Frank Sinatra said Little River Band's song Reminiscing was the best 70's song ever.

It is a great melody when done by other artists who capitalize on the cadence and unanticipated shifts in tone. As for the best in the 70s, there's too many other great songs from the 70s to say that with such certainty. I love the way the melody shifts in different directions. I never even knew the name of the song until today. And I've never listened to the words either. Still don't know what it's about, because the melody just grabs all my attention.
 
JustDave said:
It is a great melody when done by other artists who capitalize on the cadence and unanticipated shifts in tone. As for the best in the 70s, there's too many other great songs from the 70s to say that with such certainty. I love the way the melody shifts in different directions. I never even knew the name of the song until today. And I've never listened to the words either. Still don't know what it's about, because the melody just grabs all my attention.
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It is a song about a couple very much still in love reminiscing about their past, recalling favorite songs and memories.
Their love has lasted their whole lives as they still go dancing in the dark, walking through the park and reminiscing.
 
It's a good song but of course Sinatra was wrong. Some of Harry Chapin's songs like Taxi and Cat's in the Cradle, come to mind. Roberta Flack's First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, also comes to mind. Arlo Guthrie's The City of New Orleans, also comes to mind. And of course one of my most favorite folk songs, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, by Joan Baez, are all much better songs.
 
I watched the video for Reminiscing with my fairly new headphones today and really got into the guitar and bass parts, which are so nice. I hear things so much better with these. I'm sure I loved those parts when I listened to the song back in the day though. I think the video missed some "marks" though. There's a killer horn part at the end. I wish they had shown the horn player. Also, it's about his feelings for a woman, yet no woman is in the video, not a brief scene walking and holding hands, not even a cameo!
 
Reminiscing would be a perfect Crooner song for Sinatra so it grabbed his ear.
It was a nice break from other styles but I didn't take it as a great song
Imagine was a perfect ad for a Communist lifestyle if you really just read the words and leave the
dreamy music out it. Beautiful song I agree, but I can't think of it as one I love anymore.
 
Paladin1950 said:
Listen to First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, that will end that problem.
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I've never been a Roberta Flack fan, nor a fan of that song. I did like her duet with Donny Hathaway, whose presence on the scene I still miss to this day (may they both R.I.P.). Don't get me wrong, I recognize that she was an exceptionally talented, well respected artist and rightfully so.
 
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