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Were you born in the Seventies? Join us for the sounds of the 70s every Saturday morning. Martin and Venetia will take you to the decade of denim flares, burnt orange kitchen bench tops and the birth of disco and glam rock! Each week we’ll have a 70’s theme that we’ll explore, such as songs from disaster movies, movement anthems, one hit wonders, daggy duets, funky numbers, and disco tracks that steamed up the dance floor in many an LGBTI venue, to name just a few. The 70s produced some amazing music and we’re here to make sure that music is shared and never lost. NOTE: Due to music licencing requirements this podcast is unavailable outside of Australia.
This week we decided not to have a theme, but we have ended up with a bit of a groovy feel anyway, with a dash of heavy rock. It’s a pretty classic Seventies mix!
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On this weeks show we are exploring more of those brilliant singer songwriters of the Seventies. Folks who compose and sing their own songs, some playing thier own instruments. Some are are confessional troubadours, some are more interested in other genres, but all of them contribute something special and uniquely their own.
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Where would we be without nature? It nurtures us, it restores us, it even heals us. Life would be pretty sad indeed without the awe and wonder of the natural world, the feelings of sun on our skin and rain on our faces and cool breezes lifting our hair, the salt tang of the sea and the bright clean air of the mountains. Many songwriters have been moved to write songs about the wonders of nature. The Seventies also saw the beginnings of serious concerns about the negative impact humans have on the natural world, concerns shared by many songwriters. But more than this, nature is of course a wonderful metaphor; the joy of the sun, the sorrow of a cloudy day.
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The fashion scene and the music scene go hand in hand. Musical trends push fashion forward and fashion helps artists create identities and express themselves. In fact fashion helps us all express ourselves. It’s not surpriseing, then, that items of clothing sometimes make an appearance in song lyrics. This week all of our tracks are very well dressed.
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While many songs are about timeless themes such as love, other songs can be very specific to the time and place where they were created. Like other artists, songwriters and musicians respond to what is happening around them – they hear the news and respond to current events. In the Seventies, this meant there were plenty of songs written about peace, social change and political resistance. On this weeks show we feature a small selection of songs responding to the news of the day.
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Aaah the weather – the favourite subject of small talk, the topic of concern of farmers and walkers, and also the metaphor of choice for depicting a mood since time immemorial. It’s stormy weather, it’s raining in your heart, it’s a sunshiny day, and so on. Well here’s hoping that the sun comes out for all of you, our lovely listeners, while you enjoy our selection of Seventies tracks all about the weather.
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This week there’s no theme, we have just picked a few of the tracks we’ve been listening to this week that we wanted to share with you, our lovely listeners. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
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It’s been a great week for space exploration! The Artemis has circled around the moon and back and sent back some spectacular images. So we thought we would put together a little soundtrack of Seventies space themed songs for your celestial enjoyment.
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For those wo celebrate it, Hapy Easter! For everyone else, happy long weekend! We hope your egg hunts were plentiful and your hot cross buns were toasty. On this week’s show we are acknowledging the occasion by playing songs all about sweets. As we always say – any excuse for a theme!
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It’s Marty’s turn this week to sit back and be pampered for his birthday. Yes, for this week’s play list, Venetia has combed the music of the 1970s to pick tracks she thinks Marty will love. Or at least tracks from artists that she knows he loves, even if the tracks themselves might be slightly left field. And because we are thrifty, here at Living in the 70s, we are doing a bit of regifting and sharing the songs with you. Happy birthday!
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This week we’re bringing attention to World Water Day, which happens every year on March 22 to highlight the importance of acess to fresh, life sustaining water. So all our tracks this show have something to do with water – tears, streams, rivers, harbours and all things generally watery. We’re getting damp, wet and yes, a even a little bit moist. Splish splash.
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Happy birthday Venetia! Yes, it’s Venetia’s birthday and to celebrate the occasion, Marty has put together a playlist of some of her favourite Seventies tracks. Hopefully some of them are your favourites too.
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It’s international women’s day! It’s only fitting, then, that this week all our tracks are from women musicians from the Seventies. Sisters were doing it for themselves, and often being quite ground breaking as they did it. Maybe because they had to be so much better to even get a foot in the door. As we know, it takes pressure to create diamonds. And this week’s playlist truly sparkles. Enjoy.
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Show broadcast March 01 2026
It’s been pride season in Australia, with Midsumma in Melbourne and Mardi Gras in Sydney. So, in celebration of all things LGBTIQA+, on this week’s show we are featuring queer artists from the Seventies. All of our tracks are performed by at least one person from the community and there were probably many more queer folk who produced, engineered, managed, roadied and carried out many of the other roles that kept artists working and produced all those fantastic records we love so much. These are just some of the people we know about.
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Show broadcast Feb 22 2026
Something special was happening in Philadelphia in the 1970s. Thom Bell, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Sigma Sound Studios, the musicians of MFSB (mother father sister brother), Bunny Sigler – all of these folks came together, with a bunch of incredibly talented singers, to create Philly Soul. Beautifully produced, lush with strings and horns, catchy with crisp high hats and four on the floor bass drum, Philly Soul folded funk into R&B and paved the way for the rise of disco, while encompasing so much more. On this week’s show, we throw the spotlight on those fabulous grooves.
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Show broadcast Feb 15 2026
On this show we celebrate music that was released about half a century ago. Inevitably that means that every year some of the folks who made that music pass away. In this week’s show we celebrate some of those artists. What a legacy of incredible music they have left us. Vale
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Show broadcast Feb 8 2026
As we do near the start of every year, we pick some of our favourite tracks from exactly 50 years ago. This year we are celebrating songs from 1976. This was the year that punk came into being, but disco was also going strong. And, of course, there was some great rock and soul. There’s a little bit of everything this show and we love it all.
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Show broadcast Jan 21 2026
Every year we do a whole show dedicated solely to Australian artists from the Seventies. And what a lot of talent we have to chose from. From soul to rock to psychadelic, we were doing it all, and adding our particular Australian flavour.
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Show broadcast Dec 28 2025
Happy new year! 2025 is almost over, and to welcome in 2026 we’re going dancing! It’s no secret that Seventies music still features heavily on any modern party playlist, and for very good reason. It’s pretty hard not to tap your toes, swivel your hips and look to the dance floow when some of these tracks come on. So let’s party!
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Show broadcast Dec 21 2025
It’s almost Christmas. And once again we are foregoing the Christmas themed tunes and instead playing some of our favourite tracks that we love playing on Christmas day. We’ve stuffed the turkey (or in Marty’s case the snapper), and ourselves, we’ve tidied up the wrapping paper and plopped ourselved down on the couch and we’re slipping in a CD or dropping a a stylus on a record and relaxing to some fabulous music. So put your feet up, grab an eggnog and join us for some smooth holiday vibes.
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Show broadcast Dec 14 2025
We are coming to the end of 2025, so on this show we look back 50 years and play some number one hits from 1975. Who made it to the top? Who were we going crazy for back in the day? Tune in and find out.
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Show broadcast Dec 7 2025
Ooh it’s hot. We’re sweating. We’re wilting. We’re hydrating. And we’re listening to some great Seventies summer tracks.
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Show broadcast Nov 30 2025
Sometimes a song is written to a generic ‘you’, sometimes it’s written to, or about, a specific someone. Sometimes, that someone has a name. On this week’s show we continue to explore songs from the Seventies that feature a person’s name. We haven’t run out yet.
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Show broadcast Nov 23 2025
Every successful recording artists was once unknown, until they had that first hit that took them to the top of the charts. For some it might have been their first release, for others they may have been trying to break through for years. On this weeks show we look back at the songs from the Seventies that made an artists career take off.
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Show broadcast Nov 16 2025
The human mind – mysterious, creative and unknowable. Both the engine that creates songs but also often the subject of songs, including many songs from the 1970s.
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Show broadcast Nov 9 2025
It’s international science and peace week. Yes, there is a week for that. So on today’s show, all of our songs are about science or peace. Was a bit too much of an ask to find a song about both, sadly, but taken together I think we have the theme covered.
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Show broadcast Nov 2 2025
It’s a menagerie in here! Yes this week all of our tracks have some kind of animal in the title. Furred, clawed, scaled and winged, animals make their way into songs – often as metaphors – just as much as the weather and the environment.
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Show broadcast Oct 26 2025
The Seventies had some truly great music. Music that has stood the test of time and sounds as relevant and fresh today as it did 50 years ago. However, not all of it was good, or still sounds relevant, or fresh. Some of it, played now, just sounds daggy. But some of the daggy stuff is our secret guilty pleasure. Well, not so secret after this show.
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Show broadcast Oct 19 2025
This week we’re getting a little bit wet. It’s Spring, and it’s been a bit rainy in some parts of the country. So we thought we would play some tracks all about the rain.
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Show broadcast Oct 12 2025
On this week’s show we are playing tracks from artists who went solo after being known for being in a band. Many of them became much more well known after striking out on their own. Perhaps they felt constrained by having to compromise with others, perhaps they felt that their talent didnt have room to truly shine. Whatever the reason, we are certainly glad they took the risk,
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Show broadcast Oct 5 2025
It’s our birthday! Yes we have been doing this show for six whole years. In fact, our fist show was broadcast live on this exact date – October 5 – in 2019. Oh what eager newbies we were back then! So much to learn. So much to experience. We like to think we are a bit more smooth and polished these days. Anywhoo, in honour of the occasion, today’s show is all songs that have something to do with the number six.
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Show broadcast Sep 28 2025
It’s an odd tradition, really, but sometimes an album will simply be called whatever the name of the artists is who made the recording. Often this means it’s a debut album, but not always – sometimes it can be a reintroduction to the market after an artist changes labels and tries to hit the big time once again. Whatever the reason, it seemed a good theme to stucture this week’s show. So all of our tracks this week come from self titled albums from the Seventies.
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Show broadcast Sep 21 2025
This week it’s another show where we take a break from themese and just pick a few tracks we feel like listening too and sharing with you all.
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Show broadcast Sep 14 2025
The Seventies ushered in the era of the Singer Songwriter. These double threats (usually triple threats, because they could play an instrument or two as well) liked to go their own way, often throwing out formulas to create their own unique sounds. On this week’s show we explore the brilliant musical minds of Seventies singer songwriters.
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Show broadcast Sep 7 2025
On this weeks show we are adding a little colour to our lives. Yes, we love to get colourful here on Living in the 70s, so we picked some tracks that all have a colur in the title.
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Wow – 300 shows. We often talk about how much we have learned about Seventies music since we started doing this show, and also how our musical tastes have gathered both breadth and depth. So to celebrate this milestone, we thought we would share some of the songs that we have discovered along the way that have now become firm favourites. If you have been on this journey with us since our first show, some of these choices may surprise you. I think they would have surprised us.
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Aaaah love. It makes the world go round, no doubt, and has been the inspiration for songwriters since songwriting first began. Sadly, many of the resulting ditties are less than memorable. Some love songs, however, truly do stand the test of time and are destined to be sung plaintively into a damp pillow, danced to joyfully at weddings or shyly shared in a DM. These are just a few of our hosts favourites from the fabulous Seventies.
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In the Seventies, not all great tracks were released as singles. So if you didn’t buy or borrow a band’s albums, there would be a lot of material that you might never get to hear. On this show, we can sometimes be guilty of playing an artists best known songs – usually single releases – and skipping over plenty of other great tracks. So we thought we would fix this and showcase some lesser known tracks that could only be found deep in the albums. We think we’ve found some bangers.
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This weeks show is all about dreams. Day dreams, night dreams, wishful thinking and fantasies, these are things all humans experience and of course have provided the inspiration for song writers and story tellers since we first gathered around a fire. So what better theme for a show than songs about dreams.
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On this week’s show, Marty and Venetia are getting heavy and rocking it out to explore the music of Seventies rock bands. In honour of the passing of that heavy rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne, the show features two Black Sabbath numbers as well as tracks from other heavyweights such as Aerosmith, AC/DC and Kiss. It’s a blast of a show!
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So. Many. Great. Girl. Groups. There, enough said 🙂
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A few weeks ago we did a show featuring songs all about rural life. Well this week we’re moving to the big smoke with its mean streets and gritty alley ways. It’s our city and we’re living that street life and it’s enough to give us the inner city blues. Taxi!
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It’s the middle of winter and feeling a bit chilly down here in the South. The woolly hats and scarfs are out and it feels like we may never see the sun again. So this week we’re featuring songs about winter and being cold. Brrr!
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On Sunday this week it was World Rural Development Day. So of course on today’s show we are playing tracks about living in or being in the country. There’s nothing quite like feeling the fresh air in your lungs, hearing the birds calling and seeing the leaves of the tress rustling in a breeze. Many songwriters in the Seventies felt the same and waxed lyrical about the charms of country life. Or, couldn’t wait to leave it to head to the big smoke. Some aspects could do with developing, after all.
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This week we are celebrating the end of the financial year by playing Seventies tracks all about money, honey. Yes, filthy lucre, bread, dough, cash, that stuff that makes the world go round. We give little bits of metal and paper and plastic a made up value and then slave all of our lives to make sure we have enough of it. No wonder we also write songs about it. Here’s hoping that your books are balancing this week and your stocktakes are coming out even.
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This week we are revisiting a previous theme and playing more Seventies covers of Seventies songs. It wasn’t unusual in that decade for a few different artists to release the same songs not very far apart. Sometimes the same song could be a hit for different artists, but occasionally a song that languished in relative obscurity would be reinterpreted a made into a hit by somebody new. That’s the beauty of music – so many possible ways of creating magic.
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Last week your hosts were a bit miz. Yes, we were riddled with lurgies and as moist and watery as our theme. Not very fun. Luckily, this week we are recovered and we felt like celebrating by playing Seventies tracks that always make us feel good. You know, those tracks that always lift your mood and bring a little joy and sunshine into your life. We love them. Hopefully you do too.
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Once again it’s World Ocean’s Day and we are having a show in celebration of all things watery. All of the tracks on this week’s show have something to do...
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On this weeks show, we pay tribute to a great Australian musical partnership, performing, songwriting and producing duo Harry Vanda and George Young. Vanda and Young met at an immigrant...
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So many fantastic debut albums came out in the Seventies that we thought we would bring you our third show featuring some of our favourites. This time we hear from...
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As Marty is currently cohosting all the way from Malta, and the Eurovision song contest is in full swing, we thought that on this week’s show we would focus on...
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As this weeks show went to air on May the 4th, we decided to be inspired by the Star Wars movies and feature songs that have something to do with...
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This week, as has become tradition here on our show, we are featuring tracks from Australian and New Zealand artists in honour of ANZAC day. Some of these songs will...
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This week it’s our Easter show, and just in case you haven’t yet had sugar overdose on chocolate eggs and hot cross buns, we thought we might add just a...
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Some weeks we just aren’t feeling a theme. So instead we just pick a handful of songs each that we have lying around and put them together to make a...
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Down here in Australia’s South, the days are getting shorter, the mornings crisper, the leaves are turning and we are all putting on extra layers to stay warm. There’s a...
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This weeks show went to air on the 23rd of March 2025. We thought we would look back through the Seventies and see what notable musical events happened on this...
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It’s Marty’s birthday. Hip, Hip, Hooray! And for his birthday, Venetia has put together a playlist of some of his favourite artists. It’s a Marty flavoured blend of pop and...
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This week our show is made up of all women artists of the Seventies – in part to balance our recent show featuring all men called David, and also to...
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It’s Venetia’s birthday this week, so she got to sit back and relax while Marty did all the hard work of picking the tracks, finding some of her favourites as...
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So many Davids! When you think of Seventies music it’s hard not to think of at least a few artists called David – David Bowie, David Crosby, David Cassidy, David...
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This week our hosts are going a wee bit dark and playing tracks from the Seventies all about murder and death. The murder ballad has a long history, all the...
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Aaah love. The obsession of songwriters since time immemorial. And just as well, as every relationship and every breakup must have its soundtrack. Who hasn’t wept into their pillow after...
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As we do every year, on this weeks show we look back and pay tribute to just some of the fabulous artists active in the 1970s that we lost in...
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This week it’s our annual all Australian show, featuring Australian tracks by Australian artists (and perhaps a wee contribution from across the ditch). Some of these we’ve played before, some...
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Welcome to 2025. As has become tradition, here on our little radio program, on our first show of the year we look back to songs released 50 years ago. Which...
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Happy New Year! Yes, 2024 is coming to a close and it’s out with the old and in with the new – except for Seventies music, that is, particularly Seventies...
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After five years of crafting Christmas shows from cheesy Seventies Christmas albums, Venetia put her foot down and declared this year a cheesy Christmas free zone. Instead we offer for...
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It’s almost the end of the year. And as has become tradition on our show, at this time of year we look back to the songs that made it to...
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On the third of November this year, Quincy Jones passed away at the age of 91 after a 70 year career in music. Acclaimed producer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and film...
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This week the show went to air on December 1, which happens to be both World AIDS Day and JOY’s 31st birthday. Arising from a desire by JOY’s founder, John...
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A few weeks ago we shared a show featuring tracks from classic Seventies debut albums. Well, there are so many to choose from that we had to do another show....
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Soul – one of the great musical genres to come out of mid 20th Century America, and a sound that still reverberates through pop music today. Sharing it’s gospel roots...
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Fifty years ago, on November 8, 1974, the first episode of Countdown went to air on the ABC. It would go on to have many Australians glued to their TVs...
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This week our hosts are taking a break from the themes and just picking a few tracks they feel like playing. As usual, it’s an eclectic but tasty mix. Some...
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We’re super excited! This week we explore superb, superior, supreme Seventies songs with super either in the title or in the name of the artists. Why? Well, because it’s super...
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Long live the cover version! Sometimes other artists do it better, sometimes they just do it differently, but it’s always interesting to hear a great song reinterpreted. In the Seventies...
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Yes it’s happy birthday, happy anniversary and how-the-heck-is-this-little-show-still-going to us! We have had the enormous pleasure of bringing fabulous Seventies music to you for the past five years. So this...
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This week we are showcasing tracks from what we consider to be some of the great debut albums of the 1970s. There are way too many to cover them all...
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Life is full of ups and downs and it turns out that the Seventies music catalogue is as well. In this week’s show, all of our songs feature either up...
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We have learned doing this show, that any band with a long and successful career will inevitably become woven into a tangled web of musical connections. People from other well...
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Who are they, and what are they to you? That’s what we want to know this week, as we explore Seventies songs about cheating and affairs. It’s all about lying...
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This week we are revisiting the Sixties by way of the Seventies. A few weeks ago we looked at what the individual Beatles members got up to in the Seventies...
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On this week’s show we’re mining the archives for Seventies songs featuring some kind of metal in the title. We’ve found rich seams of gold rings and hearts, and silver...
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While undeniably most songs about people are simply written to a nameless ‘you’, ‘she’ or ‘he’, some songwriters seem to be inspired by particular individuals and want to name names....
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This week we are bookending last week’s all black show with a show featuring all tracks with white in the title. Simple! We do love an easy theme 🙂 But...
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This week we’re getting a bit dark and moody. We thought to do a ‘black and white’ show, in which all the songs had either black or white in the...
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This week we’re getting a break from the heavy lifting as we have asked YOU, our listeners, to pick the tracks for the show. And, as usual, you’ve done a...
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The Beatles were the band of the 1960s, but released their final album in 1970 and broke up amid bad feeling and significant artistic differences. Each member of the Fab...
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We had so much fun getting glam last show, we thought we would do it again. So strap yourselves in for even more glam rock. Yes, bigger, hair, longer lashes,...
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Tight satin pants? Check. Long flowing locks? Check. Bit of lippy and some eye liner? Check and check. It’s glam rock! Where boys and girls will be whatever they like...
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It’s the end of the financial year and everyone is having a sale. We’ve scrabbled through the bargain bin and found a few fabulous musical items that need to go....
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We just can’t get enough horns! And it seems our listeners can’t either. After our last show featuring Seventies tracks with fantastic horn sections we got a request to play...
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Aah the guitar. Perhaps the quintessential instrument of the modern era. So popular that nearly everyone cans strum a few chords and whip one out round a campfire for a...
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How do you add brightness, punch, syncopation, emphasis and groove to a song? Why add a horn section of course! And the Seventies featured some fantastic horn sections and horn...
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Way back in the 1970s, not everyone was getting sweaty at a disco or grooving to soul music. No indeed, for some music lovers, nothing could be more transporting than settling in to the bean bag and poring over the latest fantastical triple-gatefold album cover while listening to some complex, lengthy, and conceptual progressive rock. Its critics often characterised prog rock as pretentious, pompous, and taking itself way too seriously, but for its fans, progressive rock has always had the power to exhilerate in a way other music cannot. On this weeks show, we explore some tracks from prog rock’s hey day in the early 1970s and find out just why the fans love this genre so much.
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Today’s show is a tribute to the humble cowbell. So, uncelebrated and yet such an essential feature of rock, funk and latin music. It doesn’t play melody, being only one note, but it does add texture, syncopation and drive to any track. For as long as we’ve been human we’ve clapped our hands, stamped our feet and hit two sticks together to create a beat. The cow bell is the perfect beat keeper, resonant and loud enough to cut through amplified rock guitars and a full drumkit. Even today, along with all the other bits and pieces of expensive and elaborate kit in the studio or on the stage, the simple cow bell has pride of place.
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Happy mother’s day to all the boogie mamas! Yes it’s that time of year again where we all say a big thank you to the mamas. Mamas who rock, mamas who boogie, mamas who get down and mamas who keep it funky. Today’s show is for you.
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This week it’s part three of our exploration of Seventies musical artists in alphabetical order. On this week’s show, we continue our journey through the alphabet, covering the letters Q to Z. Yes, it’s all the tricky letters, including Q, U, X, Y and Z. And what do you know? We managed to find tracks for them all.
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Last week we brought you part one of our exploration of Seventies musical artists in alphabetical order. On this week’s show, we continue our journey through the alphabet, covering the letters I to P. From Iggy Pop to the Pointer Sisters, it’s an orderly progression through some Seventies fabulousness.
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We love a theme challenge here at Living in the Seventies. A little while ago the team from Saturday Breakfast gave us the idea to create some shows using the alphabetical as an organising theme. Of course 26 tracks is more than we can fit into one show, so welcome to part one of three shows featuring tracks from Seventies artists in alphabetical order! And yes, we even got tracks from artists starting with U and X. Cool, eh?
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Last week we celebrated Marty’s birthday, this week it’s Venetia’s turn. All of the tracks this week have been chosen by Marty in Venetia’s honour. Did he choose as well as Venetia did? We’ll soon find out. Happy birthday Venetia!
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It’s Marty’s birthday! To celebrate, this week all of the tracks have been chosen by Venetia in Marty’s honour. Did she choose well? Marty will be the judge. Happy birthday Marty!
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It’s that time of year again, when in recognition of a certain event on the Christian calendar (though with deeply pagan roots), we trawl through the Seventies musical canon for songs with a spiritual bent. And there are plenty to choose from. So if you fancy something a little uplifting to accompany you while you butter your hot cross buns and hunt for easter eggs, we’ve got the perfect playlist for you.
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We had so much fun travelling down memory lane last week, paying track from artists we have seen live, that we though we would do it again. This week we remember even more concerts, featuring artists who were releasing music in the Seventies.
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There’s nothing quite like seeing your favourite musicians play live. This week our hosts remember concerts they’ve been to, featuring artists who were releasing music in the Seventies. It’s a trip down memory lane exploring the the incredible role that music plays in our lives, and a reminder to buy the tickets and get out there and go to the shows.
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This show aired on Chill Out Festival Sunday, the festival in Daylesford in country Victoria that marks the end of Pride festivities and events for the year. To honour this fabulous event, we thought we would play some tracks that are either country, or country music inspired. It’s been a very long time since we’ve done a country show. It’s a broad genre – not all of it will be everyone’s cup of joe, but there’s bound to be something that gets you bootscooting. Yeehaw
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This week our show aired on World Wildlife Day, so we thought we would feature songs with some kind of animal in the title. Not all of the animals are wild and, to be honest, most of them are metaphors, but we think it’s been a great theme to highlight just some of the amazing music from the Seventies. We’ve got snakes, dogs, eagles, spiders and many more. Where would we be without animals? Not just facing extinction ourselves, but also without metaphorical songwriting richness. Perhaps not quite as important as saving the planet, but a good reason nevertheless to take action to support wildlife. Just imagine if we could never aspire to soar like an eagle?
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Aaah work. We all have to do it at some stage in our lives. Sometimes we love it, sometimes it’s a grind, but everybody has to pay the bills somehow. It takes up a huge part of our lives, so it only stands to reason that songwriters are going to have something to say about it. Sure enough, there are a few songs out there talking about finding work, doing work and leaving work. So if you are at work and able to put on the headphones or the speakers to keep you company while you hustle, we have the perfect playlist.
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On this week’s show we’re getting down, we’re getting it on, we’re steaming up the dance floor, and we’re having a boogie. So if your toes are tapping and you just can’t stay in your seat, you can blame it on the boogie. Or maybe, you can blame it on JOY’s Saturday Breakfast Show, as they challenged us to fill a whole show with songs with boogie in the title. Easy! We could have filled a few. And maybe we will. In the meantime, here’s just a taster of Seventies boogie fabulousness.
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On this show we play tracks that were recorded and released around 50 years ago. It’s impressive that so many of the artists responsible for those tracks are still going...
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This week it’s our annual all Australian show, featuring Australian tracks by Australian artists (and perhaps a wee contribution from across the ditch). Some of these we’ve played before, some...
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It’s our first show for 2024 and, as has become tradition on Living in the 70s, we look back to songs released a half century ago in 1974. And what...
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It’s our New Years Eve party show! Yes we’re closing out the year with some classic Seventies party tracks, songs that make you tap your toes or bring partying to...
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Yes it’s that time of year again, we’re donning our gay apparel, decking the halls, stuffing the turkeys, and wrapping the prezzies. So many tasks, so many decisions, so much...
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As 2023 draws to a close, we take a look back at tracks that were number one hits 50 years ago. These songs are half a century old but still...
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As the year limps toward a close, those of use who use music streaming services are getting sent our round ups of what we listened to most during the year....
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30 Years ago on December 1, World AIDS Day, JOY Radio was formed. Since then JOY has been a major part of the LGBTQIA+ community in Melbourne, and now around...
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Every November, a handful of luminaries whose musical careers have spanned more than 25 years are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Given the career length requirements,...
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This week, in honour of Universal Children’s Day, Marty and Venetia are embracing their inner child. It turns out plenty of Seventies artists did too, writing songs about wild children,...
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Stop! Have you heard? This week’s show features Seventies songs with ‘stop’ in the title! Our lovely fellow presenters from Weekend Breakfast challenged us with the theme, and we think...
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This week we’re going all meta and self referential. Yes, all the music on today’s show is about, well.. music! We love music, we’re into the music, we’re listening to...
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The Seventies was a great era for film and a great era for movie sound tracks. These week we pick some of our favourite songs from Seventies flicks. While not...
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As we have discovered here at Living in the 70s, songwriters love a metaphor. On this week’s show we explore songs from the Seventies featuring food, usually as a stand...
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The Seventies featured some amazing female talent, but it could sometimes get lost in a sea of songs released by men. A 2017 study looking at the top 50 songs...
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It’s our birthday! Yes, Living in the 70s is 4 years old, and we have loved every minute of it. We hope that you have too. In honour of this...
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This week features the International Day of Older Persons and, well, Marty and Venetia are undeniably older persons. In fact, if you search the JOY website for podcasts, you can...
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Yes it’s another disco show! One of the most significant and perhaps influential musical genres to come out of the 1970s, disco forever democratised the dance floor. You didn’t need...
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There’s something about seeing the music you love performed live. While studio albums may have more polish, there’s an anergy and immediacy at a live performance that just can’t be...
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Did we mention last week that it’s Spring? Well it is, and we’re shaking off the Winter doldrums, feeling the sun on our faces and starting to feel a little...
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Aaaah it’s Spring and we are all unfurling in the sunshine like little darling buds of.. well, September. We’re opening up the doors and windows and letting in the light...
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Yes, the little 70s show that could has been going for 200 shows! That’s a lot of music, and to commemorate the occasional, Marty and Venetia have scrolled through the...
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This week, in honour of Marty’s nephew getting hitched, Living in the 70s is heading to the altar and playing tracks that have something to do with marriage. Not all...
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This week it’s International Youth Day, so on today’s show we pay homage to some of our favourite Seventies artists who started their careers at a very young age. Some...
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This week’s show is chock-a-block with scorching hits! Yes, it’s yet more ripper tracks from Seventies compilation albums. Who knows what we might play…
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This week our show airs on International Friendship Day. And what says friendship more than sharing a microphone while staring deeply into each other’s eyes? And no, we aren’t talking...
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Life is a games and so is love, according to many of the artists featured on this week’s show. There is a bit of skill, a touch of luck and...
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Before streaming services, podcasts, the interwebs and search engines, if you wanted to discover new music you had to have a wide circle of friends, browse the record store, or...
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Last week we focused on the cold and wintry, this week we decided to at least entertain the fantasy of heat, even if the winter weather feels like it’s here...
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It cold and wet this week in many parts of Australia. The nights are long, the days short and grey, and the wind is whistling around the corners and finding...
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Yes here on Living in the 70s it’s our EOFY sale – fabulous Seventies tracks at bargain basement prices. We’re doing a stock take, clearing the back catalogue and letting...
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Last week the hosts had so much fun just picking five random songs we liked, that this week we’ve decided to do it again. Marty gets a little schmaltzy and...
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This week Marty and Venetia are flying without the auto pilot and heading wherever they like. Yes, that’s right, this show there is no theme. It host’s choice, or perhaps...
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Aaah the hits keep coming, and we don’t mean of the musical kind. Sadly, the incredible Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock, has passed away. A powerhouse performer with a distinct rock vocal style, Tina managed to transition from one half of Seventies duo Ike and Tina Turner to forge an impressive solo career on her own terms, becoming one of the biggest and most loved stars of the 80s and beyond. So on this week’s show, we pay tribute to her stellar achievements by showcasing just some of the incredible music made by women in the Seventies.
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This week saw the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, so our show of course features tracks from the 1970s all about peace and love and an end to fighting. As we discover, songs about peace seem to fall mostly in the early part of the decade as artists continue to respond to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the Vietnam war (the USA pulled out in 1973). Many of the songs featured on the show have become classics, continuing to remind us that when we have a course of action to choose, we should be guided always by peace and love. Right on.
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This week Marty and Venetia are cast away on a desert island. All we are allowed to bring along for entertainment is five albums each from the 1970s. For regular listeners to the show, the top five artists and albums we pick probably wont be too surprising. But their work is always worth playing again. We hope you enjoy, and maybe decide to come and join us on our little island retreat.
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In honour of International Family Day, on this week’s show we’re playing tracks released by bands made up of family members. There were quite a few acts in the 70s, particularly those consisting of siblings, usually brothers, but sometimes sisters too. Some bands were short lived but others are still performing and recording to this day. Whatever the case, we’re glad these family members decided to pick up instruments and make great music together and then share it with the world.
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May the 4th be with you! In honour of the 4th of May, this week we decided to have a space themed show, playing songs to do with space, the planets and other galactic type things. Featuring solar powered guitars, women in the moon (called the moon), Saturn arising, and space rockets, the music this week will blast you into the stratosphere. So come join us among the spheres, and don’t forget your spacesuit!
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Yes it’s the Radiothon show! Every year at about this time JOY asks our lovely listeners to dig into their pockets and send us some cash to help us fund another year of fabulous radio and podcasts. It costs almost $9000 a year to keep a one hour show like Living in the 70s on air, even with all the volunteers behind the microphones and behind the scenes making the magic happen. So if you love the show and love listening to the podcast – even if you’re listening to this after Radiothon has finished – consider making a donation or becoming a member. It’s easy – just hop on to joy.org.au and do it online or give us a call. Because together, we thrive.
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It’s International Dance Day! Possibly the organisers didn’t have disco top of mind, but of course it’s the first thing that occurs to us, here at Living in the 70s. Arguably the 70s’ greatest contribution to the world of dance, disco is designed to get your toes tapping and your hips swinging and make the dance floor irresistible – even if that dancefloor is your loungeroom. So get your boogie on and join us as we celebrate that infectious beat!
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Here at Living in the 70s we share with you music that was made half a century ago. Inevitably many of the artists whose work we love have already passed away or pass away while we publish these shows. Some however, are still going strong, performing and releasing fantastic work fifty years on. On today’s show we celebrate some of those artists and the music that made us fall in love with them.
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It’s that time of year again, it’s the Easter long weekend when our thoughts turn to hot cross buns and returning from the dead. This week Marty and Venetia have decided to take a spiritual turn and resurrect some Seventies classics about all things divine. So put your hand in our hands and join us on the banks of a river somewhere in Babylon for a rejuvenating dunking in some fabulous 1970s music.
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A couple of weeks ago it was Venetia’s birthday and Marty chose the playlist. This week it’s Marty’s birthday and it’s Venetia’s turn to put together a mixtape of tracks that she thinks might be some of her cohost’s Seventies favourites. Has she done as good a job as Marty did? Will Marty like his birthday present? Let’s find out. Happy birthday Marty!
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It’s World Water Day – or is it International Wetlands Day? We’re not entirely sure. Either way it’s an excellent reason to play some Seventies tracks about water – rivers, oceans, tears, if it’s moist we’ll take it. So put on your togs and jump on in – the water is fine…
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It’s Venetia’s birthday this week. And to help celebrate Marty has put together a mixtape filled with a selection of her favourite Seventies artists. There’s a bit of soul, a pinch of disco, some singer songwriter and a dash of new wave. What a lovely gift. Happy birthday Venetia!
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A couple of weeks ago we took a stroll through the 1970s, playing a track from each year. This week we’re doing the same thing, only we’re choosing tracks exclusively from Australian artists. Turns out, the 1970s were a bit mellow down under. Or perhaps we’re just in a mellow mood, winding down from a fabulous Pride season. It’s the after party chillax, Australian Seventies style…
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Happy Pride everyone! To celebrate World Pride happening right here in Australia, this week we’re playing tracks from the Seventies by LGBTI artists. We’ve come a long way in the last 50 years. Still lots to do, but right now it’s time to party. So get on your glad rags and go out there and be authentically you!
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On this weeks show we are going to amble through the decade, playing a song for each year from 1970 to 1979. We can’t possibly hope to represent all of the diverse genres and styles of the whole of the Seventies. This is just a good selection – a little taste – of a song we happen to like from each year that we hope will appeal to all of you, our lovely listeners. What a treat!
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At least once every year – sometimes more often – we put together a show highlighting just some of the fantastic tracks released by Australian artists in the 1970s. Australia had a vibrant and interesting music scene with talented artists exploring a variety of genres. This show features some classic, well known numbers and some lesser known ones only released as singles or buried in the depths of an album. Altogether it’s a great Aussie mix.
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The past twelve months have been rough for Seventies music lovers, and it’s only likely to get rougher. It’s been 50 years since that wonderful decade for music and many of our favourite artists are now passing away with sad regularity. It’s seems impossible that the wildly energetic creators of that vibrant music that we love could be getting so on in years (and that we, also, could be aging) but it’s true. Every life reaches its end, even the lives of our musical heroes. Thankfully, their music lives on. This week we celebrate the fantastic legacy of some of those artists who died in 2022 (and a couple from early 2023). Vale. Thank you for the music.
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As is traditional on Living in the 70s, our first show of the new year looks back to songs released 50 years ago. And this year it’s 1973. Early in the decade still. Prime time for some great funk, some crossover country, a touch of glam rock and a pinch of pop. These tracks may be half a century old, but they’re still brilliant. Happy birthday 1973.
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Our Christmas present to you this year, our lovely listeners, is a carefully crafted playlist of Seventies Christmas classics. Today’s show will have you humming along while you light the candles, stir the gravy, stuff the bird and set the table. Or perhaps will be the perfect companion for your post lunch snooze on the couch amidst the piles of wrapping paper. However you listen, we wish you all a very merry holiday season, filled with love, laughter and, of course, good music.
We will be taking a two week break. We will be back for more Seventies fabulousness on January 14th. Thank you all so much for your support this year. Have a happy new year and see you in 2023!
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As we lurch toward the end of 2022, it’s time to take a look back through the mists of time – a whole half a century – to songs that were number one hits 50 years ago. People had great taste in 1972. It was a surprisingly mellow year in the charts. Lots of heartfelt ballads. A sprinkling of glam rock. A pinch of soul. But altogether a pretty wonderful mix.
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This last week sadly saw the passing of Christine McVie, beautiful songwriter and singer and pivotal member of one of our favourite acts, Fleetwood Mac. One of her most loved tracks is ‘songbirds’. So in tribute, this week, we have chosen female artists from the Seventies who we think of when we think of songbirds. Vale Christine. May songbirds sing you to your rest.
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It felt like it would never get here – and it may still be a little sluggish – but Summer has finally arrived! And on this week’s show we’re celebrating by playing songs that get us in the mood for long balmy evening, days at the beach and just feeling the sun on our faces. Aaahh….
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This is the final instalment of our listener request shows. Thank you all so much for taking over the driver’s seat – we’ve gone to some pretty quirky and fabulous...
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We got such a great response to our call out for listener song requests, that this week we’re playing more! Once again it’s a fabulously eclectic mix of Seventies tracks...
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We have some very engaged and dedicated listeners to our little radio show (and podcast) and we love it when you contact us and let us know what you would...
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On this weekend selected performers, producers and song writers will be formally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2022. We congratulate all the artists, but in...
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Wooooooooo….. It’s All Hallows’ Eve and here at Living in the 70s we’re getting spooky. We’ve found some truly gruesome and horrifying tracks to set the mood. So let’s get...
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Today is international CAPS LOCK DAY and we’re getting snippy, flipping the bird and shouting out loud here at Living in the 70s. We’re not angry, we’re just exclaiming vehemently.
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A couple of weeks ago, Marty shared some statistics from our three years of hosting Living in the 70s. Apparently we have neglected 1974 – so far we have payed...
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On our last show, Marty shared some interesting statistics about who we have played most and least over the last 3 years. So this week we thought we would revisit...
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This week Living in the 70s turns three! Yes, we’ve been hard at work, mining the Seventies for musical gems for a whole three fantastic years. And we’re not done...
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A few shows ago, Marty asked Venetia to pick her favourite year from the 1970s, and this time it’s Marty’s turn. So let’s step back to a more innocent and...
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This week we saw the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. For most of us, the only monarch we have known. Whether you are a fan of the monarchy or not,...
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Back in the 1970s, when it was not unheard of for artists to release multiple albums in a single year, the music industry relied on in house and career songwriters...
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Well Spring has finally arrived and we are in a sunny mood here at Living In The 70s – this is the time that we look for sunshine, garden parties...
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This week we are once again heading to the movies. If a movie was a big hit in the Seventies, chances are the theme song or major musical number would...
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While we trawl the interwebs, our own music collections and our memories doing research for the show, we come across tunes that don’t fit the theme we had in mind...
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Sadly in the last few weeks we’ve lost a few important Australian musical icons, including one of our favourites here on Living in the 70s, Olivia Newton John. The Seventies...
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It’s almost International Cat Day and, as you know, here at Living in the 70s, we love a theme. So this week we’ve put together a show full of 1970s...
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A few weeks ago we put together a show featuring one side of a few double A side singles released in the 1970s. It was a bit of a thing...
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After spending a couple of weeks in North America, we thought it was time to remind ourselves and you, our listeners, just how fabulous home grown music was in the...
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It’s our 4th of July show! As usual, we celebrate America’s Independence Day by dedicating a show to music from American artists. This year, in light of the overturning of...
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Happy Canada Day! This week, in honour of Canada Day on July 1st, Marty and Venetia celebrate the immense contribution of Canadian artists to the music scene of the 1970s....
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EOFY is here! This week Marty and Venetia are busy doing a stocktake, balancing the books and getting ready for the auditors. To keep us company we’ve put together a...
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Hi Last week Marty asked Venetia to pick her favourite year of the 70s. This proved impossible, but she thought 1978 was pretty great. So this week all of the...
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Most of Australia is having a long weekend right now, celebrating the Queen’s birthday. And this week the Commonwealth’s longest reigning Monarch is celebrating her platinum jubilee. To mark the...
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Recently here in Australia we elected a new Federal government. A big feature of government is parliamentary question time. And of course we all have some questions we could like...
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Remember vinyl singles? Those little round packages of joy. Usually with an A side and a B side – but not always. Some artists and record companies had such faith...
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According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “rock connects us”. Formed in the early 80s, the organisation’s aim is to celebrate, educate and engage us all in the...
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After doing our decade of music show last week, Marty and Venetia realised we didn’t have any Australian content. So this week we decided to feature a decade of Australian...
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This week Marty and Venetia choose a song from each year of the 1970s to take us through the decade and the show. Picking just one track to represent a...
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Seems like no matter how deep we mine, we simply can’t run out of songs from the Seventies with a name in the title. Most often a woman’s name, but...
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This week Australia marks ANZAC day and remembers the terrible cost paid by Australian citizens participating in armed conflict around the world. In recognition of this, here at Living in...
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A couple of weeks ago we did our annual radiothon show. The one we do every year in which we ask our listeners to pop onto the Facebook page and...
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This week Marty and Venetia explore the heights of Seventies music and bring you the lowdown on everything good. All our songs have either high or low somewhere in the...
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This week we hit over 500 ‘likes’ on our FaceBook page and we felt like celebrating. And of course, what better way to do that than with a theme. That’s...
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What the world needs now…. is more disco! This week Marty and Venetia feel sorely in need of a boogie, so we’re bringing you all under the mirror ball for...
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Dancing. An activity we’ve engaged in since we starting standing upright. Also a metaphor – for love, romance, sex, connection, happiness and joy. For this reason, there are lots of...
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Even though The Beatles released their final album, Let It Be, in 1970, the rest of the Seventies reverberated with the memory of one of the most successful and influential...
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Most bands end up being a little like a family, starting out with masses of love and good will and shared commitment and sometimes finishing up with feuds and fallings...
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Ahh those nonsense syllables that strung together indicate joyful singing. Who knew that the 1970s had so many songs with sha-la-la or some version thereof (la la la, boom-sha-la-la, shang-a-lang,...
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Aaah love. Love and music seem to go hand in hand, with every era containing a multitude of songs about love in all it’s forms, and the Seventies is no...
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Saturday, 5th of Feb is world Nutella Day – yes, that’s a thing. In honour of the occasion, this week Marty and Venetia have found a collection of Seventies songs...
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On a January long weekend in 1972, 50 years ago, young people (predominantly) trekked from all over Australia to a valley with a creek running through it just outside Diggers...
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This week we are highlighting Australian music from the 1970s. While we’ve gone with a few of our usual favourites (Renee Geyer, Richard Clapton, and AC/DC are featured), we’ve also...
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Hey did you know that Jan 15th is Wikipedia Day? Well you do now! We certainly don’t get all our information from Wikipedia, but it can be a great place...
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Happy New Year, lovely listeners. As is becoming tradition here on Living in the 70s, we start 2022 by looking back to songs released half a century ago. 1972 was...
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This week our show aired on Christmas day, so it’s only appropriate that we showcase some Seventies Christmas tunes. Our offerings range from the funky to the country with some...
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This week, as 2021 draws to a close, we look back 50 years to songs that were number one in 1971. And not just number one in the USA pop...
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Some artists were very busy indeed in the Seventies, releasing more than one – and sometimes 3 or 4 – albums in a single year. Some, like James Brown, The...
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It’s that time of year, days are getting warmer and longer, the seaside is calling, we’re wanting to soak up the rays, we’re thinking about holidays and long, balmy evenings...
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This week, in honour of Buy Nothing Day, we’re playing songs from the 1970s loosely related to shopping, money, business, and so on. Money definitely can’t buy you love, or...
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This week Marty and Venetia clear out the back of the cupboard, brush off the dust and put together an eclectic mix of tracks and artists that we haven’t yet...
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What’s in a name? Well a lot, apparently. For many Seventies performers a name change may have made the difference between success and obscurity. Would Declan Patrick McManus have had...
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On Friday this week, ABBA dropped their first album in over 40 years. ABBA, of course, were huge in the 70s – known and adored for regularly crafting between between...
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Double double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. It’s almost All Hallow’s Eve and to mark the occasion this week Marty and Venetia have combed the catacombs (i.e....
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This week we have more fabulous tracks chosen by you, our lovely listeners. And again you’ve given us a fantastic mix, with some unexpected but nostalgic songs. Blue Jeans anyone?...
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Marty and Venetia took a bit of a break this week and handed the reins over to you, our lovely listeners. We asked you to pop on to our socials...
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Last week’s show was so good, we’re going to do it again. There’s never enough soul, baby. So join Marty and Venetia as we continue our celebration of the 50th...
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This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first national broadcast of Soul Train in the USA by only playing tracks that appeared on the show. This hugely successful...
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It’s World Maritime Day this week and in honour of this occasion, and of seafarers everywhere Marty and Venetia have pulled together an hour of 1970s songs related to the...
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Somewhere in the world it’s after 5 o’clock, the sun is over the yardarm and it’s time to mix a cheeky cocktail. Make ours a Negroni, please, because, as Marty...
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It’s Spring. And with the sun, the sap is rising, the bees are buzzing and the birds are on the wing. Despite many of us being in lockdown we sense...
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This week, in honour of Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who recently passed away, Marty and Venetia feature tracks from some great rock acts of the 1970s. Ranging from...
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Yes this is our 100th show and we are officially centenarians! And we can’t thank all of you enough, our dear listeners, for joining us every week on our explorations...
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At Living in the 70s, we can’t decide whether we like it sweet or spicy, so we decided, why not have both? So this week Marty and Venetia showcase songs...
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Most of Australia is currently in lockdown of one sort or another. So this week Marty and Venetia decided to play some uplifting, positive tunes from the 1970s to cheer...
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The last couple of weeks Marty and Venetia have explored songs with place names in the title. This week we share groups from the 1970s named after places. We’ve got...
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We enjoyed last week so much, we’re going to do it again. So join us on what is now a package tour, as we take you to yet more places...
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Welcome aboard JOY flight 949! This week Marty and Venetia, take you on a whirlwind tour of places named in 1970s songs. It’s an intercontinental flight from France to Mexico,...
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There was some great rock in the 70s. But also, as it happens, some great songs with the word rock in the title. This week Marty and Venetia pull together...
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The Seventies was the decade of the super long song. While the 50s and 60s was spent honing the short, tight, radio friendly pop song, the 1970s saw bands exploring...
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But wait, there’s more! In fact, we could keep going for a good long while. There was absolutely no shortage of brilliant albums released in the 1970s that went on...
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It’s almost the end of the financial year, and here at Living in the 70s we’re having a sale. Everything must go! We’ve got classic Seventies tracks at bargain prices,...
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June is Pride month, and this week on Living In the 70s we’re celebrating music made by LGBTQ artists. Not everyone was out in the 1970s, but it was the...
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Grab your tiaras, sceptres and crowns, its Royals week! It’s the Queen’s birthday long weekend here in Melbourne and in honour of the occasion, Marty and Venetia have put together...
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Every year on June 5 it’s World Environment Day. In honour of the occasion, this week Marty and Venetia play songs from the 1970s that are somehow related to the...
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As John Lennon famously sang: “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” Well here at Living In the 70s, we too like to imagine a peaceful world. So this...
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One show is not enough to cover the classic – the Seventies was chock full of brilliant albums. So this week Marty and Venetia play some more tracks from their...
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This week Marty and Venetia play tracks from classic albums from the 1970s. These albums have been around for almost 50 years and much like a fine wine, have only...
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This week Marty and Venetia pick songs with mother or mama in the title. Consider it a mixed bunch of musical numbers all wrapped up together in pretty paper and...
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This week, Marty and Venetia take the opportunity to notice you, our lovely listeners, and say thank you and we love you. And the best way we know how to...
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In honour of ANZAC day on April 25th, this week we feature music from Australia and New Zealand. Some really great music came from our little corner of the world...
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It’s that time of year here at Living in the 70s when we ask you, our lovely listeners, to cough up some dough to help keep JOY 94.9 on the...
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Hola! Kali mera! Come Stai? Bienvenue to our touch of foreign show, here at Living in the 70s. This week Marty and Venetia explore the incorporation of languages other than...
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It’s that time of the year, when our thoughts turn to the endless cycle of life, death, rebirth, and chocolate. Yes, it’s the Easter show. As has become tradition, here...
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Some songs just make you happy. You know the ones – you can’t help but tap your feet, they make the day seem brighter, they lift your mood straight away...
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The 1970s was an exciting time for Australian music – there was an explosion of talented artists, musical venues, national and international touring opportunities and the forging of what for...
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Greetings earthling, take me to your record collection! This week Marty and Venetia explore music from the 1970s about contact – contact with aliens, contact with other humans, in person,...
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No particular theme to the show this week, instead Marty and Venetia delve into their musical ‘back pockets’ and do a bit of a clear out. Over the course of...
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Last week Marty and Venetia played songs with mother in the title, so of course this week it’s Daddy’s turn to be featured. 1970s Daddies could be sexy, stern, scary,...
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This week Marty and Venetia explore songs from the 1970s with mother or mama in the title. Not necessarily songs for mothers, they just need to reference a mama. Some...
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