Sounds From The Seventies

Our new three part theme is albums produced by the great Todd Rundgren and we start off with his most famous production "Bat Out of Hell" by Meat Loaf released in 1977, one of the greatest selling albums of all time.

This is our tribute episode to Robbie Robertson of The Band who recently passed away from cancer, this whole episode is entirely about The Band and Robbie as we also review The Band's 1975 album "Northern Lights - Southern Cross".

In this last episode on the theme of funk bands in the 1970's we feature The Commodores before there crossover hit single days with their 1976 album "Hot on the Tracks."

In this second installment about funk bands in the 1970's we shine our spotlight on one of the coolest funk bands in a very funky decade which is the band War and their 1975 album "Why Can't We Be Friends?"

We start a three part theme on funk bands with this episode and a great band to begin with is The Ohio Players as we review their 1975 album "Honey".

This week is the last in our in memoriam theme and to finish off we pay tribute to the late great songwriter Burt Bacharach with his "In Concert" album originally released in Japan in 1971 and the rest of the world in 1974.

In this episode we celebrate the life of recently passed away Canadian singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and review his 1971 album "Summer Side of Life".

In tribute to the recently passed away legendary singer Tina Turner we look at her life and review her second solo album released in 1975 "Acid Queen".

We conclude our theme of Beatle solo albums from 1973 with an album not from 1973, we already reviewed on an earlier episode Ringo Starr's 1973 album "Ringo" so this week we review his 1970 country album "Beaucoups of Blues" yeah we cheated a little.

In this third installment on what the solo Beatles were doing 50 years ago in 1973 we take a look at George Harrison and his "Living in the Material World" album which went all the way to number 1 in 1973.

This is part two of our look at what the solo Beatles were doing 50 years ago in 1973. Today we review John Lennon's album "Mind Games" released in October 1973.

With his episode we start our four part theme on what the solo members of the Beatles were doing 50 years ago in 1973. We start with Paul McCartney and Wings and their album "Red Rose Speedway", the second album Paul made with Wings.

In this episode we conclude our theme of all women rock bands in the 1970's with a look back at the post punk English group The Slits and review their 1979 debut album "Cut".

We continue our look at all women rock bands in the 1970's by focusing our attention on the first all women band to be signed to a major label album deal and that is the group Fanny and we review their 1972 album "Fanny Hill" recorded at Apple Studios in London.

This week we begin our three part series on all women rock bands of the 1970's. These are women who played and sang and also wrote songs for their albums and this week we feature the Los Angeles band The Runaways as we review their 1976 self titled debut album.

In the last of our series on American commercial folk singer songwriters of the 1970's in the male category (I know it's long leave me alone) we present incredible humanitarian Harry Chapin and his 1972 debut album "Heads & Tales".

In this second episode of three that focuses on American commercial folk singer songwriters in the male category (whew) we put the spotlight on the short musical career of Jim Croce and review his 1972 album "You Don't Mess Around with Jim".

We start the first in our three part series on American commercial folk singer songwriters in the male category (no joke) with James Taylor and his huge selling 1977 album "JT".

On today's episode we are paying tribute to the recently departed David Crosby as we review the album he made with Graham Nash in 1975 called "Wind on the Water" and also talk about his colourful and controversial life.

This week we pay tribute to the much beloved singer Olivia Newton John who passed away in 2022 as we talk about her life and review her 1978 album "Totally Hot".

In this episode we pay tribute to the recently departed Ian Tyson by featuring an album by the band Great Speckled Bird that was formed by Ian Tyson and his wife Sylvia. The album also called Great Speckled Bird was released at the beginning of 1970 and was the first album produced by a young Todd Rundgren.

We start a new four part theme with this episode and the theme is a tribute to recently departed musicians and singers and we begin with a look at the life of one of the greatest guitar players ever Jeff Beck as we spotlight his 1976 jazz rock album "Wired".

In this the last episode in our theme devoted to jazz guitarists in the 1970's we present the self titled debut album by the Pat Metheny Group obviously led by one of the most celebrated jazz guitarists of the last 40 plus years Pat Metheny.

In the second part of our look at albums by jazz guitarists in the 1970's we focus on jazz virtuoso Al Di Meola and his 1977 sophomore album "Elegant Gypsy".

In this the first part of our series on albums by jazz guitarists in the 1970's we look at the 1978 double live album by George Benson called "Weekend in LA", an album with half jazz instrumentals and half vocal songs.