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(vanity) TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS ('70S) ROUND 1
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Posted on 01/14/2018 7:57:12 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel

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To: the OlLine Rebel

Ping for a morning read


21 posted on 01/14/2018 8:39:01 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Ping for tomorrow (Monday) morning.


22 posted on 01/14/2018 8:46:49 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: the OlLine Rebel

1975 “Fame” David Bowie
1974 “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)” MFSB
1973 “Crocodile Rock” Elton John
1972 “Lean on Me” Bill Withers
1978 “Baby Come Back” Player
1979 “Hot Stuff” Donna Summer
1970 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5
1976 “Love Machine” The Miracles
1977 “Don’t Leave Me This Way” Thelma Houston
1971 “Go Away Little Girl” Donny Osmond


23 posted on 01/14/2018 8:47:23 PM PST by DoodleBob
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To: lee martell

#16. I nominate MacArthur Park by Richard Harris as the worst rock/pop song of all time.

If he sang that song in a real park, all the birds and squirrels would have died, esp. by suicide. The grass would have turned brown and burnt up, and the trees would have become tooth-picks just to get away from that song.


24 posted on 01/14/2018 9:00:36 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA

Think you can rank these ? I know these are all before your time, Impy, but care to give it a shot ?


25 posted on 01/14/2018 9:01:35 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Can’t Live Without You, Harry Nilsson. <—This one is the national suicide anthem.


26 posted on 01/14/2018 9:03:35 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Best to worst

1978 “Baby Come Back” Player
1972 “Lean on Me” Bill Withers
1975 “Fame” David Bowie
1976 “Love Machine” The Miracles
1973 “Crocodile Rock” Elton John
1979 “Hot Stuff” Donna Summer
1974 “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)” MFSB
1977 “Don’t Leave Me This Way” Thelma Houston
1970 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5
1971 “Go Away Little Girl” Donny Osmond


27 posted on 01/14/2018 9:04:21 PM PST by SeafoodGumbo
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To: real saxophonist
All the girls liked the Osmonds, and all the boys liked the Jackson 5.

Yep, that's how it was. In second grade, if you were "cool", you liked the Jackson 5, LOL!

28 posted on 01/14/2018 9:05:16 PM PST by dfwgator
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Can’t Live Without You, Harry Nilsson. <—This one is the national suicide anthem.

Written by, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, of Badfinger, who both wound up.....killing themselves.

29 posted on 01/14/2018 9:06:32 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA

I’ve heard of some of those songs.

I’ll get back to you when I listen to them all. ;p


30 posted on 01/14/2018 9:06:46 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

But what about The Cake?
Would someone really have left it out, and in the rain?


31 posted on 01/14/2018 9:06:49 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Impy; dfwgator

The Bowie song will require earmuffs. Sorry, dfwgator.


32 posted on 01/14/2018 9:08:00 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: fieldmarshaldj
The Bowie song will require earmuffs. Sorry, dfwgator.

Seems like there's no middle ground on that one, LOL.
33 posted on 01/14/2018 9:09:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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Nilsson - yes. Long fingernails on a blackboard, but try Harry Chapin - “Taxi” and “Cat’s in the Cradle” (the revenge song).

Both enough to make you ram chopsticks into your eardrums to stop the pain.

At least “Everybody’s Talkin” wouldn’t drive you insane or to suicide, if that is any concession.

God Bless my Billboard’s Top 40 Hits book. It fills in the gaps of my old gray cells memories.


34 posted on 01/14/2018 9:09:56 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Yep!


35 posted on 01/14/2018 9:14:00 PM PST by DennisR
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To: lee martell

#31. About Richard Harris leaving the cake out in the rain. Remember, he’s oh so British! Not bad in “A Man Named Horse” if you like that kind of survival movie (Kevin Costner - Dancing With Wolves” and Leonardo DeCaprio in “Revernant”.

At least Marie Antoinette said about the peasants, “Let them eat cake”.


36 posted on 01/14/2018 9:14:25 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Fame: The intro guitar riff was a collaboration between David Bowie and guess who?
John Lennon! I can hear John’s influence on the tight phrasing of those opening bars.
Listen to the first part, the most recognizable part, and you may see what I mean.


37 posted on 01/14/2018 9:18:59 PM PST by lee martell
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Best to worst:
1972 “Lean on Me” Bill Withers
1979 “Hot Stuff” Donna Summer
1974 “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)” MFSB
1976 “Love Machine” The Miracles
1970 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5
1977 “Don’t Leave Me This Way” Thelma Houston
1978 “Baby Come Back” Player
1975 “Fame” David Bowie
1973 “Crocodile Rock” Elton John
1971 “Go Away Little Girl” Donny Osmond


38 posted on 01/14/2018 9:20:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Oh, I don’t think “Without You” is bad, only that it is infamous as a song to commit suicide to. As for “Cat’s in the Cradle”, I heard that song played enough times in childhood to last a lifetime. I like “Everybody’s Talkin” if only because I’m a fan of “Midnight Cowboy.”


39 posted on 01/14/2018 9:25:40 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: the OlLine Rebel

1975 “Fame” David Bowie
1973 “Crocodile Rock” Elton John
1978 “Baby Come Back” Player
1972 “Lean on Me” Bill Withers
1976 “Love Machine” The Miracles
1979 “Hot Stuff” Donna Summer
1974 “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)” MFSB
1977 “Don’t Leave Me This Way” Thelma Houston
1970 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5
1971 “Go Away Little Girl” Donny Osmond

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40 posted on 01/14/2018 9:28:13 PM PST by garandgal
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