OK Old Farts - Year 1974 - Memories??

[Warrior102]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcd3XuQwDQQ]You Are The First, My Last, My Everything (Barry White) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[techieny]

I ETS'd on 10/25/74...


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwuCJznewFw]Everybody's Kung Fu Fighting Music Video - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Big Black Dog]

Let's see... 1974. I had been married for a year to my first wife. I was a Second Class in the Navy. I was very handsome and had a body that would make Charles Atlas drool with envy. It's all been down hill from there...

 

[Mr. H.]

I got busted in '74.

 

[Big Black Dog]

I got busted in '74.

OOPS...

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I was in the 4th grade.

 

[Trajan]

I was still getting wrecked for Dark Side of the Moon and Airplane pulled the plug...

 

[Sherry]

I started Kindergarten.

 

[zzzz]

Frosh in college and I remember the streakers!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_-oFmAcCSw&feature=related]Ray Stevens-The Streak - YouTube[/ame]

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Right about the time I started to love cars...and fell madly in love with these...

 

[Warrior102]

I stole my first Malibu in '74
A dark green one...LOL

 

[Warrior102]

I started Kindergarten.

Oh you young thang....

 

[Warrior102]

I got busted in '74.

who didn't?

 

[Peach]

I got busted in '74.

who didn't?

********************************************
I got straight A's, and a soda (big treat when I was a kid) in return.

 

[zzzz]

My ride was one of these, a little darker green. Not a very comfortable "make out" vehicle, although I made it work. Had speed, got it to 150 once, and it sounded good.

 

[Oldstyle]

1973 Porsche 911 RS Carrera Lightweight

I was managing a nightclub in Amherst, Ma. and driving a 1973 Carrera RS, still my favorite car of any I've ever owned. Disco was about to kick in, the Vietnam war was over, women were on the pill, there weren't any venereal diseases you couldn't cure with a shot of penicillin and the drinking age had just been lowered to 18. Absolutely the perfect time to be young and single. God, what a party!!! (The only drawback were the clothes...I still shudder to think that I once owned a lime green three piece suit)

 

[bayoubill]

lotsa great memories from '74... dropped outta college... quit workin' for my old man... various odd jobs after that (driving a cab, dealin' weed, etc)... traveled around the Southern states... hooked up with my future first wife 'round about Christmas time...

I remember some great tunes from back then...

but all in all, it was a fairly lame year for popular music...

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart for 1974:

1. The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand
2. Seasons In The Sun, Terry Jacks
3. Love's Theme, Love Unlimited Orchestra
4. Come and Get Your Love, Redbone
5. Dancing Machine, The Jackson 5
6. The Loco-Motion, Grand Funk Railroad
7. T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia), MFSB
8. The Streak, Ray Stevens
9. Bennie and the Jets, Elton John
10. One Hell of a Woman, Mac Davis
11. Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do), Aretha Franklin
12. Jungle Boogie, Kool and The Gang
13. Midnight at the Oasis, Maria Muldaur
14. You Make Me Feel Brand New, Stylistics
15. Show and Tell, Al Wilson
16. Spiders and Snakes, Jim Stafford
17. Rock On, David Essex
18. Sunshine On My Shoulders, John Denver
19. Sideshow, Blue Magic
20. Hooked On a Feeling, Blue Swede
21. Billy, Don't Be a Hero, Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods
22. Band On the Run, Paul McCartney and Wings
23. The Most Beautiful Girl, Charlie Rich
24. Time In a Bottle, Jim Croce
25. Annie's Song, John Denver
26. Let Me Be There, Olivia Newton-John
27. Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot
28. (You're) Having My Baby, Paul Anka
29. Rock Me Gently, Andy Kim
30. Boogie Down, Eddie Kendricks
31. You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful and You're Mine, Ringo Starr
32. If You Love Me (Let Me Know), Olivia Newton-John
33. Dark Lady, Cher
34. Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Gladys Knight and The Pips
35. Feel Like Makin' Love, Roberta Flack
36. Just Don't Want to Be Lonely, The Main Ingredient
37. Nothing from Nothing, Billy Preston
38. Rock Your Baby, George McCrae
39. Top of the World, The Carpenters
40. The Joker, The Steve Miller Band
41. I've Got to Use My Imagination, Gladys Knight and The Pips
42. The Show Must Go On, Three Dog Night
43. Rock the Boat, The Hues Corporation
44. Smokin' In the Boys Room, Brownsville Station
45. Living for the City, Stevie Wonder
46. The Night Chicago Died, Paper Lace
47. Then Came You, Dionne Warwick and The Spinners
48. The Entertainer, Marvin Hamlisch
49. Waterloo, Abba
50. The Air That I Breathe, The Hollies
51. Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Steely Dan
52. Mockingbird, Carly Simon
53. Help Me, Joni Mitchell
54. You Won't See Me, Anne Murray
55. Never, Never Gonna Give You Up, Barry White
56. Tell Me Something Good, Rufus
57. You and Me Against the World, Helen Reddy
58. Rock & Roll Heaven, The Righteous Brothers
59. Hollywood Swinging, Kool and The Gang
60. Be Thankful for What You Got, William Devaughn
61. Hang On In There Baby, Johnny Bristol
62. Touch the Wind (Eres Tu), Mocedades
63. Takin' Care of Business, Bachman-Turner Overdrive
64. Radar Love, Golden Earring
65. Please Come to Boston, Dave Loggins
66. Keep On Smilin', Wet Willie
67. Lookin' for a Love, Bobby Womack
68. Put Your Hands Together, O'Jays
69. On and On, Gladys Knight and The Pips
70. Oh Very Young, Cat Stevens
71. Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress), Helen Reddy
72. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
73. (I've Been) Searchin' So Long, Chicago
74. Oh My My, Ringo Starr
75. For the Love of Money, The O'Jays
76. I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton
77. Jet, Paul McCartney and Wings
78. Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, Elton John
79. Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield
80. A Love Song, Anne Murray
81. I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You, Donny and Marie Osmond
82. Hello It's Me, Todd Rundgren
83. I Love, Tom T. Hall
84. Clap for the Wolfman, The Guess Who
85. I'll Have to Say I Love You In a Song, Jim Croce
86. The Lord's Prayer, Sister Janet Mead
87. Trying To Hold On To My Woman, Lamont Dozier
88. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing, Stevie Wonder
89. A Very Special Love Song, Charlie Rich
90. My Girl Bill, Jim Stafford
91. My Mistake (Was to Love You), Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye
91. Helen Wheels, Paul McCartney and Wings
93. Wildwood Weed, Jim Stafford
94. Beach Baby, First Class
95. Me and Baby Brother, War
96. Rockin' Roll Baby, The Stylistics
97. I Honestly Love You, Olivia Newton-John
98. Call On Me, Chicago
99. Wild Thing, Fancy
100. Mighty Love, Pt. 1, The Spinners

 

[UpAndAbout]

I was 24 and had been married 4 years. Now still married almost 42 years to the same man!

 

[NLT]

Smoking weed in the back seat of a 72 cutlass with my first serious girlfriend listening to the 8 track tape of "Dark Side of the Moon" and making out during "Great gig in the sky".

 

[bayoubill]

can't believe neither of these tunes showed up in the Top 100...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPUxvjbdcU&feature=related]Bad Company - Can't Get Enough - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye5BuYf8q4o]Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama - YouTube[/ame]