1971 Saturday Morning Flashback [Playlist]

March 31, 2012 3:53 PM

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In 1971, minimum wage was $1.60 an hour and a new stereo LP cost around $3.50 (8 tracks and cassettes were a dollar more). It was a fertile year for music, with unforgettable recordings from the Stones, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Carole King, Marvin Gaye, The Doors, and, well, 4 hours worth of great songs!

Here’s today’s playlist:

1971

Song – Artist
Changes – David Bowie
I’d Love to Change the World – Ten Years After
Morning Rain – Fleetwood Mac
Rock Steady – Aretha Franklin
Memphis – Faces
Willin’ – Little Feat
Tired of Being Alone – Al Green
Dead Flowers – Rolling Stones
Another Day – Paul McCartney & Wings
Bertha – Grateful Dead
Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
20th Century Man – The Kinks
Shaft – Isaac Hayes
Misty Mountain Hop – Led Zeppelin
I Feel the Earth Move – Carole King
Illegal Smile – John Prine
When I’m Dead and Gone – McGuinness Flint
Mercy Mercy Me – Marvin Gaye
Jeepster – T. Rex
Rock and Roll Stew – Traffic
Goin’ Mobile – The Who
Walk Away – James Gang
The WASP – The Doors
Everything’s Coming Our Way – Santana
Wild Night – Van Morrison
Chicago – Graham Nash
Imagine – John Lennon
Respect Yourself – Staple Singers
Where do the Children Play – Cat Stevens
Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart
Tiny Dancer – Elton John
Life on Mars? – David Bowie
Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody
Proud Mary – Ike & Tina Turner
Room Full of Mirrors – Jimi Hendrix
Baby Blue – Badfinger
Don’t Try to Lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock & Roll – Long John Baldry
California Man – The Move
Watching the River Flow – Bob Dylan
Wild Horses – Rolling Stones

Next week: 1987 (April 7)

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1971 Saturday Morning Flashback [Playlist]

debbie korell

Happy April Fools day XRT i remember some of your famous pranks….

like when you gave the directions that when in a circle…
or almost lost your lincense with pay per raido…. 20 years b efore it came real
or the dead rock star concert in the partk
or your new home… on the bridge of the chicago tiver

love to all of you
Lango6

Often think that 1971 was one of the greatest for music as evidenced by this list. Too bad George Harrison’s tremendous work form All Things Must Pass didn’t make the cut. While it was officially released in 1970, it spent its time at the top of the charts in 1971 and since this playlist is attempting to recreate what we may have heard in that year, Harrison’s work belongs there too.