Tag Archives: 1970s
Bradys or Partridges?
I saw an A&E program the other day about the Brady Bunch, and how over the decades the story of the archetypal modern family has become an American cultural icon. It was fun to relive the series. I liked watching “The Brady Bunch” when I was a kid, and like everyone my age and younger […]
Gag Me
I just heard one of the most gawdawful songs of the rock and roll era — or any era, for that matter — on CNN. I was working away, and the TV outside my office door started playing Joe Cocker‘s 1973 Top 40 hit, “You Are So Beautiful.” The sound stopped me cold, and I […]
The pleasures of Southern rock
I went shopping with my 17-year-old niece Joann, who’s a music fan with typical contemporary tastes. Except…. When we were shopping, she bought “Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Greatest Hits, “ a compilation of guitar-driven ‘70s rock that had been part of my generation’s high school and college years.
