This week, Frank E. Lee took us to 1974. The year Stephen King published Carrie, his first novel, two of the year’s largest grossing films starred Gene Wilder and were directed by Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein), and the first item sold with a barcode was scanned at a grocery store in Ohio. The Chicago connection? It was a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum.
Lynyrd Skynyrd- “Call Me the Breeze”
Electric Light Orchestra- “Eldorado Overture/Can’t Get It Out Of My Head”
Jethro Tull- “Skating Away On the Thin Ice of the New Day”
Dan Fogelberg- “Part of the Plan”
Rolling Stones- “Dance Little Sister”
Ringo Starr- “Oh My My”
Meters- “People Say”
Joni Mitchell- “Car On a Hill”
Bad Company- “Ready for Love”
Lou Reed- “Intro/Sweet Jane” (live)
Billy Preston- “Nothing from Nothing”
Grateful Dead- “Ship of Fools”
Grand Funk Railroad- “Some Kind of Wonderful”
The Who- “Pure and Easy”
Stevie Wonder- “You Haven’t Done Nothin’”
The Eagles- “James Dean”
Bachman Turner Overdrive-”You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”
Little Feat- “Oh Atlanta”
Linda Ronstadt- “You’re No Good”
David Bowie- “Rebel rebel”
Santana- “Mirage”
Aerosmith- “Same Old Song and Dance”
Supertramp- “School”
The O’Jays- “For the Love of Money”
Roxy Music- “Out of the Blue”
Eric Clapton- “I Shot the Sheriff”
Robert Palmer- “Sailing Shoes (Medley)”
Elton John- “The Bitch Is Back”
Robin Trower- “Bridge of Sighs”
Frank Zappa- “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow”
Jimmy Buffett- “Come Monday”
Next week, Annalisa takes us to the middle of the first decade of the 21st century with a split feature: 2005 and 2006. In 2005, Roger Waters joined David Gilmour, Rick Wright, and Nick Mason on stage for the first time in 24 years to perform as Pink Floyd, Guitar Hero made its debut, and the Chicago White Sox swept the Houston Astros to win the World Series. In 2006, Pirates of the Caribbean and Cars topped the box office, Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” became the one billionth song downloaded through iTunes, and Facebook became available to the public.