Decades We ♥ The Seventies

[Payton Cross]

Dana - Fairytale (1976)

 

[LMLDallas78]

My love of music began in the Seventies when I was no more than a little dot.

I grew up in pubs and used to sit on the stairs of the living quarters leading to the bar so I could hear the jukebox (remember those?)

My earliest memory is 60s song what becomes of the broken hearted by Jimmy Ruffin and Without you by Nilsson.

I don't know them from their original release dates (too young) only from the jukebox. Both songs used to bring me to tears even though I was only about 5 or 6 and I still love them to this day.

Much prefer Nilsson's version than Mariah Carey's, she ruined it! (Sorry Mariah fans)

 

[Englishboy]

Foreigner - Cold as Ice

 

[Englishboy]

The Beatles - the long and winding road (1970)

 

[Englishboy]

Barry Manilow - I write the songs

(Interesting fact : contrary to the title Barry did NOT write this song j

 

[Englishboy]

Yet another classic which has stood the test of time

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water

 

[Englishboy]

Here’s another one of my favourite American musicians who left us all too early but whose legend lives on through his music.

Barry White AKA the “walrus of love” - You’re the first, the last, my everything