Really? The 70s had The Eagles, America, pop like The Grass Roots, Grand Funk Railroad, ELO, BTO, etc etc
I said : " few bright lights".
If want to know what I find to be the best CHARTING songs of the 1970s
A list like that for me for the 1960s and 1980s would be twice as big.
1970 was in fact a pretty good year, the 1960s in overtime
(many of these were in fact released in late 1969)
So, we got (no particular order in each year)
1970
CCR Who'll Stop the Rain
CCR - Have you seen the Rain
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa
Shocking Blue - Venus
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
The Guess Who - American Woman
The Guess Who - No Time
The Kinks - Lola
The Jackson 5 - I'll be There
The Jackson 5 - ABC
James Brown - Sex Machine
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours
Santana - Evil Ways
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Santana - Oye Como Va
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
---- 1971
James Taylor - You've Got a Friend
Al Green - Lets Stay Together
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Mercy
MArvin Gaye - What's Going On
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Cat Stevens - Wild World
John Lennon - Imagine
Aretha Franklyn - Rock Steady
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr Bojangles
---------------- 1972
The Eagles - Take it Easy
Don McClean - American Pie
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
America - Horse With No Name
The Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays the Fool
The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There
Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music
Lou Reed - Walk On the Wildside
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Lyn Collins - Think About it
Bill Withers - Use Me
----------------- 1973
Gladys Knights - Midnight Train to Georgia
Paul Simon - Loves me Like a Rock
Marvin Gaye - Lets Get it On
Jim Croce - I Got a Name
Carly Simon - You're so Vain
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Rolling Stones - Angie
Johnny Nash - Stir it Up
Stories - Brother Louie
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
---------------- 1974
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
BTO - You Aint Seen Nothin' Yet
Olivia Newton-John - Let Me Be There
Barry White - You're the First, the Last, My Everything
Barry White - I Can't Get Enough of Your Love
The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
The Emotions - The Best of My Love
Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
------------------ 1975
Jan IAn - At Seventeen
Jan Ian - From Me To You
10CC - I'm Not in Loves
Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Grand Funk Railroad - Bad Times
The Eagles - Lying Eyes
America - Sister Golden Hair
BT Express - Do it, Till You're Satisfied
Maceo & The Macks - Cross the Tracks
The Bee Gees - Jive Talking
Natalie Cole - An Everlasting Love
------------------- 1976
Boston - More than a Feeling
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Dr Buzzards - Cherchez La Femme
Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Loves
ELO - Livin' Thing
The Eagles - Hotel California
Hall & Oates - She'
The Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancings Gone
ABBA - Dancing Queen
Heart - Magic Man
Heart - Crazy On You
Bozz Scaggs - Lowdown
Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
-------------------- 1977
The Eagles - New Kid in Town
The Emotions - Best of My Love
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Hall & Oates - Rich Girl
Stephen Bishop - On and On
Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis - You don''t have to be a star
The Dazz Band - Brick
Marvin Gaye - Got to Give it Up
Thelma Houston - Don't Leave me This Way
-------------------- 1978
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - California
10CC - Dreadlock Holiday
Kansas - Dust In The Wind
Rose Royce - Wishing On a Star
Eddie Money - Baby Hold On
Elvis Costello - Pump it Up
The OJays - Used to be My Girl
Jimmy Bo Home - Dance Accross the Floor
Cheryl Lynn - Got to be Real
---------------- 1979
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till you Get Enough
The Police - Message In a Bottle
McFadden, Whitehead - Aint No Stopping US Now
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Pointer Sisters - Fire
Supertramp - The Logical Song
The Clash - London Calling
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