Listening Booth: 1970 is the fifth studio album by
American singer-songwriter
Marc Cohn, released in 2010.
The album was a collection of Cohn's favorite songs from 1970, when he was aged 11. He explained: "It was the beginning of me really falling in love with records and albums and becoming obsessed as a fan. I was a little kid dreaming to find a way to make that a career, and that was the music that started me on that path."[3] He said he was determined to put his own stamp on each song: "For me, it's like what's the use of doing something that was initially brilliant and well known if you don't have anything to bring to it."[3]
The one song on the album not originally released in 1970 was
The Box Tops' 1967 hit "
The Letter". Cohn said the song was included on the basis of
Joe Cocker's 1970 version.[3]
