Maybe it is reflective of the music of the times, or the music fans, but not one song was repeated in our top five responses. Don McLean, Grateful Dead, John Lennon, Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Jackson Five. All on the list. (No Donna Summer, though.) So the Eight Blog Editorial Board selected the following Top Ten (five just wasn’t enough) from your responses:

1. Hotel California / Eagles
2. Night Fever / Bee Gees
3. Love the One You’re With / CSNY
4. American Pie / Don McClean
5. Born to Run / Bruce Springsteen
6. Everybody’s Everything / Santana
7. Dream On / Aeorsmith
8. I’ll Be There / The Jackson Five
9. We will Rock You / Queen
10. It’s Too Late / Carole King

If this has you longing for more 1970s sound, check out the new two-part Soundstage special featuring Peter Frampton. Classics like “Show Me the Way” and “Nassau/Baby I Love Your Way” on Friday, June 13. Then a cover of George Harrison’s “My Guitar Gently Weeps” and other showstoppers on Friday, June 20. Watch them both on Eight/KAET.

New features on our 1970s site, too: 1970s tv shows, movies, Far Out quizzes.

It wasn’t all disco music and Donna Summer (Who is back on the Billboard charts, by the way.) Some of rock’s biggest artists came of age in the 1970s. Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Elton John, Grand Funk. In Arizona, Alice Cooper, The Tubes, Stevie Nicks were helping to shape the sound of the decade. You will hear from them and more in the Eight/KAET production, Arizona Memories from the ’70s. Along with the now legendary story of KDKB. With Bill Compton as music director, the fledgling radio station changed Arizona’s radio and music scene forever. Local artists and celebrities – Jerry Riopelle, Marty Manning, Russ Shaw, Hans Olson – recall the groundbreaking format, of no format. Jazz. Rock. Funk. KDKB disk jockeys were given carte blanche for free-from radio. Interesting side note. The director’s cut of the film Almost Famous includes an interview with KDKB disk jockey Toad Hall.
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What would you select as the top 5 singles of the 1970s? (Check out the top Billboard songs.) Share your memories of music in the 1970s.
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