The Cars – You’re Just What I Needed – Tori Matthieu and Ken Tamplin

I’m not one for living in the past.

But I have to say, the 60s, 70s, and much of the 80s (from a creative-innovative standpoint) were so absolutely unique.

The Cars released their debut album in June 1978, reaching No. 18 on the Billboard 200. “Just What I Needed” was released as the debut single from the album, followed by “My Best Friend’s Girl” and “Good Times Roll”, all three charting on the Billboard Hot 100 (vocalist and bassist Benjamin Orr left us way too soon 🙁 ).

But to give you a flavor of what I’m talking about, here are the top 50 singles of this era. It will help you understand how incredibly diverse these bands were and how we enjoyed incredible creativity in this decade.

1.The Beatles” Let It Be”
2.Jackson 5 “ABC”
3.The Guess Who “American Woman”
4.The Carpenters “Close to You”
5.Bread “Make It with You”
6.Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee”
7.Three Dog Night “Joy to the World”
8.The Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar”
9.James Taylor “You’ve Got a Friend”
10.Rod Stewart “Maggie May”
11.Don McLean “American Pie”
11.Al Green “Let’s Stay Together”
12.Bill Withers “Lean On Me”
13.Johnny Nash “I Can See Clearly Now”
14.Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
15.Free “All Right Now”
16.The Guess Who, “American Woman”
17.Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On”
18.Grand Funk “We’re an American Band”
19.The Rolling Stones “Angie”
20.Tom Petty “American Girl”
21.Steve Miller Band “The Joker”
22.Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were”
23.Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall
24.Elton John “Bennie and the Jets”
25.Paul McCartney and Wings “Band on the Run”
26.The Who “Baba O’Riley”
27.Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade Of Pale”
28.Billy Preston “Nothing from Nothing”
29.Bachman-Turner Overdrive “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
30.Heart, “Barracuda”
31.Barry Manilow “Mandy”
32.Ohio Players “Fire”
33.Eagles “Best of My Love”
34.LaBelle “Lady Marmalade”
35.Earth, Wind & Fire “Shining Star”
36.Santana “Black Magic Woman”
37.Bee Gees “Jive Talkin'”
38.KC and the Sunshine Band “Get Down Tonight”
39.David Bowie “Fame”
40.Bee Gees “You Should Be Dancing”
41.Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
42.Manfred Mann’s Earth Band “Blinded by the Light”
43.Daryl Hall and John Oates “Rich Girl”
44.ABBA “Dancing Queen”
45.Eagles “Hotel California”
46.Fleetwood Mac “Dreams”
47.Bee Gees “How Deep Is Your Love”
48.Thin Lizzy, “The Boys are Back in Town”
49.The Doobie Brothers “What a Fool Believes”
50.Blondie “Heart of Glass”

And this does not even include epic songs like “Stairway to heaven” Led Zeppelin, “More than a feeling” Boston and that list goes on and on and on…

So Tori and I thought it would be fun to take on this epic Cars piece and turn it into a fun duet.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it for you!

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