Seven Super 70's Songs

of my first summer week



1. the Queen


THE MARCH OF THE BLACK QUEEN
(Like going up to heaven and then coming back alive...
Blue powder monkeys praying in the dead of night)

with Queen -74
by Freddie Mercury



2. the Horse


NAME OF THE GAME (saw the Railway Master
and I looked him in the eye
He said "Would you go much faster?
if you thought that you would die??)


with Badfinger -71
composed by Pete Ham
(produced partly by Harrison, George Martin and Todd Rundgren)


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

[love the album version best, with piano and slower hymn-feeling
but the more guitar-based single involves nice strings + brass]




3. the Jester


BLACK DIAMOND BAY
(Upon the white veranda
she wears a necktie and a
Panama hat)

with Bob Dylan -76
by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy



4. the Castle


BACK HOME AGAIN
(Sometimes this old farm
feels like a long lost friend)

with John Denver -74
by John Denver



5. the People


WHISPERING GRASS (DON'T TELL THE TREES)

with Ringo Starr
from his first solo album -70
by Fred Fisher and daughter Doris



6. the Mistress


ROBERTA
(you say you know me
But I see only what you're paid to show me)

with Billy Joel -74
by Billy Joel



7. the Priest


JUST NOT TRUE
(I'm not turned on
by the way you act)

with Carly Simon -74
by Carly Simon






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