Let's be 1974

I’m Alice and I don’t live here anymore.

I'm the happy people passing his way.

I’m Cousin Oliver.

I'm one year old

I'm the 13-year-old babysitter who smokes, watches TV and doesn't have a nurturing bone in her body

I'm a five year old, spending a boring summer alternating between watching Watergate reports on TV and walking around with a terry cloth bathtowel on my head bopping along to Gypsies Tramps and Thieves.

I am "Badlands", a movie masterpiece released in January and nominated for zero Oscars and awarded zero critics awards.

I'm THIS.

I’m the young father whose 22 year old bride is dying a slow death from cancer. I’m scared because i will have to raise our daughter alone. There were lots of songs and movies about me.

I’m Miss Michael Learned, trapped on Walton’s Mountain with a clan of gay hillbillies.

I'm the strains of "Band On The Run" crackling on the turntable as the kids try to fall asleep while he adults smoke pot and giggle softly in the den behind a closed door

I'm me on my first ever trip to America - waking every morning at the crack of dawn to watch this.

Love means never having to say you're sorry, R9.

I’m the sex my parents apparently had around late March.

I am the G.I. Joe with Kung Fu grip

Horrible music no one wants to remember.

I'm the 8 track in my mother's car with this on constant loop.

I'm the towering inferno, earthquake, and airport 1975, I kept all of you bitches on the edges of your movie seats...

I'm August 9, a great day for the U.S.

I am Princess Anne's failed kidnapping plot.

I'm the tear-stained copy of The Front Runner being surreptiously read by queens all over the country (and soon to be read by straights too, once I hit mass market paperback that they can sneak at the drugstore).

I’m Planet of the Apes, the TV show.

I'm the complete collapse of Mama Cass's heart as it gave out in her sleep

I'm the presidential pardon that President Ford bestowed on disgraced ex-president Nixon

I'm a streaker.

I am Gary, and I told her to do it.

I'm the Playgirl centerfold that always appears on these 70s let's be threads. I am ginger.

A new way bitches!

I’m Love. I’ll Keep Us Together..

I’m the end of The Brady Bunch amd Patridge Family. Friday nights were never the same.

[quote]Horrible music no one wants to remember.

I mostly listened to my Kinks and Beach Boys records from the '60s during 1974.

The most famous moment from The New Zoo Revue:

I’m top model Lois Chiles, stinkin’ up the big screen as Daisy’s bff Jordan Baker in THE GREAT GATSBY.

Hollywood is under the mistaken impression I’m the next big thing.

I’ll prove ‘em wrong.

I'm the long national nightmare, which was suddenly over.

I am a great nickel bag of weed that only cost five dollars. Patchouli incense will be burned afterward, to mask the smell.

I’m the 46th Annual Academy Awards, LIVE and in LIVING COLOR!

Opening number by Lisha, natch.

R35, I bought you a half block away from Washington Square.

Oh Lord! Do we have the strength to pull off this mighty task in one night...or are we just jerking off?

[quote]I’m Love. I’ll Keep Us Together..

Then you were already a year old and need to wait aanother year to do so in a big way.

I'm me: born on New Years Day at 1:11am at Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Il.

I’m the sappt melodramatic songs that are the rage this year:

Seasons in the Sun

The Night Chicago Died

Billy Don’t Be a Hero

Having My Baby

Then the next year, this became the crowning glory of my genre g

Sappy

I'm "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand, the #1 best selling single of 1974.

"When harm is done no love can be won"

I was being born

"Forget it, Jake, it's me...

Hola. I’m Amparo Muñoz. Before the year is done, I will be tossing my crown out the window in a rage against my oppression, to continue my acting career, sometimes in nudies, and an almost lifelong love affair with heroine. My Welsh first runner-up is too busy getting stripped of the Miss World title she went to win, because it’s been found she’s an unwed mother, a loophole she fought but lost to the pageant that only required she wasn’t married but said nothing about babies. So my reign went void for about half a year and my successor was crowned from a pillow.

I will go on to die of a rare brain condition after a decades old half decent acting career, doubtlessly a result of my chain smoking and long time drug use.

I'm your sister AND your mother.

I'm Robert Redford who was impossibly handsome in The Way We Were.

R49 I'll drink to that!

I’m puberty and first sexual experience - with my cousin no less - all happening by Christmas time.

I'm Schoolhouse Rock, and my "Interjections" came out this year to help children learn their grammar while they watch their Saturday morning cartoons. A few others came out last year, and more will come out in subsequent years.

He was Hubbell in 73, Gatsby in 74.

OOOH, R49, THANK YOU!

I may have to watch it tonight, even if (Heresy!) I hate his co-star.

I'm me, helping my friend Peter change a flat tire on Reno Road in DC while Nixon announces his resignation on the radio.

I’m is, getting cancelled just when we’ve developed hot asses and curly hair.

Us.

Guess who’s back in New York?

I’m dyn o mite

I'm "Good Times," a revolutionary comedy show about a Black family living in a Chicago project. I'll star the very girthy John Amos, who'll make mouths drool for many young questioning men.

Oh, hi r59.

I am Richard Nixon, and I am going to resign, because I am the worst president ever!

I’m disco, officially starting this Thanksgiving with Carol Douglas and Gloria Gaynor.

I'm Martha Mitchell blabbing to David Frost on the BBC.

I want my year back.

I’m Ruta Lee’s leg on High Rollers.

We're parents of gay children, taking a mighty brave stance as we march in 1974's New York gay parade.

I’m Turkish Airlines Flight 981, which crashed outside Paris killing all 346 people on board. I am the first of many deadly DC-10 cargo door incidents, and the deadliest plane crash so far, until two planes collide in Tenerife three years later.

I am the first tragic September 11, marked by a plane crash in Charlotte, NC. 76 people died, three of them after surviving the crash.

I'm Lawrence D. Jones, shot dead while on strike in Harlan County, U.S.A..

I am one of two ever EGOT + Pulitzer Pruze winners in history. I will win three Oscars (one of only 10 people to do so) this year, all for The Way We Were.

What I did for love.

I’m the Fortune Queen of New Orleans

I am Diane, Live at Caesar’s Palace

We're the sad people clapping, and the bizarre "victory" goodbye wave.

I am oblivious Australian frauen, not understanding why this lovely couple who gets along so well is getting a divorce!

I'm Jan Miner, aka Madge the Palmolive shill, playing Sally Marr, Lenny Bruce's mom in Bob Fosse's "Lenny". Soak me up on the big screen, bitches.

I'm Robert Opel.

I'm August 9, the day Noxon resigned. I'm also the day a certain young gayling wiped out roller skating around the ping-pong table in the garage causing a snapped-in -two wrist, shrieks from a sister, a temporary newspaper cast and a painful trip to the ER.

I'm the best film of 1974 that no one ever saw. But 40 years later, I will be the inspiration for Edgar Wright, Daft Punk and Guillermo del toro

I'm the plane crash near a secret government facility at Upperville, Virginia where the military interfere with rescuers.

I'm me born on the first day of the seventh month of the year at Illinois Masonic Hospital

I'm Mego Toy Corp. and I rule the toy market, especially with my Planet of the Apes line.

Even Chastity Bono loves me and she said so on her mommy's tv show.

However, my highly successful plastic version Chastity's mommy won't come along for another two years.

I'm John Denver, whose rare talent managed to make hit songs based on the state of [italic]Colorado[/italic].

I'm the brand new 1974 AMC Hornet Sportabout my mother bought.

Love the color, r85.

Actually, hers was a darker shade of green. More like a pine green. That pic is from the 1974 AMC brochure. My first brochure.

Anyway, accompanying her to buy this car led to my fascination with new cars.

Every year, for well into the 1990s, I would go around and gather all the new car brochures from all the car brands.

I'm the two different Playgirl centerfolds stashed behind the bench seat of Grandpa's pickup truck.

I'm also the just-turned-10 grandson who found them. But I never told anyone. And he never knew that I knew.

I found lots of reasons to sneak off to the truck after that.

I am this beauty. My owner has just graduated from college and buys me as his first new car.

Stinky linky

Good one, R79. Phantom of the Paradise was a fantastic movie. My brother and I went to see it several times at the theater in our town, which was an old theater converted to a movie theater. We watched it from the box seats on the side. I remember being haunted by Jessica Harper singing Old Souls. Great movie, great soundtrack, great memories.

I’m sneakin’ Sally through the alley!

r90 Alas, the page you requested was not found.

I’m the last time anyone saw the actual footage of me offing myself.

If one of you Sarasota residents had recorded my Suncoast Digest show that fateful day in 1974, you or your children could have made a killing (pun intended).

I am Joni Mitchell, and I can do no wrong.

I am minus four years old, collaborating on the story of my future life. The plot got boring around age 32 and so we’re shaking it up by inverting all the rules of reality, to begin around 2015.

^ So 1974 was about you? I didn't know.

I'm Partridge Family 2200 AD

We're gay people explaining why we're marching for gay rights in the film "A Very Natural Thing."

I'm the movie poster for the above-mentioned picture.

I'm the Odessa File, one of the better movies of 1974, which a rather poor year in what was a great decade for American movies.

I'm this boring shitfest that my father made me sit through. How many fucking 10 year olds in 1974 were interested in the "golden age" of Hollywood?

R103, I get the feeling that the majority of posters on here would have been interested in the 'golden age' of Hollywood at ten years old

I still can't talk about 1974.....

I’m Glenda Jackson unexpected second Oscar that thought I was going to be Ellen Burstyn's

[quote] I’m Love. I’ll Keep Us Together..

Only Neil Sedaka's original version was recorded in 1974. Captain & Tennille's 1975 version was the hit, a massive one and we all loved it.

I graduated from High School.

[quote]Only Neil Sedaka's original version was recorded in 1974. Captain & Tennille's 1975 version was the hit, a massive one and we all loved it.

Already addressed, and much more accurately than you did. Sedaka wrote and recorded his version in 1973.

[quote]Only Neil Sedaka's original version was recorded in 1974.

No , it was recorded and released in '73 on this album.

Another record that was on constant loop in my mother's car...in '73. (I remember it because my parents were getting divorced and a bunch of other horrid things were going on).

we cross posted R109

[quote] The READ THE GODDAMN THREAD Troll

For God's sake this is a light hearted nostalgia thread. Don't be so fucking agggressive,

I prefer Neil's version.

I don't like his voice as much, r112, but the instrumentation is better.

Captain & Tennille sucked, but I still prefer their hit version, their only good song. They crashed and burned so fast, still superstars in 1979 and total has-beens by 1980.

[quote]but the instrumentation is better.

It was produced in England, by 10CC - before they'd had their own really big success.

I'm playing football and wrestling in High School while finding time to have my cock sucked at Livingston Mall and cruising South Mountain Reservation.

[quote]Captain & Tennille sucked, but I still prefer their hit version,

Probably because that's the one you know and remember best. I knew Neil's before, so I prefer his version.

Are you a NJB, r116?

I'm me and I've never heard this before.

I love the one lone YT comment

[quote]Those kids are terrible.

I'm Mike Douglas, and among my guests today are Gene Simmons from Kiss, and comedienne Totie Fields. Lack of political correctness permits Totie to say to Gene at 2:16 "I know [that you're Jewish] - you can't hide the hook!"

I'm the sun and I'm going down.

I'm Stephen King's first novel Carrie.

I'm Bjorn Borg, and I'll reach the top ranking for the first time in 1974. Chicks dig me, as do young gay men.

I’m Patty Hearst, and wow did my new friends and I make the news. Mummy and Pater were *not* amused.

My first number one hit! “I Honestly Love You”

I'm a Ford Pinto. Boom!

This very nice Southern governor came to my house and said he's running for President. Jimmy something...Jimmy....Carson I think it was.

I’m the greatest line up of Best Actor nominees ever.

R128, a lineup that excluded Gene Hackman’s great performance in The Conversation.

I'm the 'smoking gun' Watergate tape released on August 5. I prove that Nixon ordered the FBI to abandon its Watergate investigation.

I'm Salem and I'm refreshing.

I'm Kojak's lollipop.

We're not very good live.

I'm a kid, hoping my mother was working that night and my father would fall asleep on the couch after dinner so I could watch me some Benny Hill.

R128 And Martin Sheen in Badlands

I'm tight-jeans wearing first sons Mike, Steve, and Jack Ford, welcome eye candy to millions of gay boys after 11 years of homely Johnson and bland Nixon daughters

I was born in 1974 on my Mom's 27th birthday.

I graduated from high school in 1974.

I'm Sean Connery's braid in Zardos.

I'm the queen who designed this outfit.

Clearly, Steven tucked it to the right side.

We're the San Diego Rugby team.

I'm the KILLER queen

I am an asshole, my friend.

I saw Bob Dylan and The Band at Boston Garden.

I'm the Sony Betamax ad and the JVS VHS ad.

[quote]R103 I'm this boring shitfest that my father made me sit through. How many fucking 10 year olds in 1974 were interested in the "golden age" of Hollywood?

Your dad was TRYING to tell you he was gay...

It's 1974.

And God will get you for that.

I'm crying for Mama Cass

For years, I thought the title of this song was 'Truffle Child.' Hey, he was 'breaking like the waves at Malibu.' What's a truffle or two?

Play the whole album.

I’m this room

I'm Chrissie and Jimmy's aborted child.....

It was an abortion, Michael!

I was a shameless homewrecking hussy, but in 1974 I met my match.

I'm a summer breeze and I'll make you feel fine.

I'm these (on the right)

I'm the Schaefer Music Festival at Central Park. Tickets still available, either $1.50 seats, or $2.50!

You take me away, r156 (if you can bear the slight anachronism).

I'm OVER HERE! the Broadway musical which would become just as notable for featuring those performers on their way up the ladder (John Travolta, Treat Williams, Marilu Henner, and Ann Reinking) as well as those on their way down (Patty and Maxene Andrews)

I'm 1974 - one of the most boring years of the 70s - hence this flop thread.

I'm 1975 about to end Helen's career.

Sarah Paulson was born. Huzzah !

I’m the “Tennis Look”, worn by suburban women from Scarsdale to Shaker Heights to Burlingame. Tennis skirts, v-neck sweaters and even terry wristbands are perfect for trips to the market or picking the kids up from the swim club in the Ford Country Squire. I don’t play tennis and have no plans to.

My name is Janis Ian. I spend weekends wallowing in self pity crafting the lyrics to my soon to be released mega-hit “At seventeen.” I am the forerunner of Lens Dunham. I wish I had access to the not yet coined vocabulary of Fibro and spoons. I desperately need to share my pain.

I'm the beginning of the take over of the mid to late 70s

R165 I remember that!

All my mother's friends would wear those awful socks with the little pom poms on them. I never saw any of them on the tennis court, but I do remember they'd have on their little outfits when I saw them at the local Safeway, pushing a shopping cart and puffing on a cigarette

It was the equivalent of today’s yoga pants.

I'm the gas crisis, which finally ends mid-year.

I spent many hours in the hot Indiana sun in 1974 while my parents played tennis. They'd bring us to the racquet club and we'd have to amuse our ourselves and drink soda from the vending machines without getting into trouble. I was 8 and sometimes I'd head into the locker room to see if any grown up men were taking a shower.

I'm a streaker. I was arrested for indecent exposure, but released due to insufficient evidence.

I'm Miss Sane. I teach second grade at Elkridge Elementary School. I have beautiful shiny brown hair down to my waist. I like to wear high waisted bell bottoms and blouses with large pointy collars and pleated shoulders under fitted sweater vests with platform shoes. Even though I am very pretty and shower and wear perfume every day, the kids tell their parents I smell like pee. (After all, their heads are at crotch level with me).

R173 - you nailed it.

I'm the cover of this early disco smash, poking fun at the recently departed president

I am the sixth printing of the DSM-II. I have a diagnosis for the you gay "Let's be" OCD dorks.

I'm the dog. Shoot me!

I'm this French freak.

I'm New York when it was cool and edgy.

Remember when people kept rats as pets, or when that was popular? Around 1974, I think.

[quote]Remember when people kept rats as pets, or when that was popular?

No, and never.

I'm new daytime soap opera "How to Survive a Marriage," starring Rosemary Prinz as Dr. Julie Franklin.

You don't need a man to make you happy! .. Oh wait, you do!

I'm the key party. Not one of these married couples will still be together in four years. One of the wives will be murdered by her jealous husband. But on the positive side this will allow each of the women an opportunity to finally have an orgasm when they are required to do lesbian shows to turn on the drunk boys.

As 1974 seems to be the year of choice right now, I thought to bump this.

Interesting & fun fact: Actually 1978 was the most popular of the "Let's be 1970s" thread as it maxed out to 600 posts.

I am Bob Dylan with The Band on my first tour since 1966.