The America We Knew: October 1975
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- Big month for events such as the Thrilla in Manilla, Carlton Fisk's Game 6 home run in the World Series, the debut of (the real) Saturday Night Live, and my 21st birthday.
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In 75 we were just killing time waiting for the bicentennial
I miss Sandy Duncan, Andy Griffith commercials, Leggs pantyhose and the women who wore them, RCA televisions and Paul Simon's mustache. A great show Fred, thanks very much man! ❤❤🎉😊
I miss all the above too, Doug. Even Sandy Duncan.
Who doesn't miss One Eyed Duncan?! She was a legend.
Lots of memories in this one Fred, thank you. A ray of sunshine on a stormy, rainy day 👍
Glad to help, Robert.
Orleans .. what a song ... brings me right back to that time
Ali and Fraser captivated the world for a while there. Ali is one of my favorites.
Thanks for choosing ABBA and SOS. They were on Saturday Night Live a couple of months later.
As well I remember, Michael.
I really enjoy your videos…nobody does it better! 👍☮️
Amen!!
Nice of you to say, pastholay.
@@lawnmowerman2199 Thanks, LM.
@@FredFlix You’re always welcome sir! I hope you’re having a wonderful summer so far and Happy Memorial Day stay safe buddy!
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@@lawnmowerman2199 Thanks, LM. You as well.
ABBA, Ali, Fisk, Rickles and more. Great month of a good year. Thanks Fred.
You're welcome, Doug
Pure awesomeness 🏆
Thanks, gmoney.
Holy Moly! I was 15!!! We had a small RCA XL tv... that sucker worked great well into the 90's :)
Another winner.
As always, Simply the best!!!
Thanks, iscariot666.
I don’t think there is a single FredFlix that has failed to exceed expectations and I have seen many of them sometimes more than once
@@peternighswander9629 Thank you kindly, Peter. I figure, if I'm happy with the video then many others of like mind should feel the same.
@@FredFlixi have watch your short films since your startted on utube you're supercalafraglisticexpialadosish i think
My mind is reeling with the memories! Thanks Fred! Don't stop!
I can't, Mark!
Thank you Fred for another fun trip down memory lane. As always your hard work is much appreciated 😊
Always nice to know, Bridget.
Another great collection! I still remember my annoyance at Andy Griffith talking with a mouthful of food in the A-1 Sauce ad (“They can’t give him time to chew up that steak and swallow?!?”).
Good point, Leslie.
Thank you for another PRECIOUS trip down Memory Lane!
You're welcome, Nick.
Remember about 90% of these - great memories!! Thanks Fred!!
You're welcome, Nunetc.
I love how that photo at 12:48 could be any of us kids in the 70's. We all wore Ben Cooper costumes like those, and we all had that couch! 😂
P.S., I'm 55 today. Great birthday present, thank you, Fred!
So many emotionally moving memories! Growing up in New England I remember that game when Fisk hit the home run only to have the Bosox lose game 7! Even to this day it's gut-wrenching for so many New Englanders who remember that series! All the great music, the pretty girls, all the excitement of youth and the roads that had yet to be travelled. Life was ahead with so many choices, so many dreams. Thank you so much for the memories. God bless!😄
Thanks for your thoughtful comment, David.
Perfect way to start the Memorial Day weekend. Make it safe Fred !
That home run by Fisk in Game 6 of 75 series was after about 3 days of rain outs, so I was super excited to see that series finally get back on the field. The Reds were my favorite team and I still consider that to be the best world series of all time. Of course, the Reds took game 7 by just one run to close out a great series.
7:54- Repeats of "MARCUS WELBY M.D." were initially syndicated as "ROBERT YOUNG, FAMILY DOCTOR" in the fall of 1975.
OMG… Sandy Duncan! I totally forgot about her. Thanks, Fred. 👍🏻
You're welcome, John.
The little rascal was right Ah, the 70s. gotta love it
Wow just watched Hard Times on firestick great movie.
Coburn and Bronson... them were guys. Hollywood today? It's a remake of a remake, filtered through layers of focus groups and industry committees that have completely sanitized the creative fires down to a few embers... but it's mostly smoke. Thanks Fred for another yesteryear reminder.
You're welcome, Peter, and you're so right!
And don’t forget, they’d make Bronson a black gay
The Carlton Fisk home run was the biggest thing the Red Sox had to cheer about since 1918. The Big Red Machine won the ‘75 Series.
Another good one.
Thanks, Fred.
Thx Fredflix 👍📺
Queen was the best band I heard back in '75, still a huge fan of their music.
Thanks, FredFlix. 👨🎤
You're welcome, Luis.
5:23- Originally syndicated (and telecast in England) as "Bacharach '74" in May 1974.
When I saw the picture of a drive in followed by the Hard Times trailer, I thought " I saw that movie at the drive in".
The Big Red Machine finally win the series. What a nailbiter that was. Thanks, Fred.
You're welcome, BC.
Tom Waites, great album. Ilsa, She Wolf of the S.S. the theater manager warned us, we watched it anyway. Oh, to be 19 in 1975!
Thanks again Fred!
I like 2 of the songs that were picked out for the show "The America 🇺🇸 We Knew"; and the first song is sung by ABBA "SOS"; the second one I forgot but I liked it.. I also like the boxing 🥊 part, "The Thrilla In Manila"; Mohammed Ali vs Joe Frazier.. Where Mohammed Ali won the fight with a TKO..
A very nice collection of clips an music Fred thnx.
You're welcome, Rolf.
From my perspective, another month of homelessness and hitchhiking. There were a few bright spots, though -- one night I sofa-surfed with a bunch of hippies in far-northern California and we watched a brand new program called Saturday Night, and laughed our stoned asses off. Then, that week I camped out in Patrick's Point State Park, hiked the trails, looked for agates on the beach, and read science fiction in my tiny tent while it rained. It felt almost like a vacation. Then I hitched back down to the SF Bay area and stealth camped in an overgrown vacant lot for a few days. A nearby theater was showing a double bill (remember those?) of Month Python And The Holy Grail, and Alice's Restaurant, so I watched them three nights in a row before sneaking back to my hidden nest. The World Series brought me down; I really hated Marge Schott and The Reds in those days. I really missed music -- my record player was in storage and the radio didn't play my kind of music. One night I wandered into a diner and found the current Steely Dan on the jukebox, very nice.
Now commercials on TV 📺 are some kind of medicine 💊 that have all sorts of side effects 😳
Love Boat theme
Yet again you've nailed the zeitgeist perfectly. Thanks for posting.
You're welcome, WR.
Thank you Fred. Good Times. Only 19 at the time. Love your channel. Funny how at that time things would change so much.
We had no idea what was to come, Dogs. If we had, we would have appreciated those times so much more.
Now you've piqued my curiosity about The Deadly Tower and I want to watch it! It's here on RUclips under its alternate title "Sniper 66"!
Good info, jons.6216.
i was waiting for my birthday for all of this month (as i did for many a october lol). my dad most likely watched the series and maybe the fight also. thanks again sir.
You're welcome, S&D. Mine is Oct. 11.
@@FredFlix mine is nov 1 lol.
The replay of Fisk's homer was even more memorable for me than watching the ball sail into the net above the Green Monster. His attempt to put English on the ball as if trying to will it into fair territory has stayed stuck in my memory for nearly 49 years now. The then 10th grade me thanks you Fred, for showcasing one of baseball's most iconic moments.
Edit: One other thing, I think the actor in that commercial with Don Rickles was Michael Pataki, who was later in the movie Rocky IV as Ivan Drago's manager.
Thanks, Ernest.
My first idol, Neil Sedaka, coming back with Bad Blood. 🎶🎵🎶
That's the last boxing match I've watched in my life. I was crying and suffering so much all through it I said to myself "Never again". 🤦🏽♀️
*No way, Fred!!!* Dance with me is one of the songs I want them to play at my funeral. Ohhh, gosh. What a great upload. 💜🤟
Glad you enjoyed it, Mercedes. At my funeral I want them to play "Freddie's Dead."
@@FredFlixAre you for real?⚠️
@@merce10554 Sure am.
@@FredFlix✌ 💜🤟
Hi, Fred: "Mommy, the elephant has wrinkly pantyhose just like yours." That reminded me of the time I tried to make myself look a little taller using stilts but I didn't have any pants long enough to hide them. So, I fashioned something that resembled skin to cover that section. When I got found out, I asked how she knew. She said it was the rumpled stilt skin. It was terrifying but the little rascal was right. 'A day without oranges is like a day without sunshine'. Anita Bryant sang one of my mother's favourite songs, In My Little Corner Of The World.
Thank you for showing the album cover of Tom Waits' "Nighthawks at the Diner". Unlike Queen or Kiss, or even The Captain & Tennille, this album is far from mainstream. I was a DJ on a progressive rock station in the late 70s, and we were the only station in the state playing it to an audience of connoisseurs of artistic rock like Frank Zappa and the like. A masterpiece, this album creates a unique mood, and mainly falls into the genre of blues along with John Mayall and BB King. It's anything but commercially popular, and teenyboppers at the time wouldn't know this album if they tripped over it.
Nice description, Bob.
LET'S DO IT AGAIN had Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby in a follow-up to UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT.
Pauline Kael's THE NEW YORKER REVIEW dismissed the TRUE GRIT sequel ROOSTER COGBURN AND THE LADY as "a belch from the Nixon era"! (I did like one exchange: "Are our supplies ready?" "Down to the last drop!")
Nice. Lots of memories. Remember the music well - nice choices … and I remember I had a classmate who loved the Reds. Boxing was a big, big deal back then - which is why the next year’s “Rocky” was so well-timed.
And incredibly, in our TV market up in Columbia, we didn’t get Saturday Night Live until 1978. The idiotic local station ran “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” instead. Yeah. You heard that correctly. Typical Columbia! lol.
That's nuts, Chris!!!!
I always wondered why Anita Bryant was so hated by a certain community. Now I know she wasn't hated by most of the USA, since she had a orange juice commercial shown on network tv. Thanks for filling in that gap in my knowledge.
Thanks again for another trip down memory lane😊
@@Ij-jan You're welcome, Jan.
She was pretty vile. I think the controversy began after the orange juice commercials. Her career such as it was ended after the controversy. An interesting postscript was that she filed for divorce from her husband/manager Bob Green (who appeared in those wretched oj commercials) in 1980 accusing him of abuse and infidelity. He died not long ago a bitter and angry and hateful man. As bad as Anita was, she did not deserve a husband like him
Anita Loved oranges but Hated Fruits !! 😉😁
@@peternighswander9629Anita Bryant preached hate at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Another great FredFlix I really enjoy these. Hey, you aren’t a yacht rock fan are you?
Well, since I don't know what yacht rock is, I guess no, HLG.
@@FredFlix all that America you play. That’s yacht rock. Or in other words a pot of 70’s am easy listening.
@@hunglikejesus6097 Guilty!
Boat music, like Christopher Cross music
Chevy Chase was in the band Chameleon Church as their drummer
Did they become Steely Dan? I know he was involved in some way with an early version of that band.
@@FredFlix Don't think so, they were involved with a revamped version of Ultimate Spinach of the Bosstown sound which did include Skunk Baxter who I believe was in Steely Dan. Chevy found his calling in comedy
This is the Channel I'll be on when its time to meet my Maker , just to make sure I didn't forget anything!! 😉😁
Good call, Richard.
The Sox should have won that series. Another reason Pete Rose and the Reds were not liked in New England for years.
If you run commercials to increase revenue I promise I’ll watch them.
I wish I could monetize my channel, Steve, but I use too much copyrighted material. Fortunately, the copyright holders monetize it for themselves and allow me to post (most of) the videos.
How could you leave out KC and the Sunshine band or Bowie and Fame?
This is a series that covers our culture through each month. Fame, Bowie and KC have or will be covered, just not this month. I do what I can based on what I'm able to find, the dates of the clips and what RUclips will allow me to show. Then too, I sometimes just forget. Bear with me and you'll see just about everything under the sun over the next year.
Stan will now identify as Karen :)
@@onefatstratcat Yeah ..after you first.
Mommy, the elephant has wrinkly pantyhose like yours! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Educated guess Ilsa could a made a fortune as a Dom in the Big Apple
My only complaint is that often the sports segments are too long. Not a fan.