'70s Memories
William E Meuse
: Terry (scan...@ds9.comland.com) wrote:
: : I graduated from high school in 1979.
Maybe it was because I grew up during
: : the 1970s but it seems like there was always
something interesting going on.
: : Apollo moon shots
: : Muhammed Ali
: : Evel Knievel jumping something
: : Harlem Globetrotters that everyone knew by name
: : Mood Rings and Pet Rocks
: : Eight Track tapes!
: The Bicentennial
: Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs (battle of the
: sexes)
: Disaster movies
: Roller Disco
: People actually saying "have a nice day"
: The energy crisis
: Three Mile Island
: The Hostage Crisis
: The terrorists at the Olympics
: Mark Spitz
: Quaaludes
: Loud, silk shirts (I even had a few, and I've always been a fairly
: conservative dresser)
: Painters pants (I had a few of those too, I must confess)
: Frye Boots
: girls who looked like Christy McNichol and Debra Lee Scott; guys who looked
: like Leif Garrett or one of the Sweathogs (in my neighborhood in New Jersey
I graduated ina 1986 but remember the 70's as a child... We've finally
reached the magic year where there isn't much fe them to camp about!
These memories are all ours! Leif Garrett, Eric Estrada, Gabe Kaplan,
Farrah Fawcett, WonderWoman ... That's the way uh-huh uh-huh, I like it,
uh huh uh huh!
By the way, I was remembering some songs they used to play on the radio
all the time in 1976. I was living in Charlestown WV at the time and was
only 8 years old. Are these both the same song or two different ones? Who
sings them? / it?
"Fly, robin, fly, way up in the sky..."
"Ah, ah, afternoon delite!"
: Women's Lib (70s term for feminism), Women's libbers
The difference is that liberated women can do whatever they want, and
enjoy equal respect; feminists can only look on and suffer. Women's Lib
was a success, feminism is a flop...
: Afros (particularly customed designed vans
: Vans
: World leaders: Leonid Breshnev, Idi Amin, Generalissimo Fransisco Franco,
: Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, Helmut Schmidt,
Mao Tse Tung, Charles De Gaulle, etc.
: Top movie stars: Robert Redford, Paul Newman,
Steve McQueen, Jane Fonda, Candy
: Clark, Bo Derek, John Travolta, Burt Reynolds,
Jack Nicholson, Ellen Bursytn,
: 40s, 50s and 60s nostalgia
: Variety Shows (i.e., Sonny and Cher, Hudson Brothers, Captain and Tennile,
: What a decade!
Yeah. Oh, and Mad Magazine movie spoofs, MadLibs. Have a nice day!
William
Rodney Walker
Meuse) writes:
> By the way, I was remembering some songs they used to play on the radio
>all the time in 1976. I was living in Charlestown WV at the time and was
>only 8 years old. Are these both the same song or two different ones? Who
>sings them? / it?
>
> "Fly, robin, fly, way up in the sky..."
"Fly, Robin, Fly" by the Silver Convention-#1 for 3 weeks-29 Nov 1975
> "Ah, ah, afternoon delite!"
"Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band-#1 for 2 weeks-10 Jul 1976
Rodney Walker
thomas conroy
: thomas conroy (con...@bu.edu) wrote:
: : Hey, I graduated in `79 as well. Here're a few more
: : Three Mile Island
: : What a decade!
: I also graduated in '79, and lived about 70 mi. north of Three Mile
: Island. Pretty scary. Some people were getting ready to leave the
: area, although I don't think that anyone actually did.
I remember being on a bus trip from NJ to Pittsburgh (visting colleges in
Pittsburgh) and going through Harrisburg. This was in `79. All the kids on
the bus mock-panicked, screaming out, in a jocking manner things like "we're
gonna die" and "the bus is glowing."