{"id":734967,"date":"2026-06-14T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/734967\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:00:10","slug":"3-niche-songs-from-1971-that-every-70s-teen-seemed-to-know-by-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/734967\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Niche Songs From 1971 That Every 70s Teen Seemed To Know by Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/1970s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1971<\/a> helped kick off the decade with a bang in terms of music. Tons of pop, soul, psychedelia, and funk songs dominated the airwaves. If you were a 70s teen, I bet you once knew the following niche 1971 songs by heart. You might still know the words after all these years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnock Three Times\u201d by Tony Orlando &amp; Dawn from \u2018Candida\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne floor below me, you don\u2019t even know me, I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t hear this song much nowadays, but it was a sweet, light pop tune that was very popular with young radio listeners back in 1971. \u201cKnock Three Times\u201d technically dropped at the end of 1970, but it became a smash soft rock hit in 1971 when it peaked at No. 1 in countless territories, from the US to Australia to Canada to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe And You And A Dog Named Boo\u201d by Lobo from \u2018Introducing Lobo\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and you and a dog named Boo \/ How I love being a free man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This niche hit was all the rage among high school students back in 1971. Another soft rock gem, tinged with a bit of bubblegum pop and even country music elements, \u201cMe And You And A Dog Named Boo\u201d resonated with younger listeners in a big way. That popularity among the youths of the era helped boost the song on the charts, and \u201cMe And You And A Dog Named Boo\u201d peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the UK Singles chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmiling Faces Sometimes\u201d by The Undisputed Truth from \u2018The Undisputed Truth\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmiling faces, smiling faces sometimes \/ They don\u2019t tell the truth \/ Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies \/ And I got proof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I would consider The Undisputed Truth to be on the niche side of funk and soul, considering they only had one Top 40 single during their tenure in the 1970s. That single is a niche entry on our list of songs, the 1971 psychedelic soul jam \u201cSmiling Faces Sometimes\u201d. It became a smash hit on the charts when it peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100. Fans of psychedelia, young and old, enjoyed this tune quite a bit. And I bet diehard fans still know the words to it today.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The year 1971 helped kick off the decade with a bang in terms of music. Tons of pop,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7514,64,63,134,136,5807,287288],"class_list":["post-734967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1970s","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop-music","tag-soft-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}