Great trip back in time, Fred, Great music, Great movies, Great cars, Great actors finding work in television commercials…you are one of the things that I am thankful for this week…
My good friend Eddie Deezen is in the movie “I wanna hold your hand”! And I also got to meet Nancy Allen a couple years ago and I told her how much I love that film. And she says “so many people love that film… yet it didn’t do well at the box office!”
Thank you Fred. I must have been super distracted that month because I don't remember a fair amount of these. But who can forget the music! Thanks again.
Here where I live in Texas, after or before the National Anthem a guy sung the Lord's Prayer with really beautiful music. I wish I could find it on the net. But no luck.
Thank you for another awesome video, Fred! ❤ This one brought back good memories for me. I turned 16 and spent the day skating at a roller rink with my then boyfriend and a few friends. The ‘70s was a great time that we will never get back unfortunately.
As technologically advanced as we are in 2024, the time machine still eludes scientists to date...until now. These videos (even for a mere 20 minutes), are vessels into yesteryear. Thank you Fred.
A good year for me. I liked my job, started writing a book, had a nice high-rise apartment, good health. And then there was Aylene K, my girlfriend de jour. Those were the days, my friend...
Ah, memories. I was chomping at the bit to get out of high school then; hated disco with a passion, too. I remember witnessing channel sign-offs a lot in those days as well. It really was a better time.... Thank you as always Fred. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, sir. - Ed on The Ridge
What a great look back, thanks Fred! In my high school yearbook in 1978, every person signed "To Doug, a wild and crazy guy!" I was neither wild nor crazy... Anyway, I sure do miss these times--and women in pantyhose, darn it! 😅 Thanks again sir 🎉🎉🎉😊
I had a ‘78 Benz Diesel. Had 122,000 miles on it when I bought it - barely broken in. Drove like on a cloud… Thinking back, 1978 probably was the US at our peak - before Reagan’s war on workers - and greed worship.
Thank you for using if I can’t have you. I had a wonderful email exchange with Yvonne Elliman a couple years ago and she told me that she had the choice of several Bee Gees songs for the Saturday night fever soundtrack, but she chose this one because it was right for her voice
That's true. I worked the evening schedule at a TV station in 1978 and we ended the broadcast day at 12:30 am with a photo slide of the U. S. flag and the national anthem. Wrapped up the log entries and walked into the night.
The Holocaust is one of the greatest mini series of all time. Quite accurate (as TV could get) and well acted by all. The Pacer. What a dog. AMC was on their way out and it showed. I also remember the days when some stations signed off for the night. Best way to end the night and your video Fred. Thanks.
I loved Jackson Browne and I loved Disco. I was in community college then. I was seeing a behavioral therapist there. He's the one that convinced me to go to my first gay bar. A Gay friend of his really helped me out with that milestone. So grateful to them both for helping me to learn how to be an adult Gay man.
In April of 1978, I was about to turn 12 on the 1st of May and my voice would be starting to change. I was in 6th grade in parochial school. I remember so much of this stuff. Great work Fred the Maestro ❤❤❤❤.
Thank you, Fred for another great video. I remember the sign offs at the end of the day and I miss those times. I wish that they would bring them back so people would know when to go to bed. But I doubt if that will ever happen. Thanks again for the memories.
Penthouse magazine: no better educational material for a 70s teenager. 😉 Also, good that you finish your video with the classic National Anthem TV sign-off. Thanks, FredFlix.
“Running on Empty” blared out the windows halfway up the steepest street during San Francisco’s Bay-to-Breakers Race. Half the city, me included, was climbing that hill!
Nice job, Fred! 8:45 - I think that was the Partridge house (and the Kravitz house even earlier). 11:10 - Paul Mazursky was a co-developer of THE MONKEES years before. I imagine Jill Clayburgh promoted this movie when she hosted SNL in March. 13:07 - Seeing those color tv prices compared to B&W helps me understand why it took my family so long to get a color tv. 16:15 - I think this was John Ritter's movie debut. I remember seeing the film at a drive-thru when I was about 5 years old.
I remember watching Holocaust with my mom, and educating her on what the Nazis had done to Jews. I had a Zerostat and a Discwasher, trying to be very fastidious with my LPs. When CDs came along in 1983, I considered them a GODSEND. I never bought vinyl again and sold what I had, including my excellent Technics turntable. No WAY Pretty Baby could be made today. Wards, another vanished retailer. Movies playing at drive-ins! What a concept! You're showing trailers for movies I never heard of LOL. I'd love it if you showed High Flight sometime. Thanks Fred.
@@FredFlix High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. The poem is recited in a short film (two minutes long) that was shown on TV in the 60s. It’s footage of a Lockheed F-104 fighter jet. I’ve no doubt you’ve seen it.
"Holocaust" is the first time I saw Meryl Streep and James Woods. Michael Moriarty's performance is why Stephen King wanted him to play Jack Torrance in The Shining. In hindsight Nicholson was the better choice...and the AMC Pacer? OY! What were they thinking? Thanks again, Fred.
Don't laugh at me. I bought a new 78 Pacer wagon in late 77. Now, before you give me too much grief, it was what my wife wanted, since she did most of the driving. I was in the USMC and often not home. There, I said it. Go ahead and start with the jokes. 😆
Wow I forgot about that Winn Dixie commercial. Funny thing is the southwestern rustler theme.... Winn Dixie is out of Florida which is surprisingly a huge producer. That was likely their sourcing
Pretty Baby is a 70's classic, but it was a huge scandal where Brooke Shields was nude when she was 13 years old, it was a huge scandal. But it was a big hit.
That was the year I went to my first gay bar in Poughkeepsie, New york. I still remember the jukebox had all the following tunes at the same time: Disco Inferno, If I Can't Have You, Barbra Streisand's People and Liza Minnelli's Cabaret. 😊
Holocaust was the first time seeing Meryl Streep. She went on to win an Emmy for this performance. Whatever happened to her? "The winner is...Star Wars" well, perhaps in another life time. No disrespect to Annie Hall but... The Medusa Touch- my friend and I were the only ones in the theater (and we'd gotten in for free)
Oh man! Jimmy Carter’s stupid national 55 mph speed limit law! It took FOREVER to drive cross country. Remember it well. Thanks for the super cool memory jog, Fred!
Ah Rosemary Harris in Holocaust, would later go on to play Aunt May in the Tobey McGuire first Spider-Man movies, young Meryl Streep, James Woods as well. I thought Blue Lagoon was Brooke's first movie, but Pretty Baby was. 🤷 If ya concentrate on the cover of that "Music for 18 Musicians" you'll see (I screenshot it to my gallery. 😁) that it was one of the early "Magic Eye" (picure within a picture) attempts, they either knew they had something with those patterns, or they didn't, and lost an opportunity! 🤦 Awww, the end you used WFMY 2 Greensboro, NC (I used to live near Goldsboro, from 73-76 & again 81-83) sign off, does that mean ya not posting more, or was this just something ya felt to add? 🤔 lol Another fine flight to freedom as a kid, thanks Free Fred, Free Indeed my friend, Free In-deed!! 🫡
0:50 • Wangsta Rap 3:29 • Used to sit by my radio waiting for “Running On Empty” 5:24 • Louis Malle, Roman Polanski and Woody Allen were all degenerates, but they were tolerated in the '70s 8:03 • RIP Wendie Jo Sperber. 🥹 15:20 • How many people were bragging about their Pacers three years later?
Nothing like a Honda Express. They took a vehicle that's normally ugly and really made them look good. The paint options were also perfect for them. I saw one this Summer and was jealous.
I never thought I would live to see the day Andy Griffith would be rapping😅
You and your ability to find these gems is truly miraculous.
Thanks, Nick. I could only use about 30 seconds of that Oscar clip, though.
Great trip back in time, Fred, Great music, Great movies, Great cars, Great actors finding work in television commercials…you are one of the things that I am thankful for this week…
I appreciate that, Dennis.
WooHOO! New Fred post to bring back the memory flood! Thank you, Fred.📺🥰
You're welcome, BoinkBot.
Once again dear Fred you managed to make Monday morning wonderful!!! This was so much fun, so many memories so Thank You 😊
You're welcome, Bridget. I'm glad you're enjoying them.
I was busy in April 1978.. playing music in two working bands and getting ready to graduate high school in a few months
My good friend Eddie Deezen is in the movie “I wanna hold your hand”! And I also got to meet Nancy Allen a couple years ago and I told her how much I love that film. And she says “so many people love that film… yet it didn’t do well at the box office!”
Loved him in Grease
He's hilarious.
Cute movie. it was Robert Zemeckis' first film
Deezen has the classic nerd voice and look.
I miss the 70s. Still love Disco. The music of my early childhood.
Yay Fred! Thanks once again for your work.
You're welcome, TOTW.
Thank you Fred. I must have been super distracted that month because I don't remember a fair amount of these. But who can forget the music! Thanks again.
You're welcome, Tom.
Here where I live in Texas, after or before the National Anthem a guy sung the Lord's Prayer with really beautiful music. I wish I could find it on the net. But no luck.
Thank you for another awesome video, Fred! ❤ This one brought back good memories for me. I turned 16 and spent the day skating at a roller rink with my then boyfriend and a few friends. The ‘70s was a great time that we will never get back unfortunately.
That's for sure, UVF.
As technologically advanced as we are in 2024, the time machine still eludes scientists to date...until now. These videos (even for a mere 20 minutes), are vessels into yesteryear. Thank you Fred.
You're welcome, jlow!
A good year for me. I liked my job, started writing a book, had a nice high-rise apartment, good health. And then there was Aylene K, my girlfriend de jour. Those were the days, my friend...
Ah, memories. I was chomping at the bit to get out of high school then; hated
disco with a passion, too. I remember witnessing channel sign-offs a lot in those days
as well. It really was a better time....
Thank you as always Fred. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, sir.
- Ed on The Ridge
Same to you, Ed.
Thank you Fred. Another great trip down memory lane!❤❤
You're welcome, Domenick.
I want these days back things were a little cheaper as well awesome tunes another Great video Fred I ❤❤❤❤❤it thank you so much Fred
I'm glad you enjoy the videos, friend Brenda.
@FredFlix you're most welcome my friend I hope your fine and your day is going good as well
Another awesome retro video collection of 70s memories to start the week, thank you
You're welcome, Shawn.
Directions 20 in March that year. And I remember, everything was about Grease. "You're The One That I Want" was my favorite song.
I turned 18 that month and thought the world was my oyster. Oh how very wrong I was lol. Great work as always. Thanks.
Thanks for refreshing the minds best memories. I was 8-1/2 years old in 1978.
What a great look back, thanks Fred! In my high school yearbook in 1978, every person signed "To Doug, a wild and crazy guy!" I was neither wild nor crazy... Anyway, I sure do miss these times--and women in pantyhose, darn it! 😅 Thanks again sir 🎉🎉🎉😊
Fun removing them, Doug.
Awesome April 1978 time traveling back in time today Fred ! Rock on 🤘 ⚡️space ace Ron⚡️
I had a ‘78 Benz Diesel. Had 122,000 miles on it when I bought it - barely broken in.
Drove like on a cloud…
Thinking back, 1978 probably was the US at our peak - before Reagan’s war on workers - and greed worship.
Very cool Fred! I love seeing the old WFMY-2 stuff. I'm 61 and have lived my whole life in the Greensboro NC area. 😊
Thanks, theskilz.
Thank you for using if I can’t have you. I had a wonderful email exchange with Yvonne Elliman a couple years ago and she told me that she had the choice of several Bee Gees songs for the Saturday night fever soundtrack, but she chose this one because it was right for her voice
Cool, Michael.
The Bee Gees wrote How Deep Is Your Love specifically for Elliman, not for SNF.
A very nice one again thnx Fred.
That's true. I worked the evening schedule at a TV station in 1978 and we ended the broadcast day at 12:30 am with a photo slide of the U. S. flag and the national anthem. Wrapped up the log entries and walked into the night.
Thank you very much for all you do with these videos😊
You're welcome, Jan.
The Holocaust is one of the greatest mini series of all time. Quite accurate (as TV could get) and well acted by all. The Pacer. What a dog. AMC was on their way out and it showed. I also remember the days when some stations signed off for the night. Best way to end the night and your video Fred. Thanks.
You're welcome, Doug.
“If I can’t have you” always reminds me of the Kentucky Derby 1978
Great song
I loved Jackson Browne and I loved Disco. I was in community college then. I was seeing a behavioral therapist there. He's the one that convinced me to go to my first gay bar. A Gay friend of his really helped me out with that milestone. So grateful to them both for helping me to learn how to be an adult Gay man.
In April of 1978, I was about to turn 12 on the 1st of May and my voice would be starting to change. I was in 6th grade in parochial school. I remember so much of this stuff. Great work Fred the Maestro ❤❤❤❤.
Thanks, Alan.
Thank you, Fred for another great video. I remember the sign offs at the end of the day and I miss those times. I wish that they would bring them back so people would know when to go to bed. But I doubt if that will ever happen. Thanks again for the memories.
They don't end their broadcast days anymore, Dorthy.
I was 17 going on eighteen; I turned 18 later that year, in December.
Penthouse magazine: no better educational material for a 70s teenager. 😉
Also, good that you finish your video with the classic National Anthem TV sign-off.
Thanks, FredFlix.
You're welcome, Luis.
the month of my 18th birthday. and Heavy Horses! 😊
I was only 12, but the "Heavy Horses" album always takes me back to the first morning of Summer vacation. Oh that feeling of freedom!
“Running on Empty” blared out the windows halfway up the steepest street during San Francisco’s Bay-to-Breakers Race. Half the city, me included, was climbing that hill!
Nice job, Fred!
8:45 - I think that was the Partridge house (and the Kravitz house even earlier).
11:10 - Paul Mazursky was a co-developer of THE MONKEES years before. I imagine Jill Clayburgh promoted this movie when she hosted SNL in March.
13:07 - Seeing those color tv prices compared to B&W helps me understand why it took my family so long to get a color tv.
16:15 - I think this was John Ritter's movie debut. I remember seeing the film at a drive-thru when I was about 5 years old.
I was 14 in 1978, wow.
Gen Xers are the last generation to witness the end of broadcasting with the national anthem and then snow.
Junior in highschool 😅 full of piss and vinegar 😮 and thought I knew it all 🤣😜😁 little did I know 😢
I was a junior in ‘78 as well!
I remember watching Holocaust with my mom, and educating her on what the Nazis had done to Jews. I had a Zerostat and a Discwasher, trying to be very fastidious with my LPs. When CDs came along in 1983, I considered them a GODSEND. I never bought vinyl again and sold what I had, including my excellent Technics turntable. No WAY Pretty Baby could be made today. Wards, another vanished retailer. Movies playing at drive-ins! What a concept! You're showing trailers for movies I never heard of LOL. I'd love it if you showed High Flight sometime. Thanks Fred.
Is High Flight a movie, Robert? I've never heard of it.
@@FredFlix High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. The poem is recited in a short film (two minutes long) that was shown on TV in the 60s. It’s footage of a Lockheed F-104 fighter jet. I’ve no doubt you’ve seen it.
@@RobertR3750 Thanks. I found it. I may use it in a future Video Vault episode.
Why did your mom not know what happened during the Holocaust? Just curious.
@@davidkenner-rb8gojust not that well educated
"Holocaust" is the first time I saw Meryl Streep and James Woods. Michael Moriarty's performance is why Stephen King wanted him to play Jack Torrance in The Shining. In hindsight Nicholson was the better choice...and the AMC Pacer? OY! What were they thinking? Thanks again, Fred.
My favorite was the pantyhose commercial(s)!!!❤
Don't laugh at me. I bought a new 78 Pacer wagon in late 77. Now, before you give me too much grief, it was what my wife wanted, since she did most of the driving. I was in the USMC and often not home. There, I said it. Go ahead and start with the jokes. 😆
I was born in April 1978
COOL!
This was a good one Fred😃😍🤩
Thanks, Eric.
walk into the salon sign states... "bowl heads to the left big hairs to the right " and "no smoking flammable hair spray in use"
I love that Gladys Knight & the pips Coca-Cola commercial.
"The Chosen is Coming" *boy is that appropriate lol
Who else was waiting for a test pattern or the screen to go static at the end?😂
Wow I forgot about that Winn Dixie commercial. Funny thing is the southwestern rustler theme.... Winn Dixie is out of Florida which is surprisingly a huge producer. That was likely their sourcing
Pretty Baby is a 70's classic, but it was a huge scandal where Brooke Shields was nude when she was 13 years old, it was a huge scandal. But it was a big hit.
Andy Griffith doing the Ritz Rap 😊
That was the year I went to my first gay bar in Poughkeepsie, New york. I still remember the jukebox had all the following tunes at the same time: Disco Inferno, If I Can't Have You, Barbra Streisand's People and Liza Minnelli's Cabaret.
😊
I'm not gay, but the gays sure seem to know some good tunes when they hear them.
0:50 The original rapper....Andy Griffith. 😅
He's got the beat
In retrospect, making “Pretty Baby” with an extremely young Brooke Shields was not Hollywood’s finest moment.
Holocaust was the first time seeing Meryl Streep. She went on to win an Emmy for this performance. Whatever happened to her?
"The winner is...Star Wars" well, perhaps in another life time. No disrespect to Annie Hall but...
The Medusa Touch- my friend and I were the only ones in the theater (and we'd gotten in for free)
I don't remember any of this..., oh yeah, I was only 3...
Correct me if I'm wrong but that fella with Mr. Young did a BUNCH of voiceovers back in the day as well.
Yes his voice is familiar
@@richelliott9320 yeah I'm thinkin he did a ton of work back in the day.
👍🌞
Yeah, I was dancing to great Disco music that first year of my Masters Degree. 🎵🎶🎵 I was that carefree.
Nice, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟
Thanks, Mercedes-ssi.
@@FredFlixAnieyo. 💜🤟
🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🖐👍👍
Forgot that Andy Griffith was a rapper.
Manatou to you 2
I love WINN-DIXIE 🥩
Makes me want to get my gold chains and disco suit out again. Oh, and leather jacket of course.
Oh man! Jimmy Carter’s stupid national 55 mph speed limit law! It took FOREVER to drive cross country. Remember it well. Thanks for the super cool memory jog, Fred!
That law was before Carter, Dave.
And it was Nixon who made the speed limit to 55.
My bad, Nixon’s stupid 55 mph law! Bad idea.
PRETTY BABY,banned in Boston.
That's too bad. It's a good film!
Wow, 17:00 didn't age well.
The only thing I didn’t like about the late 70's was jimmy carter.👎😡
He wasn't a great president. But he IMO was (and is) a great man.
@awwrelic for me, he was too weak.🤷♂️
Ah Rosemary Harris in Holocaust, would later go on to play Aunt May in the Tobey McGuire first Spider-Man movies, young Meryl Streep, James Woods as well.
I thought Blue Lagoon was Brooke's first movie, but Pretty Baby was. 🤷
If ya concentrate on the cover of that "Music for 18 Musicians" you'll see (I screenshot it to my gallery. 😁) that it was one of the early "Magic Eye" (picure within a picture) attempts, they either knew they had something with those patterns, or they didn't, and lost an opportunity! 🤦
Awww, the end you used WFMY 2 Greensboro, NC (I used to live near Goldsboro, from 73-76 & again 81-83) sign off, does that mean ya not posting more, or was this just something ya felt to add? 🤔 lol
Another fine flight to freedom as a kid, thanks Free Fred, Free Indeed my friend, Free In-deed!! 🫡
Just felt like adding that, Steve, and people had been requesting it.
0:50 • Wangsta Rap
3:29 • Used to sit by my radio waiting for “Running On Empty”
5:24 • Louis Malle, Roman Polanski and Woody Allen were all degenerates, but they were tolerated in the '70s
8:03 • RIP Wendie Jo Sperber. 🥹
15:20 • How many people were bragging about their Pacers three years later?
Nothing like a Honda Express. They took a vehicle that's normally ugly and really made them look good. The paint options were also perfect for them. I saw one this Summer and was jealous.