The first song: this song is called "running on empty", sung by Jackson Brown
This song is also the song used to close the "History of Rock 'n' Roll" documentary's episode "The Lively and Boisterous '70s", because its title also alludes to the apparently lively but actually lonely nature of '70s rock 'n' roll. Used in Forrest Gump to match the picture, it's brilliant.
The song is still easy to find, just search for it yourself.
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on
Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was Running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on. turned onto the road I'm on
Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don't know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that'll be the end of it. Takes all night, that'll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how I feel. Lookin' out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Lookin' into their eyes
Looking into their eyes I see them running too
Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
Running into the sun but I'm running behind
Second song: This is "Get Down Tonight" by K.C. & The Sunshine Band. I don't have any information about this band or this song yet~.
Third song: the most unbeatable of all: the heirloom hit "Gree Bird" from Lynryd Skynyrd! (The following is reprinted from my Douban)
Lynyrd Skynyrd, a tongue-twisting name that I first encountered when I watched Forrest Gump, where Jenny stood on her balcony, despairing at the traffic downstairs, where one of her men had been put to bed by drugs, where all this prosperity was so cruel, where all happiness had nothing to do with her, where the world had suddenly become incredibly cold, where all Hope has come to an end, the guitar solo in the background frantically hissing, like mercury hitting the nerves of each viewer, faster and faster, a handful, two ensembles, the brain logic is no longer clear, as if the sound of the piano if at this time to come to an abrupt end, the tears will instantly burst out.
Then I heard the album, and the song was called "Free Bird". The live version of the song is 14 minutes long, more raucous and passionate than the album version's nine minutes, less despondent and hopeless. "What do you guys want to hear the most?!" It's probably a reserved question for this band onstage, always the finale, and the crowd will always shout in unison "FreeeeeeeeeeBirrrrrrrrd!"
The song seems to need no over-introduction, "If I'm going to be gone tomorrow, keep me in your heart, please. I have to go, there are too many things in the world I have to see", the night before I leave, my heart is full of nagging, but I have to say, this sad night, let me get drunk, bottle after bottle of wine poured into my belly, and my emotions are getting higher and higher, disorienting agony intertwined with ecstasy, okay girl, that's it, I may come back, or maybe I won't.
The song was meant to be a send-off song for the late musician Duane Allman. Only they themselves hadn't anticipated a plane crash four years later that killed all three members, including the soulful Lonnie Van Zandt.