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Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box

Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box
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A Great Comprehensive Selection of 70s Songs which can't help but bring back those sun filled days

Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
  2. Venus - Shocking Blue
  3. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
  4. American Woman - Guess Who
  5. Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
  6. Vehicle - Ides Of March
  7. Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection
  8. Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
  9. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
  10. Superstar - Murray Head
  11. Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairmen Of The Board
  12. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - Delfonics
  13. O-O-H Child - 5 STAIRSTEPS
  14. ABC - Jackson 5
  15. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne
  16. Fire And Rain - James Taylor
  17. Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) - Raiders
  18. Put Your Hand In The Hand - Ocean
  19. One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley
  20. Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
  21. Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
  22. Me And You And A Dog Named Boo - Lobo
  23. Wild World - Cat Stevens
  24. Joy To The World - Three Dog Night

Disc 2:

  1. Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
  2. Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone
  3. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - Dramatics
  4. Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
  5. Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites
  6. Want Ads - Honey Cone
  7. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
  8. Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
  9. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
  10. Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
  11. Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop
  12. Brand New Key - Melanie
  13. One Tin Soldier (The Legend Of Billy Jack) - Coven
  14. School's Out - Alice Cooper
  15. Popcorn - Hot Butter
  16. Joy - Apollo 100
  17. I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
  18. A Horse With No Name - America
  19. I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
  20. Everybody Plays The Fool - Main Ingredient
  21. I Gotcha - Joe Tex
  22. I'll Be Around - Spinners
  23. Lean On Me - Bill Withers
  24. Day By Day - Godspell

Disc 3:

  1. Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
  2. Precious And Few - Climax
  3. Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
  4. Dancing In The Moonlight - King Harvest
  5. Nice To Be With You - Gallery
  6. The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
  7. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
  8. Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
  9. Rock And Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
  10. The Cover Of 'Rolling Stone' - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
  11. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
  12. Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
  13. Freddie's Dead (Theme From 'Superfly') - Curtis Mayfield
  14. The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
  15. That Lady (Part 1) - Isley Brothers
  16. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby - Barry White
  17. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
  18. Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
  19. Tell Her She's Lovely - El Chicano
  20. Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
  21. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree - Dawn
  22. Smokin' In The Boy's Room - Brownsville Station
  23. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
  24. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg

Disc 4:

  1. Love Train - O'Jays
  2. Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
  3. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
  4. Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
  5. Brother Louie - Stories
  6. Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
  7. Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
  8. The Air That I Breathe - Hollies
  9. Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
  10. The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
  11. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
  12. Billy, Don't Be A Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
  13. Lady - Styx
  14. The Payback-Part 1 - James Brown
  15. You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt
  16. The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
  17. Rock The Boat - HUES CORPORATION
  18. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
  19. Midnight At The Oasis - Maria Muldaur
  20. The Streak - Ray Stevens
  21. Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express
  22. Radar Love - Golden Earring

Disc 5:

  1. Beach Baby - First Class
  2. Sideshow - Blue Magic
  3. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  4. I'm Not In Love - 10cc
  5. The Bertha Butt Boogie-Part 1 - Jimmy Castor Bunch
  6. Black Superman 'Muhammad Ali' - Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band
  7. Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  8. Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
  9. Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
  10. Why Can't We Be Friends? - War
  11. Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
  12. Feelings - Morris Albert
  13. Miracles - Jefferson Starship
  14. Magic - Pilot
  15. Love Machine (Part 1) - Miracles
  16. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
  17. Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
  18. Fame - David Bowie
  19. Sky High - Jigsaw
  20. Convoy - C.W. McCall
  21. Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
  22. Slow Ride - Foghat

Disc 6:

  1. Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
  2. Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
  3. December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) - Four Seasons
  4. Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
  5. The Rockford Files - Mike Post
  6. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
  7. Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention
  8. Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra
  9. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross
  10. Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
  11. Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco
  12. Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
  13. Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) - Parliament
  14. Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
  15. Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
  16. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
  17. Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
  18. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
  19. Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots
  20. Turn The Beat Around - Vickie Sue Robinson
  21. Car Wash - Rose Royce
  22. More, More, More (Pt. 1) - Andrea True Connection
  23. You Are The Woman - Firefall
  24. Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller

Disc 7:

  1. Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
  2. Free Bird (Live Version) - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  3. Ridin' The Storm Out (Live) - REO Speedwagon
  4. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco
  5. Disco Inferno - Trammps
  6. Brick House - Commodores
  7. Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) - Marvin Gaye
  8. Feels Like The First Time - Foreigner
  9. Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul
  10. Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
  11. Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
  12. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
  13. I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges
  14. Happy Anniversary - Little River Band
  15. Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
  16. Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
  17. Kiss You All Over - Exile
  18. I Want Your Love - Chic
  19. We Are Family - Sister Sledge
  20. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #8300 in Music
  • Released on: 1998-06-16
  • Number of discs: 7
  • Format: Box set

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
When this material originally resurfaced in an earlier Rhino-celebrates-the-'70s program, many rock scribes contorted themselves into revisionist pretzels: this isn't so bad, they argued--none too convincingly. There'll be none of that here: much of the music on this colossal box set is godawful. The world doesn't miss the likes of Sammy ("Chevy Van") Johns and Sammy ("Candy Man") Davis. Or at least it doesn't miss the records they cut during the decade of disaster flicks and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. That said, this elaborate box is something to behold. The lovingly compiled 92-page booklet provides background on the ridiculous (David Soul, C.W. McCall, Carl Douglas) and the sublime (Parliament, James Brown, the Staple Singers), and the music swings on the same pendulum, with Harry Chapin, Bill Withers, and Cat Stevens sitting amid Wayne Newton, The Captain & Tennille, and Meco's jittery electro-take on the Star Wars theme. Seven discs, 160 selections! To paraphrase a popular ad slogan of the era, you won't believe you listened to the whole thing. --Steven Stolder

Entertainment Weekly
Rhino retools its Have a Nice Day ... and goes legit in the process. This time, accompanying '70s cheeseballs like Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" are nods to classic rock (David Bowie's "Fame"), soul (James Brown's "The Big Payback"), and Motown ("Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye).

USA Today
[T]he 160-song set is upholstered with avocado green shag carpet--sculpted shag, in fact, in a smiley-face pattern--and sheathed in a clear plastic slipcover. It includes everything from No. 1 hits to one-hit wonders, and sprinkled throughout are sound bites ranging from Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon to news reports about streaking.


Customer Reviews

Great collection of 70's tunes4
I liked that many of these songs fit into the "one hit wonder" category, it was fun to listen to them again after all this time. I agree with what many people said about the news snip-its randomly inserted through out - while I didn't completely hate them, it was annoying when I created an itunes play list with some of these songs for a party and all of a sudden the music stops and some weird recorded voice stated speaking about some news-worthy event. I thought they might show up as separate tracks on the CD, providing the ability to omit them from playlists, but that was not the case. Dispite this, I love the box set.

Memories FOREVER!~5
This is one of the best box sets EVER! From a decade that no one will miss. That is ofcousre if you have this

We sing about beauty and we sing about truth.4
This is a pretty cool seven CD box set that covers hit songs of the 1970s. It features songs from many different styles of music; including pop, rock, country, folk, R&B, disco, novelty and others. A few of the songs are preceded by brief excerpts from news reports or press conferences. I know that some people didn't like this aspect of the collection, but it didn't bother me, because the sound bites usually relate to the following song in an amusing way. There are many great songs here, and there are also many not-so-great songs ("Feelings", anyone?). A lot of these songs are quite frankly on the "cheesy" side, but in a way that is part of their appeal. This collection does a fantastic job of covering the good, the bad and the ugly of 1970s popular music.