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10CC, Blondie, Boomtown Rats, Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Gloria Gaynor, Ian Drury and the Blockheads, John Paul Young, Kate Bush, Mi-Sex, Monty Python, music, Patti Smith Group, Plastic Bertrand, Pride of the Lions, Prisoner, Rickie Lee Jones, Rod Stewart, The Police, The Rolling Stones, youtube
Playlist by Algernon
That 70’s show Tonight 1978-1979
Tonights show takes us back 2000 years to a very special life from a very naughty boy. It also brings us some very naughty girls as well and something without much dialogue. The popular music seems different too, but that could just be me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3b9gOtQoq4
Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzIs3nKF98Y
Three times a lady – The Commodores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSd0pJSKzNY
Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJOsfalSYs
Ebony Eyes – Bob Welch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOf0FsA0Fio
Miss You – the Rolling Stones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs
Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0MQ2-fYQno
Dreadlock holiday – 10CC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXknE8LOEI
Ca Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertrand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px__SsVXX_0
Because the Night – Patti Smith Group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fo
Love is in the Air – John Paul Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd1aHnZGo3U
Chopper Squad – Pride of the lions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CERdbw21U
Prisoner – Episode 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krb2OdQksMc
Life of Brian –Monty Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
What have the Romans ever done for us – from Life of Brian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m8IOD-wk9g
Computer Games – Mi-Sex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SObti-rcOWY
Heart of Glass – Blondie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2I84-A9duY
I Don’t like Mondays – Boomtown Rats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGYKCvWnQc
Olivers Army – Elvis Costello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIlHt_syoSE
Do you think I’m Sexy – Rod Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I
I will survive – Gloria Gaynor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iebu-oCTdI8
Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NduKrNAZp4I
Hit me with your rhythm Stick – Ian Drury and the Blockheads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObL3L6MRvN4
Message in a Bottle – the Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg1Ibt4xP7g
Chuck E’s in Love – Rickie Lee Jones
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Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I know it is in the wrong decade, but Algy, have you ever put up Shocking Blue’s Baby You Got It.
Was on Rage a few weeks ago. I love it but I think seeing the clip makes it a little ripper.
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I think you mean Venus, vivienne which was about 1972. So I haven’t in this series but may have or Waz may have at other times. I’ll see how I can massage it in the coming weeks.
I watched Rage for a little while last night not that I normally do, where Outlines Cicadas that ate five dock was the first tune played. I thought that a bit obscure. They the had something on the early days of 3RRR with a young Greig Pivhaver (HG) playing.
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Yes, it is Venus. I picked up on the wrong words.
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Dutch band apparently. Venus hit the top end of 1969 beginning of 1970.
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They are indeed and you’re right it was 1969 and 1970. They charted in Holland until 1975. There is one chapter of the show to go you might find it there.
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Magic Millions today Hung. And yes I’m going to pop up. I am a member, but won’t be flouting any trendy gear. Just ogling the fillies and having a few small bets.
I love the atmosphere. I’ll also walk over to the sales, which is opposite.
Miss you brings back memories too.
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Good on you VL, oh and as a member I sure you must be livid about the 35 million tax payer dollars given to your club to upgrade the track and grandstand, I mean fancy you rich folk needing taxes from the poor to prop you up 🙂
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Some excellent stuff here: nostalgic, for me too.
The stand out musician is (for me) probably Mark Knoppfler.
I must be getting old, because Monty Python still seems streets ahead of rubbish like The Chasers. Although admittedly I have never been able to stomach a full 10 mins of it.
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Jules, to me Python started it and are still the best but the Chasers could not have happened without MP
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Testing! Can’t seem to get a post up on the other articles in here. Dot & Quanda…reply to Shoe..
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/portable/mp3-players/kobo/6-inch-touch-ereader-sku-71144/?gclid=CLmDqc6Uzq0CFcVKpgodAkafnQ
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I don’t think you can compare the Chasers and Monty Python. Very different.
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Yes you are right Viv but I am referring more to the evolution of comedy
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Monty Python is a benchmark for me and the ’70s were their decade, The Chasers don’t really hold a candle to them. The end of the70’s I’d finished school and has started working mostly part time.
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I haven’t been able to posy anything since that last one.
I can’ get anything on the dot, here, or Quanda thingeme??
Trying this with Funston
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That’s strange!
Vee-ll Wouldn’t post!!
I’ll go back to Quanda Melbourne as Funston!!
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Same thing. Maybe it’s because of posting the URL.
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http://www.jbhifi.com.au/portable/mp3-players/kobo/6-inch-touch-ereader-sku-71144/?gclid=CLmDqc6Uzq0CFcVKpgodAkafnQ
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This is for Shoe. Merv’s selling them
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|=unston, I’ll ask Merv about that when he gets back from the chook house. Granny asked him to get some eggs. 😉 🙂
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Granny passed away 18 months ago. Left a 50 dollar bar tab.
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No, mate, your jokin’. I was just readin’ about Granny. Big M said she had a purdy Xmas gone. You got the worng Granny reckon.
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you know those people called worng? LIve up the lane behind the servo.
🙂
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About 51 in the family.
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So much to like here, Algy.
As it turned out, Gerry Rafferty showed up on the iPod random pl yesterday. Ca plane pour moi ! Blondie, and the great Elvis Costello.
Last trip to Melbourne i bought a 5 album set of Ian Drury and the Blockheads (and others) – over the top ? You bet !
I never watched Prisoner. Not one episode, but Vivienne’s comment has got be to the starting blocks.
Python is without a doubt the main laugh track to my life…… EEEEmanual Kant was a real pissant and very rarely stable ….. Plato they say could stick it away – he could drink you under the table….
I agree with Hung – Maggy May WAS Rod’s best.
And H …. always wonderful to see you. Big Hug !
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Maggie May is certainly my favourite Rod Stewart tune.
There was an old picture theatre in George Street, I think it was called the Roma, that used to do these Monty Python marathons, show them all back to back. They’d show them all night. Would regularly attend.
The new wave music here was amongst some of my favourites as well.
You might enjoy this from Live at the Hollywood bowl.
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Big Hug, bigger hug from me 🙂
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What a year that was – full of top stuff.
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There were many years that had some standout tunes I thought. 1979 in particular had heaps of of them.
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Mmm…yeah, it doesn’t matter whether you loved ’em, or hated ’em in the 70’s, we all hanker after them now.
I was in awe of my older cousin, as she played the part of the younger, and better looking lesbian (which was rather outre, at the time) in Prisoner.
Great list, will listen over the weekend.
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I have a cousin who edits a lot of programs on the ABC and other places. Odd thing is I haven’t seen her since I was about 12. I can alway pick the programs she edits befor the credits.
I think voice said there was a ’70s feel here sometimes, I suspect she’s right.
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The Life of Brian episiode that features the hermit is my favourite out of that awesome movie. Life of Brian gave our generation something we could really laugh at. Amazed watching Prisoner at the dramatic timing of the scenes and the choreography even though I watched it in part when it first aired. I will watch some more episodes.
And the fellers in the picture all look like startled chooks. 🙂
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Wonderful staring I thought. Theu had their combs up thats for sure.
Many TV shows of this period appeared to rely on the dramatics. For dramatic timing you could fall asleep by have a look at Chopper sqaud. There must be 20 words in the first 8 minutes.
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I’ll have a look Algy. ..I mean, stare. 😉
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‘Trust my sister. Every misfit she knows she tells them to look me up.’
I see what you mean about dramatic timing. 🙂
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Good stuff Algernon, Gerry Baker had a great hit with that song. Working till Sunday and will go through them all then.
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Thanks Hung, many great hits here.
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I am sailing , by Rod Stewart. Was that one popular around 1975 or so? I associate that song with a small black and white TV we had at the time in Holland. Our kids went to school on a push bike about a 10 minute ride from the farm. The farm had a thatched roof and enormous oak beams spanning the width of the anno 1700 Saxon farm building, holding up a timber ceiling above which was a very large attic area where we used to keep potatoes during the winter. One severe frost and the potatoes became mush. My mum insisted she would go over them and she managed to save those potatoes inside the heap that weren’t affected by the frost
All this while remembering ” I am sailing”. Thanks Algy and Hung.
I hope to hear that one next friday.
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I posted I am sailing for Vivienne on the 74-75 show. I found this live performance of the song at Glastonbury in 2002. Many of the songs I’ve posted have reminded me of certain times in my life and places I’d been. Bohemian Rhapsody for example was on the radio when in Britain in 1975. I was also in Holland in 1975 as well though mostly in Amsterdam. Had a lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam as well some 10 years later. Anyhow heres
I am Sailing – Rod Stewart.
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I crept in quietly, hopefully no one saw me…
Gez told me about your late seventies music…It brought back memories of endless Balmain parties, dancing till early hours in the morning…Staying Alive got everyone up…
Loved Dire Straits and The Police…Debbie Harry has those ever-lasting Monroe looks, her style does not date…
And then the TV shows…the main actor Kate?? of The Prisoner lived in Balmain, so she and her partner were the usual party guests…
Of course they don’t make shows like Monty Python anymore, a pity. Well done, alge.
PS. I have to confess that I liked Rod Stewart too…
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I won’t tell anyone if you don’t. A lot of this music in this series was my high school and those years so there’s much resonance here for me. The music of 1978 and 1979 was different I found to the rest of the 70’s and seemed to set the trend for the ’80s. Compare this lot with the final episode coming soon.
I didn’t watch Prisoner except on a the odd occasion, it was an iconic australain TY program though. As for chopper squad I can’t recall watching it but this episode seems to lack a lot of things, acting skills, dialogue. I’v always though of myself as a devout pythonist and the ’70s were very much their decade given they tended to go in separate directions after Life od Brian.
I did try to reply to you and vivienne today on the dumb, Unfortunately the mods must have started work and didn’t like me agreeing with your comments.
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Hi H, yes Maggie May is my favourite Rod Stewart track
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You picked me out on the Drum and I replied but it was not posted and shortly after closed. But you read my mind anyway and here you are. Lovely.
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Eff off Helvi 😉
Just thought I’d make you feel at home 🙂
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Vee-ell,
let’s agree that ‘eff-off’ among friends means ‘I love ya’, I once told Hungie to eff-off, and he took it the right way…I certainly wasn’t being racist 🙂
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