Sounds From The Seventies

We start our three part look into disco music of the 1970's by reviewing the biggest selling disco album of all time and one of the biggest selling albums in music history the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack from 1977.

The last episode in our series about live double albums in the 70's focuses on Kiss and their 1975 breakthrough smash "Alive!" it's another live album we have picked with a great backstory.

We continue in this episode to shine a spotlight on the double live albums that came out in the 1970's and this week we take a look at the biggest one of them all Peter Frampton's 1976 breakthrough "Frampton Comes Alive" as we review the album and talk about how significant it really was to the culture at the time.

This is the first episode in our three part overview of double live albums in the 70's and this week we look at and review the 1976 album by Canadian power trio Rush "All the World's a Stage".

It's our first anniversary show and our 50th episode and the last in our four part look at albums released in the month of January in the 1970's and this week's album was the debut of Bruce Springsteen in January of 1973 with "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey". So because of all these things this is a very special episode for us.

In our continuing series of albums released in January in the 1970's we shine a spotlight on the 1972 album "Young Gifted and Black" by Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin plus our usual regular segments are presented.

In part two of our look at albums released in January in the 1970's we take a look at a not so happy release from 1971 we review the posthumous album "Pearl" from Janis Joplin. We look at the death and final music made by a true rock and roll legend.

The first in our series of albums that we will review that were released in the month of January in the 1970's. Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is a good starting point for this series because it was actually one of the first albums released in the decade of the '70s.

We present our first annual Christmas episode and what better way to celebrate Christmas than with The Carpenters 1978 album "Christmas Portrait" plus lots of other yuletide segments to get you in the spirit of the season.

This is episode two in our two part look at American Progressive Rock music in the 1970's and today we look at the 1975 self titled debut album by West Virginia band Crack The Sky and a look at their little known history that is still being written.

We start our two week look at American Progressive Rock in the 70s with a review of the 1977 album by Kansas "Point of No Return" and discuss the various types of Progressive Rock that comes from different countries.

This week we dive into the complicated life of Terry Melcher who was a noted rock producer, target of Charles Manson and his family and son of Doris Day. We examine Melcher's 1974 self titled debut album only one of two he ever released under his own name.

We have a much underrated and obscure Soul/R&B artist this episode. We review the 1973 album "Gag a Maggott" by Swamp Dogg and also take a look at his interesting career.

This week we take a look at the second and last album released in the lifetime of singer songwriter Judee Sill "Heart Food" released in 1973.  We also continue our discussion on the sad and troubled life of this great artist.

This episode we pay tribute to the late great frontman of The Cars' Ric Ocasek as we review their 1979 album "Candy O" and take a look at his life and career.

In our tribute to the recently departed singer Eddie Money we look back at his 1977 debut album and also talk about his whole career and what he meant to rock and roll in total.

In the last episode of our tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival we take a look at Santana and their 1971 album "III" plus we finish our Woodstock special segments.

This is our third episode in our four part series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. In this episode we take a look at famous Woodstock performer Arlo Guthrie and his 1976 album "Amigo" plus more Woodstock related segments.

In our second episode celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival we focus our attention on Country Joe and the Fish and their 1977 album "Reunion" along with other Woodstock related segments.

We start our four part look at the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival by reviewing the 1974 Richie Havens' album "Mixed Bag II" along with other Woodstock goodies we have dug up.

In the last of our four part look at soundtracks in the 1970's we present and review the 1979 soundtrack to the Milos Forman movie version of the hit broadway play "Hair".

In the third part of our look at soundtrack albums of the 70's we look at the blaxploitation movie soundtrack with Curtis Mayfield's 1971 album "Superfly". 

For the second part in our look at soundtracks from the 1970's we discuss and review the 1977 soundtrack to the William Friedkin movie classic "Sorcerer" by German band Tangerine Dream.

We start our four part look at soundtracks in the 70's with the 1978 soundtrack to the film "Grease". Lots of wild and varying opinions about this album!

This episode we discuss and review the 1971 album "Freedom Flight" by the late, great Johnny Otis' son Shuggie Otis. We would like to tell you what kind of musical genre this album falls under but we really can't classify it under any.