Archive for the ‘Best of 1977’ Category

Saturday Night Fever – John Travolta (1977)

March 14th, 2010

This is a Medley Song from the movie Saturday Night Fever. Recollect John Travolta’s famous dance “You should be dancing …. Yeahhhhh” and his famous pose with the hand up in that White Dress Suit. (Video Response is for the song More Than A Woman) Saturday Night Fever (1977) The story is based upon a 1976 New York magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night.” In the late-1990s, Cohn acknowledged that the article had been fabricated. A newcomer to the United States and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, Cohn was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about. The characters who became Tony Manero and his friends were based on Mods, an English youth movement that also placed great importance on music, clothes and dancing. The film also showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute-couture styles of clothing, pre AIDS sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography. A huge commercial success, the movie significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta, already well known from his role on tv’s Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is the best selling soundtrack of all time. The film is the first example of cross-media marketing, with the tie-in soundtrack’s single being used to help promote the film before its

Classic Radio Commercials

March 11th, 2010

If you remember these, you is old! Close your eyes listen (hey, these aren’t TV spots, ya know).

Dannon commercial video in Georgia 1977

March 5th, 2010

The first Amercian commercial filmed in the Soviet Union! Famous 1977 Dannon yogurt commercial featuring very healthy Georgians over 90 who lived that long from eating yogurt. I heard that the Georgians actually got paid with Dannon yogurt! In the list of 100 best television commercials of the world.

1977 Chevrolet Camaro Commercial

February 24th, 2010

I love this car, it is one of my favourite!!

The Adverts “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” (Top Of The Pops, 1977)

February 18th, 2010