A little more warning would have been helpful, BB. Another blast from the past like this and I might have to return to therapy. Didn't someone say that if you can remember the 70's you didn't truly experience them? (But I get the point).
Working two part-time low paying jobs in Charlottesville while my husband finished law school.
While I remember the Osmonds, I don't remember much about TV of the era because what we had was a small black and white in our tiny apartment, and, quite honestly, with school and work, there wasn't much time to watch.
In reponse to Judith's remark, I first thought "Of course I experienced the 70's" but after thinking, I guess I missed them because I was so busy with life....
I was eleven, living in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina at a home on Shem Creek. I thought this stuff was really cool. We got color TV in '69 (the first show I remember watching in color was Red Skelton, I think).
This video though is a hoot (and when I heard the song again, well - context is everything).
Did I experience the 70s? No, I don't think so (are the Osmonds considered part of the 70s Experience - or an Escape from the 70s, I think the latter actually). Being a post-Baby Boomer (Gen X Classic) I was always just missing the cool-factor of the Boomers. In 72 I wanted to grow up and be a Flower Child. By the time I was old enough, Disco was in and Disco was yuck. Punk never made it to Hawaii (in fact, I think the music went backwards in Hawaii - one of its major charms) where I spent most of the 70s and by the time I made it the Mainland, I had given up on pop and turned to country. That latested until I discovered U2 in the early 80s and that continued until Bono called George Bush I on the phone at the White House from on stage and made some insane juvi crack and I shut U2 off for ten years until All That You Can't Leave Behind came out in 2000 and they seemed to have found their way back home. Then, in the fall of 2002 I heard "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan, which of course is either going back or going way forward - guess we'll see.
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Wow. 72? I was graduating from high school!
A little more warning would have been helpful, BB. Another blast from the past like this and I might have to return to therapy. Didn't someone say that if you can remember the 70's you didn't truly experience them? (But I get the point).
Working two part-time low paying jobs in Charlottesville while my husband finished law school.
While I remember the Osmonds, I don't remember much about TV of the era because what we had was a small black and white in our tiny apartment, and, quite honestly, with school and work, there wasn't much time to watch.
In reponse to Judith's remark, I first thought "Of course I experienced the 70's" but after thinking, I guess I missed them because I was so busy with life....
Where was I? I was probably rolling my eyes at the girls in my 5th grade class who were going gaa-gaa over Donny. :-)
I was eleven, living in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina at a home on Shem Creek. I thought this stuff was really cool. We got color TV in '69 (the first show I remember watching in color was Red Skelton, I think).
This video though is a hoot (and when I heard the song again, well - context is everything).
Did I experience the 70s? No, I don't think so (are the Osmonds considered part of the 70s Experience - or an Escape from the 70s, I think the latter actually). Being a post-Baby Boomer (Gen X Classic) I was always just missing the cool-factor of the Boomers. In 72 I wanted to grow up and be a Flower Child. By the time I was old enough, Disco was in and Disco was yuck. Punk never made it to Hawaii (in fact, I think the music went backwards in Hawaii - one of its major charms) where I spent most of the 70s and by the time I made it the Mainland, I had given up on pop and turned to country. That latested until I discovered U2 in the early 80s and that continued until Bono called George Bush I on the phone at the White House from on stage and made some insane juvi crack and I shut U2 off for ten years until All That You Can't Leave Behind came out in 2000 and they seemed to have found their way back home. Then, in the fall of 2002 I heard "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan, which of course is either going back or going way forward - guess we'll see.
Gotta love the "Yo Yo" song, though. What a trip
Timely too.
bb
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