Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1985 - (page 203)

mancity111 said:
Exquisite and dilettante doesn't even begin to describe your more than well crafted summary of the year in music.

As hob nosed as William Joel is even he would have to cognize that your version 2 ameliorates version 1.

Well done and a great lead into 1973.

My first song is again loyal to Oz as such notwithstanding it was written by a Manhatten singer songwriter.
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What is the first song.

Meant to say I loved that Billy Thorpe track. I actually have a Billy Thorpe album but it’s from the much later.
 
Written in 1967 by Kenny Rankin and recorded by Bobby Gentry and Georgie Fame its fair to say this song gained its most traction when recorded by Helen Reddy in 1972 and released in 1973.

She was given legend has it a one way ticket to the US and she certainly had the last laugh on her country of birth forging a stellar career with very limited resources and industry heavyweights who believed in her voice and talent but her stubborn personality won out in the end and proved that easy listening and folk rock wasn't dead and buried just yet.

By no means is it her most popular but I think its her best work.

When its done well its as enjoyable to listen to as a great hard rock , heavy metal , soul , jazz and the best prog rock track can offer.

This is my opinion fits the bill.

Peaceful - Helen Reddy
 
mancity111 said:
Written in 1967 by Kenny Rankin and recorded by Bobby Gentry and Georgie Fame its fair to say this song gained its most traction when recorded by Helen Reddy in 1972 and released in 1973.

She was given legend has it a one way ticket to the US and she certainly had the last laugh on her country of birth forging a stellar career with very limited resources and industry heavyweights who believed in her voice and talent but her stubborn personality won out in the end and proved that easy listening and folk rock wasn't dead and buried just yet.

By no means is it her most popular but I think its her best work.

When its done well its as enjoyable to listen to as a great hard rock , heavy metal , soul , jazz and the best prog rock track can offer.

This is my opinion fits the bill.

Peaceful - Helen Reddy
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thanks for the heads up...

THe Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde. Georgie Fame & Alan Price 1973.
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
Billy Paul - Me & Mrs Jones

It shouldn't need much of an introduction - a clever story sung brilliantly. It's abundantly clear the song is about having an affair - not a common topic back then. But it's so clever isn't it - the song throws up so many questions. It reveals a lot, but not enough and it's just brilliant.
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This is on the 1972 playlist courtesy of threespires, and one of my favourites there.
 
There are two riffs that everyone who has ever attempted a career as a rock 'n' roll guitarist has played. Both were released on vinyl in 1973: one is Smoke on the Water, and the other is La Grange from ZZ Top's breakthrough album Tres Hombres.
 
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Getting on for 10 pages now and some great 73 choices, but surely it's time to mention Countdown To Ecstasy by the mighty Steely Dan ? A contender for album of the year in pretty much every critics list you care to look at, as of course were most of their albums !
 
Keith Moon said:
There are two riffs that everyone who has ever attempted a career as a rock 'n' roll guitarist has played. Both were released on vinyl in 1973: one is Smoke on the Water, and the other is La Grange from ZZ Top's breakthrough album Tres Hombres.
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I will add LaGrange to the playlist, it would have been there if I hadn’t been working to restrictions. ;-)
 
I get to nominate the first song from Bruce, and now another from one of my favourite childhood and teenage bands.

As I noted in my 1972 writeup, this band had their first release that year, but their first hit this year off their 2nd album in 1973.

A great American progressive and hard rock band from the "City of the Big Shoulders", this would be the first of many great rock songs that would define US FM radio in the 1970s and into the 80s.

Their lineup would change and improve over the years, but there is no denying the keyboard showmanship and lyrical and vocal delivery of their lead singer, Dennis DeYoung. Aided by the Panozzo brothers, Chuck on bass and John on drums, as well as James "JY" Young on lead guitar, and a soon departing John Curulewski on rhythm guitar for a major personnel upgrade, this band more than any other defined my first enjoyment of this genre and many firsts in later years.

This song has been credited as the first power ballad, so we might as well get it and this group started on the playlist.

"Lady" - Styx
 
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