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:: release info.
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:: artist......> va
:: title.......> ultimate seventies 1977
:: label.......> n/a
:: genre.......> classic rock
:: rip.date....> 04.05.2003
:: street.date.> 2003
:: source......> cdda
:: quality.....> 192kbps - full stereo
:: encoder.....> lame 3.92
:: playtime....> 72:11 min
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:: release notes.
::
:: 1977
:: Fleetwood Mac originated in 1967 as a spin-off of John
:: Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Fronted by hotshot guitarists
:: Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer, the band built its
:: reputation on the American ballroom circuit of the late
:: '60s. By the turn of the decade, Fleetwood Mac was
:: evolving toward guitar-oriented rock; as personnel came
:: and went during the early '70s, the band endured lean
:: years. In 1975, the line-up finally stabilized around
:: original members John McVie on bass and Mick Fleetwood on
:: drums. McVie's wife, Christine Perfect (who'd joined in
:: 1970), played keyboards, wrote songs and sang. Lindsey
:: Buckingham (vocalist, songwriter and guitarist) and
:: Stevie Nicks (vocalist and songwriter) were lovers who'd
:: been working together since the beginning of the '70s
:: when Fleetwood met them at a recording studio in 1975 and
:: invited them to join the band.
::
:: The couple was instrumental in changing the sound of the
:: 1975 album, Fleetwood Mac, into a haunting brand of
:: Anglo-American pop-rock with much more passion, energy
:: and backbone than was normally associated with that
:: genre. Through 1976, the album climbed to No. 1 on the
:: American charts while yielding three hit singles. By
:: 1977, however, trouble was brewing.
::
:: While the group was recording Rumours, the McVies were
:: separating, Buckingham and Nicks were breaking up and the
:: Fleetwoods were initiating divorce proceedings (they
:: later remarried). All the tensions, frustrations and
:: anguish came out in Rumours, particularly on Dreams,
:: which would prove to be the band's only chart-topping
:: single. Rumours went on to sell 15 million copies,
:: unprecedented at that time, and topped American charts
:: for 31 weeks before winning a Grammy for album of the
:: year.
::
:: Although Saturday Night Fever, the movie starring John
:: Travolta, was not released until 1978, its sound track,
:: featuring the Bee Gees, was out in time for Christmas
:: 1977. The Bee Gees had been struggling in the studio
:: outside Paris when they received two phone calls in
:: succession from their manager, Robert Stigwood. He told
:: them to abandon their recording efforts because he wanted
:: to release a live album in 1977, and then he instructed
:: them to come up with songs for the new film he was
:: producing. They responded with How Deep Is Your Love
:: before they even knew what the film was about.
::
:: The Bee Gees intended the song to be sung by Yvonne
:: Elliman, another Stigwood client who'd enjoyed recent
:: success singing the role of Mary Magdalene in the rock
:: opera Jesus Christ, Superstar. But when Stigwood came to
:: Paris from New York and heard the demo, he told the Gibb
:: brothers to keep the song for themselves because it was
:: perfect for the movie. The song was the first single
:: taken from the sound track, and it stayed in the top 10
:: for 17 straight weeks, the longest such streak for any
:: single since Billboard conceived the Hot 100 in its
:: August 3, 1958, edition.
::
:: Stigwood also remembered hearing the Bee Gees sing
:: something that went "Saturday night, Saturday night"
:: years earlier in Bermuda. He told them to create an
:: eight-minute version that began with a disco beat, went
:: into a slow, romantic section and concluded with frenzied
:: dance music. The group opted instead for the same tempo
:: throughout, one that built dramatically, and changed the
:: name of the song to Stayin' Alive because there were
:: already too many songs with "Saturday night" in the
:: title. After considerable argument with Stigwood, the
:: group prevailed on both issues.
::
:: Marvin Gaye's disco smash came about when, on a British
:: tour, he failed to produce enough acceptable material for
:: a live double album. Stymied after recording three sides
:: of the album, Gaye entered the studio with producer Art
:: Stewart to concoct a long dance track along the lines of
:: his current favorite record, Johnnie Taylor's Disco Lady.
:: Gaye's "Dancing Lady" (the title was later changed to Got
:: to Give It Up) featured strange flourishes such as the
:: singer tapping on a half-filled grapefruit juice bottle
:: and studio guests chatting away in the background, which
:: Stewart retained when he pieced together the track and
:: stretched it to nearly 12 minutes. Gaye was ambivalent
:: when Stewart presented him with the finished product on
:: Christmas Day 1976. But it had such a loose, party
:: atmosphere as an album track that the recording was soon
:: edited to single length and proved to be Gaye's last
:: chart record for Motown.
::
:: Daryl Hall and John Oates stayed on a roll with their
:: "blue-eyed" soul. Rich Girl was released after the first
:: single from Bigger Than Both of Us fizzled. Hall wrote
:: this hit about the fast-foods heir who had once been the
:: boyfriend of his current lover, Sara Allen. But he
:: changed the gender after concluding that he couldn't get
:: away with saying "you're a rich boy" in a pop song. On a
:: more grisly note, the tune was cited as an inspiration by
:: David Berkowitz, New York City's infamous "Son of Sam"
:: serial killer.
::
:: Linda Ronstadt continued to parlay oldies into a career
:: with her remake of Buddy Holly's It's So Easy. James
:: Taylor, who shared Ronstadt's producer, Peter Asher,
:: followed her cue and revived his own sagging fortunes by
:: recording Handy Man, a No. 2 hit in 1960 for Jimmy Jones
:: (who penned it with veteran writer Otis Blackwell).
:: Taylor and guitarist Danny Kortchmar were fooling around
:: with the song during breaks while Taylor was recording
:: his first album for Columbia. Asher, no doubt thinking of
:: the Ronstadt formula and wanting a surefire hit for the
:: new label, talked Taylor into finishing the tune and
:: including it on the new album in lieu of one of the
:: artist's more somber originals.
::
:: Manfred Mann got his own seesawing career back into shape
:: by taking Bruce Springsteen's Blinded by the Light to the
:: top of the charts with the Earth Band. (Springsteen's
:: version had failed as a single when it was pulled from
:: his Greetings from Asbury Park debut album in 1973.)
:: Springsteen returned the compliment by frequently
:: performing Mann's 1966 oldie Pretty Flamingo in concert.
::
:: Arena-rock was represented by Peter Frampton's I'm in You
:: (his biggest single ever) and by Feels Like the First
:: Time and Cold as Ice from the eponymous debut album of
:: Foreigner, an Anglo-American group in the spirit of Free
:: and Bad Company. Southern rock persevered via the Atlanta
:: Rhythm Section's So in to You. The group had grown out of
:: the Classics IV and a studio band assembled for Roy
:: Orbison; their boogie style was in contrast to the
:: laid-back country styling of the Marshall Tucker Band as
:: on Heard It in a Love Song.
::
:: Glen Campbell was a different sort of Southern act, an
:: Arkansas native who had become a Los Angeles
:: countrypolitan star. Southern Nights was the title track
:: from a 1975 song-cycle album by Allen Toussaint, the
:: fabled New Orleans R&B writer-producer who enjoyed an
:: early '70s fling as a recording artist. Toussaint used
:: his own shimmering piano and voice to evoke the timeless
:: mysteries of Dixie; Campbell followed that arrangement
:: closely for his No. 1 country and pop single. As a
:: hippie-era San Francisco album artist who became a top-40
:: star, Steve Miller represented a different kind of
:: crossover. His earliest work ingeniously applied Beatles
:: harmonies and production techniques to blues
:: progressions, but he didn't dent the top 40 until 1973.
:: After taking off nearly three years, he returned to cut
:: two albums in one session. Fly Like an Eagle, the title
:: song of the first, was one of six straight top-40 hits
:: that resulted.
::
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:: track listing.
::
:: 01. marvin gaye - got to give it up (part 1)
:: 02. earth wind and fire - serpentine fire
:: 03. fleetwood mac - dreams
:: 04. foreigner - cold as ice
:: 05. manfred mann - blinded by the light
:: 06. steve miller band - fly like an eagle
:: 07. glen campbell - southern nights
:: 08. marshall tucker band - heard it in a love song
:: 09. linda ronstadt - blue bayou
:: 10. the bee gees - how deep is your love
:: 11. james taylor - handy man
:: 12. daryl hall and john oates - rich girl
:: 13. 10 cc - the things we do for love
:: 14. al stewart - year of the cat
:: 15. linda ronstadt - it's so easy
:: 16. foreigner - feels like the first time
:: 17. peter frampton - i'm in you
:: 18. atlanta rhythm section - so in to you
:: 19. the bee gees - stayin' alive
:: 20. paul simon - slip slidin' away
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