Rock Me Softly III – Part 1

The soft rock highway begins innocently enough with the likes of Gordon Lightfoot and the Eagles and soon you are grooving to Air Supply and Phil Collins before realizing you have somehow strayed into adult contemporary territory. By then, it’s too late- there is no escape!

Carpenters

Soft rock is the music of my early childhood. While one person’s soft rock is another’s hard rock, soft rock was the more lucrative. There was just so much money to be made from selling the emotional salve soft rock provided its listeners, especially in the ‘70s when the artists were young and year after year the new hits just seemed endless. Here are some of my soft rock faves. Enjoy!

Air Supply

01. Eagles – “Take It to the Limit” (1975)
02. Eagles – “Hotel California” (1976)
03. José Feliciano – “Light My Fire” (1968)
04. Elton John – “Tiny Dancer” (1971)
05. Air Supply – “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” (1983)
06. Phil Collins – “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” (1984)
07. Elton John – “Levon” (1971)
08. Bread – “If” (1971)
09. Carpenters – “Rainy Days and Mondays” (1971)
10. Paul McCartney – “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (1971)
11. Fleetwood Mac – “Landslide” (1975)
12. Elton John – “Rocket Man” (1972)
13. Loggins and Messina – “Watching the River Run” (1973)
14. Paul Simon – “Loves Me Like a Rock” (1973)
15. Journey – “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
16. Air Supply – “Lost in Love” (1980)
17. Paul McCartney and Wings – “My Love” (1973)
18. Jim Croce – “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)” (1972)
19. Bee Gees – “More Than a Woman” (1977)
20. Elton John – “Little Jeannie” (1980)
21. José Feliciano – “California Dreamin’” (1968)
22. Gordon Lightfoot – “Talking in Your Sleep” (1971)
23. Don Henley – “The End of the Innocence” (1989)
24. Gordon Lightfoot – “Same Old Loverman” (1971)
25. Gordon Lightfoot – “If You Could Read My Mind” (1970)

Listen to the playlist on Spotify...