Super Hits of The 70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 15

And you ain't, you ain't, you ain't got no lovah...

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/1sJj2Uk6uWu2odOZFw5BAM?si=EP11dhZrQvy5oDU_LiREgA

("Eighteen with a Bullet" missing, and I suspect "Fallin' in Love" and "Black Superman" may be re-records)

Pity, "Eighteen with a Bullet" is good! Once again this is like half good stuff and half stuff I've never heard of let alone heard. I would have voted Twilley in an instant but it has "Sky High" by Jigsaw and I love that track.

Hot Chocolate will win; for me, although not quite as great as "Rock and Roll Love Letter," "Saturday Night."

After the riches of the last volume, having "Rocky," "Convoy," and especially "Run Joey Run" together on this one reminds me why I was seeking out freeform progressive FM by this point. Twilley all the way.

Run Joey Run a strong contender for worst song of the seventies. Sky High <3, but tough competition here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xi2sRxK2KY

Pete Wingfield: "18 With A Bullet"

Jesus, Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" was such a can't-stop-looking car crash downer. Do songs like this still make it to the top 10 these days?

"Run Joey Run" was a half-remembered song that I tracked down when file sharing and web lyrics searches made it possible to rediscover it. Another uplifting tune.

I think I'll go with "Fallin' In Love", which amused me at the time because it sounds like he's singing "Faw-in".

"Bay City Rollers" were on the cover of "Dynamite" magazine. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sTpZja6JQ

Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds: "Fallin' In Love"

This is my first time hearing "Run Joey Run," which sounds to me like a clunky approximation of a 60s girl-group melodrama. "At Seventeen" I already knew, of course, but this is my first time noticing how fucking endless it is.

I'm expecting a showdown between "You Sexy Thing" and "Saturday Night" here (I like both okay).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq04qeVMCQE

Johnny Wakelin and The Kinshasa Band (1975): "Black Superman - 'Muhammad Ali'"

Bonus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sPLD3tn1no

"Fallin' in Love" drives me nuts because they pronounce it "fawwin' in love."

Johnny Wakelin was discovered by Pye record producer Robin Blanchflower, the man who launched Carl Douglas to the top of the UK Singles Chart with "Kung Fu Fighting."

"Fallin' in Love" drives me nuts because they pronounce it "fawwin' in love."

And I thought Bay City Rollers were the only Scottish act in this poll.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/c9/ca/58c9caf310d6bcdc80650b1993298088.jpg

Janis Ian, because that nails the vibe of 1975 as I remember it

voted Jessi Colter cuz she's underrated and needs the love

I like both of the above two songs okay, but I also have no desire to hear them again.

I love the fact that Janis Ian at age 23 is wistfully looking back at age 17. Kind of like McCartney and "Yesterday." And she had already been a hit songwriter at 17!

Going with the Tartan Horde here.

Sometimes think about Saturday Night as a potential "song with many doors" but it's really only like three doors, which is good enough for me.

Dig the melodrama of Sky High, how it's conveyed more through the backing track than the comparatively deadpan vocals (except the falsetto parts of course), though the chorus always make think of the Snake n Bacon comic strip ("Damnit Snake 'n' Bacon, you caught the criminals but blew up half the harbor! I'm giving you both promotions! Now get the hell out of my sight!")

When I used to spend too much time watching VH1, I sat through the Run Joey Run lip-sync clip several times. I mainly remember the look on the dude's face when he had to just stand there while the dialog between the girl and her dad was playing out. I'm not going on YouTube to check the accuracy of my memory.

In my mind "Fallin' in Love" and "Key Largo" are always mixed together, but I sorta-like the latter and kinda-dislike the former. Think it would have been better had they inserted a JB-style "Uh!" in between "Baby baby falling in love"/ (uh!)"Falling in love again".

How many of these albums have dorky bands with a singing drummer anyway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjtD8A-MWBc

One drunken Saturday night my metalhead friend asked to hear Eighteen With A Bullet and I put side 2 of this cassette on and let the rest of the tape play, much to his eternal horror.

I won't link to "Convoy GB" twice on ILM but there's a link on this thread. The original rules obv.

Surprising fact: seven of these were UK Top 40 hits, but "Saturday Night" is not one of them.

Voting "Sky High" btw

...as with all of these Super Hits Polls, i vote from the standpoint of them as contemporaries; ergo, when i was 6/7 years old, these were the radio hits of the day and the seven-year-old me like "Sky High" to pieces (jigsaw pun).

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Fair results. Nice profile.