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Songs of 1971

Monday, 12 September 2022, 19:29 BFH Uncategorized 53

Pick 5 and put them in order, #1 being your favorite.

53 Comments on Songs of 1971

  14. Won’t Get Fooled Again
    Brown Sugar
    Sweet City Woman
    Long Cool Woman
    Maggie May

    forgot how much I enjoyed listening to “Sweet City Woman.”
    I was thinking “Brandy” should have made the list, but that’s 1972. One of my favorite grass cutting songs.

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  17. Just when I think I have selected my five I look at the list and juggle them again. I decided it’s not possible, so I’ll just say I was a sophomore in high school in 1971. I took every babysitting job I could get to save enough money so I could drive to Cleveland with my friends and see many of these singers and bands live. Recordings don’t compare to hearing “Won’t Get Fooled Again” live. Great friend, great days, and great memories all wrapped up in great music.

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  18. American Pie, Don Maclean
    What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye
    Betcha by Golly Wow, Stylistics (us kids made up a lot of dances to this album🕺🏾)
    Ain’t No Sunshine, Bill Withers
    Long Cool Woman, The Hollies

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  21. Vincent by Don McClean, American Pie, Riders on the Storm by the Doors, this song actually came out in the Fall of 1970 my senior year in HS, It’s Too Late by Carole King, my late wife loved her music and a tossup between Won’t Get Fooled Again by the Who and Stairway to Heaven. Imagine sucks and doesn’t belong on this list or any other list ever, it’s the worst song ever. It could be worse In The Year 2525 was the number one song in 1969. And no mention of One Tin Soldier by Coven from the movie Billy Jack, another song that I hate with a purple passion.

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  23. Eugenia-
    Would be easier to put my 5 least favorite.

    I will do that first.
    In no particular order

    Respect Yourself
    Vincent
    Imagine
    Riders on the Storm
    Smiling Faces

    Top 5 –
    What’s Going On
    Never Can Say Goodbye
    It’s Too Late
    Maggie May
    Won’t Get Fooled Again

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  26. I was so stoned in ’71 all I remember is making love to my girl friend and listening to Stairway To Heaven playing over and over again on the radio. It was a very good year.

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  34. OK, I cheated a little. Some of these aren’t on your list, but they ARE from 1971:

    Brown Sugar — Rolling Stones
    Layla — Derek and the Dominos
    Oye Como Va — Santana
    Theme from Shaft — Isaac Hayes
    Have You Ever Seen the Rain — Creedence Clearwater Revival

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  35. There is no way I can do it! I have listened to these songs so many times that they are all in my brain forever.
    But one song stands out because after I went through the list and after I posted this, I am going to queue this song up on youtube for another listen:
    #4 Let’s stay together

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  36. It was a good year for music. I’d lay in bed late at night listening to these songs along with the news about the Viet Nam War, wondering what my draft number would be the following year when I graduated from high school. As it happened, things were winding down by then. I joined the Air Force in ’73.

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  43. Most of these 1971 songs were favorites for a long time for me. Here are the ones I sang along with often.

    1. Let’s Stay Together – AL Green
    2. Betcha By Golly Wow – Stylistics
    3. Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Whithers
    4. American Pie – Don McLean
    5. Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin

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  44. Doesn’t matter which ones you pick. Look at the variety of styles and sounds, the quality of the writing. Now look at the crap they pass off as music today. It’s obscene

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  45. I swear, Mr. Hat, if you were handing out $5 bills somebody’d bitch.
    (course it could just be humor that eludes me – I am rather dense)

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  46. 1-What’s Going On (make me wanna holla)
    2-Let’s Stay Together (or ANYTHING by Al Green)
    3-Maggie May (Back before Mod Rod became a ballad crooner)
    4-Won’t Get Fooled Again (every young person’s anthem at the time)
    5-Brown Sugar (Mick’s love song about the beautiful and talented Claudia Lennear)

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  50. First, echoing Tony R, Long Cool Woman was not released until April 1972; and a shout-out to Brown Eyed Girl: I entered my sophomore year in the fall of 1971.

    And now to the Countdown:

    At number five, a lady who had her first hit record as a singer in 1961 with “It Might As Well Rain Until September,” It’s Carole King with “It’s Too Late.”

    In the number four spot, the family that sings together has hits together; from the State of Florida, Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose with “Treat Her Like A Lady.”

    At number three, the most famous product from Gary Indiana, the Jackson Five with “Never Can Say Goodbye.

    In the number two slot is former US Navy sailor Bill Withers with “Ain’t No Sunshine.”

    And now, Number one (one one one one), a semi autobiographical song about Rod Stewart’s first ‘roll in the hay,’ or rather the grass at a music festival in England, “Maggie May.”

    Be sure to tune in next time for the countdown of whatever year BHF picks.

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