It's a little surprising that we're visiting 1971 again, as the last time was mid-May.
Annalisa's '60s sets have always leaned towards pop, and today's set went even farther in that direction. While it was good for what it was -- and that's not hard, given such a strong year -- I would be happier if I knew it would be balanced with a future 1971 that delved deeper into "hard" and/or prog rock, although that seems unlikely.
Given my love of pop, it's no surprise that I have few complaints with this set. We usually get a couple pop nuggets and a lot of AOR classics; this erred on the pop side, and that's OK. Given that 9 of these were Top 40 singles, I'd only call "Baby Blue" and maybe "One Fine Morning" (a Morey fave as you correctly point out) even approaching being FFs.
I have no complaints about the pop set per se, only about the lack of balance in that most '60s
sets lean toward pop, when there were so many other effing musical trends taking place at the
time. In 1971 there's still plenty of psychedelic/acid rock, "hard" rock, the beginnings of metal,
blues rock, folk rock, country rock, prog rock, the start of jazz fusion, and the emergence of funk.
And even on the pop side (as others occasionally note) we could have more Soul/Motown/R&B.
