I turned 14 in May of 1978, and watching this makes my heart both sing and ache because, in my opinion, the world was such a normal and wonderful place back then, and I miss it more than I can say. I miss this period so very very much and, if I could, I would certainly love to revisit this era. I am happy to see these familiar faces, but also a little sad because I am keenly aware that life will never be like this again. I can certainly use some normalcy, hope, and joy right now, and your compilation has allowed some of those feelings to return to me, if only for a moment. Thank you very much for the upload.
Nothing like the 70’s …wait?!! Is that the ice cream truck 🚐 coming? I’ll take a SUPER STAR banana fudge pop and a pack of KUNG FU cards please ( 1975 )
Today's generation will never know the excitement of going to pick up pictures at Kmart or one hour photo mart. The excitement of Saturday morning cartoons or watching ABC, NBC, CBS...with good shows.
I would wake up as a child to the theme song of The Price Is Right and the smell of tomatoes, onions and scrambled eggs my mom was cooking. Or going to Kmart and getting a slice of Little Caesar’s pizza in a triangle cardboard
And don't forget no sell phone witch in my opinion was great. Cell phones are handy for emergencies and staying in touch with Loved. But they have went too far people are like zombies we survived the violin band and thrived and we could do it again
70s was more like in movie, Taxi Driver in my childhood in NYC--post 1973 oil embargo economic crash, crime, Golden Triangle heroin trafficking. Post-Jim Crow rascism.
I met my wife at a 8th grade Halloween dance in 1978 we were 14 years old we just celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary I her more now than ever before.❤
Right? We had a collective consciousness. Now there are hundreds of channels, networks and apps. I can't keep up and I refuse to. I remember when we had 10 channels. It was a lot less complicated and we were way more entertained.
Fast forward 45 years...tonight on Network TV: 8:00 - Celebrity Cook-Off With Stars You've Never Heard of 9:00 - Celebrities You've Never Heard of Judge People With No Talent Trying to Sing 10:00 - Local News 10:30 - Woke Idiot With His Own Nightly Show Tells Bad Jokes and Interviews Celebrities That Nobody Has Ever Heard of
I was born in 1965. I remember this golden era of television so well there was a time when families would come collectively together just to sit down to watch their favorite programs.
All I have left of my family r memories. Memories of family time, sitting around the TV, watching the Walton's and the Muppets, the special Sunday night movie....I'm so grateful for having the purest love from my mother. She was the best gift EVER!!!!!!
I was 7 years old and life seemed magical. The music, tv shows, cartoons, the commercials. Just an all around incredible and simpler time. Never to be experienced again!😮
Camp Pine Tree (Greenbelt, Maryland), the Yankees won back to back World Series titles, playing little league with my step brother for the Pollard's Chicken Reds, going to the strip at Virginia Beach without getting robbed or beat up, being terrified of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (I still thought Leonard Nemoy, "Dr Spock", was an actual physician, now a replicant), "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty. I had a blast as a kid in 1978.
Its extremely sad to me that people today, Kids today, will never understand how it feels to live a life free of all the things we have to leash us every second we are alive. How quickly it was all gone breaks my heart.
@@biancagerade4229 It sure is the price. I'm the last one living from my family. Grandparents, parents all my siblings, long gone. I do have my children though. Someday I'll see them again. 🙂
My time is coming . I still have all but my father but I am the baby of the family , 10 years junior to the previous sibling . My brothers are in their 60’s now and Mom nearly 90. I have to make time to chronicle them for posterity . There’s so much the next generation couldn’t know .
I've been watching these videos for some time now. I just wanted to say how well done and researched they all are. I especially like that whatever Fred's politics are, they do not infringe on the enjoyment of watching this time capsule of American history. (I am Canadian, but love the States).
Thanks, Lee. I try to show everything I can find for that specific month, be it culture or news -- right, left or center -- that will bring back memories for all of us to share.
Fred provides a wonderful panoply of American cultural history - i would not even limit it to pop culture without any political orientation- just merely a celebration of who we are as Americans with all our flaws. I would encourage everyone to go into the deep tracks of Fred’s rich archive with his Day in the Life and assorted bio videos. They are truly wonderful. I have some time of during the Holidays so I think I will binge watch a few for the second or third time. I will say without reservation, a couple of his personal compilations made me cry
I was 13 in 1978. I lived in Queens, NY with my family. And I would give anything to go back to this time. my parents were alive and healthy. My sister and I were loved and cared for. We had a wonderful life we were middle class, my parents worked hard my sister and I went to school and it was a life, a happy life. The world isn’t the same that it was back then it was so much better back then. ❤️❤️❤️ and Andy Gibb❤️❤️❤️
I was 10 and listening to my sister's Grease album and singing those songs over and over till i drove my older brother nuts and he broke the record in half lol
@jaypayne2101 that was the thing about the 70s, they may have thought about hurting you, but wouldn't dare carry it out, unlike today, where they do their own siblings.
I was just finishing grade 12 and about to turn 17 that summer. What memories, and ohh so many years gone by since... I love this channel! Cheers from Toronto Canada.
Such wonderful memories. I was 12 in 1978. I still watch Three's Company, Barnaby Jones, Good TImes, Sanford And Son, The Rockford Files, Little House On The Prairie, etc...Times seemed simpler because I was a kid, but never would I have imagined what this Country would turn into. I guess it's all biblical. I miss the 70's.
I was 11 in May 1978 and in the sixth-grade. That was when life was much simpler, happier, and the absolute best time to be a kid. After viewing this great video with a flood of memories, my youth beckons.
Everything I want to say, has been said by other people that commented. I guess I will just say thank you so much for all the work you put into these videos so we can all enjoy them.😊
As always Fred, thanks for featuring ABBA from the Olivia tv special. I can still remember sitting in front of the television when it was on. Never thought I would ever see it again until I was in Sears back in the early 80's and they were playing the new laserdisc of that show. The things you remember...lol
@@FredFlix No, but I bought two (yes, two) in the 90's and collected ABBA and Godzilla laserdiscs. Go figure lol And of course, I had to buy two copies of that 'Olivia' disc from 1980.
I felt like I was back in the 70's watching this. I was a teenager and still innocent..lol. And great music ❤ Thank you ❤ P.S. Loved seeing JET magazine featured here.
I get scared because I’m getting older but it’s comforting to realize so is everyone else. Literally. Think of every single person in your life maybe your age group high school college or work and we’re all going thru the years almost together but separate. I love you all for that. I’m only 53 and see that many have said they weee teenagers in the 70’s so out memories are a little different but similar.
57 here. I was 10 in May 1978. I remember when Grease came out that summer and my 12-year old sister went nuts for John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. She got the album and played it every afternoon after school and all day Saturday and Sunday. I swear I can still sing every song on that record in 2024 just overhearing her and her best friend singing along through my bedroom wall. I became anti-Grease over that record and refused to see the movie myself until it hit TV in the 80s when I was a teen and saw Olivia in that black catsuit. Wow.
@@TheLAGopherI am your sister's age and also played that album on loop that year. I couldn't get enough of Hopelessly Devoted to You, You're the One that I Want, Greased Lightning, Summer Days 😊
I was born April 28th 1978. I don't remember the 70s but my brother and sister probably remember a little bit of that era. I remember growing up in the 80s though.Some of the best music and movies came out of the 70s & 80s,truly a Renaissance of art & culture in those decades !
I'm 25 days older than you, my sister was born in 1971 so she definitely remembers it. It's fun looking at her really 70's looking childhood pictures compared to my 80's ones. I'm a little jealous she got to be a teen in the 80's but I did enjoy my time in the 90's. Not that they care, but I do pity the teens of today.
I was turning 15 in August loving life!! Summers in the 70’s were extra cool & fun!! Love ABBA!! Thank you I look forward to your videos every week thank you so much for doing this
Chuck Mangione’s from Rochester, New York. I was on a flight home and he was in the back and my family waited for him to come out and he had autographed postcards for the fans who had waited what a great guy.
In-Fred-able trip back to my 21st year. I was in my third year of hawking hot dogs at Yankee Stadium , kind of a mixed up time of my life, but worth it…hills and valleys but it made me what I am today…not necessarily a good thing,but I’m still here…
I was just 10 in ‘78 and I grew up in Toronto. But I watched all these American shows and loved them and we had the best stars and music back then. I feel your nostalgic pain for the past.
Those were the best days of rock concerts. I saw almost every rock band in this video. Waylon, Willie and the boys did the best version of The Highwayman. Thanks Fred
I was 16 in 78, things were so much simpler back then. Some of best times of my life. The best music was in the 70s and 80s, man I wish I could go back.
I remember seeing that Olivia Newton-John special just to see ABBA. That was such an awesome show, and the carpenters calling occupants of interplanetary craft was probably the most left of center song they ever released which made it so awesome.
Here’s something that to me is just surreal- Back in 1992 when I was 24, I remember watching movies that were made during WWII and thinking to myself “My God! 45-50 years was a LONG time ago. I wonder what it would have been like to be alive during the war!”. But, that’s how far 1978 is from today. The difference for me is that I was there in the 1970’s and lived it. And in another 50 years someone will watch this video, read this text and realize the guy who wrote it is either 100 plus years old, or dead.. I’m banking on dead..😂
I was only 10 years old but despite my divorced parents, absent dad and being an only child latchkey kid, i felt like there were endless possibilities and adventures - flying around on my Schwinn Cruiser or skateboard (Southern California), watching Charlie's Angels and The Bionic Woman, listening to Olivia Newton John and The Bee Gees and eatin' Spaghetti O's and Chicken Pot Pies was as good and simple as it got.
Fred, I think you just cleared up a 45 year old mystery--in May 1978 my HS principal was talking to all us junior senior boys before school ended and said "for you men on the fence about college and turning 19 next year..." and warned us about the govt bringing back the draft. No idea (or no memory why) he said that, but now I know why! Anyway, great look back as always thank you Fred 🙂
Evokes such memories of being young. A time when network miniseries were a big deal. A time when disco was so popular. Susan Sarandon was hot stuff. So interesting to see a market for films at home before the rise of high definition video. Good stuff, Fred.
Ahhh... The seventies, saw Nugent in 72,Kiss in 75, Got my license in 76, Saw BOC in 76,Rush in 77,graduated 78. Couldn't even tell you the amount of dope that went into my lungs. Friday night acid trips. House party's. It was really a phenomenal time to grow up
1978? I was 12 and had the most wonderful childhood and early teens in the 70's. I knew in my bones the music coming out was special and remember spending every extra penny on records and cassettes. What a wonderful time it was! 😊
"Let's go out shootin'!" at 8:20 is the most random commercial for a finale but I still remember it to this day because my brother and I immitated it for quite some time. And here it is, thank you sir, you made my day.
The year of helmet hair. Barbers had to change their signage to "hairdresser". People no longer had ears or knew what hair grease was. A turtle neck was a bonus. Every TV show wanted a bit of Star Wars thrown in somewhere.
Appreciate you including Cheap Trick's third album, "Heaven Tonight," among the LP covers. Being from Illinois myself, always one of my favorite rock bands. And they liked to put the "pretty boys," Robin Zander and Tom Petersson, on the album cover and "nerds" Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos on the back.
I turned in the Summer of 1978. That summer I took driver's training and was working as a farmhand for a local farmer. Life was good and simple back in 78'... good and simple!
I was 12 in 78. This is very cool to see all this, but remember nostalgia is deceptive. People then were looking back, and so will people in the future look back to today, hard as may be to believe😂
True. The biggest hit that summer was Grease which tapped into the 50s nostalgia of the peroid shown on Happy Dayz. Clean cut boys and chaste girls in poodle skirts living in a stable nuclear family, were seen as from a better time than the 70s kids growing up with divorce and changing gender roles.
@@marks6663there was Vietnam, gas shortages and lines, Iran hostages, economic issues, and other problems in the 1970’s. But the social media craziness in today’s time adds to the world suffering more so because we are more aware of it all the time nowadays.
@@beholden1663 but things really are worse now. When I was a kid in the seventies you couldn't get arrested for saying that men and women are different but in Canada now you can. In the 70s a man would get arrested for going into the women's washroom and today you will get arrested if you try to stop him. Things are getting worse with time just like the national debt. In the 1970s you could get on an airplane without being strip searched. Basically as time goes on what is good becomes bad and what was once bad becomes worse.
I was 17 years old in 1978 going to high school and I had many friends , life ahead was full of promise and I was on my way. Now I’ll be turning 64 in 2025 and the realization of how good those times were and I’m sad for the young people in this time. God Bless you all❤
I can’t wait for us to arrive in Heaven to re-live these memories as many times as we wish for Eternity, praise God ❤🙏🏻 We have been so incredibly blessed to lived during the best days.
I was 9! 4 networks, lunchboxes, playing outside, and classic music at every turn. My main thing then was collecting football cards and listening to KISS!
Wonder Woman and the hulk ! Great time for kids to watch super hero’s on tv! Andy Gibb’s shadow dancing says awesome 70’s disco and Eddie money’s baby hold to me says 70’s all the way 🤘 rock on Fred! ⚡️space ace ron⚡️
Interesting how Susan Sarandon comes across as a complete ditz when she is really an intelligent aware woman. Was there any show or mini-series in which William Shatner wasn't in?
I turned 14 in May of 1978, and watching this makes my heart both sing and ache because, in my opinion, the world was such a normal and wonderful place back then, and I miss it more than I can say. I miss this period so very very much and, if I could, I would certainly love to revisit this era. I am happy to see these familiar faces, but also a little sad because I am keenly aware that life will never be like this again. I can certainly use some normalcy, hope, and joy right now, and your compilation has allowed some of those feelings to return to me, if only for a moment. Thank you very much for the upload.
Your thoughtful and heartfelt comment means a lot to me, byromania.
@@FredFlix Thank you.
I turned 18 that july i was thinking the same seeing so many that now are gone
Perfectly said. I feel exactly the same.
I also turned 14 in May of 78 as well an my life was anything but groovy tunes
Take me back to the 70s. I can't handle the world right now.
Nothing like the 70’s …wait?!! Is that the ice cream truck 🚐 coming? I’ll take a SUPER STAR banana fudge pop and a pack of KUNG FU cards please ( 1975 )
me 2
@@clintbronson5 Ya, I'll take a nutty pop and some Wacky Packs please! (1976)
Me 3
Please ❤
Today's generation will never know the excitement of going to pick up pictures at Kmart or one hour photo mart. The excitement of Saturday morning cartoons or watching ABC, NBC, CBS...with good shows.
I would wake up as a child to the theme song of The Price Is Right and the smell of tomatoes, onions and scrambled eggs my mom was cooking. Or going to Kmart and getting a slice of Little Caesar’s pizza in a triangle cardboard
yes we would bc many of us born in the 80s remember these moments as kids as we all are in our 40s now remember it all very well
And don't forget no sell phone witch in my opinion was great. Cell phones are handy for emergencies and staying in touch with Loved. But they have went too far people are like zombies we survived the violin band and thrived and we could do it again
Yeah, but here is a lot of really cool tech today that we couldnt imagine back then either.
Yes, but they have their *buggery* to keep them happy.
i loved being a kid in the 70s.
me 2
The deteriorated VHS video makes it unwatchable. AI could probably restore it.
No 💩. My BIG wheel and playground growing up in HIGHLAND PARK/ DETROIT ,MI. I was 5.
70s was more like in movie, Taxi Driver in my childhood in NYC--post 1973 oil embargo economic crash, crime, Golden Triangle heroin trafficking. Post-Jim Crow rascism.
Indeed 👍
Born in 1965. Grew up in the 70s and 80s. What a time! I would go back in a heartbeat.
Me too, born in 65
Born in 1966!
1970s&80s were the best times to be alive!
Long live Generation X.
65. Fun times.
Born October '65, wouldn't change a thing, magical times:)
born in '62 there was not a better time to grow up....let me go back, just for one day
I met my wife at a 8th grade Halloween dance in 1978 we were 14 years old we just celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary I her more now than ever before.❤
Born in 1970. Please take me back to that era. Beautiful time.
Definitely!! Hard to believe we will be 55 this coming year…wow.
@rallypoint1 yes sir, I'll be 54. Never thought that would happen. I'm a rocker thru and thru.
Ain't that some shit?@@rallypoint1
@@rallypoint1 I just turned 55 two weeks ago. I miss those days.
Vietnam. Cold War. Iranian Crisis. Kent State. New York homicide rates. etc etc. That era wasn't as awesome as you think it was.
Back when we all watch the same TV shows. The best of times.....
Right? We had a collective consciousness. Now there are hundreds of channels, networks and apps. I can't keep up and I refuse to. I remember when we had 10 channels. It was a lot less complicated and we were way more entertained.
We had 5
The one-two punch on Saturday night: Love Boat at 9PM and Fantasy Island at 10PM (east coast).
Fast forward 45 years...tonight on Network TV:
8:00 - Celebrity Cook-Off With Stars You've Never Heard of
9:00 - Celebrities You've Never Heard of Judge People With No Talent Trying to Sing
10:00 - Local News
10:30 - Woke Idiot With His Own Nightly Show Tells Bad Jokes and Interviews Celebrities That Nobody Has Ever Heard of
@@filippocorti6760 And on Friday nights at 8:00 (west coast)....Dukes of Hazzard!
I was born in 1965. I remember this golden era of television so well there was a time when families would come collectively together just to sit down to watch their favorite programs.
On a 27 inch cabinet TV, if you were lucky. And that was luxury.
1965 ❤. so true that this was a golden era
1965 here. And next year we'll all be 60. Hang on! I miss my 70's so much, where did the time go?
Tv trays tv dinners and tv 😂
All I have left of my family r memories. Memories of family time, sitting around the TV, watching the Walton's and the Muppets, the special Sunday night movie....I'm so grateful for having the purest love from my mother. She was the best gift EVER!!!!!!
I was 21 in 1978 went to bed and woke up now I'm 67 what the hell happen!
IKR? I was a high school Junior, looking forward to graduating the following year...and now, I just filed to start collecting Social Security.
Right!
Coma?
It's scary right! But you're still here, so good for that.
IKR?! And what’s worse is everything is wrong with the body I’m in! But I remember all of this like it was yesterday.
I was 7 years old and life seemed magical. The music, tv shows, cartoons, the commercials. Just an all around incredible and simpler time. Never to be experienced again!😮
I was also 7 and I agree. I remember almost all of these things and the energy of that era.
10 here
I never get tired of the beauty and talent that was OIivia Newton-John.
Crazy seeing Dick Vandyke back then he looked old. Here it is Dec.14 2024 his birthday and he is turning 99years old. Happy birthday Dick.
I think or thought 100 years of age.
He will go down in history with people like Bob Barker, Jimmy Carter, Bette White & Kirk Douglas.
So was Keith Richards when interviewed by Mark Twain 😂🤣
I was going to ask if Van Dyke has always been in his 90s?
I was turning 15 in May 1978,these clips and the music bring me back to my teenage years.Memories!
Yes right?! I was 14 but it’s all like yesterday. Some very hard times, but some happiness and great memories too. ✨🙏🏽
Camp Pine Tree (Greenbelt, Maryland), the Yankees won back to back World Series titles, playing little league with my step brother for the Pollard's Chicken Reds, going to the strip at Virginia Beach without getting robbed or beat up, being terrified of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (I still thought Leonard Nemoy, "Dr Spock", was an actual physician, now a replicant), "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.
I had a blast as a kid in 1978.
I WAS BORN IN MARCH 79 RIGHT SOON AFTER THIS GOOD TIMES EARLY 80s
I hear you!
Its extremely sad to me that people today, Kids today, will never understand how it feels to live a life free of all the things we have to leash us every second we are alive. How quickly it was all gone breaks my heart.
Everybody I watched tv with in the 60's and 70's is gone. I never imagined the world without them.
Hopefully it's a different but still good world for you, Tim.
You're not alone Tim everybody except for one person is all gone in my life but that's the price for getting old
@@biancagerade4229 It sure is the price. I'm the last one living from my family. Grandparents, parents all my siblings, long gone. I do have my children though. Someday I'll see them again. 🙂
I hear you Iam 58 59 two weeks and a lot of my friends and family I watched tv with are gone those were happier times
My time is coming . I still have all but my father but I am the baby of the family , 10 years junior to the previous sibling . My brothers are in their 60’s now and Mom nearly 90. I have to make time to chronicle them for posterity . There’s so much the next generation couldn’t know .
10 Year Old in 1978 and a teen in the 80s!!! It was the BEST times and.. it was also the BEST of times!
I've been watching these videos for some time now. I just wanted to say how well done and researched they all are. I especially like that whatever Fred's politics are, they do not infringe on the enjoyment of watching this time capsule of American history. (I am Canadian, but love the States).
Thanks, Lee. I try to show everything I can find for that specific month, be it culture or news -- right, left or center -- that will bring back memories for all of us to share.
The most sure way to ruin entertainment is to interject partisan politics.
Did I read that right? Peter Bonerz?😊
Fred provides a wonderful panoply of American cultural history - i would not even limit it to pop culture without any political orientation- just merely a celebration of who we are as Americans with all our flaws. I would encourage everyone to go into the deep tracks of Fred’s rich archive with his Day in the Life and assorted bio videos. They are truly wonderful. I have some time of during the Holidays so I think I will binge watch a few for the second or third time. I will say without reservation, a couple of his personal compilations made me cry
What a wonderful time to be alive to experience ABBA. Take that millennials 😎
I was 13 in 1978. I lived in Queens, NY with my family. And I would give anything to go back to this time. my parents were alive and healthy. My sister and I were loved and cared for. We had a wonderful life we were middle class, my parents worked hard my sister and I went to school and it was a life, a happy life. The world isn’t the same that it was back then it was so much better back then. ❤️❤️❤️ and Andy Gibb❤️❤️❤️
I was the same age and also lived in Queens, Woodhaven! I loved that time.
@ me too! We lived in Forest Hills. Then Kew Garden Hills. We used to walk to Queens College. Life was so much better then.
May 1978 I graduated high school. Was a great time to be a kid.
I was 11 years old in 78 . Seam's like just yesterday. The good old days.
Hey, me too. I remember most of this stuff.
I was able to turn 7 that year
I was 13. I miss the joy and simplicity of those times.
I was 10 and listening to my sister's Grease album and singing those songs over and over till i drove my older brother nuts and he broke the record in half lol
😂
You must have really been working his nerves!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Daylight-nu3rt on a daily basis 😁
@@jaypayne2101 being the youngest had it's perks huh?🤣🤣🤣
@jaypayne2101 that was the thing about the 70s, they may have thought about hurting you, but wouldn't dare carry it out, unlike today, where they do their own siblings.
I was 11 and remember almost every bit of it, life was so much more in every way. So sad to see how much we've lost, almost nothing improved.
Same age I was too, such a great time! Did you ride a Green Machine?
Everything has improved. Technology is much better, medical knowledge is better, cars are better, everything is better.
Burt and Dom were such a great comic pairing, whatever they did together was pure gold!! Thank you Fred, this was awesome!!
You're welcome, Bridget.
62 born in 62 and definitely a child of the 70s best music and best movies
Love these videos! Takes me back to a time that's gone forever 😢 bittersweet
I was just finishing grade 12 and about to turn 17 that summer. What memories, and ohh so many years gone by since... I love this channel! Cheers from Toronto Canada.
Thanks, Wyliedawg.
Such wonderful memories. I was 12 in 1978. I still watch Three's Company, Barnaby Jones, Good TImes, Sanford And Son, The Rockford Files, Little House On The Prairie, etc...Times seemed simpler because I was a kid, but never would I have imagined what this Country would turn into. I guess it's all biblical. I miss the 70's.
In May of 1978 I was 10 - I clearly remember the "AMAYZING" commercials...What a great time to have been a kid.
Yep i was 16 in may of 1978.Carol Burnett show went off the air that was a sad evening for me.Loved Abba's music during that period as well.
I was 11 in May 1978 and in the sixth-grade. That was when life was much simpler, happier, and the absolute best time to be a kid. After viewing this great video with a flood of memories, my youth beckons.
Everything I want to say, has been said by other people that commented. I guess I will just say thank you so much for all the work you put into these videos so we can all enjoy them.😊
That's all I need to hear, Jan.
As always Fred, thanks for featuring ABBA from the Olivia tv special. I can still remember sitting in front of the television when it was on. Never thought I would ever see it again until I was in Sears back in the early 80's and they were playing the new laserdisc of that show.
The things you remember...lol
Did you have a laserdisc player then, AG?
@@FredFlix No, but I bought two (yes, two) in the 90's and collected ABBA and Godzilla laserdiscs. Go figure lol
And of course, I had to buy two copies of that 'Olivia' disc from 1980.
@@FredFlix I bought laserdisc in the 80’s still have about 30 of them and two laserdisc players. They were great back then..👍🏼
I was a junior in High School in 78 and life was good
Same here
I was a Freshman
@@djgrimm64 Same here
Me too (59).
I was 12 in 78...started my period!!!!❤😂
The Carpenters in space! LOL! Thanks for another memory blast, Fred! I really look forward to your videos.
Much appreciated, Dave.
I felt like I was back in the 70's watching this. I was a teenager and still innocent..lol. And great music ❤ Thank you ❤ P.S. Loved seeing JET magazine featured here.
You're welcome, Joanna.
I turned 13 in '78, last year of elementary school and tv was everything....life was never the same after that summer
👍
Such musical memories I was 16 in may of 1978.
I get scared because I’m getting older but it’s comforting to realize so is everyone else. Literally. Think of every single person in your life maybe your age group high school college or work and we’re all going thru the years almost together but separate. I love you all for that.
I’m only 53 and see that many have said they weee teenagers in the 70’s so out memories are a little different but similar.
57 here. I was 10 in May 1978. I remember when Grease came out that summer and my 12-year old sister went nuts for John Travolta and
Olivia Newton-John. She got the album and played it every afternoon after school and all day Saturday and Sunday. I swear I can still sing
every song on that record in 2024 just overhearing her and her best friend singing along through my bedroom wall. I became anti-Grease
over that record and refused to see the movie myself until it hit TV in the 80s when I was a teen and saw Olivia in that black catsuit.
Wow.
@@TheLAGopherI am your sister's age and also played that album on loop that year. I couldn't get enough of Hopelessly Devoted to You, You're the One that I Want, Greased Lightning, Summer Days 😊
78 feels like yesterday! Such a good memory watching these clips, I’d give anything to go back and live those days over again!
I just met Susan Sarandon this year at Pittsburgh steel city con. We talked a lot about Thelma and Louise and Rocky horror.
My goodness she was fire in 78
I was just turning 10 yrs. old, so many memories…back after a pretty long Covid battle, thanks Fred ✌️
I turned 9 a couple months earlier. And Star Wars was still very fresh in my head!
Another HIT, Mr. Flix! 😊
Thanks, Nick.
These videos bring back a lot of memories. RUclips is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
I was born April 28th 1978. I don't remember the 70s but my brother and sister probably remember a little bit of that era. I remember growing up in the 80s though.Some of the best music and movies came out of the 70s & 80s,truly a Renaissance of art & culture in those decades !
I'm 25 days older than you, my sister was born in 1971 so she definitely remembers it. It's fun looking at her really 70's looking childhood pictures compared to my 80's ones. I'm a little jealous she got to be a teen in the 80's but I did enjoy my time in the 90's. Not that they care, but I do pity the teens of today.
@@pamharris7596 Nice. My sister was born in 71 too and my brother in 72. 😎
Thank you for posting this . I was born in the 70’s . What a great feeling of nostalgia this brings me . I was a great time to be alive
You're welcome, bentlight.
I was turning 15 in August loving life!! Summers in the 70’s were extra cool & fun!! Love ABBA!! Thank you I look forward to your videos every week thank you so much for doing this
I turned 15 in August that year, too. Was in HS in Columbus, Ohio at that time.
I'm Virgo. Are you Virgo or Leo?
I loved ABBA also. I was much older than you though. I was 23.
@ I’m a Leo was definitely having high times!! lol
@sandrabeld8965 Oz's for $35! 😄
@sandrabeld8965 Oz's for 35 dolla! 😃
Just remember that nostalgia plays huge tricks on your mind. The past always seems golden even though it was not.
It could have seemed golden if you were a child at the time.
Chuck Mangione’s from Rochester, New York. I was on a flight home and he was in the back and my family waited for him to come out and he had autographed postcards for the fans who had waited what a great guy.
Class act. I got to see him play in Iowa City, his dad working the merchandise table out in the vestibule. His music never gets old.
In-Fred-able trip back to my 21st year. I was in my third year of hawking hot dogs at Yankee Stadium , kind of a mixed up time of my life, but worth it…hills and valleys but it made me what I am today…not necessarily a good thing,but I’m still here…
I'm sure it's a good thing for all concerned, Dennis.
Eight years old in May of 78. This brings back memories.
"Gen X: We were 30 when we were 15 and we were 30 when we were 50" - Rollo Tomassi
@bigneiltoo Yep and I am enjoying my "30s" all over again.😊
I was just 10 in ‘78 and I grew up in Toronto. But I watched all these American shows and loved them and we had the best stars and music back then. I feel your nostalgic pain for the past.
Holy cow. Dick Van Dyke had gray hair back in '78 and he's still with us today. In fact, today, Dec 13th, he turned 99 years old.
I had a Shaun Cassidy doll and used to pair him up with my Princess Leia doll
I had a Cher doll that I'd pair with my Gene Simmons doll and this was Way before they actually got together in real life years later 😂😂
Those were the best days of rock concerts. I saw almost every rock band in this video.
Waylon, Willie and the boys did the best version of The Highwayman.
Thanks Fred
You're welcome, ASH.
I was 16 in 78, things were so much simpler back then. Some of best times of my life. The best music was in the 70s and 80s, man I wish I could go back.
So cool Fred these are some of greatest artist ever
VW RABBIT FOR 1978,Good drive..
@elifoust7664 way back then
Thanks, friend Brenda.
I was born May 2, 1978. This is really cool to see.
Wow Fred! These Flix's are being produced so regularly now, that I'm beginning to get nostalgic about Flix's from a few month's ago!
That's a new take, ants....
I turned 15 that December. I'm looking at this with tears I my eyes. Wow
I remember seeing that Olivia Newton-John special just to see ABBA. That was such an awesome show, and the carpenters calling occupants of interplanetary craft was probably the most left of center song they ever released which made it so awesome.
I love ABBA! I've been a fan since 1978 age 7.
I was 3 years old seeing this brings tears to my eyes the memories
Here’s something that to me is just surreal-
Back in 1992 when I was 24, I remember watching movies that were made during WWII and thinking to myself “My God! 45-50 years was a LONG time ago. I wonder what it would have been like to be alive during the war!”.
But, that’s how far 1978 is from today. The difference for me is that I was there in the 1970’s and lived it. And in another 50 years someone will watch this video, read this text and realize the guy who wrote it is either 100 plus years old, or dead..
I’m banking on dead..😂
Born in 74 loved growing up in the early 80's. Epic Times!
"Feels So Good." Mangione got it right. Is there anyone who doesn't feel the sense of good vibes?
New subscriber, I was 8 years old and loved sitting in front of my grandparents huge TV.
I was going on 8 and the incredible hulk was one of my favorite shows.
Carpenters ❤. Thanks for bringing back good memories!
Life was so much simpler in the 70s, not complicated like today.
I was only 10 years old but despite my divorced parents, absent dad and being an only child latchkey kid, i felt like there were endless possibilities and adventures - flying around on my Schwinn Cruiser or skateboard (Southern California), watching Charlie's Angels and The Bionic Woman, listening to Olivia Newton John and The Bee Gees and eatin' Spaghetti O's and Chicken Pot Pies was as good and simple as it got.
I was 9 in 1978. Thanks for this flashback.
You're welcome, SOASB.
So was I.
Good times.
I'm a high school grad of 1978 so damn blessed to have grown up during that wonderful time I absolutely miss it!
Fred, I think you just cleared up a 45 year old mystery--in May 1978 my HS principal was talking to all us junior senior boys before school ended and said "for you men on the fence about college and turning 19 next year..." and warned us about the govt bringing back the draft. No idea (or no memory why) he said that, but now I know why! Anyway, great look back as always thank you Fred 🙂
Happy to help, Doug.
Thank you so much for another great trip down memory lane fred❤️❤️😊😊
Evokes such memories of being young. A time when network miniseries were a big deal. A time when disco was so popular. Susan Sarandon was hot stuff. So interesting to see a market for films at home before the rise of high definition video. Good stuff, Fred.
Thanks, Robert.
Ahhh... The seventies, saw Nugent in 72,Kiss in 75, Got my license in 76, Saw BOC in 76,Rush in 77,graduated 78. Couldn't even tell you the amount of dope that went into my lungs. Friday night acid trips. House party's. It was really a phenomenal time to grow up
1978? I was 12 and had the most wonderful childhood and early teens in the 70's. I knew in my bones the music coming out was special and remember spending every extra penny on records and cassettes. What a wonderful time it was! 😊
"Let's go out shootin'!" at 8:20 is the most random commercial for a finale but I still remember it to this day because my brother and I immitated it for quite some time. And here it is, thank you sir, you made my day.
The year of helmet hair.
Barbers had to change their signage to "hairdresser".
People no longer had ears or knew what hair grease was.
A turtle neck was a bonus.
Every TV show wanted a bit of Star Wars thrown in somewhere.
Can't argue with that. 🙂
The only man in America was short hair was still Richard Benjamin
Thanks for another one Fred! They always start my day off with a smile!
You're welcome, Mac.
Cool video, I was 18 and thought I knew everything, got married and then I realized how naive I really was 🤨
Appreciate you including Cheap Trick's third album, "Heaven Tonight," among the LP covers. Being from Illinois myself, always one of my favorite rock bands. And they liked to put the "pretty boys," Robin Zander and Tom Petersson, on the album cover and "nerds" Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos on the back.
VW RABBIT for 1978..Good ride.
I turned in the Summer of 1978. That summer I took driver's training and was working as a farmhand for a local farmer. Life was good and simple back in 78'... good and simple!
I was 5. Dick Van Dyke still holding it DOWN IN 2024. 99 years old 👏👏👏
I was 12 in 78. This is very cool to see all this, but remember nostalgia is deceptive. People then were looking back, and so will people in the future look back to today, hard as may be to believe😂
True. The biggest hit that summer was Grease which tapped into the 50s nostalgia of the peroid shown on Happy Dayz. Clean cut boys and
chaste girls in poodle skirts living in a stable nuclear family, were seen as from a better time than the 70s kids growing up with divorce and
changing gender roles.
It is not deceptive. All it means is that things continue to get worse.
@@marks6663there was Vietnam, gas shortages and lines, Iran hostages, economic issues, and other problems in the 1970’s. But the social media craziness in today’s time adds to the world suffering more so because we are more aware of it all the time nowadays.
@@beholden1663 but things really are worse now. When I was a kid in the seventies you couldn't get arrested for saying that men and women are different but in Canada now you can. In the 70s a man would get arrested for going into the women's washroom and today you will get arrested if you try to stop him. Things are getting worse with time just like the national debt. In the 1970s you could get on an airplane without being strip searched. Basically as time goes on what is good becomes bad and what was once bad becomes worse.
I was 17 years old in 1978 going to high school and I had many friends , life ahead was full of promise and I was on my way. Now I’ll be turning 64 in 2025 and the realization of how good those times were and I’m sad for the young people in this time. God Bless you all❤
I can’t wait for us to arrive in Heaven to re-live these memories as many times as we wish for Eternity, praise God ❤🙏🏻 We have been so incredibly blessed to lived during the best days.
I was 9! 4 networks, lunchboxes, playing outside, and classic music at every turn. My main thing then was collecting football cards and listening to KISS!
Very nice clips again.
Thanks, Rolf.
I was 12. Times were great. People got along. The best time to be a human.
A lot has changed since then
MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS EVER! Beatles 1967-1970, a drum kit, and Star Wars toys!!
Wonder Woman and the hulk ! Great time for kids to watch super hero’s on tv! Andy Gibb’s shadow dancing says awesome 70’s disco and Eddie money’s baby hold to me says 70’s all the way 🤘 rock on Fred! ⚡️space ace ron⚡️
Thanks, Ron!
Born April 1971 Detroit Michigan Thank you for taking me back. So 😎
I bet everyone was glad when May was over and there were no more of those AMAYZING promo spots on CBS.
I'm class of 78. The 70's what a time it was. I would do it all again.
Interesting how Susan Sarandon comes across as a complete ditz when she is really an intelligent aware woman.
Was there any show or mini-series in which William Shatner wasn't in?
TJ Hooker. Oh, and that little show called Star Trek.
❤Lovely 70's, fantastic innocent times. I was 18 yo. visiting USA third time. ❤Fell in love with America❤love from Finland