Most Beautiful Songs - 1960 - 1979

[Emulator II]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From The Beginning (1972)

 

[Emulator II]

John Martyn - Solid Air (1973)

 

[Robin L]

Nancy Wilson, Midnight Sun, 1967:

 

[Robin L]

Ella Fitzgerald, "All the Things You Are", 1963:

 

[Robin L]

Dinah Washington, "That Sunday, That Summer, 1963":

 

[Robin L]

Dusty Springfield, "The Look of Love", 1967:

 

[Robin L]

Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billie Joe, 1967:

 

[Robin L]

[Theme from] Valley of the Dolls, Dionne Warwick, 1967:

 

[bluefuzz]

Etta James - I'd rather go blind

 

[bluefuzz]

And let's not forget that our Rod wasn't always a cheesy old todger ...

 

[bluefuzz]

Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You. Foreshadowing stunt vocalists like Mariah Carey or Celine Dion but this is actually a good song ...

 

[mhardy6647]

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend.
Writer of beautiful songs?!?
Heck, yeah.
I'll have more to say about this (I know, inconceivable, right?) but just to provide a little evidence in my defense, this early demo for an early 'OO song, So Sad About Us, should suffice. It is way too bad that it's incomplete.

The version from Scoop -- it segues into a rather unremarkable synthesizer demo/exercise ("Brrr"), but opens with a charming spoken intro.

If you prefer to skip the intro & outro, here's just the demo (with but a snippet of gibberish from Brr at the end).

 

[Ibofobi]

Fred Åkerström - Jag ger dig min morgon

 

[Robin L]

Grateful Dead, Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad. Live at the Fillmore East, New York City, April 1971.

 

[bluefuzz]

Nic Jones - Canadee-i-o

 

[Robin L]

Nic Jones - Canadee-i-o

Magical.
Reminded me of John Renbourn, speaking of which, "The Pelican" from 1979:

 

[Robin L]

Magical.
Reminded me of John Renbourn, speaking of which, "The Pelican" from 1979:

Speaking of Renbourn, his partner in Pentangle, Bert Jansch, Rosemary Lane, 1971:

 

[Laika2]

Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You. Foreshadowing stunt vocalists like Mariah Carey or Celine Dion but this is actually a good song ...

Love that song, just picked up a mint copy on vinyl, did not know till a few years ago. Maya Rudolph of SNL fame is her daughter.

 

[Robin L]

Fleetwood Mac, Albatross, 1968:

 

[Ron Party]

Janis Ian's At Seventeen (1975)