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Post by 55dodger on Jul 15, 2008 1:25:10 GMT -5
While at the Creedence Clearwater Revisited concert, I was thinking about all the great music that came out during the original CCR run in 1969 & 1970. So I started building a playlist of some of the amazing songs that came out during that two year period. Here's the first CD, I call The Turn of a Decade, The People. Enjoy!!
1. Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
2. Pinball Wizard- The Who
3. Lola - Kinks
4. American Woman - Guess Who
5. Eli's Comin' - Three Dog Night
6. Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
7. Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond
8. Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town - Kenny Rogers
9. Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
10. Teach Your Children - Crosby, Still, Nash, & Young
11. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - Hollies
12. My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
13. Everyday People - Sly & the Family Stone
14. Baby, It's You - Smith
15. Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
16. Ballad of John & Yoko - Beatles
17. Mama Told Me Not to Come - Three Dog Night
18. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - Joe Cocker
19. Hey Lawdy Mama - Steppenwolf
20. Venus - Shocking Blue
21. Spirit In the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
22. Black Magic Woman - Santana
23. Lucretia MacEvil - Blood, Sweat, & Tears
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jul 15, 2008 8:22:24 GMT -5
Woody, you quite often come up with some great themed CDs, but I think this is one of your best! Possibly because 1969-70 is one of those periods that is extremely sharp in my mind (as opposed to last week or even this morning  ). I was in grad school in Maine and in the middle or '69 I started a three-year-long very tumultuous relationship with a crazy woman! And these were the songs that I/we were listening to. I remember in '69 I even gave her Three Dog Night's "Suitable for Framing" as part of her birthday present. Great album/crazy girl!  And of course, there was Vietnam and Kent State going on as well. A very intense period of time. But this is a playlist where I am intimately familiar with every single song, and I really like most of them. Lay Lady Lay and He Ain't Heavy were in my last top 250 list, and My Cherie Amour and Black Magic Woman are sure to be on my Top 500 list coming out -- sometime or other. |
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Post by Dawn on Jul 15, 2008 10:24:34 GMT -5
I second Ed's statement that this is one of your best CD mixes yet, Woody. This was such a great period for music, and as I've said before, I often wish I had been born about ten years earlier than I was, so I could have experienced the '60s music firsthand. I do vividly remember hearing Lay Lady Lay and Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town when I was very young, though, probably in 1971, so they were only a year or two old at the time.
Outstanding track listing; every single one of these songs is a winner.
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Post by Laura--I wuv u all :) on Jul 15, 2008 12:08:39 GMT -5
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Post by edehl on Jul 15, 2008 22:03:03 GMT -5
Great list....and a magically wonderful time for music.
My favorite non-Beatles song from 1970 was "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" by the Guess Who. I think it made it to number one on the Billboard charts just a month before I was born!
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Post by dave910 on Jul 15, 2008 23:05:02 GMT -5
Woody, Great music and memories are always a cohesive mix. I was thinking of "Going In Circles" by Friends of Distinction. They had a few hits in this time period and then the hits disappeared. The late Luther Vandross did a CD called "Songs" where he covered some of his favorite artists. "Going in Circles" was featured on that CD.  |
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Post by 55dodger on Jul 17, 2008 0:54:02 GMT -5
Woody, Great music and memories are always a cohesive mix. I was thinking of "Going In Circles" by Friends of Distinction. They had a few hits in this time period and then the hits disappeared. The late Luther Vandross did a CD called "Songs" where he covered some of his favorite artists. "Going in Circles" was featured on that CD. Dave you are so right about great music & memories. They do go hand in hand. Our favorite memories are often tied to what we were listening to or what was playing on the radio at that particular moment. It's funny that Friends of Distinction didn't last longer. Three top 15 hits in a year, then gone. And Grazing In the Grass would have made the playlist if I owned it. I did find a Best Of CD on Amazon. Not sure I want to shell out 12 bucks for it, but I'll check the used CD places for it. The Luther CD has some very good songs as well. I look for it at the same used CD places. |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jul 17, 2008 8:02:31 GMT -5
Woody, Great music and memories are always a cohesive mix. I was thinking of "Going In Circles" by Friends of Distinction. They had a few hits in this time period and then the hits disappeared. The late Luther Vandross did a CD called "Songs" where he covered some of his favorite artists. "Going in Circles" was featured on that CD. Dave you are so right about great music & memories. They do go hand in hand. Our favorite memories are often tied to what we were listening to or what was playing on the radio at that particular moment. It's funny that Friends of Distinction didn't last longer. Three top 15 hits in a year, then gone. And Grazing In the Grass would have made the playlist if I owned it. I did find a Best Of CD on Amazon. Not sure I want to shell out 12 bucks for it, but I'll check the used CD places for it. The Luther CD has some very good songs as well. I look for it at the same used CD places. I agree, Woody, with what you said about the The Friends of Distinction being around for a surprisingly short time. They had the three hits in a short time span, but also, the three hits were so different. Usually groups that are only around for a short time have one big hit, then a second hit thats not quite as big but sounds essentially like the first, and then a third minor hit that sounds like both of the other two. The Friends of Distinction started with Grazing in the Grass - basically a jazz vocalization, then Going in Circles - a soul ballad, and then Love or Let Me Be Lonely - more or less light pop. Three very different songs. You'd think with that degree of versatility, that they'd have stuck around longer. |
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Post by Dawn on Jul 17, 2008 10:25:51 GMT -5
Woody, Great music and memories are always a cohesive mix. I was thinking of "Going In Circles" by Friends of Distinction. They had a few hits in this time period and then the hits disappeared. The late Luther Vandross did a CD called "Songs" where he covered some of his favorite artists. "Going in Circles" was featured on that CD. Dave you are so right about great music & memories. They do go hand in hand. Our favorite memories are often tied to what we were listening to or what was playing on the radio at that particular moment. It's funny that Friends of Distinction didn't last longer. Three top 15 hits in a year, then gone. And Grazing In the Grass would have made the playlist if I owned it. I did find a Best Of CD on Amazon. Not sure I want to shell out 12 bucks for it, but I'll check the used CD places for it. The Luther CD has some very good songs as well. I look for it at the same used CD places. I have that Friends of Distinction Best of - bought it at a library sale years ago, one of the first CDs I owned. It's pretty good - not sure I'd pay full price, but if you come across it used, it's definitely worth picking up. There's a cover of the Beatles' And I Love Her, only sung from the female viewpoint and retitled And I Love Him. Very interesting take on the song. |
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). I was in grad school in Maine and in the middle or '69 I started a three-year-long very tumultuous relationship with a crazy woman! And these were the songs that I/we were listening to. I remember in '69 I even gave her Three Dog Night's "Suitable for Framing" as part of her birthday present. Great album/crazy girl! 
And of course, there was Vietnam and Kent State going on as well. A very intense period of time.
