March 1974 Now!

[chrislc]

Ranked by number of YouTube hits for most-hit videos of each song - 41 songs here thanks to Elvis

000167000 LOVE SONG –•– Anne Murray (scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, there were about six videos of Just Another Woman In Love ahead of this - what's up with that?)
000242000 PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER –•– The O’Jays
000259000 MY SWEET LADY –•– Cliff DeYoung with Bill Mumy and Corey Fischer (Warning!)
000304000 A VERY SPECIAL LOVE SONG –•– Charlie Rich (We'll be the judge of that!)
000327000 MOCKINGBIRD –•– Carly Simon and James Taylor (studio version - there also is a hideous live version with more hits)
000363000 TOUCH A HAND, MAKE A FRIEND –•– The Staple Singers
000396000 THE LORD’S PRAYER –•– Sister Janet Mead
000455000 STAR –•– Stealers Wheel
000478000 OH MY MY –•– Ringo Starr
000541000 BOOGIE DOWN –•– Eddie Kendricks (See? They weren't nothin' without Ruffin. It just took some time to prove him right )
000571000 I’LL BE THE OTHER WOMAN –•– The Soul Children
000631000 THERE WON’T BE ANYMORE –•– Charlie Rich
000690000 TRYING TO HOLD ON TO MY WOMAN –•– Lamont Dozier
000902000 TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) –•– MFSB Featuring the Three Degrees (surprised it's not more - I thought it was a stone gas)
000936000 I’VE GOT A THING ABOUT YOU BABY –•– Elvis Presley (A Side)
001100000 SEXY MAMA –•– The Moments
001300000 WOLD –•– Harry Chapin (I can't say I wasn't warned. Maybe I'll be an accountant in my next life)
001400000 LOOKIN’ FOR A LOVE –•– Bobby Womack
001400000 ROCK ON –•– David Essex
002100000 TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER –•– Elvis Presley (B Side)
002900000 DARK LADY –•– Cher
003000000 SPIDERS & SNAKES –•– Jim Stafford (Jim, don't you know you are a shooting star?)
003300000 ROCK AND ROLL, HOOCHIE KOO –•– Rick Derringer
003400000 TELL ME A LIE –•– Sami Jo (weird video but it sounds legit)
003900000 I’LL HAVE TO SAY I LOVE YOU IN A SONG –•– Jim Croce
004100000 JUST DON’T WANT TO BE LONELY –•– The Main Ingredient (the famous Blue Magic version has 6.5 million hits - never heard of it but there it is)
004100000 LET IT RIDE –•– Bachman-Turner Overdrive
004600000 MIGHTY LOVE (Part 1) –•– The Spinners
005000000 JET –•– Paul McCartney and Wings
005500000 JUNGLE BOOGIE –•– Kool and the Gang
008900000 WE’RE GETTING CARELESS WITH OUR LOVE –•– Johnnie Taylor (okay I guess there is an underground Johnnie fan club out there)
012000000 UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) –•– Aretha Franklin
013000000 BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME –•– Gladys Knight and the Pips
017000000 SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS –•– John Denver
022000000 THE WAY WE WERE –•– Barbra Streisand (Hey you know, everybody's talkin' about the good old days. Well, everyone here on this forum anyway)
027000000 LOVE’S THEME –•– The Love Unlimited Orchestra (It's the Disco Purrfection version but I love that channel so I count those)
033000000 SEASONS IN THE SUN –•– Terry Jacks
037000000 BENNIE AND THE JETS –•– Elton John
042000000 ERES TU (Touch the Wind) –•– Mocedades
077000000 COME AND GET YOUR LOVE –•– Redbone (Looks like Guardians of the Galaxy has done for some 70s hits the same thing as American Graffiti did for some 50s hits)
185000000 HOOKED ON A FEELING –•– Blue Swede (Guardians of the Galaxy strikes again - if not for that movie we might be seeing Mocedades at #1 which would have been very cool)

[mga707]

Mar 21, 2023 19:34:23 GMT -5 chrislc said:

000259000 MY SWEET LADY –•– Cliff DeYoung with Bill Mumy and Corey Fischer (Warning!)

That made my day...wonder how many on here 'got it'?

[doofus67]

Mar 21, 2023 20:30:00 GMT -5 mga707 said:

Mar 21, 2023 19:34:23 GMT -5 chrislc said:

000259000 MY SWEET LADY –•– Cliff DeYoung with Bill Mumy and Corey Fischer (Warning!)

That made my day...wonder how many on here 'got it'?

Yes, of course...

Bill(y) Mumy played Will Robinson on "Lost in Space." Danger!

[doofus67]

Mar 21, 2023 19:34:23 GMT -5 chrislc said:

Looks like Guardians of the Galaxy has done for some 70s hits the same thing as American Graffiti did for some 50s hits.

And the same thing that The Big Chill did for some 60s hits.

[mga707]

Mar 21, 2023 23:45:59 GMT -5 doofus67 said:

Mar 21, 2023 19:34:23 GMT -5 chrislc said:

Looks like Guardians of the Galaxy has done for some 70s hits the same thing as American Graffiti did for some 50s hits.

And the same thing that The Big Chill did for some 60s hits.

As 'American Grafitti' was set over Labor Day weekend of 1962, a number of the songs in the film and on the soundtrack album were from the early '60s as well as the (late) '50s. But yes, I know that anything musically pre-Beatles was and still is often lazily lumped together as '50s'.

[chrislc]

Mar 22, 2023 12:21:58 GMT -5 mga707 said:

Mar 21, 2023 23:45:59 GMT -5 doofus67 said:

And the same thing that The Big Chill did for some 60s hits.

As 'American Grafitti' was set over Labor Day weekend of 1962, a number of the songs in the film and on the soundtrack album were from the early '60s as well as the '50s. But yes, I know that anything musically pre-Beatles was and still is often lazily lumped together as '50s'.

>lazily<

Guilty as charged!

No, actually my original comment was referring only to the authentic 1950s hits on the soundtrack, not the later ones. Yeah, that's the ticket.