In need of a good cry? These tear-jerker songs from the 1970s will do the trick, especially if you grew up during that decade.

Parton first introduced “Daddy Come and Get Me” on her 1969 LP The Fairest of Them All. In the early weeks of 1970, it climbed the charts to the No. 40 slot. Parton wrote the song with her aunt, ...

The 50 best country songs from the 1970s shine a light on changes within the genre. Merle Haggard opened the decade with a song rooted in country traditionalism, but 10 years later, artists including ...

Although the roots of rock and metal go back further, the 1970s is when the genres truly rose to prominence, with many of their most enjoyable and influential tunes arriving within the decade. While ...

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going by genre and have considered rock, glam, funk, punk, and country to this ...

Maybe the 1970s had too many great songs, although some may have had too much respect. The decade certainly covered a wide range of genres. Right through from rock, glam or heavy or somewhere in ...

Despite music’s generally timeless nature, there are some 1960s and ‘70s folk songs that sound exactly like the decade from whence they came. From the slight tape distortion on vocal lines to jangly ...

Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s. While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did during ...