Eight Track: "An infectious, joyous celebration!"

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"Hear the tunes, feel the memories, forget reality. Amazing...Loads of fun."

8-Track taps the memories of '70s with song. Hear the tunes, feel the memories, forget reality. Loads of fun. With "Happy Days" on TV and Back to the '50s nights at the dance hall, America's nostalgia fixation exploded in the 1970s. The drab Eisenhower years not only looked better in retrospect, but they also took our minds off gas-station lines, recession, Watergate and Vietnam.

Now we can fondly look back on those depredations with "8-Track, The Sounds of the 70's," a hot new musical show that is an infectious, joyous celebration -- a ritual really -- as each song brings up specific memories of time and place. While each individual is different, these memories coalesce into a gleeful spirit.

The '70s are often abridged to mean one thing -- disco. So I was quite struck by how diverse the music was. There are chord progressions and rhythms that have all but disappeared from song writing.

If you suffered through the '70s, this show will soothe. And if you've never understood your parents, this is a first step.