Those Were The Days , Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton as the Bunkers , 1971
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. A version of the theme song was released as a single and reached #30 on the AC chart early in 1972.
For some reason, this is very nostalgic and sentimental to me... miss the simple age of TV.
Agreed, Denzil, agreed!
Like the song says, those were the days.
From the Golden Age of Television.
REMEMBERING meat head the son inlaw 😂🤣
Right! Think of how the words of that song apply to today.
Fact is, it's true "THOSE WERE THE DAYS"!!
For real
I wish I could go back too the 20s and live from there this song does state facts people really pulled their weight during the depression and ww2.
Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight! That is what made America Great and STRONG and Dominant throughout the world! If you wanted to survive, you HAD pull your own weight and work! But then we decided that the right thing to do is help those in need..... and we started handing out "assistance"...food stamps, welfare, housing, and it grew and grew!! It was the beginning of the great decline of America. The strong taking care of the weak.... sure, it may sound like a morally admirable thing to do, but it does NOT breed a strong society! It breeds a weak one!! It's true in the animal world and it's true in the human world.
You will never see a show like this or the Jeffersons ever again!!!
The Jeffersons was def another classic! Sooo funny!
Weezie always saying George, George lol
George and Wheezy loved that show was ahead for it's time loved it when George's boss would yell JETSON YOU'RE FIRED!
Boy, the way Glen Miller played.
Songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days
And you knew where you were then
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
People seemed to be content.
Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent.
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin,
Go to watch the Dodgers win.
Have yourself a dandy day
That cost you under a fin.
Hair was short and skirts were long.
Kate Smith really sold a song.
I don't know just what went wrong
Those Were the Days
This song predicted what is happening now😉
One of the greatest shows of ALL time! That is an understatement, in fact. I not only LOVE the theme song but also LOVE the intro and extro video of the old houses. May this iconic show live forever.
"Freaks were in a circus tent . . . those were the days."
"All in the Family." 😀 Such great memories watching this with my dad when I was a kid. This is great
I as well, dad loved it, mom hated it, go figure
Thanks to the cable programming we can continue to watch and laugh with All In The Family
How true the last line “ I don’t know just what went wrong those were the days “
What a great song. It applies even more now than it ever did before.
"Freaks were in a circus tent" .Definitely, those were the days.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 right?
It is what it is and it was what it was
Oh my...
As opposed to being school teachers and politicians… ;-)
Back when a freak could get some work just being a freak. Now I have to hustle for a living.
What memories this song brings back - simple times - loved being a kid
All in the Family was recorded on tape in front of a live studio audience.
From Television City in Hollywood.
Missing the America I grew up in today...
Set at 1.5 speed at it sounds like an old 1940s blues/ragtime/swing song
"girls were girls and men were men"
(*sigh*)
I miss those days.
Same here
Kathrine J. Kozachok why do you care 🙄
Why do you?
The good old days , it gets me so mad thinking that we live in a world where misgendering someone is more important than a human life .
Amen
this is nothing but pure awesome! so glad i found this.
“Girls were Girls, and Men were Men”. In 1971 Archie Bunker understood more than what half the country does today.
Great show
HILARIOUS ! I NEED TO DO IS HEAR THE FIRST WORD AND I AM ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING. I LOVED MARY TYLER MOORE TED BAXTER WAS THE GREATEST! BUT WHEN IT CAME TO THE TV THEME SONGS THIS WAS THE GREATEST OF TGEM ALL. REACHED MY TOP TWENTY ON MY TOP 30 CHART. BETTER NOW THAN EVER!!! WHAT A CLASSIC
Thanks for sharing it ! From one true Archie Bunker aficionado to another. Right here in the Good Ole' U.S. of A. The arsenal of democracy and the makers of the grossest national product .
What democracy? Take a close look at the USA and you see 1984 come true!
Fun memories. I have been watching their interviews and great to see they were such close friends in real life. One of the best TV shows that ever aired
Great version. I'm playing my copy of the first full album right now and it's an in-studio (on the TV show set with audience) recording with all the lyrics. Cool to hear a recording studio version.
Never even knew this existed. Thought this may have been the TV version.
Atlantic was a bonafude jazz label . Led Zeppelin went to a party and they were the only one not a jazz band ! ah , those were the days
Atlantic was R&B & sometimes country too.
It’s so good.
It also peaked at #43 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart as well.
I love this song.
AWESOME!!! greetings from Portugal .."those were the days" 😎
God i love this song. It fits today society more than the 70's. I wonder if the thumbs down was from a better not say or i might get hung😘
I think I've heard this once before, maybe 35 years ago or so. Thank you very much for posting it!!!
I envy you for owning this!....
Hearing this made my day!
This song makes me feel good
I can only picture Edith Bunker and Irene Lorenzo dressed as flappers, dancing along during the instrumental
wow never knew this existed( a 45rpm),thanks for posting
awesome
Groovy!!)❤❤
I wish they'd left the line "I don't know just what went wrong" in the opening. Doesn't that line just sum up Archie Bunker perfectly?
It's also interesting to note that the time Archie's remembering so fondly was the time of the Great Depression ("...we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again...") and a world war. You wouldn't think THAT would be something to look back on with nostalgia, but Archie, like so many of us, has selective memory. At least, to Archie, that seemed much easier to navigate than this new world his son-in-law is embracing--a new world that Archie fears is leaving him in the dust. So he clings to his rose-colored memories of the past.
It's something every generation does as they get old and nostalgic. Look at Meathead's boomer generation now, they've basically all turned into Archie.
Everybody likes the past cuz they were younger.
Great comment. Very well said. Thank you.
So, things are getting better all the time? Is that your thesis?
@@CarbageMan Hardly...every age, every era, past and present, has got its good and bad points. It's just that we're all prone to the "nostalgia filter" that causes us only to remember the good times of the past. So it's best to recognize the nostalgia filter as just that, cherish your good memories of the past but don't let them get in the way of enjoying the present, and do your part to improve the world as it is now.
I can't believe how similar the opening of _All in the Family_ is to _Family Guy._
And yeah, back when this stuff was on TV, *those were the days.*
I have this theory that Peter Griffin was based on Archie Bunker,watch the two shows,they dress alike,have almost the same accent,act sort of alike too.
@@japanfanatic1415 its not a theory when seth MacFarlane has stated in interviews that Peters attire, certain mannerisms, and the opening are all homages to all in the family.
Lois kind of sounds like Edith too.
This song was the inspiration for the family guy theme song
@@NominalOrbit Without a doubt! The whole (original) premise of the show was like a mad 21st-century cartoon version of All in the Family.
This is awesome. I always loved the show and the track as I only have heard before on the show. I don't know how I missed this Studio Version.
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played
songs that made the hit parade
Guys like me we had it made
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state
ev'rybody pulled his weight
gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
People seemed to be content
fifty dollars paid the rent
freaks were in a circus tent
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin
go to watch the Dodgers win
Have yourself a dandy day
that cost you under a fin
Hair was short and skirts were long
Kate Smith really sold a song
I don't know just what went wrong
those were the days
We need to go back to those days
Thanks for sharing 👍!
OH GOSH thank you so much for uploading this! I had this record and have been looking for it for years! Heard this many times on WRR AM in Dallas in 1972!
From Television City in Hollywood...
Wow!!.., That's sounds great.
Awesome
The Best!!
The only line that ever interested me as a kid when this show was No. 1 was the "we need a man like Herbert Hoover again." My grandparents who came of age during the Depression loathed him and always referred to the period as "the Hoover Days." Regardless of Archie being a bigot, since he was obviously working class and his economic station in life not that different from my grandparents, and as a kid who looked up to my grandparents as truth tellers, I always regarded Archie as a fool for that line alone, and could not get beyond it in evaluating him.
AITF only got greenlit on CBS because Jackie Gleason refused to allow the network to cancel his variety show and continue The Honeymooners as a weekly standalone series again instead of the ongoing skit folded into the variety show. Norman Lear had tried to sell the Carroll O"Conner show to ABC twice before CBS showed interest, and even then CBS tried to get Gleason to play Bunker instead of O'Conner, but he flatly refused claiming the bigot element was beyond his interest. CBS then bought the concept with O'Conner in the lead.
I think ABC made the wrong decision in canning Rosanne. Continuing the revival with her as an unabashed Trumper on it, rather than writing her out and keeping the show milquetoast would have made me want to watch it. Everyone loves a train wreck. I never really watched the first incarnation of that show, but I would have loved to laugh at the Conners as clueless Trumpers.
Unfortunately, Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't a laughing matter. The fruits and nuts like you put a potato in the White House.
PS: A potato that was acrook before he was a vegetable.
Ohh the memories, miss the world of common sense 🙏
They sung it at the right speed here. On the show they kind of dragged it out. I wonder why?
"Stifle Edith, Stifle!" :)
Folks could voice their discontent
Three digits could pay the rent
No-one knew what jihad meant
Those were the days
Sadly you are correct.
your welcome...
Lyrics
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played
songs that made the hit parade
Guys like me we had it made
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state
ev'rybody pulled his weight
gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
People seemed to be content
fifty dollars paid the rent
freaks were in a circus tent
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin
go to watch the Dodgers win
Have yourself a dandy day
that cost you under a fin
Hair was short and skirts were long
Kate Smith really sold a song
I don't know just what went wrong
those were the days
I wonder what's on the B side? Remembering You?
the version like the TV intro. Remenbering You would be awesome
True😊
Everybody pulled his weight.....
Love this! I had no idea this came out as a 45! It sounds like an outtake from the An Evening With The Bunkers lp...I own that, plus vol 1 and 2 of the tv soundtracks, and Carroll's solo lp. What is on the B-side of this?
I have this 45 somewhere. The other side is actually a performance of the theme song before the studio audience. It's the same, longer version that you hear on this side, except with the laughter from the audience. You should hear them explode at the "Freaks were in a Coicus Tent" line! It was featured on an "All in the Family" album as well that came out in 1971. In those pre-VCR days, it had excerpts from the first season of the show and some of its most memorable lines. It sold well enough for a second album to come out too, but I don't have that one.
@@gildersleevefan67 I have both...the second is hard to find, as is An Evening With The Bunkers.
*WHAT IS ON SIDE 2 ???*
The good old days , it gets me so mad thinking that we live in a world where misgendering someone is more important than a human life .
talk about "rare" .. I'll bet It's worth a small fortune!
$5 with shipping at www.discogs.com/sell/release/4545115?ev=rb and it's a double-A-sided release... went searching there to see if they had the instrumental on the B-side but no luck.
Cool. What was on the B side ?
swampzoid another version of those were the days live I think ?
I don’t know why the person who runs this channel neglected to put that in the description or even reply back.
@@kissfanmac I had this 45 and if I remember correctly the B-side was a live TV version of "Those Were The Days"
JensMom1985 yeah! You’re right! Good job!
I sure wish I could find out who is in the band on this one...
I'm surprised Atlantic would've released this.
Freaks were in a circus tent!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
10 point sss!!!!
The people who like this song and don't realize it's meant to be ironic...
Satiric?
People like you don't recognize the whole point of the series was to lampoon BOTH "sides."
Why did Carroll O'Connor sing in such a strange way for this recording?! Otherwise this is cool.
I bought this record then at 11 years old. The b side was a funnier version.
Oh. Same song ? Thanks man. Same two singing too ?
Is that the one with John boy and taking a pill etc ?
Keep America American.
U got the b side?
New Orleans misplaced into New York, it works beautifully.
Yes
They do sound like a couple of 9th Ward Y'ats.
It's the jazz music
Freaks were in a circus tent.
LOS SIMPSON
Joe Rogan brought me here
This doesn’t sound that sad.
Archie is overdoing it.
Archie bunker was right
Bro missed the whole point of the show. The entire premise of the show was to expose the prejudices and assumptions that Archie had for what they were, stupid. How are boomers this bad at media literacy 💀
@bennygoodmanisgod bruh I know the show was making fun of Archie and conservatives and their viewpoint Archie is a conservative boomer type I just don't give a damn because I agree with everything he says and he's a funny guy
MAGA
MAGAA
I hate what this world has become. Freaks used to be inside a circus tent and now they roam the streets screaming about how proud they are. We do need a man like Herbert Hoover again.
They blamed the work of the Federal Reserve (which is neither) on Herbert Hoover.
Now they roam the Biden administration
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played
songs that made the hit parade
Guys like me we had it made
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state
ev'rybody pulled his weight
gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
People seemed to be content
fifty dollars paid the rent
freaks were in a circus tent
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin
go to watch the Dodgers win
Have yourself a dandy day
that cost you under a fin
Hair was short and skirts were long
Kate Smith really sold a song
I don't know just what went wrong
those were the days
Gee our old LaSalle ran great
I wonder how many people realize that was a Car ?
My uncle had one and it did
@@maddmike6100 agreed. It was a junior make of Cadillac and wasn't a cheap car. I believe last year they made them was 1941.