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The America We Knew SPECIAL: January 1971
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- Re-experience the last cigarette commercial, the Partridge Family, Super Bowl V, Elvis at the Jaycee Awards and William Shatner ... bowling?
This is the second of many special editions that will pre-date the current time line of the ongoing series.
The thing I miss most about that time was the fact that my family and friends were still around ❤️
Yes, all of those who were adults when I was a child are now gone on Pop's side. Also two cousins. Only 9 of my generation left and I haven't seen cousins in years while my brother moved to the UP of Michigan. Would need over two tanks of gas just to get there. Add to that I live over 20 miles to the nearest of my friends. Really blows. All my best to you.
I know 😢❤
To me the family of mine wede gather around our solid state tv and radio of my moms popcorn happy times life in america of the 70s
Same.
I was literally thinking the same thing the moment I woke up today. A lot of people miss their looks and energy in youth. But what I miss is being surrounded by loved ones.
8th grader! Man what good times back then. Nowadays it's all depressing......
Wish it was 1971 again.😢
Not great!! Bad times were ahead
The absolute best music came out that year from bands like zeppelin, the who ,stones, the doors, etc. etc.
@@user-qr7ee2cp4y it was definitely a simpler time before the Internet and smart phones pretty much ruined things
Great trip down memory lane. I was a senior in high school and met my future wife that January. We're still happily married with two sons and four grandkids!
Wonderful !😊
Ah January 1971. I was listening to my Christmas gift FM stereo constantly, and sometimes pulling weeds for the apartment manager, and checking the building dumpster for discarded Playboy magazines (found a lot), and shoplifting National Lampoon from the market, and smelling patchouli at the head shop when I could get into town. Reruns of The Avengers with Diana Rigg ruled my fantasies (shut up, dude, she's as old as your mom!). Shirley Jones rules my fantasies to this day. I was totally ready for All In The Family, having read Harlan Ellison's TV column about the failed attempts to sell the pilot. Went to the library bookmobile every Friday.
The MUSIC!!
Thank you to all those mentioned in this video: Janis, Smokey and the Miracles, Chicago, David Cassidy, Santana, the Stones, Cash & Carter, Elvis, George Harrison, ZZ Top.
And all of individuals and groups who gave us the soundtrack of our lives.
Oh, those shiny polyester paisley shirts. They are never going to decompose in every trash dump, garbage heap, landfill, etc. on earth or in space.
Nice comment, Martha.
@@FredFlix Thank you!!
I’d leave out David Cassidy and add Cat Stevens Bill Withers, Jim Croce, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake and Palmer Yes oh don’t forget the spinners and the O’Jays and the Jackson 5 etc etc
I was 13 in 1971, remember my young friends and family, I miss them so much. The music brings back so many memories.
What happened to them?
I know ❤😢
Same here , I understand 👍❤️🙏
Without a song the day would never end , Without a song a man aint got a friend , Without a song the road would never bend , Without a song , Keep singing a Song .
The year I was born. Thank you for this stuff. I'm suffering from early Alzheimer's dementia and these videos give me tears of joy.
I'm glad, grandpa_the_nerd.
So sorry
This is the next best thing to going back in time - and yes, i absolutely would if i could. Thank you so much for keeping the past at our fingertips ❤
My pleasure, jmitch.
I was 6 and more concerned about watching the Partridge Family, Groovie Ghoulies and Lancelot Link. I started smoking at age 14 and have been tobacco free for 15 years now
I loved Groovie Goolies and Lance Link!!!!
I Was 12 In January '71. So Many Good Memories. Thank You. (Like #107)
You're welcome, watcher.
That brings back a lot of memories. I was young then now I'm old 😮😊
Fred when Santana came on I was back in High School. Graduated June 1971. What great memories. Thank you my friend. 👍🏻❤️
As always Thank You Mr. Fred for another great start to anyone’s day!!
You're welcome, LM.
Those were the days!
Thanks always, Mr. Fred!
You're welcome, Nick.
How great were those old NFL films with the incredible narrator John Frienza (Sp?)I believe can’t remember, but he had the most amazing voice and those were priceless Slow motion films.
John to send it was from Philadelphia so I got to hear on my lot. We were fortunate to have announcers like Jean Hart, Harry Callas Richie Ashburn
@@markkrull556 yeah John had the golden voice. Do you know how to actually spell his last name I want to look him up on Wikipedia of course he’s no longer with us but man, what a voice.
@@jamesmack3314 Firenza -- I think, having seen the name somewhere else. I'll check. --That is a usual way to spell that name. I didn't find tho a sportscaster named John Firenze.
John Facenda
@@theflygemini thanks!
All in the Family premieres. 'Nuff said
Tears of a clown was 1967. You could have played joy to the world. That was number one that year.
It was on the Billboard chart Jan. '71. Maybe a re-release? Not a fan of Joy to the World although I like Three Dog.
@@FredFlix The song was written in 1965 and was released in 1967 on an album by Smokey and the Miracles. It did not take off until it [finally!!] hit #1 on Dec 12, 1970 and was on the charts in January 71.
Joy to the World is one of my mom's favorite songs.
@@RobertR3750 I liked Mama Told Me Not To Come
@@continentalginDo you mean ejaculation?
Thanks again Fred for another trip down memory lane. No better way to start the morning than a cup of coffee and watch your videos!!!
I totally understand and agree!! I do the exact same thing! A cup of Moccamaster ☕️ with a Mr. Fred look back at much better day’s is always the best way to start your day!!!
for this 69yr old 'boomer', it's good ol' Folgers Classic Roast from a Mr Coffee! In the words of Topol from Fiddler on the Roof,
'Tradition, tradition'!
That's nice to know, Stephen.
Love Sinatra's rendition of it...
I love these videos Fred, you are simply AWESOME!!!!
Well, Bridget, I don't like to argue with my viewers! Ha ha.
@@FredFlix good thing because I am right hahahaha😅
Another homer. Thanks FredFlix love you man.
You're welcome, HLJ.
The LAST MARLBORO MAN AD on tv was in January of 1971. Five of the 12 Marlboro men died from lung cancer. One Marlboro Man that never smoked died at 90 ! A pack of cigarettes in 1950 cost 19 cents, compared to about $12.00 a pack today !
In MSP,7-2024,15.00$ pack...bit < outstate...🗣️
@@lablaine1981 incredible that a pack would cost that much….
I was 11 years old and bought "My Sweet Lord" - my last year in primary school (Australia) - great year! Thanks Mr. Flix for another great memory trip (even though I'm in Australia, most of this culture was experienced here, which was great, as we had great Australian content, and we'd also have British and U.S. content as well!).
was a 6th grader. Those TV cigarette ad jingles I heard, before 1971, are still inside my brain, taking up space!.... amazing! Society changed a lot in a short time. Glad I'm not a kid nowadays! Holy Moly... No privacy, and get too much too fast. Everyone watched the Partridge Family, Brady Bunch, Room 222, Love American Style. EVERYBODY!
1971 - the beginning of the end of a graceful society (at least that's what my parents always said at the time because of the introduction of All in the Family)!
Interesting! My parents said the same.
I was 20 years old then. I never had the slightest interest in smoking. I was unpopular but I’m still alive.
Hi, Fred: It was nice to see the Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket going around on top of the pole. Like almost everything else that humans put their minds to, they HAD to spin when they were new but it didn't matter any more when they broke down. I think I shared in another video that, our KFC here in Ontario has been just horrible for about twenty years now. I've given it a chance several times and in different towns but there seems to be no hope for it.
The first superbowl I can remember at 9 yrs old
One of your best videos. Nothing like remembering being a freshman in high school. Noxzema one of my favorite commercials & wethead is dead is a classic. Btw I still have that same Santana album you featured in this segment
Go to hear from you again, Wesley.
I actually remember the LAST cigarette ad jan 1971
That was quite a swirl of a year, all its own!!
Sports star and women shaving and other ads, also i remember all these oil and gas commercials, the galloping gourmet, wide world of sports, going to carhops (and seemed like better quality food then), drive in movies, our old kids toys, our datsun truck 8 track player, etc etc
Dad always loved watching the general run after he got off work and made like a soup and sandwich meal usually
Good, lighthearted programming that wasnt perpetually forced and,....."ad nauseum"
I loved the chuck wagon dog food commercials, the mama mia ad, even personal ads from the colonel............
I was only little then but ive been going over historicals for a VERY long time, its hardly just new to me
I can hear Irwin Allen’s voice in my head now, “Hey, we can get some more mileage outta that Flying Sub footage left over from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea!” Allen was well known to be “thrifty” 😅
Thanks for another great time capsule, Mr. Fred.
You're welcome, Dave. He also didn't think we were smart enough to notice.
@@FredFlix 😂
This channel ROCKS! 👍 Thank You!🤗💓✌️
The Year I Graduated High School ! Thanks FredFlix for the memories as always! ♥
You're welcome, DM.
Same here. Those were the days.
Thanks❤
Iwas given a transister radio for Christmas. That radio was glued to my hand listening to Seattle Super Sonics basketball games.
Really enjoyed this one, Fred. A home run. The music was perfect and Tears of a Clown was the first 45 record I bought. Great job, thanks a million.
I remember being so excited for the TV debut of "The Partridge Family". A 12-year-old me was crushing hard on David Cassidy. I got to see him, Susan Dey, and Danny Bonaduce in the Christmas parade in Cleveland. As their float passed by, a huge crowd of pre-pubescent girls chased after it. I would have to if my mom weren't holding me back, lol!😊
Plymouth Cricket? Anybody else never heard of this car? 63 years old and this is the first time I have ever heard of this car, weird.
Lol, same here, I'm 67. Guess it wasn't a splash.
I think it was Chrysler's attempt to compete with the Chevy Vega and Ford Pinto. I believe the Plymouth cricket was not American made was shipped in from England and it had lots of quality control issues.
I remember it. little gas saver.
@@KinksFan2802 The American version of the Hillman Avenger (the car in Onslow and Daisy's front garden)
I'd forgotten the Cricket till this piece brought it back. How about the Buick Apollo from 1977-ish?
Best channel on CZcams.❤️
Thanks, Marsha!
Agreed!
Thank you very much!😊
You're welcome, Jan.
❤ loved elvis
Fred keep going- this is like a time machine- happy to be a superfan!
I couldn't stop if I wanted to, Joseph. So much history and joyous memories for everyone that it would be selfish and irresponsible for me to quit.
My wife was born January 1971.
I was at my uncle's house on New Years Day, 1971. We wondered why were still seeing cigarette commercials during the college bowl games, not knowing that they were actually allowed until Midnight that night. There had been a lot of media hype about the end of such ads.
Thanks again Freddo! You hit another out of the park! I especially love the vintage tech from this time period!
Me too, W1RMD.
@@FredFlix NIXIE TUBES!!!
I was 14 in 1971. This really brings back great memories! Thanks for all you do, Fred!
You're welcome, BB.
This was a epic year. I remember whe end of cigarette commercials and how great TV and popular music was. It was not a perfect time - with the Vietnam war, drug addiction issues,etc but in other ways it was a wonderful time to be alive in the USA. ☮️💟
🤠🇺🇸 Was 10 years old in 1971. Yes I have great memories growing up in rural America as a poor working class kid in a large family.
I remember this.
Michelle Lee tried to pick me up in upper Manhattan once. I was shy but I learned fast from that interaction! Great post!
Damn, HP! What year was this?
Wait, I swear I can recall the Marlboro Man on commercial TV advertising cigarettes well into the mid 70's. I distinctly recall the music and the cowboy smoking. Something isn't right about the timeline. OR my memory is off by a few years.
You're delusional. You might be remembering radio stuff though. I don't know when they stopped cigarette ads. Also, the Marlboro music was the theme to the Magnificent Seven movie, which was a huge hit.
Memories get distorted through time. No cig ads after Jan. 1, '71...it's a fact.
For some reason, although cigarette advertising was banned, there was still cigar advertising. Tiporillo was advertising on TV with Edie Adams into the 1980s.
@@FredFlix but cigar advertising stayed. Because I saw a cigar advertising all through the 70s as a kid.
Cigarette commercials stopped airing on TV in 1971, but pipe tobacco, cigar and snuff or "smokeless" tobacco ads continued airing for a while afterwards. I think snuff and chewing tobacco commercials didn't stop airing until the early 1980s, although I could be wrong; they might've stopped in the late '70s.
Some of these commercials, I haven’t seen since they were originally aired! You’re blowing my mind, Fred!
Thanks, Fred! I must say that in my career as a photocopier field technician(repairman), I never saw a 3M copier! It must have been sold in test markets only! And I would assume it wasn't well received.
Just my experience as a 69yr old former Sharp, Konica, Minolta and Xerox field tech!
We're the same age, Robert. The field you chose was quite needed, as was mine (newspapers). Now...not needed so much. But if you're like me, you're long retired so it's not a problem.
I'm sure a 3M salesman would tell you their machines were so good they never needed a repairman lol
Watching your videos has a curious way of reviving long-forgotten memories. For instance, when the Noxema ad played, I was instantly transported back 50 years, as the name Gunilla Hutton suddenly resurfaced. Then the very next ad featured Noam Pitlik, another long-forgotten name from the past. Thank you, Fred, for this remarkable ability to reawaken my aging neurons, much like how Marcel Proust's lemon tea and madeleine unlocked profound memories. It's amazing how the power of pop culture and television can have a similar effect.
I wouldn't turn 6 for another 4 months...but I still remember that Noxzema commercial. 😅
I was basically a new born at the beginning of 71.
This is fun!
Awesome upload! Thank You!👍💓🤗✌️
Shared with all my baby boomer friends!👍💓🤗✌️
You're welcome, KF.
@@kotysuefawcett6538 Thanks!
The year I was born - Love it!
Definitely some good memories for me. I wish I could go back❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Susan Dey: all-time crush, I reckon..
I was 4 in January 1971.
Celebrity bowling is on Tubi right now.
I grew up poor with just a 19 in. B&W TV. That got 3 channels. I would like to go back in time. I hate adulthood.
I can't believe I never saw an episode of Celebrity Bowling until the Decades Channel ran a marathon of it several years ago! Seems like that would have been a show my parents would have watched on weekends before the actual prime time started! Haha!
I loved seeing Noam Pitlik, in the Dodge Challenger commercial. "10:59" He was one of those "invisible" TV/film actors of the 60's and 70's. Dude was on the screen a lot!
Yep. No respect.
Noam played the straight-laced policeman on "Sanford and Son" and was good friends with Redd Foxx (his real name was John Sanford.
That's S-A-N-F-O-R-D period.😂
Nice job, Fred!
6:46 - There are a couple clips there of "Danny and the Mob", with great performances by Pat Harrington, Vic Tayback, & Dick Bakalyan. New Years Day's PF episode had William Schallert as Red Woodloe, a folk singer nervous about his first paid performance.
9:46 - I thought he just did ads for Timex - "It takes a licking & keeps on ticking".
10:55 - I recognize Noam Pitlik, future Mr. Gianelli on Bob Newhart's show, as the salesman there.
15:50 - Spielberg later that year directed the premiere episode of COLUMBO, which had a script by Steven Bochco.
Thanks again, Jon.
I was 14 in Jan of 71 Love this stuff Fred!!
Glad you do, Brian.
Great nostalgia, hit, Fred! I love hearing John Facenda's voice on NFL Films. He had a way of making things seem so dramatic. Oh, for the days when commercials were un-apologetically sexy. Oh for the days when the FBI was considered an honorable agency only interested in enforcing the law, rather than a weaponized tool for politicians to bring down their opponents. Hair spray for men?? So funny how "Los Angeles 2017" was considered the far distant future! Sigh. Susan Dey was such a cutie.
Nice comment, Robert.
Awesome show Fred, thanks my friend--that legendary Neil Adams drawn Superman, I can still remember telling my brother that all the kryptonite on Earth had been converted to lead like it was actual news! 😅
Good one, Doug!
That was so good!
Good stuff, Fred. You Gotta love the 70s.
Great stuff. I remember the last few cigarette ads. This was also when I was an absolute astronaut fanatic, watched Walter Cronkite’s moon reports (in between frightening scenes from Vietnam) and had Major Matt Mason at home.
Elvis mentioned comics - and that summer of ‘71 is when I began buying Marvel Comics regularly off the spinner racks (or Dad got ‘em for me, at any rate!) And the hippy movement was still quite prevalent in my neck of the woods. My baby sitter was one of ‘em - while I loved her and she was very pretty - as a kid, I found most of them quite scary!
Sure was a lot more fun. Cars were coal, not cookie cutter and all the same color. Clothes were cuter. People had critical thinking ability, and cared about others. Political correctness didn't have to be forced, and we read what we wanted to read.
I am so glad I never started smoking!
16:30 car magazines sold a bazillion copies every time they showed off what supposedly was the new Corvette.
Wow, forgot about a lot of these things. I like what someone said below...young then, old now! Ha ha. Thanks Fred.
You're welcome, Tom.
Thumbs UP.
Bring back "Celebrity Bowling" NOW. The obvious team: Jeff Bridges and John Goodman.
Yes!
Veronica Hamel was smokin' in more ways than one in 71.
Well put, Dan.
She was a stunning Beauty indeed
Man, Veronica Hamel looks fine in the Virginia Slims commercial,despite the stupid early 70s headgear.
that color copier was as big as the cricket car lol. thanks again my man.
You're welcome, S&D.
Another masterpiece, Fred. Love those Chrysler cars. My father was a Ford man and my uncle was a Chrysler guy. My dad and uncle would constantly spar about which one was better. Oh goodness, that deodorant commercial. There's a few innuendos in there. That's just me though. I think.....
TV was awash in innuendo back then, Gregg, real or imagined.
Wow, Fran Jeffries on Celebrity Bowling. I remember her posing in Playboy right around that time, or shortly after. Lil' bit of info here for anyone who's curious: That Swedish bombshell in those Noxzema shaving cream commercials was Gunilla Knutson. The car salesman in the Dodge Charger ad is Noam Pitlik, soon to get a recurring role on Sanford & Son as Officer Swannhauser, or "Swanny" for short. He would later go on to direct many episodes of Barney Miller.
Thanks for the info, Ernest.
The old celebrity bowling is on Tubi right now.
I am thoroughly enjoying this! I have your vid, a hot cup of coffee, and some creme brulee my son's girlfriend made for me as she is a pastry chef and baked good are the love of my life! LoL! I'd love to go on one of those bakery tours in France! Or just travel the u.s. and hit mom and pop bakeries. My idea of a great time! I'm not a huge fan of chocolate but any and all other flavors make me happy!😂😂😂 Thanks Fred!❤
I can't even eat a cinnamon bun because of Diabetes, Chantelle, and I sure do miss 'em.
@@FredFlix aaah! I just saw this! My deepest sympathies to you! Life would be very hard if I didn't have a treat now and then! I'm so sorry Fred!!
@@ChantelleBrown-fb7gy It's OK. I can still have a small treat now and then...just more then than now!
1971, the year that I would turn 9. If you do the year 1971 February 9th of that year there was an earthquake magnitude 6.8 that struck Sylmar. Boy, do I remember that.
So do I!
Still the beginning of a new decade!
Ahhh...Sorry Gary, but the beginning of the decade would have been twelve (12) months earlier, January 1st, 1970.😮
Never heard if the Plymouth cricket....only 2000$ 😮
Perfect
Started great with Santana..and through Noxima and all the rest.
Press the wrong button on the time machine Fred? Was expecting March '76, and got thrown way back to 1971 lol 😆 My folks had one of those Chrysler land yachts. It was great on long road trips, when I got tired I could lay across the back seat and take a nap! 😴 All good memories sir 🙏 👍👍👍👍
I've got editions going all the way back to Sept. '70, Robert, so I want to squeeze them in from time to time.
The year my mom died......I was 8. It actually hurts to watch this......but thanks.
Sorry about your mom, JAB.
@@FredFlix thank you...... ❤️
$4K (or less) for a brand new car!!
I had that issue of Teen with Susan Dey on the cover
4:44 best Super Bowl soundtrack. Colts won despite seven turnovers.
Did anyone notice the director of the TV movie? 'Do you take this Stranger', it was some upstart named Spielberg! IIRC, this was the same year that 'Duel' came out.
The clips may have confused you a bit. Watch again closely. Spielberg directed the L.A. 2017 episode of The Name of the Game with Gene Barry. Immediately after that clip, I plugged in a promo for Do You Take This Stranger, also starring Barry but not directed by Spielberg.
Duel wowed me back then!
Believe it or not, the cigarette companies actually were ok with the ban on TV advertising because for every cigarette commerical shown, an ANTI-smoking commercial could be shown due to the "equal time" rule by the FCC, and their ads were much more effective. When cigarette ads were banned, so were the anti-smoking ones as well.
Actually, the ratio was one PSA for every three paid ads...a number the FTC gave pretty much offhandledly
Thx fredflix 👍🎞
Cig ads ended on all broadcast media jan 1971. Nixon signed it into law. Tobacco companies still used print media until around the year 2000.