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​​Growing up as a teenager in the 1970’s, ​​​​​​​​​​​​the music scene of the time was in the midst of significant growth and change.  Not only for the music we listened to, but also how we listened to it.

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Top 40 music was, for the most part, still dominant, and most teenagers would listen to the hits on their portable transistor radios, singing along to the staticky sounding, mono AM station broadcasts.  But FM radio was starting to gain popularity.  The FM station transmissions provided much clearer sound quality, stereo broadcasts, and a new show format that was a game changer….album rock...!

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Although I started collecting 45 rpm singles (and actually, I still have them) in my pre-teen years, as a teen I became obsessed with LP’s.  I couldn’t wait to go to the record stores, and spend countless hours flipping through the seemingly endless bins of albums, and racks of cassette tapes.  Whatever I could afford at the time, I would purchase, rush home, put on my headphones, and read the album cover and inserts over and over, while I listened to the music.

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During this time, the change in music styles and genres were evident.  It was clear the British Invasion was here to stay.  Rock music was proving that it was much more than just a fad fueled by the protesting hippies of the 1960’s.  Country music was seeing it’s classic “Cowboy” and “Honkey Tonk” performers of the ’50 & ‘60’s give way to the newer “Outlaw” style of country music.  Folk music still had its share of airplay and listeners, but its popularity was declining.  And, of course, the late ‘70’s gave us the birth of Disco.

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My love of music was broad, but there were certain bands and artists whose music I always gravitated towards: