Things from the 1970s that are difficult to explain to today's generation:

Soap-on-a-rope

Suggestions?

Rocky Mountain Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rDhhW14PB0
#youtube_themidnightspecialtvsh #themidnightspecial #music #1970s #rocknroll #rock #concerts #burtsugarman #nbc

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Marvin Gaye Jr was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer that helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s which earned him the nicknamed "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul"

Institutions have posthumously bestowed Gaye with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDK7TiEiMOI

How #GenX are you? Part 103

Bands with Iconic Hairstyles Edition.

Select all that apply.

#HowGenXAreYou #1970s #1980s #1990s
#Poll #Polls #Music #Hair #BigHair

Anyone know who this is? This is UK late 1970s / early 80s. Everyone seems to want his autograph. Looks like he was shooting something for TV.
#1970s

Not playing well, the trouble with trying to guess music tracks after you listen to random tracks all day. It's easier first thing in the morning

Heardle Super 70s #596

#Heardle #Super70s #Music #1970s

https://super70s.heardledecades.xyz

O’Donel Levy – Simba (1974, US)

Our next spotlight is on number 303 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston. And, hot damn, this is one funky album! This is the fourth "solo" album from Baltimore jazz guitarist Levy, with a brass-heavy backing band that is sure to have some names many of you are familiar with, such as a certain Tony Levin on bass and Steve Gadd on drums. Hit. Play. Now.

Want to read more? See the full spotlight: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/04/05/odonel-levy-simba-1974-us/

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/i/1026922520

Happy listening!

Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 5, 1975.

#Music, #MinnieRiperton, #70s, #70sMusic, #1970s, #1970sMusic

O’Donel Levy – Simba (1974, US)

Our next spotlight is on number 303 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston.

Well hot damn, this is one funky album!

This is the fourth solo album from Baltimore jazz guitarist Levy, his fourth on Sonny Lester’s Groove Merchant album, third to be arranged by Manny Albam, and first to contain solely Levy’s own (or co-written) compositions.

What the stoic album cover doesn’t tell you is that contained within is a Levy-led brass-heavy band with members some of you may be familiar with, particularly in the rhythm section: Eddie Daniels on flute, piccolo, and baritone saxophone; Jon Faddis and Ernie Royal on trumpet; Burt Collins and Lew Soloff on both flugelhorn and trumpet; Cecil Bridgewater and Alan Rubin on flugelhorn; Bill Watrous on trombone; Warren Bernhardt on electric piano; Tony Levin – yes, the Tony Levin – on bass; and, *drum roll please* Steve Gadd on drums.

Have you hit play yet?!

Happy listening, all!

• Songlink: O’Donel Levy – Simba
• Discogs: O’Donel Levy – Simba

Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.

This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.

Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board in the world!

Check out the #alttext or my #profile info on information on how to connect.

memories (1492)C605 by soyokazeojisan

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Heardle Super 70s #594

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JAPAN
Obscure Alternatives
1978 Canada pressing

This was the last of Japan as “glam #newwave band”, as they started to enter Phase 2 of their career.

Sylvian is experimenting with vocal style here, & when you get to the closer “The Tenant”, you hear the Japan we think of now, from Quiet Life on.
The “more #art less rock” Japan.

I love this album though.
“Rhodesia” has a total #reggae vibe, and the two ‘singles’ are really good.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #1970s #70s #70smusic #punk #postpunk

Sunshine Coast News: Online photo collection offers chance to step back in time. “Thousands of images by a photographer who snapped people and places on the Sunshine Coast for more than 30 years are now available for all to see. Bill Robinson’s collection of 26,000 photos has been added to the Sunshine Coast Heritage Library for everyone to enjoy. The images document the region’s cultural […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/sunshine-coast-news-online-photo-collection-offers-chance-to-step-back-in-time/

Kiss An Angel Good Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4an6zHnOcU
#youtube_themidnightspecialtvsh #themidnightspecial #music #1970s #rocknroll #rock #concerts #burtsugarman #nbc

The Cooler (1974) was a spy novel written by George Markstein, co-creator of 1960s surreal espionage series The Prisoner. It’s based on the real-life Inverlair Lodge, a ‘retirement home for spies’, which also inspired The Prisoner. It was long out of print but is now available again, with a striking cover - https://plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/products/the-cooler-pbk

www.speckled.band

#NowWatching

UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)

There were so many choices to pick from.
It took a minute... Spanish spellings are hard

Heardle Super 70s #591

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#entertainment #music #1970s #cool

Check out one of the the best live bands of the early 70s. You can call them "Rad for a Girl Group" if you want, but you'd be showing your ignorance. Just sayin'

https://youtu.be/QkVYnVAEMIU