I remember everyone of these songs. I was 13 and a massive T.rex fan. Those were the days when we used to play out on bikes and play football on the road and probably stop once an hour to let a car go past.
I was 11 and hearing all these songs again was like a trip down memory lane, great times great music and fun started by playing outside. Thanks for posting i really do appreciate your time and effort for putting this. together.
I haven't heard some of these songs since the 70s. They're not all great songs, but a lot are, and they're all memorable. We didn't realise we were living in such special times.
1971 - the start of my 'adult' life. Left school and started work. 52 years later I'm still chugging on, and life has been a roller coaster of pleasure and pain, but the one constant has been the music.
feel honoured to have been 11 at this year and still remember hearing Lobo on the radio sitting on the steps and going into some satori - a zen like state. Even us working class kids are entitled to Buddhahood. Thanks.
Fantastic music. At 13, I was starting to take an interest in music. I still love listening to T-rex, Sweet, The Supremes, Diana Ross and Slade 52 years later. 😀😀😀
I too was 13, very happy memories of this time and the music that came with it. One year later I found myself going to TOTP - went about 8 times through 1972 and 73. I have two autograph books full of the artists I saw, including Pans People, Olivia Newton John, Slade, T Rex and Queen.
The year I got engaged to my late wife. We were young, just starting out in life together. In comparison to the stress free lives people lead today, it was truly heaven - and we knew it. We lived in a beautiful farm and our modest incomes were sufficient to live a pretty comfortable life - and, with the exception of "Waldo De los Rios", the music was great. What we had then, that's missing today was hope. I miss those days and, although after 20 years we divorced (but stayed best friends), I miss my late wife. Now I'm in my 70s, I can't say I'll miss this horrid world when my time comes. We had the very best of it.
That was a common expression the people I knew used to say to me. They were born in the late 1930s and would often say about the 2000s onwards, "we've had the best, they can keep the rest".
@@GeeCeeWU I am a 1953 baby. I be honest, I thought how lucky I was at the time. There was so much happening in my chosen career (electronics) and I was working in the computer industry way back in the 70s - before it officially existed. It was fantastic to actually be present at so many "firsts". I actually met Bill Gates before he sold his first operating system to IBM. I played around with rudimentary artificial intelligence as far back as 1984. It was just a "guess the animal" game that learned from the answers we gave it after an incorrect guess. So - nothing is new. Problem was that much of what we were busy making happen back then actually caused a lot of the problems we have today. I don't feel guilty - it's not the technology that's the problem today - it's the evil bastards that implemented it and took it to the dark future we see today. Non of those opportunities - or anything like them, are open to people who are the same age as were back then - simply because a few people want it all to themselves and our "so called" government seems to support them. Now, the biggest killers of men under 25 is suicide - and, as a species, we should hang our heads in shame.
Left school in 1976 started working and the music kept me going and it still is today.. my taste as mellow over the years but the 60/70/80/90 are my favourite years yes there are some great songs from the 2000 and on but to me 60 to 90 best time to be alive 🎉
I spent a year and a half recently serving behind the counter of a local shop (left early this year because of cutbacks due to the cost of living crisis). One day a girl came in and I had to ask her to show ID before I could let her purchase an age-restricted item. Can't remember her exaqct age now but is between 18 and 22. I said I wish I was that age again,and she said "no you don't". I was a bit surprised at first and didn't ask why but I guess it's primarily all the stresses and strains that are put on young folk now,allied to other issues such as lack of housing opportunities and wages pinned back to a level that stops them being really able to strike out in the world like we could. And to top it all off,mainstream music isn't a patch on what it once was.
We didn't have mobile phones,we grew up in the best of times and things were very simple ,we had values and we respected our elders ,I so miss my childhood years,onwards and upwards
By the time I bought my first single (Cool For Cats by Squeeze) in the spring of 1979 it had risen to 79p,which seems pretty reasonable considering the sky-high inflation of the middle years of that decade in particular. When Mrs Thatcher was elected for the first time in May that year one of her government's first acts was to roughly double VAT to 15%. This put the price of singles (of which I owned a total of four by then) up by a further 20p overnight.
My first single was a double A sided with Jet on one side and let me roll it to you on the other. Still love them tunes 50 odd years later. I must have had good taste as a spotty teenager
That was also the first song I bought with my own money. I was 16 and just started work. I digitised all my 45s a few years back and still listen to them in the car from time to time.
I feel very lucky to have been born in the middle of the fifty’s had my youth in 60s 70s 80’s I found Tamla mo town at 13 I liked Reggae also. Great time to be young.Great groups and very diverse music and fashion.Better world back then for many reasons.
@10:13 Holy ****! In 1971-72 I had a crush on this girl down the street named "Koko Jamison" and around the same time I kept hearing this song "Co-Co" on the radio. I had pretty much forgotten it until watching this video. Pretty amazing how a tune can go to sleep in your brain only to be re-awakened 50 years later.
It was the first year in which I got really into popular music,when I started hearing a lot of songs on the radio,finding the Top 10 printed in the paper (T Rex at the top of the first one) and seeing Top of the Pops for the first time. So I remember hearing the majority of these back then.
Fantastic times ! No mobile phones , no health and safety , no wokes feeling sorry for themselves , and the best music ever !! How many of today's drivel will be remembered in 50 years time ? Glad that was my era 👍
thanks for bringing back such wonderful memories, the world was a better place to live then, and people cared for each other then. not like today where the priority is to kill each other. ☹
17 years old, playing in bands myself and you realise how diverse music was in those days. Even the tunes I was not that interested in then still bring back memories. I can bet that in 50 years time people won't remember the autotuned, cut and paste crap we have nowdays.
I have to agree broadly,and it's a sad state of affairs. I'm sure there's still plenty of good music out there,and when I was still following it I'd hear something of interest now and again,but little of it is getting into the mainstream which has become more and more generic this past decade or two. I tend to blame the gatekeepers rather than music fans of today.
Agreed - the music moguls have much to answer for! If you're ever tempted to look again for some modern but high-quality, independent music, please check out the amazing, left-field, melodic videos of Ebony Buckle on UA-cam: incredible! (I recommend you start with "Disco Lasers" - I'd be very surprised if you were disappointed!)@@rjjcms1
Man alive! What a blast from the past... I was born in 69, and grew up with these wonderful sounds. We didn't have TV in South Africa then, so radio and records and the old 8-Tracks ruled! Thank you for putting this video together.
@PhilipBurton-dn3ce You and my brother for 67... we shared a taste in music, so when my brother started clubbing and somehow got to know every club dj in the city and beyond, he kindly passed the latest 80s remixes to me. Damned if it didn't make a kid like me popular...
@@mojoden oh, wow! Excuse me for growing up poor so we couldn't afford a tv when they first came out. We got our first tv in 1976 only, and that was with a discount from family that owned a furniture shop... That's how bad off we were in the 70s, that we couldn't afford a discounted tv... In the 80s things were so much better that I told everyone at my new school that my dad was a millionaire... I really believed that, compared to where we lived in the 70s.
I was 10 then. Most of these I had forgotten and with good reason.. T. REX first band I ever saw. Fabulous. I am glad i grew up in England then, but left for Canada when i was 27 for a new life with my fellow Brummy hubbie.
Astounded to see Family on this list. I can live out with most of the rest. We were listening to completely different music in 1971. Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, The Move … shall I go on?
"In My Own Time" was a big hit-made number 4 , but there were still alot of great records from 71 that didn't make the best sellers list-Jethro Tull had "life is a Long Song" and The Who had the all time best ever political song "Wont Get Fooled Again" in the top 10. I was just 11 back then-still love Mungo Jerry's "Baby jump" and Slade's "Get Down and Get with It" Loud granny annoying rock!-though I couldn't stand "Cos I Luv You" or Mungo Jerry's poor follow ups-"Lady Rose" "You dont have to be in the Army" Didn't hear Yes until "And You and I"-a classic-in 74. What days!
My god, have just watched this all the way through, and it really does make you realise how crap the music scene is in this country nowadays. Every song is instantly recognisable
I remember as a 7 year-old travelling on a train through Germany in 1971. One of the passengers in the carriage had a transistor radio to pass the time and Middle of the Road's Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep song came on frequently. Was a hit in Europe too.
Sweet memory. I was the same age and we travelled by ferry and train to Germany that summer as well,and that song does have a lot of childhood memories attached for me too.
@@lordprotector3367 Slade had six over two years but I don’t think Sweet had more than TRex who had four between March April 71 and March April 72 just from being around then and following Slade and T Rex I would be stunned if Sweet had more number ones than Marc and the Band …stunned.
@@ronaldtantYes,Sweet seemed to have a lot of number 2 singles but not many number 1s; I think Blockbuster was one that did make it to the top. T Rex and Slade,on the other hand,hit the very top frequently.
The British Charts & American Charts are 2 different animals ! In this clip- I NEVER heard ANY Mungo Jerry except for "In the Summertime". @@tomripsin730
Amazing at the number of songs on this list that were NEVER big hits in the USA! Thanks for sharing this montage of songs and videos from the UK. (The girl from Middle Of The Road looked like the girl from ABBA.)
I kinda know what you mean,the vagaries of our less-globally-warmed weather and tummy rumbling thinking of food two hours before dinner time and all that (no real snacking between mealtimes of any note) but at least we were all slim!
I was a teenager ,imo ,the 70' s was the best era for music .Some fab memories listening to yhis .I didn't need wallpaper as my walls were covered with Slade posters .I must've seen them 5 times
They were rocking out in this one. As a kid I really liked Alright Alright Alright when that came out,though it was more than half way through 1973 by then.
There are some absolutely quality tunes here ( and some rubbish )takes me back to early teens and great times How gorgeous was Sonja Kristina the lead singer of curved air
Some crew told me she's not great to work with; I've seen CA quite few times and always enjoyed it, despite Darryl Way parting company with them years ago.
See I knew someone would like 71 lol I probably don't like it because I wasn't even born and 70s music is very alien to me but I am happy to make these for those who love this era.
Glad to see the only artist that appeared 3 tines in that top 50 was T Rex.... I bought my first record in 1971, Electric Warrior! T Rex were my favourites at the time. Also glad to see My Sweet Lord took the number one spot though, rather than one of the many "novelty" records that were popular at the time (hated them). My Sweet Lord a worthy winner....such an infectious one line and rhythm
I turned 9 in 1971 and for my birthday, my Mum took me to see The New Seekers at The Guildhall in Portsmouth. She wrote to them and told them it was my birthday. They sang "Baby Face" for me. I was so embarrassed 🤣
I really disliked the New Seekers until I was taken to see them at the Talk of the Town. I bought their live album the next day! I still think it’s a fine album.
BLIMEY!!!!! COULD LISTEN TO THAT ALL NIGHT. I WAS 18. NOW 74. FLIPPIN 'ECK. FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN. GONNA REPLY 2MORROW. KITCHEN IS GETTING TRASHED😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I knew nothing about Glam until a couple of years later, when a friend of mine got way into Bowie. Lobo, Badfinger and Cher seem like a whole different world than the whole Glam thing (or as us Yanks called it, Glitter Rock). Of course, I was twelve in 1971, so a year or two seems like a decade at that age.
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Ernie was the best man
4561z my number n hav a grandson hendrix life is sweet not mud
Wow... so many memory provoking songs! Beautiful.
The Tams, Hey Girl Don't Bother Me. I wore countless needles out on that one.
Fantastic variety. Originality. Talent. Fun. Depth. It was all there.
The 1970's one of the best decades of music ever, how I wish i was back there again. 😊
Definitely was
Definitely was
You will be.
jesus, some of those songs take me right back to being a child.
I remember everyone of these songs. I was 13 and a massive T.rex fan. Those were the days when we used to play out on bikes and play football on the road and probably stop once an hour to let a car go past.
Same here. But if you only stopped once an hour to let one car past that must have caused terrible traffic jams.
Same here but I was 15.
I was 13 too. Great era.
I was also 13 ,it was magical. I make my 16 year old granddaughter laugh when I tell her all about it. How I wish she could experience it…..❤
I was 11 and hearing all these songs again was like a trip down memory lane, great times great music and fun started by playing outside. Thanks for posting i really do appreciate your time and effort for putting this. together.
I haven't heard some of these songs since the 70s. They're not all great songs, but a lot are, and they're all memorable. We didn't realise we were living in such special times.
tom tom turnaround
And a brief glimpse of Pan's People ❤
1971 - the start of my 'adult' life. Left school and started work. 52 years later I'm still chugging on, and life has been a roller coaster of pleasure and pain, but the one constant has been the music.
feel honoured to have been 11 at this year and still remember hearing Lobo on the radio sitting on the steps and going into some satori - a zen like state. Even us working class kids are entitled to Buddhahood. Thanks.
I left school in 71 and what an amazing time to be alive. Fantastic music, great bands and gorgeous girls. 👍👍
ditto
Year later ,when Alice cooper singing ,schools out
U can keep the new millennium.......this was the time to b a teenager! Beam me back Scottie !
Well. 17 minutes of sheer heaven.
Thanks.
I was a DJ in the 70ts what a Decade best music ever
I was 13 in 1971, listening on tiny transistor radio to these great songs, would love to go back to the brilliant 70s.
Fantastic music. At 13, I was starting to take an interest in music. I still love listening to T-rex, Sweet, The Supremes, Diana Ross and Slade 52 years later. 😀😀😀
Gold was worth $40 ounce , so today dollar was same as two cents then, tax and spend
@@richarddecker9515 how is that relivent to the UK in 1971?
I too was 13, very happy memories of this time and the music that came with it. One year later I found myself going to TOTP - went about 8 times through 1972 and 73. I have two autograph books full of the artists I saw, including Pans People, Olivia Newton John, Slade, T Rex and Queen.
I reckon it's not.@@orwellboy1958
coming back to this fab compilation. Thanks.
Some of the Novelty records then are better than some of today's trash !!
Yes - unfortunately, you're correct!
The year I got engaged to my late wife. We were young, just starting out in life together. In comparison to the stress free lives people lead today, it was truly heaven - and we knew it.
We lived in a beautiful farm and our modest incomes were sufficient to live a pretty comfortable life - and, with the exception of "Waldo De los Rios", the music was great.
What we had then, that's missing today was hope.
I miss those days and, although after 20 years we divorced (but stayed best friends), I miss my late wife. Now I'm in my 70s, I can't say I'll miss this horrid world when my time comes.
We had the very best of it.
That was a common expression the people I knew used to say to me. They were born in the late 1930s and would often say about the 2000s onwards, "we've had the best, they can keep the rest".
😅@@EgoShredder
I was born in 1948, we certainly did have the best times, even though we didn't realise it at the time.
@@GeeCeeWU I am a 1953 baby. I be honest, I thought how lucky I was at the time. There was so much happening in my chosen career (electronics) and I was working in the computer industry way back in the 70s - before it officially existed. It was fantastic to actually be present at so many "firsts". I actually met Bill Gates before he sold his first operating system to IBM.
I played around with rudimentary artificial intelligence as far back as 1984. It was just a "guess the animal" game that learned from the answers we gave it after an incorrect guess. So - nothing is new.
Problem was that much of what we were busy making happen back then actually caused a lot of the problems we have today.
I don't feel guilty - it's not the technology that's the problem today - it's the evil bastards that implemented it and took it to the dark future we see today.
Non of those opportunities - or anything like them, are open to people who are the same age as were back then - simply because a few people want it all to themselves and our "so called" government seems to support them.
Now, the biggest killers of men under 25 is suicide - and, as a species, we should hang our heads in shame.
I feel sorry for my grandkids-the world they're inheriting today is horrible.
Left school in 1976 started working and the music kept me going and it still is today.. my taste as mellow over the years but the 60/70/80/90 are my favourite years yes there are some great songs from the 2000 and on but to me 60 to 90 best time to be alive 🎉
My idea of hell is being a teenager now
A big thanks to the 70s the variety is outstanding ❤🎉
I spent a year and a half recently serving behind the counter of a local shop (left early this year because of cutbacks due to the cost of living crisis). One day a girl came in and I had to ask her to show ID before I could let her purchase an age-restricted item. Can't remember her exaqct age now but is between 18 and 22. I said I wish I was that age again,and she said "no you don't". I was a bit surprised at first and didn't ask why but I guess it's primarily all the stresses and strains that are put on young folk now,allied to other issues such as lack of housing opportunities and wages pinned back to a level that stops them being really able to strike out in the world like we could. And to top it all off,mainstream music isn't a patch on what it once was.
What a great time to live in the U.K. as a teen.
Absolutely...apart from the clothes!
@@robin231176 I loved my flares, not good getting them caught in your bike chain tho.
The clothes were often OTT and of their time,but also fun and colourful. Most of those who sneered in later decades seemed to want conformity.
@@stephenhowell5611 Always got caught on the chain of my Raleigh chopper
@@brianmorecombe2726 Choppers had chain guards no ? Or did you take yours off ? I eventually resorted to a bicycle clip, very uncool.
We didn't have mobile phones,we grew up in the best of times and things were very simple ,we had values and we respected our elders ,I so miss my childhood years,onwards and upwards
The seventies were my teenage and young adult years. Loved them. Especially when I left school. Great times. So much music to choose from.
I grew up with all these songs and what a time to be alive best times every so many happy memories wish I was back there
To think that in the year 2000, these songs were only 29 years old. It’s now 53 years. Boy, I’m getting old and far too quickly.
My first single cost 45p 1971 Dave Edmunds I hear you knocking 👍🏴
By the time I bought my first single (Cool For Cats by Squeeze) in the spring of 1979 it had risen to 79p,which seems pretty reasonable considering the sky-high inflation of the middle years of that decade in particular. When Mrs Thatcher was elected for the first time in May that year one of her government's first acts was to roughly double VAT to 15%. This put the price of singles (of which I owned a total of four by then) up by a further 20p overnight.
My first single was a double A sided with Jet on one side and let me roll it to you on the other. Still love them tunes 50 odd years later. I must have had good taste as a spotty teenager
Same my first single I’m now 65 wow
That was also the first song I bought with my own money. I was 16 and just started work. I digitised all my 45s a few years back and still listen to them in the car from time to time.
Brilliant compilation, great memories for a 13 year old in his informative years. Thanks.
OMG brilliant. First song i ever learned and played on guitar was Bad finger 'No matter what' loved that song, Loved most of them, aged 12.
I was only four years old yet I can remember many of these songs.
I was a 9 year old and mum got me most of these songs on records which I still have . Love em
Fifteen in 71. What a brilliant year for music. Don't forget Zeppelin, Floyd, Yes, ELP, MOODIES
But none of them in this compilation of chart music, of course.
Happy days, listening on Sunday TOTP with Alan Freeman! Fine memory of seeing Queen (as a support band to Mott the Hoople) 😅
Very true, but I think it was Pick of the Pops. I was impressed by the speed with which he was able to read out the whole of the top 20.
Couldnt agree more...Those were the days my friend
Now that was Mary Hopkins in 1968! 😁
We thought they'd never end.
They'd last for ever and a day.
Exciting times. I'm so glad I lived through them.
The gorgeous Olivia to start the show 👍🇬🇧
I feel very lucky to have been born in the middle of the fifty’s had my youth in 60s 70s 80’s I found Tamla mo town at 13 I liked Reggae also. Great time to be young.Great groups and very diverse music and fashion.Better world back then for many reasons.
Teenager back then,these tracks evoke some very happy memories.thanks for posting
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it and keep those memories fresh
I was just finishing high school and heading out into the world. Plenty of choice of employment Most certainly the best of times. Lots of memories.
Yes. There was loads of work around if you had to go on the dole it was only for a few weeks at most between jobs.
Great times, there was something for everyone in the charts. First record I bought with my hard earned pocket money was Get It On by T.Rex. Nice vid.
1971 has to be the best musical year of my entire life. So many fabulous songs and groups that year!
@10:13 Holy ****! In 1971-72 I had a crush on this girl down the street named "Koko Jamison" and around the same time I kept hearing this song "Co-Co" on the radio. I had pretty much forgotten it until watching this video. Pretty amazing how a tune can go to sleep in your brain only to be re-awakened 50 years later.
I was just 8 years old in 1971 but loved all the music.
That was my best year for music best memories for me thanks for putting this together
It was the first year in which I got really into popular music,when I started hearing a lot of songs on the radio,finding the Top 10 printed in the paper (T Rex at the top of the first one) and seeing Top of the Pops for the first time. So I remember hearing the majority of these back then.
Fantastic times ! No mobile phones , no health and safety , no wokes feeling sorry for themselves , and the best music ever !! How many of today's drivel will be remembered in 50 years time ? Glad that was my era 👍
There's a Muhammed Ali quote out there for you!
Margaret Tatcher was the best.
No ABUSED open borders.
Amen brother!! The best decade in music ever!
And me😊👍
53 years ago - I was 19 - such memories - can I go back and be young again?
Thank you for putting this video together. A lot of these amazing songs I had forgotten about.
thanks for bringing back such wonderful memories, the world was a better place to live then, and people cared for each other then. not like today where the priority is to kill each other. ☹
Born in 1960 I really started getting into music in the 70’s great times, great memories 🎙🎶
Ditto
The golden age of British pop phew what a different world. And didn't it somehow seem a much better one.
17 years old, playing in bands myself and you realise how diverse music was in those days. Even the tunes I was not that interested in then still bring back memories. I can bet that in 50 years time people won't remember the autotuned, cut and paste crap we have nowdays.
The music today in mainstream is awwwwfful, and many young people say it, it’s not just older people complaining.
I have to agree broadly,and it's a sad state of affairs. I'm sure there's still plenty of good music out there,and when I was still following it I'd hear something of interest now and again,but little of it is getting into the mainstream which has become more and more generic this past decade or two. I tend to blame the gatekeepers rather than music fans of today.
Agreed - the music moguls have much to answer for!
If you're ever tempted to look again for some modern but high-quality, independent music, please check out the amazing, left-field, melodic videos of Ebony Buckle on UA-cam: incredible! (I recommend you start with "Disco Lasers" - I'd be very surprised if you were disappointed!)@@rjjcms1
Man alive! What a blast from the past...
I was born in 69, and grew up with these wonderful sounds. We didn't have TV in South Africa then, so radio and records and the old 8-Tracks ruled!
Thank you for putting this video together.
67 child myself, all our earliest childhood memories at our fingertips today 👍
@PhilipBurton-dn3ce You and my brother for 67... we shared a taste in music, so when my brother started clubbing and somehow got to know every club dj in the city and beyond, he kindly passed the latest 80s remixes to me.
Damned if it didn't make a kid like me popular...
That would have made you two years olld.
@@mojoden oh, wow! Excuse me for growing up poor so we couldn't afford a tv when they first came out.
We got our first tv in 1976 only, and that was with a discount from family that owned a furniture shop...
That's how bad off we were in the 70s, that we couldn't afford a discounted tv...
In the 80s things were so much better that I told everyone at my new school that my dad was a millionaire... I really believed that, compared to where we lived in the 70s.
The worst of these songs is ten times better than anything in the charts today.
Are there still charts today?
Sorry but you are wrong, the worst of these songs is 100 times better than the shite in the charts today.
In my opinion, pop music died towards the end of the 1980's.
We are all just getting worse
Hardly, Grandad was shite😂
wow easiest 17 mins today so many memories so many emotions so many great tunes
Aaah, the era when old grannies could influence the music charts!
I was 10 then. Most of these I had forgotten and with good reason.. T. REX first band I ever saw. Fabulous. I am glad i grew up in England then, but left for Canada when i was 27 for a new life with my fellow Brummy hubbie.
Atomic Rooster and Curved Air ... great!!
Great clips from the year I was 12....so many memories of the top 50 selling singles of 1971. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the other years as well :)
Astounded to see Family on this list. I can live out with most of the rest. We were listening to completely different music in 1971. Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, The Move … shall I go on?
Jethro Tull.............
Yes. Benefit and Aqualung were on heavy rotation then.
"In My Own Time" was a big hit-made number 4 , but there were still alot of great records from 71 that didn't make the best sellers list-Jethro Tull had "life is a Long Song" and The Who had the all time best ever political song "Wont Get Fooled Again" in the top 10. I was just 11 back then-still love Mungo Jerry's "Baby jump" and Slade's "Get Down and Get with It" Loud granny annoying rock!-though I couldn't stand "Cos I Luv You" or Mungo Jerry's poor follow ups-"Lady Rose" "You dont have to be in the Army" Didn't hear Yes until "And You and I"-a classic-in 74. What days!
Omg, what some amazing songs, took me back to some great times. Some amazing artists too.
My god, have just watched this all the way through, and it really does make you realise how crap the music scene is in this country nowadays. Every song is instantly recognisable
Because today it's dominated by money and artificially enhanced over content..and talent.
T.Rex Rule.
T. rex knocked it out of the park in 1971 and 72.
youth club dances, tonic suits, stay press and boover boots 😁
Thanks for the memory!!!!!!
Great times, I just started work at 15. ❤️
I remember as a 7 year-old travelling on a train through Germany in 1971. One of the passengers in the carriage had a transistor radio to pass the time and Middle of the Road's Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep song came on frequently. Was a hit in Europe too.
Sweet memory. I was the same age and we travelled by ferry and train to Germany that summer as well,and that song does have a lot of childhood memories attached for me too.
@@rjjcms1 We used to do that journey too! Ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland at night then on by train
in the early morning.
Wow - so many novelty singles! Thank God for Slade and T. Rex.
😂
And James Taylor.
Singing a Carole King song.
Brilliant !
Fantastic memories! Thank you!
Thank you for a nice trip down memory lane.
my pleasure thanks for watching
I fell in love with Sally Carr of Middle of the Road, I was 18 at the time...
and u r secretly hoping that she reads this?
We can all dream, you have to make allowances for my comparatively young age.
Very good! I think however the Supremes made the wrong decision to dress completely in black!
In the USA Maggie May was huge - constantly played on the radio and the kids in my school loved it.
That really is his BEST song.
I was 9 in 1971, and I'm surprised at how many of these must have utterly passed me by, but a lot of great memories as well!
Aged 6 if I could time travel back a great year for music
The year I really got into music. Fantastic times
I was 8 but loved my mum and dad playing these I remember so well x
Marc Bolan was the one who dominated the charts in 1971/1972
Not in the States. Bang a Gong was basically it over here.
He had 3 no ones, 4 no 2's. Slade and Sweet had more.
@@lordprotector3367 Slade had six over two years but I don’t think Sweet had more than TRex who had four between March April 71 and March April 72 just from being around then and following Slade and T Rex I would be stunned if Sweet had more number ones than Marc and the Band …stunned.
@@ronaldtantYes,Sweet seemed to have a lot of number 2 singles but not many number 1s; I think Blockbuster was one that did make it to the top. T Rex and Slade,on the other hand,hit the very top frequently.
The British Charts & American Charts are 2 different animals ! In this clip- I NEVER heard ANY Mungo Jerry except for "In the Summertime". @@tomripsin730
Listening to these great songs makes me realise how lucky I was to be an 11 year old at such a fantastic time.
Ps absolutely love the Baddfinger track
The late 60's and all of the 70's were the golden days. I feel so lucky to have been there.
Amazing at the number of songs on this list that were NEVER big hits in the USA! Thanks for sharing this montage of songs and videos from the UK. (The girl from Middle Of The Road looked like the girl from ABBA.)
Of course. UK turntables spin retrograde, so UK records are not compatible with US turntables. (They would play backwards.)
Very interesting stuff. Most of these songs never cracked the charts at all in North America.
@@wendigo53 Ah, that's why US singles used to sound so scratchy.
Great stuff, although my principal memories of the 70's were being perpetually cold and hungry!
I kinda know what you mean,the vagaries of our less-globally-warmed weather and tummy rumbling thinking of food two hours before dinner time and all that (no real snacking between mealtimes of any note) but at least we were all slim!
I was a teenager ,imo ,the 70' s was the best era for music .Some fab memories listening to yhis .I didn't need wallpaper as my walls were covered with Slade posters .I must've seen them 5 times
Allways loved Badfinger.
Yes,great band. It's only in the last decade or so that I had an inkling about the tragedy that befell them,such a shame.
And they were on APPLE Records- why didn't John Paul or George step in and HELP them ?????? @@rjjcms1
Tragic
Mungo Jerry rockin' the daylights over everyone. All or nothin'.
They were rocking out in this one. As a kid I really liked Alright Alright Alright when that came out,though it was more than half way through 1973 by then.
There are some absolutely quality tunes here ( and some rubbish )takes me back to early teens and great times How gorgeous was Sonja Kristina the lead singer of curved air
Sonya is still touring now I believe. Back Street Luv is an all time fave of mine.
@@pauldoree3967 Yep she was in my small town last year in a small club to about 50-100 people. In a way quite sad really.
Some crew told me she's not great to work with; I've seen CA quite few times and always enjoyed it, despite Darryl Way parting company with them years ago.
I cried ehen Jim Lea of Slade married .We went to Slade concerts woth glitter glued onto our faces & sprinkled onto our hair with hairspray 😆
Fantastic, thank you!
Clive Dunn was younger than he looked. He was only 51 during this song, and lived almost another 41 years until 2012
Love the 70s
A golden era of pop music ..
Brilliant. 12 yrs old again!
Lot of working putting that vid together. Brilliant. Takes me right back to being a 13yr old wondering what on earth earth was all about
Thanks for watching yes 13 is about the age when music sounds good and wondering what is to come in iife
Love this Steve looking forward to 72 and 73 two of my favourite years
See I knew someone would like 71 lol I probably don't like it because I wasn't even born and 70s music is very alien to me but I am happy to make these for those who love this era.
Glad to see the only artist that appeared 3 tines in that top 50 was T Rex.... I bought my first record in 1971, Electric Warrior! T Rex were my favourites at the time. Also glad to see My Sweet Lord took the number one spot though, rather than one of the many "novelty" records that were popular at the time (hated them). My Sweet Lord a worthy winner....such an infectious one line and rhythm
I am glad I am in the USA. I escaped that Chippy Chippy Cheep Cheep crap !
I turned 9 in 1971 and for my birthday, my Mum took me to see The New Seekers at The Guildhall in Portsmouth. She wrote to them and told them it was my birthday. They sang "Baby Face" for me. I was so embarrassed 🤣
haha but you still remember it so it must have been good
@@steveh31 That part was traumatic. The concert was great!
They had to choose that one. If it means you look naturally younger than your age,though.
I really disliked the New Seekers until I was taken to see them at the Talk of the Town. I bought their live album the next day! I still think it’s a fine album.
Love baby Jump - could never see why In The Summertime was more popular
BLIMEY!!!!! COULD LISTEN TO THAT ALL NIGHT. I WAS 18. NOW 74. FLIPPIN 'ECK. FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN. GONNA REPLY 2MORROW. KITCHEN IS GETTING TRASHED😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fantastic. I still have over 30 of them on 45's. the rest on LP's or CD's.
I knew nothing about Glam until a couple of years later, when a friend of mine got way into Bowie. Lobo, Badfinger and Cher seem like a whole different world than the whole Glam thing (or as us Yanks called it, Glitter Rock). Of course, I was twelve in 1971, so a year or two seems like a decade at that age.
Thank for the trip down memory lane 😂😂😅😊
my pleasure thanks for watching