7 of the 70s: 10/25/12...

Welcome back, I've got another seven nuggets from the 70s, and this time out it's a flashback to 1973, the year Elvis' concert in Hawaii was telecast by satellite live around the world....

The O'Jays - "Love Train"
from the album Back Stabbers (1972)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1

The happiest peace-nik song that ever was. It's so good and so resonant it should have won a Nobel Prize, not a Grammy.

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Timmy Thomas - "Why Can't We Live Together"
from the album Why Can't We Live Together (1972)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3

Timmy took a different approach to the peace situation, with dark eerily funky chords and half-naked dancing women.


War - "The World Is A Ghetto"
from the album The World Is A Ghetto (1972)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7

Multicultural group with a message that's the antithesis of "This Land Is Your Land" while saying the same thing.


Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side"
from the album Transformer (1972)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16

Between this song and "Lola", the biggest tribute to transsexual and gay culture of the early 70s. With no regrets and no airbrushing.


Foster Sylvers - "Misdemeanor"
from the album Foster Sylvers (1972)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #22

Even for little kids "crime" ran rampant, even if its just in the affairs of love..


John & Ernest - "Superfly Meets Shaft"
from the single Superfly Meets Shaft (1973)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31

Well, you have to make some jokes about all this dearth somehow...


Luther Ingram - "I'll Be Your Shelter (In Time Of Storm)"
from the album If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right) (1972)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40

..and after all these trials and tribulations, Luther Ingram will give you comfort in this song that's so warm its damn right religious.

That's it for this set, thanks for dropping by and I'll be back with 8 from 1983 later today...