Mary Lou Williams performs The Man I Love at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 16, 1978. Found at YouTube from BigChiefDeSota.

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Vintage Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town during a concert on September 20th, 1978 at the Capitol Theatre, in Passaic, New Jersey. Found at YouTube from stefaantje007.

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The Talking Heads’ first hit song was Take Me To The River, a New Wave cover of Al Green‘s song. This concert footage features the Talking Heads performing Take Me To The River on May 10, 1978, at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York. Found at YouTube from ethandeitrich1.

Take Me To The River by Talking Heads (Studio Recording)

The studio version of Take Me To The River by the Talking Heads. Found at YouTube from Picturemyface.

Take Me To The River by Al Green

Al Green performs his song Take Me To The River. Found at YouTube from ChrisMcpherson31.

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George Benson performs his hit song from 1978, On Broadway. Found at YouTube from ijazzmunki.

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The original promo music video for Mr. Blue Sky by ELO. Found at YouTube from alaf22.

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Foghat was one of the ultimate arena rock bands and their song Slow Ride was one of the ultimate arena standards of the 70s. Found at YouTube from theslayer589632.

Slow Ride (Studio Version) by Foghat

Here’s the studio version of Slow Ride which, though great, seems almost profane to post because it is such a “concert” song. Found at YouTube from soccerbabe2545.

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Music video for Dire Straits’ first hit song, Sultans of Swing, released in 1978. (Because this is the promo version, they cut off the ending guitar solo.) Found at YouTube from B0zz3.

Live Performance Of Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits

This performance is from 1985 at Live Aid, at the height of the band’s popularity. Found at YouTube from DogSwede1.

Original Demo Of Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits

This is the original demo recording of Sultans of Swing. Found at YouTube from grillogriggs.

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David Gilmour performs There’s No Way Out Of Here during a concert in 1978, in honor of news that Gilmour will reunite with Roger Waters to play Comfortably Numb on Waters’ upcoming “Wall” tour. Found at YouTube from popisfloyd.

There’s No Way Out Of Here (Studio Version) by David Gilmour

Here’s the studio version of There’s No Way Out Of Here from David Gilmour’s first solo album. Found at YouTube from Iranweed.

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When The Cars hit the scene back in 1978 as part of the New Wave, they were an absolutely unique sound. Who can resist Ric Ocasek jamming to that groove with his cool Dean Guitar? Let them brush his rock and roll hair, indeed. Found at YouTube from yuffenough.

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A late-seventies concert performance of Shattered by The Rolling Stones. Found at YouTube from sabreman47.

Here’s the studio version. I think the Stones sound much better in studio than live, largely because Mick Jagger‘s voice is fried. Found at YouTube from kcole939.

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