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Traveling through Europe ... 1972 ... Joe Cocker, Bread, and Neil Young on the 8-track. I really didn't get how lucky I was.
Posted by Molly | October 28, 2011 7:06 PM
1972 was the greatest year for music in the 20th Century.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 28, 2011 7:20 PM
If you added "plus or minus three" I'd have to agree with you ... That would capture Abbey Road -- perhaps the greatest album ever made -- in 69, among others.
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | October 28, 2011 8:55 PM
Jack!!! Please...most of the 70's was a vast wasteland for music. The best was '67. End of the British Invasion and the beginning of the San Franciso/Psychedelic Sound.
Posted by PDXLexus | October 28, 2011 8:55 PM
Nah. Look at the Top 100 albums. You'll never do better than '72:
http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1972YEAP.html
'69 had some of the greatest records ever, but overall it was thin:
http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1969YEAP.html
Posted by Jack Bog | October 28, 2011 9:01 PM
'67 was Sgt. Pepper, but elsewhere more shlock than not:
http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1967YEAP.html
Posted by Jack Bog | October 28, 2011 9:05 PM
The year isn't as important as the sentiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnDXRJ7btE
Posted by Molly | October 28, 2011 9:31 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFUSWllyZqg
Posted by Molly | October 28, 2011 9:48 PM
Learn something, you whipper snappers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARwKPf47ALM
Posted by Molly | October 28, 2011 9:55 PM
Nah. Look at the Top 100 albums. You'll never do better than '72:
Great stuff--the sound coming out of parties my older siblings had (when parents were gone) when I was 10.
Posted by jimbo | October 29, 2011 9:12 AM
You know I hate to say it but you are so right ... That list was amazing. I had a ton of those LPs and just about played the grooves off some of them. You could put that 72 list up against anything, now that I see it.
Funny how memory works. I remembered 69 for Abbey Road and the halo extended to the year. But cash box only gives AR as no. 59 on their list?!?! There are 58 far less important albums that don't sound new listed above it. I played AR just this week and still marvel at it.
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | October 29, 2011 9:25 AM
Joe Cocker was my favorite rock singer, ever, in my teens, with Jimi Hendrix and Robert Plant distant follow-ups. Please find us a good video of Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen material...unchain my heart, etc..
Posted by gaye harris | October 29, 2011 11:34 AM
Anybody got a translation -- of what either of these guys is saying?
Posted by Jack Bog | October 29, 2011 9:54 PM
It's "It's High Time We Went". You can Google the lyrics.
Posted by Ray | October 30, 2011 11:16 AM
"I remembered 69 for Abbey Road and the halo extended to the year. But cash box only gives AR as no. 59 on their list?!?! There are 58 far less important albums that don't sound new listed above it."
George, you have to remember when an album was released during the year with Cashbox or Billboard.
Abbey Road was released in the latter end on 1969, thus a #59 Ranking only reflects the three months it was available that year for sales figures.
Trivia, it wasn't until "1" in 2003, that a Beatle Album was the #1 Selling Album for a calendar year on Billboard.
Posted by PDXileinOmaha | October 30, 2011 11:48 AM
You can Google the lyrics.
Yes, but what you get won't be what Joe's singing on this clip. There's only a vague resemblance.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 30, 2011 7:11 PM