Walt Whitman High School Class of 1975
Top 40 Songs

What were your 3 favorite songs from high school?  List them here.

AND then we'll make up the song list for the reunion from these songs.

 

 

posted by Lauire Kaye: 

1. Get Down Tonight by KC and the Sunshine Band

2.Walking in Rhythm by The Blackbyrds

3. When Will I Be Loved by Linda Ronstadt

 

3 tunes I remember being played a lot.

1). Angie by the Stones

2) Ironman by Black Sabbath

3) Time by Pink Floyd

~~ from Kevin Corkery

 

Kevin Corkery
three favorite songs from high school

Tripe Face Boogie by Little Feat

Up against the Wall Redneck Mothers by Ray Wylie Hubbard

Shining Star by Earth Wind and Fire

~~ from Lisa Mednick Powell

Lisa Powell
posted by Amy de Court:

1.  Does Anybody Really Know What Time  It Is - Chicago

2. Takin' Care of Business, Bachman-Turner Overdrive

3 Lean On Me, Bill Withers

 ~ from Amy De Court

Amy de Court
Tunes

"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zep

"Goodbye Yellowbrick Road" by Sir Elton

"Maybe I'm Amazed" by Sir Paul

 ~~ from Kevin Fisher

Kevin Fisher
My 3 most memoriable songs from high school

1. Tiny Dancer by Elton

2. Reelin in the Years - Steely Dan

3. Maggie May - Rod

 ~~ from Mary Sullivan Stack

Mary (Sullivan) Stack
Had to do more than three . . .

Seals & Crofts - We may never pass this way again

Elton John - Your Song

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, Over my Head

Van - Brown Eyed Girl

Linda - pick it

Beach Boys - Barbara Ann (Bob, Bob Moran . . . he could play)

~~ from Pete Workman

pete workman
Murat Mood Music from Sojourns in the Whitman Days (Prelude to the lush life in NYC!)

1. Can't Get No (Satisfaction)   Stones

2. Venus in Furs   Velvet Underground

3. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys   Traffic

 ~~ from Murat Koprulu

Murat Koprulu
3 songs from middle school/ high school

Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel

Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver

You can Get it if You Really Want by Jimmy Cliff

~~ from Nancy Ghormley

 

Nancy Ghormley Hunkeler
keepin it to 3 may not be possible...

 

    • Breathe by Pink Floyd
    • Wooden Ships by Crosby, Stiils, and Nash
    • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gill Scott-Heron
    • Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire by Joni Michell
    • Happy by the Rolling Stones
    • ...so many more...!!!!!!

                 ~~ from Judith Sprague

             

 

Judith

Can't Get Enough....Bad Company

First I Look At The Purse....J Geils Band

China Grove....Doobie Brothers

~~ from Jim King

Jim King
songs of the 70s

Sugar Magnolia by the Dead.

Sweet baby James James Taylor

~~ from Pat Sparrow 

Pat Sparrow Rasmussen
Driving to Rehoboth

Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Black Water - Doobie Brothers

Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts

Sister Golden Hair - America

~~ from Claire Roberts

Claire (Roberts) Langford
Gypsy Angels

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Grey Seal by Elton John

Spirit in the Night by Bruce Springsteen ("And I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go")

~~ from Chris Kelly

 

 

Christopher Kelly
3 bands I was exposed to at Whitman

1) Uriah Heep

2) Deep Purple

3) King Crimson

 it took me a whole day to remember Uriah Heeps name. 

~~ from Kevin Corkery

Kevin Corkery
3 Songs from High School

My favorite artists were Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell. Here are 3 of their songs that I liked, but it was really hard to choose!

1) Montana by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (a Bethesda Mothers favorite, I'd say).

2) Free Man in Paris by Joni Mitchell

3) Boogie On Reggae Woman  by Stevie Wonder

4) Superstition by Stevie Wonder

~~From Sally Minker

Sally Minker
To 40 Songs

1973 Marvin Gaye -"Lets Get It On"

1974 Loggins & Messina " Vahevala"

1975 Nils Lofgren "Back it up"

~~From Jack McMahan

Jack McMahan
The Dan Segal list of fine tunes

!. Everything by "The Boss" 

The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle 

2. Everything by "The Dead"

Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed 

3. Too many more for 3rd place:

Steve Miller Band The Joker 

~~ from Dan Segal

Daniel Segal
A Few Favorites from 1975

 

Ventura Highway, America
Cat’s in the Cradle, Harry Chapin
At Seventeen, Janis Ian
Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull
~~ from Sylvia Long
Sylvia Long (Batzler)
Posted by Nick Ackermann

Layla by Eric Clapton

Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues

Long Train Running by the Dooby Brothers

from ~~ Nick Ackermann

Nick Ackermann
Favorite songs

There are so many!!  I guess my top 3 would be

Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest

Changes -  David Bowie

Bad Weather - Poco (which so reminds me of Sanford and talent shows!)

Running close behind though would be:

Father and Son - Cat Stevens (when he was still Cat Stevens!)  

Tiny Dancer - Elton John

Jackson Browne - the whole Late for the Sky album and Joni Mitchell and whole Blue album.  I think I wore those down to nothing...

~~ From Joanne Sharon Swain

Joanne Sharon Swain
Just Three - No Way!

The Top Three

  • Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
  • Take It Easy - Eagles (or any other Eagles song)
  • Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne

Runner Ups

  • Rikki Don’t Lose That Number  - Steely Dan
  • Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
  • Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Honorable mention - I’d Love to Change the World - Ten Years After

 

Don’t forget Aerosmith, Don McClean, BTO, Clapton, The Who, Zepplin, Pink Floyd, America, Allman Brothers, Bad Company, Chicago, Doors, ELO, Elton, Grand Funk, Tull, and many others.

 

~~ from David Luhr

David Luhr
The Goils

Chaka Kahn, "Tell Me Something Good"

Maria Muldaur, "Midnight at the Oasis"

Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly"

~~ from Selby Frame

Selby Frame

Have we forgotten Jim Croce?

Time in a Bottle

Photographs and Memories, etc etc. 

~~ from Tom Kettler

Tom Kettler
posted by Packy Jennings

Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills

Love Me Like a Man - Bonnie Raitt

Love is Just a Four-Letter Word - Joan Baez

 

plus anything by Sanford Markley, Roger Sullivan, and Lena!  Who should really sing at one of the functions.  Please!

~~ from Packy Jennings

Guy Jennings
From Steve Gileno ...

Give It One - Maynard Ferguson

Fantasy - Earth Wind and Fire

Part of the Plan - Dan Fogelberg

Runners up:

Open Up Wide - Bill Chase

You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder

Helplessly Hoping - Crosby, Stills & Nash

~~ from Steve Gileno

Steve Gileno
Me again! (Danny)

We Forgot Melanie Safka!

Johnny Cash & Melanie - Silver Threads & Golden Needles

 

Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma

And the best of all "The Nickel Song"
And anything sung by our own
Sanford & Lena 
Markley, we love them!

~~Dan Segal

 

 

Dan Segal
3 Of So Many Best Songs from High School

Bad Company "Bad Company"

Aerosmith "Sweet Emotion"

Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama"

~~ Charles Hayes

Charles Hayes
First 3 albums

The first 3 albums to "light my fire" were bought by my older brothers but I adopted in 9th or 10th grade.

 

Cahoots by The Band

Fragile by Yes

Who's Next by The Who

They taught me to dance.  

~~ Chris Dupre

Chris Dupre
 
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