Songs Turning 50 in 2023

I was a disk jokey at that time.

The albums coming into the station were non-stop and incredible!

1. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
2. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
4. Quadrophenia - The Who
5. Pronounced 'Leh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
7. Call Me - Al Green
8. Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers
9. Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
10. New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
11. Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges
12. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
13. Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin
14. There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
15. Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
16. Burnin' - Bob Marley and the Wailers
17. The Spinners - The Spinners
18. Fresh - Sly and the Family Stone
19. 3+3 - The Isley Brothers
20. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
21. The Payback - James Brown
22. The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
23. Berlin - Lou Reed
24. Wild and Peaceful - Kool and The Gang
25. Imagination - Gladys Knight and The Pips
26. Here Come the Warm Jets - Eno
27. Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan
28. Brothers And Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
29. Funky Kingston - Toots and the Maytals
30. Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
31. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
32. Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
33. Mott - Mott the Hoople
34. Paris 1919 - John Cale
35. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
36. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
37. Closing Time - Tom Waits
38. Space Ritual - Hawkwind
39. Over-Nite Sensation - The Mothers
40. Faust IV - Faust
41. Future Days - Can
42. GP - Gram Parsons
43. A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren
44. Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
45. Stranded - Roxy Music
46. Blackboard Jungle Dub - The Upsetters
47. For Everyman - Jackson Browne
48. Marjory Razorblade - Kevin Coyne
49. Ship Ahoy - The O'Jays
50. Livin' for You - Al Green
51. Time Fades Away - Neil Young
52. Tyranny & Mutation - Blue Öyster Cult
53. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen
54. Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
55. The Captain and Me - The Doobie Brothers
56. Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic
57. The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman
58. Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player - Elton John
59. Desperado - Eagles
60. Extension of a Man - Donny Hathaway
61. Holland - The Beach Boys
62. Radio Gnome Invisible Part I: Flying Teapot - Gong
63. Yessongs - Yes
64. Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
65. Tower of Power - Tower of Power
66. Aerosmith - Aerosmith
67. We're an American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
68. A Passion Play - Jethro Tull
69. The Mack - Willie Hutch
70. Queen - Queen
71. Bachman-Turner Overdrive II - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
72. Ringo - Ringo Starr
73. Living In The Material World - George Harrison
74. Masterpiece - The Temptations
75. Stone Gon' - Barry White
76. Rockin' Roll Baby - The Stylistics
77. Goats Head Soup - The Rolling Stones
78. Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
79. Live at Carnegie Hall - Bill Withers
80. Betty Davis - Betty Davis
81. Montrose - Montrose
82. Ashes Are Burning - Renaissance
83. Grand Hotel - Procol Harum
84. The Marshall Tucker Band - The Marshall Tucker Band
85. In the Right Place - Dr. John
86. Piano Man - Billy Joel
87. Hard Nose the Highway - Van Morrison
88. Angel's Egg - Gong
89. The Faust Tapes - Faust
90. Next - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
91. Nobody's Fool - Dan Penn
92. Moontan - Golden Earring
93. Bloodshot - The J. Geils Band
94. Doing It to Death - The J.B.'s
95. Reunion: Live at Madison Square Garden 1972 - Dion & The Belmonts
96. Bongo Rock - The Incredible Bongo Band
97. Abandoned Luncheonette - Daryl Hall & John Oates
98. Mind Games - John Lennon
99. Red Rose Speedway - Paul McCartney & Wings
100. The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get - Joe Walsh

Roberta Flack-Killing Me Softly

Gladys Knight and the Pips-Midnight Train To Georgia

Vicki Lawrence-The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

I've not sure there's been a better single year for music before or since.

There is a 50th Anniversary Box Set of Dark Side of the Moon coming out in March. I think it's going to be around $300 though.

Unboxing Video on YouTube

The entire decade of the 70s was the best time for music IMHO.

Such an incredible list of music, artists and albums.

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I've not sure there's been a better single year for music before or since.

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Dunno, hard to say without comparing. While there were a number of great songs on that list, there was a boatload of that era missing.

I’d be willing to bet there are 2-3 other years between late 60s and late 70s that could compete.

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other years between late 60s and late 70s that could compete

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The first half of the 1980s blows everything else out of the water.