Welcome to fifty plus here on Jljmdia. I'm James Lott Junior, and I'm
starting a little mini series for the rest of the year. I mean,
I've been sharing my life being fifty plus, so I think anybody who's fifty
plus will understand these episodes. I'm doing mini series to the end of the
year where I'm going back fifty years, forty years, thirty years, twenty
years, ten years, and ending with today of just first of all of
the music of the time, TV and movies, but also I'm gonna show
you a personal picture item that of mine from that time period. I've been
going through my storage union I found all this stuff that I lost, and
so was the one way I'm sharing with you that stuff plus more. So
I'm gonna start off the year nineteen seventy three. So yes, I'm literally
old enough to have been alive fifty years ago and here I am in this
picture. So if you're listening, I'll post picture online at JAILG Media.
I'll posted that James G. Two. This is me at four years old
three or four, saying from a Grundigs stereo system that I and Faith got
for us and brought back from Germany. We have that same stereo system here
in the dining room. I'm going to take a picture and try to recreate
this photo with it. I was photo sitting out. I'll trying to create
the fu'mn try to, so stay tuned for that. I was living in
Los Angeles. I was taking here in Los Angeles. That's the city other
of gen Again. I was three or four years old and that picture was
taken. So we're gonna go to the top television shows of that seventy three
seventy four season, the whole season. I could have done two and seventy
three season, but I was just gonna go from seventy three on because we're
in the We're in the fall anyway. So these are top ten shows,
starting for number ten and going up number ten, Cannon, number nine,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Number eight, The Sunny and Share Comedy Hour,
remember that number seven, Kojak, number six, Mod number five,
Hawaii five, Oh, number four, Mash number three, Sanford and Sonny.
How big that was. There was a big share. Two them number
two were of my favorites, The Waltons and the number one show of the
seventy three Sonny four season fifty years ago. Was all in the family.
There you go, kids, I can't believe either. It's crazy. Now
we're going to go to the hot one hundred singles from the Billboard chart.
So the this was based on Billboard Charts is the leading publication and counting system
for music back then. Now things are changing. The little Billber' still leading
thing by say. Things are changed. But these are top ten songs,
sorry, from ten to number one of the year end. These are top
ten songs of nineteen seventy three. Number ten, Touch Me in the Morning,
Don't just walk away? Touch Me in the Morning, Diana Ross,
you probably think this song is about you. A number nine, you're so
vain. Carli Simon at number eight, will it go around in Circles?
That's Billy Preston. He usually big back then. He was like he had
a lot of hits, and he was also the fifth Beatles, so to
speak. He was really big with them. Number seven Crocodile Rock by Elton
John number six. I knew he knew Chris Christoperson at first because he did
Star is Born. That's when I first really heard of him in the mid
seventies. But back in seventy three, he had the number six song with
why Me Mister Chris, number five Paul McCartney and Wings with My Love number
four, Let's get it on, Marvin Gang killing Me Softly with his song
Killing Me Softly with his song Bird of Flack. She's huge back then too.
And then we had Bad Bad Lee Roy Brown, the baddest band from
Jim Crochey and the number one song. I remember this song as a kid,
actually, so for some reason, tie a yellow ribbon around the old
oak Gee, Tony Orlando and down. Now you know. One of Dawn
was Talma Hopkins, very successful actress. Linger. That's so funny. I
love it, love it, love it, love it, love it,
love it, love it, love it, love it, love it.
Remember all the songs. Then we're gona go switch over and go to movies.
These are the top ten movies of them I've never seen and don't even
know them. Top ten movies of nineteen seventy three, fifty years ago.
Number ten Sleeper, which is one of the few ones I don't remember seeing
this one. It's Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, is an early one of
theirs comedy sci fi. I don't remember that. Number nine The Last Detail,
a comedy drama starring Jack Nicholson Randy Quaid. I don't know that one
either. Ah. Number eight, I saw it as a kid. Charlotte's
Webb now even say more Web Number seven Don't Look Now with Julie Christie and
Donald Sutherland so drama horror mystery. Okay, I don't know them. Number
six bad Lands starring Martin Sheen, Sissy's spacec action crime drama. No.
Number five Man horror mystery thriller. That's wow, I remember, I know,
I don't think. I think I saw a remake of that. Number
four. I do know this one Mean Streets Robert de Nio, Harvey,
kayitel, It's early one. Brian dry Thing. Number three. She was
one of the youngest people to ever win an Oscar, Miss Tatum O'Neil,
starring with her father, Ryan paper Moon. Number two Papillon, Steve McQueen
and Dustin Hoffman. And the number one movie of nineteen seventy three, fifty
years ago was The Sting Paul new and Robert Redford Charles Dirning. Very interesting.
Just to note also that year Just Christ Superstar came out. My favorite
soundtracks of all time, caps Wards of all time, okay, and then
lastly this has been I just fun look at this stuff. Lastly, these
are this is the top ten albums of nineteen seventy nine. Seventy nine,
I say seventy nine, so you're getting old of seventy three. I my
why said seventy nine of seventy three top ten albums. Number ten were of
my favorites, The Carpenters Singles nineteen sixty nine the year I was born,
actually to nineteen seventy three. Oh my god, I love that's my favorites.
Number nine, Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, Number eight John Denver's Greatest Hits.
Okay, that's a good. Number seven, Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack,
Neil Diamond, Number six, Houses of the Holy led Zeppelin. Number five
and number four are the Beatles number five nineteen sixty two to nineteen sixty six
and number four nineteen sixty seven and nineteen seventy so they are a compilation album.
So just just goes to show that, and we'll right just say right
below the top ten. Number eleven is Elvis Presley's Band on the Run,
Wing and Wing. That was I was, I was spread, that's not
I'm getting confused. Wings and Paul McCartney band on the Run, Els Presley's
below him Alohaff of Hawaii. That's why I saw that. So Paul McCartney
has three top eleven albums in there, just getting you just guys know that
number three, an album that actually lasted throughout the seventies and into the eighties
on the charts, and the hot top two hundred and number three Tubular Bells
by Mark by Mike Oldfield. I remember, I remember the saying that it's
it's it's considered the number twenty two album of all the seventies, like It's
very crazy, right, and number two part of his streak of the seventies,
Goodbye Yellow, Big Road John, And then the number one album of
nineteen seventy three, the number one album fifty years ago, the number one
album of all the seventies, nineteen seventies, and the number three album of
all time, Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd, And I remember when
I was used to be the Billboard charts every week and that album was on
the top two hundred, top one hundred for a year. I was on
there forever, Like I just said, had never left. They got on
there and never left. I just found that the set I have, the
set of it. My song is money, there's some money, It's very
much. It just never left. Dark Sign of Moon resonated with so many
people it like never left, and so it's a huge underrated album, actually
underrated. So those are your top ten albums of nineteen seventy three. For
me, I remember listening to Juice Cars Superstar. I remember living Crossings from
a cemetery. I had a little brother who was about a year old at
the time, and I live with them currently. It was a year all
the time. I remember playing in We was on the second floor. We
had downstairs. I had an older sister I played with downstairs in the backyard.
It wasn't a back in the backyard with like a black air as black.
It was a back area. We used to play and ride bikes and
things like that. And it was a year before we moved to our next
location. That was of my earliest memories of that. So I I just
I've just been looking back at that time, at the end of the year,
looking back, getting older. It's my half birthday right now, looking
back in time, and I thought it'd be kind of fun to kind of
do this every kind of every week, just talk about a little bit what
happened all of years ago. So next week we'll be nineteen eighty three,
which will be a fun time, whole different age for me there. I'll
be a teenager by then, so talk about that there. So share your
stories. If you remember, like you seventy three, fifty years ago,
anything, please share it. Or if you're you want to do fifty years,
if you're old enough to go fifty years back, or your year or
six years back or starting chare with me a little something, give me a
little give me a little tidbit. I'm James L. Junior, fifty pluses
everywhere you want it to be, and I'll see you next time.