When I first wrote about 70's songs, I just wrote about songs that were on the top of my head. Funny thing....I started listening a little more to what I was 'bee-bopping' around the house too......wow.....the 70's were a strange decade. Not so much in a strange 'we are weird way'....but more of strange 'I want in your pants' way. Don't remember? How about these little ditties:
Your Sixteen
"You walked out of my dreams, and into my car...Now you're my angel divine....You're sixteen, you're beautiful, and you're mine."
And I'll probably end up in jail.
I'd like to make it with you
I wonder if guys would use this as a pick up line. You know, saunter up to a girl while the song played in the background....then point suggestively. Wonder if it ever worked?
That's the Way I Like It
That's all he says the entire song. "That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it uh huh huh"
K.C. had to be the ultimate horn toad.
Feel Like Makin Love
Bad Company....that's what you were if you played this song. Nothing like getting right to the point.
Chevy Van
"Like a picture she was laying there, moonlight dancing off her hair. She woke up and took me by the hand, gonna love me in my Chevy Van and that's all right with me". My son couldn't understand why one of his friends said her dad told her she was never riding in that 'sex wagon' he drove in high school. It was a CHEVY MINI VAN. I had never thought about it till he told me that.....
Do you think I'm Sexy?
"No, not really" was the answer I usually got.
Why don't we get drunk and screw?
I don't think this was necessarily a bad song....I mean, it's more of a suggestion. You know, a bunch of teenagers sitting around, someone asks "What are we going to do tonight?". Every high school senior hopes this is the answer you'd get. Of course, it never happened to ME....
Give it to me baby
"Gimme that sweet, that stuff, that funky stuff". I think back on how silly my dad looked while telling me the song was about cotton candy....then I have panic attacks on how silly I looked doing pretty much the same thing with my kids.
Of course, no discussion of 70's music would be complete without mentioning:
Rapper's Delight
Classic line of this song..."have been over to your friends house to eat and the food just ain't no good. The macaroni's soggy the peas are mush and the chicken tastes like wood". Watching my friend Norman smash the album into shards while Eric Clapton's 'Cocaine' played in the background is still a vivid memory of my high school years. That and, now that I am older, realizing that if you babble like an idiot people will love you if you do it to a catchy beat....much like the members of Congress.
Then there was this one:
Convoy
Breaker 1-9 we got a smoky back there takin piktures.
Roger, thanks for the specs.
Neg-a-tory this is Eustis not Roger. I don't wear specs.
OK, roger, that's a big 10-4, you wanna back up from that Kill and Grill them smokies have some baby bears learnin' to be chicken inspectors and they are out for guns. Roger on that smokie, we're gonna stay in the granny lane and give eights and good numbers till we hit Bean Town.
Uh, names not Roger.......
I look back on those days and wonder if some alien race was visiting Earth to help us develop the ability to cure all disease and hardship and they heard that particular song. What would they do? They'd probably go back to their home planet and warn their race about the retards living on earth....then they'd change the Interstellar AAA Travel Map to read:
Earth:
3rd planet from Sol Sun.
Nice to visit. Don't stay long. Don't drink the water.
Don't call him Roger.
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