What is hip?- Tower of Power (1973) d490
You done even went and found you a guru In your effort to find you a new you And maybe even managed To raise your conscious level As you striving to find the right road There’s one thing you should know What’s hip today Might become passe
On the road to find out – Yusuf / Cat Stevens (1970) d486
Well I left my happy home To see what I could find out I left my folk and friends With the aim to clear my mind out
Isn’t it nice to be home again – James Taylor (1971) d474
Isn’t it nice to be home again? I said welcome home Didn’t we miss your smiling face
The lark ascending – Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, c. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1972) d465
From wikipedia: The Lark Ascending is a poem of 122 lines by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon called it matchless of its kind, “a sustained lyric which never for a moment falls short of the effect aimed at, soars up and up with the song it imitates, and unites inspired spontaneity with a […]
Mercy mercy me (the ecology) – Marvin Gaye (1971) d458
Whoa, ah, mercy mercy me Oh things ain’t what they used to be, no no Where did all the blue skies go?
The hard way every time – Jim Croce (1973) d455
But in looking back at the faces I’ve been I would sure be the first one to say When I look at myself today Wouldn’ta done it any other way
On Saturday afternoons in 1963 – Rickie Lee Jones (1979) d450
You saved your own special friend ‘Cause here you need something to hide her in And you stay inside that foolish grin When everyday now secrets end Oh and then again Years may go by
Rainy days and Mondays – The Carpenters (1971) d445
What I feel has come and gone before No need to talk it out We know what it’s all about
Morning has broken – Cat Stevens (1971) d437
Praise with elation, praise ev’ry morning God’s re-creation of the new day
Basketball Jones – Cheech and Chong (1973) d421
At the free-throw line of life, someone I can pass to Someone to hit the open man on the give-and-go And not end up in the popcorn machine So cheerleaders, help me out
