Post by lili on Nov 10, 2006 13:25:19 GMT -5
I was watching VH1's I love the 70's the other night. It was 1976, volume 2. This is a synopsis of it:
Ah, 1976, our country's Bicentennial. The red, white, and blue could be seen everywhere across this great land of ours. Everyone had Bicentennial fever, but while 1976 was quite the year for or country, it was also quite the year for dynamic duos. Captain & Tennile teamed up for quite the variety show, Barbara Harris & Jodie Foster switched places on a Freaky Friday, Rick Dees and a Duck got together for an unlikely number 1 hit, and Mary Hartman teamed up with, well, Mary Hartman.
Speaking of teams Nadia Comaneci led her Romanian gymnastics squad by scoring perfect 10's in the Olympics and Sybil and her 16 personalities worked together to get Sally Field her first Emmy nod despite the distractions of all of "...the people....the people."
While most of Americans were busy being transfixed by all of this teamwork a small portion was distracted by the laser lights at the Doobie Brothers concert and rocking out to Boston's debut album with the top down screaming the words to "More than A Feeling". While Boston was busy raking in all of that dough with the best selling debut album of all time, New York was being invaded by a giant gorilla name King Kong whose turn ons included blondes with misspelled names and climbing tall buildings.
While the Army was figuring out a way to take out the giant beast, Leonard Nimoy was busy going In Search of: King Kong's cousin Bigfoot. Maybe he should have been searching for Damien, the son of Satan who would bring forth a terrible Omen in 1976. Perhaps if Spock had gotten a little "Afternoon Delight" his mind would've been more focused on the task at hand and maybe he could've actually found something, like the cure for Legionnaire's Disease.
While Americans were glued to the boob tube watching Nimoy, and variety shows, Howard Beale over at the Network told everyone to turn off their TV's because he was mad as hell, and he wasn't going to take it anymore. That was fine by most of America in 1976, as the tunes on the radio seemed to put people were in a more pleasant mood anyway. Paul McCartney and Wings had everyone singing "Silly Love Songs" while simultaneously wishing Linda would stop singing them. As Wings soared up the charts The Steve Miller Band had its own success flying like an eagle. Not all of the music was so light hearted though, 1976 also brought us the tormented love songs of Fleetwood Mac and hard rockin' hard drinking sounds of Thin Lizzy.
Yes indeed folks The 200th year of the United States of America's existence had the potential to be one of the greatest in our history. That's a lot of pressure to put on one year but I think in the end it all worked out alright.
While they were talking about Silly Love Songs, they showed a film clip of "Paul" with a few other people. Someone asked which one of them was the "real" Paul McCartney. Then they said " Would the "real" Paul McCartney please stand up ?" Bill stands up & says, " Well, I'm him SOME OF THE TIME. Then he laughs & says something like, " It's me. I'm the "real" Paul McCartney."
As far as I was concerned, the damage was already done.
Someone has to see if they can get a clip for that & post it here.
Ah, 1976, our country's Bicentennial. The red, white, and blue could be seen everywhere across this great land of ours. Everyone had Bicentennial fever, but while 1976 was quite the year for or country, it was also quite the year for dynamic duos. Captain & Tennile teamed up for quite the variety show, Barbara Harris & Jodie Foster switched places on a Freaky Friday, Rick Dees and a Duck got together for an unlikely number 1 hit, and Mary Hartman teamed up with, well, Mary Hartman.
Speaking of teams Nadia Comaneci led her Romanian gymnastics squad by scoring perfect 10's in the Olympics and Sybil and her 16 personalities worked together to get Sally Field her first Emmy nod despite the distractions of all of "...the people....the people."
While most of Americans were busy being transfixed by all of this teamwork a small portion was distracted by the laser lights at the Doobie Brothers concert and rocking out to Boston's debut album with the top down screaming the words to "More than A Feeling". While Boston was busy raking in all of that dough with the best selling debut album of all time, New York was being invaded by a giant gorilla name King Kong whose turn ons included blondes with misspelled names and climbing tall buildings.
While the Army was figuring out a way to take out the giant beast, Leonard Nimoy was busy going In Search of: King Kong's cousin Bigfoot. Maybe he should have been searching for Damien, the son of Satan who would bring forth a terrible Omen in 1976. Perhaps if Spock had gotten a little "Afternoon Delight" his mind would've been more focused on the task at hand and maybe he could've actually found something, like the cure for Legionnaire's Disease.
While Americans were glued to the boob tube watching Nimoy, and variety shows, Howard Beale over at the Network told everyone to turn off their TV's because he was mad as hell, and he wasn't going to take it anymore. That was fine by most of America in 1976, as the tunes on the radio seemed to put people were in a more pleasant mood anyway. Paul McCartney and Wings had everyone singing "Silly Love Songs" while simultaneously wishing Linda would stop singing them. As Wings soared up the charts The Steve Miller Band had its own success flying like an eagle. Not all of the music was so light hearted though, 1976 also brought us the tormented love songs of Fleetwood Mac and hard rockin' hard drinking sounds of Thin Lizzy.
Yes indeed folks The 200th year of the United States of America's existence had the potential to be one of the greatest in our history. That's a lot of pressure to put on one year but I think in the end it all worked out alright.
While they were talking about Silly Love Songs, they showed a film clip of "Paul" with a few other people. Someone asked which one of them was the "real" Paul McCartney. Then they said " Would the "real" Paul McCartney please stand up ?" Bill stands up & says, " Well, I'm him SOME OF THE TIME. Then he laughs & says something like, " It's me. I'm the "real" Paul McCartney."
As far as I was concerned, the damage was already done.
Someone has to see if they can get a clip for that & post it here.
