- (singing along) ♪ ...and singin' and movin' to the groovin' ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I'm on the highway to hell ♪
- I feel like I need to be in the back of a pickup truck.
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) We're going back a few decades
to see if you know some songs from the '70s.
- I'm gonna do bad at this.
My sister would be great at this. She loves '70s music.
- Oh! Get ready to be disappointed, everybody.
- I feel like I'll do good on the rock songs,
but if it's disco or something, (laughing) I don't know.
- That's, like, when my mom grew up, so she always just
always played '70s music, so I'm probably gonna know a lot of it.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- ♪ Go on, now go, walk out the door ♪
♪ Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore ♪
♪ Weren't you the one who tried... ♪ - Oh, I love this song.
- Why do I just see John Travolta just struttin' right now?
- ♪ Did you think I'd lay down and die? ♪
♪ Oh no, not I... ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I will survive ♪
- ♪ Oh, as long as I know how to love ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I know I'm still alive ♪
♪ I've got all my life to live ♪
♪ And I've got all my love to give ♪
♪ And I'll survive ♪
- ♪ I will survive ♪
♪ I will survive ♪
- Love it. It's a classic.
It's definitely middle school dance, to get everyone dancing
when they're all on their own sides.
- (FBE) Do you know this song? - I do know the song.
"I Will Survive," but I don't know the artist.
- It's "I Will Survive," but I don't know who it's by.
- "I Will Survive," and I wanna say Diana Ross.
- It's "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
- (FBE) This is "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
- "Gloria Gaynor." I've never heard of her.
- I wouldn't have known who that was.
- Weird how a song can be so widely known,
and then you have no idea who the person is.
- That is my feminist pump up jam, when I'm just like,
"Yeah, I don't need nobody."
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- ♪ Imagine all... ♪ - (singing along) ♪ ...the people ♪
♪ (piano ballad) ♪
- ♪ Living life in peace ♪
- (singing along) ♪ You... ♪
(chuckling)
- ♪ You may say I'm a dreamer ♪
- Oh, I didn't know this came out in the '70s.
I thought it was '60s.
- ♪ But I'm not the only one ♪
- This song is so pretty.
- This song makes me cry all the time.
I'm starting to tear up a little bit right now, too.
- ♪ ...you'll join us ♪
- I remember listening to The Beatles for the first time, and I cried.
Fantastic song.
- (FBE) Do you know this one? - It sounds familiar.
I just don't know.
- "Imagine" by The Beatles.
- I know it's John Lennon. I don't know the name of the song.
- "Imagine," John Lennon.
- That's "Imagine" by John Lennon.
- (FBE) This is "Imagine" by John Lennon,
and the song is a strong political message
sugarcoated in a beautiful melody.
Lennon realized that the softer approach
would bring the song to a wider audience,
who hopefully would listen to its message.
- Well, it worked because we're still listening to it.
- His voice is just very interesting to me.
I think it's gorgeous.
And then you actually listen to the lyrics
and it's really, really powerful.
- These are always the topics that are really tough to talk about,
so for you to put it into a song like that,
where it's not so in your face-- it's kind of subtle,
but it's still getting the point across.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
♪ (piano ditty) ♪
- ♪ Well, I hope Neil Young will remember ♪
♪ (country music) ♪
♪ A Southern man don't need him around... ♪
- I know this song really well.
- (singing along) ♪ Sweet home Alabama ♪
- There it is. There it is!
- (giggling)
- ♪ Where the skies are so blue ♪
- I feel like I need to be in the back of a pickup truck,
listening to this.
- (singing along) ♪ Sweet home Alabama ♪
♪ (vocalizing) ♪ ♪ (twangy guitar) ♪
- ♪ Lord, I'm coming home to you ♪
- I don't like country, but I think that's definitely a classic.
This pops off.
- (FBE) Do you know it? - "Sweet Home Alabama."
Still don't know the artist.
- This is "Sweet Home Alabama."
I don't know who this artist is.
- "Sweet Home Alabama," Lynyrd Skynyrd?
- So it's "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd?
- This is "Sweet Home Alabama," Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- (FBE) This is "Sweet Home Alabama," and it's by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- I wouldn't even be able to tell you who that was.
- Duh! See... (sighing) my mom's gonna be so pissed at me.
- That chorus is so classic.
And it's sweet, you know?
Kind of want to sip on some iced tea while I'm listening to it.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- ♪ Thirteen month old baby ♪
♪ (funk music) ♪
(snapping along)
♪ Broke the looking glass ♪
- This is such a great song.
- When I feel real sassy and I can really sing,
I listen to this song.
- ♪ The good things in your past ♪
- (singing along) ♪ When you believe in things ♪
♪ That you don't understand ♪
- ♪ Then you suffer ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Superstition ain't the way ♪
That's such a funky song.
Like, that's the literal definition of funk to me.
- (FBE) Do you know this one? - Um, "Superstitious."
I don't know the artist.
- "Superstitious," and that's Stevie Wonder?
- It's "Superstition," Stevie Wonder?
- It's "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder.
- "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder.
- This is "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder.
- (FBE) Yes, this is "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder.
He actually signed to Motown Records when he was just 11 years old,
and released his first album at the age of 12.
- Oh my god!
- (FBE) At the time, he was known as "Little Stevie Wonder"
and billed as a prodigy and boy genius.
- Well, I feel like they were right.
He definitely made an impact.
- If he really had that passion and that talent,
you could start super young, and he clearly did,
and that's so impressive to release one of your first albums at age 12.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- ♪ But now there's nowhere to hide ♪
♪ Since you pushed my love... ♪
- Grease. I was in a production of Grease,
so I know this song.
- I don't know if I've ever heard this song.
- ♪ Hopelessly devoted to you ♪
- This is bringing so many memories back.
- You ever just want to hug yourself and cry?
- ♪ ...to you ♪
- This song sounds like every single song
in a '70s high school film where they're all dancing at prom.
- (FBE) Do you know this one? - No.
- I don't know.
- "Hopelessly Devoted to You," and I think it's by Dolly Parton.
- The title is "Hopelessly Devoted to You."
Her character, she was Sandy in Grease.
- It's "Hopelessly Devoted" by-- well, Sandy in the musical,
but Olivia Newton-John is singing it.
- (FBE) This is "Hopelessly Devoted to You"
by Olivia Newton-John. - Okay.
- (FBE) And this is originally from the soundtrack of the movie Grease.
- That's awkward.
I've seen Grease before!
- I don't know why I didn't know that was from Grease.
I haven't seen Grease in so long.
- Usually, I'm not a fan of musical movies,
but Grease, that has no bad songs.
- That song brought me to tears every time.
Like, even now, to this day, I'll watch that movie
and I'll cry listening to it.
I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I feel you, girl!"
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- ♪ Yeah, they were dancin'... ♪
- (singing along) ♪ ...and singin' and movin' to the groovin' ♪
- ♪ And just when... ♪ - (singing along) ♪ ...it hit me ♪
♪ Somebody turned around and shouted ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Play that funky music, white boy ♪
- ♪ Play that funky music right ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Play that funky music, white boy ♪
- ♪ Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die ♪
(singer chuckling)
♪ 'Til you die ♪
- Oh, I thought it was good.
I think it's very iconic for the '70s.
I feel like everyone, when you think of the '70s,
you think of that song.
- (FBE) Do you know this one?
- "Play That Funky Music."
I don't think I'm gonna know this one.
- "Play That Funky Music."
I don't think I know who it's by.
- "Play That Funky Music"?
I have no idea who it's by, though.
- "Play That Funky Music White Boy."
Artist, still don't know.
- (FBE) This is "Play That Funky Music,"
and it's by Wild Cherry. - Oh, okay, I don't know them.
(laughing) I'm like, all right.
- The only Wild Cherry I know is a Slurpee from 7-Eleven.
- That's such an iconic song, and I've never heard of you at all.
That's crazy.
- The way I heard this song first, Dance Dance Revolution,
when I was nine.
So good and I love this song.
This song's great.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- ♪ Goin' down ♪
♪ Party time ♪
- Yeah, here's some rock.
- ♪ My friends are gonna be there too ♪
♪ (rock music building up) ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I'm on the highway to hell ♪
Oh! I love this song.
- This is what my mom made me listen to.
- I listen to this on the freeway in my little Fiat.
- ♪ Highway to hell ♪
- Who is this by?
- ♪ I'm on the highway to hell ♪
- This is a jam.
I remember always-- I used to jam out.
This was that song, when I was a kid,
that I felt like such a bad ass listening to.
- (FBE) Do you know this one?
- Yeah, "Highway to Hell." Artist, I don't know.
- "Highway to Hell," but I can't, for the life of me,
even guess who the artist is.
- "Highway to Hell," AC/DC.
- This is "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC.
- This song is "Highway to Hell," AC/DC.
- AC/DC's such a great band.
They're the reason why I'm actually into
any type of rock music at all.
- I'm not super familiar with AC/DC, but this is definitely a song
you hear all the time.
- That's just something that I've heard a ton growing up.
It's very dad rock, but it's the dad rock that I like.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
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- What's up, guys?
Alyssa here, a producer from the React channel.
Thanks so much for getting groovy with us today.
I hope you had a funky time.
Let me know in the comments what '70s songs
you want to hear next time.
Bye!