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1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« on: April 04, 2024, 11:55:07 AM »
The more obscure the better.  I've been falling down a rabbit hole of sorts for the past few weeks and have been enjoying tunes I haven't heard in years.  Some of them are just awful but yet etched in my brain because at our house, we always had music playing - often just AM radio.

I'd prefer if we didn't just post lists.  Add a gem, here or there.  Any genre is fine.  Let's have some fun!  Maybe there will be a few tunes the whipper snappers haven't heard before.  And if any selection brings up a particular memory, please share!

First up - Every 1s a Winner - by Hot Chocolate (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_RSZH3Hsfk
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2024, 12:23:30 PM »
Virtually every TV show theme.
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2024, 12:38:58 PM »
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2024, 12:45:10 PM »
Bread is perfect!  I had that record and Bread was my first concert.   :lol

Ok, here is another one

The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMG-Mi9I0-k
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2024, 12:47:50 PM »
Marvelous thread idea!

Dobie Gray - Drift Away

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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2024, 01:13:14 PM »
1977 one hit wonder

Jeans On by David Dundass

It began as a commercial jingle and became so popular that it was expanded into a full length single that went to 17 on the Top 40.

https://youtu.be/vwGlhKcEBjY?si=s6UVavXuKOsWK-xH
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2024, 01:40:42 PM »
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would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2024, 01:59:30 PM »
Quote from: Harmony on April 04, 2024, 12:45:10 PM
Bread is perfect!  I had that record and Bread was my first concert.   :lol

Ok, here is another one

The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMG-Mi9I0-k

One of my favorite tunes of all time, ever.  LOVE that song (and wish Burton Cummings did more; really like that guy's voice).

Mine:
Leo Sayer - More Than I Can Say



When I was a kid, I had a fair amount of problems sleeping. I was on the top bunk and I had a window over my head, so I would lie there in the dark, looking out the window, and listening to a local AM station - WICC out of Bridgeport - through one of those old one-ear headphones.   They played the top 40 hits of the day and some of those songs are my favorites to this day.  I have to recreate it, but for the longest time I had a playlist on my iPod of a lot of those songs.

This was my radio ($45 on eBay now! Can you believe it?!?):

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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2024, 02:58:30 PM »
Quote from: Stadler on April 04, 2024, 01:59:30 PM


This was my radio ($45 on eBay now! Can you believe it?!?):



That thing is a beauty!
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2024, 03:29:14 PM »
LoL - that radio is the epitome of Bicentennial marketing.  Way cool.  Like that Leo Sayer cut too.

Jammin, I vaguely remember that song.

Love love love Drift Away - had forgotten about that gem.

How about Gordon Lightfoot (a question on Jeopardy last night - NOBODY got it, sheesh)?  Sundown (1974). Some pretty guitar work here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IBdZ645S-o
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2024, 03:53:43 PM »
So, the first two songs I thought of are these:

Michael Martin Murphy-Wildfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OnSQc48s

The Sweet-Love Is Like Oxygen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ean-ehaBSF0
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2024, 06:03:02 PM »
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2024, 06:15:45 PM »
Love Is like Oxygen is an awesome tune!

Bee Gees More Than A Woman. Great tune but the lyrics.....Creeper van stuff
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« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2024, 07:36:41 PM »
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2024, 06:11:54 AM »
Quote from: Harmony on April 04, 2024, 03:29:14 PM
LoL - that radio is the epitome of Bicentennial marketing.  Way cool.  Like that Leo Sayer cut too.

Jammin, I vaguely remember that song.

Love love love Drift Away - had forgotten about that gem.

How about Gordon Lightfoot (a question on Jeopardy last night - NOBODY got it, sheesh)?  Sundown (1974). Some pretty guitar work here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IBdZ645S-o

YES!!!!!  One of two Gord songs on my playlist (the other is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald).  "Sundown" has a great, sort of under-the-radar dark lyric that I love.
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2024, 06:22:29 AM »
Not sure if this qualifies, but first song that came to my mind was

Anita Ward - Ring my Bell (1979). For the record, I love this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1UkZLT20TI
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2024, 06:37:37 AM »
KC and the Sunshine Band:  Please Don't Go

Player: Baby Come Back

Little River Band: Reminising. LOVE LOVE LOVE the vocal on this song.


I could do this all day long. I grew up on a lot of this music and it has a special place for me.
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« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2024, 07:02:24 AM »
Starbuck: Moonlight Feels Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnQsvtfEsQ
I think the comment section is more of a cringe-fest than the song, to be honest! Boomers gonna boomer.

The Doobie Brothers: Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5kpDsMbCvo
An underrated classic of yacht rock. Literally talking about getting on a boat and sailing to Rio! The musicianship is undeniable.
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2024, 11:24:28 AM »
TAC - Wildfire made me cry like a little girl.  I had totally forgotten about that song.

All of these songs are ah-may-zing and I'm starting a playlist.  Epic - is Sugar Sugar a 70s song?  I kinda remembering my mom saying that was my favorite song when I was 4.  What 4 year old doesn't love sugar?   :P

Ok - Here is a great representation of 'the white man's overbite' (reference Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally).  And whew, nice perms there boys!  :lol

Play That Funky Music, Wild Cherry (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcYFxU4fMo
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #20 on: April 05, 2024, 12:02:57 PM »
Quote from: Stadler on April 05, 2024, 06:37:37 AM
KC and the Sunshine Band:  Please Don't Go

Player: Baby Come Back

Little River Band: Reminising. LOVE LOVE LOVE the vocal on this song.


I could do this all day long. I grew up on a lot of this music and it has a special place for me.

Nice, 3 killer selections right there.
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2024, 12:51:15 PM »
Quote from: Harmony on April 05, 2024, 11:24:28 AM
TAC - Wildfire made me cry like a little girl.  I had totally forgotten about that song.

Hah! It was the first thing I thought of. :lol
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« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2024, 01:32:16 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2024, 02:08:19 PM »
Quote from: Stadler on April 05, 2024, 06:37:37 AM

Little River Band: Reminising. LOVE LOVE LOVE the vocal on this song.


Now this one brings me back!
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2024, 05:10:59 PM »
This thread is gold. Keep them coming gang! I am a huge fan of Disco music, which maybe would require its own thread, and have a Disco playlist, curated over the years, that I listen to regularly.

Quote from: EPICVIEW on April 04, 2024, 07:36:41 PM
The Archies   sugar sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1gX66TOu8k

I think that is technically 60s. If memory serves, Don Kirschner pitched this song to the Monkees at the point where they were trying to forge their own identity and play their own instruments, and they wanted zero part of that song.
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« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2024, 05:31:44 PM »
The Knack - My Sharona.  I love the guitar solo later on.  :metal

War - Lowrider.  Even though catchy,  I've always hated that song!  :lol  :tdwn
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« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2024, 07:22:34 PM »
I love the 1st The Knack album!!
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« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2024, 09:13:16 PM »
I've gotta say I think this is the best thread I've seen on this forum and we're only one page deep. Keep 'em coming!
I think this applies, because it just makes me think of The Big Lebowski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6oBqDkNz38
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Re: 1970s Cringy but Catchy Tunes
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2024, 04:26:39 AM »
Technically the 80s, but .... Bob & Doug McKenzie, with Geddy Lee

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« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2024, 05:06:57 AM »
I made a playlist for mowing the lawn that fits this thread.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0AFVl31pKAWRsVyWCQMIsd?si=E1lqW4umSjKmZfug2tuFhQ
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« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2024, 09:16:34 AM »
Excellent thread idea!  So many good ones from back in the day when mom and dad had the radio going.

But sorry j-dude.  That bluejean one is cringy, corny and just not good.  :P
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« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2024, 02:18:55 PM »
Quote from: coz on April 06, 2024, 09:16:34 AM
Excellent thread idea!  So many good ones from back in the day when mom and dad had the radio going.

But sorry j-dude.  That bluejean one is cringy, corny and just not good.  :P

The criteria was “cringy and catchy”. You’re admitting to one openly, and I’m claiming the other qualifier regardless of whether that be “good” or “bad” to the hearer.

So there.  :rollin :angel:
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« Reply #32 on: April 06, 2024, 02:20:33 PM »
Quote from: King Postwhore on April 05, 2024, 01:32:16 PM
England Dan & John Ford Coley


https://youtu.be/hOwdP0c6vpQ?si=I_vrTtGQJWAkjTzA

THIS is definitely “cringy and catchy”

Some of these song suggestions are really great songs, but not necessarily “cringy”
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« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2024, 02:24:24 PM »
Bread had a few qualifying entries. Aubrey came to mind, as did Baby I’m a Want You.

But I figured the top entry should be the slab of cheese that was Lost Without Your Love

https://youtu.be/-nhcwtS9xUM?si=gfsGU8klnUA1R-Jq
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« Reply #34 on: April 06, 2024, 03:14:35 PM »
We need a 1980's thread just like this one, lol.
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