Share your favourite songs from 1975. Fifty years ago was good for music.

[TheTecknician]

Some of mine in no particular order:

I Only Have Eyes For You - Art Garfunkel
Something For The Girl With Everything - Sparks
Misty - Ray Stevens
El Bimbo - Bimbo Jet
The Last Farewell - Roger Whittaker
Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar - Duane Eddy
Take Good Care Of Yourself - The Three Degrees
Who Loves You - The Four Seasons
Ding A Dong - Teach-In (corny but catchy Eurovision winner)
S.O.S. - ABBA
I Can't Give You Anything But My Love - The Stylistics
Sailing - Rod Stewart

Happy times...😀

Come Up and See Me (make me smile) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

I am only here because I am outraged that 1975 was fifty years ago. How can that be?

Twas only a very few years since I was lying on a beach in Cornwall in my skimpy bikini (that my mother advised me not to let my Dad see because he would tell me to dress decently) and listening to all the above on Radio 1.

Anyone else shocked?

I was only four but I remember that year well, especially the music. I'm blessed with a good memory. Fifty years is a shock to the system!

@UtterlyOtterly I am as shocked as you are! Horrified in fact.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Bye Bye Baby by the Bay City Rollers
Please Mr Postman by the Carpenters
I'm not in Love by 10cc
Mamma Mia by ABBA

Bay city Rollers belong in the same category as Paul Gadd. But apart from those- some good tunes that year.

I was 6. My 2 eldest sisters were 16 & 17. The radio was always on. They were so glamorous in my eyes with their pearlised miners blue eyeshadow, platforms & maxi skiers. I wanted to be them off to discos.

Derek Longmuir was certainly up to no good a few years back. And their manager, Tam Paton, was utterly reprehensible. The other band members were blameless AFAIK.

Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
Love is the Drug - Roxy Music
Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer
Landslide, and Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
You're no Good, and When Will I be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
I'm not in Love - 10cc
Jive Talking - BeeGees
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
My Little Town - Simon & Garfunkel
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
Can't Give You Anything - Stylistics
Sailing - Rod Stewart
Stone in Love With You - Johnny Mathis
My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette

All the ABBA songs of 1975 too.

Possibly some songs were released in 1974 but charted in 1975

Only one was a paedophile, not the whole group!

@mathanxiety Some good choices there. Johnny Mathis is ninety this year!

I also liked Whispering Grass by Windsor Davies and Don Estelle. The latter was a surprisingly good singer.

The same as we wouldn't listen to The Lost Prophets? Not sure that only one of them being a nonce makes it ok 😂@TheyAreNotAngelsTheyDontCareAtAll

I didn't say it was ok. Merely pointed out that it wasn't the whole group, just the one member.

I shall attempt to steer this thread back on track. I don't want it to become a pop paedophile discussion.

Ms. Grace by The Tymes, The Bump by Kenny and Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor were all released in 1974 but were still around into 1975. Ms. Grace was number one for a week in January.

Hold Me Close by David Essex.

He was my little girl crush in the 70s. I can't remember how we got on to the topic at Christmas but I played a couple of his videos to son and DIL and they couldn't understand why he'd been such a heartthrob. Me - the hair, the twinkle in his eyes, cheeky smile, earring, romanticised gypsy look, kinda bad boy 'light'. Them - nope.

I was 4/5, just looked at Google, forgotten how much I loved the bump

Kenny was little more than a studio creation steered by writers and producers Phil Coulter and Bill Martin. A chap called Barry provided lead vocals.

That was the year I left school and I was mostly listening to Steely Dan then (and I still love them)

Ralph McTell - Streets of London

I don’t suppose many other artists with chart records from 1975 are still touring.
Ralph McTell sold out the RFH a month ago for his 80th birthday gig.
Still writing great songs. “Sabrine” (about a newborn victim in Gaza) will tear out your heart.

Our headteacher played us Streets of London in assembly. I still get goosebumps and a lump in my throat when I hear it. I was 9.

I must’ve had a thing for country music as a kid. I loved Rhinestone Cowboy and Blanket on the Ground.

But Johnny Nash was also a favourite.

Kashmir, Led Zeppelin
Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
Feel Like Makin' Love, Bad Company
All of the Wish You Were Here album, Pink Floyd

The Bump - I remember the deputy head and 4th year teacher doing The Bump with the 4th year girls (12 year olds) and I thought it was super cool at 6 years old!

Lots of good episodes of TOTP on BBC4 iPlayer. Even though I was a teen in the 80s I have such affection for the music of 1975 and that era.

Every one a stone cold classic! 😃

Barbados by Typically Tropical.