Cool that the Carpenters seemed to have clicked with you. Karen was an incredible talent, amazing voice...and she was a drummer as well.

Abba was massive all over the world in the 70s and early 80s. I'm loving it that the unique and lush vocals of Karen Carpenter of the Carpenters grabbed your attention. She had one of the best voices in music

Michael Jackson's singing career started at the age of 6, with his brothers as part of "The Jackson 5", by the age of 14 he was releasing solo albums. He was well established by 1979, when he was 21.

The 70’s were the age of Disco. The reason there were so many BeeGee hits in the late 70’s is because the movie Saturday Night Fever came out and was a huge hit and so was the soundtrack.

Wow. This was my childhood. Every. Single. Song. unleashes a flood of memories.

You might know of ABBA but what you don’t know is that they are the 2nd top selling band OF ALL TIME, after the Beatles who are number 1. ABBA ruled the pop music world from 1974 to 1982 when they disbanded only to return 40 years later in 2021 with a new album and amazing ground breaking concert still running daily in London!

😂😂😂yes you heard them in the ‘80s & ‘90s because they’re classics!!!! Never gets old! I can’t believe you never heard Pina Colada😩

You actually knew quite a few of them! Good on you! The 70's was a great decade for music. You could listen to rock, soft rock, pop, funk, soul, country, disco, etc all on the same station! We had a wide genre of music to listen to! Glad you're doing these! ♥

I'm 22 and love classic rock, know most of these. Glad to see you branch out more musically, and know that a lot of people I know my age also dig classic rock!

ABBA ( Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid “ Frida “) is a band from Sweden who were initially active from 1972-1982. The Name comes from the 4 members initials. They were 2 married couples but both marriages ended in divorce in the late 70’s / early 80’s. Their big break came from winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with Waterloo. They have sold over 400 million albums worldwide and the best selling act of the 70’s. They were approached a few years ago to put on new concerts using digital versions of themselves as they were in the 1970’s and as a result of this they decided to record a couple of new songs to be performed as well as their older hits. They enjoyed recording them so much that they decided to do a new album called Voyage which was released on 5th Nov 2021 almost 40 years after their last Album The Visitors and has sold over 2.5 million so far. Their Greatest Hits Album entitled ABBA GOLD which was 1st album to spend 1,000 weeks on the UK charts enjoying 3 spells at number 1 (1992, 1999 & 2008) and today it is still in the charts.

Yeah, Abba and the Beegees were absolute powerhouses in the 1970s. Abba was in the Eurovision qualifiers one year, and exploded on the scene. They won Eurovision in 1974 with Waterloo.

I'm 60 years old and I know most of these. Remember loving them when I was a teenager!

I know all these songs. This is the soundtrack of my childhood and adolescence. The music out of the 70s was special. You should react specifically to the Carpenters. Karen Carpenter had perfect pitch and a voice like no other. Sadly she died young in the early 80s due to anorexia.

That funky bass rhythm you were curious about was a staple of the disco genre.

I was born in '75 so knew 90+% of these songs. I always liked 60's and 70's songs even if a little before my time. The Carpenters were well known for their beautifully layered vocal harmonies. I lol when he said "That song's from Shrek!". I've heard that said several times before from younger coworkers who think 70's and 80's songs were created for those animated movies.

I Honestly Love You was sung by the same woman that sang Your The One That I Love, with John Travolta. She passed away this year. R.I.P. Olivia Newton John.

Just so you know, Andy Gibb was the younger brother of the Bee Gees (Brothers Gibb) and died early in the 80's.

Abba had more number 1's than anyone else in the 70's in the UK and not many groups could create as much of a buzz as they did when they made a comeback after 40 years. True legends!

ABBA were massive! They had 9 #1 singles.

The piano-singing combo is a trope of the "singer-songwriter", which seems to have been a big thing at the time. Someone who combines composing, lyrics writing, and performing in the same person tend to like either a piano or an acoustic guitar a lot of the time. It's the extreme opposite of big-production pop groups that are assembled by a producer to lip-sync things written, composed, and largely performed by others. About Zeppelin, you can imagine based on the softness of everything on this list how super-hard and edgy they would have sounded against that backdrop (I mean, they still are, and music isn't nearly as soft today), which would tend to scare away a basic pop audience.

Well done. This was fun. I was in high school and college in the 70's -- so I know all of these songs. I was actually surprised that you recognized as many as you did. Good job.

The Carpenters have the one of the highest selling albums of all times. Elton John, Queen, Abba, and The Eagles ruled in the 70s. You should definitely check them all out. Also, some songs are classics but never reached #1, so if they only reached #2 or #3, they won't make this list.

MJ was 21 in 1979. He first charted in '68 with the Jackson Five.

This is back when they could sing and didn't need autotune. I knew everyone!

Andy Gibb was the youngest brother to the Bee Gees. The hit song by The Bay City Rollers is a cover of a 1964 hit by The Four Seasons, who turn up later on this video and whose lead singer turns up further into the video, Frankie Valli, who had the hit record "Grease".

Alot of these videos came from the artist's KZfaq page. Which they added a video later on, or touched up a video. That's why the visual quality looks good. Especially for the 1970s

70's was the era of Disco, so most of the songs fit the dance craze

8:01 The Carly Simon song is definitely from the early 70's but a video was added to the original 1970's song in the early 2000's. I knew every one on the list. I am 61 years old.

I’m 42 and I knew almost every single one of these… because my parents listened to them. Also a great song by The Carpenters: “Close to You”

I was born in ‘75 and grew up listening to all theses songs!

Never felt soooo old. Knew every song and I was pretty young in the early 70s. This is what I grew up listening to on a clock radio as I was going to sleep.

The Bee-Gees had two main phases. Harmonic melodies in the late sixties-early seventies and the disco phase for the movie "Saturday Night Fever", starring John Travolta as a disco dancer in Brooklyn, N.Y. Bee-Gees stands for Brothers Gibb. Andy Gibb, who had two monthly hits in this video, was their younger brother.

MJ was 21 in October of 79. His birthday is the end of August so he might have still been 20 when the video was shot.

Abba were the biggest selling group in the UK in the 70’s and had 23 top ten hits of which 9 got to no:1..In the US The Carpenters were the biggest group in terms of singles sales in the 70’s and became equally as popular in the UK…a few years back a UK programme called “The Nations favourite Carpenters songs” was broadcast..it’s an hour long but well worth watching as it tells their life story and also what we voted from all of their hits or music faberge eggs as I call them.

Abba are amazing with loads of absolute classic tunes and this is coming from an old Heavy Metal head, LOL!

Don't worry, I can't keep a straight face through the "My Ding-a-Ling" song either.

Dude, this has got to be one of my favorite videos you've ever done. I feel so old now, but your reactions made me smile and laugh so hard! I'm such a fan...

Woah! All my teenage years just flashed before my eyes and ears. Thanks

"Is this pop music?" Well these are the most popular songs each month. So by definition it's "Pop" music ;)

A lot of these songs, especially from the first half of the 70's would have been played on AM radio. Am radio is all most people listened to - in their cars, on their small transistor radios. There were all sorts of styles played - motown, pop, soft rock, folk, disco, rock hits ( like Beatles, Elton John), blues, country...you name it, it was on the radio if it was a hit . We didn't make such distinctions among styles/genres. It was just music, and most of the songs were top hits on the charts. Later, there was FM rock stations that played harder rock, progressive rock.

Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive is Disco

Loved this thanks hun! What a great stroll down memory lane of my childhood! I knew every single song lol 🥰🎶

The hustle was like Gangnam style in the 70’s

Mostly Pop and what we called soft rock at the time. Still great stuff! Edit: You have to keep in mind that these are the Top 40 hits only. Hard Rock didn't get radio play at the time.

a lot of good songs on here, glad you're getting into music stuff!! And when you shouted "daddy" 💀💀

"Mull of Kintyre" was on the Scottish coast where Paul and Linda McCartney raised their family on a farm. The song spent nine weeks at #1 on the British pop charts and was once the highest selling record in British history. Today it is #$4 after "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, "DoThey Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid and "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John.

"I will survive" you didnt know, but thought was in Shrek. The last song, Escape "The Pina Colada song", was definitely in Shrek when Lord Farquod is choosing his bachelorette.

This is kinda long but I hope I can add some context to this. I loved your reactions to the music. I grew up in this era. I graduated high school in 1975 and I knew all of these. This was the “Hot Top 40” music from that era. We had our transistor radios and cassette tape recorders and we had to make our own “mix” tapes off the radio and hope like heck that the DJ wouldn’t talk over the opening. Our music wasn’t really portable except for that, we had vinyl records (33 rpms) and the smaller 1-song per side 45 rpms that both took a record player, which wasn’t portable. I also saw the advent and demise of the 8-track tapes. My 1968 AMC Marlin car (my first) had factory 8-track player and air conditioning (which didn’t come in until then). I had the Carpenters on 8-track, I loved their stuff. I saw them in concert. They were a brother/sister group. They had a good run but Karen Carpenter battled anorexia and died basically of starvation at what was the height of their fame. It was so sad. You talked about Paul McCartney and Wings. That was the band he formed with his wife Linda after the Beatles broke up. They did quite a bit of music up until 1980. Linda got sick and passed from Cancer in 1998. After Wings broke up, McCartney went single artist. Simon and Garfunkel-Paul Simon teamed up with Art Garfunkel to make some good stuff, Bridge over Troubled Water, The Boxer, Sound of Silence, and so much more. They had a bad split and Paul Simon has gone on to do a great career solo. Michael Jackson: Started at age 5 with his brothers to do the Jackson 5. He split as a teen and had a fabulous career up until his death. I was a huge fan of his. Also: see The Osmonds, who were the other brother group from the same period. The 1970s music was a ‘bridge’ music. We went from the pop and protest songs of the 60s to the world of Disco. The early period was coming out of the Vietnam War (ended 1974) and we were looking for happy stuff. This was the era of the variety shows on TV that had comedy and music, bell bottoms and hot pants (very short shorts). We had different music, the soft folk music style evolved with people like John Denver. The middle music style was the pop stuff. On the fringe was the beginning of the hard rock era, bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith (yeah, Stephen Tyler is old!!), AC/DC and Kiss, among a LOT more. The radio stations seemed to be a bit afraid to put the hard rock into their pop rotations so we got very little. There were a couple of rock stations but not many, especially in the more rural areas (I grew up in Amarillo Texas). The era ended with the Disco music of 1976-early 1980s. I hated Disco. This was the dance stuff you saw in the list. Abba, BeeGees, and more. Yes, Abba was popular back then. I found the Mamma Mia movie fun because it’s all Abba music. BeeGees were Saturday Night Fever. This was the era of platform shoes and rhinestones. I was a DJ in the late 1980s, at what they called an “easy listening” station. We played the softer stuff from the 70s-80s and the weekends had Solid Gold Saturday Night with the 60s and70s music. I was on the radio board for that one, then when it was over, I did “Pillow Talk” which was the soft love songs from the 70s and 80s. It was fun, right up until the station got sold and went into Tejano music and all the DJs from the easy listening station got fired. If you’re interested in music from the era and the people who made it, I can highly recommend the Professor of Rock KZfaq Channel. He’s great and has a lot of interesting people he interviews. He's a bit critical of today's music, but loves the stuff you just played. www.youtube.com/@ProfessorofRock

That's when music was good. The lyrics were clear. Music wasn't raunchy, nasty, no expletives. Music will never be what it was.

It was so fun to watch your mind boggle again and again.

You knew a LOT of these songs! Way more than I would know of today's pop music (the 70's were high school and college for me).Good job! Thanks for posting 😀

John Travolta was an actor and he played a part in a musical, Grease. I think you will find many actors were Singers and Dancers as well.

Funny but I am totally OK with you knowing any of these songs from something other than just knowing the artists. BTW, Michael Jackson began signing for the masses as a child in the 60's with his brothers, The Jackson 5.

It's one of things I've noticed as time has gone by - people getting all bent out of shape trying to peg songs into specific genres. I'm 74 now so, naturally I recognized all these songs and, back in the day, they would all have played on the same radio station. The word we used for it was - music.

11:47 seeing Elton John singing that song really threw me for a loop, I had no idea he made a cover of it 😂

You've got it right, this list is focused on popular music. Missing from this list is a lot of superb hard rock, acid rock, progressive rock, funk, R&B, and country. Bands like Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Yes, The Who, Moody Blues, Frank Zappa, and Jethro Tull wouldn't have been considered 'popular' at the time. Yet, they produced much of the very best music of the 70s decade.

I Honestly love you too, Olivia.

Convoy by C.W. McCall has a great story behind it. It was based on true events about a trucker protest. The government had dropped all speed limits to 55mph, which completely screwed over the truckers on top a bad economy and high gas prices. They basically all ended up taking an additional pay cut because they couldn't deliver as much freight. Convoys of trucks organized themselves over CB radio to break the speed limit with the idea that police couldn't catch them all if they stuck together. The song is all about that and integrates trucker lingo: "Swindle sheets" are logbooks, "chicken coops" are weigh stations, and "bears" are police.

Glad you started reacting to music content! You'll really enjoy it! Especially if you ever get around to reacting to the "Every Number 1 song of the 70s/80s/90s" videos that cover every number 1 hit song on the American Billboard charts here in the US (where I am). Also, you'll totally get a kick out the 4-part video series "33 Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers".

Thanks 👍. I enjoyed watching you discover these tracks….. Like your approach to discovering stuff too…subbing right now 🤗

"does she love me?" 😂

The songs were brilliant back in the day, but this was sad, seeing all the talent that have passed away - but their legacies live on

At 9:11 when you stated that was 'easy on the ears'...the voice was that of Karen Carpenter. Even if the songs the Carpenter's performed meant nothing to you..that voice...beautifully haunting. I am biased, because that is the sound of my youth from about age 5 to age 10 in the U.S., where the group was more well known.

The thing about music is there are a TON of covers of songs.

“MJ was in 79?!” 😂😂😂 yes and already had a decade in the business.

I truly hope you go back and listen to each song in its entirety! Such great music!

“Is that a word for that?” Yes. We call them pianists. 😂

John Travolta was in Saturday night Fever, Staying alive movies from the disco era

Lav Luka, I got my wires crossed earlier, and just realized it now. So, to my comment on "You're the one that I want"--that was, I believe, the main song in "Grease".

The last song was actually in the movie Shrek…

so much nostalgia and I wasnt even alive in the 70s

Glad you knew a few of the songs, Thurston! I still need to send you a ton of CDs of 70's artists to bring you up to speed.:-) Ray Stevens is comedy/country artist. You should listen to his song "the streak".:-) Karen Carpenter had one of the voices ever in music. You should listen to the Carpenters. Yes, ABBA was extremely popular in the 70's and today. 70's one of the great decades of music.

Born in the 60's spent my teenage years in the70's. We had the greatest music !

Karen died of anorexia nervosa at the age of 33, the light went out that day.

This music is from 50 years ago. Way before your time so don’t feel bad about not knowing these songs.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is the Beatles BTW

2:01 lmao I always thought this song was made for those women's razor commercials

Real music real talent no Digital BS

It is always sad that people forget music of the past. There are songs that became popular over time and others stop being popular even though they were good. Some has to do with an artist dying or quitting the industry and sometimes a popular artist will cover a older artists song making it popular again later.

The Carpenters (brother-sister duo consisting of Richard and Karen Carpenter) were enormously popular in the 1970s and not just in the U.S. They were huge in the U.K. (among other overseas markets), and their recordings continue to sell well there to this day. ITV featured the duo for one of its The Nation's Favourite Songs programs in 2016, paired with a CD release that debuted and peaked at #2 on the U.K. charts. For an early broadcast appearance in the U.K., seek out their performance at the BBC in September 1971, featuring the duo performing their early hits and concert-only selections.

Something to Remember - MTV, which was originally all music videos, didn't begin broadcasting until August of 1981. So, many of these are either promotional videos, or recordings of performances, that were turned into videos later.

@19:01 John Travolta & Olivia Newton John were in the movie Grease. The song was for the movie, not a song that he wrote.

FABULOUS reaction! Thanks for this. Thanks to having a music lover for a Mom there were only 9 I didn't know by heart and I wasn't born til 77 😅 greatness, thanks again!

Simon and Garfunkel’s “A Concert in Central Park” is one of the greatest concert movies of all time.

The 70s were the end of the hippie era, the 2nd/3rd generation of rock, the beginning of disco, and other genres thrown into the mix. It was a fabulous mix of music.

I remember most all of them. I was born in 1970 so I know most of them.

I think the funky sounding music you were asking about the genre of was disco. It was extremely popular in the late 70s. I'm surprised there weren't more disco songs on the chart.

Ahhhh The Carpenters, absolute bliss.

ABBA 3rd biggest selling artist of all time I think

I believe those 'top' were based on record singles sales. They also had charts back then, all the radio stations across the USA would put in most requested songs their top w/e (10? 25? 100? I don't recall). and yeah some artists were 'before their time'. and w/ the piano playing & singing... it was also Liberace's 'time' too (NOT 'rock') I think that was a significant part of that instrument's 'popularity' w/ singers/groups... The "funk" background re: Bee Gees you mentioned... yeah it was part of Disco rock Yeah John Travolta has it all he can dance, act, sing. The man is talented.

The Beatles quit doing live shows in '66, but they didn't break up until 1970. They stopped the live shows for 2 reasons. First, they were getting sick and tired of playing and being drowned out by the hordes of screaming girls (seriously, they could have been just miming playing and singing and the crowd never would have known the difference). Secondly, they wanted to start doing music that required more production than what they could reproduce in concert...multi layered voices multiple instruments played by the same person, vocal effects that would have been very hard to reproduce live...not to mention that some of their music made use of a symphony orchestra. That is why you wouldn't see Queen playing the "opera" section of Bohemian Rhapsody live, each member of the band sang multiple parts of it to give the illusion of a large choir and it was all layered together in the studio. They would do the first part, then when it got to the "choir" section, a recorded version would play and the band members would leave the stage, then Brian would come back in with the guitar solo and they would play and sing the rest of it live. Karen Carpenter had an amazing voice, but she died tragically young. She suffered a fatal heart attack one month before her 33rd birthday after suffering from anorexia for several years. Such a loss of an amazing talent. Oh, and you kept referring to the century of the 70s, 60s etc. The term for a 10 year period is a decade, a century is 100 years. I really hope you do more of these, I am really enjoying them

I remember as a kid on Saturday in the late 70's early 80's, hearing "Kung-fu Fighting" and some bad dubbed Chinese Kung-fu movies would play. 🤣🤣🤣 Perfect Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-fu movies.

Damn it 1970s... Leave some good music for future artists to make. 1970 oozed so much creativity and talent that they had to find new and innovative ways to make music in the next decade... That's why there was so much electronic music in the 80s. The 90s had a bit of a throwback to indie music, and the in 1999, Autotune took over and fucked everything up.

"If You Like Pina Coladas" WAS in Shrek.

10:52 Ya know that conspiracy about reptile aliens being in the government or whatever? I've never seen someone look so much like a reptile.

I knew most of these, but I didn’t know chuck berrys my ding a ling and I had a similar reaction to yours 😂

I can tell you what I was doing every single month of 1970 to at least 1976, just by hearing these. I know every one; used to lug around reel to reel tape recorders to friend's houses so we could record them for each other (cheap way to get copies)! Lots and lots of high school and early adulthood memories, good and bad ~ fun to see your reaction to how many are new to you :) Surprised I didn't see any by Bread or CCR, or Raiders, or Moody Blues. And we did seem to have a few fun and silly songs too (Jeremiah was a Bullfrog, Muskrat Fever, etc) and of course The Desiderata (a poem - not a song, but it was on the radio so much we all knew the whole thing by heart).

This is the era where musicians played instruments as well as sang

The Beatles last hit was "Let It Be"in early 1970 released just as they were breaking up. All four released great music under their individual names for many years after.

"I'm so confused" is said so often in Lav Luka's videos that I am beginning to think that he earns money each time he says it.