The Fabulous Seventies

The Fabulous Seventies

at
Keys Lounge
from 6 to 10pm

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recorded live · 4 hrs 1 min
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A seventies set anchored in Philly soul, disco, and jazz-funk... Blue Note and CTI-adjacent instrumentals, string-laden Sigma-sound productions, and extended groove workouts that prize the rhythm section over the hook. Running alongside it is a nervier rock thread of pub rock, early new wave, and CBGB-era punk, plus a handful of ragged blues-rock and singer-songwriter cuts that share the same loose, live-band feel.

  1. Lou Reed - Sweet Jane (0:00)
  2. The Brains - Money Changes Everything (7:51)
  3. Graham Parker - Local Girls (11:17)
  4. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - No Action (14:49)
  5. The Hollies - Falling Calling (16:41)
  6. Johnny Jenkins - Sick and Tired (19:53)
  7. Average White Band - School Boy Crush (23:49)
  8. MFSB - Love Is the Message (28:51)
  9. Brick - Southern Sunset (32:41)
  10. Our Voyage - Where You Are (Our Voyage Remix) (36:42)
  11. Rockets - Electro-Voice (36:56)
  12. Giorgio Moroder - (Theme From) Midnight Express (Instrumental) (39:34)
  13. The Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23 (44:08)
  14. Boney M. - Voodoonight (48:55)
  15. George McCrae - Look At You (52:16)
  16. The Blackbyrds - The Baby (57:12)
  17. Roy Ayers - Pricilla's Theme (1:02:20)
  18. Herb Alpert - Rise (1:06:30)
  19. Peter Brown - Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me (Long Version) (1:12:04)
  20. Wings - Love Is Strange (1:17:49)
  21. Three Dog Night - I Can Hear You Calling (1:22:35)
  22. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Low Yo Yo Stuff (1:25:24)
  23. The Invaders - Look a Py Py (1:29:04)
  24. The J.B.'s - These Are the JB's, Pts. 1 & 2 (1:31:41)
  25. Dr. Lonnie Smith - I Can't Stand It (Live) (1:36:28)
  26. Steely Dan - The Fez (1:44:43)
  27. Ramones - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (1:47:44)
  28. Neil Young - Revolution Blues (1:50:28)
  29. Johnny Jenkins - I Walk On Guilded Splinters (1:54:20)
  30. Funkadelic - Can You Get To That (1:59:28)
  31. Sly & The Family Stone - Luv N' Haight (2:02:10)
  32. Ramsey Lewis - If You've Got It, Flaunt It, Pt. 1 (2:05:48)
  33. Tom Waits - Step Right Up (2:08:30)
  34. The Modern Lovers - Modern World (2:14:10)
  35. Wire - French Film Blurred (2:17:49)
  36. Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight (2:20:26)
  37. Goblin - Connexion (2:24:34)
  38. Black Devil Disco Club - No Regrets (2:27:56)
  39. Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies (2009 Remaster) (2:32:54)
  40. The Cars - Double Life (2:38:56)
  41. Eddie Harris - Is It In (2:43:14)
  42. Ned Doheny - To Prove My Love (Vocal Version) (2:46:41)
  43. The Spinners - I'll Be Around (2:50:48)
  44. Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train to London (2:53:51)
  45. George McCrae - I Need Somebody Like You (2012 Remastered Version) (2:58:14)
  46. War - Galaxy (3:01:41)
  47. Bobbi Humphrey - Jasper Country Man (3:06:19)
  48. Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need a Change of Mind (3:11:23)
  49. James Brown - Blues & Pants (3:19:06)
  50. Ramsey Lewis Trio - Bold And Black (3:28:33)
  51. Herbie Hancock - Gentle Thoughts (3:32:38)
  52. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown (3:39:36)
  53. Grant Green - Sookie Sookie (Live) (3:44:29)
  54. Herbie Mann - Push Push (3:55:16)

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