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Welcome to EPISODE 1 of my FIVE Easy Songs THREE Easy Chords song compilation.

Today I cover songs from each your of the EARLY 70's...1970, 71,72,73,74.

I wonder what songs they will be?

🎤Song 1 - 1970 ???🎤
Written  by Kris Kristofferson and first released in 1970, it catapulted Kristofferson to songwriting stardom as it won the 1970 Grammy for best country song, and best female country vocal performance  by Sammi Smith. Since then it has been covered by many many artists over the years, including Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Michael Buble, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Gladys Knight and the Pips and Tammy Wynette, but my personal favourite is this one released in 1980 ...

It’s easy to play, so it’s the lyrics and vocals that bring the magic to this song. I’ll do a quick demo for you now...

One loophole, it also involved an A chord in the chorus, so technically its a 4 chord song but let’s not let that get in the way of a great lead-off song to this series on 3 chord songs.

🎤Song  2 - 1971🎤
This next song has arguably one of the most famous opening lines in all musical history.  In fact, band member and song writer, Hoyt Axton, explained how he had created the melody but then hit a creative block with the lyrics, so he literally wrote down some nonsense "place-keepers" lyrics with the intention of later coming up with the real lyrics. Well, he demo'd the partially written song to his band, and the rest as they say, is history.

And what was that opening line?

🎤Song  3 - 1972 🎤
The origins of this song go back to 1939 where it was originally released in Zulu under the song title Mbube, then covered  in 1961 by the Tokens who are credited with making the song a mainstream hit as it made #1 on the US charts.

Well the song's made this particular playlist because it was covered again in 1972 by a guy called Robert John, selling over 1 million copies . Now this guy had an incredible falsetto voice that matched this song perfectly, however he is known more for his one other big hit called Sad Eyes, released in 1979.

Well not many of us have the vocal abilities of this guy, but that should not stop us from playing and singing this song, as it is a tried and tested "go-to" song around any campfire

But as a campfire guitar song, it is super-simple to play with what I call the in-and-out chord progression GC GD GC GD.

It's uncomplicated and you make up the words if you don't know the song properly.

🎤Song 4 - 1973 🎤
Undoubtedly, one of the biggest groups of the 70's was Abba who was renowned for their simple and catchy melodies, and this song is a great example. A true "3 chord thrash" type of song.

One quirky fact about this song is that the group pitched this song for the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest, but it was not chosen to represent Sweden. The following year, however, the group won the whole contest with their song "Waterloo." And as they say, the rest is history.

🎤Song 5 - 1974 🎤
Originally released in 1973, this song hit #1 on the US Billboard charts in early 1974 and then strangely, it reached #1 on the UK charts a whopping 16 years later as a result of it being features in a Levis Jean ad.

The song has a few quirky elements throughout, notably the made up word Pompatus (WTF is pompatus??), the wolf whistle and the use of the slide guitar at points throughout the song.

It is super-simple to play with what I call the in-and-out chord progression GC GD GC GD which I will show you in this video.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Start (and don't forget to LIKE this video)
0:35 Song #1 (a beauty)
3:48 Song #2 (what an opening line!)
4:52 Song #3 (a Zulu classic?)
6:44 Song #4 (an ABBA masterpiece)
8:22 Song #5 (love the slide guitar)

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