her mother told her, "Never bring an Italian home." So I never did meet the old lady. I never met any anti-Italian prejudice on the West coast whence I hail; the East is a different story.

Running on Empty. A great road song. There's nothing like the open road of the American West.

Gerry Rafferty, Right Down the Line

Baker Street. This was a big hit in the summer of '78. This one goes out to Charaine H and our road trip that summer.

Dave Mason, Only You Know and I Know

We Just Disagree

All Along the Watchtower (2013)

Roy Buchanan, Sweet Dreams

Patsy Cline, Sweet Dreams (1963) 

Orleans, Dance with Me

Still the One

Abba, Fernando. I first heard this in Ben's Gasthaus, Zaehringen, Freiburg im Breisgau ,' 76-'77.  This one goes out to Rudolf, Helmut, Martin, Hans, und Herrmann, working class Germans who loved to drink the Ami under the table.