Those 70's radio hits you never hear anymore.

[mdog114]

My dad had this on 8-track, loved listening to it the car!

 

[charliechitlins]

As bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam become Classic Rock, some great old stuff gets bumped off the list.
If you're only rotating 100 or so songs, something's gotta give.

 

[NB_Terry]

Such a great chorus in this one.

 

[E2942]

Love Kills - Vinnie Vincent Invasion

and thinking to Mark Slaughter,

I wouldn't mind hearing Up All Night or Fly to the Angels, either.

oops, wrong decade

 

[huskerjohn]

 

[seangm]

 

[seangm]

 

[Think Floyd]

Such a great chorus in this one.

I saw Bob in the 70s... he opened for Foreigner in my hometown back in 1978.

 

[jpagey]

Today it seems to be about 40.

I'm 51 so I remember when the rock stations played all the songs above.

I set up a Jefferson Starship station on Pandora and thumbed up some of the older Marty Balin hits and all of the sudden, the station started playing all kinds of great 70s hits that I hadn't heard in years. Stuff like this:

Driver’s Seat is a great song

 

[stratus]

Lol! Never heard that one.....

 

[dr.prick]

At one time they were hits. Now you never hear them. In an endless ocean of Stairway..., Free Bird, and More Than A Feeling, these tunes have fallen from playlists.

I'll start off with this gem. Is it rock? Is it disco? Is it funk? All I know is it has awesome harmony vocals and a great guitar/sax solo.



Remember these?







Whaddya got?

There's an Arkansas radio group that plays these hits, but MOSTLY deep hits. "Arkansas Rocks". It's a format that is pushed through multiple Arkansas stations. Can probably find it online. You'd probably dig it.

 

[Blauserk]

I grew up in Peoria, IL in the late 1970s. Every Friday and Saturday night, the local AOR song would play every one of these live cuts for all the kids driving around cruising. And everyone *LOVED* them.



Gary Richrath was local and was a hero to central Illinois guitar players.


Ted has jumped the shark, but I'll post this anyway:

 

[phillybri]

Intro tune for The Bennington Show on SiriusXM. I hear this one every day...

 

[pgaeta]

A couple tunes I didn't even know I wanted to hear again, but were reimagined in recent years (I love them both):

Everybody's Talkin - Tedeschi Trucks Band

Bonnie Raitt - Right Down The Line

 

[ucnick]

Betcha no one remembers this 'un, it was HUGE on Philly FM radio in '73... I even saw them perform it, I think it was at the Tower...

 

[ucnick]

You don't really hear these, either . . .

FWIW, Sirius was playing My Generation from LAL quite a bit back in May, must have heard it 4 or 5 times. The long version too, much to my surprise.

 

[John Quinn]

Are we talking about Terrestrial Radio? Who knows what formula they use for their playlist - Sirus XM plays everything - they've got a channel that covers every kind of music - Jazz - Rock - HipHop (and all of it's incarnations)- R&B etc...you can hear anything you want at almost any time of day.

 

[gonzoknife]

I've gone down a Little River Band rabbit hole lately. They were really good and I don't know why I never listened to their stuff past what I heard on the radio.

 

[ifallalot]

Sirius XM has Classic Vinyl, Deep Tracks, Classic Rewind, and Rock Bar amongst others where you can hear all these songs

 

[Hoodster]

Fun thread, but as others have said, I hear most of these on my rural classic rock radio station, as well as in the grocery stores.

I can’t remember where I saw it online, but I once found a list that was supposed to be from these formulaic classic rock radio stations, and it had about 1200 songs.