as a child (6 going on 7), i the radio playing "Easy" by the Commodores, "Margaritaville" by Jimmy Buffett, Rita Coolidge's cover of "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", "Telephone Line" by ELO, "Yesterday's Gone" by Fleetwood Mac, "Heaven on the 7th Floor" by the Mighty Pope, the Carpenters' cover of "(Calling Occupants of) Interplanetary Craft", "The Star Wars Disco Theme" by Meco, "Emotion" by Samantha Sang and "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gayle .... heard them all on local Montreal radio stations like CKGM AM ...
learned this years later, but 1977 was an important year in hip hop's prehistory ... a block party, hosted by DJ Kool Herc, was going on in the Bronx that summer when the power went out for all of New York City ... days of chaos followed
and on ABC TV in the US, there was "Eight is Enough", "Soap", ""The Love Boat", ""Three's Company", "Fantasy Island" ... on CBS TV there was "The Incredible Hulk", "Dallas" and "Lou Grant" ... and on NBC TV there was "CHiPs", "Man from Atlantis" and "The Richard Pryor Show"
Wow. The shimmery shorts look amazing on you. Fun. My girlfriend and I would never have been considered as anything close to the Studio crowd. We had alternate forms of entertainment. Sometime in early 1977, Carolyn and I discovered a movie theater near San Diego State U. called The Ken in the nearby Kensington district. It was a repertory house that played films we typically wouldn’t be able to see elsewhere else and showed different films every couple of days. Tickets were a dollar, soda and popcorn another two. Perfect for two broke college kids looking for cheap entertainment. The first films we saw there was a James Dean double feature, “Rebel Without a Cause” and “East of Eden.” The audience actually cheered when he first appeared on screen in Rebel.
We became regulars. We’d see films like Harold and Maude, La Grande Illusion, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein & Dracula, John Waters’ Pink Flamingos and an Akita Kurosawa retrospective. Keep in mind, streaming video and VHS tapes didn’t yet exist. A rep like the Ken was the only place to see such fare. The theater was cramped and run down but exposed us to a world we had no other access to. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and subtitled M, Fellini’s La Dulce Vita and Francois Truffaut’s Night for Day became foreign language favorites. Carolyn even talked me into dressing up for a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
We brought college friends from both Carolyn’s crowd as well as my fellow computer geeks. All agreed this was something magical.
Thank you for yet another magical tale from your life! I love the way you described going to the movie theater and I could see myself having around there too. I always love catching old films on the big screen and I love that you dressed up for rocky horror ⭐️
@@EmmaRosaKatharina And thank you for encouraging me. I means the world to me to have someone, especially a fellow writer that I respect , appreciate my work. Not sure if you've ever seen it, but if not, try to catch La Grande Illusion. It is an amazing piece of film making.
You definitely would have been let into Studio 54 in that outfit! I love 1970s disco culture and fashion. Saturday Night Fever is a good movie, but my personal favourite disco themed movie is Thank God It's Friday with Donna Summer (of course!) although it came out a year later in 1978. People are mentioning Elvis' death. I remember my dad telling me that he and my grandma had tickets to go and see him that year, but he passed away before he hit their stop on the tour so they never got to see him.
. Elvis death is indeed noteworthy; if you watch footage, punks turned out to mourn him, so the connection between generations is important. Also, in the states, mohawks and other punk styles were extremely rare, relatively speaking in '77 - (in the USA). Punk came 'late' to the USA, mainly the early 80's. In my opinion, it was decidedly inferior to the UK version. A good report about a great, interesting year.
The only good cultural thing that happened in 1977 was the explosion of Punk 🧷 Rock . I was 17 in that year and loved the new wave of music. The Sex Pistols were so good.
I've really enjoyed your video series. As a Gen Xer I would love to see videos like this for the 80's & 90's.
Was waiting for my birth year!! Sooo excited!! 😀
I can't believe that you didn't mention the death of Elvis Presley. Surely the loss of such an iconic figure deserves some form of acknowledgment...
as a child (6 going on 7), i the radio playing "Easy" by the Commodores, "Margaritaville" by Jimmy Buffett, Rita Coolidge's cover of "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", "Telephone Line" by ELO, "Yesterday's Gone" by Fleetwood Mac, "Heaven on the 7th Floor" by the Mighty Pope, the Carpenters' cover of "(Calling Occupants of) Interplanetary Craft", "The Star Wars Disco Theme" by Meco, "Emotion" by Samantha Sang and "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gayle .... heard them all on local Montreal radio stations like CKGM AM ...
learned this years later, but 1977 was an important year in hip hop's prehistory ... a block party, hosted by DJ Kool Herc, was going on in the Bronx that summer when the power went out for all of New York City ... days of chaos followed
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and on ABC TV in the US, there was "Eight is Enough", "Soap", ""The Love Boat", ""Three's Company", "Fantasy Island" ... on CBS TV there was "The Incredible Hulk", "Dallas" and "Lou Grant" ... and on NBC TV there was "CHiPs", "Man from Atlantis" and "The Richard Pryor Show"
What a great year for movies! 🎥
Wow. The shimmery shorts look amazing on you. Fun. My girlfriend and I would never have been considered as anything close to the Studio crowd. We had alternate forms of entertainment.
Sometime in early 1977, Carolyn and I discovered a movie theater near San Diego State U. called The Ken in the nearby Kensington district. It was a repertory house that played films we typically wouldn’t be able to see elsewhere else and showed different films every couple of days. Tickets were a dollar, soda and popcorn another two. Perfect for two broke college kids looking for cheap entertainment. The first films we saw there was a James Dean double feature, “Rebel Without a Cause” and “East of Eden.” The audience actually cheered when he first appeared on screen in Rebel.
We became regulars. We’d see films like Harold and Maude, La Grande Illusion, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein & Dracula, John Waters’ Pink Flamingos and an Akita Kurosawa retrospective. Keep in mind, streaming video and VHS tapes didn’t yet exist. A rep like the Ken was the only place to see such fare. The theater was cramped and run down but exposed us to a world we had no other access to. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and subtitled M, Fellini’s La Dulce Vita and Francois Truffaut’s Night for Day became foreign language favorites. Carolyn even talked me into dressing up for a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
We brought college friends from both Carolyn’s crowd as well as my fellow computer geeks. All agreed this was something magical.
Thank you for yet another magical tale from your life! I love the way you described going to the movie theater and I could see myself having around there too. I always love catching old films on the big screen and I love that you dressed up for rocky horror ⭐️
@@EmmaRosaKatharina And thank you for encouraging me. I means the world to me to have someone, especially a fellow writer that I respect , appreciate my work. Not sure if you've ever seen it, but if not, try to catch La Grande Illusion. It is an amazing piece of film making.
You definitely would have been let into Studio 54 in that outfit! I love 1970s disco culture and fashion. Saturday Night Fever is a good movie, but my personal favourite disco themed movie is Thank God It's Friday with Donna Summer (of course!) although it came out a year later in 1978.
People are mentioning Elvis' death. I remember my dad telling me that he and my grandma had tickets to go and see him that year, but he passed away before he hit their stop on the tour so they never got to see him.
. Elvis death is indeed noteworthy; if you watch footage, punks turned out to mourn him, so the connection between generations is important.
Also, in the states, mohawks and other punk styles were extremely rare, relatively speaking in '77 - (in the USA). Punk came 'late' to the USA, mainly the early 80's. In my opinion, it was decidedly inferior to the UK version.
A good report about a great, interesting year.
The only good cultural thing that happened in 1977 was the explosion of Punk 🧷 Rock . I was 17 in that year and loved the new wave of music. The Sex Pistols were so good.
Can’t argue with that second part! The Sex Pistols were phenomenal!⭐️
Elvis Presley very important in 1977
First 🎉🎉😊
Yay! 💌