25 huge bands from the 70s that you totally forgotten existed

Do you remember these sensations from the 70s of Disco, Funk, Soul and Glam Rock?


Popularculture in the 1970s is often poorly memorable as all on the Bellbottoms and the disco. But taking a deeper look and listen closer, you will discover that there is a lot, much more to that. The artists of this list of melted genres, crops and sound scintilles - giving a vast cultural experience ranging from the brilliant soul to the birth of Glam Rock. It is now time to see how much you remember the glamorous decade because we are betting that you have totally forgotten these bands once huge from the 70s.

1
Mild

The Sweet
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Originally and more specifically called the Sweetshop, these anticipated rockers of manufactured glames have praised a HIT catalog - including theChart-Topping 1973 Simple "blockbuster"-And shiny leather pants. For the other classic styles of the 70s, check25 things that cool people wore in the 1970s.

2
Boney M

Boney M
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Another enigma only in the 1970s, these results of the German Euro-Caribbeans band were staples at each disco party. But unlike the disco, the group and its music prevailed. Generations and Incarnations Later, Boney M sold100 million Albums so far and shows no signs of slowing down.

3
Shocking blue

Shocking Blue
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A Dutch psychedelic group that found the world success with the single "Venus", which was n ° 1Only two months in 1970, introducing a new decade on the wild sonic styles of the band. Although the next single single single of the group, "Love Buzz", failed to hit as his predecessor, he received a new life after caught the ear of a Seattle young punk, which made later his groupfirst single, two decades after being originally published.

4
M

M band
MCA Records

ASuper 80s Sonic precursor, M introduces his signature sound in the world with "Pop Muzik", a famous single eye catching and heavy that went n ° 1In the last weeks of the 1970s, helping to hook in anew wave music for a new decade.

5
Lobo

Lobo album
Big archive

A folk flourish of Florida who served the calm, the writer side of the decade of dance, the uniqueness of Lobo has not fallen unappreciated, while he got up at the top of theContemporary Adult Tables with stories of love, loss and dog named Boo.

6
Jigsaw

Jigsaw band
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This British quartet took the road more difficult, the amazing synths and the disco balls in favor of strong guitars and scene effects that includedFire-eating, explode amps and battery kits engulfed in flames. Such Singerrons, combined with true "70s, classic remixes have produced many successes.

7
Edison flagship

Edison Lighthouse
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While this particular group was a realan amazing shot With the single "love grows (where my rosemary go)," leaderTony Burrows was in fact a musical body, simultaneously recording with many bands that brought back a plethora ofTop 20 hits.

8
Slant

Slade
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With enormous sales, a series of hits and a career of half a century, this act of trust may haveinaugurated in the 80s Rock more than any other more recognizable group, heavy glam fusion with live live shows. Oh, and theyhad 11 the first five results in four years and sold50 million recordings.

9
Elegant

Chic band
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Quintessential nightclub of the epicenter of the disco, this band of New York made hits that were built to last singles like "good times" and "The monster"Endured for decades, the latter remains the greatest success of the Atlantic until 1990, replaced - very appropriately by the" Vogue "of Madonna". The group itself continues to solve, even in collaboration withElton John and Lady Gaga in 2018.

10
Manhattans

The Manhattans
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The beginning of the city of Jersey was the strong of the city of Jersey. Their no.1 strikes "kiss and say goodbye" was theSecond platinum sale Single of history.

11
SHA NA NA

Sha Na Na band
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Most bands would call play Woodstock and appear in the largest musical film of the 70sFat-A successful career. But it was only the beginning of this return law based in New York, of whichSuccessful television series Of the same name of the same four-seasons and proven, in 1981, the world still needed DOO-WOP.

12
The company Hues

Hues Corporation
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A trio of soul with many cartography songs and a Uber-Mega Hit, "hues" was a nod to theblack pride movement In the native of the Los Angeles band. They had gone in 1980, but try to find a mixture of dance without "rocking the baby boat".

13
Wild cherry

Play That Funky Music- Wild Cherry
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Nobody knows how such boys Hair of Ohio Steel Country have had their souls, but the joke was not lost on the group - nor its new international audience - when the release of"Play this awesome music" took the first American spots rock and R & B and wentPlatinum in 1976.

14
ocean

Ocean Band
Kama Sutra records

The gospel helped create rock-n-roll, and this Canadian group is certainly an example of the two collision worlds. "Put your hand in the hand" went as high as # 2 on theBillboard graphics when it was published in 1971.

15
Mungo Jerry.

Mungo Jerry
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This playful British group with a weird moniker, led byRay dorset, had a penchant for the music of Skiffle and the blues. The largest demand from the group to renown? The inevitable and the kind of delicious,1970 struck "in summer."

16
To smoke

Steam band
Mercury Folders

This group borders on the bizarre with respect to its career path. Steam started in 1969, published a number 1."Na na hey he kisses him goodbye"- It's played in balloon bloom today, then broke in 1970.

17
Bread

Bread band
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The bread was an easy listening,graphic Holding that could become heavy without going dark and helped create a new type of easy listening rock music. Few things would call that "70 his influential 70s, but few had the scope of bread in such a classified genre, a range of predominant decades later: discover the opening trace of the 70s.Mutations by a strange child namedBeck, and see if it seemed familiar.

18
T.rex

T Rex Band
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Of the spirit of the genius of the endMarc Bolan, this group of Rock Duo-Turn-Glam-Glam-Glam monsters, has so many songs of good songs that it is unfair,1972 "Bang A Gong (get it)" Being the most successful, but hardly the track catalog track deserves to be listened to. Unfortunately, we have not heard of how the group could have developed the Bolan fileTragic death at the age of 29.

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The sylvers

The Sylvers
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With their silver costumes and their dance steps influenced by the Motown, this Californian group played soul style and hadSix songs on the graphics of the 70s.

20
Love Orchestra Unlimited

The Love Unlimited Orchestra with Barry White
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This orchestra of 20, 30 years old and sometimes 40 piecesRecorded seven studio albums and were led by the legendary R & B singer - the one and onlyBarry White.

21
Tony Orlando & Dawn

Tony Orlando and Dawn
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Something like a Sonny & Cher forgotten, this New York trio, not duo, had 15 best resultsthe 70's, three of whichwent to n ° 1- "Attach a yellow ribbon around Ole oak," "he does not like you (as I love you)," and "strikes three times.

22
Edwin Starr

Edwin Starr
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As a signed artist in Motown, Edwin Starr scored a header n ° 1with the protest anthema "war"His influence of genres and decades tend to reach in the 1990s, when his" great dad "can have caught the ear of a young, but notorious rapper of Brooklyn.

23
Melanie

Melanie singer
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She had a new pair of roller skates and a global strokeleading graphics in 1971.

24
The honey cone

Honey Cone
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This fully feminine R & B trio from Los Angeles was formed in 1969,went # 1 with "Wanting Announcements" and ceased to exist in 1973.

25
The Bourdins

The Bugles
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These new English Washvers had something to say about the merger of television and music from the TV. "The video killed the star of the radio" was aHit on graphics in 1979, and ironically,The first music video was broadcast on MTV in 1981.


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