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1970's Music
1970's TV Sitcoms
1970's Movies
1970's Pop Culture
1970's Music
Nostalgic music that will take you back!
Led Zeppelin was hands down one of my favorite bands growing up in the 70s. I seldom like old songs from the past but these sure can bring up memories from the past of growing up. You can't hear Stairway to Heaven and not reminisce. Plus, my boyfrien...
Led Zeppelin
Who didn't listen to Aerosmith if you were alive and well in the 70's? With songs like “Dream On' and ”Walk this Way" and Steven Tyler's antics and energy on stage, they were one of the top bands for sure.
Aerosmith: CDs & Vinyl
Still some of my favorite songs come from the band Boston. Boston became famous in the late 1970s with their debut album and the hit single "More Than a Feeling".
Play Boston on Amazon Music
You can't listen to Fleetwood Mac and not love them. Stevie Nicks voice is just magical and unique. With songs like Landslide and Gypsy she won all our hearts.
Fleetwood Mac: CDs & Vinyl
Pink Floyd was a staple in anyone's album collection in the seventies. "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), "Wish You Were Here" (1975), and "Animals" (1977) achieved massive commercial and critical acclaim and really changed a generation of music.
Pink Floyd
When the song, “Oh what a Night” came out, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons won my heart! They have a lot of good songs and really have the vibe of the 70;s.
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Who didn't listen to Carly Simon in the 70's? She has the best music that still is good nowadays! Some of her popular songs were, “You're so Vain” and “Coming Around Again.”
Play Carly Simon on Amazon Music
Kiss was one the first band that I remember t hat dressed up with make up and characters. Gene Simmons with his long tongue and Paul Stanley with that star over his eye are burned in my memory forever!
Kiss
Janis Joplin's raspy voice with her free spirit songs were popular through the late sixties and through the seventies even after her untimely death on October 4th, 1970, singer of an accidental heroin overdose.
Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits - Album by ...
1970's TV Sitcoms
What did people watch?
All in the Family is an American sitcom tv series that aired on CBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes. This sitcom was about a Archie Bunker, a big mouth bigot who had a sweet wife Edith, and a fun...
Watch All In The Family, Season 1 | Prime Video
Happy Days is an American tv show that aired first-run on the ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 episodes. This show was set in the 1950s in Milwaukee, and is based around the Cunningham family and a greaser frie...
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley was a spin off from Happy Days and ran for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. It was based on two girls who work at a Milwaukee Brewery.
Laverne and Shirley - Season 1
A fun comedy sitcom starring many stars like Janet Dewitt, Suzanne Summers, Don Knotts and John Ritter. It was about two women and a man who lived together in times when it wasn't ok to do so.
Three's Company
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western historical drama based on the life of Laura Ingalls. It is set in the 1870s and shows the everyday life and trials of a family in those times.
Little House on the Prairie Season 1
The Love Boat first aired in 1976 and was a sitcom about different adventures and romances once people entered the cruise.
Watch The Love Boat Season 1 | Prime Video
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Fantasy Island was a show that started in 1978 about a man that could make people's dreams come true once they set foot ont he island.
Fantasy Island (TV Series 1977–1984)
Mash is one of my all time favorites and I don't think I could get tired of watching Alan Alda as the show goes through his every day life of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital care during the Korean War. So many good characters came from this ...
M*A*S*H (TV Series 1972–1983)
Mork from Ork! We can all hear Robin Williams voice as he says this. A funny sitcom from 1978 where an alien lands and falls for a human played by Pam Dawber, named Mindy.
Mork & Mindy
1970's Movies
Remember these old films?
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 disco dance drama film starring John Travolta who plays Tony Manero, a painter from Brooklyn who likes to boogey down at the Disco Clubs on the weekend.
Watch Saturday Night Fever
The 1977 film tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with a UFO.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (DC)
American Graffiti is a 1973 comedy-drama movie produced by Francis Ford Coppola about the coming of age.
Watch American Graffiti | Prime Video
This horror movie is about a mental patient named Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister one Halloween night during his childhood. Then escapes out to go on to commit more. He becomes obsseses with a college girl played by Jaime Lee Curtis.
Halloween - Prime Video: Movies & TV
Jack Nicholson plays a character that gets moved to an insane asylum from prison. At first he is relived until he learns that he is under watch by a strict nurse named Nurse Ratched.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
One of the first movies I remember from teh seventies that dealt with divorce. Kramer vs Kramer starred Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep and shows how divorce effects t heir family.
Watch Kramer vs. Kramer | Prime Video
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The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Al Pacino. This is a mob drama, and focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone,
Watch The Godfather | Prime Video
In 1977 a film was released that would change the world! Star Wars was created by George Lucas.
It is an otherworldly space science fiction adventure movie about Luke Skywalker and other characters like Chewbacca, R2D2 and Darth Vader.
It is an otherworldly space science fiction adventure movie about Luke Skywalker and other characters like Chewbacca, R2D2 and Darth Vader.
Star Wars
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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, It starts when a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island,
Jaws
1970's Pop Culture
Fads & Trends
Disco dancing was really in, in the seventies! If you were cool, then you were hanging out and dancing in the Disco clubs in the city!
1970s Disco Dances
The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. In the seventies they really found their fame when the disco movement hit. With hits like, “Staying Alive” and “Night Fever” you could be sure you'd be heari...
Play Bee Gees on Amazon Music
ABBA was a Swedish pop from Stockholm in 1972. They were popular around the world and in the Disco era and had famous songs like, “Dancing Queen” and “Take a Chance on Me”.
ABBA
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Harvey Milk was an important figure in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States, and he became the first openly gay elected official in California. He was tragically assassinated in his office by a disgruntled former supervisor in 1978.
Harvey Milk Day – May 22nd
Orange and green furniture, shag carpet were staples in the 70's. Phones hung on the walls and people still used phone booths.
83 Best 1970's House ideas | 1970s house, house design, 70s interior
Video games became popular in the seventies such as PONG, asteroids and space invaders. Arcades were a fun place to hang out.
Space Invaders Arcade
Women had long hippie hair in the seventies or the start of big curled hair. Not quite yet the feathered hair of the eighties but big nonetheless.
72 Best 70's Hair ideas | 70s hair, hair, hair styles
Here are some of the funny seventies hairdos for men. Whether they had the long hair with huge sideburns or the perfectly feathered hair like David Cassidy, they took as much care in their styles as women did!
24 Mens 70s hair ideas
Here are some of the fun fashion trends for people in the 1970's. From Bell bottoms to ruffle shirts.
The Best of 1970s Fashion for Women- Vintage '70s Outfits & Fashion Trends