WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:06.120 Welcome to fifty plus here on Jljmdia. I'm James Lott Junior, and I'm 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.160 starting a little mini series for the rest of the year. I mean, 3 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:12.480 I've been sharing my life being fifty plus, so I think anybody who's fifty 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.039 plus will understand these episodes. I'm doing mini series to the end of the 5 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:21.800 year where I'm going back fifty years, forty years, thirty years, twenty 6 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:28.480 years, ten years, and ending with today of just first of all of 7 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:34.200 the music of the time, TV and movies, but also I'm gonna show 8 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:40.600 you a personal picture item that of mine from that time period. I've been 9 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.600 going through my storage union I found all this stuff that I lost, and 10 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:49.079 so was the one way I'm sharing with you that stuff plus more. So 11 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:53.119 I'm gonna start off the year nineteen seventy three. So yes, I'm literally 12 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:58.240 old enough to have been alive fifty years ago and here I am in this 13 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:02.240 picture. So if you're listening, I'll post picture online at JAILG Media. 14 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:08.319 I'll posted that James G. Two. This is me at four years old 15 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:15.079 three or four, saying from a Grundigs stereo system that I and Faith got 16 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.159 for us and brought back from Germany. We have that same stereo system here 17 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.519 in the dining room. I'm going to take a picture and try to recreate 18 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.000 this photo with it. I was photo sitting out. I'll trying to create 19 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.879 the fu'mn try to, so stay tuned for that. I was living in 20 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:33.799 Los Angeles. I was taking here in Los Angeles. That's the city other 21 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:34.959 of gen Again. I was three or four years old and that picture was 22 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:45.879 taken. So we're gonna go to the top television shows of that seventy three 23 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.319 seventy four season, the whole season. I could have done two and seventy 24 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:52.959 three season, but I was just gonna go from seventy three on because we're 25 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.560 in the We're in the fall anyway. So these are top ten shows, 26 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:05.400 starting for number ten and going up number ten, Cannon, number nine, 27 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:09.960 The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Number eight, The Sunny and Share Comedy Hour, 28 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:17.840 remember that number seven, Kojak, number six, Mod number five, 29 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:25.439 Hawaii five, Oh, number four, Mash number three, Sanford and Sonny. 30 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:30.000 How big that was. There was a big share. Two them number 31 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:35.039 two were of my favorites, The Waltons and the number one show of the 32 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.719 seventy three Sonny four season fifty years ago. Was all in the family. 33 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.919 There you go, kids, I can't believe either. It's crazy. Now 34 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:53.080 we're going to go to the hot one hundred singles from the Billboard chart. 35 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.080 So the this was based on Billboard Charts is the leading publication and counting system 36 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.400 for music back then. Now things are changing. The little Billber' still leading 37 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:06.159 thing by say. Things are changed. But these are top ten songs, 38 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.199 sorry, from ten to number one of the year end. These are top 39 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:16.840 ten songs of nineteen seventy three. Number ten, Touch Me in the Morning, 40 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:22.719 Don't just walk away? Touch Me in the Morning, Diana Ross, 41 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.840 you probably think this song is about you. A number nine, you're so 42 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:32.800 vain. Carli Simon at number eight, will it go around in Circles? 43 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.319 That's Billy Preston. He usually big back then. He was like he had 44 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:39.319 a lot of hits, and he was also the fifth Beatles, so to 45 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:46.479 speak. He was really big with them. Number seven Crocodile Rock by Elton 46 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.960 John number six. I knew he knew Chris Christoperson at first because he did 47 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:53.240 Star is Born. That's when I first really heard of him in the mid 48 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:57.919 seventies. But back in seventy three, he had the number six song with 49 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:05.280 why Me Mister Chris, number five Paul McCartney and Wings with My Love number 50 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:14.520 four, Let's get it on, Marvin Gang killing Me Softly with his song 51 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:20.720 Killing Me Softly with his song Bird of Flack. She's huge back then too. 52 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:26.079 And then we had Bad Bad Lee Roy Brown, the baddest band from 53 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:30.600 Jim Crochey and the number one song. I remember this song as a kid, 54 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.800 actually, so for some reason, tie a yellow ribbon around the old 55 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:41.920 oak Gee, Tony Orlando and down. Now you know. One of Dawn 56 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:46.759 was Talma Hopkins, very successful actress. Linger. That's so funny. I 57 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.160 love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, 58 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:49.360 love it, love it, love it, love it, love it. 59 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:57.240 Remember all the songs. Then we're gona go switch over and go to movies. 60 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.319 These are the top ten movies of them I've never seen and don't even 61 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:05.480 know them. Top ten movies of nineteen seventy three, fifty years ago. 62 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:11.120 Number ten Sleeper, which is one of the few ones I don't remember seeing 63 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.959 this one. It's Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, is an early one of 64 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:18.639 theirs comedy sci fi. I don't remember that. Number nine The Last Detail, 65 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:26.000 a comedy drama starring Jack Nicholson Randy Quaid. I don't know that one 66 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:32.079 either. Ah. Number eight, I saw it as a kid. Charlotte's 67 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:41.839 Webb now even say more Web Number seven Don't Look Now with Julie Christie and 68 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:46.879 Donald Sutherland so drama horror mystery. Okay, I don't know them. Number 69 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:55.879 six bad Lands starring Martin Sheen, Sissy's spacec action crime drama. No. 70 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:04.079 Number five Man horror mystery thriller. That's wow, I remember, I know, 71 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.600 I don't think. I think I saw a remake of that. Number 72 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:10.560 four. I do know this one Mean Streets Robert de Nio, Harvey, 73 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:15.319 kayitel, It's early one. Brian dry Thing. Number three. She was 74 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.120 one of the youngest people to ever win an Oscar, Miss Tatum O'Neil, 75 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:29.120 starring with her father, Ryan paper Moon. Number two Papillon, Steve McQueen 76 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:33.800 and Dustin Hoffman. And the number one movie of nineteen seventy three, fifty 77 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:41.360 years ago was The Sting Paul new and Robert Redford Charles Dirning. Very interesting. 78 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:46.439 Just to note also that year Just Christ Superstar came out. My favorite 79 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.560 soundtracks of all time, caps Wards of all time, okay, and then 80 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:57.480 lastly this has been I just fun look at this stuff. Lastly, these 81 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:03.680 are this is the top ten albums of nineteen seventy nine. Seventy nine, 82 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:09.199 I say seventy nine, so you're getting old of seventy three. I my 83 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:14.120 why said seventy nine of seventy three top ten albums. Number ten were of 84 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:18.600 my favorites, The Carpenters Singles nineteen sixty nine the year I was born, 85 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.720 actually to nineteen seventy three. Oh my god, I love that's my favorites. 86 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:32.480 Number nine, Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, Number eight John Denver's Greatest Hits. 87 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:39.360 Okay, that's a good. Number seven, Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack, 88 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:47.120 Neil Diamond, Number six, Houses of the Holy led Zeppelin. Number five 89 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:54.720 and number four are the Beatles number five nineteen sixty two to nineteen sixty six 90 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:00.240 and number four nineteen sixty seven and nineteen seventy so they are a compilation album. 91 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:05.360 So just just goes to show that, and we'll right just say right 92 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.720 below the top ten. Number eleven is Elvis Presley's Band on the Run, 93 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:13.759 Wing and Wing. That was I was, I was spread, that's not 94 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:18.560 I'm getting confused. Wings and Paul McCartney band on the Run, Els Presley's 95 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:22.639 below him Alohaff of Hawaii. That's why I saw that. So Paul McCartney 96 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.600 has three top eleven albums in there, just getting you just guys know that 97 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:33.240 number three, an album that actually lasted throughout the seventies and into the eighties 98 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.919 on the charts, and the hot top two hundred and number three Tubular Bells 99 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.320 by Mark by Mike Oldfield. I remember, I remember the saying that it's 100 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:46.080 it's it's considered the number twenty two album of all the seventies, like It's 101 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:52.519 very crazy, right, and number two part of his streak of the seventies, 102 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.759 Goodbye Yellow, Big Road John, And then the number one album of 103 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:03.279 nineteen seventy three, the number one album fifty years ago, the number one 104 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:09.360 album of all the seventies, nineteen seventies, and the number three album of 105 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.799 all time, Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd, And I remember when 106 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:20.159 I was used to be the Billboard charts every week and that album was on 107 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.600 the top two hundred, top one hundred for a year. I was on 108 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:24.320 there forever, Like I just said, had never left. They got on 109 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.600 there and never left. I just found that the set I have, the 110 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:31.080 set of it. My song is money, there's some money, It's very 111 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:33.960 much. It just never left. Dark Sign of Moon resonated with so many 112 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:39.279 people it like never left, and so it's a huge underrated album, actually 113 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:45.919 underrated. So those are your top ten albums of nineteen seventy three. For 114 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.840 me, I remember listening to Juice Cars Superstar. I remember living Crossings from 115 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:56.320 a cemetery. I had a little brother who was about a year old at 116 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.440 the time, and I live with them currently. It was a year all 117 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:03.320 the time. I remember playing in We was on the second floor. We 118 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:09.679 had downstairs. I had an older sister I played with downstairs in the backyard. 119 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:11.879 It wasn't a back in the backyard with like a black air as black. 120 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.159 It was a back area. We used to play and ride bikes and 121 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:22.000 things like that. And it was a year before we moved to our next 122 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:28.960 location. That was of my earliest memories of that. So I I just 123 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.159 I've just been looking back at that time, at the end of the year, 124 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.200 looking back, getting older. It's my half birthday right now, looking 125 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.039 back in time, and I thought it'd be kind of fun to kind of 126 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.200 do this every kind of every week, just talk about a little bit what 127 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.919 happened all of years ago. So next week we'll be nineteen eighty three, 128 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.120 which will be a fun time, whole different age for me there. I'll 129 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.360 be a teenager by then, so talk about that there. So share your 130 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.159 stories. If you remember, like you seventy three, fifty years ago, 131 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.720 anything, please share it. Or if you're you want to do fifty years, 132 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.919 if you're old enough to go fifty years back, or your year or 133 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.240 six years back or starting chare with me a little something, give me a 134 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.519 little give me a little tidbit. I'm James L. Junior, fifty pluses 135 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.639 everywhere you want it to be, and I'll see you next time.