Listen to this,Fred…The Bicentennial year of 1976, had my dad, his cronies, and half the population of the Bronx, painting every light pole, every street curb, and every fire hydrant, red white and blue I honor of our country’s 200th birthday. At the time,I thought it was a nice gesture, but a bit overdone. As years went on, I began to realize what America meant to my dad. He was a boy when he came here from Italy with his family hoping to find a better life. They rode out the depression,WW2, and many a hardship to raise his family in the greatest country in the world. His friends all shared similar experiences. That’s why they were so proud to paint the colors of our flag any place that they legally could. Don’t you wish more of us could have the same pride?
Another great trip down memory lane. I just love seeing the advertisements...they bring back so many memories and not just the movies and albums, but the flyer inserts, newspapers etc. reminds me of a time when America was still somewhat a manufacturing industry rather than an import nation.
I was only in elementary scool but it seemed like all of 1976 was a big party due to the nation's 200th birthday. Cement trucks, fire hydrants all painted red, white, and blue, the Olympics. I still remember the vibe in the air, it just felt good.
Great! The Anka song has more meaning now than ever, doesn’t it? Prinze always remains such a sad figure. And the TV Guide cover is a nice reminder that cartoonist and comic book artist Jack Davis was an amazing talent.
Time has passed way too fast. I'm 59 and I remember most all of these commercials and events like they were just a few days ago. Thanks for posting this!
That ELO song REALLY hit the nostalgia button, Fred. You also revived memories of the brilliance of Alka Seltzer's marketing campaigns. Everyone remembers " I can't believe I ate the whole thing" and "try it, you'll like it", in addition to the one you showed.
Love the memories. I had the worst crush on Dorothy Hamill. I was a newly minted 14 year old (born February '62:) who was madly in love with this 19 year old "older woman"! I distinctly remember the Silk Degrees album. Loved the album. Kept replaying it until the sound of the vinyl scratches were louder than the songs! Boz Scaggs was (and still is) a great musician!
Ahhh....the Dorothy Hamill haircut! I was in second grade and I wanted it so bad.....my best friend and her twin got the Dorothy Hamill haircut but sadly I did not have the thick locks to pull it off! 😢 My hair was waist long and thin.....no way to even fake a Dorothy! LoL! I'm still not over it!🤣🤣🤣
Another stroll down memory lane it’s always no matter how bitter sweet I love it. Thank you sir. Oh!! And I was living in DC in 76 and the bicentennial was the absolute best in the nations capital. The characters that ran around during that time were unbelievable to a small child.
Excellent Fred, this leap-month video was exactly one day longer than last February's video lol 😁 Dorothy Hamill started the "short and sassy" craze. Rich Man, Poor Man started the miniseries trend. And good old Babba Wawa showing how far back the the MSM's pro terrorist, anti semitism goes. But, at least Lynda Carter would redeem herself from her life (or at least one movie) of crime by fighting the bad guys as Wonder Woman later on! 👍👍👍
Way to go, Fred! They just keep getting better. Trick of The Tail and Wind and Wuthering were my 2 favorite Genesis albums. After Steve Hackett left, Genesis started to get way too commercial. Taxi Driver was a great film. It's a shame that it's star had to lose his marbles. He is definitely off the rails now. Marjoe Gortner was a strange dude also. He always played strange characters and was good at it. He played his character really well in Earthquake.
Gregg, politics aside, I don't know why DeNiro got into a shouting match with Trump supporters outside the courthouse. It was stupid and useless and at his age he should have known better.
February of 1976 for me had two very rare occurrences in the same month! On the 5th it actually snowed in the SF Bay area and in San Jose where I grew up! Not the kind that stays on the sidewalks or streets, but all of the plants and lawns! We still had to go to school because my sixth grade class had our junior high tour later that day! Unfortunately when we got back some punk high school kids came onto our school grounds and had rolled up most of the snow to the center of the lawn and were trying to be menacing to everyone! The principal had to kick them out! Haha! This strange storm had been the only time snow levels had come down that far since January of 1962 - ten days after my brother was born! The other rare thing that happened in this school year was that since the usual holidays - Lincoln's birthday, Valentine's Day and George Washington's birthday were so close together we actually got an unprecedented week off mid month! Never happened again in my school district!
Wow great channel Fred. I grew up in the 70s. It's Iike me getting up to change the television channel back in the day on mon and Dad's Sony Trinitron. And if you get music copyright dings, who cares. It's worth it
The copyright holders are allowing me to use most of my music selections, styldsteel, and I suppose they're running ads on the video to monetize it. However it's done, I'm grateful they're allowing it, although they may remove the video later. (PS: I don't monetize the videos for myself; it might cause me copyright violation problems down the road.)
I turned 10 years old in Feb of '76, still remember a lot of this, as well as the previous few episodes. Great stuff, Fred! Thanks! This really takes me back....
I was 20 in February of 1976. I'm glad I lived through those times, good and bad. I wonder if people who are 20 now can say the same 50 years hence. I suspect so. Thanks, Fred.
I was 6 and a half years old,always heard tge songs *Silly Love Songs* and Afternoon Delight* while playing with American Plastic Bricks,girder and Panel building sets and Lincoln logs,those were some great times indeed
I fondly remember the Ernie and Bernie Show when they starred at the University of Tennessee. I would listen to the Voice of the Vols, John Ward, call those basketball games on my local AM radio station. It was rare to have a game televised in the era before ESPN.
Hi, Fred: This Is My Country is a style of singing that I love; it's majestic. The Times Of Your Life by Paul Anka is one of my favourite songs by him. I've noticed that you play a good amount of Canadian music. 'Plop, plop Fizz, fizz' is another I remember so clearly. I have all the Radio Shack catalogues from 1976 to 1987. What on earth happened to Robert De Niro? Politics is usually best avoided but since you brought it up, it looks like nothing has really changed since 1976. Israel is always held to extremely high standards and in this case, back then, The PLO is held to no standards. Rich Little's, 'A Christmas Carol' is lots of fun. 50 Ways came out when I was half way through college and it brings back the memories. This one was packed with good stuff; thank you, Fred.
Holey smoke, that Barbara Walters interview is more pertinent than ever! 1976 was my year of getting naked in public -- my crowd went to a lot of hot springs. I still have a photo of three of us making a human pyramid all covered in mud!
Great job, Fred! 1:16 - While I didn't buy THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC, I did buy all 4 BOOKs OF LISTS by the same authors. 3:13 - It's sad to remember the last time I walked into a Radio Shack, there were more employees in the store (3) than customers (a friend & I). 10:35 - Freddie Prinze, Jr. was born Mar. 8, 1976, so he came 2 days earlier than his dad's prediction.
Lynda Carter starring in Bobbie Jo and... something something something. Who cares about Marjoe Gortner when Wonder Woman's running around with no top on?
I noticed that the newspaper ad for "Stop, Or You'll Go Blind" listed Minneapolis-area theaters. Are you based in the Twin Cities? Apologies if you've answered this a million times and/or don't care to comment.
Nobody else has asked, Drew. Actually, I don't live there but when I search Google for, say, "February 1976 ads," I get those Minn. movie ads because someone from there has a Web site with those images.
Nobody makes yesterday look better than Freddie! I was 5 months away from playing Christopher Robin in the Ripon Jaycees Bicentennial Parade! (I thought Christopher Robin was a wuss)
The actor in the Johnsons baby shampoo commercial you thought might be Robert Urich is not. It is actor Mike Henry. He played Jackie Gleasons goofy son in Smoky and the Bandit.
Glad I could help Fred. I can see how easy it would be to think that may have been Robert Urich. They look a bit similar especially with old grainy video. I love your videos! Thank you!😊
1976 I was hot rodding with no thought of insurance and few cops to give me a ticket. Car bill of sale written on paper laying around. No big worries of any kind. Car trading whenever you felt like it.
Dorothy was quite the talent, but unfortunately a third of my female 6th graders donned that hairstyle, some with disastrous results. Loved watching the mad bomber Franz Klammer rip through the slopes. A dream team Marvel- team up: Ghost Rider/ Werewolf by Night/ Morbius and Man-Thing. Someday a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets.
Barbara Walters, taking a strip out of the Israeli Prime Minister! Feisty as heck! Whilst people were swooning over Dorothy Hamill's hair, I was interested in other things that she had to offer! That's what you do wen your 15 years old! Farah? Oh dear man, the American dream! ❤
It's not for the faint of heart but it's one of the most highly stylized films of the '70s. The music and editing alone make it worth a look, Mercedes.
@@FredFlixI know, Fred. I also admire Robert De Niro enormously. It hasn't been out of rejection at all but the fact is I've been delaying watching it (for far too long I'm afraid) and it's not the only case: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Apocalypse Now... There always seem to be a better moment to watch them other than now. 🤷🏽♀️ Sorry I'm rambling. 🙊💜🤟
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Aaaahhhh 1976! The great Bicentennial year!! A great time to be an American!!!
Every girl wanted Dorothy's haircut until Farah came along 😊. Thank you Fred, this was needed today
You're welcome, Bridget. I thought Dorothy was so cute and charming and a wonderful representative for America.
@@FredFlix She sure was!
I didnt! It was thrust upon me. Some ppl look hideous with short hair. I was one of them.
@@Bintexas sorry to hear that, it was "thee: haircut and all the rage though
I knew more hippie chicks, but you're probably right.
But for the internet (you can keep your smart phones), NOTHING is better than it was in the 70's...certainly not people.
1976 was a great year. I was only 13 years old not a care in the world back then I sure miss those days.
I was 12 years old,, bittersweet, cuz now I'm old and it feels like it just happened yesterday 😔
Listen to this,Fred…The Bicentennial year of 1976, had my dad, his cronies, and half the population of the Bronx, painting every light pole, every street curb, and every fire hydrant, red white and blue I honor of our country’s 200th birthday. At the time,I thought it was a nice gesture, but a bit overdone. As years went on, I began to realize what America meant to my dad. He was a boy when he came here from Italy with his family hoping to find a better life. They rode out the depression,WW2, and many a hardship to raise his family in the greatest country in the world. His friends all shared similar experiences. That’s why they were so proud to paint the colors of our flag any place that they legally could. Don’t you wish more of us could have the same pride?
Another great trip down memory lane. I just love seeing the advertisements...they bring back so many memories and not just the movies and albums, but the flyer inserts, newspapers etc. reminds me of a time when America was still somewhat a manufacturing industry rather than an import nation.
Dorothy Hamill: mother of 100 million womens' haircuts and 50 million mens' haircuts
man walks into his barber " hey sam give me the hamill cut " "say what ?" "you know the moe "
The year I graduated from high school 1976..what a year it was.
Me too! and also the year I joined the Navy. I'd go back to that simpler life in a heartbeat.
I was only in elementary scool but it seemed like all of 1976 was a big party due to the nation's 200th birthday. Cement trucks, fire hydrants all painted red, white, and blue, the Olympics. I still remember the vibe in the air, it just felt good.
I spent '76 in South Korea with the 2nd ID, did some serious growing up.
The last shot says it all! Dorothy Hamill made us all proud to be Americans!
Great! The Anka song has more meaning now than ever, doesn’t it? Prinze always remains such a sad figure. And the TV Guide cover is a nice reminder that cartoonist and comic book artist Jack Davis was an amazing talent.
Freddie had only about another year, maybe less. I was 12; I remember it like it was yesterday. Poor tragic kid. RIP Prinze.
Time has passed way too fast. I'm 59 and I remember most all of these commercials and events like they were just a few days ago. Thanks for posting this!
You're welcome.
I'm also 59 and I'm right there with you. I wish I could teleport back to anytime between 1970 to 1976.
That ELO song REALLY hit the nostalgia button, Fred. You also revived memories of the brilliance of Alka Seltzer's marketing campaigns. Everyone remembers " I can't believe I ate the whole thing" and "try it, you'll like it", in addition to the one you showed.
Thanks, Robert.
Love the memories. I had the worst crush on Dorothy Hamill. I was a newly minted 14 year old (born February '62:) who was madly in love with this 19 year old "older woman"! I distinctly remember the Silk Degrees album. Loved the album. Kept replaying it until the sound of the vinyl scratches were louder than the songs! Boz Scaggs was (and still is) a great musician!
They marketed Taxi Driver as a 70s horror movie! Its actually an examination of individual alienation in the modern political and economic system
Exactly.
And the star continues to Alienate.
Great show Fred, thank you! Crikey, Freddie Prinze would be gone less than a year later. Loved seeing Dorothy Hamill in action again! 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
She was amazing, Doug.
@@FredFlix The legs on a figure skater usually were pretty incredible. Dorothy's were top of the line.
Ahhh....the Dorothy Hamill haircut! I was in second grade and I wanted it so bad.....my best friend and her twin got the Dorothy Hamill haircut but sadly I did not have the thick locks to pull it off! 😢 My hair was waist long and thin.....no way to even fake a Dorothy! LoL! I'm still not over it!🤣🤣🤣
Another stroll down memory lane it’s always no matter how bitter sweet I love it. Thank you sir. Oh!! And I was living in DC in 76 and the bicentennial was the absolute best in the nations capital. The characters that ran around during that time were unbelievable to a small child.
Big two-part Bicentennial edition coming July 4th, HLJ,with scenes from D.C. (I think...made it a while ago.)
I turned 11 this month - great time to grow up - thanks mom and dad
Excellent Fred, this leap-month video was exactly one day longer than last February's video lol 😁 Dorothy Hamill started the "short and sassy" craze. Rich Man, Poor Man started the miniseries trend. And good old Babba Wawa showing how far back the the MSM's pro terrorist, anti semitism goes. But, at least Lynda Carter would redeem herself from her life (or at least one movie) of crime by fighting the bad guys as Wonder Woman later on! 👍👍👍
Thanks, Robert. Good comment.
Way to go, Fred! They just keep getting better. Trick of The Tail and Wind and Wuthering were my 2 favorite Genesis albums. After Steve Hackett left, Genesis started to get way too commercial. Taxi Driver was a great film. It's a shame that it's star had to lose his marbles. He is definitely off the rails now. Marjoe Gortner was a strange dude also. He always played strange characters and was good at it. He played his character really well in Earthquake.
Gregg, politics aside, I don't know why DeNiro got into a shouting match with Trump supporters outside the courthouse. It was stupid and useless and at his age he should have known better.
1976 is the Bicentennial year it really was. Everybody wanted to be like Farrah. Thank you, Fred.
You're welcome, Matthew. Two-part video of July 1976 coming July 4.
February of 1976 for me had two very rare occurrences in the same month! On the 5th it actually snowed in the SF Bay area and in San Jose where I grew up! Not the kind that stays on the sidewalks or streets, but all of the plants and lawns! We still had to go to school because my sixth grade class had our junior high tour later that day! Unfortunately when we got back some punk high school kids came onto our school grounds and had rolled up most of the snow to the center of the lawn and were trying to be menacing to everyone! The principal had to kick them out! Haha! This strange storm had been the only time snow levels had come down that far since January of 1962 - ten days after my brother was born! The other rare thing that happened in this school year was that since the usual holidays - Lincoln's birthday, Valentine's Day and George Washington's birthday were so close together we actually got an unprecedented week off mid month! Never happened again in my school district!
My 14th birthday was 2 months away in February 1976. I grew up in San Francisco. I know it snowed but I don't remember it.
Wow great channel Fred. I grew up in the 70s. It's Iike me getting up to change the television channel back in the day on mon and Dad's Sony Trinitron. And if you get music copyright dings, who cares. It's worth it
The copyright holders are allowing me to use most of my music selections, styldsteel, and I suppose they're running ads on the video to monetize it. However it's done, I'm grateful they're allowing it, although they may remove the video later. (PS: I don't monetize the videos for myself; it might cause me copyright violation problems down the road.)
Those were the days, my Friends!
Thanks Fred 👍
I just graduated high school in 1976, wow the memories 😊
I turned 10 years old in Feb of '76, still remember a lot of this, as well as the previous few episodes. Great stuff, Fred! Thanks! This really takes me back....
You're welcome, SJD.
1976 My high school graduation year, they gave us Bicentennial patches to wear on the sleeves of our gowns. Thanks for the memories, Fred.
I was 20 in February of 1976. I'm glad I lived through those times, good and bad. I wonder if people who are 20 now can say the same 50 years hence. I suspect so. Thanks, Fred.
I think they will say the same, but they will have no idea of the richness of OUR earlier lives.
There won't be a country in 50 years
@@FloridaEbikes You might be right. I'm glad I won't be here.
Oh how I remember how all the girls in my high school all got the "Dorothy Hamill" haircut! It was super popular.
Another great video! I especially liked the part with Barbara Walters. Thank you.
You're "vewy" welcome, as BW imitators might say.
@@FredFlix 😂 ha ha
I was 6 and a half years old,always heard tge songs *Silly Love Songs* and Afternoon Delight* while playing with American Plastic Bricks,girder and Panel building sets and Lincoln logs,those were some great times indeed
Thanks
I fondly remember the Ernie and Bernie Show when they starred at the University of Tennessee. I would listen to the Voice of the Vols, John Ward, call those basketball games on my local AM radio station. It was rare to have a game televised in the era before ESPN.
Love these videos..
Dorothy Hamill, an American hero! Freddie Prinz......"Not my job." Lynda Carter.....`Nuff said. Thanks Fred.
She actually had a brief nude scene in that movie, Doug. Hard to believe now.
@@FredFlix Yep, I've seen it. But the wife was in the room when I was typing the first post, lol.
Hi, Fred: This Is My Country is a style of singing that I love; it's majestic. The Times Of Your Life by Paul Anka is one of my favourite songs by him. I've noticed that you play a good amount of Canadian music. 'Plop, plop Fizz, fizz' is another I remember so clearly. I have all the Radio Shack catalogues from 1976 to 1987. What on earth happened to Robert De Niro? Politics is usually best avoided but since you brought it up, it looks like nothing has really changed since 1976. Israel is always held to extremely high standards and in this case, back then, The PLO is held to no standards. Rich Little's, 'A Christmas Carol' is lots of fun. 50 Ways came out when I was half way through college and it brings back the memories. This one was packed with good stuff; thank you, Fred.
You're welcome, fest...us. And thanks for your comment.
Thanks For The Memories! (Like #255)
Class of 76...76 in our graduating class.
❤❤❤this Fred thank you so much my friend
Feb 1976 - next month, I'd turn 3.
Freddiie Prinze discussing his baby to be born the following month, Freddie Prinze Jr.
Holey smoke, that Barbara Walters interview is more pertinent than ever!
1976 was my year of getting naked in public -- my crowd went to a lot of hot springs. I still have a photo of three of us making a human pyramid all covered in mud!
Great year
As Ms Hamill was doing her routine, I thought he 'and this is a move she came up with on her own, the DYING CAMEL!'
Fantastic
I remember 76’ and we only had one American channel then from New York State. Buffalo I believe.
Great job, Fred!
1:16 - While I didn't buy THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC, I did buy all 4 BOOKs OF LISTS by the same authors.
3:13 - It's sad to remember the last time I walked into a Radio Shack, there were more employees in the store (3) than customers (a friend & I).
10:35 - Freddie Prinze, Jr. was born Mar. 8, 1976, so he came 2 days earlier than his dad's prediction.
I was born in 76.
Oh man... what teenage boy didn't have a little crush on Dorothy Hamill? :)
"brought to you by... KRAFT" must not have been a CBS special.
May I also add: How the heck did Darren McGavin & David Niven wound up in a Disney movie? 😳
Thanks, FredFlix.
👍🎞 memories
Lynda Carter starring in Bobbie Jo and... something something something. Who cares about Marjoe Gortner when Wonder Woman's running around with no top on?
The only thing good about that cheeseball movie, titties.
I noticed that the newspaper ad for "Stop, Or You'll Go Blind" listed Minneapolis-area theaters. Are you based in the Twin Cities? Apologies if you've answered this a million times and/or don't care to comment.
Nobody else has asked, Drew. Actually, I don't live there but when I search Google for, say, "February 1976 ads," I get those Minn. movie ads because someone from there has a Web site with those images.
Nobody makes yesterday look better than Freddie! I was 5 months away from playing Christopher Robin in the Ripon Jaycees Bicentennial Parade! (I thought Christopher Robin was a wuss)
I had to google CR. First time I've heard of him.
@@FredFlix The float was Winnie the Pooh stuck in the honey tree... how that relates to the Bicentennial, I can't answer
The actor in the Johnsons baby shampoo commercial you thought might be Robert Urich is not. It is actor Mike Henry. He played Jackie Gleasons goofy son in Smoky and the Bandit.
Thanks, David.
Glad I could help Fred. I can see how easy it would be to think that may have been Robert Urich. They look a bit similar especially with old grainy video. I love your videos! Thank you!😊
1976 I was hot rodding with no thought of insurance and few cops to give me a ticket. Car bill of sale written on paper laying around. No big worries of any kind. Car trading whenever you felt like it.
Dorothy was quite the talent, but unfortunately a third of my female 6th graders donned that hairstyle, some with disastrous results. Loved watching the mad bomber Franz Klammer rip through the slopes. A dream team Marvel- team up: Ghost Rider/ Werewolf by Night/ Morbius and Man-Thing. Someday a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets.
Nice reference, BC.
Barbara Walters, taking a strip out of the Israeli Prime Minister! Feisty as heck! Whilst people were swooning over Dorothy Hamill's hair, I was interested in other things that she had to offer! That's what you do wen your 15 years old! Farah? Oh dear man, the American dream! ❤
A rare pairing of then-unknown Lynda Carter & B-movie icon Marjoe Gortner!
Thanks for the memories (& the Hustler cover), FredFlix! 😉
You're welcome, Luis.
✅The Dorothy Hamill do!
✅My dad got hooked on Rich Man, Poor Man.
✅Why I have never seen Taxi Driver is a mystery to me. 🤷🏽♀️
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It's not for the faint of heart but it's one of the most highly stylized films of the '70s. The music and editing alone make it worth a look, Mercedes.
@@FredFlixI know, Fred. I also admire Robert De Niro enormously. It hasn't been out of rejection at all but the fact is I've been delaying watching it (for far too long I'm afraid) and it's not the only case: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Apocalypse Now... There always seem to be a better moment to watch them other than now. 🤷🏽♀️ Sorry I'm rambling. 🙊💜🤟
@@merce10554 No prob!
@@FredFlix🤗💜🤟
the 2000s SUCK
Whoa, Jeff Lynne without sunglasses?! That's weird.
Ugh, Marjoe Gortner. Even his name is creepy.
Thanks Fred!