Picture This Playlist 127: The Spectacular Seventies

(This program originally aired on the best commercial free radio in Southern New England, WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM streaming at wriu.org) on Sunday, ay 3, at 6 PM)

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Avant Gardener from The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas, composed and performed by Courtney Barnett.

Theme from The French Connection, composed and performed by Don Ellis

Superfly from Superfly, composed and performed by Curtis Mayfield

Jive Talkin’ from Saturday Night Fever, composed and performed by the Bee Gees

Rock n’ Roll High School from Rock n’ Roll High School, composed and performed by written the Ramones

Blow Me Down from Popeye, (demo version), composed and performed by Harry Nilsson

Dialogue from Harold and Maude with Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, scripted by Colin Higgins

Don’t Be Shy from Harold and Maude, composed and performed by Cat Stevens.

Bus Ride to Paradise from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, composed and performed by Jack Nitzsche

The Conformist’s Waltz from The Conformist, composed by Georges Delarue

Amacord (“I Remember”) from Amacord, composed by Nino Rota

The Godfather Waltz from The Godfather, composed by Nino Rota, conducted by Carlo Savina

Love Theme from Chinatown, composed by Jerry Goldsmith

I Still Can’t Sleep/They Cannot Touch Her (Betsy’s theme) from Taxi Driver, composed by Bernard Herrmann

The Theme (“Gonna Fly Now”), from Rocky, composed by Bill Conti

The Theme from Patton, composed by Jerry Goldsmith

End Credits (dialogue and music) from MASH, music composed by Johnny Mandel

All music composed by John Williams

Princess Leia’s Theme from Star Wars: A New Hope

Wild Signals from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Main Theme from Superman

Main Title and First Victim from Jaws

Tapedeck in his Tractor from Nashville, composed and performed by Ronee Blakely

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door from Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, composed and performed by Bob Dylan

Solace from The Sting, composed and performed by Marvin Hamlisch

Dravot’s Farewell (Minstrel Boy) from The Man Who Would Be King, traditional/arrangement by Maurice Jarre, dialogue by Sean Connery and Michael Caine

Raffle of a Dog/Freeway Dialogue/Chopin Fantasy in F Minor: Opus 49 from Five Easy Pieces, “Raffle” composed and performed by Billy “Green” Bush, and “Chopin Fantasy,” performed by Pearl Kaufman, Freeway Dialogue performed by Bush and Jack Nicholson