In the beginning of the video, the train passes in front of my high school, New Utrecht High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn....then they show a bird flying, and it goes in front of my elementary school, PS-204.....then they show the elevated train along 86th Street in Bensonhurst, where I bought my comics when I was a kid, and where the chase scene in French Connection was filmed, and where Tony buys pizza in the opening of Saturday Night Fever was filmed. I was 11 in 1975, 15 in 1979, and I'm 55 today. Scott Baio was discovered by Hollywood in my middle school while I was in school. Ah, to go back to those times and places...it goes very fast.
Tektoniks Architects The camera pans across some tall apartments as you see a guy entering one of them.. Are those buildings still there? They look dirty back then.
I lived on 78th St. and New Utrecht Ave. at the time. With wife and 2 kids. I remember them filming the opening. My 2 sons played LL baseball on the high school field with the 62nd Precent Youth Council. In 1984 I started working as a Bus operator at Ulmer Park Bus depot and drove the B1 bus on 86th St. under the El. Remember seeing the crowds when they filmed Saturday Night Fever. GOOD TIMES
I was born in 1974 and growing up in 80s early 90s, I strongly believe I witnessed the tail end of probably the best era humanity will experience. Wish I could go back.
Listening to this makes me want to cry. It's a nostalgic cry. This brings back so many awesome childhood memories. Dancing school, Girl Scouts, family get togethers every weekend so the adults could play their card games while all the cousins played games of our own, simple birthday parties, ice skating, playing outside with neighborhood friends who were considered second family, are what I miss about the 70s. Life was so simple back then and so many people seemed much happier. I would do anything to relive the 70s. ❤❤
Turned 18 in 1982, my Father was 46. I joked with and told him he was an old man. He laughed grabbed me and said "watch the time fly" he wasn't joking.
Your father knew the truth! lol I distinctly remember watching this as a kid in real time. And now I'm sitting here as a middle age woman listening to this theme song, which is now considered nostalgia. Geez, where in hell did my life go? Lol. Like he said, time freakin' flew!!
Born in 1968... i remember standing in front of the tv.. waiting for this song to come on. It truly brings back fond memories and tears of of all those that are no longer here. Thank you for this beautiful and humbling post🙏🏽🥲
Same. I didn't understand much of the humor, but I loved the theme music and felt some sense of comfort watching the characters and their goofy-ness. Was def a part of my childhood.
@@doctorpaul3468 same here buddy, many of the buildings and neighborhoods looked liked Chicago at that time, cars. Buses, streets. Clothes, man I saw alot, the 80s were perfect , teenager with the whole 80s thing. Couldnt asked for a better year to be born
My Big Brother and I would both watch this together from Our twin Beds in the 1970s..My Big Bro is no longer with Us..but My 56 year old self watching this today brings a smile with a tear not far behind. To the good ol days...Gonna play this again now..😄
I'm sorry for your loss, I watched TV in the 70's on a twin bed with my brother who shared the room with me also. I wish, so hard, that I could go back and make it all right.
I grew up in that neighborhood, sad that Lenny's Pizzeria closed it's doors after 70 faithful years of Great Pizza 🍕 and a Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 Saturday Night Fever, and a Portrait of John Travolta on the wall 🧱 😢 why couldn't somebody buy it and continue the Legacy ?
One of the greatest perks of parenthood to me was being able to play some songs from that era for the new generation. It's like a soundtrack for life events...holidays, birthdays, road trips, etc
I want to be transported back to the 70's. Life was simple, fun, and carefree. High school and TransAms. Elvis was still with us. No computers, cellphones - it was great!
There were computers, but they were for work in certain jobs. Telling employees to have a PC at home was going over the line unless you worked for IBM and those people were seen as peculiar. It turns out they were, working very hard to one day to give us all devices to amplify a lot of nonsense and hostility.
Me too, mate. I was a foreign exchange student in Kansas City, Missouri, back then. American sitcoms had this warmth back then that's gone in sitcoms today.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 Absolutely. Sitcoms today are often reboots of the classic shows from the 70's, but they are watered down with a smug political correctness. and
My dad was a high school history teacher back when this show came on the air. To say he loved it was an understatement!!!! Oh my gosh he LOVED it and looked forward to watching it every week. My father is gone now and every time I hear this theme music I think of him. Thank you so much for posting this!!!
Message to all the young people. Enjoy your youth, your mom, your dad, siblings, family, and friends. You CANNOT go backwards only forwards. TIME keeps flowing like a river, to the sea, to the sea, and it's gone forever, gone forever, gone forevermore. RIP DAD.
At fifteen I couldn't wait to grow up. 42 years later I would give anything to be fifteen again. Those were such good years and this song is an anthem to that time.
Yes exactly. I remember I couldn't wait to turn 21 back then and I was born in '71. It seemed.to take forever to turn 21 but ever since I've turned 21, the years have flown by at the speed.of light it feels like.
If you were a little older, you would say the same thing about the 1957-63 era, with the best pop music, more melodic, innocent, and carefree as you remember the '70s. But if there was a '70s song I would pick as a runner-up this one and "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck (also released in 1976) would be my standards!
I just said the same thing! I am 54 now! It was great to be young during this era! I would go back in a heartbeat! AND stay there in 1976 when I was 13!! Tears, because we were there and time flew by these past 40 years!! HOW??!! My first 20 years seemed to last from the year I was born , 1963 till 83'...it went by nice and easy! these last 34, WOW! No words! God bless'
Welcome back to the you tube time machine !!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible what we as humans have accomplished. I went 30 years with out hearing this song . So glad im back in the seventies with my sister and my single mom, living in an apartment in Winnipeg. No worries or cares in the world, not realizing how tough my mom had it as a single mom. Not understanding how hard and cruel the real world could be with bills and rent and food ETC ....... Thx mom for kicking ASS raising two kids with zero support from anyone. I turned ok and it was all because of you MOM TY !!!!!!!! These TV shows were wholesome and had great role models like Mr Kotter and Mr Cunningham
This show just makes me think of my mom. I remember it being on Nick at Nite, and my mom would just be like, "oh gosh, the hair! Oh gosh, the music! God, I had pants just like those when I was a teenager!" My mom was the same age as the main characters were then. She was in high school in the '70s, so she could literally relate to them. She passed away 5 years ago, so these shows always make me miss her.
This was my mums favourite song and she used to strum it endlessly on her ukulele. I never knew the show until she introduced it to me.always reminds me of her.lovya ma.
I don't know why I keep watching this over and over again. I always tell myself that I should get over it by now but I still keep coming back and watching this.
Looking back, I'm struck by the excellence of so many of the sitcom theme songs from the 70s and 80s. This is one of the best. The lyrics of these songs were usually expertly designed to garner ratings by making us feel welcome and among friends and therefore more likely to watch each week. But this does not diminish their excellence. The songs were sometimes much better than the shows. And now we go back to the songs for their own sake.
Still one of the ALLTIME great TV theme songs 46 years later! Also was a #1 hit single on the billboard pop charts. Man, I wish I could go back to 1975.
I can remember this fantastic opening theme song still, I loved it. I maybe remember watching a few episodes of the show itself but I can't remember a single episode of the show at all.
One of the best TV theme songs of all time. Television is missing this today. It was in 1975 that this show premiered. I still love it to this day. RIP to Marcia Straussman, Ron Pallillo, John Sylvester White, and Robert Hedges.
I grew up in Flatbush in the 60's and 70's. This brings back memories. It was a tough neighborhood but I'm so glad I grew up there. Brooklyn will always be home.
Paul Rothbart I believe it was tough but the big city you can find many problems.and I'm glad I wasn't raised in a big city or else I probably would have killed somebody by now...
There are many pluses about growing up in a big city. Many different cultures. Flatbush was ethnically diverse so I had friends from so many backgrounds and I feel comfortable with all kinds of people. You also learn to be confident, take care of yourself and sense danger before it happens. I wouldn't trade my childhood for anyone else's.
Paul Rothbart very true my mother grew up in Bushwick in the 60s-80s things have changed so much. But like you said I have met people from different cultures and I am proud to say they're my friends.
My father had that Brooklyn sign. A truck knocked it over, my dad put it in his car and brought it home. We repeatedly told him he was going to get in trouble but he didn’t care. He was like a little kid finding a toy. It was mounted in our basement in Canarsie.
I can't believe that it's been nearly 40 years since it premiered in 1975... Welcome back Kotter, Happy days,Battlestar Galactica and Grizzly Adams... It hurts inside to think I was only a kid and now I am 48.. where did the time go. I love this song... It reminds me of warm summer days playing outside and everything was safe and the biggest worry was the older neighbourhood bullies... even then they weren't so bad. Sigh.
If I listen to this with my eyes closed it feels like I'm sitting in the living room on the shag carpet and Dad is in the room with me and all is well it's 1978 again. Thanks
Memories. Born in Brooklyn and parents and family members would wax nostalgic with the opening of this show. The kid on the unicycle at the end kind of captures the time and place.
Me too! My grandparents house had no a/c back then. Motorcycles down the block and planes overhead. 2 am house was lit up from the street light right outside. I loved it
God I miss tv theme songs! It was the best part of the show. Today they would never waste a minute and a half for a theme. They need the time for their commercials. Tv today is so boring!
I had this John Sebastian 45 as a kid. I played it over and over on my dad's Philco stereo. It took a minute or two before the tubes warmed up. The days, man.
I had forgotten all about that part of turning a TV on that was made in the 70's! I was just a little kid, but I remember now that it was sort of like hearing the opening theme for a play start, waiting for the curtains to open to show the set on the stage, and then the action beginning. It makes me wonder what will be around in the next 20 years, when we'll look back at this time and remark about how primitive it was. Every time I see some new revolution in technology or a special event in society it makes me think about how much it's going to mean someday to the people who just take it for granted now. Looking at history textbooks and actually being able to remember living in those times, and what you were doing when this or that happened is both a little depressing and a little amazing at the same time.
My daughter was watching this intro and she says to me, "Wow, this seems like a whole other world; almost like a magical time to live in" and it dawned on me that this was exactly how I felt whenever my dad talked about life in the 50s. I loved living in the 70s and 80s and looking back on these scenes and just wishing I could somehow revisit the world during these times.
Those dislikes come from these new boots who were born in the nineties. This is one of the greatest theme songs to ever grace television. We all were crazy about it. Black and white folks.
Grew up watching Sanford & Son, Good TImes, Chico and the Man, Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, Lavern & Shirley and Mork and MIndy ... knew the times and days which they came on ... Saturday mornings was School House Rock and Fat Albert ... after that, would go outside and play ... and when the lights came on, it was time go home ... and ready for the next day ... when McDonlad's hamburger cost $.25 and chess burger was $.35 ... gas, $1.25 ... now I'm crying for the time to slow down so I can remember more ... P.S. I almost forgot to say ... to all those who created those wonderful memories and to ones here on TH-cam ... thank you for allowing me to share my moments with you ... GOD BLESS !!!!
I can literally close my eyes and I'm back to 1976, sitting on my couch in front of my 19 inch TV watching this classic show and to a time of such happiness, carefree and good friends..even though the show was kind of corny I was so loving the theme and how it showed everyday life in the great city of Brooklyn..my God how I miss those times and all that went with it..especially my dear sweet friend Emma..rest easy my angel..💖🌈 ❤🙏
I remember the old neighborhood in the early 1970’s, 86th Street and seeing a classic R32 subway train on the B line in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Great childhood memories.
I grew up back then in bensonhurst Brooklyn and we had crime and problems and such but people went to work raised families there was no Internet we had rotary phones walkes to school stayed outside and hung out all night and rarely any problems and tv was about shows not the garbage we have now we have true music and true tv and we had clubs bars etc but nothing compares to the problems we face today.
The ending clip of Welcome Back Kotter , was always like a really good friend having to leave and not see you again. Always felt a little sad at the end of the show. Still feel it.
I came to watch and listen to this intro,... The times were great,,,, Now we had 9/11 and now New York and everywhere has Covid 19.... What I wouldn't give to go back to when times were good and we had no worries
@@georgiasmith64 from not worrying about much to having to stand in line for food and worry about tens of thousands dying of covid. seems like tomorrow is uncertain. the world may never be the same. Unlike the past... the past was simpler. people talked to one another instead of having a cell phone in the hand when they took a shit.
"men's memories are uncertain...and the past that was differs little from the past that was not" never was there a time when we "had no worries". never.
When I watched this show with my dad once when I was kid in the 90’s I could see a look of real nostalgia on his face because he was born and raised in Brooklyn and that’s how he remembered it from the 60’s and 70’s even though this show came on in 1975.
YES! I have seen the Applebee's commercial a few times and I happened to be on my computer just now when the commercial came on and I said I have to TH-cam the opening of the show. I was 1 when it premiered but I remember watching when I was young - probably 5 or 6. The good ol' days
I was 14 and a freshman in high school in 1975 and this show just brings back so many bittersweet memories. I was having so many issues with skipping school and drugs and just all confused and lost, like so many teenagers coming to grips with reality and responsibility and angst and growing up.
I remember those buses, how you could ride free on Sundays, the subways as moving works of art... It was a simpler time, better in many ways..miss my hometown.
I discovered this show after moving to NY from Puerto Rico in 1980 and regret not having moved there before. Loved it and for some reason it made me feel at home immediately. Thanks sweat-hogs.
I agree. This is a great song by John Sebastion of The Lovin' Spoonful. The song was actually written and was released before the show and was called just "Welcome Back". The producers liked it so much they used it and changed the name of the show from "Kotter" to "Welcome Back Kotter" to match the lyrics.
You know, I remember the nights of anticipation when my family would gather around the tv w the antenna and wait for the theme song w excitement. Those were the happiest of days! I see this and hear this and I feel nostalgic. NO SLEEP TIL BKLYN! :)
I was born during this shows run in the 1970s, but I grew up with the reruns from the early 80s into the 90s….good times having this show as part of my TV rerun diet, especially when it came on in the mornings b4 school. It’s weird that I’m in my 40s now and older then the main actors that played the Sweathog students where, and heck I’m now older then Mr. Kotter was back then.
What a blast from the past. Loved the song and the series. I grew up in the 70s, graduated in 1979. This series was one of my favourites from the 70s, and I watched it every week.
“My name is Scott Lang, and my life doesn’t make any sense. I went from being fired from Baskin Robbins to being an Avenger! Just remember… look out for the little guy!”
i know it sounds crazy but this quarantine has me so nostalgic for old times. Watching these theme songs, watching old shows, talking to old friends I havent seen in over 40 years, even reconnecting with long lost family. Wish life was a time capsule.
The 70's were a tough time for many families. Crime, pollution, unemployment, inflation were all high. We had to scrimp and save for everything. But for us kids, our friends on the streets during the day and the TV at night were the best times we ever had.
wow, i never heard truer words! I grew up in NYC in the 70s/80s as a kid. Parents were Irish immigrants with no education. We lived pay check to pay check. Poor, I guess but I never thought of it as that. All I wanted was to be outside with my buddies playing ball all day and hanging with friends from school. That's what made us happy back then. And you're right, a TV show at night before bed. Now I look at my upper middle class nephews/nieces and feel sorry for their boring, digital lives, as do my elderly once poor Irish immigrant parents! lol
In the beginning of the video, the train passes in front of my high school, New Utrecht High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn....then they show a bird flying, and it goes in front of my elementary school, PS-204.....then they show the elevated train along 86th Street in Bensonhurst, where I bought my comics when I was a kid, and where the chase scene in French Connection was filmed, and where Tony buys pizza in the opening of Saturday Night Fever was filmed. I was 11 in 1975, 15 in 1979, and I'm 55 today. Scott Baio was discovered by Hollywood in my middle school while I was in school. Ah, to go back to those times and places...it goes very fast.
Tektoniks Architects The camera pans across some tall apartments as you see a guy entering one of them.. Are those buildings still there? They look dirty back then.
Ooow ooow ooow! Lolol
Which el train line is that going by the school?
That comic store was Bensonhurst Books on 86 and 19th av....they closed down in the early 2000s i think
I lived on 78th St. and New Utrecht Ave. at the time. With wife and 2 kids. I remember them filming the opening. My 2 sons played LL baseball on the high school field with the 62nd Precent Youth Council. In 1984 I started working as a Bus operator at Ulmer Park Bus depot and drove the B1 bus on 86th St. under the El. Remember seeing the crowds when they filmed Saturday Night Fever. GOOD TIMES
I was born in 1974 and growing up in 80s early 90s, I strongly believe I witnessed the tail end of probably the best era humanity will experience. Wish I could go back.
Hey Dave! Just wanted to give you a high-five and hope you're doing well. Take care man and keep the dream alive.
1000%!!!
Me too 1974 !!!
So true
1972 here and 💯% agree with you
Listening to this makes me want to cry. It's a nostalgic cry. This brings back so many awesome childhood memories. Dancing school, Girl Scouts, family get togethers every weekend so the adults could play their card games while all the cousins played games of our own, simple birthday parties, ice skating, playing outside with neighborhood friends who were considered second family, are what I miss about the 70s. Life was so simple back then and so many people seemed much happier. I would do anything to relive the 70s. ❤❤
Your words... moved me too , I totally agree. Thanks for posting
So true
Thank you so much for sharing your memories.
*@Music Queen*
Very good comment. It really was a wonderful time.
Yes! I miss those times. life wasnt as complicated. ....
Still one of the greatest TV theme songs ever created…
John Sebastian was a truly great songwriter
@@hayberdasher8625 one of them yes, but Night court is the best theme.
@@magicmike6961 John Sebastian wrote the Night Court theme?
@@hayberdasher8625 no, you stupid fucking moron, he wrote welcome back kotter, but it sucks, as do you, but Night court is a better song.
@@hayberdasher8625 Ironically , the president of the Brooklyn borough's first name at that time was Sebastian.
Welcome Back Carter, Barney Miller, Sanford & Son , Archie Bunker, The Jeffersons, Taxi, Good times . All classics!
Kotter, not Carter
Turned 18 in 1982, my Father was 46. I joked with and told him he was an old man. He laughed grabbed me and said "watch the time fly" he wasn't joking.
Your father knew the truth! lol I distinctly remember watching this as a kid in real time. And now I'm sitting here as a middle age woman listening to this theme song, which is now considered nostalgia. Geez, where in hell did my life go? Lol. Like he said, time freakin' flew!!
This is the deepest shit i've read on youtube. ever.
I was 48 in 81.
I was 17 in 82. Yes time does fly. My friend.
E204thbronx I was also 18 in 1982. I loved watching this show as a teenager. And here I sit, 55 years old. OMG, the time flew by.
Born in 1968... i remember standing in front of the tv.. waiting for this song to come on.
It truly brings back fond memories and tears of of all those that are no longer here. Thank you for this beautiful and humbling post🙏🏽🥲
Same here my sweety was born in 1968 aswell
Same. I didn't understand much of the humor, but I loved the theme music and felt some sense of comfort watching the characters and their goofy-ness. Was def a part of my childhood.
I was born in 1969…visited Brooklyn for the first time last week..and I felt this.
I was born in 1969. Last week, I lost my brother that I used to watch this show with back in the day. RIP Jon, sure do miss you!
You must be a 1987 graduate like my brother.
This is just pure nostalgia. You didn't even have to necessarily live in Brooklyn, either. You just had to be alive in the 1970s.
doorswhofan I couldn't have put it better.
good times.... born in 68
If only I had been born in 67 and not 77. Lucky lucky you!
Paul Joseph same here, born in 68. This makes me cry.
@@doctorpaul3468 same here buddy, many of the buildings and neighborhoods looked liked Chicago at that time, cars. Buses, streets. Clothes, man I saw alot, the 80s were perfect , teenager with the whole 80s thing. Couldnt asked for a better year to be born
My Big Brother and I would both watch this together from Our twin Beds in the 1970s..My Big Bro is no longer with Us..but My 56 year old self watching this today brings a smile with a tear not far behind. To the good ol days...Gonna play this again now..😄
Good memories of your big Brother.Sorry for your loss.I'm sure when you hear this song he is right there with you.
heartbroken
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I'm sorry for your loss, I watched TV in the 70's on a twin bed with my brother who shared the room with me also. I wish, so hard, that I could go back and make it all right.
This comment shook me. My brother and I would watch this together as kids. He is no longer with us and I’m also 56.
70s/80s was the best time to be a kid and grow up thru your teens 👍
Wouldn’t trade it. Born in ‘70. Great childhood in Colorado…and then the ‘80’s came…it got better😂
Totally!
Not to say crime didn't exist, but those times were fairly safe, too.
My grandpa was Peter Meyerson. He’s in the credits at 1:22. Love and miss you grandpa. 💕
Guy beside the woman with the Ty Cobb jacket?
So cool!
I read that he came up with the name "Sweathogs" and the character for Epstein. So cool!
Sweet ! 🎉
I grew up in that neighborhood, sad that Lenny's Pizzeria closed it's doors after 70 faithful years of Great Pizza 🍕 and a Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 Saturday Night Fever, and a Portrait of John Travolta on the wall 🧱 😢 why couldn't somebody buy it and continue the Legacy ?
I love listening to70's & 80's theme songs. They bring back so many memories of my childhood. Things were so very simple then.
Damn I miss Brooklyn
One of the greatest perks of parenthood to me was being able to play some songs from that era for the new generation. It's like a soundtrack for life events...holidays, birthdays, road trips, etc
Oh meee too...love to hear these songs...70/80s kids
Family ties has another great tv theme song.
Me too! 👍💕
The theme music to these 70's shows are better than the music today.
Facts
Stheme song to cheers is my favorite
@@sethrodriguezstudios8676 Oh but of course, that's legendary too.
So true
but music recorded in the past exists today. it is music today
a lame cliche dipshit comment and you cant even get that right.
I want to be transported back to the 70's. Life was simple, fun, and carefree. High school and TransAms. Elvis was still with us. No computers, cellphones - it was great!
Yeah no one cared about computers and cell phones. no a days everyone cares about computers and cell phones.
You & me both.
I loved life then my first girlfriend God I still love her wish I could as Eddie Money sings go back and do it all over
I’m from the 80s. I miss the old days so much
There were computers, but they were for work in certain jobs. Telling employees to have a PC at home was going over the line unless you worked for IBM and those people were seen as peculiar. It turns out they were, working very hard to one day to give us all devices to amplify a lot of nonsense and hostility.
kids these days just don't know the excitement of waiting for prime time tv to start and sitting around the tv as a family enjoying the classics shows
No kidding, eh?
💯
Now they just sit around texting on there stupid phones.
hahah you right and i was born in that time period .You really have to experience it to understand it..
True and sad, those were such comforting and lovely family memories.
I became a history teacher in large part due to this show. Memories...
Wow!!
Kool, man. 👍
Do you teach like Mr. Kotter Does.
I was born in 71 and grew up in north Jersey. This theme song is permanently wired in my brain and the nostalgia I get from it is beyond description.
It's not just you who feels that way Sammy, trust me, it's not just you. Nostalgia is oftentimes beyond painful.
I too was born in 71 . My two brothers and I would love this show. Up your nose with a rubber hose!!
Me too, mate. I was a foreign exchange student in Kansas City, Missouri, back then. American sitcoms had this warmth back then that's gone in sitcoms today.
@@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114 Absolutely. Sitcoms today are often reboots of the classic shows from the 70's, but they are watered down with a smug political correctness. and
born in 71 aswell sammy. sure miss the 80s and 90s
My dad was a high school history teacher back when this show came on the air. To say he loved it was an understatement!!!! Oh my gosh he LOVED it and looked forward to watching it every week. My father is gone now and every time I hear this theme music I think of him. Thank you so much for posting this!!!
that is some good medicine!
Beautiful comment! I love it. ❤
I was just Born 1975 when this came out
RIP your dad! ❤
It was a great time to be alive in the 70s time goes by so fast can’t believe so much has happen
Message to all the young people. Enjoy your youth, your mom, your dad, siblings, family, and friends. You CANNOT go backwards only forwards. TIME keeps flowing like a river, to the sea, to the sea, and it's gone forever, gone forever, gone forevermore. RIP DAD.
How right you are I've lost 12 members of my family in 5 years .always move forward can't change the past
@@radiomaker751 it's just so that you appreciate them so much more when you see them again.
I love that song. ❤
@@goldilox369 👍
Yup Steve.
At fifteen I couldn't wait to grow up. 42 years later I would give anything to be fifteen again. Those were such good years and this song is an anthem to that time.
Exactly!!
@@cahicks1 I used to watch this as a little girl good times
Yes exactly. I remember I couldn't wait to turn 21 back then and I was born in '71. It seemed.to take forever to turn 21 but ever since I've turned 21, the years have flown by at the speed.of light it feels like.
So right
Good gosh who wants to return back to the 70s? BEST TIMES EVER!
If you were a little older, you would say the same thing about the 1957-63 era, with the best pop music, more melodic, innocent, and carefree as you remember the '70s. But if there was a '70s song I would pick as a runner-up this one and "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck (also released in 1976) would be my standards!
🙋
In a heart beat
Let's go
Far short of perfect, but a damned sight preferable to today! Posting 11-18-22.
I wanna cry, i wish i had time machine dammm
me too!!
man we old school...lol
I just got teary-eyed watching this!
Silmpler times..
I just said the same thing! I am 54 now! It was great to be young during this era! I would go back in a heartbeat! AND stay there in 1976 when I was 13!! Tears, because we were there and time flew by these past 40 years!! HOW??!!
My first 20 years seemed to last from the year I was born , 1963 till 83'...it went by nice and easy! these last 34, WOW! No words! God bless'
this song makes you smile or cry man
+david alex it does bring some tears...
:)
hey man those were the years,for sure..
:)
***** nostalgia like you wouldnt believe it can bring back to that time when everything was different i think kind of sad if i say......
Welcome back to the you tube time machine !!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible what we as humans have accomplished. I went 30 years with out hearing this song . So glad im back in the seventies with my sister and my single mom, living in an apartment in Winnipeg. No worries or cares in the world, not realizing how tough my mom had it as a single mom. Not understanding how hard and cruel the real world could be with bills and rent and food ETC ....... Thx mom for kicking ASS raising two kids with zero support from anyone. I turned ok and it was all because of you MOM TY !!!!!!!! These TV shows were wholesome and had great role models like Mr Kotter and Mr Cunningham
I agree. Amazing times and memories
This show just makes me think of my mom. I remember it being on Nick at Nite, and my mom would just be like, "oh gosh, the hair! Oh gosh, the music! God, I had pants just like those when I was a teenager!" My mom was the same age as the main characters were then. She was in high school in the '70s, so she could literally relate to them. She passed away 5 years ago, so these shows always make me miss her.
This theme song bring back some good memories the 70s was a great decade I wish I could bring them days back I was real young but I grew up in the 70s
@@anthonybatts3140 The 70s were the best.I was young too but God I miss it.
@@RamsLakersDodgers I know what you mean them was the good ole days
Your mom was 29 and still in high school??
This was my mums favourite song and she used to strum it endlessly on her ukulele.
I never knew the show until she introduced it to me.always reminds me of her.lovya ma.
OMG! Big cars and catching the bus after school. No worries, memories.
Ralph Goober oh my gosh yes. Mr softee used to be this stuff. It still is.
Now it's big SUV's and catching the bus after school.
What a time to be alive
I don't know why I keep watching this over and over again. I always tell myself that I should get over it by now but I still keep coming back and watching this.
Speaking to the choir man
Welcome Back!!
@@keeshaskorner5011 lol you beat me to it
@@kd2838 😅🤣😂
Dion Miller facts🎯
There is a real beauty in this song
I agree. It is so 70's. the time when most songs were well written and timeless.
This really hits you hard i mean seriously on some memories..
Looking back, I'm struck by the excellence of so many of the sitcom theme songs from the 70s and 80s. This is one of the best. The lyrics of these songs were usually expertly designed to garner ratings by making us feel welcome and among friends and therefore more likely to watch each week. But this does not diminish their excellence. The songs were sometimes much better than the shows. And now we go back to the songs for their own sake.
Tatiana Doroshenko I've always liked your name its really sexy
John Sebastian would agree.
I just want to cry! Times have definitely changed.
Still one of the ALLTIME great TV theme songs 46 years later! Also was a #1 hit single on the billboard pop charts. Man, I wish I could go back to 1975.
I can remember this fantastic opening theme song still, I loved it. I maybe remember watching a few episodes of the show itself but I can't remember a single episode of the show at all.
This theme song is like great comfort food -- goes down like a favorite slice of pizza -- from a NY pizzeria of course!
Keith Wright yes, it is.
Keith Wright Ciro's pizza in Smithtown Long Island.
I miss that taste.
Keith Wright Ciro's pizza in Smithtown Long Island.
I miss that taste.
...from your own neighborhood pizza place.
I lived in Washington Heights for 2 years and ever since then I'm an incurable pizza snob. So hard to find a good slice that compares.
One of the best TV theme songs of all time. Television is missing this today. It was in 1975 that this show premiered. I still love it to this day. RIP to Marcia Straussman, Ron Pallillo, John Sylvester White, and Robert Hedges.
I grew up in Flatbush in the 60's and 70's. This brings back memories. It was a tough neighborhood but I'm so glad I grew up there. Brooklyn will always be home.
Wow Paul; I'm happy for you. You must have wonderful memories!
Paul Rothbart I believe it was tough but the big city you can find many problems.and I'm glad I wasn't raised in a big city or else I probably would have killed somebody by now...
There are many pluses about growing up in a big city. Many different cultures. Flatbush was ethnically diverse so I had friends from so many backgrounds and I feel comfortable with all kinds of people. You also learn to be confident, take care of yourself and sense danger before it happens. I wouldn't trade my childhood for anyone else's.
Paul Rothbart very true my mother grew up in Bushwick in the 60s-80s things have changed so much. But like you said I have met people from different cultures and I am proud to say they're my friends.
Are those buildings in the theme opening still there? Like the high school and those apartment building you see people entering?
My father had that Brooklyn sign. A truck knocked it over, my dad put it in his car and brought it home. We repeatedly told him he was going to get in trouble but he didn’t care. He was like a little kid finding a toy. It was mounted in our basement in Canarsie.
Another great memory that makes my eyes water. Miss my New York...listening 2021
Gawd, I miss NYC so much, I used to know every nook and cranny of that big beautiful city!
I just got the most full-on RUSH of nostalgia. jeez this is so good.
I can't believe that it's been nearly 40 years since it premiered in 1975... Welcome back Kotter, Happy days,Battlestar Galactica and Grizzly Adams... It hurts inside to think I was only a kid and now I am 48.. where did the time go. I love this song... It reminds me of warm summer days playing outside and everything was safe and the biggest worry was the older neighbourhood bullies... even then they weren't so bad. Sigh.
Seconded
gary stuart Thirded.
That is so true great great memories
I agree,, and I was 1 years old.
+gary stuart Nailed it Gary!!!
If I listen to this with my eyes closed it feels like I'm sitting in the living room on the shag carpet and Dad is in the room with me and all is well it's 1978 again. Thanks
Amazing how a song, picture or film can have you feeling nostalgic. To a period where days will never come back
agreed Deon..
TH-cam is the closest thing to a time machine we’ll ever have. 😢
I came home during my work break today, and my 10 year old starting singing this song. That made my day.
Ok, I know NY had a ton of problems in the 70s, but Brooklyn was SO MUCH cooler back then.
Brooklyn isn’t Brooklyn anymore.
I remember my old neighborhoods on the West Coast, how they used to be. I don't even go back there any more. Same story every where
Absolutely! I miss those days where it wasn't the best all around, yet still safe at the same time, if that makes any sense.
Not from New York, but been visiting for 30 years, gentrification ruined Brooklyn today sadly !
Brooklyn was great in the 70s. The hipsters destroyed Brooklyn.
Hands down one of the best original theme songs.
This song makes me wish we can turn back time. It's sad at the same time 🙁
ashley95126 omg like you are so so right!! And you are so beautiful. I seriously have a major girl crush on you!! 🥰👅🤷🏼♀️
ashley95126 I was a kid when that show was on tv! Great memories
yup, good times, but don't feel bad, we are getting those times back....
Put your young still this is your time make it last ,saludos...
Fun back then was imagination people actually talked to one another... miss those days
Brings back memories of a time with no cable tv and 8-10 channels to watch on a color or black and white tv with rabbit ears .
Memories.
Born in Brooklyn and parents and family members would wax nostalgic with the opening of this show.
The kid on the unicycle at the end kind of captures the time and place.
Welcome back this song makes me wanna relive my life and do alot of stuff different
ME TOO!!!!!
***** ME 3 lol
Me 4 lol :)!!!
Be nice to people. Southern hospitality is always appreciated.
Mystery Man must be a woodman fan lol
This makes me want to go back to my grandmas, house in my room without care in the world. Good times 😭
This song also takes me back to my grandmothers house. I was around 12 with not a care in the world.
@@paf3710
I know right, riding bikes with your friends with the card making the sound as it hits each spoke in the wheel.
Me too! My grandparents house had no a/c back then. Motorcycles down the block and planes overhead. 2 am house was lit up from the street light right outside. I loved it
@@billysmith7835 We didn’t know how good we had it. Lol
@@buteful25 Truth
Everything was so much better im crying watching this cuz i miss everything about those days i really do
God I miss tv theme songs! It was the best part of the show. Today they would never waste a minute and a half for a theme. They need the time for their commercials. Tv today is so boring!
When television was good, and entertaining for the whole family!
Up your nose with a rubber hose.
Best Intro everrrrrr
I remember i always wanted to know the full lyrics to the "Song" Such a Smooth Singer with John S.
I’ve seen you before on a different video... suavecito?
Sanford and Son is better...but this one is good too
Knowledge Seeker 78
My 2 favorites 👍
This, Sanford and Son, and Chico and The Man are great theme songs
I had this John Sebastian 45 as a kid.
I played it over and over on my dad's Philco stereo.
It took a minute or two before the tubes warmed up. The days, man.
I had forgotten all about that part of turning a TV on that was made in the 70's! I was just a little kid, but I remember now that it was sort of like hearing the opening theme for a play start, waiting for the curtains to open to show the set on the stage, and then the action beginning.
It makes me wonder what will be around in the next 20 years, when we'll look back at this time and remark about how primitive it was. Every time I see some new revolution in technology or a special event in society it makes me think about how much it's going to mean someday to the people who just take it for granted now. Looking at history textbooks and actually being able to remember living in those times, and what you were doing when this or that happened is both a little depressing and a little amazing at the same time.
I always looked forward to the guy on the unicycle 😁
My daughter was watching this intro and she says to me, "Wow, this seems like a whole other world; almost like a magical time to live in" and it dawned on me that this was exactly how I felt whenever my dad talked about life in the 50s. I loved living in the 70s and 80s and looking back on these scenes and just wishing I could somehow revisit the world during these times.
Welcome back Mr Belt! 😊
Man I loved this show. I was born in 75, but loved the reruns!
I love this era and the Brooklyn backdrop. Full of possibility.
Those dislikes come from these new boots who were born in the nineties. This is one of the greatest theme songs to ever grace television. We all were crazy about it. Black and white folks.
It was even number 1 on the charts!!
dont worry bout the youth.... no clue what so ever
“New boots who were born in the nineties”
-Me an adult born in the 2000s
O_o
I was born in the 90s and I love this song it has a sincerity to it that most music doesn’t have
haha - new boots!!
I use to watch this show in reruns everyday after school. I loved it.
Grew up watching Sanford & Son, Good TImes, Chico and the Man, Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, Lavern & Shirley and Mork and MIndy ... knew the times and days which they came on ... Saturday mornings was School House Rock and Fat Albert ... after that, would go outside and play ... and when the lights came on, it was time go home ... and ready for the next day ... when McDonlad's hamburger cost $.25 and chess burger was $.35 ... gas, $1.25 ... now I'm crying for the time to slow down so I can remember more ... P.S. I almost forgot to say ... to all those who created those wonderful memories and to ones here on TH-cam ... thank you for allowing me to share my moments with you ... GOD BLESS !!!!
I can literally close my eyes and I'm back to 1976, sitting on my couch in front of my 19 inch TV watching this classic show and to a time of such happiness, carefree and good friends..even though the show was kind of corny I was so loving the theme and how it showed everyday life in the great city of Brooklyn..my God how I miss those times and all that went with it..especially my dear sweet friend Emma..rest easy my angel..💖🌈 ❤🙏
Welcome back again if you came to hear this gem again😘
hearing this brought child like feeling s back inside me and i was really missing the old days, 50 years young myself.
yes great memories,you brought me back with the child like feeling and missing the good old days. as I'm sitting here with my grandson. 💋
+Jeffrey Stevens me too. 49 years young myself. lol
me too miss the 70's cool toys, and great music
Same here brother. The song is almost too painful to listen to. Here’s to the good old days and great memories. 🙏🏾😎🤙🏾
One of the best intro songs ever
I remember the old neighborhood in the early 1970’s, 86th Street and seeing a classic R32 subway train on the B line in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Great childhood memories.
49th Street here. Rode the B train for many years! Memories.
I grew up back then in bensonhurst Brooklyn and we had crime and problems and such but people went to work raised families there was no Internet we had rotary phones walkes to school stayed outside and hung out all night and rarely any problems and tv was about shows not the garbage we have now we have true music and true tv and we had clubs bars etc but nothing compares to the problems we face today.
The ending clip of Welcome Back Kotter , was always like a really good friend having to leave and not see you again. Always felt a little sad at the end of the show.
Still feel it.
I came to watch and listen to this intro,... The times were great,,,, Now we had 9/11 and now New York and everywhere has Covid 19.... What I wouldn't give to go back to when times were good and we had no worries
You got that right
@@georgiasmith64 from not worrying about much to having to stand in line for food and worry about tens of thousands dying of covid. seems like tomorrow is uncertain. the world may never be the same. Unlike the past... the past was simpler. people talked to one another instead of having a cell phone in the hand when they took a shit.
@@georgiasmith64 Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a Mystery, today Is a gift, that's why we call it the present
"men's memories are uncertain...and the past that was differs little from the past that was not"
never was there a time when we "had no worries". never.
When I watched this show with my dad once when I was kid in the 90’s I could see a look of real nostalgia on his face because he was born and raised in Brooklyn and that’s how he remembered it from the 60’s and 70’s even though this show came on in 1975.
That's nostalgia knocking at the door again, "never mind welcome back.......i want to go back!!!"
When you figure out how to go back, take me too.
@@petegreci7969 If i ever figure out time travel i will let you know lol then we can get the hell outta here!!
I'm in London but this is the one U.S tv theme tune I remember when I was growing up. Ah great memories just come flooding back 😀😀😀
Anyone else just HAD to watch this because of the Applebee's commercial 2020? 😂
🙋 Me!! That ad got my attention.
YES! I have seen the Applebee's commercial a few times and I happened to be on my computer just now when the commercial came on and I said I have to TH-cam the opening of the show. I was 1 when it premiered but I remember watching when I was young - probably 5 or 6. The good ol' days
yes
Yes!! Brings back good memories ❤️
Yep.
R I P Ron Palillo, John Sylvester White & Robert Hegyes DAMN I LOVED/LOVE THIS SHOW
Getrealpeeps And Marcia Strassman too
reminds me of my dad. RIP
I was 14 and a freshman in high school in 1975 and this show just brings back so many bittersweet memories. I was having so many issues with skipping school and drugs and just all confused and lost, like so many teenagers coming to grips with reality and responsibility and angst and growing up.
I miss Brooklyn. I was born 1970 in Brooklyn New York. Every time I watch Welcome Back Kotter it brings back good old memories.❤😊
Boy, this song sure takes me back to my early childhood in Brooklyn, before I had all the responsibilities I have now.
ilttpvvm Right?
Which el train line is that going by the school?
Its just NY.....the way NY was then and the way NY is now. I love that town...
@@PRHILL9696 Probably the B train at the time. Lived right by Bay Parkway and 86th!
@@GoTerriers1 cool, thanks!
I remember those buses, how you could ride free on Sundays, the subways as moving works of art... It was a simpler time, better in many ways..miss my hometown.
Which el train line is that going by the school?
@@PRHILL9696 well, i cant really see the train letter or number. Could be the B, D, Q...
@@josieatako5909 Thank you
After all these years, I STILL get goose bumps when I hear this song! Great times!
As a Brooklyn guy myself, watching this intro literally welcomes me back to a time and place I remember so vividly!
Brooklyn, Chicago, L.A. in Watts. Same city same loves ❤️ same traditions. I miss the 70's.
I discovered this show after moving to NY from Puerto Rico in 1980 and regret not having moved there before. Loved it and for some reason it made me feel at home immediately. Thanks sweat-hogs.
You were 5 years to late 1975,,,
Remember the episode about Drugs and Vinnie Barbarino walked around saying "Gimme drugs....gimmme drugs....gimme drugs"
yes!!😂
@@lorenaayala-guadian3960 You REMEMBERED too? 😁😁
Yes!!😂😂
I do, too!
I acted that out for my wife the other day and she did not get it! Of course I had to go on TH-cam and show her and then we laughed. Lol.
RIP Epstein, Horshack and now Mrs. Kotter.
When did Mrs kotter die
@@erickelly6114 October 2014 Marcia Strassman passed away after being diagnosed with Advanced Breast Cancer :(
joejoewest Don’t forger about Mr. Woodman too
Epstein didn’t kill himself
@@14Whitey14 ...signed Epstein's mom.
My dad grew up in Brooklyn and I was 8 when this show started. We watched every episode.
*sigh* does anyone else get a melancholic feeling listening to this?
I agree. This is a great song by John Sebastion of The Lovin' Spoonful. The song was actually written and was released before the show and was called just "Welcome Back". The producers liked it so much they used it and changed the name of the show from "Kotter" to "Welcome Back Kotter" to match the lyrics.
You know, I remember the nights of anticipation when my family would gather around the tv w the antenna and wait for the theme song w excitement. Those were the happiest of days! I see this and hear this and I feel nostalgic. NO SLEEP TIL BKLYN! :)
I was born during this shows run in the 1970s, but I grew up with the reruns from the early 80s into the 90s….good times having this show as part of my TV rerun diet, especially when it came on in the mornings b4 school. It’s weird that I’m in my 40s now and older then the main actors that played the Sweathog students where, and heck I’m now older then Mr. Kotter was back then.
What a blast from the past. Loved the song and the series. I grew up in the 70s, graduated in 1979. This series was one of my favourites from the 70s, and I watched it every week.
This was the beguining of it all for John Travolta as an actor
“My name is Scott Lang, and my life doesn’t make any sense. I went from being fired from Baskin Robbins to being an Avenger! Just remember… look out for the little guy!”
😢😢😢
@@suehoadley6616 that line made you cry?
Reminds me of my father. He got me into all these old shows when I was a kid. This, The Munsters, Sanford and Son, etc.
The 1970's was an awesome Era to be in, glad I got to experienced it. TV shows were awesome during that time period.
OMG I only just found this. This was weekly viewing in our home and seeing this brings back so many memories...... I have the sniffles.
The Happy go Lucky Song! Loved it back then in the 70s & still luv it today June 2, 2022.
My husband got me into this beautiful music shows ETC love his generation, love you all.....
I'm 53 now. I used to watch this when I was 7-10 years old. I could always count on this show to make me laugh. "Up your nose with a rubber hose" 😂😂.
i know it sounds crazy but this quarantine has me so nostalgic for old times. Watching these theme songs, watching old shows, talking to old friends I havent seen in over 40 years, even reconnecting with long lost family. Wish life was a time capsule.
The 70's were a tough time for many families. Crime, pollution, unemployment, inflation were all high. We had to scrimp and save for everything. But for us kids, our friends on the streets during the day and the TV at night were the best times we ever had.
wow, i never heard truer words! I grew up in NYC in the 70s/80s as a kid. Parents were Irish immigrants with no education. We lived pay check to pay check. Poor, I guess but I never thought of it as that. All I wanted was to be outside with my buddies playing ball all day and hanging with friends from school. That's what made us happy back then. And you're right, a TV show at night before bed. Now I look at my upper middle class nephews/nieces and feel sorry for their boring, digital lives, as do my elderly once poor Irish immigrant parents! lol
1:35 I remember that corner across the street from New Utrecht H.S I lived on 80th st across from the school back in the early 70s