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My first year of High School ended in 1973. While it was not
a banner year for me…too much pain and self-imposed exile, it still held some
magical music memories for me. Here are the top songs playing on my turntable
or in a friend’s automobile 8 track in 1973:
1.
" Money" – Pink Floyd. ( I, to this day, cannot
hear the opening jingle of this song and not see us driving around Norwalk
stopping at the pizza place or Tastee Freeze while listening to this song
blaring out the windows.)
2.
“Smoke on the Water” – Deep Purple.
3.
“Reelin’ in the Years” – Steely Dan
4.
“Ramblin’ Man” – Allman Brothers
5.
“Angie” – Rolling Stones
6.
“Free Ride” – Edgar Winter Group
1973 was also the year of “Cover of the Rolling Stone”,
“Crocodile Rock”, “Superstition”, and “Diamond Girl”. It was also the year of
Tony Orlando and Dawn, who had the #1 song that year with ‘Tie a Yellow
Ribbon”. I prefer to think of the redeeming qualities of 1973…when really good
music was being created and, on the flip side of rock, the world gave us Marvin
Gaye singing “Let’s get it on” and Gladys Knight singing “Neither one of us
(wants to be the first to say goodbye.”
Videos after the jump:
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I was still in elementary school in '73, but I loved all this stuff. In fact, Free Ride was one of my favorite songs when I was in high school. I listened to a Classic Rock station when a lot of my (misguided) friends were still into disco.
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