<p>KathieP,
It was Mayfair, in Allentown. We would love to go to the Musicfest in Bethlehem, but dates have never worked out.</p>
<p>I was also a HUGE Jackson Browne fan - we would always buy his new album on the 1st day it was released. Within a few days we had all the lyrics cold…</p>
<p>Joni Mitchell
James Taylor (Sweet Baby James)</p>
<p>emeraldkity4 and anyone else who likes Kate Bush–</p>
<p>give a listen to a young singer from New Zealand named Hayley Westerna. Sounds just like Kate on certain songs.</p>
<p>Music from my college days that I remember: Elton John, David Bowie (especially the Ziggy Stardust incarnation), Pink Floyd, Moody Blues and, yes, Yes.</p>
<p>We old fogies (older than the fogies already posting) have to have our say, too.</p>
<p>Jackson Browne, James Brown, and Brown University notwithstanding, the classics of my college days still rule:</p>
<p>The Twist (Chubby Checker)
At the Hop
Party Doll
La Bamba
Splish Splash
Mack the Knife
It’s Now or Never (Elvis)</p>
<p>and still around when I was in college, though from a couple of years earlier:</p>
<p>Don’t be Cruel
Blue Suede Shoes
and other hits of Elvis</p>
<p>Saw Jethro Tull in 71 or 72. Elton John in 72 (Madman is still my all time favorite album). A great concert in Texas Stadium in 74, with Jesse Colin Young, the Beach Boys and CSN&Y. It was all afternoon and into the night. Best concert ever (except maybe McCartney & Wings in Venice to raise money for flood prevention). Actually saw McCartney twice. Unbelievable for a die-hard Beatles fan. The Moody Blues. Yes, but that was in the 80’s. </p>
<p>Also a big Dylan fan, Joan Baez, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Carol King, Joni Mitchell and Donovan (saw him in concert too). </p>
<p>Other concerts from Jr. High - Herman’s Hermits, Dave Clark Five and Paul Revere & the Raiders (who remembers "Girl in the Second Row? Guess where we sat). </p>
<p>We actually studied “American Pie” in my senior year English class. And Maggie Mae was our class song.</p>
<p>My Cuban roommate played Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going on” 24/7! They were all good: Carole King, Spinners, Allman Bros, Chicago, War, Ojays, Gladys Knight…even our local LA band, Hiroshima…who eventually made it to the recording studios! My age was really showing this weekend when I heard “Catch Me If You Can” by the Dave Clark 5! LOL That was early in high school…</p>
<p>Sigh…the good old days…</p>
<p>James Taylor, definitely–still go to see him in concert whenever he comes here, have dragged my kids to hear him also…
Joni Mitchell (played Chelsea Morning every morning)
Carole King
…and a lot of the others mentioned too.</p>
<p>I am so glad that I have an iPod now and can download these tunes and listen to them without annoying the younger crowd.</p>
<p>My son thinks Stairway to Heaven is the greatest song of all time…(or at least he did, last month)</p>
<p>Fundingfather: Janis Joplin?? I am shocked, didn’t know you had it in you!</p>
<p>During that time THE scene for music in Atlanta was The Great Southeastern Music Hall. You got beer in small metal pails and sat on the floor. It was an intimate place, and played host to mainstream acts as diverse as Lynyrd Skynyrd and Jim Croce, but it’s best remembered as the site for the Sex Pistols’ first-ever U.S. show Jan. 5, 1978. My favorite performers there were Doc and Merle Watson (often) and Steve Goodman (“Riding on the City of New Orleans” songwriter). Probably one of the most memorable acts was one where I don’t remember who the headliner was, but the opening act was a strange guy all dressed in white playing a piano. He sang few songs we had never heard of and then said, “You don’t know me, but you know my songs,” and then proceeded to sing a medley of famous TV jingles he had written. His stage presence was phenomenal, He was, he said, someone we would hear from again. His name: Barry Minilow. I loved the intimacy of the place. No matter where you sat, you were close to the stage.</p>
<p>From some others:</p>
<p>“Steve Martin and Martin Mull (same bill) performed there before everyone knew them. After Steve Martin’s set, he took the crowd out into the parking lot to break into a car.”</p>
<p>“I cannot tell you the number of performers that I met and enjoyed before they became famous or well known talents. They would include Willie Nelson, Kris Kristoferson, Waylon Jennings, Martin Mull, Jimmy Buffett, Steve Martin, Linda Rhonstadt, John Hartford, Asleep At The Wheel, Doc Watson, BB King and on and on. Jack [ owner of the club ] could recognize talent and get them on the way up while they were still affordable. And, to the Music Hall’s credit, it was a feather in your cap to include it on your resume’. Do you remember the bucket where you ordered your beer? It had a sign on it that read " Tipping is not a city in China!”</p>
<p>Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young anyone?</p>
<p>What a great thread – lots of folk-rock oriented memories.</p>
<p>I lived with a really good, grade-school friend for my final 3 years of college. We were remarkably compatible, EXCEPT we couldn’t have more divergent musical tastes.</p>
<p>His extensive record collection featured everything by Dylan, Cat Stevens, Steve Goodman, and CSN (with and without Young). Croce, Joni Mitchell, John Prine, and Harry Chapin. When he wanted to “rock-out,” he played Neil Young and Springsteen.</p>
<p>Me? Pretty much couldn’t stand any of the above. Instead, my equally extensive (and far more expensive – unfortunately) record collection featured lots and lots of progressive rock and/or jazz-rock artists. Favorites included Camel, Gentle Giant, Genesis (please – Peter Gabriel era only), King Crimson, Floyd, Nektar, Hatfield and the North, Gong, various Steve Hillage projects, Jade Warrior, Santana’s “Caravanserai,” Jon Luc Ponty, Weather Report, John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu and otherwise), and so many others.</p>
<p>Remarkably, we managed to tolerate the other’s music, but delighted in finding the occasional middle-ground we both liked: Zeppelin, Clapton, Joni Mitchell’s “Mingus” album, Dire Straits, Nick Drake, and not too many others.</p>
<p>I’d be interested to know how many others CONTINUE TO LISTEN to their favorite college days music. I do. Often. Whenever I can. Sure, I listen to a lot more straight jazz and classical than I did before, but I still listen to a lot of the same stuff too.</p>
<p>And I still do a mean (and I mean “MEAN”) Bob Dylan caricature … err … I mean impersonation.</p>
<p>Minilow? Obviously I meant Manilow… Anyway, it was interesting seeing these characters on the way up.</p>
<p>Digi mentioned Steve Martin.</p>
<p>I remember seeing the young and exceptionally manic Steve Martin at Evanston’s intimate “Amazing Grace.” It had to be 1974, 1975, something like that. He was fantastic. After keeping the audience in stiches for almost two hours, he left the stage, the lights go on, and the crowd (if you can call a hundred or so people a crowd) starts filing out. Suddenly, and rather strangely, the PA system makes some feedback noise, and you hear Steve’s voice, apparently backstage, and apparently unaware that he’s miked. Steve says, “I was so great.” He then adds, “And they were such @**holes.”</p>
<p>During the same time-frame, saw the pretty much uncharacterizable “Oregon” (Eastern-folk-fusion-jazz?) for three nights in a row at Amazing Grace.</p>
<p>Good times.</p>
<p>What about Helen Reddy? I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR
The feminist manifesto of the 70s.</p>
<p>Ditto “American Pie.” My freshman roommate played “Sweet Baby James” and “Tapestry” incessantly, as well as Laura Nyro.</p>
<p>Ah, American Pie brings back memories. “My Sweet Lord” (George Harrison) was great back then, too. Anyone remember “The Guess Who?”</p>
<p>dadofsam, now Party Doll is REALLY old! Let’s hear it for the oldies! I listen all the time.</p>
<p>This thread brings back memories – many of them embarrassing! My only music memory from college, though, is seeing Livingston Taylor, and remembering the uproar at Pitt because students were mad at the student union for sponsoring such low-level talent. I thought he was great, but the concert was very sparsely attended. Whatever happened to him, anyway?</p>
<p>Side note: Here in Germany, some of the radio stations play a weird mix including German rock, Oom-pah, and English-language songs I never heard of. And a fair amount of oldies that I haven’t heard in years. Once I heard the Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love You” twice in one week! (I knew all the words, too. 
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<p>David Gates and Bread, anyone?</p>
<p>I saw Don McLean in concert before he became famous. He was the opening act for BST at my college, and he sang American Pie which was the highlight of the show. Later that year when it became a hit, we all felt privileged to have been one of the first audiences to hear it performed. :)</p>
<p>Those college years have memories of music by Carole King, James Taylor, Janis Joplin, Jose Feliciano, and anyone remember Melanie?</p>
<p>More: Judy Collins; Boston; Beach Boys; Peter, Paul, and Mary; Linda Ronstadt. And I remember attending a Melanie concert in Harvard Stadium one summer–talk about a love fest! Beach Boys performed on Boston Common, too.</p>
<p>Liv Taylor is on the faculty at the Berklee College of Music. He was a panelist on a program held at our HS on the state of the arts and sang a couple of songs. I also got him to autograph my copy of the songs (sheet music album) from his first record c. 1969. He was agog that someone would have something that old around the house. I still have his record as well but didn’t want to risk breaking it.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Simon and Garfunkle (saw them a few months ago).</p>
<p>Anyone remember “Love Story?” That really reminds me of college.</p>
<p>Patient wrote: “Fundingfather: Janis Joplin?? I am shocked, didn’t know you had it in you!”</p>
<p>LOL See how easy it is to stereotype people! You don’t want to be in the same car with me (or even the one next to mine) when Janis is on the CD player. I can screech just as soulfully as she. (Or at least that’s what my ears tell me.)</p>