Best Songs of the 70's

Top 100 70's Era Songs for Weddings

These are the Best 70's Songs for Weddings to get people on the dance floor! As the Vietnam War continued into 1975, people went to dance clubs to forget about the war and be happy. The music of the 70's can be most remembered as the birth of Disco style music. Popular disco music artists included the Bee Gees with Stayin' Alive, Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive and the Village People's YMCA. Another music style popular in the 70's was progressive rock. Progressive rock songs were typically longer in length and may not be conducive for weddings. Finally, punk rock also started in the 70's with heavy guitar riffs and anger in the lyrics and projection in the singers. Punk rock style music kickoffed with bands like the Sex Pistols and the Ramones.  Bob Marley had a huge fan base in the U.S. performing Jamaican reggae music.

The dance of the 70's that was typical in dance clubs, aka discos, was the Hustle. The hustle was invented in 1970 thought to be in New York City. Offspings of the Hustle were the Basic Hustle, Latin, Spanish and Tango Hustle, and Swing Hustle. Other popular dances of the 70's included the Bump, Penguin, Bogaloo, Watergate and the Robot.

The Seventies had its own fads for teens such as pet rocks, mood rings and the creation of the Rubik's cube. Pop culture fashion included men with long hair, bellbottom pants, and hot pants. There were many new inventions for teens in the Seventies which included the floppy disc, game console Atari, the videocassette recorder (VCR) and the invention of email in 1971. The 70's were also strewn with words like affirmative action, legalized abortion and Earth Day. Many 70's music bands were able to increase their following in the USA and even worldwide with the invention of the 8-track tape.

Blockbuster films of the seventies included Star Wars, The Godfather and Grease. TV shows of the Seventies included The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, All In The Family and Sesame Street for children. With the advancement of TV, sports became big business. This was the beginning of wealthy sports owners and highly paid baseball players with free agency by the end of the decade.

Being former wedding DJs, we've calculated a list of our favorite Songs of the 70's. If you have a special song that you think should be added to our list, please add your song suggestion through the comment section below. Be sure to also check out the song lyric link to find song relevance to what you want for in your song choice. Once decided, we provided a link to iTunes to purchase and Amazon.com to purchase and listen to a sample of each song.

Our Top 5 70's Era songs for weddings are as follows: 1) Old Time Rock & Roll - Bob Seger, 2) YMCA - Village People, 3) We Are Family - Sister Sledge, 4) Joy To The World - Three Dog Night, 5) Always & Forever - Heatwave.

Best 70s Songs for Weddings

Song	Artist	Format	Lyrics	iTunes	Amazon
All Right Now	Free	Rock
Always & Forever	Heatwave	R&B
American Pie	Don McLean	Rock
Babe	Styx	Rock
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown	Jime Croce	Rock
Bang A Gong (Get It On)	T. Rex	Rock
Brick House	Commodores	R&B
Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	Rock
Brown Sugar	The Rolling Stones	Rock
Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe	Barry White	R&B
Crazy Love	Poco	Country
Crocodile Rock	Elton John	Rock
Dancing Queen	Abba	Disco
December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night!)	The Four Season	R&B
Disco Inferno	The Trammps	Disco
Don't Leave Me This Way	Thelma Houston	Disco
Dream Weaver	Gary Wright	Rock
Drift Away	Dobie Gray	Rock
Fire And Rain	James Taylor	Rock
Fooled Around And Fell In Love	Elvin Bishop	Rock
Funkytown	Lipps. Inc.	Disco
Get Down Tonight	KC & The Sunshine Band	Disco
Get Ready	Rare Earth	Rock
Good Times	Chic	Disco
Happy Days	Pratt & McClain	Rock
Highway To Hell	AC/DC	Rock		- -
Hot Child In The City	Nick Gilder	Rock
Hotel California	The Eagles	Rock
I Go Crazy	Paul Davis	Rock
I Think I Love You	The Partridge Family	Rock
I Want You To Want Me	Cheap Trick	Rock
I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor	Disco
I'll Be There	The Jackson 5	R&B
Imagine	John Lennon	Rock
Joy To The World	Three Dog Night	Rock
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)	The Temptations	R&B
Just What I Needed	The Cars	Rock
Kiss You All Over	Exile	Rock
Kung Fu Fighting	Carl Douglas	Disco
Lady Marmalade	Labelle	Disco
Le Freak	Chic	Disco
Lean On Me	Bill Withers	R&B
Let It Be	The Beatles	Rock
Let Your Love Flow	Bellamy Brothers	Country
Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye	R&B
Let's Stay Together	Al Green	R&B
Listen To The Music	The Doobie Brothers	Rock
Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)	The Hollies	Rock
Love Train	The O'Jays	R&B
Love Will Keep Us Together	Captain & Tennille	Rock
Low Rider	War	Rock
Margaritaville	Jimmy Buffett	Rock
Me And Bobby McGee	Janis Joplin	Rock
Midnight Train To Georgia	Gladys Knight & The Pips	R&B
My Sharona	The Knack	Rock
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye	Steam	Rock
Old Time Rock & Roll	Bob Seger	Rock		- -
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone	The Temptations	R&B
Paradise By The Dashboard Light	Meat Loaf	Rock
Play That Funky Music	Wild Cherry	R&B
Rapper's Delight	Sugarhill Gang	Rap
Reelin' In The Years	Steely Dan	Rock
Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell	Country
Rich Girl	Daryl Hall & John Oates	Rock
Rock & Roll, Part II	Gary Glitter	Rock	- -
Rock And Roll All Nite	Kiss	Rock
Rock With You	Michael Jackson	R&B
Saturday Night	Bay City Rollers	Rock
September	Earth, Wind And Fire	R&B
Spirit In The Sky	Norman Greenbaum	Rock
Stairway To Heaven	Led Zeppelin	Rock
Stayin' Alive	Bee Gees	Disco
Still The One	Orleans	Rock
Stuck In The Middle With You	Stealers Wheel	Rock
Superstition	Stevie Wonder	R&B
Sweet Home Alabama	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Rock
Take A Chance On Me	Abba	Disco
Take Me Home, Country Roads	John Denver	Country
Tears Of A Clown	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	R&B
Thank God I'm A Country Boy	John Denver	Country
That's The Way (I Like It)	KC & The Sunshine Band	Disco
The Boys Are Back In Town	Thin Lizzy	Rock
The Hustle	Van McCoy	Disco
The Joker	Steve Miller Band	Rock
The Loco-Motion	Grand Funk	Rock
The Most Beautiful Girl	Charlie Rich	Country
The Things We Do For Love	10cc	Rock
Three Times A Lady	Commodores	R&B
Walk This Way	Aerosmith	Rock
We Are Family	Sister Sledge	Disco
We Are The Champions	Queen	Rock
Werewolves Of London	Warren Zevon	Rock
What I Like About You	The Romantics	Rock
Wonderful Tonight	Eric Clapton	Rock
YMCA	Village People	Disco
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet	Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO)	Rock
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life	Stevie Wonder	R&B
You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate	R&B
Your Song	Elton John	Rock
You're The One That I Want	John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John	Rock