Hard to believe this. I was just a mere baby [[wink) LOL!!!
Saturday Night Fever Turns 40!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ver/958081001/
Hard to believe this. I was just a mere baby [[wink) LOL!!!
Saturday Night Fever Turns 40!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ver/958081001/
Hey marv...we're old,forty years passes in the blink of an eye,i remember being a kid and all the talk was about this guy named kennedy who was running for president-1960..the blink of an eye!!!
JAI, I am with you. I getting that old feeling when I see movies about things that happened in my lifetime. I was telling some youngsters in the barbershop just the other day that I went to see the original Star Wars 40 years ago in September! They didn't even know the movie series was that old.
Still one of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time. When people saw the lines blur between R&B and top 40, they got nervous and rebelled against disco. It figures that an opportunity to bring two cultures together would be blown up for mostly racist reasons. Has a musical genre ever fallen to the wayside because people who like another genre more were against it? Should I wage a campaign against country or classical music? That's so stupid.
By the way, I love a lot of country and classical music, I was giving a "for instance". "Urban Cowboy" was another fantastic soundtrack and that movie also precipitated a cultural shift but there was no backlash against modern country music like there was against disco.
The “Disco Sucks” backlash was deeply rooted in racism, misogyny and homophobia. Because this cultural phenomenon had women, gays and people of color at its forefront, some Neanderthals panicked and sought to destroy it.
But anyway, SNF was an incredible LP. I’ll never forget when my sister brought it home.
One of my best friends was a fan of Donna Pescow. I'll never forget that it seemed like he thought she was the cutest thing on screen. I barely noticed her, to be honest, but I remember her in this movie. I also remember how my sister liked Saturday Night Fever but when she came home she was more turned off by Angie's "friends" referring to her by the C-word than she was turned on by the rest of it.
Remember the scene where Bobby C jumps/falls off of the bridge? Well every time I drive over the Verranno-Narrows Bridge, I think of that scene.
Make it three here,yep we danced all night and didn't blink an eye,now if i blink i might fall asleep-hehehe!!!
Here I am around the time the movie came out. Remember these shirts and bell bottom pants? LOL!
More recognition of the anniversary of "Saturday Night Fever". From CBS News:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saturda...ever-turns-40/
Marv,we both went to the same school...old school!!
Barbarino.....................
John Travolta reflects on 40 years of ‘Fever’
http://www.dailycommercial.com/enter...years-of-fever
From the New York Times:
Tony Manero Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/n..._20171214&_r=0
wow, Marv we dressed a lot alike back then, LOL.pants were "flare legged".We would just call them "flares".My bother Randy had a similar "afro" too.
Motony we did huh? I actually liked the wild prints on the shirts back then. I had a leather jacket almost identical to Travolta's in the movie a full year before the movie came out! The afro [[at least in my pic here) had been tamed and "reduced" from previous years when I had a huge "Sylvers Fro" LOL!!! Oh the good ole days........
I know you addressed your question to Jerry, but I'd like to chime in here. When "American Graffiti" came out around 1973-74, it still [[at least to me) a little too soon to get nostaglic over the early 60s since it was just 10 -12 years prior. I do not recall any noticeable shift in pop culture in terms of music and dress as it related to "American Graffitti". I do remember several of the actors from that film moving on to becoming well known in television and movies.
I agree with Marv about American Graffiti. It's biggest cultural impact was the reintroduction of Wolfman Jack to mainstream America. He was everywhere after that. Even hosted the Midnight Special. With that said, the music was fantastic and George Lucas absolutely killed it with its integration in the story. That's why so many movies cribbed it. Forrest Gump [[one of the greatest soundtracks if you love sixties rock, BTW). Hollywood Knights. Even the way John Landis used the Animal House soundtrack was influenced greatly by American Graffiti.
I'm not a huge George Lucas fan. He actually sucks as a director. But American Graffiti and Star Wars are among my favorite movies because he stumbled into movies that made the viewer feel good, even though they weren't artistic masterpieces. And the music in American Graffiti is the reason why it felt so good to watch it. The sequel sure sucked, though.
Thanks, Marv and Jerry.
I've seen those comments too Mr_June. Thinking back on those days 60s, 70s even if everything weren't perfect, the music was and life in general for kids, teenagers and young adults was far better than today. I did not know anyone when I was growing up that was shot anywhere. I never thought about guns or drugs being a serious problem. I was lucky because I knew a lot of people and got along well with all of them. The music was important because it was a part of everyday at one point or another.
Again marv,you ain't never lied..we just went to school,rapped to the ladies and partied and went about our business,no thoughts of getting shot or killed and the elders were always respected..and these kids today wonder why we fondly recall...the old days!!
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