The Definitive '70s Pop Music CountdownFinally--the complete and systematic ranking of every song and every act that peaked on Cash Box(r) magazine's Top 100 pop singles charts of the 1970s5,350 songs performed by 1,698 acts representing all the genres and their styles that made the '70s such a diverse decade for popular music: from brassy funk to sassy punk with varieties of pop, rock, soul and more in between.They're all here: from superstars like Elton John, Paul McCartney, the Bee Gees, Chicago and the Jackson 5 to shooting stars like Cooker, Crawler, Ginger and Splinter. "Ranking the '70s" is the world's first and only uncut and unabridged ranking of pop music from the days of leisure suits and platform boots. That music stirred the passions of the "Me" generation from Earth Day, Kent State and women's lib through gas lines and the Bicentennial right up to inflation, ESPN and the Walkman and will transport early Gen X-ers back to family vacations, first dates, homework and high school graduation. Open to just about any page and you'll find your memories come flooding back to you as every song and every act is a fresh reminder of the past. It's the final word in '70s countdowns.But "Ranking the '70s" doesn't stop with song and act rankings. You can also immerse yourself in the following features:* Each act's catalog of song titles ordered by chart popularity* A categorized listing of acts as soloists, duos and groups* A revealing year-by-year ranking of every act's popularity during the decade* The top 300 songs of each year* A unique song title index with its own special features* An appendix featuring the most intense records and acts, the top 150 one-hit wonders, fastest and slowest records to #1, highest entries and exits and more!

(Really Easy Piano). 40 Elton John hits in easy-to-play arrangements for piano, presented with background notes and performance tips for every song. Includes: Bennie and the Jets * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Candle in the Wind * Crocodile Rock * Daniel * Don't Let the Sun Go down on Me * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues * I Want Love * I'm Still Standing * Philadelphia Freedom * Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) * Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word * Tiny Dancer * Your Song * and more.

Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With Pick Up the Pieces, John Corbett transports us back in time to this thrillingly tumultuous era through a playful exploration of its music. Song by song, album by album, he draws our imaginations back into one of the wildest decades in history. Rock. Disco. Pop. Soul. Jazz. Folk. Funk. The music scene of the 1970s was as varied as it was exhilarating, but the decade’s diversity of sound has never been captured in one book before now. Pick Up the Pieces gives a panoramic view of the era’s music and culture through seventy-eight essays that allow readers to dip in and out of the decade at random or immerse themselves completely in Corbett’s chronological journey. An inviting mix of skilled music criticism and cultural observation, Pick Up the Pieces is also a coming-of-age story, tracking the author’s absorption in music as he grows from age seven to seventeen. Along with entertaining personal observations and stories, Corbett includes little-known insights into musicians from Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, James Brown, and Fleetwood Mac to the Residents, Devo, Gal Costa, and Julius Hemphill. A master DJ on the page, Corbett takes us through the curated playlist that is Pick Up the Pieces with captivating melody of language and powerful enthusiasm for the era. This funny, energetic book will have readers longing nostalgically for a decade long past.

Take a trip with me as we journey through some of the most loved songs of the 60's and 70's. This is your backstage pass into the lives of the singer-songwriters and the music they created...the very origins of them. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the stories behind the songs. Who wrote them? When? Where? Why? These songs make up a musical landscape that became the soundtrack of a whole generation.

The 70s Music Compendium is THE resource for every 70s music fan, DJ, cover band, and music educator. To compile the info for this book, the author listened to all 5,344 hits of the 70s. Hundreds of pages are filled with tons of info and trivia. You'll find over 100 lists, charts, quotes, and illustrations inside.Cover bands will love the lists of songs that feature certain instruments, like the banjo, sitar, and slide guitar. DJs will love the ability to organize playlists by instruments and genres like country-pop crossover songs, Christmas songs, and covers of hits from the 70s. Music educators and students will appreciate the music theory section that lists songs that share a common musical element, such as an unusual time signature, a countermelody, or an ostinato. Anyone who enjoys 70s music will like the quirky lists, such as: songs with mistakes, songs with a talkbox, and songs with false endings. Elton John, Carpenters, Led Zeppelin, Chicago, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and more!

With informative biographies, essays, and "music maps, " this book is the ultimate guide to the best recordings in rhythm and blues. 20 charts.

The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.