Sunshine Radio Presents A Super Seventies Show

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Enjoy this super seventies show on Sunshine Radio! 😊

Earl Young played the drums on the opening track by The Modulations. To promote their album Groove Machine - The Earl Young Drum Sessions, Ace Records wrote about him on their website:

“His ‘four on the floor’ style essentially shaped the sound of dance music as it evolved through the middle of the decade and particularly during the peak years of Disco.”

After becoming popular in the United States through touring and occasional airplay on hard rock radio, Scottish band Nazareth finally broke through to pop-chart success with a unique power ballad version of Love Hurts. This track was originally performed by the Everly Brothers, but never became a true hit until Nazareth recorded it in the mid-seventies with the intention of making it a single b-side. Eventually it became their landmark in pop history, thanks to the hard-hitting drum beat, the aching slide-guitar and above all the razor blade vocals from singer Dan McCafferty. I chose to play a completely different, lesser-known version by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.

What surprised me was that the death of singer Steve Harley was an item on the Dutch national news on Sunday the 17th of March, although Sebastian and Make Me Smile with his band Cockney Rebel were the only top ten hits he had in the Netherlands. However, he surely helped shaping the 1970s musically by making the violin the main instrument in stead of the guitar on Cockney Rebel's first two albums. Mr. Soft was released in 1974 as the second single from The Psychomodo, the band’s last album in the original line-up. The song was written and produced by Steve Harley, and co-produced with then relatively unknown engineer Alan Parsons. The single peaked at number 8 on the UK singles chart. After some internal tensions Steve Harley reformed the band for their third album The Best Years Of Our Lives and renamed the group Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. "At some point all of the members wanted to drive in Rolls Royces", he would later explain the split.

Next up is a 1970s Billboard chart!

Tracklist:

The Modulations – I’m Hopelessly In Love (1975)
Orleans ‎– Spring Fever (1976)
Dusty Springfield – Spooky (1970)
Al Stewart – Song On The Radio (1978)
Johnnie Taylor – (Oh Wee) She’s Killing Me (1979)
The Stylistics – Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) (1975)
Serge Gainsbourg – Cannabis (1970)
Gene Page – All Our Dreams Are Coming True (1974)
Lauren Wood & Michael McDonald – Please Don’t Leave (1979)
Lucy Steymel – No More Love Songs (1979)
Jan Akkerman – She’s So Divine (1979)
Linda Williams – No Love, No Where Without You (1979)
Bill Withers – Lovely Day (1977)
Pablo Cruise – Love Will Find A Way (1978)
Joe Walsh – Life's Been Good (1978)
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Just A Song Before I Go (1977)
Sunshine-Earth Band – If I Had Loved You (1978)
Act I ‎– It’s The Same Old Story (1974)
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris ‎– Love Hurts (1974)
Cockney Rebel – Mr. Soft (1974)
James Vincent – Song For Jamie (1976)