The America We Knew: June 1976
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2024
- The next consecutive edition of The America We Knew will be the Bicentennial two-parter on July 4th. In the meantime, I will post a special or two plus other videos.
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Bicentennial fun year good memories.
Nice to see real journalists on TV.
I was so excited about the bicentennial. I was nine years old and I would watch all the specials about America’s birthday. I’ve used to remember watching the bicentennial minutes on television, and my grandmother even made a colonial uniform for me that I wore at the Fourth of July parade.
Me too. They painted our fire hydrants like little soldiers. We rode bikes all over town afterwards to see them all. :)
That must have been totally exciting!
I remember a parade in the next town over that day. Also the bicentennial quarters.
Everything was gearing up for the Bicentennial.
June 1976 was a GREAT month for me! Turned 16 on the 24 (64 today) and looking forward to my driver's license later on that summer! Thanks Fred, great memories tied with this one, for sure!
Happy Birthday, Nunetc.
@@FredFlix Thanks, Fred!
Happy birthday 🎉
I turned 16 on the 10th. Great month for me as well. Thanks Fred. This was awesome
I was 12 in 1976 ~ by the time I was old enough to go out and have fun, the disco seen was on. Yuck! I was raised on rock and roll. I'm going to be 60 on July 7th. And still looking good. 😊
So excited in those days, knowing the BIG Bicentennial celebration was on the near horizon.
What a great summer that was, I was 15 and working for my grandpa on the farm
Great music on this video Fred, always chasing the gloom away with these fun clips thank you!!!!
You're welcome, Bridget.
Mike ,Merv and Dinah in the afternoon. Good ol days
I was 6 years old that year - I'm so blessed to have experienced a 70's childhood
I am the same age as you. The '70s? Meh, the '80s were a lot more fun. All I remember was a bunch of drugged up weirdos and displaced hippies when I was a little kid.
I turned 17 in March 76. That was a great year. Had a Summer job, a car, motorcycle, girlfriend and Mom & Dad paying all the bills 😂 and of course really great music 🎶.
My Mom liked "Afternoon Delight." It was bright and cheerful. Obviously, she didn't have a clue as to what the song was about.
Ah what times, I wish sometimes I could get them back! These videos help!
Glad to hear it, F2K.
Still love the format! Keep up the great work Freddie! Mid 70's ..were the best
Thanks, antsforall.
Wow, I am really old because I remember many of these magazine and tv guide covers! It's so strange seeing them again.
Perhaps the best summer of my life. Junior high just ended and I was about to enter high school in the fall. Had my first official shave (mostly peach fuzz:). Hanging out with my two childhood buddies listening to great music, lifting weights, talking about girls and seeing some great movies! Exciting times! Thanks!😄
Moonlight feels right, best marimba solo ever!
Fun fact When that solo was recorded, it was done with one take only. He completely improvised and it turned out to be a masterpiece
Thanks Fred! So much buried in the cobwebs of the mind!
You're welcome, Tom.
Jefferson Starship Spitfire - great album!
Slightly before my time (I was 4 in June 1976), but about 10 years later my friend and I would raid his older brother's record collection and discover two stone-cold classics from 1976: Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" album and Rush's "2112." My eyes (and ears!) were opened!!
June 1976, I was 9 years old and obsessed with baseball!
What a great trip, thanks Fred! My sister and I used to mimic those twangy twins in the Shake n Bake commercial so much my mom threatened to stop making chicken--ah the good old days! 😅❤❤❤
Doug, I Shake n Bake for the first time a couple of years ago. Not bad.
I really enjoy the comments left on here by those sharing their memories from June in 1976. I’m interested to know what you were up to back then Fred?😊
@@Classicrocker6119 Fred was doing the disco-duck in his polyester suit , his AMC pacer parked out front
That Cooper album was the first album I ever bought!
My first video of the morning! Thank you so much.
You're welcome, Jan.
it’s funny all these years later and “1976” still means “the bicentennial summer” in my head lol… the movie “Dazed and Confused” kind of captured the spirit of that summer for teens who were. older than me
Yes, I was ten that summer and that generation of kids right ahead of us looked like they had the most fun.
Cars,parks, frisbees summer looked like a party.
I love this channel. Thank you so much for the work you put in making these.
You're welcome, Provost.
"Midway - in Sensurround!" - I noticed it in the newspaper ad, but the trailer omitted it.
I remember this time very well. I turned 12 in October of 1976. SPECTACULAR time to be a kid....!!!
Just got back from Korea late June 76 just in time to be back in the good old USA for the bicentennial 🎉. Never will forget that feeling😊 God bless the USA
This was the most enjoyable 70s compilation I’ve seen. Thank you!
Oh boy! I never realized they doubled up on the "and ah hayalped!" girl in the Shake and Bake commercials! Haha! June of 1976 was part of a long run of graduations in my family! My brother from junior high with a commencement ceremony and myself from sixth grade without!
The great thing about the bicentennial is it was both a national celebration and a huge local celebration with town parades… almost like Xmas in July with summer fun replacing gift giving… if I recall the hype started in 1975 with all kinds of commercials, planning ahead, etc… It was a fabulous summer and I was only 5
Thanks, Fred, that was fun! I felt that old nostalgia, and that's a good thing! Fond remembrance.
You're welcome, Michael.
1976 was the first year I remember more or less clearly pretty much all the way through. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot that year.
CB RADIO SALE! That's how I got my CB radio! My handle was Jetsetter...
Breaker, breaker this is Jetsetter, what's your 20 good buddy?
I was 12. My CB handle was MadDog! 😂
Then my 20 was Atlanta, GA. Now it is Taiwan.
We had CB radios in our musclecars up until the early 80's. I still think they are better than a cellphone because no dialing, just push one button and talk!
@CarsandCats Howdy! I have 3 cats that I found as tiny strays over the years.
In HS and while in the Army (80 - 85), I had a 1973 Mustang Mach I, with the 351 Cleveland engine!
Seems we have similar tastes!
@@NickvonZ Hey, that's great! :)
@@CarsandCats 😸👍
I totally missed Mary Tyler Moore in Red Square in Moscow! And this was before Reagan told Gorbachev,
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"!
I love the communitarian spirit of Fredflix videos… it’s rare these days
Thin Lizzy? Really??? AWESOME!!! Midway I didn't get to see until it hit TV. That pan and scan version was criminal. Thank goodness cable came to the rescue. That FLEX shampoo add is pure disco. It was stuff like that that made WRIF 101.1 create D.R.E.A.D. (Detroit Rockers Engaged in the Abolishment of Disco). I got my card pretty early. Sold it on eBay 20 years ago (smacks myself upside the dome). Logan's Run is another one pan and scanned on TV. Jenny Agutter....oh my so very pretty AND a terrific actress. Never cared for The Omen, even though it has Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in it. Jose Wales rated PG? I don't believe it. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. First album from the Alan Parsons Project. First heard in 1977 7th grade English class. Mrs. Hubbard was pretty hip. I just listened to it yesterday (no lie). Never gets old. That was a great month in a so-so year, for me. Good stuff Fred.
Good comment, Doug.
🎵Thank you for this beautiful gem!🙂💯💙💚🖤💥👍!
You're welcome, Frank.
Loving this clip! 1976 was an amazing year to be a pre-pubescent boy! I love how you include the current issues of Marvel comics and Playboy! Playboy magazine wasn't just about beautiful women but every issue from the earlier days is now a time capsule of the culture we had the privilege to experience! Nice job using that particular album for the click-art!
Thanks, glusniffermm.
So many memories that month. All the excitement building for The Bicentennial, I graduated HS, but, was having mixed emotions. Happy to be done with school, but, sad because I loved high school and all my friends.
We went on vacation with my best friend and his family to Myrtle Beach, which was a blast. I remember coming home, crashing in my bed and it finally hit me, what am I going to do with my life? I want a car, A good job, and what do I want be? College? Trades? Funny thing is, I retired this past March after 48 years of full time work,, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up! Lol
Thanks for this one, Fred. Simply one of the happiest months of my life. Summer vacation was well underway - and my family visited Hilton Head Island for the first time - which was peaceful and quiet in those days …. a perfect beach vacation. Anytime I hear Wings’ “Silly Love Songs” I’m reminded of that trip, as we heard it on the radio whole way down and throughout our stay. The other one often heard was indeed “Afternoon Delight” .. lol. And yeah I had those issues of Ghost Rider and Spidey (with another awesome Romita cover). What a wonderful time with my family all alive, well and happy.
Nice comment, Chris.
Outlaw Josey Wales. “Dying ain’t much of a living, Boy!” One of the greatest lines in one of the greatest movies ever made
He won’t be hard to track he leaves dead bodies everywhere he’s been
Was 15 at the time......please take me back!
I was in Valley Forge park for bicentennial It was amazing. President Ford was there, covered horse drawn wagons from all over the country and most amazing fireworks I have ever seen
Nice Day on the Green poster. Those concerts were epic.
Right On and Ebony magazines, Starbuck, Ode to Billy Joe, and Shake 'n Bake. That commercial always cracked me up.
Turned 4 years old in June of 1976. Sadly, I don't remember too much about it being a bicentennial year. I was too busy being a kid to notice stuff like that! LOL!
Thank you. That was the month I graduated high school. I had forgotten how awful it was back then.
I was 3 months old❤
Midway used Sensurround, an early version of a subwoofer. Nice look back, Fred.
A few years later, The Circle Jerks covered "Afternoon Delight", and that version ROCKED.
Midway was epic .. saw it in Sensurround as a 9 year old kid ... I cried when Heston bought it
What the heck are “shells of beef?” 😂 I’m 68 years old and this is a new one on me! (Newspaper supermarket ad towards the end). Anyway, thanks for this compilation-I turned 20 in June 1976, and it was a really fun year.
Sure thing, smilinmoo. And I don't know what shells of beef are, either.
Hey when I was born!
And we hailped! My sister used to say that when she was little. They had a reboot commercial in the 90s
I was almost 19 and bulletproof. I was in Alabama at that time and ready to celebrate the bicentennial at the Fuzzy Duck bar. Which I did on July 4th.
Thanks Fred for another great trip into the past, wonderful memories for me
You're welcome, Bob.
Overseas duty made one appreciate AMERICA.
10 year olds going to matinee of "midway " it was supposed to be in something like 'Sensurround " and u were supposed to be able to see the theater shake outside yea maybe on some wacky sugar trip from od- ing on goobers and raisnettes
5:14 Hey that Japanese-American chick was also in 1976's The Yakuza, as Robert Mitchum's daughter, I believe!
9:52 That dude was in The Yakuza too, as the young gun hired to protect Mitchum!
Logan's Run was a good Sci-fi movie. Farrah Fawcett was in it too!
Got married to my beautiful wife 6/19/1976. 34 years until cancer caused by her love of gardening [Roundup].
This was so much fun!!
Thanks, Fred!
my father lots of love memories in 1970 from there......he served electrical engineer there for 27 years
Got a charge out of the Grand Union ad…just a few years later ,they would be my employer for twenty years…By this time in ‘76, every lamp post and fire hydrant in my neighborhood was painted red white and blue, I guess that’s how we showed our patriotism. Thanks for the memories Fred.
You're welcome, Dennis.
I was 9 and was having a great time!!
Thanks for the ear worms again Fred. (Moonlight...feels right.) Also, have used Peter Falk's line 'I have to go the can, i don;t wanna miss nothin' numerous times over the years
I've quoted him from that movie as well.
@@FredFlix "She keeps fingering my palm, the dirty old broad" (or something like that.)
the music so was cool, back in those days. YOu could ahve hard rock, or nice musical toones like the one of Starbuck, or "mellow Yellow". Back in those days, The gratefull Dead were king.
... we thought they'd never end ...
Good one, Fred. I really liked this one for some reason..
Thanks, Litauen.
I turned 10 that very year. And to think Ronald Reagan nearly became a presidential candidate back then.
Thanks, FredFlix. 🇺🇸
I wonder what would have happened if he ever became president, Luis?
He was a candidate and challenged a sitting president. It wasn’t decided until the convention.
I had that spider-man comic--(the one with Doc Octopus on the cover)---had to have read it a blue billion times.
You forget how expensive decent electronics we’re back in the day. You can buy a very nice smartphone TODAY for the same price they wanted for a CB in 1976! That was why in the 80s ud have to build ur stereo system piece by piece because the whole system cost a fortune
I wonder... how many the seeds were planted yesteryear - in our "wonder years" - contributed to the insanity that we see today in our world? As kids growing up in the 50s-80s, we were bombarded with all sorts of entertainment and commercials for the good life. Go back 100 years and our wonder years would look like science fiction crazy, the way he works looks to many of us today. So, I'm nostalgic about my past, but I wonder what we've helped to create today?
Thanks Fred 👍
March 5 th I reached 20, great year for music.
Great job, Fred!
1:20 - Michael mentions that the Jacksons' new series would feature comedy. I read somewhere that he said he didn't like doing comedy because he didn't think he was funny. I thought they looked pretty good on Carol Burnett's show for a comedy sketch though, where she played a music teacher. Since Michael's not the youngest of the 5 (his brother, Randy, is) I guess an older brother, maybe Jermaine, sat out the series.
1:48 - This was the divorced Sonny & Cher, who figured they still needed each other though they were no longer married.
2:44 - Oh, yes! This is the year when CB Radios were a huge fad. My family members, at least those of us moving to a new state later that year, all got CB handles, and the radio helped us stay in contact in 2 separate cars.
3:50 - I remember seeing "Murder by Death" in school when I was in 7th grade. It was a lot of fun.
12:12 - I still remember "...and we haylped!" after all these years. I think the family was from somewhere in Florida.
13:13 - There was a Grand Union in my Upstate NY hometown, and I worked at a different one nearby when I was in college.
I tried using my dad's CB radio, Jon, but it felt too awkward for me. I said something, a guy answered and I said, "Uh, OK."
@@FredFlix 10-4, good buddy! :)
Nice compilation.
Thanks, Rippypoo.
that shake n bake bit was for sure targeted for my neck of the woods lol.
Sandy Duncan is so pretty!
One of my favourite things about these vids is pausing it to read every word on those magazine covers. Laurence Fishburn in 1976. Who knew? 2:40 And y'know, that People pic of Raquel Welch kinda looks like a fake, dunnit? Great stuff as always, Fred.
Thanks, CAM.
Murder by Death was hilarious. I haven't seen it in a long, I'll have to try to find it on demand. Thanks for the reminder Fred, and use your prepositions! 😂👍👍👍👍
Explain?
@@FredFlix
It's a line from the movie. Haven't you seen it?
Thx Fredflix 👍📺🎥🎬
I turned 15 that year. Great time to be a teen.
Got myself a half sheet movie poster of logans run from when it was made
I was 14 great memories ❤
Production values… Amazing! I think 1976 was a real turning point and TV production! The commercials just sounded better. The music was produced very well! The cast of Midway was top drawer!
We went to the diner after seeing The Omen. A truck with those big dogs pulled up right at our window. That ruined pecan pancakes.
ya think jc penny will bring back that stylish jumpsuit back? i'll keep my eye out for sure....yeah right. lol thanks again dude.
You're welcome, S&D.
The Jackson 5 on with Dinah Shore? This was when they "jumped the shark" and kind of got lost. They were no longer that cute, kid pop band and it just wasn't the same. Then a couple years later, Michael gets together with Quincy Jones, does the "Off the Wall" album in 79 and he becomes one the greatest entertainers of his era.
Michael lost his nose and went downhill fast.
@@bettyir4302 - I guess you missed that decade in which he was the number one star in the pop world, hence the title, "King of Pop"
The month I graduated high school! Not the best time for popular culture, that’s for sure. I could have sworn the song MOONLIGHT FEELS RIGHT was a hit later that summer and not as early as June? You could have included the now semi-cult film LIFEGUARD into the mix. About a guy approaching an early mid-life crisis and what direction to take, it actually had a lot to say to me the month I turned 18 and just graduated high school. And now today I turn 66! Roll on, time and tide….
Does anyone remember this TV commercial from around June 1976? It had to do with chocolates, candy, and a man playing musical instruments.(?)
7:41 1964 election. If Goldwater had won, Vietnam would not have blown up into the monster it became. For some reason LBJ took a small conflict that had been going on forever and in the name of "democracy" decided to end a few million lives. 58,000 of them were American soldiers who were 18-21 on average, most of them drafted. JFK had started small operations and sent advisors, LBJ started a war.
I turned 17 on June10th that year.
Miss those days! The 21'st Century sucks.
Turned 13 on the 7th.
Can I go back?!!!
had to stop and go somewhere for thin lizzy hits. brb
Was that Bill Bixby in the United commercial?