Haaaaaaaaaaaaa,yep i remember sir graves,that show was a hoot.
I also grew up watching "Mr. Dressup" and "The Friendly Giant" on Canadian TV .
The Tommy Hunter Show , eh? LOL!
Remember when you would almost never see a movie star on tv[it was considered career suicide]now it's the opposite.
Because there are few fresh ideas,most of this[new]stuff is as stale as the food on greasy grady's menu.
Remember when one of the kids would have ringworms and have to wear a stocking cap? And get teased unless it was the school bully in which case we would just look the other way.
Yeah. Stage actors and movie stars thought it was beneath them to be on TV. But, even today, once TV actors get into movies, they seem to shun television, unless it's an awards show, of course!
By the time of the 70s, almost all you saw on TV variety shows, aside from Peter Lawford and washed-up comedians.
Legend was that you would get it from wearing someone elses hat.
For real! Yet, South Park routinely takes jabs at the right-wing all the time and they only get mild complaints, probably because it's a cartoon. If it were live, they would certainly get protested and boycotted. but, would it matter? TLC is bringing back The Duggars, and they are still showing Duck Dynasty.
Back in the mid-90s, CBS had a sitcom starring Sherman Hemsley that lasted for about three episodes. He played a modern-day Black Archie Bunker who was understated, but worse than his old george Jefferson character. The show wasn't protested, there was just no interest in that type of character by that time.
That's too bad because it is the funniest movie that I've seen. With that being said, Fox's 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' go at least as far as 'Blazing Saddles' with being offensive and intentionally politically incorrect. They don't have the vulgarity of the movie, but they also push boundaries that most aren't aware of because they don't watch cartoons.
I see that you like Country music. I HATE [[commercial) country music [[non-country folk or Blue Grass music); which is one reason why I didn't stay in Canada with my uncle and aunt, to continue my hockey career, when my parents moved to Chicago during my first year of Juniors.
To me, Anne Murray is more of a Pop singer than a "C&W" singer, and Gordon Lightfoot is a Folk singer more than a "C&W" singer. I can't stand Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and the like. I like some of Johnny Cash and Roy Clark's songs, and not others. I like Flat & Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers and a lot of Blue Grass. But I absolutely hate most of the commercial C&W from the 1960s to now.
I I agree. In fact, I don't even classify Gordon Lightfoot as anything close to country.
I like country up to about the mid-70s when it just got silly, with titles that were three miles long, about drinking, novelty songs, and the like. It was a time when the obnoxious rednecks came out of hiding. I could stand it a little better towards the end of the 70s, the stuff that went pop, but now it's either bad pop for young women, or overwrought patriotic crap. There's even "hick-hop", that means mixing country with rap.I can't stand Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and the like. I like some of Johnny Cash and Roy Clark's songs, and not others. I like Flat & Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers and a lot of Blue Grass. But I absolutely hate most of the commercial C&W from the 1960s to now.
Country music was a small niche in the late '70s and almost a dormant format as far as Pop was concerned. In my opinion, Kenny and Dolly all but stuck a fork in it with some of the monstrosities they released separately and collaboratively back then. But then, "Urban Cowboy" came out and it wound up being huge. That movie absolutely saved country music by making it hip for city kids to go to country discotheques. I knew a girl who was transformed in the wake of it. She was always a little shy and countryish [[she was a Native American and caught between several worlds), but she got her identity from that story and that soundtrack and she never looked back again.
I am not going to turn this into a Country Music thread but Crystal Gayle's "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" was an excellent record.
I like all types of music and tend to favor songs that are true to genre over those that seem to be over produced and created with an eye on crossing over. With that said, I remember taking 10-hour trips from Ohio to Tidewater Virginia and listening to old Patsy Cline and Wiilie Nelson songs [[from before they were bold enough to put drums in the arrangements). Those songs still sound great to me.
Does anybody remember road trips before cars had [[in order) 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, MP3 players, or satellite radio? You were at the mercy of whatever low watt station your radio managed to pick up for 30 miles or so before you had to search for another one.
How many of you remember when cigarettes had coupons in the pack that could be redeemed for things like fishing rod and reels? LOL! How about the S&H Green stamps your mom would get with every grocery purchase that were put in a book and once you've collected a specific number she would redeem them for all sorts of mundane merchandise, but mostly kitchen appliances?
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I remember those. I also remember the local version, 'Buckeye Stamps', that were sold at my second place of employment Big Bear Stores in Ohio. I struggled to get to work one day during a near blizzard and was one of only four or five people to show up. I was mad at myself for trying to even get there [[friggin' trooper, that one was back then) until some bearded, vaguely familiar guy came through my line. I rang up a few things for him and offered him his Buckeye stamps and he smiled at me as he gave them to the person in line behind him. 'I won't be needing them', he said laughing before he walked into the wasteland.
When he left, my bagger said 'You know who that was, don't you?'
It was Judd Hirsch from 'Taxi', who was in town filming a movie with Nick Nolte and Ralph Macchio called 'Teachers'. So, for my dedication, I was rewarded with a brush with greatness. LOL.
Jerry that is great story!
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