In this episode we continue our look at bands who released their first album in 1972, 50 years ago this year. This week we talk about legendary band The Eagles and review their self titled debut album released on June 1, 1972.

Our new theme starting with this episode is bands who released their debut albums 50 years ago in 1972. We start off by talking about the enigmatic and one of a kind hard rock band Blue Oyster Cult and review their first album.

In the last episode of our series on musical artists with television variety shows in the 1970's we have The Osmonds and their 1972 album "Phase III". The Osmond family were known for there many appearances on variety shows in the 70's and of course there was the very popular Donny and Marie Show in the late 70's as well as a cartoon series on Saturday mornings.

We continue in this episode our theme of muscial artists who had variety shows in the 1970's and today we spotlight one of the most famous of those acts Sonny and Cher and their 1973 album "Mama Was A Rock and Roll Singer Papa Used To Write All Her Songs" their last studio album as a couple.

We start our new three part theme on muscial artists who also had a TV show or variety show in the 1970's with The Partridge Family and their debut album in 1970 "The Partridge Family Album". Although not really a band David Cassidy would emerge a superstar because of the show and the vocals he supplied to the Partridge Family albums.

We conclude our look at British progressive rock in the 1970's with one of the most distinctive and unusual bands in all of rock music not just prog, Van der Graaf Generator and their 1970 album "H to He, Who Am the Only One".

We present this week a band that seems to always make everybody's list as one of the top 10 bands in progressive rock history but never gets into that top five. I'm talking about the band Gentle Giant and this episode we review their 1972 album "Three Friends".

In our first episode in our look at British progressive rock of the 1970's we feature one of the biggest bands critically and commercially in prog rock Genesis and their 1973 breakout album in North America "Selling England by the Pound".

In the final episode of our theme on blues bands in the 1970's (with or without horns) we actually do have a band with horns The Electric Flag and we review their 1974 one off reunion album "The Band Kept Playing".

In our second episode detailing blues bands in the 1970's (with or without horns) we talk about one of the more obscure bands we have ever had on our show The Allstars from Charlottesville and their one and only album released in 1978 "Tip Your Waitress".