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Old 09-08-2019, 03:39 PM
 
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We listened to Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills & Nash, and the Beach Boys. It was that wonderful time in music before disco came along and messed up the airwaves. Did a lot of hiking, riding horses, and school sports. We had homework but it was manageable. Classes were small. We were assigned to read the Watergate transcripts. The environment/natural world was very important to my age group. No kids I knew smoked cigarettes. We could go places at night and never have to worry.
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Old 09-08-2019, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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No. Only what I'm told.
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Old 09-08-2019, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Fairfield, CT
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I remember 1971-72 very well. I turned 9 in 1971 and it was the year that I took my first big trip and first airline flight. Very exciting! I lived in a nice, peaceful low crime neighborhood where most neighbors were friends. We didn't lock our doors at night there. I was too young to be aware of some of the issues that were swirling over society, such as the women's movement (of which my mother was decidedly NOT a fan), Vietnam, the race issue, etc.

I remember the Partridge Family and the Brady Bunch being on TV at that time. I liked to watch the cartoons on Saturday morning - Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and the Coyote, etc.

For me it was a nice pleasant time in a lot of ways, one on which I look back fondly. I loved the music from that time and I love it still. It evokes a warm feeling of safety and innocence in me, even if the actual message of the song doesn't reflect those things.

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Old 09-08-2019, 08:34 PM
 
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There was bad music then, too, but it was music lol. Much of what we hear today is definitely NOT music.

A big difference in my experience was AM radio---yes-AM radio. "The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA" was a huge hit for Country music gal Donna Fargo. For years before my favorite am station would have the weekly top 50 and all through those years up to the mid 70's Country songs would be included in the top 50. Right now I'm looking at my am survey sheet for December 1, 1968. "Hey Jude" was at #1 and would stay at #1 for a few more weeks. Country songs on the charts that week?----


Stand By Your Man--Tammy Wynette
Vance--Roger Miller
Little Arrows--Leapy Lee
Ballad Of Two Brothers--Autry Inman
Harper Valley PTA--Jeannie C. Riley


The same goes for Jazz and Easy Listening. Here are some 1960's and early 70's songs that charted and charted very well. Here's a few---


The Boy From Ipanema--Astrud Gilberto
Take Five--Dave Brubeck
Born Free-Roger Williams
Theme from Midnight Cowboy--Ferrante and Teicher
Feels So Good--Chuck Mangione
Our Winter Love--Bill Purcell <<<<<<--------"Killer Tune"


I appreciated the variety that I heard a half century ago. And I love those tunes to this day!
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Old 09-08-2019, 09:48 PM
 
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AM stations CKLW, WOWO, WWWE..American Bandstand, Doc Kirshners rock concert, Soul Train...TV..Sonny & Cher, Mod Squad, Mac Davis show, The Monkeys and Sha Na Na..
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Old 09-08-2019, 09:49 PM
 
Location: The High Desert
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I graduated college in 1970, about 10 days after the Kent State shootings. There was a lot of turmoil associated with that era and it carried over into 1971-72. Nixon was president, we were still bombing and fighting in Vietnam, there was a great deal of opposition, the Pentagon Papers were published, Nixon became increasingly paranoid and the Watergate break-in took place in '72... and things went downhill. TV and film were popular escapes (MASH, Laugh-in, All in the Family; The Godfather, Deliverence, Willy Wonka, Dirty Harry). Music was all over the place...a lot of different sounds. Everyone had their favorites. I started a career in 1972 and kept at it for about 37 years with some detours. I met my future wife in 1972.
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Old 09-08-2019, 10:14 PM
 
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black and white tv, saturday dad would drive 40 miles so we could have macdonald. the plain cheeseburger had chopped onion and a pickle, stawberry milkshake. star trek and lost in space No a/c car or house, we was moving to panama city fla and my old teacher thought panama city panama


I am not a crook
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Old 09-08-2019, 11:40 PM
 
Location: Iowa
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Some 1971 songs I remember from childhood, we sang The Candy Man song in music class and sounded just like the Sammy Davis backup singers, every kid likes candy, and we had fun singing it. We also got a big kick out of a bullfrog name Jeremiah, he was a good friend of mine. Other notables, What A Wonderful World, My Ding A Ling, various Hee Haw musical numbers like Where Oh Where.

Everything was ridiculously cheap in 1971 and 1972, the last of the powerhouse economy we had after WW2, and the final gold standard years, which was unsustainable. Well, I suppose we could have emptied out Ft. Knox and started writing IOU's for gold, but that really wouldn't fly for very long. Nixon didn't know exactly how to fix all the problems all at once, but he turned the Saudis around from the oil embargo to a strong trading partner, and made the dollar the world reserve currency, it took 10 years to pay off, but has sustained us for 40 years and going, so I won't poke fun at Nixonomics, which paid off down the road and might sustain us for another couple decades if were lucky.

1972 was the first year of the Fat Albert cartoons, which would eventually be pulled from the air and banned by 1989. This was near the beginning of a short 10 year period of non-PC TV shows and movies, without the censorship we had before the 70's on race and woman's issues, but with relaxation of language and movie ratings being introduced. Blacksploitation films, Mel Brooks movies, All In the Family, The Jeffersons, Cheech & Chong, Dirty Harry, Taxi Driver, Used Cars, all born or seeded in this period of the early 70's. I think '72 was also the beginning of pornography, such as Deep Throat and John Watters Pink Flamingos, which I think was an unfortunate turn for society but quite a revolutionary thing to be tolerated. So much of what was made in that period from early 70's to early 80's could never be made today, but for the exception of animated series such as Family Guy and South Park, where for some reason is the only platform where anything non PC can be tossed about with a a free hand, without getting banned.
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Old 09-08-2019, 11:41 PM
 
Location: Scottsdale
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Life was pretty great for me back in the early 70's......I don't know if it was just my youth or if things were actually much more safe back then! In 1972 I was a sophomore in High School. Being female, I didn't give it a second thought about going anywhere by myself or even picking up a hitchhiker...I did that quite often! Vietnam protests were going on, women burning their bras, and it seemed everybody had a cause to fight for! The best thing about the 70's was the best music in the history of time was right at your fingertips ( pushing in that 8 track tape )!!! Ahhh, those were the days....seemed like $1 would fill up my yellow vw bug and I could, and did, ride all over the state with my 8 track tape player as loud as I could get it! Funny; I complain about that now! It was a different world back then! FABULOUS......
The female vocalists in modern times are no match for the elite female vocalists of the early 1970s because back then there was no computerized auto-tune software to make a bad voice sound better. A voice had to stand on its own without computer enhancement. Hence, there were great female vocalists like Karen Carpenter, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Marilyn McCoo, Dionne Warwick, etc. I was only 3 in 1972, but I recall my mom listening to the music above. The 2:38 mark of this clip shows a young Karen Carpenter without auto-tune. She didn't need it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPb8_M6Fftk
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Old 09-08-2019, 11:41 PM
 
Location: Oregon Coast
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On the subject of TV. In 1971 we received two TV stations where we lived, CBS and NBC. They both sometimes carried a few ABC programs. Then we moved to another place with no TV reception at all, but we had cable TV service. It had a whopping four channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, and a Canadian station. Then we moved again to a town that had one TV station that carried programs from all three networks. The cable TV system there offered 10 channels, but my parents refused to subscribe to it. They said one channel was enough. LOL.

The radio stations played just country crap. Most of my exposure to popular music was on TV variety shows.
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