AM GOLD MUSIC OF THE 60s & 70s
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1973
After two years of painstaking preparation, Art Garfunkel's first solo album, Angel Clare, and its single All I Know showed that he could make it without Paul Simon.
After two years of painstaking preparation, Art Garfunkel's first solo album, Angel Clare, and its single All I Know showed that he could make it without Paul Simon.
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1979
Blondie's Heart of Glass was originally penned as a punk-reggae song until Mike Chapman heard the tune and suggested the group go in a completely different direcdtion
Blondie's Heart of Glass was originally penned as a punk-reggae song until Mike Chapman heard the tune and suggested the group go in a completely different direcdtion
Re: AM GOLD MUSIC OF THE 60s & 70s
Hal David and Burt Bacharach helped Dionne Warwick garner nearly two dozen top 40 singles.
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Dionne Warwick went nearly five years without a top 10 hit in the 70s until Barry Manilow- produced I'll Never Love This Way Again made it to No. 5 in 1979.
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Lionel Richie gave the Commodores a slew of sophisticated hits during his days as their chief songwriter and lead singer.
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The Commodores were first known as a hard-rock band, the Alabama-based group really came into its own as a crossover pop group when pianist Richie began authoring smooth ballads such as Easy, Three Times a Lady and the 79 smash hit Still.
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Earth, Wind and Fire was formed as a jass band in Chicago in the late 1960s by drummer Maurice Whit.
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The Doobie Brothers had moved pretty far away from their original country-rock sound by the time What a Fool Believes became their No. 1 single since 1975's Black Water.
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The Little River band, the Australian band originally modeled themselves after U.S. country-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash.
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Nicolette Larson took buddy Neil Young's Lotta Love into the top 10 in 1979.
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