I graduated from high school in 1979 and got married to my HS sweetheart the following year in Miami. He interviewed Henry Winkler for our school newspaper (of which he was the assistant editor)! We were married for 41 years before he died very suddenly and unexpectedly in August of this year. The memories in this video feel like they happened only yesterday. Life is short.
Graduated 1978, Married June 1979. While you are living it mostly life seems to go at a measured pace, but I have to say the last 20 years were like lightning. All the guys I ran with in HS are gone. Far too soon, and most of my class is gone. Life IS short. It doesn't seem that way when you start but at the other end oh, can you ever see it. I am sorry for your loss.
On April 9 , 1979, I started my long time employment with Martin Marietta which later became Lockheed Martin. I just retired from that job about 2 weeks ago.
This was the best year of my childhood. I can remember sitting in the backseat of my dad's monte carlo on a Sunday night after we left Sunday night church services. On the way home dad stopped at Kroger's to grab a few snacks for us to munch on while watching the NBC Sunday Night Movie, while waiting on dad my mom turned the radio on and "Minute by Minute" was playing. Never before or since did I feel more at peace. I miss my dad, my mom, the monte carlo and the peace I felt in 1979.
I was 14 then and went from a small middle school to a large high school. That was tough for me. I was not prepared for this change. My grades were bad and my dad was pissed at me. He owned several businesses and was trying to support my whole family of 8 people. He was a shrewd guy and he succeeded. He died last year. We had a great relationship for most of his life. He was dedicated to his family and helped us all.
I graduated high school in June 1979. This was an excellent 8 minute summary that drilled down quickly of the events of 79. Thank you for the memories! Great series on all the years! Keep them coming!
One of my best years, if not maybe the utmost best! It was the year I ran to the alter of a church, to give my heart and my whole life to The Lord. I had gone through torture before that! Thank You Lord! God bless all of you here in this site ❤️
@@deborahpellerito6117 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
Me either. It was such a different time. My brother and I were saying the other day how blessed we were to grow up in this time. No cell phones no twitter or facebook. People actually talked face to face. I really miss those times. Also the best music ever !!!
I turned 18 in the military in 1979. I was on bivouac at Ft. Benning, GA. They brought me in from the field for KP duty, lol. I miss the 1970’s. Thank you for these videos.
In the spring of 1979, the late John Wayne made his final appearance and created an overnight sensation at the 1979 Academy Awards Ceremonies in Hollywood, California. Good times, baby, good times.
1979 was a great year for me. I was a teenager during the '70s. I believe we'll never see the like again. I know I'm old. I can remember when Michael Jackson was ⚫ black ⚫.
1979 had a lot of different things. I was 13 and live near Pittsburgh and remembered Three Mile Island well. It was also the year my We Are Family Pittsburgh Pirates won it all. Willie Stargell was Mister Everything. It was also Disco Demolition Night At Comiskey Park in July. Sadly, also, we lost Thurman Munson of the Yankees on August 2nd that year. R.I.P. Thurman
I was 20 in 79, I live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, I was a big fan of the Pirates for most of the Seventies. Roberto Clemente was my favorite and Richie Hebner. Cheers to the good old days.
I was 14 in 1979, what a year, met my first girlfriend then thought it had to be real love LOL. There were some things I would love to go back and change that year, but it was still a good year for the most part, Much simpler times, the Sony Walkman was high tech stuff back then. Part of me wishes to go back to those times.
My cousin from NY gave me his Sony walkman. And I tell you, I remember the incredible sound even from the foam covered headphones. I remember it was very solid and well built. As a stupid 16 year old, I let one of my friend borrow it and one of his "friends" end up stealing it. I was so mad. At first I thought he made that up. But I ran into him recently. He's a well know Real Estate agent, and he seriously confirmed that's what really happened. That guy end up in jail for stealing credit cards.
I remember it well. I was 25 years old... I lived in the Chicagoland area then and recall watching EVERYTHING about Flight 191. Such a tragedy caused by human error.
I was born on October 11th, 1979. My dad would always tell me stories of the 70s and how good life was back then. Yes there were problems, but nothing like it is now.
The number 1s on the US Billboard Hot 100 during 1979: 1/6-13 The Bee Gees - "Too Much Heaven" 1/20-2/3 Chic - "Le Freak" (also #1 on 12/9 and 12/23-30 in 1978) 2/10-3/3 Rod Stewart - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" 3/10-17 and 4/7 Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive" 3/24-31 The Bee Gees - "Tragedy" 4/14 The Doobie Brothers - "What a Fool Believes" 4/21 Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood" 4/28 Blondie - "Heart of Glass" 5/5-26 Peaches & Herb - "Reunited" 6/2 and 6/16-23 Donna Summer - "Hot Stuff" 6/9 The Bee Gees - "Love You Inside Out 6/30-7/7 Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell" 7/14-8/11 Donna Summer - "Bad Girls" 8/18 Chic - "Good Times" 8/25-9/29 The Knack - "My Sharona" 10/6 Robert John - "Sad Eyes" 10/13 Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough 10/20-27 Herb Alpert - "Rise" 11/3 M - "Pop Musik" 11/10 The Eagles - "Heartache Tonight" 11/17 The Commodores - "Still" 11/24-12/1 Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer - "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" 12/8-15 Styx - "Babe" 12/22-29 Rupert Holmes - "Escape" (also #1 on 1/12/1980)
By the way, loving your series also there, Recollection Road. This is so great especially restaurants and years, especially 60's and 70's. I watch a new one every day and can't wait for a newer one. I'm constantly checking in 😆
Yeah -- I was watching TV waiting for a series when the news of this terrible plane crash came on. Sadly, not all of our memories of the past can be good ones.
I remember the year 1979, it was my 4th year of living on my own. It was also my 4th year of working for Hudson's Eastland Mall. I also remember the long gas ⛽ lines at the gas stations. The Dukes of Hazzard came on TV 📺. The Disco group The Village People. The TV 📺 Sitcom Good Times starring John Amos and Esther Rolle. Good Times was a spin off the TV series Maude. I was 22 years old at the time.
1979 was an interesting year for me. I spent the majority of it in South Korea in the US Army. The nightclubs in the "ville" dancing to disco music, the long summer days of the monsoon season, the endless cold nights pulling guard duty on the DMZ, and 12-14 hour work days.., are all etched forever in memory. As I look back today, I would do it all again.., minus the hangovers!🤣👍🇺🇸
@Mary Williamson, These were the days, when, there were not soyboys, or snowflakes, or Karins' and every boy and girl, in America, knew which bathroom, to use
Thanks a lot for the memories, 1979 is a special year for me since it was the year i came to the USA, i was 16 years old. so it was like a new beginning for me, i keep playing the play 4 lotto ( which i still have not won ) and the numbers are 1979. but you can count on it that soon i will win it.
I was 21 and went to my first concert to see Prince inside an auditorium, front row seats, Teena Marie opened for Prince. Huge fan of "This Old House" and Bob Vila. Travis Scott and "The Who" have something in common. "Alien" a great well acted movie i went to see with my girlfriend, i enjoyed 1979.
@@danityvanityinsanity I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
That's for sure! Did you know science fiction writer A. E. Van Vogt successfully sued Alien's makers for plagerzation of at least one of his stories? Settled for a ridiculously small sum considering all the revenue the "Alien" franchise has generated since 1979.
No kidding! My best friend and I were too young to drive so we convinced my mother to take us. She stayed to watch with us (needed an adult to get in plus my mom was just fun that way) but my friend and I went to the bathroom to smoke a cigarette right before the alien burst out of Kane’s chest. When we returned that scene was playing on the screen and my mother had her feet up on the chair with her head tucked between her knees screaming her lungs out. It took a whole lot of convincing just to get her to stay. She refused to take us to anymore movies like that though.
My dad could not miss and wouldn’t miss the Dukes of Hazard, on Friday night my mom bowled, but, my mom didn’t start till 9pm, my parents would socialize some before she got started and my dad would sit there and watch the clock, he’d go back home to watch the Dukes and return back to watch mom bowl once the Dukes went off.
This was the year I graduated high school, I remember this stuff like it was yesterday but I just turned 60 a couple weeks ago and it seems like a century ago too... time sure flies!
@@donaldculp3759 Yes it is was my year as well . " And can't believe it but two thirds of my life have gone by sentence." ( So keep that in mind all you out there thinking about quitting DON'T life is short )
@@briankreezan7843 I will NEVER quit smoking cigarettes', my doctor, told me, in 1972, that they are great for my health, I've been smoking for 45 years, and I have never felt better.
MAJOR MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR 1979: Man of the Year (Time) = Ayoatollah Khomeini Playmate of the Year (Playboy) = Dorothy Stratten Pet of the Year (Penthouse) = Cheryl Rixon Sportsman of the Year (Sports Illustrated) = Terry Bradshaw and Willie Stargell Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Buick Riviera Turbo Coupe Import Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Datsun 280ZX
I was born in 1979 also. My younger brother Luke (born in 1981) was named after Luke Duke. I thought a lot about that show for about 18 years, it was really big on my area.
This was the height of my "mixed tape" era. My best friend had a huge record collection and a great stereo system, which I had none of. I would get him a bunch of blank tapes and he would load them up with music from his collection of LP's. Also the year I graduated from HS, great times.
My dad bought a 1979 Chevy Malibu station wagon new for $6,000. Gave me his 1970 Dodge Dart . President Reagan came to Luther North high school and filmed a TV commercial for his campaign. He's in my high school yearbook. Jane Byrne became Chicago's First women mayor after the city of Chicago got over 90 inches of snow.
July 12th brought us Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park. It is widely known as the beginning of the end of the popularity for Disco music.
On June 29, 1979 I married the love of my life. Being young and in love, we thought nothing of driving to Miami Beach for our honeymoon. Gas rations and lines were just unusual things we remembered to tell our children. This was one of the best years of my life!!
You missed a lot of influential events that defined the year - Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall made #1 on billboard charts, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols died of a drug overdose, John Wayne died that year of cancer, and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
im 55 yrs old so i was 11 in 79 when all this was goin on i remeber most of it like it was yesterday cant help but feel sad a lil bit my mom was my best friend and she was the best mom a fella could ever have i miss her every day. and just to let u guys know whos moms are still alive with ya! u learn to live with it..u have too but that heart felt pain never goes away its just stored away.. in the basement.
Celebrities which age in 1979 Ariana Grande =0 John Davidson =38 Bill Cullen =59 Gene Rayburn =61 Eva Longoria =4 Angelina Jolie =4 Katie Holmes =1 January Jones =1 Sarah Michelle Gellar =2 Prince =21 Madonna =21 Michelle Pfeiffer =21 Valerie Harper =40 Michael Landon =43 Garry Moore =64 Jack Lord =59 Cameron Boyce =0 Cameron Diaz =7 Farrah Fawcett =32 Natalie Wood =41 Richard chamberlain =45 Richard Dawson =47 Whitney Houston =16 Mariah Carey =9 John Travolta =25 Donna summer =31 Sigourney weaver =30 Fred Astaire =80
Richard Dawson was hosting "Family Feud" at the time on both ABC and in syndication, and Donna Summer had three number one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 that year, including a duet with Barbra Streisand late in the year.
Also in 1979: Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans beat Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores to win the 1979 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. The "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1979 World Series. The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl earlier that year as well. Christopher Cross released his self-titled album. Contains the hits "Ride Like the Wind", "Sailing", "Never Be the Same" and "Say You'll Be Mine". It won an 'album of the year' Grammy. ESPN was born. Disco Demolition Night forced the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers.
. Thanks for the memories! On my birthday March 28, three mile island happened. That was right after the movie The China Syndrome came out. Scary stuff!
On Sunday night, December the sixteenth, 1979, movie & TV star Joseph Bottoms became the caped-crusading superhero himself called Major Effects on NBC-TV's "Disney's Wonderful World." It also featured Cybil & Tricia Barnstable (from the short-lived science-fiction comedy series "Quark") as themselves.
I was a 10 year old kid in Indiana when that plane crashed, every time something came on the news I wanted to watch. I’m sure this has some influence on me becoming a pilot. When you look at 1979 and 2021 it’s strange how much they have in common?
I was a smidgen younger, I turned 8 in '79. I also found myself paying WAY too much attention to the news for a kid that age. That hostage crisis hit home for us, one of them was from our small city.
@@jrussellcase I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
It's almost as if history is repeating itself with economic and inflation problems today. Sadly it will probably continue for some time. I was only a little kid but I do remember the gas shortages, when we had to do odds and evens license plate numbers to get gas.🤔
Yea we had a Democrat president then too. I went to the Indian Ocean on CV-64 the Connie 2 months short of a year we made it back to San Diego. Democrats seem to always run the country down a s#it hole. If anyone was to wonder pelosi is the devil’s bi#ch, l hate that Cu#t. Allen
Also in 1979... WRTV and WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana had swapped networks. WRTV formerly an NBC affiliate, now ABC affiliate. WTHR formerly ABC affiliate, now NBC affiliate.
I remember that album, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, I was four at the time, listening to it over my cousin's house. Great year for Pittsburgh, the Steelers won the super bowl, and the pirates won the world series.
Our Ma ma actually took all 4 of us kids to see ** The Jacksons* that yr a few months b4 Off the Wall hut the charts with A BuLLET !! EVERY song on there was just superb ! Saw RodStewart Barry Manilow and many more that yr also thanX to a great Mom who took us all to many shows , plays etc🤗🤗💖💖Yes , even besides music 😁📻 79 was one great year ☮️✨🌛 Beach in daytime 📻😃Drive Ins st night all bundled cozily + Very happily into our* beach wagon* ! WaitAminut I still do the same thing now come to thinking it but 79 WaS one GREAT YEAR! 🎵📻✨🌛
Another event that year was an accident at the final day of the Texas State Fair when two gondolas collided and fell to the ground killing one man and injuring a few others. People were stranded for as long as three hours before they could be rescued. The fair was forced to close six hours early. The gondola ride was then dismantled and never used again.
Thank you for doing this year. I appreciate the acknowledgment of the American Airlines crash in which my father lost his life. That was May; in August, I was in a terrible car accident which led to emergency surgery that rebuilt me sans the bionic parts. That surgery led to the life-threatening disease of subglottic tracheal stenosis which affects me to this day. My uncle died of a brain tumor in December. My grandmother lost two of five sons in the same year. Our lives were completely changed in 1979.
Wow, I was eleven for most of 1980 and remember some of these things but others not so much. If it was all music based, I would remember it for sure, but still brings back memories of much better days and so glad I grew up back then.
@@smorgasbordtv4092 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
Also in 1979... The Facts of Life, a spin-off of 'Diff'rent Strokes' starring Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn and Kim Fields premiered on NBC. 240-Robert starring John Bennett Perry, Mark Harmon and Joanna Cassidy premiered on ABC. The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo starring Claude Akins, Brian Kerwin and Mills Watson premiered on NBC. Archie Bunker's Place starring Carroll O'Conner and Danielle Brisebois premiered on CBS.
Cable sports television network called the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (better known as ESPN) was launched on Friday, September 7, 1979
There was a show called Live in Front of a Studio Audience (aired on December 7th this year) where celebrities acted straight from a script from an episode of The Facts of Life.
You aren't kidding, I feel the same sense of rage over current events that I felt in 1979 and 1980, Jimmy's recession was brutal and it took me years to recover. Hopefully, we will have the same result in the election of 2024.
Also in 1979... C.H.O.M.P.S. starring Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Red Buttons, Chuck McCann and Larry Bishop was released. Norma Rae starring Sally Field and Beau Bridges was released. The Muppet Movie starring Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton and the Muppets was released. The Black Hole starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms and Yvette Mimieux was released.
And don't forget "The Return of Maxwell Smart" (originally titled as "The Nude Bomb" with Don Adams as Maxwell Smart and Pamela Hensley (from "Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century").
I graduated from high school in 1979 and got married to my HS sweetheart the following year in Miami. He interviewed Henry Winkler for our school newspaper (of which he was the assistant editor)! We were married for 41 years before he died very suddenly and unexpectedly in August of this year. The memories in this video feel like they happened only yesterday. Life is short.
My mom also graduated this year. Her and my dad started dating soon after 😊
So sorry for your loss. I was born this year, and is great to look back at what it was like back then. I have heard plenty of stories .
1978 grad married 1981,and lost about 6 friends by different causes ,and sorry for your loss .Time goes by like the wink of an eye.
Graduated 1978, Married June 1979. While you are living it mostly life seems to go at a measured pace, but I have to say the last 20 years were like lightning. All the guys I ran with in HS are gone. Far too soon, and most of my class is gone. Life IS short. It doesn't seem that way when you start but at the other end oh, can you ever see it. I am sorry for your loss.
My condolences 😞
1979 was a great year for me... I miss being young.
I was 5. I recall a few small things
Except for Jimmy Carter 1979 was a great year.Lots of Memories. 👌
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I would even take Jimmy Carter back to be 23 again.
@@charles-y2z6c me too.
I turned 13 that summer, one of the best.
This is a wonderful series, and it gives me an adult perspective on the backdrop to my childhood.
On April 9 , 1979, I started my long time employment with Martin Marietta which later became Lockheed Martin. I just retired from that job about 2 weeks ago.
Congratulations!
I worked at Lockheed in Sunnyvale from 1982 to 1988. I should have stayed longer.
Impressive. Do you know Robert Cock or David Cook?
I married the love of my life in 1979. #42YearsStrong. ❤️
This was the best year of my childhood. I can remember sitting in the backseat of my dad's monte carlo on a Sunday night after we left Sunday night church services. On the way home dad stopped at Kroger's to grab a few snacks for us to munch on while watching the NBC Sunday Night Movie, while waiting on dad my mom turned the radio on and "Minute by Minute" was playing. Never before or since did I feel more at peace. I miss my dad, my mom, the monte carlo and the peace I felt in 1979.
I was 14 then and went from a small middle school to a large high school. That was tough for me. I was not prepared for this change. My grades were bad and my dad was pissed at me. He owned several businesses and was trying to support my whole family of 8 people. He was a shrewd guy and he succeeded. He died last year. We had a great relationship for most of his life. He was dedicated to his family and helped us all.
I graduated high school in June 1979. This was an excellent 8 minute summary that drilled down quickly of the events of 79. Thank you for the memories! Great series on all the years! Keep them coming!
I graduated 1879 too.
I started high school in Sept 1978, so the majority of my freshman year was 1979
One of my best years, if not maybe the utmost best! It was the year I ran to the alter of a church, to give my heart and my whole life to The Lord. I had gone through torture before that! Thank You Lord! God bless all of you here in this site ❤️
Amen
@@deborahpellerito6117 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
I gave my life to the Lord that year as well, and actually studied for the ministry for a while. Thank God I grew out of my childhood fantasies.
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Amen !
I was 18 in 79. What a generation to be part of, I wouldn't want to be a teenager in any other decade.
Me either. It was such a different time. My brother and I were saying the other day how blessed we were to grow up in this time. No cell phones no twitter or facebook. People actually talked face to face. I really miss those times. Also the best music ever !!!
Facts.
I was 8 and daisy duke could have had any man in the USA in 79.
I turned 18 in the military in 1979. I was on bivouac at Ft. Benning, GA. They brought me in from the field for KP duty, lol. I miss the 1970’s. Thank you for these videos.
Graduated High School that year. I remember that is snowed on May 9th on Long Island that year.
This is so fascinating to watch! I was born on New Year's Eve 1979!
In the spring of 1979, the late John Wayne made his final appearance and created an overnight sensation at the 1979 Academy Awards Ceremonies in Hollywood, California. Good times, baby, good times.
I was Twenty seven year old and I thought I was getting old. Didn’t know what old was,haha! I sure do now.
I was 8 in 1979. I remember all of this. I so enjoy all these flashbacks on this channel. Right back to early seventies. 🇨🇦👍🏼
I was age 8 too :)
I moved into a new home that my husband and I helped build in January. That summer I found out I was pregnant with our first child.
1979 was a great year for me. I was a teenager during the '70s. I believe we'll never see the like again. I know I'm old. I can remember when Michael Jackson was ⚫ black ⚫.
he was still black in the 80's!
I was 14 Years old and Loving Life music and youth!🔥✨
Me too!
@@donnamarsh3474 Awesome!🔥🔥✨
1979 had a lot of different things. I was 13 and live near Pittsburgh and remembered Three Mile Island well. It was also the year my We Are Family Pittsburgh Pirates won it all. Willie Stargell was Mister Everything. It was also Disco Demolition Night At Comiskey Park in July. Sadly, also, we lost Thurman Munson of the Yankees on August 2nd that year. R.I.P. Thurman
I was 20 in 79, I live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, I was a big fan of the Pirates for most of the Seventies. Roberto Clemente was my favorite and Richie Hebner. Cheers to the good old days.
I was there at the last WS game ever played in Pittsburgh.
I was 14 in 1979, what a year, met my first girlfriend then thought it had to be real love LOL. There were some things I would love to go back and change that year, but it was still a good year for the most part, Much simpler times, the Sony Walkman was high tech stuff back then. Part of me wishes to go back to those times.
My cousin from NY gave me his Sony walkman. And I tell you, I remember the incredible sound even from the foam covered headphones. I remember it was very solid and well built. As a stupid 16 year old, I let one of my friend borrow it and one of his "friends" end up stealing it. I was so mad. At first I thought he made that up. But I ran into him recently. He's a well know Real Estate agent, and he seriously confirmed that's what really happened. That guy end up in jail for stealing credit cards.
Same thing happened to me!
Ah yes times were different then
very simple back then, not like today
I remember all this stuff. Inflation, out of control crime, Gas prices and energy crunches, Concert tragedies, OMG I am stuck in a time loop
Sounds familar, right? There were even concert deaths recently (for an artist not comparable in greatness to The Who!)
This channel ROCKS! Thank you. 👍🤗✌️
I was a senior in high school. Man to be young again
I remember it well. I was 25 years old... I lived in the Chicagoland area then and recall watching EVERYTHING about Flight 191. Such a tragedy caused by human error.
Thank you so much for this.♥️ This was a very special year for me.
Was a freshman in high school. What a year. There was a teacher's strike my first year. As well as current events of the year.
My birth year in the May of '79. Thanks for showcasing noteworthy events on that particular year. 👍
My younger older brother and cousin were born in '79. Brother: New Year's Day. Cousin: New Year's Eve! ❤❤😘😘
I was born on October 11th, 1979. My dad would always tell me stories of the 70s and how good life was back then. Yes there were problems, but nothing like it is now.
Oct. 11, 1954 for me.
America's best days were over by 79' it was well on its way to being the sh!thole it is today.
@@matrox i couldnt agree more....
@@1954shadow NICE
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I was born in 1979, great to see the events happened during the time I was born.
I was 34 in 79. Your historical stories & videos should be required viewing by the young people of today.
The number 1s on the US Billboard Hot 100 during 1979:
1/6-13 The Bee Gees - "Too Much Heaven"
1/20-2/3 Chic - "Le Freak" (also #1 on 12/9 and 12/23-30 in 1978)
2/10-3/3 Rod Stewart - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"
3/10-17 and 4/7 Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
3/24-31 The Bee Gees - "Tragedy"
4/14 The Doobie Brothers - "What a Fool Believes"
4/21 Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood"
4/28 Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
5/5-26 Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
6/2 and 6/16-23 Donna Summer - "Hot Stuff"
6/9 The Bee Gees - "Love You Inside Out
6/30-7/7 Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"
7/14-8/11 Donna Summer - "Bad Girls"
8/18 Chic - "Good Times"
8/25-9/29 The Knack - "My Sharona"
10/6 Robert John - "Sad Eyes"
10/13 Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
10/20-27 Herb Alpert - "Rise"
11/3 M - "Pop Musik"
11/10 The Eagles - "Heartache Tonight"
11/17 The Commodores - "Still"
11/24-12/1 Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer - "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"
12/8-15 Styx - "Babe"
12/22-29 Rupert Holmes - "Escape" (also #1 on 1/12/1980)
Thanks for this. Great music memories.
My last year of high school. I remember thinking on the last day of school it was like stepping off a high-dive tower.
Graduated in 1979; thought holy shit, now what ? What a strange ride it's been. I can see The End off the conveyor belt from here. Oh my !
Born in '65. Great times growing up.
By the way, loving your series also there, Recollection Road. This is so great especially restaurants and years, especially 60's and 70's. I watch a new one every day and can't wait for a newer one. I'm constantly checking in 😆
I remember that plane crash at O'Hare. That plane barely missed a trailer park.
Yeah -- I was watching TV waiting for a series when the news of this terrible plane crash came on. Sadly, not all of our memories of the past can be good ones.
I remember the year 1979, it was my 4th year of living on my own. It was also my 4th year of working for Hudson's Eastland Mall. I also remember the long gas ⛽ lines at the gas stations. The Dukes of Hazzard came on TV 📺. The Disco group The Village People. The TV 📺 Sitcom Good Times starring John Amos and Esther Rolle. Good Times was a spin off the TV series Maude.
I was 22 years old at the time.
1979 was an interesting year for me. I spent the majority of it in South Korea in the US Army.
The nightclubs in the "ville" dancing to disco music, the long summer days of the monsoon season, the endless cold nights pulling guard duty on the DMZ, and 12-14 hour work days.., are all etched forever in memory.
As I look back today, I would do it all again.., minus the hangovers!🤣👍🇺🇸
I was 3 but living at Ft. Campbell, my birthplace, but spent the other half at Ft. Polk, LA. Thank you for your service
this is a great series PLEASE DONT STOP!
high school memories-- THANK YOU!
@Mary Williamson, These were the days, when, there were not soyboys, or snowflakes, or Karins' and every boy and girl, in America, knew which bathroom, to use
Thanks a lot for the memories, 1979 is a special year for me since it was the year i came to the USA, i was 16 years old. so it was like a new
beginning for me, i keep playing the play 4 lotto ( which i still have not won ) and the numbers are 1979. but you can count on it that soon i will
win it.
I was 21 and went to my first concert to see Prince inside an auditorium, front row seats, Teena Marie opened for Prince. Huge fan of "This Old House" and Bob Vila. Travis Scott and "The Who" have something in common. "Alien" a great well acted movie i went to see with my girlfriend, i enjoyed 1979.
This Old House still in production after 43 years.
So famous musicians were doing Satanic sacrifices back then too.
@@danityvanityinsanity I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
@@matrox Is it? I am going to look that up, thank you for the reference.
Thanks for posting!
Oh man, seeing Alien in a dark theater at all of 12 years of age... scary stuff for sure!
That's for sure! Did you know science fiction writer A. E. Van Vogt successfully sued Alien's makers for plagerzation of at least one of his stories? Settled for a ridiculously small sum considering all the revenue the "Alien" franchise has generated since 1979.
No kidding! My best friend and I were too young to drive so we convinced my mother to take us. She stayed to watch with us (needed an adult to get in plus my mom was just fun that way) but my friend and I went to the bathroom to smoke a cigarette right before the alien burst out of Kane’s chest. When we returned that scene was playing on the screen and my mother had her feet up on the chair with her head tucked between her knees screaming her lungs out. It took a whole lot of convincing just to get her to stay. She refused to take us to anymore movies like that though.
My dad could not miss and wouldn’t miss the Dukes of Hazard, on Friday night my mom bowled, but, my mom didn’t start till 9pm, my parents would socialize some before she got started and my dad would sit there and watch the clock, he’d go back home to watch the Dukes and return back to watch mom bowl once the Dukes went off.
This was the year I graduated high school, I remember this stuff like it was yesterday but I just turned 60 a couple weeks ago and it seems like a century ago too... time sure flies!
Me too! What a great year! And 60 is pretty damn cool these days!
I too was graduated in 79 and joined the Marine Corps.
@@donaldculp3759 Yes it is was my year as well . " And can't believe it but two thirds of my life have gone by sentence." ( So keep that in mind all you out there thinking about quitting DON'T life is short )
@@briankreezan7843 on my Harley vest..."Don't Fear Dying....Fear Not Living"
@@briankreezan7843 I will NEVER quit smoking cigarettes', my doctor, told me, in 1972, that they are great for my health, I've been smoking for 45 years, and I have never felt better.
MAJOR MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR 1979:
Man of the Year (Time) = Ayoatollah Khomeini
Playmate of the Year (Playboy) = Dorothy Stratten
Pet of the Year (Penthouse) = Cheryl Rixon
Sportsman of the Year (Sports Illustrated) = Terry Bradshaw and Willie Stargell
Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Buick Riviera Turbo Coupe
Import Car of the Year (Motor Trend) = Datsun 280ZX
I wish it was 79 such a great year
The Dukes of Hazzard was my favorite show growing up and I was born in 1979.
I was born in 74. I didn't start watching it until the fall of 81. I caught up by seeing reruns later on.
I was born in 1979 also. My younger brother Luke (born in 1981) was named after Luke Duke. I thought a lot about that show for about 18 years, it was really big on my area.
My husband Jack Gill was the stunt double for John Schneider in “Dukes”! He drove the General Lee and did those incredible car jumps. Great times.
Wow! Awesome!!
I turned 9 in December of 79. I was playing with hot wheels and legos then and didn’t have a worry in the world.
Right on,that’s the month I was born
1975 / 1979, The bestest time ever, Good people, friends, laughs, smiles and pretty girls. and a kegger or 2 for good measure
11 June 79: John Wayne passed away at age 72. News hourly via AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio & Television Service) at Hellenikon Air Base, Greece.
Fantastic video, thank you so much for making it.
Long live The Dukes. Really a shame , my favorite show growing up & can no longer watch it.
John Schneider has a great UA-cam channel. If you've never seen it, it's worth checking out.
Maybe you’ll consider getting the entire DVD set. It’ll take you right back.
🙂
Wish these were longer and more detailed...
I turned 16 in November of 1979. I remember much of those events.
This was the height of my "mixed tape" era. My best friend had a huge record collection and a great stereo system, which I had none of. I would get him a bunch of blank tapes and he would load them up with music from his collection of LP's. Also the year I graduated from HS, great times.
My dad bought a 1979 Chevy Malibu station wagon new for $6,000. Gave me his 1970 Dodge Dart . President Reagan came to Luther North high school and filmed a TV commercial for his campaign. He's in my high school yearbook. Jane Byrne became Chicago's First women mayor after the city of Chicago got over 90 inches of snow.
Was that your high school?
July 12th brought us Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park. It is widely known as the beginning of the end of the popularity for Disco music.
It was a great moment in Chicago history. 😁
Now I'm gettin' anxious; you're closin' in on the 80s!
The year I graduate High School. Was the best of times with nothing matching it since.
On June 29, 1979 I married the love of my life. Being young and in love, we thought nothing of driving to Miami Beach for our honeymoon. Gas rations and lines were just unusual things we remembered to tell our children. This was one of the best years of my life!!
Well done
Wow…I was 19 in ‘79 - thanks for the recap 👏🏼
I turned 16 in 1979 and started driving fun year had a job making pizza and went to voc - tec for automotive wich I still do
You missed a lot of influential events that defined the year - Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall made #1 on billboard charts, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols died of a drug overdose, John Wayne died that year of cancer, and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
wow pretty heavy for a year, miss the simpler times. i was in the late 80's
im 55 yrs old so i was 11 in 79 when all this was goin on
i remeber most of it like it was yesterday
cant help but feel sad a lil bit
my mom was my best friend and she was the best mom a fella could ever have
i miss her every day.
and just to let u guys know
whos moms are still alive with ya!
u learn to live with it..u have too
but that heart felt pain never goes away
its just stored away..
in the basement.
Celebrities which age in 1979
Ariana Grande =0
John Davidson =38
Bill Cullen =59
Gene Rayburn =61
Eva Longoria =4
Angelina Jolie =4
Katie Holmes =1
January Jones =1
Sarah Michelle Gellar =2
Prince =21
Madonna =21
Michelle Pfeiffer =21
Valerie Harper =40
Michael Landon =43
Garry Moore =64
Jack Lord =59
Cameron Boyce =0
Cameron Diaz =7
Farrah Fawcett =32
Natalie Wood =41
Richard chamberlain =45
Richard Dawson =47
Whitney Houston =16
Mariah Carey =9
John Travolta =25
Donna summer =31
Sigourney weaver =30
Fred Astaire =80
Ariana Grande (-14) Cameron Boyce (-20) 🤣
Lisa Whelchel =16
Richard Dawson was hosting "Family Feud" at the time on both ABC and in syndication, and Donna Summer had three number one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 that year, including a duet with Barbra Streisand late in the year.
Also in 1979:
Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans beat Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores to win the 1979 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.
The "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1979 World Series. The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl earlier that year as well.
Christopher Cross released his self-titled album. Contains the hits "Ride Like the Wind", "Sailing", "Never Be the Same" and "Say You'll Be Mine". It won an 'album of the year' Grammy.
ESPN was born.
Disco Demolition Night forced the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers.
And CBS debuted the game show "Whew!" hosted by Tom Kennedy (April 1979).
As of November 2021, it was the last time that an MLB game was forfeited in the American League.
ESPN being born is really important today.
I won a Walkman in an art contest in '96. The only thing I have won to this day. It was a drawing of Rio de Janeiro.
Like winning a piece of history. Cool prize.
. Thanks for the memories! On my birthday March 28, three mile island happened. That was right after the movie The China Syndrome came out. Scary stuff!
I was 11 years old .. I would give up all the technology in my life if I only could just for a one way ticket back to 1979.
Just curious, why do you prefer that year?
On Sunday night, December the sixteenth, 1979, movie & TV star Joseph Bottoms became the caped-crusading superhero himself called Major Effects on NBC-TV's "Disney's Wonderful World." It also featured Cybil & Tricia Barnstable (from the short-lived science-fiction comedy series "Quark") as themselves.
Very informative documentary on 1979, thanks
Really love these shows about each year
At 1:21, that image of the General Lee flying through the air with a trail of dust behind it is iconic.
If there was a door with a sign over it saying 1979 I would go through that door in a shot
I was a 10 year old kid in Indiana when that plane crashed, every time something came on the news I wanted to watch. I’m sure this has some influence on me becoming a pilot. When you look at 1979 and 2021 it’s strange how much they have in common?
I was a smidgen younger, I turned 8 in '79. I also found myself paying WAY too much attention to the news for a kid that age. That hostage crisis hit home for us, one of them was from our small city.
@@jrussellcase I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
There is a lot in common. We had gas lines recently and are certainly in a recession (soon to be a depression).
what is that plane crash @ 3:20'sh?
It's almost as if history is repeating itself with economic and inflation problems today. Sadly it will probably continue for some time. I was only a little kid but I do remember the gas shortages, when we had to do odds and evens license plate numbers to get gas.🤔
I came down here to comment the same thing. History truly does repeat itself.
Go even farther back to1919. You will see pandemic, communists attempting to change the government, and even an attack on the government.
Yea we had a Democrat president then too. I went to the Indian Ocean on CV-64 the Connie 2 months short of a year we made it back to San Diego. Democrats seem to always run the country down a s#it hole. If anyone was to wonder pelosi is the devil’s bi#ch, l hate that Cu#t. Allen
@@allenmcgee6061
Thank you for your service, what were you rated on the Constellation? I was on the Zippo CV59, a little bit after that.
@@allenmcgee6061 Why does some Idiot like you always have to drag politics into these Recollection Road Flashbacks? 😂😂😂
I Always Say
1979 Was The Last Great Year on Earth ❤️
Could have been, thanks to 3 Mile Island...☢️
Also in 1979...
WRTV and WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana had swapped networks. WRTV formerly an NBC affiliate, now ABC affiliate. WTHR formerly ABC affiliate, now NBC affiliate.
I remember that album, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, I was four at the time, listening to it over my cousin's house. Great year for Pittsburgh, the Steelers won the super bowl, and the pirates won the world series.
I bought that album too,I was 18.
Our Ma ma actually took all 4 of us kids to see ** The Jacksons* that yr a few months b4 Off the Wall hut the charts with A BuLLET !! EVERY song on there was just superb ! Saw RodStewart Barry Manilow and many more that yr also thanX to a great Mom who took us all to many shows , plays etc🤗🤗💖💖Yes , even besides music 😁📻 79 was one great year ☮️✨🌛 Beach in daytime 📻😃Drive Ins st night all bundled cozily + Very happily into our* beach wagon* ! WaitAminut I still do the same thing now come to thinking it but 79 WaS one GREAT YEAR! 🎵📻✨🌛
Another 1979 event from Chicago was disco demolition night at Comiskey Park. A promotion that went horribly wrong and caused lots of mayhem.
Another event that year was an accident at the final day of the Texas State Fair when two gondolas collided and fell to the ground killing one man and injuring a few others. People were stranded for as long as three hours before they could be rescued. The fair was forced to close six hours early. The gondola ride was then dismantled and never used again.
What a pity!!!
1979, 10th and 11th grade days, yup, a BLAST!!!!!! :)
In ‘79, we only thought government was evil. Looking back from today, after witnessing an evil government for real, ‘79 wasn’t so bad at all.
Tell me you've been a lifelong Republican, without using the words I've been a lifelong Republican!
@@okd521 I’ve been a life long Independent.
Reagan put a stop to the hostage situation very quickly!! Great President!!!!
Thank you for doing this year. I appreciate the acknowledgment of the American Airlines crash in which my father lost his life. That was May; in August, I was in a terrible car accident which led to emergency surgery that rebuilt me sans the bionic parts. That surgery led to the life-threatening disease of subglottic tracheal stenosis which affects me to this day. My uncle died of a brain tumor in December. My grandmother lost two of five sons in the same year. Our lives were completely changed in 1979.
Sorry for your tragic losses.😢
Must have been a rough year.
Wow, I was eleven for most of 1980 and remember some of these things but others not so much. If it was all music based, I would remember it for sure, but still brings back memories of much better days and so glad I grew up back then.
Loved the dukes of hazards 1979 i also graduated high school in may
In 1979 Michael Jackson was still black.
MJ was always black it was a disease that turned him white
@@smorgasbordtv4092 you’re absolutely right. It’s called vitiligo and it really sucks. My mother has it and it’s pretty tough psychologically.
Number one in that year
Hot stuff
Bad girls
Reunited
Babe
Sail
The pina cola song ( final number one song for 1970s )
So too did My Sharona, I Will Survive and What a Fool Believes.
and... Don't Stop til You Get Enough
@@smorgasbordtv4092 I was born in 2021 I still remember when woman wore fedoras and men wore pink gloves when they dressed up for church. My Mexican family was lower income, but I remember my early childhood world as very cozy and safe and gay
Love the 70s so much simpler than now
Also in 1979...
The Facts of Life, a spin-off of 'Diff'rent Strokes' starring Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn and Kim Fields premiered on NBC.
240-Robert starring John Bennett Perry, Mark Harmon and Joanna Cassidy premiered on ABC.
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo starring Claude Akins, Brian Kerwin and Mills Watson premiered on NBC.
Archie Bunker's Place starring Carroll O'Conner and Danielle Brisebois premiered on CBS.
Loved Archie
Cable sports television network called the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (better known as ESPN) was launched on Friday, September 7, 1979
There was a show called Live in Front of a Studio Audience (aired on December 7th this year) where celebrities acted straight from a script from an episode of The Facts of Life.
Also on April 10th a mile wide tornado devastated the North Texas city of Wichita Falls killing 44
From an economic standpoint, 2021 feels an awful lot like 1979. Lots of "malaise" both years.
Inflation, high gas prices too. I was 23 in 1979. Now I'm 65 and on what my dad called Social Insecurity.
You aren't kidding, I feel the same sense of rage over current events that I felt in 1979 and 1980, Jimmy's recession was brutal and it took me years to recover. Hopefully, we will have the same result in the election of 2024.
@@Paramount531 Ronnie's 82 recession was far worse than 79
Yes, very similar.
wow!! that was great.. thank you
The location of the Who concert tragedy is the RiverFRONT Coliseum, not Riverside. The venue is now called US Bank Arena.
Correction...it is now Heritage Bank Center (they name was changed in November
of 2019). U.S. Bank chose not to renew the contract.
Also in 1979...
C.H.O.M.P.S. starring Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Red Buttons, Chuck McCann and Larry Bishop was released.
Norma Rae starring Sally Field and Beau Bridges was released.
The Muppet Movie starring Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton and the Muppets was released.
The Black Hole starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms and Yvette Mimieux was released.
And don't forget "The Return of Maxwell Smart" (originally titled as "The Nude Bomb" with Don Adams as Maxwell Smart and Pamela Hensley (from "Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century").