Sounds From The Seventies

We end our series of albums released 50 years ago in 1973 with an artist who released two albums in 1973. Bruce Springsteen released "Greetings from Asbury Park NJ" in January 1973 and he released our spotlight album "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" in November of '73.

In this episode we take a look at another number celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and this time round we review the album "Dixie Chicken" by the Lowell George led American band Little Feat.

We feature this week another album celebrating its 50th anniversary since its release in 1973 its former Velvet Underground  founding member John Cale and his debut album on Columbia records "Paris 1919".

We start the year 2023 by looking back 50 years ago to 1973 and the albums released during that incredible year. The first album we review in this four part series is the self titled debut album by rock band Aerosmith released on January 5 1973.

It's that time of the year! It's our fourth annual Christmas special and we celebrate this year by reviewing John Denver's 1975 album "Rocky Mountain Christmas" and of course there's plenty of eggnog and a crackling fire to warm yourself. Merry Christmas everybody!!!

In the last of our four episode look at glam rock in the 1970's we spotlight the band and man who really kickstarted the whole movement Marc Bolan and his band T.Rex with their 1971 album "Electric Warrior", a fitting end to this theme.

We continue this week with our look at 1970's glam rock with the album "All the Young Dudes" by English band Mott the Hoople released in 1972. The title song is well known as almost a theme song for all the glam kids in the early '70s by how good was the album?

This week we continue with our look at glam rock in the 1970's as we present one of the more commercial bands of the era the English band Sweet and review their late 1974 in the United Kingdom and early 1975 in North America release of their most popular album "Desolation Boulevard".

This week we are beginning our four episode salute to glam rock in the 1970's with one of the most if not the most famous glam rock album of all time David Bowie's star making 1972 album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars." Couldn't pick a better album to represent what glam rock means than this one.

In the final part of our golden throat's theme, which is actors who released albums in the 1970's, we shine the spotlight on a true one of a kind personality, the star of "Kojak" Telly Savalas and his 1976 album "Who Loves Ya Baby" just one of the five albums he released.

As we continue our look at actors who made albums in the 1970's we turn our attention to one of the stars of the big television hit "Starsky and Hutch" which ran from 1975 to 1979. David Soul who played Hutch started out as a singer and then turned to acting to make ends meet returns to singing on his 1976 self titled debut album. Was it any good? We'll give you our opinion on today's episode.

In our first of a three part series on actors who made albums in the 1970's we feature one of the biggest stars of them all in that decade Burt Reynolds and his first and only album "Ask Me What I Am" from 1973.

In this last installment of our three part look at big Motown artists of the 1960's and what kind of albums they were releasing in the 1970's we take a look at the career of Stevie Wonder and review his album "Talking Book" released in late 1972. With complete creative control over his work what kind of music was he releasing?

In this episode we continue our look at famous Motown artists of the 1960's and the kind of music they were making in the 1970's. This time we shine the spotlight on the legendary Smokey Robinson and review his 1975 album "A Quiet Storm".

This is the first episode in our theme about legendary Motown artists of the 1960's and the music they were releasing in the 1970's. We start with the hit making machine known as The Temptations as we review their 1972 album "All Directions".

In this episode we conclude our look at Canadian rock bands in the early 1970's by turning our attention to the hugely popular band Bachman Turner Overdrive and reviewing their second album aptly titled II released in late 1973.

In the second episode of our three part series on Canadian bands in the early 1970's we take a look at Ontario band A Foot in Coldwater and review their self titled debut album from 1972. Is this band more than just its hit single "Make Me Do Anything You Want"?

We start our three part series on Canadian rock bands of the early 1970's with the much loved Guess Who and their 1974 album "Road Food". We also talk about the colourful history of the band from Chad Allen to Randy Bachman to Burton Cummings.

This is the last of our four part series on bands who released their debut album fifty years ago in 1972 and this week we finish with the always interesting and one of a kind American band Steely Dan and their album "Can't Buy a Thrill" released in November 1972.

This is the third part of our four part look into bands who released their debut albums fifty years ago in 1972 and in this third part we talk about the English art rock band Roxy Music and review their self titled debut album released on June 16, 1972.

In this episode we continue our look at bands who released their first album in 1972, 50 years ago this year. This week we talk about legendary band The Eagles and review their self titled debut album released on June 1, 1972.

Our new theme starting with this episode is bands who released their debut albums 50 years ago in 1972. We start off by talking about the enigmatic and one of a kind hard rock band Blue Oyster Cult and review their first album.

In the last episode of our series on musical artists with television variety shows in the 1970's we have The Osmonds and their 1972 album "Phase III". The Osmond family were known for there many appearances on variety shows in the 70's and of course there was the very popular Donny and Marie Show in the late 70's as well as a cartoon series on Saturday mornings.

We continue in this episode our theme of muscial artists who had variety shows in the 1970's and today we spotlight one of the most famous of those acts Sonny and Cher and their 1973 album "Mama Was A Rock and Roll Singer Papa Used To Write All Her Songs" their last studio album as a couple.

We start our new three part theme on muscial artists who also had a TV show or variety show in the 1970's with The Partridge Family and their debut album in 1970 "The Partridge Family Album". Although not really a band David Cassidy would emerge a superstar because of the show and the vocals he supplied to the Partridge Family albums.