1970s Music Quiz – Match Seventies Song Titles with Correct Artists
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#1. Hold Your Head Up
Hold Your Head Up is a song by the English rock band Argent, released as a single in 1972.
#2. We're an American Band
We’re an American Band is a song by Grand Funk Railroad. It became the band’s first No. 1 single.
#3. American Woman
American Woman (1970) is a song released by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who.
#4. Silly Love Songs
Silly Love Songs is a song written by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings.
#5. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) is a song by Edison Lighthouse (1970), originally recorded by Jefferson.
#6. Sometimes When We Touch
Sometimes When We Touch is a 1977 ballad first released as a single by Dan Hill.
#7. (You're) Having My Baby
(You’re) Having My Baby is a song written and recorded in 1974 by Canadian singer Paul Anka.
#8. Baker Street
Baker Street is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in 1978, it reached No. 1 in Cash Box and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
#9. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is a song released by the Bee Gees in 1971.
#10. I'm Your Boogie Man
I’m Your Boogie Man is a song written and produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, and performed by Casey’s band KC and the Sunshine Band
1970s Music Quiz – Match Song Titles
1970s Music Quiz – Can You Name the Artists?
In this quiz you are given 10 song titles from the 1970s pop charts, your task is to match them with the original artist or artists.
1970s Music Scene
1970 started with the Beatles breakup. But instead of leaving a vacuum on the music scene, new and bold music acts unfolded.
David Bowie and Marc Bolan introduced glam rock in the early seventies, a style with makeup, platform shoes, extravaganza costumes, and glitter.
As a great contrast to the pop and rock music Beatles represented, The Sex Pistols and The Clash gave birth to the British Punk Music. Between 1977-1979 Sex Pistols had six hits on British Top 10.
This decade also saw the rise of hard rock and disco music. Progressive rock with bands like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Blood, Sweat and Tears also had many followers during the seventies.
But pop and soft rock was still popular and saw groups like the Carpenters, the Jackson 5, the Osmonds, Hall & Oates, Bread, Captain & Tennille, Tony Orlando and Dawn, and Bay City Rollers top the charts in United States and internationally.
The Most Popular Song in 1970s
Mull of Kintyre with Wings sold more than 2 million copies in U.K. and spent 9 weeks as No. 1 on the charts. In United States, Debby Boone spent 10 weeks as No. 1 with You Light Up My Life and sold more than 4 million copies.
The 20 Most Popular Songs in 1970s
In Great Britain, Queen, Wings, and Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta parked themselves for 9 weeks each on the U.K. Singles Charts. Boney M., Abba, and Village People were also extremely popular in U.K. during this decade.
- Elvis Presley – The Wonder of You
- Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
- Freda Payne – Band of Gold
- Wings – Mull of Kintyre
- Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta – You’re the One That I Want
- Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Abba – Dancing Queen
- Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta – Summer Nights
- Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking
- T. Rex – Hot Love
- Bay City Rollers – Bye Baby
- Brotherhood of Man – Save Your Kisses for Me
- Elton John and Kiki Dee – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
- Rolf Harris – Two Little Boys
- Gary Glitter – I Love You Love Me Love
- Boney M. – Rivers of Babylon
- Rod Stewart – Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
- Blondie – Heart of Glass
In United States, Simon and Garfunkel released their iconic Bridge over Trouble Water, Bee Gees dominated the disco scene, and Debby Boone had a 10-week number 1 hit on Billboard Hot 100 with You Light Up My Life.
- Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life
- Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
- Rod Stewart – Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
- Bee Gees – Night Fever
- Chic – Le Freak
- Andy Gibb – Shadow Dancing
- Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water
- Three Dog Night – Joy to the World
- Andy Gibb – I Just Want to Be Your Everything
- Wings – Silly Love Songs
- Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
- Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando – Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
- Andy Gibb – Shadow Dancing
- Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
- Donna Summer – Hot Stuff
- Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
- The Knack – My Sharona
- The Emotions – Best of My Love
- Gilbert O’Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)
The quiz has some more memorable seventies song titles. Do you remember which artist or artists that hit the charts with these songs?
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