Were you born in the Seventies? Join us for the sounds of the 70s every Saturday morning. Martin and Venetia will take you to the decade of denim flares, burnt orange kitchen benchtops and the birth of disco and glam rock! Each week we'll have a 70's theme that we'll explore, such as songs from disaster movies, movement anthems, one-hit wonders, daggy duets, funky numbers, and disco tracks that steamed up the dance floor in many an LGBTI venue, to name just a few. The 70s produced some amazing music and we're here to make sure that music is shared and never lost. NOTE: Due to music licencing requirements this podcast is unavailable outside of Australia.
Super Seventies
We’re super excited! This week we explore superb, superior, supreme Seventies songs with super either in the title or in the name of the artists. Why? Well, because it’s super...
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10/23/2024 • 55 minutes, 42 seconds
Seventies covers of Seventies songs
Long live the cover version! Sometimes other artists do it better, sometimes they just do it differently, but it’s always interesting to hear a great song reinterpreted. In the Seventies...
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10/14/2024 • 55 minutes, 30 seconds
We’re turning five!
Yes it’s happy birthday, happy anniversary and how-the-heck-is-this-little-show-still-going to us! We have had the enormous pleasure of bringing fabulous Seventies music to you for the past five years. So this...
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10/8/2024 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
Great Debut Albums
This week we are showcasing tracks from what we consider to be some of the great debut albums of the 1970s. There are way too many to cover them all...
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10/2/2024 • 55 minutes, 21 seconds
Up and down
Life is full of ups and downs and it turns out that the Seventies music catalogue is as well. In this week’s show, all of our songs feature either up...
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9/29/2024 • 55 minutes, 27 seconds
The Fleetwood Mac Connection
We have learned doing this show, that any band with a long and successful career will inevitably become woven into a tangled web of musical connections. People from other well...
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9/17/2024 • 55 minutes, 27 seconds
Your cheating heart
Who are they, and what are they to you? That’s what we want to know this week, as we explore Seventies songs about cheating and affairs. It’s all about lying...
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9/10/2024 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
We can work it out
This week we are revisiting the Sixties by way of the Seventies. A few weeks ago we looked at what the individual Beatles members got up to in the Seventies...
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9/2/2024 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Precious (not heavy) metals
On this week’s show we’re mining the archives for Seventies songs featuring some kind of metal in the title. We’ve found rich seams of gold rings and hearts, and silver...
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8/27/2024 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
More songs with names
While undeniably most songs about people are simply written to a nameless ‘you’, ‘she’ or ‘he’, some songwriters seem to be inspired by particular individuals and want to name names....
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8/19/2024 • 56 minutes, 6 seconds
Fade to white
This week we are bookending last week’s all black show with a show featuring all tracks with white in the title. Simple! We do love an easy theme 🙂 But...
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8/12/2024 • 55 minutes, 13 seconds
In the black
This week we’re getting a bit dark and moody. We thought to do a ‘black and white’ show, in which all the songs had either black or white in the...
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8/8/2024 • 55 minutes, 33 seconds
Over to you
This week we’re getting a break from the heavy lifting as we have asked YOU, our listeners, to pick the tracks for the show. And, as usual, you’ve done a...
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7/28/2024 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
After the Beatles
The Beatles were the band of the 1960s, but released their final album in 1970 and broke up amid bad feeling and significant artistic differences. Each member of the Fab...
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7/21/2024 • 55 minutes, 34 seconds
Even more glam
We had so much fun getting glam last show, we thought we would do it again. So strap yourselves in for even more glam rock. Yes, bigger, hair, longer lashes,...
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7/17/2024 • 55 minutes, 28 seconds
Getting glam
Tight satin pants? Check. Long flowing locks? Check. Bit of lippy and some eye liner? Check and check. It’s glam rock! Where boys and girls will be whatever they like...
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7/7/2024 • 55 minutes, 35 seconds
Money, money, money
It’s the end of the financial year and everyone is having a sale. We’ve scrabbled through the bargain bin and found a few fabulous musical items that need to go....
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7/1/2024 • 55 minutes, 41 seconds
Even hornier
We just can’t get enough horns! And it seems our listeners can’t either. After our last show featuring Seventies tracks with fantastic horn sections we got a request to play...
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6/23/2024 • 55 minutes, 29 seconds
Guitar heroes
Aah the guitar. Perhaps the quintessential instrument of the modern era. So popular that nearly everyone cans strum a few chords and whip one out round a campfire for a...
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6/16/2024 • 56 minutes, 21 seconds
Feeling Brassy
How do you add brightness, punch, syncopation, emphasis and groove to a song? Why add a horn section of course! And the Seventies featured some fantastic horn sections and horn...
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6/9/2024 • 56 minutes, 39 seconds
Taking a progressive turn
Way back in the 1970s, not everyone was getting sweaty at a disco or grooving to soul music. No indeed, for some music lovers, nothing could be more transporting than...
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5/26/2024 • 55 minutes, 44 seconds
The only prescription is more cowbell
Today’s show is a tribute to the humble cowbell. So, uncelebrated and yet such an essential feature of rock, funk and latin music. It doesn’t play melody, being only one...
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5/19/2024 • 56 minutes, 19 seconds
Boogie Mama
Happy mother’s day to all the boogie mamas! Yes it’s that time of year again where we all say a big thank you to the mamas. Mamas who rock, mamas...
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5/12/2024 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
The A to Z of Seventies music, part three
This week it’s part three of our exploration of Seventies musical artists in alphabetical order. On this week’s show, we continue our journey through the alphabet, covering the letters Q...
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5/9/2024 • 55 minutes, 43 seconds
The A to Z of Seventies music, part two
Last week we brought you part one of our exploration of Seventies musical artists in alphabetical order. On this week’s show, we continue our journey through the alphabet, covering the...
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4/28/2024 • 55 minutes, 49 seconds
The A to Z of Seventies music, part one
We love a theme challenge here at Living in the Seventies. A little while ago the team from Saturday Breakfast gave us the idea to create some shows using the...
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4/21/2024 • 55 minutes, 34 seconds
Happy birthday to me
Last week we celebrated Marty’s birthday, this week it’s Venetia’s turn. All of the tracks this week have been chosen by Marty in Venetia’s honour. Did he choose as well...
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4/14/2024 • 56 minutes, 13 seconds
Happy birthday to you
It’s Marty’s birthday! To celebrate, this week all of the tracks have been chosen by Venetia in Marty’s honour. Did she chose well? Marty will be the judge. Happy birthday...
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4/7/2024 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
Let’s get spiritual
It’s that time of year again, when in recognition of a certain event on the Christian calendar (though with deeply pagan roots), we trawl through the Seventies musical canon for...
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3/31/2024 • 56 minutes
Even more up close and personal
We had so much fun travelling down memory lane last week, paying track from artists we have seen live, that we though we would do it again. This week we...
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3/25/2024 • 55 minutes, 52 seconds
Up close and personal
There’s nothing quite like seeing your favourite musicians play live. This week our hosts remember concerts they’ve been to, featuring artists who were releasing music in the Seventies. It’s a...
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3/17/2024 • 55 minutes, 57 seconds
Howdy Pardner
This show aired on Chill Out Festival Sunday, the festival in Daylesford in country Victoria that marks the end of Pride festivities and events for the year. To honour this...
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3/10/2024 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Scales, fur and feathers
This week our show aired on World Wildlife Day, so we thought we would feature songs with some kind of animal in the title. Not all of the animals are...
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3/3/2024 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds
Whistle while you work
Aaah work. We all have to do it at some stage in our lives. Sometimes we love it, sometimes it’s a grind, but everybody has to pay the bills somehow....
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2/25/2024 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds
Get your boogie on
On this week’s show we’re getting down, we’re getting it on, we’re steaming up the dance floor, and we’re having a boogie. So if your toes are tapping and you...
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2/18/2024 • 55 minutes, 29 seconds
Gone but not forgotten
On this show we play tracks that were recorded and released around 50 years ago. It’s impressive that so many of the artists responsible for those tracks are still going...
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2/11/2024 • 56 minutes, 6 seconds
All Australian
This week it’s our annual all Australian show, featuring Australian tracks by Australian artists (and perhaps a wee contribution from across the ditch). Some of these we’ve played before, some...
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1/28/2024 • 55 minutes, 57 seconds
Songs of 1974
It’s our first show for 2024 and, as has become tradition on Living in the 70s, we look back to songs released a half century ago in 1974. And what...
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1/21/2024 • 56 minutes, 50 seconds
Happy new year!
It’s our New Years Eve party show! Yes we’re closing out the year with some classic Seventies party tracks, songs that make you tap your toes or bring partying to...
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12/31/2023 • 55 minutes, 59 seconds
Step into Christmas
Yes it’s that time of year again, we’re donning our gay apparel, decking the halls, stuffing the turkeys, and wrapping the prezzies. So many tasks, so many decisions, so much...
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12/24/2023 • 55 minutes, 51 seconds
Hits of 1973
As 2023 draws to a close, we take a look back at tracks that were number one hits 50 years ago. These songs are half a century old but still...
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12/17/2023 • 55 minutes, 48 seconds
Life is but a stream
As the year limps toward a close, those of use who use music streaming services are getting sent our round ups of what we listened to most during the year....
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12/10/2023 • 55 minutes, 23 seconds
Happy birthday JOY!
30 Years ago on December 1, World AIDS Day, JOY Radio was formed. Since then JOY has been a major part of the LGBTQIA+ community in Melbourne, and now around...
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12/3/2023 • 57 minutes, 5 seconds
Hallowed Halls
Every November, a handful of luminaries whose musical careers have spanned more than 25 years are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Given the career length requirements,...
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11/26/2023 • 55 minutes, 36 seconds
Universal children
This week, in honour of Universal Children’s Day, Marty and Venetia are embracing their inner child. It turns out plenty of Seventies artists did too, writing songs about wild children,...
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11/19/2023 • 55 minutes, 24 seconds
We don’t want to stop
Stop! Have you heard? This week’s show features Seventies songs with ‘stop’ in the title! Our lovely fellow presenters from Weekend Breakfast challenged us with the theme, and we think...
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11/12/2023 • 55 minutes, 28 seconds
We’ve got the music in us
This week we’re going all meta and self referential. Yes, all the music on today’s show is about, well.. music! We love music, we’re into the music, we’re listening to...
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11/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds
Movie night
The Seventies was a great era for film and a great era for movie sound tracks. These week we pick some of our favourite songs from Seventies flicks. While not...
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10/29/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
A Seventies banquet
As we have discovered here at Living in the 70s, songwriters love a metaphor. On this week’s show we explore songs from the Seventies featuring food, usually as a stand...
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10/22/2023 • 55 minutes, 49 seconds
Women represent!
The Seventies featured some amazing female talent, but it could sometimes get lost in a sea of songs released by men. A 2017 study looking at the top 50 songs...
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10/15/2023 • 55 minutes, 51 seconds
We’ve turned 4!
It’s our birthday! Yes, Living in the 70s is 4 years old, and we have loved every minute of it. We hope that you have too. In honour of this...
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10/8/2023 • 58 minutes, 4 seconds
Find us under ‘elders’
This week features the International Day of Older Persons and, well, Marty and Venetia are undeniably older persons. In fact, if you search the JOY website for podcasts, you can...
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10/7/2023 • 55 minutes, 12 seconds
Shake your body
Yes it’s another disco show! One of the most significant and perhaps influential musical genres to come out of the 1970s, disco forever democratised the dance floor. You didn’t need...
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9/24/2023 • 55 minutes, 59 seconds
It’s alive!
There’s something about seeing the music you love performed live. While studio albums may have more polish, there’s an anergy and immediacy at a live performance that just can’t be...
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9/17/2023 • 57 minutes, 27 seconds
Feeling frisky
Did we mention last week that it’s Spring? Well it is, and we’re shaking off the Winter doldrums, feeling the sun on our faces and starting to feel a little...
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9/10/2023 • 58 minutes, 54 seconds
We’ve got Spring fever
Aaaah it’s Spring and we are all unfurling in the sunshine like little darling buds of.. well, September. We’re opening up the doors and windows and letting in the light...
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9/3/2023 • 55 minutes, 51 seconds
It’s our 200th show!
Yes, the little 70s show that could has been going for 200 shows! That’s a lot of music, and to commemorate the occasional, Marty and Venetia have scrolled through the...
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8/27/2023 • 56 minutes, 10 seconds
Let’s get married
This week, in honour of Marty’s nephew getting hitched, Living in the 70s is heading to the altar and playing tracks that have something to do with marriage. Not all...
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8/20/2023 • 57 minutes, 35 seconds
Only young once
This week it’s International Youth Day, so on today’s show we pay homage to some of our favourite Seventies artists who started their careers at a very young age. Some...
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8/13/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Even more explosive hits!
This week’s show is chock-a-block with scorching hits! Yes, it’s yet more ripper tracks from Seventies compilation albums. Who knows what we might play…
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8/6/2023 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
What are friends for…
This week our show airs on International Friendship Day. And what says friendship more than sharing a microphone while staring deeply into each other’s eyes? And no, we aren’t talking...
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7/30/2023 • 56 minutes, 1 second
Games people play
Life is a games and so is love, according to many of the artists featured on this week’s show. There is a bit of skill, a touch of luck and...
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7/23/2023 • 56 minutes, 9 seconds
Explosive Hits!
Before streaming services, podcasts, the interwebs and search engines, if you wanted to discover new music you had to have a wide circle of friends, browse the record store, or...
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7/16/2023 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
Hot stuff
Last week we focused on the cold and wintry, this week we decided to at least entertain the fantasy of heat, even if the winter weather feels like it’s here...
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7/9/2023 • 56 minutes, 39 seconds
Winter melody
It cold and wet this week in many parts of Australia. The nights are long, the days short and grey, and the wind is whistling around the corners and finding...
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7/2/2023 • 57 minutes, 55 seconds
Let the dollar circulate
Yes here on Living in the 70s it’s our EOFY sale – fabulous Seventies tracks at bargain basement prices. We’re doing a stock take, clearing the back catalogue and letting...
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6/25/2023 • 55 minutes, 8 seconds
Reeling in the years
Last week the hosts had so much fun just picking five random songs we liked, that this week we’ve decided to do it again. Marty gets a little schmaltzy and...
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6/18/2023 • 55 minutes, 12 seconds
Flying high on a good thing
This week Marty and Venetia are flying without the auto pilot and heading wherever they like. Yes, that’s right, this show there is no theme. It host’s choice, or perhaps...
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6/11/2023 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
Simply the best
Aaah the hits keep coming, and we don’t mean of the musical kind. Sadly, the incredible Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock, has passed away. A powerhouse performer with a...
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6/4/2023 • 55 minutes, 9 seconds
Get on the peace train
This week saw the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, so our show of course features tracks from the 1970s all about peace and love and an end to fighting....
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5/28/2023 • 55 minutes, 13 seconds
Desert Island Top 5
This week Marty and Venetia are cast away on a desert island. All we are allowed to bring along for entertainment is five albums each from the 1970s. For regular...
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5/21/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Happy families
In honour of International Family Day, on this week’s show we’re playing tracks released by bands made up of family members. There were quite a few acts in the 70s,...
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5/14/2023 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Starship Superstars
May the 4th be with you! In honour of the 4th of May, this week we decided to have a space themed show, playing songs to do with space, the...
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5/8/2023 • 56 minutes, 53 seconds
We want your money, honey!
Yes it’s the Radiothon show! Every year at about this time JOY asks our lovely listeners to dig into their pockets and send us some cash to help us fund...
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5/8/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Dance, dance, dance
It’s International Dance Day! Possibly the organisers didn’t have disco top of mind, but of course it’s the first thing that occurs to us, here at Living in the 70s....
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4/23/2023 • 55 minutes, 33 seconds
Still going strong
Here at Living in the 70s we share with you music that was made half a century ago. Inevitably many of the artists whose work we love have already passed...
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4/16/2023 • 55 minutes, 10 seconds
Happy Easter
It’s that time of year again, it’s the Easter long weekend when our thoughts turn to hot cross buns and returning from the dead. This week Marty and Venetia have...
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4/9/2023 • 55 minutes, 46 seconds
Marty’s birthday mix!
A couple of weeks ago it was Venetia’s birthday and Marty chose the playlist. This week it’s Marty’s birthday and it’s Venetia’s turn to put together a mixtape of tracks...
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4/2/2023 • 55 minutes, 24 seconds
Wet, wet, wet
It’s World Water Day – or is it International Wetlands Day? We’re not entirely sure. Either way it’s an excellent reason to play some Seventies tracks about water – rivers,...
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3/25/2023 • 54 minutes, 46 seconds
Venetia’s birthday mix!
It’s Venetia’s birthday this week. And to help celebrate Marty has put together a mixtape filled with a selection of her favourite Seventies artists. There’s a bit of soul, a...
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3/19/2023 • 55 minutes, 20 seconds
Through the decade down under
A couple of weeks ago we took a stroll through the 1970s, playing a track from each year. This week we’re doing the same thing, only we’re choosing tracks exclusively...
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3/5/2023 • 57 minutes, 24 seconds
World Pride
Happy Pride everyone! To celebrate World Pride happening right here in Australia, this week we’re playing tracks from the Seventies by LGBTI artists. We’ve come a long way in the...
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2/26/2023 • 55 minutes, 28 seconds
Through the decade
On this weeks show we are going to amble through the decade, playing a song for each year from 1970 to 1979. We can’t possibly hope to represent all of...
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2/19/2023 • 54 minutes, 53 seconds
All Oz music hour
At least once every year – sometimes more often – we put together a show highlighting just some of the fantastic tracks released by Australian artists in the 1970s. Australia...
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1/28/2023 • 55 minutes, 29 seconds
Gone in 2022
The past twelve months have been rough for Seventies music lovers, and it’s only likely to get rougher. It’s been 50 years since that wonderful decade for music and many...
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1/21/2023 • 55 minutes, 21 seconds
Songs from 1973
As is traditional on Living in the 70s, our first show of the new year looks back to songs released 50 years ago. And this year it’s 1973. Early in...
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1/14/2023 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
Merry Christmas everybody!
Our Christmas present to you this year, our lovely listeners, is a carefully crafted playlist of Seventies Christmas classics. Today’s show will have you humming along while you light the...
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12/24/2022 • 55 minutes, 27 seconds
Hits of 1972
As we lurch toward the end of 2022, it’s time to take a look back through the mists of time – a whole half a century – to songs that...
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12/17/2022 • 55 minutes, 10 seconds
Songbirds
This last week sadly saw the passing of Christine McVie, beautiful songwriter and singer and pivotal member of one of our favourite acts, Fleetwood Mac. One of her most loved...
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12/11/2022 • 55 minutes, 25 seconds
It’s finally Summer!
It felt like it would never get here – and it may still be a little sluggish – but Summer has finally arrived! And on this week’s show we’re celebrating...
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12/3/2022 • 55 minutes, 15 seconds
Even more requests!
This is the final instalment of our listener request shows. Thank you all so much for taking over the driver’s seat – we’ve gone to some pretty quirky and fabulous...
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12/1/2022 • 55 minutes, 19 seconds
More requests!
We got such a great response to our call out for listener song requests, that this week we’re playing more! Once again it’s a fabulously eclectic mix of Seventies tracks...
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11/19/2022 • 55 minutes, 10 seconds
You asked and we listened!
We have some very engaged and dedicated listeners to our little radio show (and podcast) and we love it when you contact us and let us know what you would...
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11/12/2022 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
More Hall of Fame
On this weekend selected performers, producers and song writers will be formally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2022. We congratulate all the artists, but in...
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11/5/2022 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds
Monster Mash
Wooooooooo….. It’s All Hallows’ Eve and here at Living in the 70s we’re getting spooky. We’ve found some truly gruesome and horrifying tracks to set the mood. So let’s get...
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10/29/2022 • 55 minutes, 27 seconds
Shout it out loud
Today is international CAPS LOCK DAY and we’re getting snippy, flipping the bird and shouting out loud here at Living in the 70s. We’re not angry, we’re just exclaiming vehemently.
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10/22/2022 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
Songs of 1974
A couple of weeks ago, Marty shared some statistics from our three years of hosting Living in the 70s. Apparently we have neglected 1974 – so far we have payed...
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10/15/2022 • 55 minutes, 22 seconds
Once is not enough
On our last show, Marty shared some interesting statistics about who we have played most and least over the last 3 years. So this week we thought we would revisit...
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10/8/2022 • 55 minutes, 40 seconds
It’s our birthday!
This week Living in the 70s turns three! Yes, we’ve been hard at work, mining the Seventies for musical gems for a whole three fantastic years. And we’re not done...
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10/1/2022 • 55 minutes, 26 seconds
Marty’s year – 1976
A few shows ago, Marty asked Venetia to pick her favourite year from the 1970s, and this time it’s Marty’s turn. So let’s step back to a more innocent and...
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9/24/2022 • 55 minutes, 28 seconds
Royal variety
This week we saw the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. For most of us, the only monarch we have known. Whether you are a fan of the monarchy or not,...
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9/17/2022 • 55 minutes, 48 seconds
We’ve got you covered
Back in the 1970s, when it was not unheard of for artists to release multiple albums in a single year, the music industry relied on in house and career songwriters...
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9/10/2022 • 55 minutes, 35 seconds
Spring Medley
Well Spring has finally arrived and we are in a sunny mood here at Living In The 70s – this is the time that we look for sunshine, garden parties...
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9/3/2022 • 55 minutes, 33 seconds
Lovely Livvy
Sadly in the last few weeks we’ve lost a few important Australian musical icons, including one of our favourites here on Living in the 70s, Olivia Newton John. The Seventies...
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9/2/2022 • 55 minutes, 3 seconds
Movie Magic
This week we are once again heading to the movies. If a movie was a big hit in the Seventies, chances are the theme song or major musical number would...
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8/27/2022 • 55 minutes, 59 seconds
Animal house
It’s almost International Cat Day and, as you know, here at Living in the 70s, we love a theme. So this week we’ve put together a show full of 1970s...
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8/6/2022 • 55 minutes, 38 seconds
Our capacious back pockets
This week Marty and Venetia clear out some of the tracks we’ve collected while doing our research over the last few months. These are songs we stick in our ‘back...
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7/30/2022 • 55 minutes, 23 seconds
The other A sides
A few weeks ago we put together a show featuring one side of a few double A side singles released in the 1970s. It was a bit of a thing...
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7/23/2022 • 55 minutes, 22 seconds
All Australian, all hits
After spending a couple of weeks in North America, we thought it was time to remind ourselves and you, our listeners, just how fabulous home grown music was in the...
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7/16/2022 • 55 minutes, 33 seconds
American Woman
It’s our 4th of July show! As usual, we celebrate America’s Independence Day by dedicating a show to music from American artists. This year, in light of the overturning of...
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7/10/2022 • 55 minutes, 35 seconds
Northern Delights
Happy Canada Day! This week, in honour of Canada Day on July 1st, Marty and Venetia celebrate the immense contribution of Canadian artists to the music scene of the 1970s....
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7/2/2022 • 55 minutes, 14 seconds
It’s money that I love
EOFY is here! This week Marty and Venetia are busy doing a stocktake, balancing the books and getting ready for the auditors. To keep us company we’ve put together a...
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6/25/2022 • 55 minutes, 24 seconds
Venetia’s year – 1978
Last week Marty asked Venetia to pick her favourite year of the 70s. This proved impossible, but she thought 1978 was pretty great. So this week all of the tracks...
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6/18/2022 • 55 minutes, 34 seconds
British jubilee!
Most of Australia is having a long weekend right now, celebrating the Queen’s birthday. And this week the Commonwealth’s longest reigning Monarch is celebrating her platinum jubilee. To mark the...
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6/11/2022 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
Question Time
Recently here in Australia we elected a new Federal government. A big feature of government is parliamentary question time. And of course we all have some questions we could like...
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6/9/2022 • 55 minutes, 56 seconds
Double A
Remember vinyl singles? Those little round packages of joy. Usually with an A side and a B side – but not always. Some artists and record companies had such faith...
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5/28/2022 • 55 minutes, 13 seconds
Hall of fame
According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “rock connects us”. Formed in the early 80s, the organisation’s aim is to celebrate, educate and engage us all in the...
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5/21/2022 • 55 minutes, 52 seconds
Counting the years, Australian edition
After doing our decade of music show last week, Marty and Venetia realised we didn’t have any Australian content. So this week we decided to feature a decade of Australian...
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5/14/2022 • 55 minutes, 54 seconds
Counting the years
This week Marty and Venetia choose a song from each year of the 1970s to take us through the decade and the show. Picking just one track to represent a...
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5/7/2022 • 55 minutes, 12 seconds
What’s her name again?
Seems like no matter how deep we mine, we simply can’t run out of songs from the Seventies with a name in the title. Most often a woman’s name, but...
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4/30/2022 • 55 minutes, 38 seconds
Antipodean delights
This week Australia marks ANZAC day and remembers the terrible cost paid by Australian citizens participating in armed conflict around the world. In recognition of this, here at Living in...
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4/23/2022 • 55 minutes, 32 seconds
Radiothon Reboot
A couple of weeks ago we did our annual radiothon show. The one we do every year in which we ask our listeners to pop onto the Facebook page and...
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4/16/2022 • 55 minutes, 30 seconds
The highs and the lows
This week Marty and Venetia explore the heights of Seventies music and bring you the lowdown on everything good. All our songs have either high or low somewhere in the...
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4/9/2022 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds
That’s the way, aha, aha…
This week we hit over 500 ‘likes’ on our FaceBook page and we felt like celebrating. And of course, what better way to do that than with a theme. That’s...
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3/26/2022 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
Back to the disco
What the world needs now…. is more disco! This week Marty and Venetia feel sorely in need of a boogie, so we’re bringing you all under the mirror ball for...
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3/19/2022 • 55 minutes, 49 seconds
Do you want to dance?
Dancing. An activity we’ve engaged in since we starting standing upright. Also a metaphor – for love, romance, sex, connection, happiness and joy. For this reason, there are lots of...
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