Hey guys, I appreciate all the comments and feedback but let's keep it constructive and respectful. To add to that, NO Ryan Seacrest slander allowed here. I know some don't like him and say "he doesn't hold a candle to Dick Clark, but I'm pretty sure he would say that himself. To be honest, I think he's doing great hosting the show to a modern audience like today, so I think he's a worthy replacement.
@@DIESEL0759 That "illegal bootleg video" as you call it is preserving history! If it weren't for those "illegal bootleggers" things like this could've been forever lost like ~90% of silent films and ~50% pre-1950 sound movies!
I was 14 years old. Back then you had time have a real singing voice to be an artist. Today not so much you can just mumble words become a famous music artist millionaire. I miss the late 70’s and 80’s.
@@Skoora The most of what technology ? People lived in real time then when phones hung on the wall. You wanted to see someone you got in your car and went to see them. Today hundreds of dollars for 9 oz of plastic We look at a pretend world behind glass and try to figure out the fastest way to get there. A world that is almost disconnected from reality but we still spend gazillion of consumer dollars to see it and communicate with it through little picture boxes while the real world is falling ruin and neglect. We see manipulated orchestrated fantasy behind glass and believe its reality. The same as television back then. The difference now as then we knew it was TV fantasy and a one sided conversation at best. No interaction with it. We dealt with real people in a tangable brick and morter material world. Today we follow blindly from behind the glass trying to keep up while paying more and more for less and less. Faster and faster in a quest the new resulting of Instantainious obsoleteness of not material items of technology that simply dont work anymore. Then require bigger bucks to keep up to date. At least in the turn of the last century or progress and declines could be shown with real material physical tangibility.
Fools, Dick was a nasty human, that was very well known. I mean come on, even his name warns you about it. All TV slaves are terrible people, these virtuous liberals are helping bail out criminals, all across America. Dude that murdered that UCLA student, was previously bailed out by the Bail Project. Funded by actors, and liberal politicians, it’s bullshit.
Fond memories of a much simpler time. I was 19yrs old and would be turning 20 that year...Can't believe I'm now 65 with grands. The saying that "Youth is wasted on the Young" rings true. Cherish every moment it goes by fast❤
I 100% remember watching this live in NYC on tv. The Dr Pepper commercials bring back so many memories. ABC had big stars and legendary shows in 78 & 79
I remember that era. The older I get, the more I miss that world I grew up in. We had it good in the late 70s through the 80s and didn't realize it at the time untill one day it was gone forever ..replaced by this nightmare of a world now that young people consider " normal".. I feel for them ..they have no clue how much better things once were in our country.
I’m almost 62 and yes indeed 🇺🇸❤️🌟 it was an amazing experience to see now! My generation was blessed to have been young during this time in America 🇺🇸
RIP Donna my cousin who died with covid, she always taped shows like this & Soul train!! This is my music! Rick James, etc all good dance music! Those were the days!!
I was 19 yrs old, almost 20 2-4-79 now 63 Hurt all the time! It was great 43 yrs ago1979,i am old now, lost my famiy too! Home 2 we now Lived in a [Terrible Time] 2023!$$ is all that all matter it seems?
Weird to think at least a third of those in that crowd have now passed, probably. I was nearly 2 when this aired, but this is so comforting and familiar and much, so much better than it has been the last 35 years. I enjoyed the 80’s Dick Clark’s Rocking New Years Eve, but not much after that. Today, it’s so cold. The warmth that television used to bring has turned mean and cold and creepy, not to mention very low quality and lacking.
I actually remember this night. I was only 6 years old but I remember spending the night with my friend across the street and at midnight we banged pots and pans. Its actually the first new year I remember.
same here i was just 6 also, i remember this show. my family was having a nye party and my uncle had to ruin it by shooting the electric light pole with his hand gun at midnight.. everything turned off and party was overr!!😂😂
I was 7 years old that night. I remember celebrating at my friends house across the street watching Dick Clark. I miss that childhood feeling of freedom that I could do anything with my entire life ahead of me. I also miss the family and friends in my life at that time. It all seems like another lifetime now.
I was 12. I would love to see more of those old New Year’s Rockin Eve shows. I watched them every year. I remember watching the new decade come in, as Eric Estrada said, 1980 that next year. I thought my future was so bright.
Thanks for the throwback. Me and wife started dating in 1976 and we both still remember watching this 1979 New Year's celebration with Family. Looking forward to graduating the next year in 1980 from MiraCosta Highschool. We both Thank You for taking us back 45yrs. TIME GOES BY QUICK. SAD BUT TRUE. GOD BLESS ALL. AS MY WIFE AND I CELEBRATE NEW YEARS 2024 WITH FAMILY.🥂 WE ARE BOTH BLESSED HAVE SHARED TOGETHER AND REMEMBER TOGETHER ALL THOSE PAST MEMORIES OF A PAST ERA THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. UNFORGETTABLE TIMES WITH FAMILY.❤✝️❤
Regis Philbin with dark hair! I just turned 12 when this aired. If I only knew then what I know now... Remember, the years can take our looks away, but It can never take our memories 😉👍.
I was age 7 that night. 1978 had "Grease", "HALLOWEEN", SUPERMAN". The Yankees repeated as World Series champions. And I was living in Brooklyn. I'm still in Brooklyn as of January 2022. What a year 1978 was.
78 was a good year, graduated high school, on my way to make a change in the world. 1979 was going to be a new future, it had it ups and downs but it was going to a new year. I remember see this TV party at many different parties. We will never see such a event again. New Year rockin eve with Dick Clark made it official. RIP DC
I love how they’re playing disco music in the background when the camera pans to the crowd 😄 What a time. I was born in ‘80 and sometimes think I was born in the wrong decade 🙁
Boy…watching this film you really get a sense of how today’s society has become so neutralized/sterilized. We’ve become a nation of shouters, complainers, and no self accountability as we check our electronic hip appendage over a hundred times a day. I’m thankful to be able to remember these days. They were very exaggerated times. There was no 24 hour news propaganda channel yet to scare the hell out of everybody. All we had was the 6 o’clock news after supper, then the 11 if you could stay awake. There’s too much readily available news today. It’s gross. We got on just fine without it years back. Thank you for recording this and posting it! It’s great to look back! It transports me back to a simpler time…. Makes me think of my parents. 😭
RUclips always amazes me by how many people have ancient VHS tapes laying around. When this was broadcast I was in a theater watching "Superman". I saw the one next with Blondie singing "Dreaming". And why do I remember these things?
I was 11. So many great memories of the 70’s! I was lucky to have been there. New Years Eve was roller skating in the early evening and watching Dick Clark while drinking Shirley Temples. Then off to Shoneys for hot fudge cake after midnight followed by sparklers in the front yard. Simple times. ❤
Me too! Born Nov 1969!! Miss these times… 70’s and 80’s were just the best! Cheesy goodness and all❤️ Barry at the end… and Ponch hosting! Can’t get better than that!
I miss these days! The music, the tv shows....that Dr. Pepper commercial!! Tickle Deodorant! Put me in a time machine and send me back because life today doesn't even compare.
I just can't believe this was 43 years ago. Where does the time go?! I was a 15 year old Freshman at this time. That was one of the best years of my life. Aww...wish we could go back in time when life was simple and fun.
I remember 7 - year old me viewing this on our Zenith console television,while coloring in my new Giant coloring book I had recieved for Christmas, so fun to "RE"- view through my 53 -year old eyes, Thanks so much for the trip back in time!
AMAZING! I was only five when this special aired, and I watched it with six of my seven older siblings! I will ALWAYS be a fan of 1970's music (especially Disco)!
Oh how I WISH I could go back to this very night as a young 13 year old boy who was just starting to understand a little about life. Wow, what I would give. There will never be another special time like this from our childhood. I miss the world from the 70's and 80's. I don't understand this upside down world we live in today, well, I fully understand, but we won't go there. 🥱😥
Was 7 going on 8 in March, I remember this because of Eric playing Ponch and he was sorta like an Idol, then the Village People who really put on a show. Great memories. Times seemed better at that age but the World was pretty much the same as today minus that Socialist Media crap.
This Throwback New Year's Rockin' Eve from 43 years ago, makes me feel.....MIGHTY REAL! This was also the year my dad started his new life in Chicago, coming up Memorial Day of '79!
Thank you for sharing this. I remember watching this with my family in the house we had just moved into a month and a half earlier. I prefer THIS Rockin Eve and the music as opposed to what is on today. And I was only 8 at the time......
@@crlaw75 yep, after that good old racist, homophobic undercurrent of American society decided it was jealous of too many creative black and unconventional artists being in the spotlight. And from that point on, disco was on the outs.
@@VideoAmericanStyle oh give it a rest! You probably weren't even THERE! There wasn't ANYTHING racist about disco demolition. It was a DJ who was fired from a disco radio station in Chicago who decided to get even in between a double-header baseball game of the Chicago White Sox (oh....is that name racist too??) - NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE, so STOP IT!!
I remember watching this live with my little brother saying "Wow we are in the 80s now!" once the clock turned over. What a rare gem. I bet whover owns the right to these could make a fortune if they sold boxed sets by the decade.
@kathrynowens3324 how long did the transition take? It's usually instantaneous and happens at the stroke of midnight. I have to admit though, that the transition between Suday night and Monday morning does seem to take a bit longer.
The best thing in 1978 Van Halen is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on February 10, 1978, the album peaked at number 19 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 10 million copies in the United States, receiving Diamond certification
Van Halen kicked off the 80”s 2 years early.i was 11 in 78 so I wasn’t plugged in to Rock, more top 40. I heard VH in early 1980 and remember the release of Woman and Children First
Wow, that's good for you 😊👏. Unfortunately, I can't say the same. 1979 was the worst year of my life 😕. There is nothing about that year that makes me want to go back there. I don't look back on '79 with the same joy & fondness as I do with 1976. But, I'm glad you had fun in 1979. 😁👍👍👍
So cool! This was the first New Year's Rockin Eve i watched, I was 10 years old. Mom let my sister and i have a couple friends over to bring in the new year. What a great memory. Thanks for sharing!
@@retroguyretail1976 Yes, Dick Clark will forever be New Year's Rockin' Eve and American Bandstand Plus, the American Music Awards (which I liked way better than the Grammys) has gotten worse after Mr. Clark's passing as well as the music not being the same Carson Daly, Ryan Seacrest, Steve Harvey and Anderson Cooper can't hold a candle to Mr. Clark when it comes to New Year's Eve
I was in kindergarten when this aired. I really did grow up in a great time. Music was so amazing. I can't even watch New years rockin eve anymore. I only watch the apple drop now. I miss everyone I loved that has passed on but this stuff makes me happy.
I remember this..... unbelievable...that I was in grade school....it was a great time....yes 2023..was Star Trek.... for us ... now it is 45 years later....we are now living it .... Looking Back in Time!!!!
1978 was a great year: star wars toys, micronauts and shogun warriors and all thier awsome comic adaptions. Baseball cards where the rage. Back then everything from the show to the ads where top qulaity. And the best decade of all was now only 1 year away.
10:59 They sure loved using that synthesizer sound in 78-79. I can point to a bunch of examples in commercials and tv station bumpers etc from those years.
Thanks for sharing!! So nice to watch these. I also had an Erie feeling at the beginning of 2020.. now I know why. But this time.. I don’t have that feeling. 2021 will be a GREAT year!!
Class of 77 and I miss this so much! I haven't watch the c r a p they've been showing since the death of Dick Clark! It went down hill from there & I don't watch anything... Just old movies.
these were the best era and 80's compared to now. i was 10 years old of this. i miss old dick Clark, every time ya see rockin eve,. the guy never got older. still look the same, yes some people in this video have passed away. due to alot of things, i wish their was a portal we could go back any year we wanted.
Funny how we ALWAYS prefer "the way it was" - people complained when Dick Clark took the reigns from Guy Lombardo, now people complain about whoever took over from Dick Clark.
Hey guys, I appreciate all the comments and feedback but let's keep it constructive and respectful. To add to that, NO Ryan Seacrest slander allowed here. I know some don't like him and say "he doesn't hold a candle to Dick Clark, but I'm pretty sure he would say that himself. To be honest, I think he's doing great hosting the show to a modern audience like today, so I think he's a worthy replacement.
What do you mean? People are allowed to have opinions. 😂
@@Itslaura77 You're only allowed to have an opinion if it matches the poster of this illegal bootleg video.
I think Ryan is doing a wonderful job also in keeping it going 😊
@@DIESEL0759Just keep your negativity to yourself, is it that hard to comprehend
@@DIESEL0759 That "illegal bootleg video" as you call it is preserving history! If it weren't for those "illegal bootleggers" things like this could've been forever lost like ~90% of silent films and ~50% pre-1950 sound movies!
As a 13 yo this was must watch tv with potato chips and sour cream and onion dip!!!
My snack would be Fritos and bean dip. 😊what a time we had.
Exactly! It was a treat…and we were allowed one glass of soda!
Dick Clark was not just America's Oldest Teenager, he was the KING of New Year's!
No matter how crappy of a day I can always watch stuff like this and it makes me feel better instantly. Ah, the good ol' days!
Great days .
I was 14 years old. Back then you had time have a real singing voice to be an artist. Today not so much you can just mumble words become a famous music artist millionaire. I miss the late 70’s and 80’s.
Its funny how everyone looked to the future then. Now we look at the past.
Just like how the Vintage Price is Right is much more fun to watch on RUclips, than the Modern Price is Right on our TV screens.
We used to be a people that strived to be the best, now we just strive to have the most.
@@Skoora
The most of what technology ?
People lived in real time then when phones hung on the wall.
You wanted to see someone you got in your car and went to see them.
Today hundreds of dollars for 9 oz of plastic
We look at a pretend world behind glass and try to figure out the fastest way to get there.
A world that is almost disconnected from reality but we still spend gazillion of consumer dollars to see it and communicate with it through little picture boxes while the real world is falling ruin and neglect.
We see manipulated orchestrated fantasy behind glass and believe its reality.
The same as television back then. The difference now as then we knew it was TV fantasy and a one sided conversation at best.
No interaction with it.
We dealt with real people in a tangable brick and morter material world.
Today we follow blindly from behind the glass trying to keep up while paying more and more for less and less.
Faster and faster in a quest the new resulting of Instantainious obsoleteness of not material items of technology that simply dont work anymore. Then require bigger bucks to keep up to date.
At least in the turn of the last century or progress and declines could be shown with real material physical tangibility.
You are so right.Thank.Bigtime
Brandon's fraudulent presidency sending America straight down the dumper obviously
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This was great stuff...Dick Clark had such class. Way better than the garbage they put on now.
I CONCUR.
That Ryan Seacrest garbage is Unwatchable now.
@@gsentinel4821 and i thought we were alone...everything today is crap...
Amen!!!
Fools, Dick was a nasty human, that was very well known. I mean come on, even his name warns you about it.
All TV slaves are terrible people, these virtuous liberals are helping bail out criminals, all across America.
Dude that murdered that UCLA student, was previously bailed out by the Bail Project. Funded by actors, and liberal politicians, it’s bullshit.
Wow! 1979! Seems like yesterday. How the years flew by. 😮😊❤
The 70s and 80s were the best decades in the history of the world.💯😎🌴🛼 Brace yourselves for 2025‼️👹☠️
I was a senior in high school 😃
I miss Dick Clark. I won’t watch modern NYRE without him
Not even cooper with cohen? Lol
Same....of course I don't even know most pop stars these days😊
Me either
Fond memories of a much simpler time. I was 19yrs old and would be turning 20 that year...Can't believe I'm now 65 with grands. The saying that "Youth is wasted on the Young" rings true. Cherish every moment it goes by fast❤
So True! Same age.
I 100% remember watching this live in NYC on tv. The Dr Pepper commercials bring back so many memories. ABC had big stars and legendary shows in 78 & 79
I remember that era. The older I get, the more I miss that world I grew up in. We had it good in the late 70s through the 80s and didn't realize it at the time untill one day it was gone forever ..replaced by this nightmare of a world now that young people consider " normal".. I feel for them ..they have no clue how much better things once were in our country.
Class of 82 I feel the same
I’m almost 62 and yes indeed 🇺🇸❤️🌟 it was an amazing experience to see now! My generation was blessed to have been young during this time in America 🇺🇸
Class of 92 here. And I feel exactly the same way. My generation came in on the tail end of when it was still good, we are the last good generation.
Boomer here, completely agree; who would have known ?
Class of 95’ here…yes. I watched it change too. 😢
RIP Donna my cousin who died with covid, she always taped shows like this & Soul train!! This is my music! Rick James, etc all good dance music! Those were the days!!
I was 19 yrs old, almost 20 2-4-79 now 63 Hurt all the time! It was great 43 yrs ago1979,i am old now, lost my famiy too! Home 2 we now Lived in a [Terrible Time] 2023!$$ is all that all matter it seems?
Sorry to hear about Donna. Did she take the Corona vaccine?
@@gregsimmons694She died FROM Covid, likely not.
Rip to my friend Frances. She would watch this on New Years Eve. Lost her to Covid in 2021.
Dick Clark was New years Eve 👍
Miss that Guy
Weird to think at least a third of those in that crowd have now passed, probably.
I was nearly 2 when this aired, but this is so comforting and familiar and much, so much better than it has been the last 35 years.
I enjoyed the 80’s Dick Clark’s Rocking New Years Eve, but not much after that. Today, it’s so cold. The warmth that television used to bring has turned mean and cold and creepy, not to mention very low quality and lacking.
You're not kidding - I watched part of the New Years Rockin' Eve and it gave me the creeps - nothing better on other channels either!
So many times when watching clips like this, I wish it was a real time machine and we could go back…
I actually remember this night. I was only 6 years old but I remember spending the night with my friend across the street and at midnight we banged pots and pans. Its actually the first new year I remember.
What were you doing up watching t v at six years old? You should have been in bed asleep. 😊
same here i was just 6 also, i remember this show. my family was having a nye party and my uncle had to ruin it by shooting the electric light pole with his hand gun at midnight.. everything turned off and party was overr!!😂😂
Me too! I always remember Barry singing "It's Just Another New Year's Eve".
I was 7 years old that night. I remember celebrating at my friends house across the street watching Dick Clark. I miss that childhood feeling of freedom that I could do anything with my entire life ahead of me. I also miss the family and friends in my life at that time. It all seems like another lifetime now.
I get so emotional watching this. Such a better time. 14yo and it was just so much fun and so many amazing memories.
I was 12. I would love to see more of those old New Year’s Rockin Eve shows. I watched them every year. I remember watching the new decade come in, as Eric Estrada said, 1980 that next year. I thought my future was so bright.
Its so nice seeing New Years Eve with Dick Clark the way it was!! Its just not the same anymore!!!
👍☑️🎯✝️🙏
Thanks for the throwback. Me and wife started dating in 1976 and we both still remember watching this 1979 New Year's celebration with Family. Looking forward to graduating the next year in 1980 from MiraCosta Highschool. We both Thank You for taking us back 45yrs. TIME GOES BY QUICK. SAD BUT TRUE. GOD BLESS ALL. AS MY WIFE AND I CELEBRATE NEW YEARS 2024 WITH FAMILY.🥂
WE ARE BOTH BLESSED HAVE SHARED TOGETHER AND REMEMBER TOGETHER ALL THOSE PAST MEMORIES OF A PAST ERA THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. UNFORGETTABLE TIMES WITH FAMILY.❤✝️❤
How beautiful to relive better times with better music!
AMEN or LIKEWISE!
Agree 100%!
Regis Philbin with dark hair! I just turned 12 when this aired. If I only knew then what I know now... Remember, the years can take our looks away, but It can never take our memories 😉👍.
I was age 7 that night.
1978 had "Grease", "HALLOWEEN", SUPERMAN". The Yankees repeated as World Series champions. And I was living in Brooklyn. I'm still in Brooklyn as of January 2022. What a year 1978 was.
1978 was also the year that John Travolta became a major movie star thanks to "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease".
1978 was much better than 1979 actually. In music and movies.
I was 9 ....great years wasn't it ???
From Staten island... Lol
Also, judas priest came out with two albums in 1978
78 was a good year, graduated high school, on my way to make a change in the world. 1979 was going to be a new future, it had it ups and downs but it was going to a new year. I remember see this TV party at many different parties. We will never see such a event again. New Year rockin eve with Dick Clark made it official. RIP DC
This was LAMEASS as hell,. Village People, Rick James, Tamya Tucker, Chick Mangione? Please remind me where the "ROCK" was?
I was four, but I remember all these songs! Good times
I was home from college on Christmas break. I was a freshman and just like you was going to change things. Where did the time go?
you didnt changed the world,all you did was consoom product and pay profits for the bank(housing,credit debt )
@@mast3r346 Very embarrassing that you can't even spell the word consume when you were on your mindless pathetic rant.
cheers to you if you're watching this on New Year's Eve of 2021/2022.
I was 9 yrs old
Watching now. I was 1 years old
I love how they’re playing disco music in the background when the camera pans to the crowd 😄 What a time. I was born in ‘80 and sometimes think I was born in the wrong decade 🙁
God bless Dick Clark he rang in the New Year in Heaven Today !!! We mis you Dick !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!!
Compared to todays New Year shows, of course the older ones click with me better 😂
Boy…watching this film you really get a sense of how today’s society has become so neutralized/sterilized. We’ve become a nation of shouters, complainers, and no self accountability as we check our electronic hip appendage over a hundred times a day. I’m thankful to be able to remember these days. They were very exaggerated times. There was no 24 hour news propaganda channel yet to scare the hell out of everybody. All we had was the 6 o’clock news after supper, then the 11 if you could stay awake. There’s too much readily available news today. It’s gross. We got on just fine without it years back. Thank you for recording this and posting it! It’s great to look back! It transports me back to a simpler time…. Makes me think of my parents. 😭
Well put!
@@tb7214 …so true isn’t it?
@@luvbasses5487 really is.
So, so true.
I agree, our lives were better back then. I miss that era greatly.
RUclips always amazes me by how many people have ancient VHS tapes laying around. When this was broadcast I was in a theater watching "Superman". I saw the one next with Blondie singing "Dreaming". And why do I remember these things?
Thanks for bringing these memories back.
I was six years old in 1978. I can still remember watching Rick James on American Bandstand. He was the bridge between 70s Era funk and 80s Era funk.
I was 11. So many great memories of the 70’s! I was lucky to have been there. New Years Eve was roller skating in the early evening and watching Dick Clark while drinking Shirley Temples.
Then off to Shoneys for hot fudge cake after midnight followed by sparklers in the front yard. Simple times. ❤
Ah, 1979...Height of the disco era. I was 10 years old. Great memories!
So was I, buddy....10 years old 👍
I was 13..cheers!
I was 8
Me too! Born Nov 1969!! Miss these times… 70’s and 80’s were just the best! Cheesy goodness and all❤️ Barry at the end… and Ponch hosting! Can’t get better than that!
Me too. Ah, to be 10 again!
Disco Overload!!! Love it
Good times!
I miss these days! The music, the tv shows....that Dr. Pepper commercial!! Tickle Deodorant! Put me in a time machine and send me back because life today doesn't even compare.
David Naughton - with the Dr Pepper Commercials
Pre Return to NY Regis
That looked like a local tv ad
I just can't believe this was 43 years ago. Where does the time go?! I was a 15 year old Freshman at this time. That was one of the best years of my life. Aww...wish we could go back in time when life was simple and fun.
AMEN or LIKEWISE! In my opinion, the '80s WERE, and ALWAYS WILL BE, "THE PINNACLE OF CIVILIZATION!"
I do too !
Love this! I am a 79 baby😊💛✨
I was still cooking when this aired 😅
I am a 1978 baby.
You & me both!
@@kayandaeddings4803 me too Hun March 15th
@@brooklynbabe7896 Sweet.
My sister was born January 1979. My mother was in the hospital getting ready to give birth to her.
I remember 7 - year old me viewing this on our Zenith console television,while coloring in my new Giant coloring book I had recieved for Christmas, so fun to "RE"- view through my 53 -year old eyes, Thanks so much for the trip back in time!
Love the Giant coloring books, with big crayons
@KevinNedai They were the best!
I was 13 years old in 1978
I really miss those times
I was 12. I remember all of the shows and specials from then. Now it feels like a warm hug in a heated blanket. The memories are thick.
What beautiful memories! I was 19 and a disco girl, so this was great to watch. Happy times, good people! Miss the time so much.
RATHER WATCH THIS AND CHATHERN BACH THAN RYAN SEACRUST AND THE COVID KRAP
HE SUCH A BORE
Well never see such great times again. I’d just turned 8 when this was on and still remember it.
I would turn 12 in 8 days.
I would drop out of high school a few days later and turn 18 in February.
I was 12 and my family would move from Ann Arbor to the upper peninsula 🎉
That’s how old I was too
10 days before I was born. Nice.
The main singer of the Village People is amazing. He is the real voice of the group. I love the hosts, July and Ponch.
I was 17 years old ready to turn 18 @ midnight 1/1/79.
I remember watching this !
AMAZING! I was only five when this special aired, and I watched it with six of my seven older siblings! I will ALWAYS be a fan of 1970's music (especially Disco)!
I was 8, and I don't remember any of this! Senior moment! Lol!
Yes when Sylvester "You Make me Feel" starts playing when the ball starts moving at 11:58 you know it's Disco time.
This was LAMEASS as hell,. Village People, Rick James, Tamya Tucker, Chick Mangione? Please remind me where the "ROCK" was?
This is beautiful wow so much sweeter than now look how happy people look the music was awesome 👍🎉
It’s so weird watching the Village People perform YMCA and not see anyone doing the hand motions
Trump looks like he's jerking off two guys, 😆
Ikr 😀?! I was thinking the same thing, lol.
Love the Dr Pepper commercials… glad to see these after all these years.!
The Village People band never thought that this song would be an anthem and played at MarLago New Years Eve party 46 years later! ❤🤍💙
I love this vintage stuff....GREAT times
Oh how I WISH I could go back to this very night as a young 13 year old boy who was just starting to understand a little about life. Wow, what I would give. There will never be another special time like this from our childhood. I miss the world from the 70's and 80's. I don't understand this upside down world we live in today, well, I fully understand, but we won't go there. 🥱😥
Rick James singing Mary Jane is the most 70's thing you'll ever see
Everything in this show is the most 70s thing we'll ever see.
His saxophone player lives in Santa Barbara and works at Trader Joe’s!
1978-1979… best years ever!!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Wow. When this aired, I was 6, and my brothers were 9 and 11. Where the hell did the time go?! Great to see/hear Dick Clark again, though!
Wendy,
I was 11years old when this aired. I loved C.H.I.P.S. And had a maddening crush on Eric Estrada❤️❤️❤️❤️
Was 7 going on 8 in March, I remember this because of Eric playing Ponch and he was sorta like an Idol, then the Village People who really put on a show. Great memories. Times seemed better at that age but the World was pretty much the same as today minus that Socialist Media crap.
Wow!! All of you were children (wink) I was 18 and 9 days from turning 19. Great times!
I was 6 too!
@@sledgehammer9739that just makes you older😂😂😂
This Throwback New Year's Rockin' Eve from 43 years ago, makes me feel.....MIGHTY REAL!
This was also the year my dad started his new life in Chicago, coming up Memorial Day of '79!
This was LAMEASS as hell,. Village People, Rick James, Tamya Tucker, Chick Mangione? Please remind me where the "ROCK" was?
Best time’s ever 🎉12years old greatest performances great year❤ Dick Clark our forever Teen 🎉🎉
Thank you for sharing this. I remember watching this with my family in the house we had just moved into a month and a half earlier. I prefer THIS Rockin Eve and the music as opposed to what is on today. And I was only 8 at the time......
Wow; was just thinking of this a couple nights ago. New Year's Rockin' Eve with Dick Clark... Life felt more hopeful back then.
1978-1979 Disco was at its peak.
Disco started its decline after the Disco Demolition night in July '79.
@@crlaw75 yep, after that good old racist, homophobic undercurrent of American society decided it was jealous of too many creative black and unconventional artists being in the spotlight. And from that point on, disco was on the outs.
@@VideoAmericanStyle oh give it a rest! You probably weren't even THERE! There wasn't ANYTHING racist about disco demolition. It was a DJ who was fired from a disco radio station in Chicago who decided to get even in between a double-header baseball game of the Chicago White Sox (oh....is that name racist too??) - NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE, so STOP IT!!
@@grease58 Ummmm race and homophobia, yes it was about that....Dig deeper into the roots and truth...
Everyone looked so young, especially Dick Clark and I was 12 years old when that aired.
Same here, just turned 12 that month. Seems eons ago, yet at the same time the memories are still fresh. What a time!
Welcome to the reliable quality of VHS videotapes, kids. Rock solid picture in those days. I may be lying.
I was fourteen years old and my Brother nine when we watched 1978 turn into 1979, it is 2024 now, 1979 was a million years ago. Still love that era.😊
When the countdown of the last 30 seconds of ‘78 ticked my heart was pounding like it did back then.
I remember watching this live with my little brother saying "Wow we are in the 80s now!" once the clock turned over. What a rare gem. I bet whover owns the right to these could make a fortune if they sold boxed sets by the decade.
It was 1 year till the 80's in this episode ;) Yeah they all seem to blend together for me as well ;)
@@alexvalenzuela508 I meant the transition from the 70s to the 80s.
1980 transition year between 70s and 80s ...december 31 1980 (1970s officially ended). january 1 1981 (1980s arrived)
Don't yoy miss the Village People ?
@kathrynowens3324 how long did the transition take? It's usually instantaneous and happens at the stroke of midnight. I have to admit though, that the transition between Suday night and Monday morning does seem to take a bit longer.
Wow I hadn't seen Dick Clark when he was this young. What a hunk. I was born in 1981. Very cool. Thanks for posting this
I was born 1 year later. 1982
Wow young Regis!
The best thing in 1978 Van Halen is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on February 10, 1978, the album peaked at number 19 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 10 million copies in the United States, receiving Diamond certification
Used to keep my Van Halen albums in release order
Van Halen kicked off the 80”s 2 years early.i was 11 in 78 so I wasn’t plugged in to Rock, more top 40. I heard VH in early 1980 and remember the release of Woman and Children First
I graduated High School in 1979 in New York. Life was so simple then. Times Square is so different now.
I wouldn't mind going back to 1979.....
Wow, that's good for you 😊👏. Unfortunately, I can't say the same. 1979 was the worst year of my life 😕. There is nothing about that year that makes me want to go back there. I don't look back on '79 with the same joy & fondness as I do with 1976. But, I'm glad you had fun in 1979. 😁👍👍👍
I was so excited about turning 17 and starting my first full time job six weeks later.
So cool! This was the first New Year's Rockin Eve i watched, I was 10 years old. Mom let my sister and i have a couple friends over to bring in the new year. What a great memory. Thanks for sharing!
I was 9. I turned 10 in August of 1979.
👍🏻😎I was 14 and I remember watching this.
Commercials included...this is GOLDEN! Thanks for posting!
Cruise Director Julie (Lauren Tewes) needed the breaks so she could get her nose candy!
They had the best commercials back then. I had forgotten about the Dr Pepper one.
David Naughton was so cute!
So cool as well to hear the music and Dick Clark again.
the shows been off and getting worst after he passed on
@@retroguyretail1976 totally agree
@@retroguyretail1976 Yes, Dick Clark will forever be New Year's Rockin' Eve and American Bandstand
Plus, the American Music Awards (which I liked way better than the Grammys) has gotten worse after Mr. Clark's passing as well as the music not being the same
Carson Daly, Ryan Seacrest, Steve Harvey and Anderson Cooper can't hold a candle to Mr. Clark when it comes to New Year's Eve
@@tnawcwvictoria the ama's i haven't watched since the turn of the century
I love Regis! I love Dick! I probably watched every single one of these NYE's in the 70's & 80's with Dick Clark, including this one!
I watched this when it first aired as 16 year old, just to see the Village people.
Another Great Upload from jack! Thanks Jack!
I was in kindergarten when this aired. I really did grow up in a great time. Music was so amazing. I can't even watch New years rockin eve anymore. I only watch the apple drop now. I miss everyone I loved that has passed on but this stuff makes me happy.
We must be he same age. I watch old tv ads on RUclips and smile
@@IamReallySanta me too, makes me happy and sometimes it's bittersweet
I was 10. I loved those years ‘78 and ‘79, 4th and 5th grades, great music, before the teen and adult years, just fun and simple times.
I feel like I went through a time machine. Lol I remember this day, I was 14 years old. Wow love it.
I remember this..... unbelievable...that I was in grade school....it was a great time....yes 2023..was Star Trek.... for us ... now it is 45 years later....we are now living it .... Looking Back in Time!!!!
1978 was a great year: star wars toys, micronauts and shogun warriors and all thier awsome comic adaptions. Baseball cards where the rage. Back then everything from the show to the ads where top qulaity. And the best decade of all was now only 1 year away.
I was only 4 years old at the time & I was fast asleep never got to stay up until 1981-1982
For me, it wasn't until 1979-1980 when I was 11 years old. 😁👌
@@alaricabercrombie2692 wow 1979-1980 I started school Kindergarten
@bigwillietheb That is so cool 😀
Saw this when it aired after just turning 15- every year like clockwork!
Cheers from a December 1964 girl 😁
10:59 They sure loved using that synthesizer sound in 78-79. I can point to a bunch of examples in commercials and tv station bumpers etc from those years.
It would only get worse in the 80s.
Do you happen to know what brand/model of synth created that sound?
@@TheGlaiveOfKrull Have no idea. My guess would be a Mini Moog...or some type of Moog synth.
Thanks for sharing!! So nice to watch these. I also had an Erie feeling at the beginning of 2020.. now I know why. But this time.. I don’t have that feeling. 2021 will be a GREAT year!!
I had that feeling for 2012. On March 4th my mother died.
You were wrong, unfortunately.
2023 here Happy New Year. Sure wish I could turn the clock back..
What a gift! Thank you! And the original commercials including Kim Basinger for beer shampoo. Classic!!
Looking back, 1979 was a good year. My second favorite for music. Was happy to say goodbye to 1978...
These were the best of times. These were the worst of times. But through it all……Gotta love being alive then and now!
I was born March 1978 this still looks good. The disco era was in full effect
It would die a swift death in the summer of '79.
@@VitaTristis you know what is crazy disco may have died but it had some of the most memorable music
My first New Year's Eve. This is great. Thank you for putting this up...
Class of 77 and I miss this so much! I haven't watch the c r a p they've been showing since the death of Dick Clark! It went down hill from there & I don't watch anything... Just old movies.
Was 2 1/2 years old here. First memories I had started in 79. The 70s ruled. Wish I grew up then
What were your first memories?
these were the best era and 80's compared to now. i was 10 years old of this. i miss old dick Clark, every time ya see rockin eve,. the guy never got older. still look the same, yes some people in this video have passed away. due to alot of things, i wish their was a portal we could go back any year we wanted.
Funny how we ALWAYS prefer "the way it was" - people complained when Dick Clark took the reigns from Guy Lombardo, now people complain about whoever took over from Dick Clark.
i have too admit i remember watching this when i was a kid real music right here......pretty cool stuff.....
Those were the good old days
Well not really, Carter was president and the economy was bad. Malaise era.