The America We Knew: April 1975 (a twice-weekly chronicle of our shared cultural past)
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
- This one came up a little short due to some copyrighted material I had to edit out. But I added a clip from "Hollywood Squares" that was tagged "spring 1975." Not specifically April but it's close enough.
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I couldn't stop laughing in the theater when he said " What? The Curtains?"
Jackie Blue playing all Summer.
I was 11 and the mid 70's were amazing.
No devices with heads facing down.
Kids played, and rode Schwinn bikes !
Enjoying your channel Fred !!
Glad you are, mcoulson9.
I still think Jackie blue sung by a woman. I am from Missouri so I know it was a guy
Just purchased the CD with that song on it last year. Ozark Mountain Daredevils is an acquired taste, I suppose. Another great one Fred 👍.
@@gregggoss2210 Thanks, Gregg.
I had a 10 speed Burgandy red Schwinn Suburban - great bike!
And we rented Schwinn Stingrays for rides on the boardwalk in summer!
Who knew that the funniest man on TV, Paul Lynde led a sad life in private. 😢
Also, Monty Python & The Holy Grail was absolutely hilarious! 😂
Thanks, FredFilx!
You're welcome, Luis.
@@luisreyes1963 Paul wasn’t sad, he was gay.
I wait for these videos every week. ❤
Good to know, Marsha. I will continue with two a week for another month or so and then it'll be back to once a week, but with occasional specials covering months from 1973 and even earlier.
Death Race 2000 and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, true classics, Fred. They just don't make them like that anymore! 😁👍👍👍👍
Have a great weekend pal, hope it's dry wherever you are. 🙏
It is, Robert. Thanks.
Wonderful times! My town's theater that was run by little old ladies who excepted a note from our parents to see R rated movies - we became good forgers. They showed second run features and lots of New World Pictures. Of course, a big Friday night was going to see Death Race 2000.
Thank you for the great memories!🙂😯😎💥💯👍🤍!
You're welcome, Frank.
You always seem to know just what and when we need these awesome videos!!! God bless you Fred and thank you from the bottom of my heart 🙏
That's very sweet and encouraging, Bridget. Thank YOU.
Teri Garr was such a babe. Multiple Sclerosis is a freaking awful disease.
I turned 13 and was in junior high in April of ‘75. Growing up in the 70s was the best! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Fred! I hope you will continue this series.
No doubt about it, UVF. I'm already way ahead.
I turned 10 April 21st & looking back I never savored how good I had it.
I had just turned 8 years old 75 was just the best! Listening to Red Sox games in the yard on my Heathkit radio while playing catch with my brother or dad. Thanks for sharing Fred😁
You're welcome, Michael.
So many great songs in the 70's .. Jackie Blue was the best of all ... thanks for rekindling the memories of an 8 year old kid
You're welcome, cunn.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of those movies I've seen so many times that I think I have it memorized. I thought the ad for the Chinese restaurant at the end was a nice touch. Thanks again, Fred, for this walk down memory lane.
You're welcome, Thomas.
Always great memories watching these vids. Sometimes they are difficult memories. My father, a Korean War veteran, he was at the Chosin reservoir. I have great clarity of him glued to the TV every night, consumed with the Vietnam War. He was very quiet and depressed for some time after the fall of Saigon. Always enjoy your work Fred. Thanks again
Memories of those times are bittersweet for most of us, Cmon-Man.
Thx Fredflix ☕ 📺
Even though I was born and bred in Melbourne, Australia, so much of this is familiar to us (our TV was a mix of US, UK and Aussie productions), so enjoying the memory lane ride with each of these videos, which are really a pretty good amount of research and editing, so very appreciated! And yes, "Jackie Blue" was, and still is a bloody great pop record!
Thanks for watching, Borella.
Thank you very much. It’s obvious how much time and effort you put into these videos and it’s very much appreciated.
I'm happy to hear that, l j.
3:35 I love that song _Jackie Blue_ by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. The album was released in 1974 but Fred nailed it because the single was released 8 February 1975 and by 26 April 1975 it hit #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 eventually peaking at #3 on 17 May 1975.
Sure enough, Firebrand. When I make these videos I go the billboard chart for the month and pick from the top 20 or 40. Of course, some songs I can't stand, so they will never be used. Some I don't even know or remember. Some are not allowed by YT, unless I use a live version (and I can't even do THAT with Elvis). In short, I do what I can and I hope it's entertaining and perhaps brings a knowing smile to some faces.
Love seeing ABBA album covers. I have all of them.
Spot-On Fred!
Thanks, Sam.
Terrific montage Fred. I always enjoy seeing Peter Sellers as on the TWA commercial.
Excellent video!
1975. I was 15. That year I bought my first lid and my first Led Zeppelin album, and my mom bought me my first set of drums. I had all those albums you pictured. And I liked "Jackie Blue", but later discovered "Chicken Train", and never looked back.
Thanks, Ken.
Aaahhh... '75 a great year...fond and memorable. The entire decade of the 70's was bliss... politics aside of course. Oddly enough I vividly remember everything from this video as if it were recent times.
Good one again! I was a Laker fan dating back to the West-Chamberlain championship team. But Hondo was a classy dude. I don’t doubt his sincerity for one second watching him in that ad.
Thanks, Chris.
6:49 I was 10 yrs old in '75 and checked this album out of our town library . The art work lured me in ... and Aerosmith's music just blew my mind .
These are fantastic Fred. Keep 'em coming
Can't help it, WR.
Fred, thanks for including ABBA in this video.
Happy to do it, abbagodz.
@@FredFlix ABBA was making live appearances in November 1975 on Saturday Night Live, American bandstand, Don Kirchner’s rock concert. Probably their first large scale appearances in America.
@@michaelrochester48 I remember seeing ABBA on SNL, Michael. I will try to include one of those performances in the Nov. edition, if the copyright cops allow.
I love johnny Carson.....it reminds me of spending the night at my grandparents house every Friday night until I was in my late teens! I was so lucky and just wish I could enjoy it once more! The smell of steak cooking and just the security and fun. They lived at the end of our street. It was wonderful!❤ Thanks Fred!
Great as always, Fred! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks, John.
Great video Fred. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of my all time favorite movies.🏰😊
Mine too, Emily.
How I miss being 11 in 1975!
I was 11 -listening to Top 40 radio and The Beatles,riding bike, swimming, playing with friends and watching great tv It was a fun time to be a kid kn the midwest. Yeah the news could be scary…… but we had fun and did not have as much parental supervision back then…..
"Death Race: 2000" did a return visit to my town cinema in 1976 when I was 9, and the movie rating here in BC was "Mature", which still allowed for all-ages access. I went to it by myself, which for a 9 year-old was quite an eye-opening experience 😆 Caught the subsequent New World-David Carradine-Paul Bartel film "Cannonball" a few months later.
Oh dang, it ended! Awesome show Fred, thanks man!! 😂😂😂❤ OK I have to replay that Holy Grail trailer again, frigging genius! PS I would sell an organ for a red 1975 VW Rabbit and I MUST SEE THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD 😮😮😮
Peter Proud is not a great movie, Doug. But it's OK.
0:37 Yes, that's a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone.
I had never seen that TransWorld ad with Peter Sellers and Teri Garr before!
Great job, Fred!
3:25 - I'd love to find gas that cheap now.
4:02 - Ernie Anderson providing his voice again here.
7:45 - Is that Popeye in the sailor's hat?
8:50 - "Paul Lynde for the block."
That's gotta be Popeye, Jon.
Jackie Blue makes me feel super nostalgic for some reason. I think the hardest I ever laughed seeing a movie was the Black Knight sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. How times have changed with cars. Back then, domestic manufacturers dominated the market. No more. Love the look back, Fred.
Thanks a lot, Robert.
I love this stuff 👍
I love it myself, Mark!
Elton’s Philadelphia Freedom brings back memories. It was all over top 40 radio. It was a perfect build up to the bicentennial even if it was written for Billy Jean King.
A great one again Fred.
Thanks, Rolf.
Omg thanks for the memories! I was a junior in high school back then
Much more coming!
Hey Man, Yeah I Was Still 16 In April, About To Be 17 & I Really Appreciate You Sharing The Good Times! Some Memories Never Fade. Thank You.
You're welcome, Watcher. This series will still be going when you remember turning 21.
6:30- Chris Bearde, co-producer of the original "SONNY & CHER COMEDY HOUR", said this about her solo series:
*"It was like seeing Abbott without Costello."*
The "Jaws" soundtrack was the first album I bought with my own money. I was 11. And as old as I am, I'd never seen the Holy Grail trailer. Great stuff, Fred, as always. Great stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it, CAM.
I notice the nba promo showing actual shots, not slam dunks! Thanks for these great memories
You're welcome, Mark.
Kerrhist! I remember (here in the UK) seeing 'The Reincarnation of Peter Proud' at my local cinema...it was a 'double bill' with ...I believe...'Shivers' the Cronenberg horror.
Capone is a great movie, very underrated, and also Monty Python & The Holy Grail, a classic comedy at its best.
Thanks for more great memories Fred! A lot of the scenes in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud were shot in and around Springfield MA. I moved to Springfield in 1980 and that hotel front desk was still in place at Baystate West then. I lived in a neighborhood where they had shot a lot of exterior shots, and the scene where Michael Sarrazin meets Debralee Scott was shot at a house two blocks away from where I lived, in the Forest Park section of town.
That's awesome, Ernest.
That commercial for "Peter Proud" used to scare the daylights out of me. Frankentstein, in Death Race 2000, didn't. What a now-classic schlock flick. Poor Peter Sellers having to do an airlines commercial. One the opposite side of the coin, this might have been the last one done by Terri Garr, thanks to Young Frankenstein (wow, two mentions of Frankenstein in the same post). Monty Python and the Holy Grail. `Nuff said. Looking forward to my 10th birthday year, next month. Thanks Fred.
You're welcome, Doug. Maybe Sellers signed up as spokesman for the airline before the resurgence of the Pink Panther franchise, which happened that year.
@@FredFlix Had not considered that. Good call Fred.
I had totally forgotten that I liked "Jackie Blue" but not how much I loved "Philadelphia Freedom" and until the day I die. 🎵🎶🎵
I must say I liked a lot better NBA Game of the Week theme song of '73, though. 🤷🏽♀️ Never mind that, I'm enjoying this series a lot, Fred. ☺️💜🤟
I'm enjoying it even more, Mercedes, because I know what's coming.
@2:54 I was in the USMC and working at the receiving end of a few thousand of those Vietnamese refugees at Camp Pendleton in April of 75.
2:30-Mr. Beatty was more aware of the Best Picture winner here than that fiasco with him and Faye Dunaway years later (and in my opinion, they do not escape blame for this either; Beatty should have recognized that there was only one name on the winner’s card and called it to the Academy’s attention-Best Picture winners usually have multiple names listed).
I wish the Oscars had more of that (and the slap) because otherwise it's become such a bore.
Love it!
Thanks, Bob.
The Elvis clip brought be back instant memories of standing for what seemed an eternity, in an insanely long line, with my much older sister, with 9 year old me complaining and fidgeting the whole time, to get tickets to see Elvis! Then I remember the actual concert, where we were so far back we had to look through binoculars to see him doing his moves, and I remember my other sister who was in high school at the time, and had always been crazy about Elvis, made her way up to the stage, where during all that shaking, some of Elvis' sweat dripped on her face, which she then vowed of course, to never wash again! Thankfully for us she did!😁 They went back to see him the following year, when he came back in concert, but I declined to go.
Wow, tigre, Elvis' sweat on her face! I don't blame her for not wanting to wash it off.
Had a friend who was a theater manager during this time. He told me that on opening night not one person came to see Capone. Two shows, 600 plus seat not a single ticket. Didn't exactly give Jaws any competition at the year end box-office.
Also thanks for the Holy Grail trailer. Seen the movie many times and still makes me laugh. (What, the curtains?)
I quote that line often, gittes.
@@FredFlix Me too but my favorite is 'I didn't vote for you/
No matter the language - Monty Python and the Holy Grail always brings the laughs.
I found Death Race 2000 entertaining 🙂
How did the Ford Pinto work out anyway? Hope that idea didn’t “blow up” in their face. In addition to the Gremlin AMC also had the “Pacer” in 1975. It looked an aquarium tank on wheels! 😀 Thanks again Fred!
Not good on a hot day, CR.
And the hits just keep on coming. You got trailers for two classic films to start and end the video. Death Race 2000 and Monty Python And The Holy Grail. It's been a while since I've seen Death Race 2000. Does anyone remember the scoring table for running over pedestrians?
I remember sick and old people get you more points.
@@FredFlix You're right. I also remember that babies are worth 100 points.
Godfather II, one of the best movies ever! Go Francis Ford Coppola!
Back when a Gremlin was exciting. 😊
Long distance calling plans those were the days.
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Peter Marshall amazed at a naughty 77 year old back then? Peter is now 98 years young!
Everyone was buying small compact cars.
I Can't Drive 55!
Pretty sure you removed one of my comments so I will not thumbs up in your RUclips channel anymore
I have never removed a comment. I have blocked users from commenting at all (and that I haven't done in quite a while), but I don't even know how to remove a single comment. As for you not giving me a thumbs up, I don't care about that at all.
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Good times Fred
Got a powerful Bicentennial video in this series, James, that I plan to post July 4.
@@FredFlix lookin forward to that !
NYC was really bad back then.
I had a friend who had an AMC Gremlin. It was even worse than his Chevy Vega. 😬
He was jealous of my Ford Maverick. 🤭 Now that was a great car!