Title: "I just fell in love with a bunch of people’s grandmas" (YouTube comment @ 'Edison Lighthouse': '“Love Grows”,' dancers in 1970) Source:
YT URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcDG_xLWPY Published:Nov 4, 2015 Author:Edison Lighthouse Post Date:2020-04-16 13:00:08 by Liberator Keywords:music, songs, nostalgia Views:2933 Comments:17
Poster Comment:
Amusing initial comment/observation alongs with follow up reaction/comments to this as well as throughout the thread.
Thanks to YouTube, young generations are listening/watching older music and are witness to good tunes, (relative) innocence, and care-free times.
Of further note:
The same performer here (Tony Burrows) also performed 'My Baby Loves Loving' (1970), 'United We Stand' (1970), and 'Beach Baby' (1974) for four different phantom "groups."
(Yeah, it's all Bubble Gum, and...I'm blowing a yuge bubble right now)
70s were a great time for pop music, I like the pop stuff from that era, thanks for posting this song.
A couple of other songs I remember.
The 70s were great, weren't they?
I tried analyzing what KO'd that early 70s great lyrical story-telling, sentimentality, innocence, idealism, and out-right fun of the early 70s pop (like 3 Dog Night, Grass Roots, Lobo, Bread, Jim Croce); Seems to me it was a combination of factors, and tell me what you think...
Glam (gay) Punk (dysfunction) New Wave (rogue) Disco (more gay) Raunch & Rock & Roll Beatles (drug-fueled/distorted reality)
Your three great classics:
Sure, Looking Glass was a one-hit-wonder, but 'Brandy' was lyrical and musical pop genius that still endures. That the younger gen likes it sez a lot about it. 'The Guess Who' -- what an amazing, under-rated band...and ahead of their time. Randy Bachman really should be in the R&R Hall of Fame, but that place is a joke.
'The Guess Who' pumped out an amazing catalog in just 3 years ('69-'71). 'No Sugar Tonight' was really good; It's like two songs in one. Had their "Best of" album -- every single track is excellent. That's rare. (a year and a half later Randy Bachman forms BTO and crushes it again.)
Jim Croce, 'Operator' from '72 -- I remember watching that performance live. Croce's old school, sentimental story telling with a pair of acoustics was beautiful. I recall hearing about his plane crash in '73 in school... Just as he was about to hit it big.
