This Mind Melting 70s Top 10 Will Make You Wonder What Happened To Music? | Professor of Rock

Poll: Let's celebrate the 70s: Give me your best songs, albums and artists that made the era so magical! What are your picks?

Wildest thing I ever found out. A few years ago I went down a rabbit hole about Bobby Sherman for some reason and found this out. Eventually, he left the public spotlight and became an emergency medical technician (EMT). He volunteered with the Los Angeles Police Department, working with paramedics and giving CPR and first aid classes. He officially became a technical Reserve Police Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1990s, a position he still held as of 2017. He was later promoted to Captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. For more than a decade he served as a medical training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy, instructing thousands of police officers in first aid and CPR. He was named LAPD's Reserve Officer of the Year in 1999.

What stands out for me, even above the quality of those songs, is the variety of music on the charts at that time. Folk to hard rock, and almost everything in between, on one chart.

Our generation was so lucky to have the greatest music in history! Which begs the question...what the Hell happened to popular music???

My dad was a pilot in the military, our house was literally at the end of the flight line as close as you could get safely. All day and night the F15 and F 4 s would take off with their after burners glowing in the night and a roar of thunder . I was but 10 years old. The CCR songs would ring out on Wednesday night as the officers played poker at our kitchen table. It was just me and my dad. In the fall, I would go to stay with family as my father’s air unit was deployed. I can still remember the faces of those men, American warrior’s. I was so proud of my father and country. Many of those faces I never seen again. I hear CCR and I am back at that magical time in my life and a tear comes to my eye.

Growing up a Zeppelin and CCR fan, I did also have (and still have) an appreciation for the vocal and songwriting talents of Neil Diamond. Dude is legendary.

I was born in 1960. I LOVED everything about the 70’s, especially the music.

I love the 70’s and 80’s. Born in 1964. Most lyrics and music these days can’t hold a candle to those times!

Professor not only are you musical encyclopedia, historian, you bring the human story, how these songs affected people beautifully. Thank YOU! 😊

My son was 3yrs old he went around singing Rain drops in the house sadly he died in an automobile accident but when I hear it I can see him and hear him

The musical output from '69-'71 was astounding!!

I was born in 1964 and this list feel like the soundtrack to my childhood. All of these songs are so familiar to me, as I heard them on the radio for years.

I grew up in the 60's and 70's best time in history for music. I loved every genre knew most lyrics to hundreds of songs. But to my great disappointment, I never played an instrument and I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I still own much music from these decades and play them daily.

In 1970, I was 12 years old and collecting 45's of the top 40. My senior in high school older brother brings home Led Zepplin II, tells me, "Listen to this." He puts it on the Hi-fi and the opening riff of Whole Lotta Love and my life changed forever. It was that powerful.

You talked about the changing 60's social climate and it's effect on Motown. Barry Gordy didn't want Motown to ever get political, he wanted to preserve their 'feel good music' image, so when Marvin Gaye presented him with "What's Going On", it nearly drove Barry crazy. Mr. Gordy kept putting off the release of the album because he was afraid of what it would do to the image of Motown, but he also knew that he had a HUGE hit album on his hands. So, he finally released it and hoped for the best. It did not hurt Motown's image at all, and the album became acknowledged as one of the best of all time. Still is.

The early '70's, '70 & '71 especially, with a bit of '72 thrown in, could have been its own mini decade. Still had a late '60's vibe to it but not too heavy and not quite like the 1970's as what we have become familiar with. Hard to describe if you didn't live through it. The music was phenomenal and so was that time!

I must have heard “raindrops keep falling on my head” on the radio as a preschooler. I sang that song ALL the time and I’d tell anyone who would listen that it was my favorite. My Dad loved music and would play records of all sorts for us. Music brings back the Best memories. Thank you Prof 💕

When I was deployed in the 80s we had a Sergeant that was a Vietnam Vet. He had a boombox and a bunch of tapes. As we were heading into our recon areas each day, he would play a tape on the boombox. One of the tapes had "Run Through the Jungle" which is one of my favorite CCR songs.

Harry Nielsson: Nielsson Schmilsson, Todd Rundgren: Something Anything are both brilliant and frequently left out of best albums lists.

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