Not old enough to have said "Oh man....this SUCKS!" and just young enough to have liked it.

Heck yes I bought the first season of the Partridge Family on DVD and I love it!
My 8 and 10 year old girls are eating it up like crazy.....I knew they would.

It holds the same charm and humor now as it did then. ok so most of the music parts are campy but its good tv.

You just need to get past the music video scenes of small kids playing instruments and Laurie who bangs away at the keys with the same rythym and style in EVERY song...its good jazz/pop music played by some of the best studio musicians around at the time with Shirly Jones and David Cassidy doing their own vocals.

Next it will be Hogans Heros....My girls love M*A*S*H so I know they will like Hogans as well.

I never liked the Brady Bunch....way to cheezy....YUCK!!!!

It's OK Fluke, we'll allow you to like the Partridge Family.

But just this once ;)

José :wave:

gee....thanks amigo? :p

Some POP music is just that....POP! then its gone.

But history has plenty of what I like to call 'smart POP' music that was POPULAR without being hollow, weak, or dead.

Just a few bands that I think fit that catagory are:

1. The Beach Boys
2. Abba
3. The Beatles

There are too many bands that never got the credit they deserved :rolleyes:

Good for you.

I'm tired of apologizing for enjoying the the stuff I grew up with. Fact is, I never missed an episode of THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY when I was in Jr. High School and I don't know anybody who did. We loved it. A few years late it became "uncool" and suddenly a bunch of folks I knew denied that they ever watched it. Trying to find somebody who admitted to being a Partridge Family fan was like trying to find a frenchman who admitted colloaborating with the Nazis...you knew they all did it but nobody confessed.

I watched a show yesterday on a music channel about the 20 most important rock acts of the 1970s. ABBA finished fourth...ahead of Rod Stewart, KISS and a bunch of others. Ya know, I admit I have two ABBA discs and it's horribly uncool to say that. But that's who was on the radio during the best years of my young life (somebody bought those 350 million records).

And I actually owned a green leisure suit :). I had a moustache and mutton chop sideburns.

It was cool then. I was cool then. So I an't cool anymore...big deal. I'm too old to give a darn.

EDIT...I wrote the above reply before I saw fluke mention ABBA :). You want to feel old? Bjorn Ulvaeus (one of the "B"'s) just turned 60 years old and Anna-frid Lyngstad (one of the "A"'s) turns 60 this fall. Benny (the other B) is 60 next year and Agnetha (the youngest) just turned 55.

You're not alone Fluke, I will be the proud owner of that Patridge set myself shortly.
I watched some episodes on "On Demand" on cable recently and the show holds up better then I had hoped it would. A lot of it is still rather amusing and I even catch myself tapping my foot to the music parts.

Hey, I watched the Partridge Family when I was a kid (pre-elementary school days!), but I can't get into it these days. I find it didn't age well.

Sorta like the $6 Million Dude. In the 70s, Steve Austin ROCKED! Today, it's just, well, cheesy! Like Miami Vice, it shows its' age. And not in a good way!

I liked the Partridge Family too!

However, I followed my true guilty pleasure and bought The Monkees boxed sets. I have always liked that show. My grandmother gave me my first LP, and it was the Monkees. I never looked back.

Susan Dey .... mmmm. Count me as an unapologetic Abba fan too. Real good documentary on the band on PBS next month.

No need to apologize, Troy. We all have our guilty pleasures. For me it's the Superfriends. Yeah, I know terrible animation, childish simplistic stories and none of the characters are true to their comic book counterparts. Still I enjoy them.

Oh yeah, I have several Abba albums, so sue me. :tongue:

Susan was SO pretty back then. I had such a crush.
I had all the albums on vinyl. But I went thru a period of denial in the 80s and threw them away. Somewhere I have a photo of "The Partridge Family Album" being hit dead center with a skeet load.

And HEY! Miami Vice is still cool! I'm watching the DVDs currently. Okay, the 80s fashion and dialogue didn't age well, but the style and substance of the show is still fantastic.

I'm also unapologetic about my DVD sets of Hunter and Starsky and Hutch. Both cool cop shows in their day. (And nobody, but NObody had a better looking partner than Hunter!)

I had a crush on mom Partridge!!

I had a crush on mom Partridge!!

Yeah, a Partridge "sandwich" comes to mind.:devil: If you think Shirley Jones was hot then - check her out in "Elmer Gantry" sometime!

Them Hee-Haw Women were nice to look at too.
Goldie Hawn etc from Laugh-in dancing around with bikinis and body art!
Remember Goldie in "Good Morning World" ??

And I actually owned a green leisure suit :).
I had green PLAID one! Very scary. :lol:
Some of the old shows are timeless. I got my wife's 15 yr old sister hooked on Green Acres. She does a pretty good Hank Kimble.

I once saw a red-headed guy in a lime-green leisure suit, lime green patent leather belt, lime green patent leather shoes, smoking a lime-green aluminum tobacco pipe. He was so suave.

<< smoking a lime-green aluminum tobacco pipe. >>

Uh-huh, so WHAT was he smoking IN that pipe?

Gawd, i remember the sideburns, Heels on the shoes (unless you were into the Kalso Earth Shoes) the sissy looking jewelery, the shirts with boufant sleeves, and hair spray for men... jeez.

Ahh, seventies fashions....
I can remember when I was sixteen I had a faded denim short sleeve safari jacket I wore all the time because I was sure it made me look adventurish (Indiana Jones wasn't even invented yet), instead of what it really looked like:a sixteen year old dork in a short sleeve denim safari jacket.

I blame those pictures on bad pot and Twin Sons of Different Mothers.

... Count me as an unapologetic Abba fan too. Real good documentary on the band on PBS next month.

Anni-frid (Frida) doing a Swedish cover version of BABY LOVE with the two gayest backup singers in Sweden:

http://img177.echo.cx/img177/7877/frida8gj.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/)

That's a screen cap from the documentary SUPER TROUPERS. Not only is it a good documentary, it's 16x9 anamorphic which, to the best of my knowledge makes it the only widescreen enhanced ABBA material anywhere (until ABBA THE MOVIE gets released).

I had a pair of Levi's that I would replace any part that wore out with a leather patch. Eventually everything from the knees and up was a collection of leather scraps sewn together. Even replaced the belt loops with leather. Had a piece of purple suede sewn on the ass(Hey, it was the 70's). I was so cool!!!.http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/images/icons/icon8.gif Everybody hung out in the basement of these three brothers down the street. Their parents went camping every weekend and we would party like fools. One friday night we were sitting in the basement blasted out of our minds and somebody from upstairs yelled down, "Hey, Jefferson Airplane are on The Midnight Special!" I tore up the steps, taking them three at a time and ripped all the stitching out the crotch of my oh so super cool leather jeans.

Bell bottoms, feathered hair, pooca shell necklaces, Star Wars, Roller Skating, GREAT TUNES!!

All in the family, Happy days, Sanford and Son, Chico and the man, Welcome back Kotter, Barney Miller, and Battlestar Galictica!

Starting a NEW model kit mid Saturday and having it finished by Sunday afternoon.

You didn't need a lot of pocket money.....goofing around the neighborhood, hiking in the local woods, the pond that was perfect for boats in the summer that froze over in the winter.

Sleeping out in the back yard.

All yes......Those were the days!

I went to an Applebees in South Carolina last weekend where the guy in charge of seating us was wearing a lemon yellow liesure suit and had 70s hair with the sideburns and all. No one else in the joint was dressed that way. I don't know if he was dressed for a 70s event, if he was a time traveler, or just crazy. How cum we didn't think liesure suits looked stupid when we were IN the 70s?

How cum we didn't think liesure suits looked stupid when we were IN the 70s?

uhm.....maybe it wuz all the model glue? :freak:

Not to forget:

Blacklights and blacklight posters
Zig-Zag
Keep on Truckin'
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Wonder Wart-Hog
Bead curtains
Those wide leather watch bands
Rolling Stone magazine was still counter culture available only at head shops that would have a shingle hung out that read "Rolling Stone Sold here"
Teen Angel
General admission seating at rock concerts. Just show up early to get right down in front
All the "Summer Jam" concerts(general admission) at stadiums and grandstands like:
Fleetwood Mac/Heart/REO Speedwagon/Kansas/Head East
The Eagles/Linda Ronstadt/Steve Miller/Peter Frampton
Eric Clapton/Doobie Bros/Foghat/Golden Earring
Went to one once called "The Round-up": ZZTop/Lynard Skynard/Molly Hatchet/.38 Special/Charlie Daniels/Marshall Tucker Band

... I've always wanted a Wonder Warthog model kit. I went to one of those all-day deals at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was called The August Jam and the roster was split evenly between Southern and British bands. My memory is foggy but here is at least part of the roster (I think). Started around 11 am and ended about 1 am the following morning.

Foghat
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
U.F.O
Wet Willie
Rory Gallagher
The Marshall Tucker Band
The Climax Blues Band
Leon Russell
Chris Jagger
Billy Preston
ZZ Top
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The Allman Brothers

Scott, Excellent bands! Me , I wouldn't have been foggy, I wouldn't rmember that I ever went!

It's funny how things can be the so much the same in so many different parts of the country and even at slightly different times. You guys brought back alot of old memories. General admission concerts, Saturday Night Special (what about "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert"?), hanging out in the basement stoned out of our minds... WOW! Did I just type that?! Ahhh... The good old days.

Sorry fluke but the only thing that I liked about the Partridge Family was Susan Dey.

What was the movie that she was in with William Kat (the one where you got to see... well, you know... There was some nekkid parts in it.)? I think I was 10 or 11 years old, watching "The Movie Channel", not believing what I was seeing. hehe I STILL remember it well... ;)

Sorry fluke but the only thing that I liked about the Partridge Family was Susan Dey.

What was the movie that she was in with William Kat (the one where you got to see... well, you know... There was some nekkid parts in it.)? I think I was 10 or 11 years old, watching "The Movie Channel", not believing what I was seeing. hehe I STILL remember it well... ;)

"First Love". And not only was there ample Susan Dey nekkidity - there was ample Beverly D'Angelo nekkidity as well! Hard to complain about that!

I can remember when I was sixteen I had a faded denim short sleeve safari jacket I wore all the time because I was sure it made me look adventurish (Indiana Jones wasn't even invented yet), instead of what it really looked like:a sixteen year old dork in a short sleeve denim safari jacket.

:lol: That's how I see myself now when I look at my old HS photos where I'm wearing my oh-so-cool white Members Only jacket....

José

:lol: That's how I see myself now when I look at my old HS photos where I'm wearing my oh-so-cool white Members Only jacket....

José

I had the black one! A little known fact: when worn in conjunction with a pair of Kelso Earth shoes and "rainbow" suspenders (Just like Mork's!), this form of birth control is actually more effective than the condom.

^ Yup, and I found out that wearing a white jacket, white jeans and a teal sweatshirt only worked for Don Johnson. :lol:

José

Susan was SO pretty back then. I had such a crush.
I had all the albums on vinyl. But I went thru a period of denial in the 80s and threw them away. Somewhere I have a photo of "The Partridge Family Album" being hit dead center with a skeet load.

And HEY! Miami Vice is still cool! I'm watching the DVDs currently. Okay, the 80s fashion and dialogue didn't age well, but the style and substance of the show is still fantastic.

I'm also unapologetic about my DVD sets of Hunter and Starsky and Hutch. Both cool cop shows in their day. (And nobody, but NObody had a better looking partner than Hunter!)


That's Stephine Kramer John Yeah as Stern would say "What a P.O.A.! lol
Course I was more into Debra VanValkenburg back at that time, Remember her?(Lips Like Anglina Jolie lol Although She doesn't look too Hot Nowadays lol)

John /Lonfan

I grew up in England in the 70's. And can tell you, The Partridge Family was big there too. Prolly seen each episode at least a half dozen times. Can't hear the music from Born Free without thinking of it. 6 Million Dollar Man, remember seeing the premiere episode with me Grandma (Mummy's Mummy when I was 5 or so) the night it aired.

As for music, never like the Bay City Rollers, always thought those poncers dressed in their tartan caps and short long pants looked like complete pillarks. Maybe me brothers being 8 years older than me and me Mum working at the local Uni (meeting all the students) had summart to do with that. I preferred Sweet, Wizzard, Mud, and an up and coming group of long haired geezers called Queen.

Ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars! Major Tom to ground control.

PINK FLOYD, The Who - Tommy!, YES, Alan Parsons project, Al Stewart, Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan! and the MOODY BLUES!!

Monty Python on PBS.

Staying up late on Friday nights to watch classic horror flicks! In Seattle it was NIGHTMARE THEATER at 12:00am two films in a row hosted by a crazy Vampire and these crazy tv commercails with this idiot dressed up in a gorilla suit! ...........Did any of you guys have something simular?

KISS ARMY....I remember it but never joined.

Did shake hands with Andre the Giant at BIG TIME westling in Seattle.

Rock on!