Fabulous at Fifty: Three Awesome Songs from 1973 You Either Forgot or Never Knew

Rate-A-Record #39

The Pride of Jacksonville (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

It’s time again for my weekly Rate-A-Record installment. If you’re looking for the results of the Sweet Sixteen of the March Madness Rate-An-Album tournament, voting for that continues until midnight tomorrow and will be released in the Elite Eight article on Tuesday. Like the NCAA basketball tournament, there are already some blowouts, but at least one is going down to the final buzzer. If you haven’t made your picks yet, you can do that here:

Rate An Album: A Very Different March Madness

For today though, we’re jumping back five decades to rate a few songs from classic albums released that year that you might not know but definitely should. 1973 was one hell of a year for albums; just a few of the releases that year included Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, the Who’s Quadrophenia, Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, and two from Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E…