Regarding the thread on the 1980s boards on 80s songs that sound like they're from the 70s, I decided to make a similar thread on this board.

American Woman---Guess Who
Betcha By Golly Wow---The Stylistics
Big Yellow Taxi---Joni Mitchell
Got to Get a Message to You--Bee Gees
If You Leave Me Now---Chicago
Seasons In the Sun---Terry Jacks

Beverly Bremers -Don't Say You Don't Remember -1972
Very 60's Petula Clark , Dusty Springfield sounding.

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnGB6-rq1fA

Bobbi Martin - For the Love of Him
Released March 1970

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHt47p9jHew

The Bells - Stay Awhile  From 1971

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxwSIu_dNjs

Honey Cone
One of My Fav Girl Group of the 70's
They Sound like 60's Motown.
Better than The Supremes.

Want Ads : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2cQ47VVzU0

Stick Up
From their 1971 appearance on Soul Train
Check out Don Cornelius'Jacket          :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMDLpaL2mo

Both these songs are on My mp3 ............ 

Freda Payne
Band of Gold
1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51H1yGksOg&feature=related

Freda's original....
Very 60's sounding
It's a classic that's been around & still around



From the 80's series Solid Gold
Belinda Carlisle & Freda Payne
Performing Band of Gold
Introduced by Marilyn McCoo  :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHdcoHpFHQE


Bonnie Tyler performed
Band of Gold
in the late 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtiwTuj2yYg



Kimberley Locke took
Band of Gold
from the American Idol competition....to her CD in 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vs2jdrdyfE

Remember, at the beginning of the 70's, nobody stood up and said 'it's a new decade, we have to change the sound!!!'  The songs we heard in the beginning of the 70's came from musicians who had been working on those same songs at the end of the 60's.  On the other hand, anything that sounds extremely 60's in the 70's probably means that the artist was doing something comfortable/familiar rather than intentionally bracing the latest trends.  This is of course a generality.  It's feasible there were 70's artists who "tried" to emulate a 60's sound to make it nostagic, but that's not as likely, because at the beginning of the 70's the 60's wasn't considered nostalgic yet, just old.

That being said, there are a ton of early 70's songs that sound like they belong in the 60's.  This wasn't usually done by anyone's intentional effort, though.

This may become a BIG list, as the '70s didn't really establish their own identity until around mid-1974 when disco songs started to top charts. You certainly had a lot of guitar songs in the early '70s that were an echo of the folk-rock era. But what really separated to '60s from the '70s were the increasing use of synthesizers (albeit analog) to the foreground, and multitracking becoming more prominent. The '60s had a "rawness" that much of the '70s lacked (though still very raw compared to the '80s). 1970-71 was a "calmer late '60s" with psychedelic music still around but declining. But still I have found a few songs that could sound like they could be from the pre-psychedelic '60s.

-Just My Imagination- The Temptations (1971)- Recalls the "My Girl" era to a degree.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNn361umypM

-The Fortunes' Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again (1971) sounds like a Motown song from around 1965, plus there's even some light "doo wopping".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1LbkuPfqo

-Sammy Davis Jr.- The Candy Man (1972)- recorded version sounds like it could be from 1963/64!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkI2ZIUgzAg

-The Main Ingredient- Everybody Plays The Fool (1972)- Has that Austin Powers, '60s Marvin Gaye vibe to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiWqPxCo3iI

Bobbi Martin - For the Love of Him
Released March 1970

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHt47p9jHew

I was just gonna say that one, sounds very late 60's.
and for me, also a very "James Bond" like song.

Claire (Gilbert O'Sullivan) always reminds me of Penny lane...don't know why.

Yeah.......I can hear that.....
Claire (Gilbert O'Sullivan) always reminds me of Penny lane...don't know why.

The Bells - Stay Awhile  From 1971

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxwSIu_dNjs


Any song by The Bells.  They had a number of hits in Canada, and every single one sounded 60s

Yeah...You're right......
Any song by The Bells.  They had a number of hits in Canada, and every single one sounded 60s

Hurricane Smith - 1973 - Oh Babe,What Would You Say

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdkCs5RdQg

Hurricane Smith - 1973 - Oh Babe,What Would You Say

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdkCs5RdQg




One of my favorite 70's songs

"When Will I See You Again" by The Three Degrees has a little bit of a 60's vibe to it.

Beverly Bremers- Don't Say You Don't Remember (Her voice reminds me a LOT of Ronnie Spector!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnGB6-rq1fA

Beverly Bremers- Don't Say You Don't Remember (Her voice reminds me a LOT of Ronnie Spector!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnGB6-rq1fA


Totally agree with you! That song sounds like it came from 1964.

Another song: Cruel to Be Kind (Nick Lowe)

Came out in 1979 but sounds like it came out at least 10 years before.

Tears of a clown (Smokey Robinson)

Regarding the thread on the 1980s boards on 80s songs that sound like they're from the 70s, I decided to make a similar thread on this board.

Got to Get a Message to You--Bee Gees


Er...that is from the 60s...1968, to be precise!

Two 70s songs that were 'intended' to sound from the decade before...

'Go All The Way' by The Raspberries (so much so, that the mix was near-mono!)
'Beach Baby' - First Class

Only had the 1 hit........
Very unique voice..................
One of my favorite 70's songs

The Knack's My Sharona...1979.....Very 60's influenced.

Tears of a clown (Smokey Robinson)



Again, that IS from the '60s- first released in 1967 on their Make It Happen album. It has that '60s rawness that Diana Ross' Ain't No Mountain High Enough and The Jackson 5's I'll Be There, hits around the same time, lack.