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Speaking of retro drugs, narcs, etc. Does anyone else remember Toma, or similar anti-drug folks working the high school/ junior high speaking circut?
He's still around! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcYW7RvecVU"]YouTube- WHY DAVID TOMA SPEAKS ABOUT DRUGS, ALCOHOL & TEENAGE PREGNANCY[/ame] Love It! Or Florrie Fisher- she was the inspiration for the Amy Sedaris series "Strangers With Candy": [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1te8DbKaNnY"]YouTube- Florrie Fisher[/ame] |
NikNik shirts
Baggies (pants) with big cuffs All the President's Men Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein Art Buchwald Archie Bunker Carol Burnett Mary Tyler Moore Rhoda Peter Max prints Cloth prints Macrame' Ford Nixon Watergate 1972-74 Consoles with built-in stereo record players Teen lines (separate phone lines) Party lines Rotary phones Trimline push button phones Olympia beer Schlitz beer Being grounded Rich Man, Poor Man mini-series White crosses Black Beauties Mescaline Jethro Tull Neil Young CSN&Y Joni Mitchell's Court & Spark A Separate Peace Saturday Night Fever BeeGees Stoney End by Streisand |
The Midnight Special!
Disco ELO Breakfast In America Gone with the Wind on TV Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce, special orders.... I can't believe I ate the whoooole thing Color My World Opryland USA Roller skating toe socks (could not wear them) Death Be Not Proud Salem's Lot Billy Don't be a Hero Yes, Watergate on TV non-stop clackers home tie dyeing silly string Malibu Barbie Hawaiian Tropic Sun Tan lotion Shrinky Dinks Disco Duck Saturday Night Fever Robbie Benson Carrie The Omen The Warriors Damn it Janet! Rocky Horror! Visits to the pilot of the plane Mini/Midi/Maxi the Wedge hand chairs |
FM
I remember discovering FM and songs lasting more than a minute. :) Vietnam Doctor Demento Soul Train Lilt perms (sad day) Imagine Plastic Ono Band |
Terrycloth shorts and halter tops
No helmets for bicycling, skateboarding, or much of anything else ADIDAS - All Day I Dream About Sex Red, white, and blue everything in 1976 Polyester pants suits for everyone from kindergarten on up ... ewww! Prairie skirts and dresses and peasant blouses Daisy stickers in neon colors to put on everything New Honeycombs license plates for my pink BMX bike every year Giant mirrored shades like on CHiPs & my crush on Erik Estrada Socks that were either below the ankle or to the knee, if you bothered with shoes Pet rocks KC and the Sunshine Band Guys with afros everywhere, black and white, and picks sticking out the back pocket of their tight jeans to fluff it at a moment's notice Girls with ironed hair to straighten it Muscle cars ... Novas, Camaros, Trans-Ams Cars that Dad had to buy seat belts and install them because they weren't standard "Woody" station wagons full of kids HR Puffenstuff The Great Space Coaster Lost In Space Land of the Lost Playing the snake eating the apple game on the WANG terminals in the university computer lab Electric typewriters Yeah, I was a little kid (born in 1970) but I have a pretty good memory. :hippie: |
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mYcaAXB0Eg"]YouTube- Rickee Lee Jones with Larsen & Feiten - Chuck E in Love[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg1Ibt4xP7g"]YouTube- Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E's In Love[/ame] |
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgepWg4rzw"]YouTube- I'M NOT IN LOVE - 10cc[/ame] Remembering, you know? |
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7HgO9QhAc"]YouTube- Carly Simon - That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be - 1972[/ame] Sophomore year. |
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLWBhNW3FM"]YouTube- Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (1970)[/ame] Freshman year. |
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc7XJRDD74"]YouTube- Gary Wright - Love Is Alive (Midnight Special, 1976)[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ax3KVuYMHw"]YouTube- The Guess Who - Albert Flasher - Burton Cummings[/ame]
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Does anyone remember the pants that were called quickies? There were zippers up the middle of both pant legs.
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Ok, as I look back, I need to clarify something. I see a couple of you say you remember banana bikes. Well, I don't, but I do remember banana seats on bikes with short or high sissy bars. I even remember making fork extensions for my bike from an old frame I had.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDfwIz8uX1g"]YouTube- Life Is A Rock But The Radio Rolled Me - WRC Version[/ame] Life Is a Rock B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin' Life is a rock but the radio rolled me Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa) Life is a rock but the radio rolled me At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie FM, AM, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin' Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin' Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it Life is a rock but the radio rolled me Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa) Life is a rock but the radio rolled me At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla Denver, John and Osmond, Donny JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others Life is a rock but the radio rolled me Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa) Life is a rock but the radio rolled me At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie spoken: Listen--remember, they're playing our song! Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey, Make it bad and play it funky. (Wanna take you higher!) |
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE"]YouTube- Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aegs-CR8ZdM"]YouTube- Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G41r9IgHvhU"]YouTube- For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays (1973)[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El6iQ2_dvlc"]YouTube- Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C61olIkvoks"]YouTube- Hot Chocolate You sexy thing [High Definition] HD[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH360WuveAg"]YouTube- Stylistics--You are everything--LIVE[/ame]
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