I'm sure I haven't even scratched the surface of the 70s and my list of possible songs and artists has swollen to 20...so I'll have to whittle these down to 3 or 4 songs total? Yowsa!

Beyond coming up with "good" song choices, what should we be aiming for in either evaluating songs to motivate or deciding on how to vote? Songs that define a decade? Transcend it? Posess a timeless quality while simultaneously albeit paradoxically are still very much rooted in a specific time and place? Your guidance will determine whether or not Dr. Hook makes the final cut.

Back to so-cal pretty guitar strumming, vocal harmonies, as per Derek's suggestion...

"Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair/and the days surround your daylight there/ Seasons cryin', oh despair/Alligator lizards in the air/In the air....doo doo doo..."