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!
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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)!
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.❤✝️❤
@@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.
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.
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. 😭
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 🙁
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!
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 😉👍.
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......
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 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 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.
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.
@@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
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 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.
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!!
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
This is an amazing time capsule from my childhood. I will watch this again and again. I doubt I saw it live. I would have been sound asleep with my new Kenner Star Wars figures that I had received that Christmas '78. I always wanted to see Chuck Mangione footage from this era. My parents played that album all the time - I loved it. I came upon this video by "RUclips algorithm" accident", but happy I did! What a great time to be alive and enjoying life that was. No cell phones out. People hanging out, talking face to face and having fun together. P.S. Is beer shampoo still made? I wanna try that (and if any froth gets in my mouth as I lather, so be it). And where can I get a big medallion like Ponch has? CHiPs was my #1 show back then! Love this video!
In Christmas 1978, I received a toy figure named "ULTRA MAN". I was 10 years old. I did try to stay awake until midnight on New Year's Eve that year but, I didn't make it. I woke up at 1:30 am 😂🤦♂️
Wasn’t the winter 🥶 ❄️ Olympics the following year in 1980 in Lake Placid New York and Chuck Mangione wrote the Theme sing for the 1980 Winter 🥶 Olympics on ABC
I was in NYC,just turned 19....it was probably one of my best New Years,hung with some cool people.Now I don’t give a crap about it,I’m asleep by 11.....😴🥳😩😂
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!!!!
~ At this time, I was 4 and my husband was 14. My family lived in the Santa Monica Mountains (Malibu adjacent) so this was the actual ABC affiliate we watched! 📺💙 My husband and I both miss the 70's. There sure were a lot of problems back then, nonetheless, it felt special and cozy. We're grateful for this video; we rocked in 2022 to Macho Man! 🎉🕺💃🍾
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. 🥱😥
Last year of college...the world, and young people, were so very much different back then...we didn't have the distractions or "trappings" of technology and social media and were, thus, happy, unattached and comfortable with our status, (as we were still young and had our entire lives ahead of us). We were "present", engaged with other humans, and free from the craziness of frenetically searching dating websites for "hookups" or "soulmates" to impress our social media followers, so as to prove that we were "worthy". We got dressed up to go out on a Saturday night (didn't have to be "attached at the hip" to someone, ANYONE, of the opposite sex...we were just as happy going out with a group of friends), we were free of "body art" and "piercings", and we were not mindlessly attached to devices, so we were comfortable interacting with other humans in person and on the telephone (no texting or Zooming needed). As you can tell from this video, we were certainly less depressed, less anxiety-ridden, less "burdened by the world" back then. Sad how the pressures of the media (and social media) and technology have impacted "today's world" and the young people who must find a way to navigate it.
@@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 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.
Wow this was my first New Years Eve! I was born in November 1978 --must’ve been so fun to be an adult during that time. The music, the celebrities, the style, the attitude, even the commercials were so much better!
The powers that be should release the Grammy Awards shows from 70’s and 80’s on dvd or stream them at least… Because… when it comes to nostalgia, a little is NEVER ENOUGH! 🤩😁😎
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.
My God, so so long ago and yet right there in my memory. All the family and friends who are no longer around... the circle of life keeps turning but geezus, I hate this world today
What a wonderful surprise to see this on my feed! I was 12, this was a big part of my childhood. We thought the Village People were hilarious, laughed so hard I wet my pants. 🤣
Big fan of his as a kid. That Feels So Good album was massive. Chris Vadala on saxophone, my instrument, Grant Geissman on guitar and Chuck Mangione of course were my 3 favourite musicians in that band. Ended up at a clinic of Chuck Mangione at Eastman 8 years later.
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!
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 .
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
How beautiful to relive better times with better music!
AMEN or LIKEWISE!
Agree 100%!
Its so nice seeing New Years Eve with Dick Clark the way it was!! Its just not the same anymore!!!
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
So many times when watching clips like this, I wish it was a real time machine and we could go back…
This is beautiful wow so much sweeter than now look how happy people look the music was awesome 👍🎉
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.
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?
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
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.❤✝️❤
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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Best time’s ever 🎉12years old greatest performances great year❤ Dick Clark our forever Teen 🎉🎉
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 !
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 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.😊
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.
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
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.
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 🙁
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?
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 😉👍.
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......
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!
Commercials included...this is GOLDEN! Thanks for posting!
Cruise Director Julie (Lauren Tewes) needed the breaks so she could get her nose candy!
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 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 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.
My first New Year's Eve. This is great. Thank you for putting this up...
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!
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
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!
What a gift! Thank you! And the original commercials including Kim Basinger for beer shampoo. Classic!!
Geez… even the friggin commercials were better!
EVERYTHING was better then. EVERYTHING!
Yeah, the commercials weren't about lawyers, drugs and politics
@@haywoodjablowme699 and insurance and Medicare every two minutes
@@chrisoakley5830 except air quality i think, thats better now .maybe
When the countdown of the last 30 seconds of ‘78 ticked my heart was pounding like it did back then.
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?
Thank you for sharing this. This is the Rockin Eve I remember.
Thanks for uploading! I was a sophomore in HS when this aired. Looking forward to the future, now I wish I could go back.
This brought back so many memories. It's strange, it's fun to see but it makes me a bit sad to see how much time has passed. Thanks for this.
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 ?
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.
I was 15 when this first aired, turning 16 in a couple of months. Such wonderful memories watching these New Year’s specials from this era. 😊😊
I was also 15yrs old and turned 16 in april 79 so many memories! I wish we could go back sometimes!!😉
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
Welcome to the reliable quality of VHS videotapes, kids. Rock solid picture in those days. I may be lying.
This is an amazing time capsule from my childhood. I will watch this again and again. I doubt I saw it live. I would have been sound asleep with my new Kenner Star Wars figures that I had received that Christmas '78. I always wanted to see Chuck Mangione footage from this era. My parents played that album all the time - I loved it. I came upon this video by "RUclips algorithm" accident", but happy I did! What a great time to be alive and enjoying life that was. No cell phones out. People hanging out, talking face to face and having fun together. P.S. Is beer shampoo still made? I wanna try that (and if any froth gets in my mouth as I lather, so be it). And where can I get a big medallion like Ponch has? CHiPs was my #1 show back then! Love this video!
In Christmas 1978, I received a toy figure named "ULTRA MAN". I was 10 years old. I did try to stay awake until midnight on New Year's Eve that year but, I didn't make it. I woke up at 1:30 am 😂🤦♂️
Wasn’t the winter 🥶 ❄️ Olympics the following year in 1980 in Lake Placid New York and Chuck Mangione wrote the Theme sing for the 1980 Winter 🥶 Olympics on ABC
I had all the canner Star Wars figures... I had the floating land speedr too
@@alaricabercrombie2692 i remember ultraman..
Disco Overload!!! Love it
Good times!
1978-1979… best years ever!!!!!!❤❤❤❤
I was in NYC,just turned 19....it was probably one of my best New Years,hung with some cool people.Now I don’t give a crap about it,I’m asleep by 11.....😴🥳😩😂
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 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!!!!
Was 2 1/2 years old here. First memories I had started in 79. The 70s ruled. Wish I grew up then
The main singer of the Village People is amazing. He is the real voice of the group. I love the hosts, July and Ponch.
~ At this time, I was 4 and my husband was 14. My family lived in the Santa Monica Mountains (Malibu adjacent) so this was the actual ABC affiliate we watched! 📺💙
My husband and I both miss the 70's. There sure were a lot of problems back then, nonetheless, it felt special and cozy.
We're grateful for this video; we rocked in 2022 to Macho Man!
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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!
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. 🥱😥
Last year of college...the world, and young people, were so very much different back then...we didn't have the distractions or "trappings" of technology and social media and were, thus, happy, unattached and comfortable with our status, (as we were still young and had our entire lives ahead of us). We were "present", engaged with other humans, and free from the craziness of frenetically searching dating websites for "hookups" or "soulmates" to impress our social media followers, so as to prove that we were "worthy". We got dressed up to go out on a Saturday night (didn't have to be "attached at the hip" to someone, ANYONE, of the opposite sex...we were just as happy going out with a group of friends), we were free of "body art" and "piercings", and we were not mindlessly attached to devices, so we were comfortable interacting with other humans in person and on the telephone (no texting or Zooming needed). As you can tell from this video, we were certainly less depressed, less anxiety-ridden, less "burdened by the world" back then. Sad how the pressures of the media (and social media) and technology have impacted "today's world" and the young people who must find a way to navigate it.
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...
Love it, I want to watch Rockin’ Eve 1980 full episode
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. 😁👌
Those were the good old days
Well not really, Carter was president and the economy was bad. Malaise era.
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 17 years old ready to turn 18 @ midnight 1/1/79.
I remember watching this !
I was so excited about turning 17 and starting my first full time job six weeks later.
Many Thanks, I've been online searching for New Years Rockin' Eve shows for I'm not sure how long. Rare trips down memory lane.
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.
@@WildChildMcCloud you know what is crazy disco may have died but it had some of the most memorable music
Wow this was my first New Years Eve! I was born in November 1978 --must’ve been so fun to be an adult during that time. The music, the celebrities, the style, the attitude, even the commercials were so much better!
I turned 18 that October '78 and your assessment is absolutely correct!💯💯💯
I was 13 years old in 1978
I really miss those times
There is a good chance that I watched this live! I use to watch Dick Clark’s New Year Eve every year.
This was awesome. Ah the memories thanks
The powers that be should release the Grammy Awards shows from 70’s and 80’s on dvd or stream them at least… Because… when it comes to nostalgia, a little is NEVER ENOUGH! 🤩😁😎
i agree 100 %
I haven't watch the Grammys since the 80s. It was all downhill after that, in my opinion anyway.
I love this vintage stuff....GREAT times
I love this!! Thank you for posting it!!
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.
Saw this when it aired after just turning 15- every year like clockwork!
Cheers from a December 1964 girl 😁
4 months and 20 days before I was born! I think us kiddos born in 1979 are pretty amazing!
i have too admit i remember watching this when i was a kid real music right here......pretty cool stuff.....
My God, so so long ago and yet right there in my memory. All the family and friends who are no longer around... the circle of life keeps turning but geezus, I hate this world today
I watched this when it first aired as 16 year old, just to see the Village people.
Just found this! Always liked this song and Barry is the best!😀❤️
What song?
This is the greatest thing ever posted to RUclips.
That pre-911 crowd in NYC was packed in like sardines and poppin'. I can only imagine what it was to be there. Thanks for the video.
I had just turned 5 when this aired. Some of my first memories in my life started around this time, especially cause of the music.
2023 here Happy New Year. Sure wish I could turn the clock back..
What a wonderful surprise to see this on my feed! I was 12, this was a big part of my childhood. We thought the Village People were hilarious, laughed so hard I wet my pants. 🤣
Happy New Year 2023!
@Jake Allonar, thanks for uploading this!
I watched this as it broadcasted with my (then) boyfriend. We have been married 37 years, such great memories!
Looking back, 1979 was a good year. My second favorite for music. Was happy to say goodbye to 1978...
1979.....my birth year!!!!
This was the bestest.....Just enjoy it all
These were the best of times. These were the worst of times. But through it all……Gotta love being alive then and now!
Oh god, the Mangione performance is legendary.
Feel so good.
You know it was live by all the blown notes. 😄
@@mcdarwin Every note was "blown", technically.😄
Big fan of his as a kid. That Feels So Good album was massive. Chris Vadala on saxophone, my instrument, Grant Geissman on guitar and Chuck Mangione of course were my 3 favourite musicians in that band. Ended up at a clinic of Chuck Mangione at Eastman 8 years later.
@@mcdarwin Exactly! Nothing wrong with imperfection. Makes the world go around.
WOW WOW WOW WOOOOOOOW
thank you so much for posting this GEM
I was 7 years old at the time. Great music, great memories!
I’d go back to 3rd grade in a heartbeat to relive those days….