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.
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.
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
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
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 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'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
@@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 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
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.
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.
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 was 13 and just started jr high school and met my 1st love,now I’m a grandpa 6 grown kids 6 grandkids wife of 34 yrs. Same neighborhood and I miss them old days but have been blessed and a lot to be thankful for..👋🏼
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! 😊
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.
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.😊
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 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 !
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 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 😊
Oh gosh. I was 13. My stepfather was a functional alcoholic. Him and my mom went to work everyday, but on the drinking weekends he could get mean. I couldn't wait to get out. All the music, the daydreams, the celebrities, the shows, world news, playing outside and even steering clear of the madness makes more sense to me. The devil you know, I suppose.
In 1978 I lived across the street from a park where local musicians would do concerts. Will never forget them playing Chuck Mangione’s current smash “Feels So Good” on a warm summer night… 🌙 🎺
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 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❤️❤️❤️
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.
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..😂
Thanks for the awesome memories, Fred! I was 18 in 1978 and had spent the past year saving money to buy my first car: A circus orange 1974 Ford Bronco. The chicks dug it! Not really. I did use that Bronco to take my future wife on dates; been married over 40 years now.
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.
Well, as I've already shared, "Feels so Good" I first heard in June but as you include it here, there goes my 👉☺️. Ohhh, "On Broadway". 🎵🎶🎵 "Thank God it's Friday" I saw many years later but I get goosebumps every time I listen to "Last Dance". Nice, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟
In May 1978 I was 5 years old and still in a Pre-K program. I remember most of the things in this video especially the voice announcing all the TV shows coming up. I wish I could have experienced the 70’s (especially the music) more.
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.
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.
RUclips Movies had it free some months ago. I loved that movie back then and thought I'd watch it. To be honest, i was ready to turn it off after about 30 minutes but i hung in there😂
Jax Fl, drivers liscense, 1st ride (75 Dodge 100 pick-up -w-topper) keg partys, driving on the beach, Van Halen I, surfing...1978...man...what a year !
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.
It's surprising how exciting your videos can be for someone like me, who has never visited your country. You do a great job.👍 Thanks for remembering Eddie Money and John Ritter and so many others. Saludos!! 😊🤚
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.
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 🙂
By 1978, what many people think of when they think of the 70s was beginning to fade and you could feel the transition to the next decade slowly coming (sadly). But there were still many good times ahead. The music specials and variety shows were still hanging in there, thankfully. Thanks as always for the memories, Fred. That long, feathered parted-in-middle hair was everywhere, wasn’t it? (Including on my own head! lol)
I was 10 years old in 1978. Looking back and watching this, you could tell the 70’s were kind of running out of steam and something fresh was on its way. Personally, being a teen in the 80’s was amazing. The world still felt normal and predictable, adults acted like adults and there seemed to still be basic decency. Just my take, hello from Michigan!
Depending on how you view things...The 1980's started in 1978...or the 1970's ended in 1983. There's that transitional timeframe where you had elements of both decades overlapping each other.
I was 13 in 1978 and in 7th grade going to Catholic School with and had such an idyllic view of the world! The world was a wonderful place to live, the streets were safe, housing was affordable (comparatively to today especially even during the Carter years, food was cheap and healthy and everything wasn’t so sexualized and/or so aggressive. We all loved our country and we were amazing! How I long for those wonderful innocent carefree days!
Turned 13 that May, during my first Hellish year in junior high school. I missed that Olivia special, which sucks because I adore ABBA. I know Pop watched The Bastard, so I got to see some of it. Olivia Hussey I fell in love with. I didn't have any of those comics. Looks like Steve Ditko art on The Bionic Woman. I would have loved to see Sinatra in concert. Busey was great in as Buddy Holly. Spent a lot of time building models that year, until baseball started, where I did shine. Thanks Fred.
I was born in 1977, and as a historian, I look at 1978 as the "last dance" for America, before the entire world got swallowed up by the microchip. 1978 was the probably the pinnacle of our species, and that world is long, long gone 😢
What great and simple times those days were, as a 12 yr old kid we had few worries and many dreams. I wish I was riding around on bicycles with my friends with only a pocketful of quarters and a mouthful of bubblegum as standard equipment 😆
I was 12 in ‘78. What a great time to be a kid. Was able to go all around town on my bike alone or with friends and nobody batted an eye. Now parents are getting arrested for letting their kids do the same things. It’s a shame.
Nice job, Fred! I remember May 1978 as the month when my family visited Kings Island in Ohio (Partridges & Bradys went there first.), finished 7th grade, and saw a sister get her Bachelor's Degree Magna Cum Laude. 0:01 - MeTV just reran this movie a week ago Sunday. I recorded it last year. I thought it was smart of the animators to show just the kids' heads in the spelling bee then having their heads pop away after they were eliminated. Of course the words were all given as "wah-wah-wah-wah", but then the kids repeated them & tried to spell them. 1:23 - I always wondered if Sunbeam bread had any corporate relationship to Sunbeam appliances. I've never bothered to research it though. 8:30 - Affirmed later won the Belmont & the Triple Crown, the last horse to do that until American Pharoah in 2015. 10:48 - My mom had & read all 8 books in the Jakes series. She said the 1st had trouble being published due to its name. I think at least the 1st 2 books were turned into tv movie/miniseries, syndicated to local stations rather than network-run, from what I remember. 14:00 - The draft became just draft registration. I went to my PO & registered, but I'm way past draft age now. 21:38 - I'll bet no one thought it was take him 44 years more to become King.
Thanks for another informative comment, Jon. (Just an aside between us: I bought a fridge magnet of the 1957 TV Guide fall preview issue. It looked so cool I bought about 20 other magnets of everything from Famous Monsters, Life and Spider-Man covers to posters of Fantastic Voyage, A Hard Day's Night and Not of This Earth. When I go to get a popsicle now I have to stare at the freezer door for a minute.)
my great grand mothers on both sides and great great grandmother on my mother side all died in 1978…i wasnt born until 1980 so never knew any of them, my mom always tell the story of one how they all watched the Roots mini series the night prior and that their grandmother didnt wake up at her usual 4a to start breakfast that she had died in her sleep so now any time that movie comes on reminds her of the last night she spent with her grandmother, interesting that Roots was not mentioned anywhere as its one of the most successful films of all time airing in 1978
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
i loved being a kid in the 70s.
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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 👍
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 )
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@@clintbronson5 Ya, I'll take a nutty pop and some Wacky Packs please! (1976)
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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
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 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 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'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 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.
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 .
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.
May 1978 I graduated high school. Was a great time to be a kid.
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
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.
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.
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 was 13 and just started jr high school and met my 1st love,now I’m a grandpa 6 grown kids 6 grandkids wife of 34 yrs. Same neighborhood and I miss them old days but have been blessed and a lot to be thankful for..👋🏼
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! 😊
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..👍🏼
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.
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.
In May of 1978 I was 10 - I clearly remember the "AMAYZING" commercials...What a great time to have been a kid.
The Carpenters in space! LOL! Thanks for another memory blast, Fred! I really look forward to your videos.
Much appreciated, Dave.
Another HIT, Mr. Flix! 😊
Thanks, Nick.
I was 13. I miss the joy and simplicity of those times.
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!!!!❤😂
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 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!
Such musical memories I was 16 in may of 1978.
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! 😃
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 !
Born in 1970. Please take me back to that era. Beautiful time.
Eight years old in May of 78. This brings back memories.
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.
I turned 13 in '78, last year of elementary school and tv was everything....life was never the same after that summer
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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 😊
New subscriber, I was 8 years old and loved sitting in front of my grandparents huge TV.
So cool Fred these are some of greatest artist ever
VW RABBIT FOR 1978,Good drive..
@elifoust7664 way back then
Thanks, friend Brenda.
Oh gosh. I was 13. My stepfather was a functional alcoholic. Him and my mom went to work everyday, but on the drinking weekends he could get mean. I couldn't wait to get out. All the music, the daydreams, the celebrities, the shows, world news, playing outside and even steering clear of the madness makes more sense to me. The devil you know, I suppose.
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
Thank you so much for another great trip down memory lane fred❤️❤️😊😊
MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS EVER! Beatles 1967-1970, a drum kit, and Star Wars toys!!
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.
In 1978 I lived across the street from a park where local musicians would do concerts. Will never forget them playing Chuck Mangione’s current smash “Feels So Good” on a warm summer night… 🌙 🎺
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 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❤️❤️❤️
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.
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..😂
Thanks for another one Fred! They always start my day off with a smile!
You're welcome, Mac.
Amazing! Excellent! Well Done! A really nice time machine. So many nice memories!
"Feels So Good." Mangione got it right. Is there anyone who doesn't feel the sense of good vibes?
Thanks for the awesome memories, Fred! I was 18 in 1978 and had spent the past year saving money to buy my first car: A circus orange 1974 Ford Bronco. The chicks dug it! Not really. I did use that Bronco to take my future wife on dates; been married over 40 years now.
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.
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
Born April 1971 Detroit Michigan Thank you for taking me back. So 😎
Olivia and Agnetha from ABBA..My teenage crushes. I remember watching that special with my parents!
Well, as I've already shared, "Feels so Good" I first heard in June but as you include it here, there goes my 👉☺️. Ohhh, "On Broadway". 🎵🎶🎵
"Thank God it's Friday" I saw many years later but I get goosebumps every time I listen to "Last Dance".
Nice, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟
Thank you, Mercedes-ssi.
I was waiting for this upload,thank you
You're welcome, Shawn.
In May 1978 I was 5 years old and still in a Pre-K program. I remember most of the things in this video especially the voice announcing all the TV shows coming up.
I wish I could have experienced the 70’s (especially the music) more.
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.
Look at the beauty: Suzanne somersault, Olivia Newton-John, ABBA gals, Candace Bergen, Susan Sarandon etc…
Beautiful music,…
Suzanne Somersault?? Who's that? A gymnastics champ? 😊
I was going on 8 and the incredible hulk was one of my favorite shows.
This is possibly the best video you have edited Fred❤❤
Thank you very much, Eric.
I guess you could call it "good Fr-editing"? Lol 🤭😆
I'm class of 78. The 70's what a time it was. I would do it all again.
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 9 in 1978. Thanks for this flashback.
You're welcome, SOASB.
So was I.
Good times.
VW RABBIT for 1978..Good ride.
Just what I needed for a Saturday! Thank you for sharing!
I was 16 years old in the Summer of 1978. I remember it being a really good Summer!
Very cool I turned one in December of 78 cool to see what my parents were watching!
70's ? I am not there yet, I am still happily in the 60's and, LOVING IT!
I was 5. Dick Van Dyke still holding it DOWN IN 2024. 99 years old 👏👏👏
Thank God It's Friday had a great soundtrack.
It did! Lots of Donna Summer!
RUclips Movies had it free some months ago. I loved that movie back then and thought I'd watch it.
To be honest, i was ready to turn it off after about 30 minutes but i hung in there😂
I was 11 years old in 78 . Seam's like just yesterday. The good old days.
RIP James Garner
Only 2 Space Cowboys left... 😔
Jax Fl, drivers liscense, 1st ride (75 Dodge 100 pick-up -w-topper) keg partys, driving on the beach, Van Halen I, surfing...1978...man...what a year !
Very nice clips again.
Thanks, Rolf.
Thank you for the excellent edited trip down memory lane
You're welcome, 333M.
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
It's surprising how exciting your videos can be for someone like me, who has never visited your country. You do a great job.👍
Thanks for remembering Eddie Money and John Ritter and so many others.
Saludos!! 😊🤚
I'm glad people in other countries are enjoying the videos. What country are you in?
@@FredFlix I'm from Chile 🤚 (and I've already subscribed to your channel for a while 😁👍)
@@jn48-sc5ei Thank you!
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 was 14 in 1978 and I remember most if if not all of this very well.
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.
Such blissfully naive times- I turned 5 in spring of 1978. High trust and cohesiveness….
By 1978, what many people think of when they think of the 70s was beginning to fade and you could feel the transition to the next decade slowly coming (sadly). But there were still many good times ahead. The music specials and variety shows were still hanging in there, thankfully. Thanks as always for the memories, Fred. That long, feathered parted-in-middle hair was everywhere, wasn’t it? (Including on my own head! lol)
I was 10 years old in 1978. Looking back and watching this, you could tell the 70’s were kind of running out of steam and something fresh was on its way. Personally, being a teen in the 80’s was amazing. The world still felt normal and predictable, adults acted like adults and there seemed to still be basic decency. Just my take, hello from Michigan!
Depending on how you view things...The 1980's started in 1978...or the 1970's ended in 1983.
There's that transitional timeframe where you had elements of both decades overlapping each other.
A must read tv guide was always in my house back then..long before cable came around
I was 13 in 1978 and in 7th grade going to Catholic School with and had such an idyllic view of the world! The world was a wonderful place to live, the streets were safe, housing was affordable (comparatively to today especially even during the Carter years, food was cheap and healthy and everything wasn’t so sexualized and/or so aggressive. We all loved our country and we were amazing! How I long for those wonderful innocent carefree days!
Turned 13 that May, during my first Hellish year in junior high school. I missed that Olivia special, which sucks because I adore ABBA. I know Pop watched The Bastard, so I got to see some of it. Olivia Hussey I fell in love with. I didn't have any of those comics. Looks like Steve Ditko art on The Bionic Woman. I would have loved to see Sinatra in concert. Busey was great in as Buddy Holly. Spent a lot of time building models that year, until baseball started, where I did shine. Thanks Fred.
I enjoyed my baseball days as well, Doug!
Cool video, I was 18 and thought I knew everything, got married and then I realized how naive I really was 🤨
I was born in 1977, and as a historian, I look at 1978 as the "last dance" for America, before the entire world got swallowed up by the microchip. 1978 was the probably the pinnacle of our species, and that world is long, long gone 😢
Life was so much simpler in the 70s, not complicated like today.
That tv guide artwork for Joyce and Susanne was phenomenal.
What great and simple times those days were, as a 12 yr old kid we had few worries and many dreams. I wish I was riding around on bicycles with my friends with only a pocketful of quarters and a mouthful of bubblegum as standard equipment 😆
1:22 Now days a Coney Island Steamer is a big pile of fresh dog poop on the sidewalk.
I was 12 in ‘78. What a great time to be a kid. Was able to go all around town on my bike alone or with friends and nobody batted an eye. Now parents are getting arrested for letting their kids do the same things. It’s a shame.
What a time to be a kid. Miss the simple times.
Nice job, Fred! I remember May 1978 as the month when my family visited Kings Island in Ohio (Partridges & Bradys went there first.), finished 7th grade, and saw a sister get her Bachelor's Degree Magna Cum Laude.
0:01 - MeTV just reran this movie a week ago Sunday. I recorded it last year. I thought it was smart of the animators to show just the kids' heads in the spelling bee then having their heads pop away after they were eliminated. Of course the words were all given as "wah-wah-wah-wah", but then the kids repeated them & tried to spell them.
1:23 - I always wondered if Sunbeam bread had any corporate relationship to Sunbeam appliances. I've never bothered to research it though.
8:30 - Affirmed later won the Belmont & the Triple Crown, the last horse to do that until American Pharoah in 2015.
10:48 - My mom had & read all 8 books in the Jakes series. She said the 1st had trouble being published due to its name. I think at least the 1st 2 books were turned into tv movie/miniseries, syndicated to local stations rather than network-run, from what I remember.
14:00 - The draft became just draft registration. I went to my PO & registered, but I'm way past draft age now.
21:38 - I'll bet no one thought it was take him 44 years more to become King.
Thanks for another informative comment, Jon. (Just an aside between us: I bought a fridge magnet of the 1957 TV Guide fall preview issue. It looked so cool I bought about 20 other magnets of everything from Famous Monsters, Life and Spider-Man covers to posters of Fantastic Voyage, A Hard Day's Night and Not of This Earth. When I go to get a popsicle now I have to stare at the freezer door for a minute.)
my great grand mothers on both sides and great great grandmother on my mother side all died in 1978…i wasnt born until 1980 so never knew any of them, my mom always tell the story of one how they all watched the Roots mini series the night prior and that their grandmother didnt wake up at her usual 4a to start breakfast that she had died in her sleep so now any time that movie comes on reminds her of the last night she spent with her grandmother, interesting that Roots was not mentioned anywhere as its one of the most successful films of all time airing in 1978