70s music
The 1970s were all about sex, drugs and rock and roll; Beat welcomes you to our Disco Inferno.
Album Review: Station to Station by David Bowie
I mentioned in a review I did of Pink Moon by Nick Drake that every musician seems to have an album where they are presented at their most vulnerable--where we see a genuine look at the pains they are going through. Most Bowie fans would pinpoint his 1977 album Low as this album for him. Personally, I would beg to differ. Low is definitely a great album with stellar experimentation and isolation is a huge feeling one gets throughout the record.
By Jennifer Childers6 years ago in Beat
It is Music
Music is the essence of life. I connect to songs that mirror happenings and circumstances in my life. I have many songs that touch me in profound ways and has brought peace and happiness to my soul and songs that bring tears of sorrow and sadness. Life is filled with happy and sad moments so a song can bring us both joy and feelings of melancholy. Music takes us back in time to our days of innocence and youth. I remember when I was growing up as a young child my mom would sing music to me to help me sleep and calm me with her gentle voice that would forever touch my heart. My mom loved Elvis Presley, the Beatles, The Four Seasons and Peter, Paul & Mary. Naturally through her I came to love that music too. Every time I hear Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” I remember the times my mom would sing this to me as a young boy as I would slowly drift off to sleep.
By Edward D Iannielli III6 years ago in Beat
Oh What A Night. Second Place in Behind the Beat Challenge.
Oh what a night it was, New Years Eve 1975 and about 15 minutes before midnight. I had no idea my life was about to change, and that Frankie Valli's current hit would be a part of the process. December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" is actually a song by the group the Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as their leader. This recording was written by Bob Gaudio, the original keyboardist for the group and his future wife Judy Parker. The song featured drummer Gerry Polci on lead vocals, with Valli singing backing vocals and the bridge sections. Don Ciccone the former lead singer of The Critters played base and sang the falsetto part of "And I felt a rush like a rolling ball of thunder, spinning my head around and taking my body under." December 63 reached number one in both the UK and the United States. I recall that during my senior year in high school there was a barn dance in the gym, complete with bales of hay. Just as I walked in and sat down December 63 began to play. I'm not certain, but this may have been my first time hearing it and I loved it right away. According to Wikepedia, this was the last hit for the Four Seasons as a group, but as a solo artist, Frankie Valli had another record breaker with Grease.
By Cheryl E Preston6 years ago in Beat
That’s Rock and Roll
This is another of my all time favorite singers. Eric Carmen is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist. He had a number of hit songs in the 1970s and 1980s. He began singing as a member of the rock group The Raspberries. His solo hits include “All By Myself”, “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again”, ‘Hungry Eyes”, and “Make Me Lose Control”.
By Rasma Raisters6 years ago in Beat
You've Got a Friend
James Taylor is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. In 1970 Taylor came out with the hit single “Fire and Rain" followed by the number one single the following year “You’ve Got a Friend.” His Greatest Hits album in 1976 sold 12 million copies in the US. He has continued to perform and record through the decades.
By Rasma Raisters6 years ago in Beat
Rock The Yacht
Robert Massimi. In what was a wonderful concert last night at MPAC in Morristown, N.J.; Ambrosia played for two hours accompanied by great artists as, John Ford Coley, Denny Laine of The Moody Blues, looking Glass and Peter Beckett of Player and The Little River Band.
By Robert M Massimi. ( Broadway Bob).6 years ago in Beat
Donna Summer ‘Bad Girls’ 40th Anniversary Vinyl Edition
Back in the summer of 1979, Donna Summer reached the peak of her zenith with her double album, Bad Girls. Considered her career milestone, the masterfully crafted double platter dominated radio airwaves, filled night club dance floors and livened up countless living room parties.
By Eric Allen7 years ago in Beat
Political Idiots: Music Without Politics
People seem to be reaching nostalgic views earlier, looking back fondly on memories of things that happened merely a few years ago. This may be another view created to shame millennials for simply being millennials. It may be due to the constant threat of nuclear attack, and/or irreversible destruction of the environment that is leaving people longing for a time before existential crisis was their only state of being. There is no denying that these are weighing heavy on the mind of the current political climate. However, facing the political standings, mainstream media has seemed to completely disbar music as a tool for political action.
By Ashley Anderson7 years ago in Beat
Beginnings
Music is a very integral part of our life, consequently, for me, music has always been close to me, for as long as I can recall. I can recall as far back as two years old. We had just moved into Roseland, and we were some of the first black people on our block, and our neighbors were an old Jewish couple named the Benjamins.
By Awlstylz DJ7 years ago in Beat
It Was Easy Come, Easy Go
The title simply refers to a popular song by Bobby Sherman, who came into this world as Robert Cabot Sherman, Jr. on July 22, 1943. When the world was crazy for teen idols, he caught the eye of many teen girls and became a teen idol through the late 1960s and into the early 1970s. He is a talented American singer, actor, and sometimes, songwriter. Knowing that he could sing and capture a girl’s heart only added to his charm.
By Rasma Raisters7 years ago in Beat
'Blue Moves'
After riding high in 1975 with two number one albums and still getting kudos for his 1973 double disc monster Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, it must have seemed to make sense for the always-prolific Elton John to attempt another double album in 1976. However, the album Blue Moves, mostly recorded in Toronto Canada and released in October 1976, was released to a rather lukewarm critical reaction and to this day, many see the album as an abrupt end to Elton's "classic years."
By Sean Callaghan7 years ago in Beat
'Rock of the Westies'
Rock of the Westies, a play on words of West of the Rockies, was the third album recorded by Elton John at Caribou Ranch in Colorado, his second album of 1975 as well as his second of 1975 to debut at number 1 on the charts and the first album for the then "new" iteration of the Elton John Band. The "new" band consisted of Caleb Quaye on guitar and Roger Pope on drums, formerly of the band Hookfoot and veterans of Elton's earlier albums on which they appeared as session players before Elton started using his touring band full time for recording on Honky Chateau.
By Sean Callaghan7 years ago in Beat
