Including '70s stars who are deceased

From voice recording #156, Dec. 6.
Led Zeppelin, "Rock and Roll" from 1972. This definitely does rock. I would have thought it was called "Lonely, Lonely, Lonely Time". 1,800.
The Spinners, "Working My Way Back to You Babe", 1979, I believe. It's a remake that's better than the original, or at least an earlier version that I'm thinking of by the Four Seasons. The Spinners gave it a good beat, with a little screaming. I gave it 3,xxx. The recording cut out before I could hear the exact number.
The Carpenters, "Superstar". This is typical of their music. Karen Carpenter was a very good singer. How viable would they have remained if Karen hadn't died. She was one of the first, maybe the first, celebrity who died of anorexia. That's a difficult disease. I went out for a while with a woman who had bulimia, and I think that was out of sympathy to her daughter or daughters who were bulimic. 4,100.
Elton John, "Pinball Wizard", '77, maybe? This is as much as you will hear Elton John rock. It's the guitar guy who's really rocking, not so much Elton himself. This is really a remake of The Who's version. Elton might have liked because of the lyric that said "(the pinball wizard)'s got such a supple wrist." It's another example of lyrics that might not be accepted now because they could indicate someone's negative opinion of some group of people. And this one isn't likely to be as offensive as "a limp-wristed wimp from the other side of town." This isn't as good as The Who's version, but it did rock. 2,300.
Bee Gees, "More Than a Woman", 1978. It's classic Bee Gees disco/"Saturday Night Fever" type of song. 4,150.
Toto, "99", I think the year might have been '79. I don't remember this one very well or at all, because it wasn't very good. 4,750.
Mention The Four Seasons, and here they are with "Who Loves You" from 1975. I think the reason the song had any legs at all was that in the TV show "Kojak", where Telly Savalas played the bald detective -- and I can call him bald, because I look in the mirror and come from a long line of baldies, a line my son desperately would like to end. As Kojak, Savalas' tag line was "Who loves you, baby?" I'm not sure whether he paid royalties to The Four Seasons. This song is middlish, as in OK. 4,500.
The Five Stairsteps, "O-o-h Child", 1970. I have to check some spellings. The Sirius display read "Stairsteps", but the source I used on the database had their name as The Five Staresteps, which appears to be incorrect. I've also seen the song title as "O-o-h-h Child", which apparently is incorrect. My current research also showed that the group included at different times as many of five siblings from the Burke family. Clarence Burke, Jr. died in 2013. 4,200.
Bachman Turner Overdrive, "Let It Ride", I think 1974. I really like BTO. This is not their best, but it is 3,100.