Record-store Clerk: Mustache Music (Or: Cool In The ‘70s)

Got yourself a '69 Pontiac Trans Am with a 350 H.O. under the hood, a two-tone custom spray job and racing slicks out back? Blast these scuzzy, '70s leaning rock anthems from your radio and taste the envy in the parking lot air.

As blue-eyed soul matured beyond its '60s roots, elements of funk, fusion and even disco beats started to percolate through the music. Come back to the decade where blue-eyed soul expanded its mind.

Tie a sweater around your neck and set sail for the high seas with these smoother than smooth yacht rock classics.

This station is the cure for your Saturday night fever. Grab your polyester shirt, dust off your roller skates, and do the hustle with the best disco hits of all time.

Up-tempo funk grooves, danceable R&B, soulful divas, and deep DJ cuts of the ‘70s and early-'80s.

From the late '70s to the early '80s, rock music evolved to incorporate a softer, more sophisticated studio-produced sound. These are the best songs from the last era of rock before video killed the radio star.

After proving their pop sensibilities with the multi-platinum album Rumours, Fleetwood Mac released Tusk, an experimental double album of endless inventiveness. Here are songs from (and inspired by) the era when classic rock was morphing into new wave.

Listen to the breeziest lite rock songs of the '70s.

This playlist takes you back to an idyllic '70s pool party where the bathing suits were as small as the sunglasses were big and Stealers Wheel was blasting out of the poolside AM and funky disco gems were spinning inside on the HiFi.