Other Mixes By Mark Petruccelli
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'71 Stingray
| Artist | Song | |
| Three Dog Night | Joy To The World | |
| Bill Withers | Ain't No Sunshine | |
| Tommy James | Draggin' the Line (Single Version) | |
| Jean Knight | Mr. Big Stuff | |
| Lee Michaels | Do You Know What I Mean | |
| Paul McCartney | Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey | |
| Paul Revere & The Raiders | Indian Reservation | |
| Cat Stevens | Wild World | |
| The Temptations | Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) | |
| The Bee Gees | How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? | |
| Al Green | Tired Of Being Alone | |
| King Floyd | Groove Me | |
| Honey Cone | Want Ads | |
| Marvin Gaye | Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) | |
| Lobo | Me and You and a Dog Named Boo | |
| Daddy Dewdrop | Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) | |
| Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds | Don't Pull Your Love | |
| Rod Stewart | Maggie May | |
Comment:
Inspired by the (much more ambitious) autobiographical mixes of Pop Kulcher and Mahdishain a couple of months ago, I decided to do a mix detailing one of my favorite summers, the Summer of '71.It was my last summer living in North Jersey. before my family moved to Pittsburgh, at a time when there were still woods, streams and ponds within 35 miles of New York City. I was 10 years old and our "gang" consisted of me, four other Ten-Year-Olds and my Eight-Year-Old brother, Kirk. The summer was spent building tree-forts, trading baseball cards, collecting bottles to break at the "Smashing Rock" and riding our Schwinn Stingrays to Clark's Pond.
The ritual was to ride the half mile to the local swimming hole on our prized bikes, complete with banana seat, chopper handle-bars, sissy bars, stick-shifts and the mandatory baseball card in the spokes (usually a Yankee, since we were a Mets neighborhood,) The uniform was bathing suit, Keds with no socks, a Tank Top in some awful 70's color , a towel around our neck and a transister radio in one hand with a plastic earpiece, always tuned in to WABC-AM.
WABC was still home to legendary Dee-Jays from the 50's and 60's like Cousin Brucie and Dan Ingram who were enthusiastically spinning Three Dog Night and Marvin Gaye and the like and providing a pretty amazing soundtrack for a pretty amazing summer. When I listen to these songs now, alot of them still have a shimmery, summery quality.
Indian Reservation and Joy to the World were my favorite songs at the time (in that order) but Uncle Albert, Ain't No Sunshine and Groove Me have stuck with me the strongest. The run time on this is right at 60 minutes. Thanks to Rob C for the BeeGees track and a dedication to him, since that was the year he was born.
Feedback:
Great mix & great memories :)
top tunes from the Summer my Mrs. was born, me I'd be the same age as Kirk that year.
Last half junior, first half senior year in high school. 2,3,6-12,14 & 18 were songs I was really into at the time. Wonderful mix, Mark.
Great mix, great bike.
Wow, thanks for the trip in the way-back machine. I still dig just about all of this, but especially love that bike.
Chickaboom! Good lord . . . that song was an integral part of my childhood, on a well-worn K-Tel album at my grandmother's house, where I was shipped off to every summer. If she had ever listened to the lyrics of that song, I'm sure she would have had any number of cows.
This is a terrific soundtrack to your personal movie. It has a certain Stand By Me quality to it, methinks.
Gadzooks, I miss my mustard yellow banana bike.
This is a terrific soundtrack to your personal movie. It has a certain Stand By Me quality to it, methinks.
Gadzooks, I miss my mustard yellow banana bike.
A couple years before my time, but an incredible period for music (as represented, here).
Excellent liner notes... and outstanding mix from a pretty decent year in terms of musical output.
Super slice of seventies, and great flashback story bringing it to life. Wasn't the Top 40 format wonderful in its soulfullness back then?
great stuff
Awwwwwwww! Sweet mix.
I know every song here! Great memories.
this one oozes with the obvious heart & soul that went into it - that al green track is one of my top 10 all-time favorite songs, & i love the marvin gaye & rod stewart
i am three years older and grew up in west michigan but the ten year old experience is very similar. my bike was green with butterfly handlebars and no stick shift, my bottles were christmas tree bulbs, and it was dodgers between the spokes but everything else is eerily similiar. the 9-12 stretch is fantastic.
This is really great, Mark, and thanks for the dedication. It really summons up the feeling of that period (yes, I was only a couple of months old at the time, but "that period" lasted a few years, I think). My bike was an orange Huffy.
This mix is so damned soulful it could have easily come with a free scramble-board.
Although I dind't arrive until 5 years after these songs were released I know and love the majority of them. 2,4,6,8-11,14 & 18 groove me..
Ach, all you young 'uns. Why, why, back in my day...Lots of great stuff here. Thank the gods for 60s/70s AM radio and Cousin Brucie and, and...
Great year, great mix