1977 and Social Media

It has come to my attention that not all times before I was born were evil. I believed up until a short time ago that the 80's were spawned from the devil. But in reality the 80's were spawned from 1977.

Annie came out as a stage musical in '77

1977 was filled with all kinds of changes. Firstly, my dad graduated from High school. Now Paul Chatfield graduating did not happen first really. But it is why I chose this year. If anyone is more knowledgeable about his own life than a history teacher who loves to know things, I'll chose his graduating year. but until then...
The first woman was ordained an Episcopal priest. The worlds first personal computer was demonstrated in Chicago. The largest woman conference since the turn of the century was held. And Meryl Streep debuted on the silver screen.

In reality it seems more happened  in social media than happened in any other category that year. Sure gas was less expensive than eggs that year and Carter was president. But how can these things compare to Star Wars Opening!?

Star Wars was going to make money even though it was considered a low budget film. People likes to go to the movies. Close Encounters of the third Kind also came out that year. People liked space movies. What Lucas didn't realize was that people would like a space movie with a campy western plot.

Other movies that I LOVE that came out that year.

Saturday night fever

Smokey and the bandit

The rescuers

The spy who loved me

Pete’s dragon

Original Fun with Dick and Jane movie

The many adventures of Winnie the pooh

Now Saturday Night Fever,the dance movie. The thing is music was doing some crazy stuff in the 70's, rather like the drugs people were on. The wealthy hated rock and the rockers hated pop rock. Rock was saturated into the public and the real rockers needed the 6 minute rock ballad to satisfy their artistic needs. These real rockers were called super groups. They were trained musicians who wanted art. So there was a great divide in '77 between the dancers and the rockers. Motown satisfied the dancers for a little but you really couldn't dance to it. So when the Bee Jee's strayed from their original sound and did disco the prayers of millions of dance starved people were answered! Stayin' Alive rocked the world from then on! And people started singing again!

But the world was not all music and movies. Television played a major role in peoples homes. M.A.S.H. a popular T.V. show still had been running for a while but the climate for veterans was pretty bad. WE had lost the recent war M.A.S.H was a nice relief of that tension as well as a way for the public to relate to the veterans.