@Mac - At the White Soxs double header. Team owner name rhymed with "wreck," had a promo. Bring a disco record and a buck to get in for both games. Blew up the records between the two games. Crowd got into it and rioted, ripping up seats and just about everything else and throwing it onto the field. Now repeat after me, "Disco sucks! Disco sucks! Disco sucks! The second game had to be forfeited....
I'm another one who graduated in '79 and every classmate wrote in my yearbook "To Doug, a wild and crazy guy!". Everyone was wild and crazy like Steve Martin 🙂
1979 was when my bouncing baby boy was born. He was and still is the spitting image of his mother. He has always had a good heart. He is a great dad and I couldn’t be more proud of him. I love you Joe. Love, Mom 🙏🏻❤️
The Dukes of Hazzard premiered on January 26, 1979, with the episode “One-Armed Bandits” and ended in 1985, lasting seven seasons. The Dukes would be part of an iconic Friday night lineup that consisted of The Incredible Hulk (until 1981; the final two episodes were aired in 1982 on a different night), Falcon Crest (1981 onward), and Dallas. The Dukes at one point were the second rated TV show behind Dallas and were a huge hit before Coy and Vance came in Season 5, causing the show’s decline. Despite Bo and Luke coming back later that season, the ratings weren’t like they once were and finally in 1985 they aired the last episode “Opening Night At The Boar’s Nest”.
I was 9 in 1979. I remember that year clearly. One of the things that stood out for me that year as a kid, The Sugarhill Gang's mega hit, Rapper's Delight, unprecedented.
I was 9 that year too. In my 9 year old mind I thought Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall was the best. But looking on the year as an adult the Iran Hostage Crisis and the result of gas prices going up and limiting how much gas you could buy was the biggest news.
I was born in 1979! I love the films, music, style, and look of that decade. I often wonder if maybe I'm reincarnated from someone who partied too hard in the '70s.
I graduated HS in 1979, so I lived through that decade. It wasn't that great the first time: The end of the Viet Nam War, The boring (very large, and very slow) cars of the last half of the decade, the Gasoline Crisis, Jimmy Carter's double digit inflation (21% interest on home loans), the Iran Hostage Crisis, Disco, bell bottom pants, platform shoes (that's about the only kind of shoes guys could buy, too)....I could go on, and on. Now, if you wanted to go back to a great decade, choose the 80s. THAT was a great decade to be alive and live through.
@@derekhall1934 Yes! I was a ballroom dancer and disco dancer. I was pretty good! A lot of dancers wanted me to teach them the disco steps. Which I did, I really enjoyed It! I love to dance. I plan on going back to it. I had surgery on my back. So I am doing back to it one step at a time I was semi professional
Right on. I met mine then, married in ‘81, and still hanging in there too😉. It seems like a miracle to people, eh? 🙃. And Derek, we didn’t. (I know you weren’t asking me, but if your curious) We liked Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, and the ilk.
i was at 3 mile island the day it happened. might have been the only australian there. i was on a road trip across the usa in a lincoln continental mark 4. i have wonderful memories of that year.
I was one year old. But I still remember driving my parents car off in a creek in front of our home, as we were in the process of moving. All our stuff in the car. I only cried because mom did. My mother’s first near heart attack. Yes, I actually remember this. At a year and a half old. 1979. I remember you.
1979 was my first year out of high school, after graduating in 78. I remember Battlestar Galactica and the Dukes of Hazard, and the fantastic music. I can still hear Led Zeppilin's, In the Evening in my head. In 79, I had made wine so good that bubbles formed everytime I opened a bottle. I had enlisted in the USAF as a fighter mechanic. I ratchet jawed on the 2 way. I most certainly remembered Solid Gold with Deon Warwick hosting. The great songs I best remember were, Lips Inc.: Funky Town, M: Pop Music, Blondie: Heart of Glass, Chris Cross: We Don't Talk Anymore, Donna Summer: Hot Stuff, and ELO: Don't Bring Me Down. My two most favorite years were 79&80 for music.
I went on vacation to NYC at the end of Dec. 1979 to celebrate New Year's Eve on Times Square. I took many pictures of and on the observation deck of WTC 2. Got many pics of the inside as well. Went to Studio 54 and the disco where "Saturday Night Fever" was filmed. Got pics of all of that, plus a lot from Times Square on NYE. The Village People had a show there, and I went to that too. Didn't rent a car---I took the subway. My husband had died in a car crash a couple of months before, and I had to get away from Phoenix for a bit. The shopping was awesome too, and I bought some going-out clothes and shoes, which I still have and wear (I'm thinner now than I was back then). I had a fantastic time, and everyone I met there was friendly, unlike Phoenix people. That is my favorite memory of 1979. (Jan Griffiths).
On January 1, 1979 my mom told me that 1978 was over and it’s 1979 now. My 4-year-old mind had a hard time comprehending that 1978 was gone and never coming back.
I was 12 in 1979. I remember a lot of what you covered, just didn't care about it at the time LOL. But I do remember getting a Walkman for Christmas which really surprised me since I knew we were poor. Found out years later my Aunt and Grandma both skipped their lunches while at work for almost a year to save the money to buy it for me. I've always loved music and that gift just further solidified it.
I was at Disco Demolishon night..I was 14 and my uncle took me as my 8th grade graduation gift..box seats 3rd base..I have the ticket stub and season sche..memories
I’m a high school graduate and I’m in a summer film class and I’m writing a horror film that takes place in October of 1979 and this video helped me with some cultural references to the year my film takes place in
What I remember the most about the year of 1979 I was still in High School 1 year before my graduation I was 18 years old. Just in the prime of my life. It would have been nice if I ever can go back and learn from mistakes and maybe studied harder in school both my grandparents were still alive including my parents and my brother
I was born 6679.. Love it I'm Navajo Indian.. Ojut.. horse rider professional great grandson of chief manuelito.. An many times great grandson of hashkaninii..
This year 1979 was defently a huge year for me it was the year for which.i was born in..lol 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my fave songs for the obvious reason I just said but also ones very personal to me. Lots of very great memories I have. And for me all the fun started in 1979...😉
You missed New Wave being big. Blondie, The Knack and The Police all had big hits. At least, that's the first thing I thought of. Also, big year for horror flicks, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and I think Amityville Horror. Also, Thurman Munson died in an airplane crash. Still liked the video though, Keep it up!
I am still a mad Blondie fan ...Parallel Lines and The Cars were my first 2 vinyl albums when I got a stereo in 1980 for my 9th birthday! But in 1979, I was being raised by my then 22 year old sister, hanging out with her friend Susan B. cruising all over Staten Island in her brown 1977 Camaro named Cinnamon, blasting The Cars playing on the 8 track, and going down the NJ shore (Long beach Is.) and watching WHT cable network, The Exorcist, screwed me up then too.
I was 2 years out of the army in 79 and still searching for a place in society. Now we recognise that this is a form of PTSD as the army teaches you to be a soldier but not a civillian, after.
70's kid here-yeah this all happened but so did this... Space Invaders(first video arcade game), Pink Floyd's The Wall , Mork and Mindy (Robin Williams break out roll), Alien. Oh yeah and Skylab fell to earth. My favorite memory was skating to the corner store, listening to the Ramones Rock and Roll high school while stacking quarters on the new arcade machines...I was 13 and all I wanted to be was Riff Randle.
I turned 17 and bought my first real stereo system, local FM station played The Wall in its entirety and I was able to record it on my new cassette deck.
1979 was the year I loaned my special edition Electric Chairs RED vinyl album to someone, can't remember who, but it's been 41 dam years, give it back, willya.
I was 9 years old that year, Playing with Star Wars toys, and watching Battlestar Galactica on TV. Remember seeing bits of what your video was talking about, but being a kid, to me it was adult problems and I ignored a lot of them
I graduated high school back in 1979. There were two highly-anticipated albums released from groups whose previous albums were released in 1977 (stated in parenthesis): Early in the year, Supertramp's Breakfast in America (Even In The Quietest Moments), and toward the end of the year Pink Floyd's The Wall (Animals).
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was life changing for me. Smoking weed in Clemson dorms while listening to "Comfortably Numb" and reciting dirty limericks. And none of was filmed and posted online
I lived in Chicago in '79 and we had possibly the worst winter in the city's history. More than 7 feet of snow and super cold all winter. I was 19 with my first car but driving was sometimes tough.
I was born in 1979 also. I don't remember anything about it except my mother told me it was was when my aunt and uncle got married. She didn't go because she didn't feel well. ( I was born a week after the wedding.)
My favorite 1979 Memory was going to High School the day after a Cheap Trick Concert and dancing on my desk wearing my Tour Shirt singing "Surrender". I got suspended for a 2 days..
I was 11. I don’t specifically remember ‘79 events, those early years kind of blend together. The Iran hostage excerpt reminded me of the parody of The Beach Boys Song Barbara Anne titled Bomb Iran. Don’t know if that parody was from ‘79 but would have been soon after if not.
I was in kindergarten in ’79. My school burned down at Christmastime. So I sang: “Joy to the World the school burned down…” which is funny because my parents were teachers and I ended up getting a Master’s degree.
I turned 18 Rom Spaceknight the toy came out. Marvel Comics created a great comic around the toy. Even if the toy itself sadly flopped. It premiere Tuesday Sept 11th, 1979 ran until Jan of 1985. For 75 monthly issues and four yearly annuals.
I was 6 years old in 1979 and I was in grade prep, that’s what we call the first year of primary school here in Australia. My dad still had the orchard back then and my first nephew was born. They were good times
5:53 - *OFF THE WALL was actually Michael Jackson's fifth solo album. His first was GOT TO BE THERE in 1972. He went back and forth between releasing LPs with the Jackson 5, which evolved into the Jacksons, and solo records.
I remember 1979 which was my last year of College and I remember graduating. I remember the first, second, and numerous other frustrating job interviews, that included the phrase, "your College education is all well and good, but, I would rather have someone with experience". . I remember my first, second, third, fourth fifth and sixth job after graduating college, during that year. I remember that a part time job, I had while I was still in College paid me the most money, I earned that year. I remember how I took an interview in May 1979, which wound up being with Amway and how Amway seemed to be a large portion of the employer pool interested in hiring College graduates that year. I remember seeing a fellow Graduate on the sidewalk selling pretzels bags from a table on the sidewalk. I remember a Saturday driving to a job interview about 100 miles, that turned out to be with Hartford for an Insurance Salesman position. I remember the great advertising campaign for the movie, "The China Syndrome" , "Only a handful of people know what it means. On March 16, you will know." I remember that movie has a line, "It could blow up an area, the size of Pennsylvania." Somehow, because the Three Mile Island nuclear accident happened 11 days after that movie came out, that line made that movie quite suspicious. I remember the great advertising campaign for the movie "Alien" that left viewers with "In space, no one can hear you scream". I remember "More American Graffiti," came out that year, in which we knew when the people in the movie died, but did not see it; rather we saw a lot of near death situations within the movie. And I remember the girl from "Easland", which meant Iceland, eventually with getting together with Jack Milnor. I remember the gas shortage that year, and how many gas stations ran out of gas, regularly, until finally the price of gas went up above $1:00 per gallon. I remember the unforeseen Seattle Supersonic NBA Championship at a time when most fans talked about "Doctor J" of the 76ers. The Sonic style of Baskettball, relied mostly on the tremendous speed of their guards Dennis Johnson and Gus Williams, and had little to do with height. I remember most Division winners from the prior year in Major League Baseball wound up in forth place in 1979, including the highly publicized Pete Rose and the Philadelphia Phillies. I remember we had an exciting Super Bowl between Dallas and Pittsburgh that year, which the Steelers won. I remember that both teams ignored getting players with experience, and hired their (home grown) players out of College. This became a comment, I made to many potential employers. I remember our people in Iran being captured by Militant Students. I remember Ted Koppel being on Television every night talking about the "Iran Hostage Crisis" on the show "Nightline".
I was in high school. New city new school. Those gas lines were ridiculous. You could only get fuel on certain days depending on whether your license plate ended in an even or odd number.
Werid my mom also had her second daughter and 2nd and last child in July 1979...lol..me..😊👍💛... So congrats to you your daughter and all ppl born in 1979.😊👍💛💝
Back in 79 the shorts that the basketball players wore or short Mount like today's but what is most memorable Unforgettable my father passed away January 1st 1979 that year sucked for me!
The death of my brother in 1984 was the 1st thing I thought of when YT suggested I watch this video. My dad hated the fact that my brother had long hair in high school and for 5 years after high school. We were lower middle-class. On the afternoon before a church-sponsored dance (almost every Friday), my brother would borrow a button-up silk shirt with a big collar to go with bell-bottom pants he already had. He liked the rock bands Styx, Men at Work, and Cheap Trick, but he knew that the Disco people were the best dressed. So on Friday night he was dressed as if to be an extra (actor) for the movie Saturday Fever. When I walked home from Jr. high school, young ladies his age from my church congregation would recognize me as his brother and give me a ride home. They would say, "Your brother is foxy!" and ask me to tell them if he was home. That's what a young lady would say in 1979 if she thought a guy was very attractive. While he was going perhaps 15 m.p.h. over the speed limit another driver turned left in front of my brother and stopped for no apparent reason. My brother, on a motorcycle he bought to save money on gas and insurance, hit the other driver's truck broadside, and succumbed to injuries a few weeks later. The truck driver was not physically injured.
No mention of the new wave of British heavy metal or Van Halen. Considering what the ‘80s became as it relates to hard rock/metal, this is pretty glaring.
What do you remember most about the year 1979? 🤔
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Carter, unemployment, inflation, and disco.
I got married.
@Mac - At the White Soxs double header. Team owner name rhymed with "wreck," had a promo. Bring a disco record and a buck to get in for both games. Blew up the records between the two games. Crowd got into it and rioted, ripping up seats and just about everything else and throwing it onto the field. Now repeat after me, "Disco sucks! Disco sucks! Disco sucks! The second game had to be forfeited....
I don’t remember, but I bet my mom does on November 24th when I came out of her chin first ripping her apart! 😳😳😳😳
I'm another one who graduated in '79 and every classmate wrote in my yearbook "To Doug, a wild and crazy guy!". Everyone was wild and crazy like Steve Martin 🙂
Meee tooo dude !
But I thought your generation were the good kids, unlike today?
@@ebogar42 I think teens today are a lot more mature then the teens in my day
1979 was when my bouncing baby boy was born. He was and still is the spitting image of his mother. He has always had a good heart. He is a great dad and I couldn’t be more proud of him. I love you Joe. Love, Mom 🙏🏻❤️
1979 had the greatest music, film and TV, I was 13 most of the year and it was a very iconic and brilliant time
You missed the movie premiere of, ALIEN in 79.
True, good add.
That is My favorite movie All time because I was born in 1979
The Dukes of Hazzard premiered on January 26, 1979, with the episode “One-Armed Bandits” and ended in 1985, lasting seven seasons. The Dukes would be part of an iconic Friday night lineup that consisted of The Incredible Hulk (until 1981; the final two episodes were aired in 1982 on a different night), Falcon Crest (1981 onward), and Dallas. The Dukes at one point were the second rated TV show behind Dallas and were a huge hit before Coy and Vance came in Season 5, causing the show’s decline. Despite Bo and Luke coming back later that season, the ratings weren’t like they once were and finally in 1985 they aired the last episode “Opening Night At The Boar’s Nest”.
So, we had the start of the Dukes and the end of the Duke!
I was 9 in 1979. I remember that year clearly. One of the things that stood out for me that year as a kid, The Sugarhill Gang's mega hit, Rapper's Delight, unprecedented.
It was everywhere.
Me too...9 yrs old and I STILL have the Sugerhill Gang album!
I was 9 that year too. In my 9 year old mind I thought Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall was the best. But looking on the year as an adult the Iran Hostage Crisis and the result of gas prices going up and limiting how much gas you could buy was the biggest news.
@@shaywestlake9709 Off the Wall is still his best album, in my opinion. That's where the surgeries should have stopped.
Graduated from high school - Seniors of ‘79- mighty fine!!
I was born in 1979! I love the films, music, style, and look of that decade. I often wonder if maybe I'm reincarnated from someone who partied too hard in the '70s.
I graduated from HS in 72! Weed, Wine and Women were the order of the day! Good Times were had by all!!
I graduated HS in 1979, so I lived through that decade. It wasn't that great the first time: The end of the Viet Nam War, The boring (very large, and very slow) cars of the last half of the decade, the Gasoline Crisis, Jimmy Carter's double digit inflation (21% interest on home loans), the Iran Hostage Crisis, Disco, bell bottom pants, platform shoes (that's about the only kind of shoes guys could buy, too)....I could go on, and on. Now, if you wanted to go back to a great decade, choose the 80s. THAT was a great decade to be alive and live through.
Same! On New Year's Eve to be exact! Just the whole 70's decade seemed very groovy!
Same here on New Year's Day! The 70's looked so awesome!
@@Nieve_1231You and me both cuz! '79 babies! 🙌🙌🙌
Born in 1979, this is actually (at least) the second time I have watched this video. It is excellent, thank you.
I was a high school junior... cruising around in my ‘72 Grand Torino listening to the best rock music ever ... great times
The year that I was born. I don't remember any of it, but it's great to see what was happening during my first year on the planet.
Graduated in 1979. Class songs to vote for were Freebird, I'd Love to Change the World. Carry on Wayward Son.
I Graduated In 1979.
I Was 18 Years Old.
me too. surprised I am still alive
1979 I got married and am still married to him today! Lol!
Awesome! Congrats 💕😎
Roselyn Campisi did you guys do disco ?
@@derekhall1934 Yes! I was a ballroom dancer and disco dancer. I was pretty good! A lot of dancers wanted me to teach them the disco steps. Which I did, I really enjoyed It! I love to dance. I plan on going back to it. I had surgery on my back. So I am doing back to it one step at a time I was semi professional
I got made and born this fine year
Right on. I met mine then, married in ‘81, and still hanging in there too😉. It seems like a miracle to people, eh? 🙃. And Derek, we didn’t. (I know you weren’t asking me, but if your curious) We liked Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, and the ilk.
The Warriors!
Come out and playyyyy... clink clink
78
@@manaiabull
Nope, 79, Feb 9th to be exact.
What was I doing in 1979? Gestating, mostly. Even though I only caught the last 3 months of the 70s, I'm glad I get to say I was born in that decade
i was at 3 mile island the day it happened. might have been the only australian there. i was on a road trip across the usa in a lincoln continental mark 4. i have wonderful memories of that year.
That’s surreal
I graduated from high school.
I was one year old. But I still remember driving my parents car off in a creek in front of our home, as we were in the process of moving. All our stuff in the car. I only cried because mom did. My mother’s first near heart attack. Yes, I actually remember this. At a year and a half old. 1979. I remember you.
1979 was my first year out of high school, after graduating in 78. I remember Battlestar Galactica and the Dukes of Hazard, and the fantastic music. I can still hear Led Zeppilin's, In the Evening in my head.
In 79, I had made wine so good that bubbles formed everytime I opened a bottle.
I had enlisted in the USAF as a fighter mechanic.
I ratchet jawed on the 2 way.
I most certainly remembered Solid Gold with Deon Warwick hosting. The great songs I best remember were, Lips Inc.: Funky Town, M: Pop Music, Blondie: Heart of Glass, Chris Cross: We Don't Talk Anymore, Donna Summer: Hot Stuff, and ELO: Don't Bring Me Down. My two most favorite years were 79&80 for music.
Buck Rogers
This was the year that I was born. September 4 1979 My Sharona by the Knack was the no 1 hit song on that day.
1979, Junior in High School. Got my driver’s license and looked forward to Graduation next year...then becoming an urban cowboy.
😎
Sweet that's my year👍♥️ thanks guys awesome video I absolutely love it😍👍👍
Thank you so much for making me feel old. 😂😂😂😂
😂
I went on vacation to NYC at the end of Dec. 1979 to celebrate New Year's Eve on Times Square. I took many pictures of and on the observation deck of WTC 2. Got many pics of the inside as well. Went to Studio 54 and the disco where "Saturday Night Fever" was filmed. Got pics of all of that, plus a lot from Times Square on NYE. The Village People had a show there, and I went to that too. Didn't rent a car---I took the subway. My husband had died in a car crash a couple of months before, and I had to get away from Phoenix for a bit. The shopping was awesome too, and I bought some going-out clothes and shoes, which I still have and wear (I'm thinner now than I was back then). I had a fantastic time, and everyone I met there was friendly, unlike Phoenix people. That is my favorite memory of 1979. (Jan Griffiths).
On January 1, 1979 my mom told me that 1978 was over and it’s 1979 now. My 4-year-old mind had a hard time comprehending that 1978 was gone and never coming back.
I was 12 in 1979. I remember a lot of what you covered, just didn't care about it at the time LOL. But I do remember getting a Walkman for Christmas which really surprised me since I knew we were poor. Found out years later my Aunt and Grandma both skipped their lunches while at work for almost a year to save the money to buy it for me. I've always loved music and that gift just further solidified it.
I was 7 in 1979 and my mom had an olive green Pinto. Great times!
I was at Disco Demolishon night..I was 14 and my uncle took me as my 8th grade graduation gift..box seats 3rd base..I have the ticket stub and season sche..memories
I’m a high school graduate and I’m in a summer film class and I’m writing a horror film that takes place in October of 1979 and this video helped me with some cultural references to the year my film takes place in
I graduated from high school in this year! Ahh man this was a great time to be alive!
I remember when they held a pro Iranian rally at my college in Tampa at university of south Florida! Was crazy times for sure.
I was in utero for most of 79! I don't remember much but I enjoyed the last 6 weeks of 79!
I remember walking 32 kilometers for a walk a thon , skating to disco music , and having a God awful perm .🙈
😂
Anego L perms and disco should have never existed .
I was born in '79 and this looked like a pretty "far out" year!
What I remember the most about the year of 1979 I was still in High School 1 year before my graduation I was 18 years old. Just in the prime of my life. It would have been nice if I ever can go back and learn from mistakes and maybe studied harder in school both my grandparents were still alive including my parents and my brother
I was 17 years old. Young and dumb and I love every minute of it. Strange, at the time I was completely miserable.
Miss those young dumb days 😆
Yea, High School sucked then, and was awesome at tbe same time!
another great year ..i was 9 years old ..remember it well.....great songs on radio ..movies tv and sports were great..
.
1979 my birth year ❤🎊🕺🏾💃🏾
I miss the past and I miss my youth.
🤗
Me too.
Same here .
I was born 6679..
Love it I'm Navajo Indian..
Ojut.. horse rider professional great grandson of chief manuelito..
An many times great grandson of hashkaninii..
This year 1979 was defently a huge year for me it was the year for which.i was born in..lol
1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my fave songs for the obvious reason I just said but also ones very personal to me. Lots of very great memories I have.
And for me all the fun started in 1979...😉
You missed New Wave being big. Blondie, The Knack and The Police all had big hits. At least, that's the first thing I thought of. Also, big year for horror flicks, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and I think Amityville Horror. Also, Thurman Munson died in an airplane crash. Still liked the video though, Keep it up!
Thanks and yes we could have definitely added that. 😌
Knuke The Knack😄
Indeed. This was more relevant than Rap in 1979 by a long shot.
I am still a mad Blondie fan ...Parallel Lines and The Cars were my first 2 vinyl albums when I got a stereo in 1980 for my 9th birthday! But in 1979, I was being raised by my then 22 year old sister, hanging out with her friend Susan B. cruising all over Staten Island in her brown 1977 Camaro named Cinnamon, blasting The Cars playing on the 8 track, and going down the NJ shore (Long beach Is.) and watching WHT cable network, The Exorcist, screwed me up then too.
I inherited my father's Pinto wagon in 1980. I guess they hated me. 😂
Always did!
My brother had one. Sat in our garage for 26 years.
My dad also died on the Eides of March 3/15
at Duffy Boston. I liked the Ford Pinto. I had 2 of them. A Red 1976 Wagon and A 1980 Hatchback Runabout. Both 4 speeds.
Guffawing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was 2 years out of the army in 79 and still searching for a place in society. Now we recognise that this is a form of PTSD as the army teaches you to be a soldier but not a civillian, after.
@Justin Sharpe What are you talking about?
@Justin Sharpe Your words, "War ended 65 brother". That was WW2, and it was not the last war. I was talking about PTSD.
I was 10. My sister and I knew every word to "Rapper's Delight" (Aka: "Good Times") and would rap to each other (with attitude!).
Good times, indeed.
Was born. Interesting things happened that year, thanks for sharing them. ☺
70's kid here-yeah this all happened but so did this... Space Invaders(first video arcade game), Pink Floyd's The Wall , Mork and Mindy (Robin Williams break out roll), Alien. Oh yeah and Skylab fell to earth. My favorite memory was skating to the corner store, listening to the Ramones Rock and Roll high school while stacking quarters on the new arcade machines...I was 13 and all I wanted to be was Riff Randle.
I turned 17 and bought my first real stereo system, local FM station played The Wall in its entirety and I was able to record it on my new cassette deck.
1979 was the year I loaned my special edition Electric Chairs RED vinyl album to someone, can't remember who, but it's been 41 dam years, give it back, willya.
I love music from 1979
I just entered Kindergarten in 1979. I remember the clothes, the big cars, and big hairstyles of that time. Oh, and DUKES OF HAZZARD!
I remember when this was a weird history show
You left out the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan at the end of the year. That had implications still being felt today.
I wasn't alive yet, but still full of nostalgia. Remember when people used to go outside?
Yeah, we did. It was fun, not worrying about getting killed when playing outside or offending anyone when talking about almost anything. I miss it.
I was 9 years old that year, Playing with Star Wars toys, and watching Battlestar Galactica on TV.
Remember seeing bits of what your video was talking about, but being a kid, to me it was adult problems and I ignored a lot of them
Excellent video, thanks!
I was 4. We moved into the house I lived in through the 80s. I remember moving day.
I was 2 years old, my mother died in 80. This was the greatest year of my life and I can't remember.
I graduated high school back in 1979. There were two highly-anticipated albums released from groups whose previous albums were released in 1977 (stated in parenthesis): Early in the year, Supertramp's Breakfast in America (Even In The Quietest Moments), and toward the end of the year Pink Floyd's The Wall (Animals).
Oh yea! BOTH albums were huge. In HS you could tell which click, jocks vs heads, was the favorite! 😉
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was life changing for me. Smoking weed in Clemson dorms while listening to "Comfortably Numb" and reciting dirty limericks. And none of was filmed and posted online
I will never understand how Disco was despised after such a long period of success. Where were all the people who jammed to it for years?
Lol
I was never a big fan of Disco. Then rap started - and I said please go back to disco.
@@evoman1776 LMFAO! Rap makes any alternative look like a golden goose! ;-)
All those years? Didco didn't even start until 1975. It was a good example of overkill.
I lived in Chicago in '79 and we had possibly the worst winter in the city's history. More than 7 feet of snow and super cold all winter. I was 19 with my first car but driving was sometimes tough.
Yep sub-zero temps in Jan of 80 too in Milwaukee, WI. The 70's had some brutal winters in Wisc too.
I was a graduate in 1979
A Hugh snow storm 7 feet or more covered our doors used to have to tunnel out
One year old . Really love to what the world was doing when I was a baby
Thanks for the memories😃.
I can't believe that you didn't report on my Freshman year at Lake Brantley High School. That was a serious event going on there....LOL
In Altamonte Springs, FL
Aww mann.. we’ll have to dedicate a whole video to that. 😉
@@MsGail61 Yep. Class of 82
@@DYR I can co-host it, modestly, LMAO!
Summer of 1979. 14 and starting to find the satisfaction only the METAL can bring.
The year I was born!!!
I was born in 79. Don't remember anything about it.
I was born in 1985, so i don´t have any idea about that year, but i love it! 100x better than 2020!
@@reneg.1620 - I joined the Navy in 1971 so my memory is somewhat fresh.
That’s normal for a 1 year old. You can watch videos about it 😉
I was born in 1979 also. I don't remember anything about it except my mother told me it was was when my aunt and uncle got married. She didn't go because she didn't feel well. ( I was born a week after the wedding.)
@@melissacooper4282 - golly; you don't remember events from the year you were born? ; )
You mention the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pirates winning titles, but forgot about my Seattle Supersonics!
What's the song called in the background of the video? I'm trying to find it?
My favorite 1979 Memory was going to High School the day after a Cheap Trick Concert and dancing on my desk wearing my Tour Shirt singing "Surrender". I got suspended for a 2 days..
There was no mention of AC/DC's album Highway to Hell being released which would be Bon Scott's last recorded album before his untimely death.
I was 11. I don’t specifically remember ‘79 events, those early years kind of blend together. The Iran hostage excerpt reminded me of the parody of The Beach Boys Song Barbara Anne titled Bomb Iran. Don’t know if that parody was from ‘79 but would have been soon after if not.
Met my 2nd partner of 7 years on Aug 11, 1979 in Hollywood and 1 week later we were at a Donna Summer concert at the Universal Ampitheatre.
I was in kindergarten in ’79. My school burned down at Christmastime. So I sang: “Joy to the World the school burned down…” which is funny because my parents were teachers and I ended up getting a Master’s degree.
What was I up too in '79?
Growing, being born, sleeping, eating, pooping myself a lot and more growing.
Graduated 1979 and drove a 1973 orange Ford pinto. Been raising hell every sense
I graduated from high school in 1979.
I was only 8 years old back in '79. I remember that the war on disco pleased me.
I turned 18 Rom Spaceknight the toy came out. Marvel Comics created a great comic around the toy. Even if the toy itself sadly flopped. It premiere Tuesday Sept 11th, 1979 ran until Jan of 1985. For 75 monthly issues and four yearly annuals.
My birth year. Good video.
I was 6 years old in 1979 and I was in grade prep, that’s what we call the first year of primary school here in Australia. My dad still had the orchard back then and my first nephew was born. They were good times
5:53 - *OFF THE WALL was actually Michael Jackson's fifth solo album. His first was GOT TO BE THERE in 1972. He went back and forth between releasing LPs with the Jackson 5, which evolved into the Jacksons, and solo records.
I graduated high school and went off to UF that year.
Nice 😊
I also graduated in 1979
Can't wait for you to do the 80s!!!
Wow you missed a lot of key events in 1979. The Who's River Front show, that gave us the adage , I would walk over you to see the Who
1979 great year 9th grade first time thanks virgina!
In 1979 I was a borrower. Now I am a saver. I sure do miss those high interest rates!
I remember 1979 which was my last year of College and I remember graduating. I remember the first, second, and numerous other frustrating job interviews, that included the phrase, "your College education is all well and good, but, I would rather have someone with experience". . I remember my first, second, third, fourth fifth and sixth job after graduating college, during that year. I remember that a part time job, I had while I was still in College paid me the most money, I earned that year.
I remember how I took an interview in May 1979, which wound up being with Amway and how Amway seemed to be a large portion of the employer pool interested in hiring College graduates that year.
I remember seeing a fellow Graduate on the sidewalk selling pretzels bags from a table on the sidewalk.
I remember a Saturday driving to a job interview about 100 miles, that turned out to be with Hartford for an Insurance Salesman position.
I remember the great advertising campaign for the movie, "The China Syndrome" , "Only a handful of people know what it means. On March 16, you will know." I remember that movie has a line, "It could blow up an area, the size of Pennsylvania." Somehow, because the Three Mile Island nuclear accident happened 11 days after that movie came out, that line made that movie quite suspicious.
I remember the great advertising campaign for the movie "Alien" that left viewers with "In space, no one can hear you scream".
I remember "More American Graffiti," came out that year, in which we knew when the people in the movie died, but did not see it; rather we saw a lot of near death situations within the movie. And I remember the girl from "Easland", which meant Iceland, eventually with getting together with Jack Milnor.
I remember the gas shortage that year, and how many gas stations ran out of gas, regularly, until finally the price of gas went up above $1:00 per gallon.
I remember the unforeseen Seattle Supersonic NBA Championship at a time when most fans talked about "Doctor J" of the 76ers. The Sonic style of Baskettball, relied mostly on the tremendous speed of their guards Dennis Johnson and Gus Williams, and had little to do with height. I remember most Division winners from the prior year in Major League Baseball wound up in forth place in 1979, including the highly publicized Pete Rose and the Philadelphia Phillies. I remember we had an exciting Super Bowl between Dallas and Pittsburgh that year, which the Steelers won. I remember that both teams ignored getting players with experience, and hired their (home grown) players out of College. This became a comment, I made to many potential employers.
I remember our people in Iran being captured by Militant Students. I remember Ted Koppel being on Television every night talking about the "Iran Hostage Crisis" on the show "Nightline".
I was born this year, 15 days b4 Xmas.
CDs have already existed in 79 😮 a fact I did not know until now. in Israel, it becomes available at the start of 90s
I was in high school. New city new school. Those gas lines were ridiculous. You could only get fuel on certain days depending on whether your license plate ended in an even or odd number.
I gave birth to my second daughter in 1979!💞
Wonderful! I was born the same year as your daughter plus I'm the second child in my family!
Werid my mom also had her second daughter and 2nd and last child in July 1979...lol..me..😊👍💛... So congrats to you your daughter and all ppl born in 1979.😊👍💛💝
I know every passing year breeds many things..
But it was amazing to see the things that were born the same year as myself..
Back in 79 the shorts that the basketball players wore or short Mount like today's but what is most memorable Unforgettable my father passed away January 1st 1979 that year sucked for me!
Let me remember....i was in 8th grade, my Jazz went to Utah, and Peter Criss basically told KISS see ya!
i was born in 79... didn't mention the sandinista revolution in Nicaragua... it was big!
Yes, indeed it could have been mentioned.
That helped bring cocaine to the USA, lol! Crazy times
I was 19 that year and my older brother was killed Curtis Morgan Brown rest in peace
The death of my brother in
1984 was the 1st thing I thought of when YT suggested I watch this video. My dad hated the fact that my brother had long hair in high school and for 5 years after high school.
We were lower middle-class. On the afternoon before a church-sponsored dance (almost every Friday), my brother would borrow a button-up silk shirt with a big collar to go with bell-bottom pants he already had.
He liked the rock bands Styx, Men at Work, and Cheap Trick, but he knew that the Disco people were the best dressed. So on Friday night he was dressed as if to be an extra (actor) for the movie Saturday Fever.
When I walked home from Jr. high school, young ladies his age from my church congregation would recognize me as his brother and give me a ride home. They would say, "Your brother is foxy!" and ask me to tell them if he was home. That's what a young lady would say in 1979 if she thought a guy was very attractive.
While he was going perhaps 15 m.p.h. over the speed limit another driver turned left in front of my brother and stopped for no apparent reason. My brother, on a motorcycle he bought to save money on gas and insurance, hit the other driver's truck broadside, and succumbed to injuries a few weeks later. The truck driver was not physically injured.
@@ieatoutoften872 I’m sorry for your loss
I’m sorry for your loss @#8 buck shot
@@xxdeadgamerxx8164 Thank you for your kind comment to me, Model Planes Guru, and #8 Buckshot.
Un 1979 i was 12 years old and really remember all these staff like if it was yesterday.....im from guadalajara México. Si señor.
No mention of the new wave of British heavy metal or Van Halen. Considering what the ‘80s became as it relates to hard rock/metal, this is pretty glaring.
PLEASE do more videos about different decades in the 20th century