Classic Pop

[Paulclem]

As a companion thread to Classic Rock, I think we should have a classic pop thread to cover all the songs that we grew up with and which accompanied us through our lives.

I'll start with some classic disco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOx81aG-EN4&list=PL27071F2134129D0F&index=35&feature=plpp_video

One from Ace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2ZNCip9YM&list=PL27071F2134129D0F&index=33&feature=plpp_video

A rap from Blondie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g&list=PL27071F2134129D0F&index=29&feature=plpp_video

A bit of electro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WNbm1jz6A&list=PL27071F2134129D0F&index=1&feature=plpp_video

A song that reminds me of working in a bar. It was always on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg&list=PL27071F2134129D0F&index=27&feature=plpp_video

A going out song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrEPapTtMM&list=PL27071F2134129D0F&index=25&feature=plpp_video

A song from the early 80s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKwO1aB1W3I

And a song I used to do the steps to when I was at college - ha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMWfmlp0zfg&list=PL27071F2134129D0F&index=42&feature=plpp_video

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I couldn't stand seeing that goose egg laying there uncracked.

I do recall a few of those you posted. I recall the Wang Chung being popular among the crowd I hung out with.

Here's a few random pop hits that come to mind heard in my formative years, that being roughly junior high through college years:

KC and the Sunshine Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ee3C2m3OXE

Missing Persons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDly1Oc_P4

Foghat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieg6iME8muU

Eric Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRgcwT9X2J8

Supertramp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k3JVfxluFU

Dr. Hook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYpboTjtoQ

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[Sancho]

How about some Super Sounds from the Seventies?

The theme of this tune has gotten El Sancho in trouble more than once in his life.

The Hollies, Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.

http://youtu.be/cxs8k9QNJ3E

[papayahed]

Nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rju9b_Uk8Sw

I had the 45 to this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN_FF_hcwFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc-AQJ2MYo

I could go on..

[YesNo]

The Hollies, Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.

http://youtu.be/cxs8k9QNJ3E
I realized I've always liked that song, but I never knew what the lyrics were until I read them in that link. Here's another Hollies song that I remember. I don't actually remember the name "Hollies", but the songs I can't forget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KtScrqtbc&feature=related

For Olivia Newton-John, that papayahed mentioned, here's one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aataTbxlWeM&feature=related

[Paulclem]

Marvellous. I like this selection.

Came late to these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkvYVr8jeF0

This gets the hairs on the back of the neck going. I was a young chap then and would never have boogied - not at the school discos anyway...too many toughies about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihs-vT9T3Q

This was always on in a pub I used to frequent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs

This used to be on a lot too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCgM4YF72SI

The DJ in the nightclub we used to frequent liked this one. I only recently found out who it was by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0

[Sancho]

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae197/mollyandbruno/disco.png

Hearing those old tunes I haven't listened to in a long, long time is like a bolt from the blue, burnt across my brain (or what's left of it).

Mungo Jerry, In the Summertime http://youtu.be/wvUQcnfwUUM

[Paulclem]

Reminds me of one of those endless summer holidays when I was a kid.

I was working in a pub when this was popular. Takes me right back behind the bar pulling the Tetleys and serving Australian Castlemaine XXXX lager. Mmmmm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYHRx9-v2M

[Sancho]

Here’s a blast from the past: a pop song about a popular magazine that used to be edgy, but then sold out and went pop, and then sort of went edgy again.

The Cover of The Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
http://youtu.be/-Ux3-a9RE1Q

[Paulclem]

In the early to middle 80's I was working in a slaughterhouse. A number of songs evoke those times:

I would sweat along to this lugging boxes of meat in the vac pack before they offered me a better job in the slaughterhall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRgZaUr7Wos

This one too. Good for an afternoon when you were knackered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

Nena - a one hit wonder - was capitalising on the nuclear fear still around from the cold war in the 80's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-3LeJvfzU

This was my boss's favourite song. He sang it all the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwOU3bnuU0k

This one - tea and The Tube - a British pop programme on a Friday night before I went out on the town. Yayyyyyyy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81QDKnV36TE

[prendrelemick]

More importantly, Red Balloons won Eurovision!!

[Paulclem]

Did it?!!!

I didn't watch TV much in those days. I missed awhole raft of TV - Miamai Vice, Dallas - er and the others.