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the most popular movie of the 70s grease 

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the most popular movie of the 70s grease 

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1, Sandy was supposed to be American, but the actress couldn’t do the accent
2, Avalon had a huge fear of heights so the “beauty school drop-out” song almost didn’t happen
3, It had a budget of 6 million ($43,476,494.85 today) and made over 400 million ($2,898,432,989.69 today)

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"We'll always be together. Wha oooh, yeah!"

1. Grease started off as a musical in 1971. It was created by an advertising copywriter named Jim Jacobs and a high school art teacher named Warren Casey. It was adapted into a film in 1978.

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2. The title, Grease, was a way for the creators to pay homage to the 1950s and the era's "greasy hair, greasy engines, and greasy food."

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3. Happy Days star Henry Winkler was originally offered the role of Danny Zuko, but he turned it down out of fear of being typecast.

4. Randal Kleiser, the film's director, had several people in mind for the role of Sandy Olsson including Carrie Fisher, Susan Dey, Deborah Raffin, and Marie Osmond. Marie was the frontrunner until she objected to Sandy's "good girl to bad girl" transformation.

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5. Elvis Presley was initially offered the role of Teen Angel, but it was ultimately given to Frankie Avalon.

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6. The song "Beauty School Dropout" got its name after the writers for Grease saw a news report about a teenager who dropped out of beauty school and became a murderer.

22. Porn star Harry Reems was originally considered for the role of Coach Calhoun, but producers thought it might hurt the film's success. They ultimately replaced hime with Sid Caesar.

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25. "Hopelessly Devoted to You" was written AFTER they finished filming the movie. Olivia Newton-John's ballad was the only Grease song nominated for a 1979 Oscar. It was up for Best Original Song but lost to Donna Summer's "Last Dance."

26. Annette Charles (Cha Cha DiGregorio) suffered an ectopic pregnancy while filming Grease. After filming the drag-racing scene, she was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.

32. One of the original adaptation ideas was to make Grease an animated movie. It ultimately became a live-action film, so they decided to just make the opening credits animated instead.

33. Grease became the highest grossing film in 1978. Its soundtrack was the second best-selling album of the year, behind Saturday Night Fever, which also starred John Travolta.

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33 Facts About "Grease" That Might Just Blow Your Mind

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"We'll always be together. Wha oooh, yeah!" 3. Happy Days star Henry Winkler was originally offered the role of Danny Zuko, but he turned it down out of fear of being typecast. 4. Randal Kleiser, the film's director, had several people in mind for the role of Sandy Olsson including Carrie Fisher, Susan Dey, Deborah Raffin, and Marie Osmond.

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1, a Japanese based car
2, allegedly one of the ugliest cars of the 70s
3, rusted quickly

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Author Alot Auto Team Last Updated: August 06, 2019

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Roll down the windows and get ready for a drive down memory lane! Here are the 30 cars that defined the 1970s!

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1, he was color blind
2, Known as the Capitan America of football
3, He served in the Vietnam war

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The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Roger Staubach is a former NFL football player. He was born on February 5, 1942.

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1, chosen under the 25th amendment
2, before he was house minority leader
3, he used to be a lieutenant commander in the navy

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When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974 as our 38th President, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances...This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts."

When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts."

It was indeed an unprecedented time. He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign.

Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks. There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace.

The President acted to curb the trend toward Government intervention and spending as a means of solving the problems of American society and the economy. In the long run, he believed, this shift would bring a better life for all Americans.

Ford's reputation for integrity and openness had made him popular during his 25 years in Congress. From 1965 to 1973, he was House Minority Leader. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1913, he grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He starred on the University of Michigan football team, then went to Yale, where he served as assistant coach while earning his law degree. During World War II he attained the rank of lieutenant commander in the Navy. After the war he returned to Grand Rapids, where he began the practice of law, and entered Republican politics. A few weeks before his election to Congress in 1948, he married Elizabeth Bloomer. They have four children: Michael, John, Steven, and Susan.

As President, Ford tried to calm earlier controversies by granting former President Nixon a full pardon. His nominee for Vice President, former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, was the second person to fill that office by appointment. Gradually, Ford selected a cabinet of his own.

Ford established his policies during his first year in office, despite opposition from a heavily Democratic Congress. His first goal was to curb inflation. Then, when recession became the Nation's most serious domestic problem, he shifted to measures aimed at stimulating the economy. But, still fearing inflation, Ford vetoed a number of non-military appropriations bills that would have further increased the already heavy budgetary deficit. During his first 14 months as President he vetoed 39 measures. His vetoes were usually sustained.

Ford continued as he had in his Congressional days to view himself as "a moderate in domestic affairs, a conservative in fiscal affairs, and a dyed-in-the-wool internationalist in foreign affairs." A major goal was to help business operate more freely by reducing taxes upon it and easing the controls exercised by regulatory agencies. "We...declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers," he said.

In foreign affairs Ford acted vigorously to maintain U. S. power and prestige after the collapse of Cambodia and South Viet Nam. Preventing a new war in the Middle East remained a major objective; by providing aid to both Israel and Egypt, the Ford Administration helped persuade the two countries to accept an interim truce agreement. Detente with the Soviet Union continued. President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev set new limitations upon nuclear weapons.

President Ford won the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1976, but lost the election to his Democratic opponent, former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia.

On Inauguration Day, President Carter began his speech: "For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land." A grateful people concurred.
The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from "The Presidents of the United States of America," by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.
For more information about President Ford, please visit
Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum

Learn more about Gerald R. Ford 's spouse, Elizabeth Bloomer Ford.

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1, Florence Henderson had to wear a wig during the first season
2, The producer came up with the idea from a newspaper statistic
3, Susan Olson’s (Cindy) lisp was real

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Here's the story of a lovely lady and a fellow raising six kids under one roof. Sounds like a simple enough plot, right? But behind all the wholesome fun, relatable characters and valuable lessons, The Brady Bunch was actually a pretty complex show during its production.

When The Brady Bunch debuted nearly half a century ago, no one would have predicted the success it's achieved since. Part of it is due to creator Sherwood Schwartz's meticulous planning, but we have to give credit to the skilled cast as well. What makes The Brady Bunch truly successful, however, is that the stories and the lessons in every episode remain relevant to this day.

We have a hunch you'll be surprised by these twelve facts about The Brady Bunch. And, no, we didn't forget about Tiger.

1. The kids' hair had to match their parents.

Casting nine characters is a daunting challenge, but creator Sherwood Schwartz was sure of one thing: The kids' locks had to match the hair of the birth parents. Before he cast Robert Reed and Florence Henderson as Mike and Carol, Schwartz had 12 children on reserve, three blonde girls, three brunette boys, three brunette girls and three blond boys. When the parents were cast, the kids whose hair didn't match the parent were dropped.

2. Susan Olsen wasn't blonde enough.

Although Susan Olsen, a.k.a. Cindy Brady, was a blonde in real life, she wasn't blonde enough for producers. To get the perfect complexion, Olsen's hair was bleached regularly. The routine came to a stop when the child's hair started falling out during season two.

3. Gene Hackman was supposed to be Mike Brady.

Originally, Hackman was tapped to play Mike Brady. When the network caught wind of the casting, they rejected the then-unknown actor and cast Robert Reed instead, who was already under contract with the studio and had some name recognition. We think this worked out all right for Hackman's career, anyways.

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4. Marcia really took a football to the face.

When Christopher Knight couldn't throw the football at the target, producer Lloyd Schwartz said he stepped in and threw a perfect spiral right at Maureen McCormick's nose.

5. Henderson wore a wig during the first season.

Who knew hair was so important during the first season of The Brady Bunch? Henderson wore a wig during the first season because her hair had been cropped short to appear in the off-Broadway revival of South Pacific.

6. Poor Tiger.

It's always been a running joke about how Tiger disappeared from the series not long after it started. However, the story is a little more tragic than funny. While filming the episode "Katchoo," Tiger's trainer let the pooch out for exercise. Tragically, a driver accidentally struck and killed the dog.

With more scenes to film, the trainer franctically went to find another dog that resembled Tiger. The new "Tiger" wasn't a very good actor, so producers decided to ditch the dog altogether.

7. It was never a huge ratings hit.

Despite its popularity today, The Brady Bunch wasn't a ratings hit when it premiered in 1969. In fact, the show never broke the Top 30 in the Nielson ratings. The highest it ever ranked was No. 34.

8. Schwartz used a clever technique to audition the children.

Having created a few television shows before The Brady Bunch, Schwartz knew a thing or two about casting. When holding auditions for the roles of the children, Schwartz put toys on his desk as a distraction. The kids who didn't glance at the toys and stayed focused during the audition were the ones he figured had the stamina to work on a television show.

9. The bathroom doesn't have a toilet.

That's right - six kids, one bathroom, no toilet. The network was uneasy about having a toilet on camera, despite the fact Mike and Carol shared a bed.

10. The back door doesn't have glass.

In order to keep light from reflecting off the glass, the producers removed the glass from the door. Every time you see Alice open the door to call the kids in for dinner, she's really doing more work than she has to.

11. Henderson had a run-in with 'Star Trek.'

When Henderson arrived late to do her screen test, she couldn't find anyone to do her makeup. Ultimately, she stumbled upon a makeup room for Star Trek, which briefly shared a studio space with The Brady Bunch. Henderson said she sat in a make-up chair between William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, both of whom ignored her.

12. The kids don't always sing the theme song

When you think of the theme song, you think of the kids belting out the tune. But initially, a group named the Peppermint Trolley Company recorded the opening theme. Before that, the pop band appeared on Mannix and The Beverly Hillbillies.

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You'll never watch 'The Brady Bunch' the same way again after reading these 12 facts

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Here's the story of a lovely lady and a fellow raising six kids under one roof. Sounds like a simple enough plot, right? But behind all the wholesome fun, relatable characters and valuable lessons, The Brady Bunch was actually a pretty complex show during its production.

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Watergate scandal aka the biggest event of the 70s 

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1, Five men broke into the national democratic committee headquarters
2, stole over 3.500 dollars in cash and thousands of dollars of high-end surveillance and technology
3, In today’s money that would be $23,541,10 plus the equipment that’s at least 50,000

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Table of Contents

1. The Watergate Break-In

2. Nixon's Obstruction of Justice

3. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Investigate

4. The Saturday Night Massacre

5. Nixon Resigns

The Watergate scandal began early in the morning of June 17, 1972, when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign, and they had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents. Nixon took aggressive steps to cover up the crimes, but when Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein revealed his role in the conspiracy, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. The Watergate scandal changed American politics forever, leading many Americans to question their leaders and think more critically about the presidency.

The Watergate Break-In

The origins of the Watergate break-in lay in the hostile political climate of the time. By 1972, when Republican President Richard M. Nixon was running for reelection, the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War, and the country was deeply divided.

A forceful presidential campaign therefore seemed essential to the president and some of his key advisers. Their aggressive tactics included what turned out to be illegal espionage. In May 1972, as evidence would later show, members of Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (known derisively as CREEP) broke into the Democratic National Committee's Watergate headquarters, stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office's phones.

Did you know? Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein deserve a great deal of the credit for uncovering the details of the Watergate scandal. Their reporting won them a Pulitzer Prize and was the basis for their best-selling book "All the President's Men." Much of their information came from an anonymous whistleblower they called Deep Throat, who in 2005 was revealed to be W. Mark Felt, a former associate director of the FBI.

The wiretaps failed to work properly, however, so on June 17 a group of five burglars returned to the Watergate building. As the prowlers were preparing to break into the office with a new microphone, a security guard noticed someone had taped over several of the building's door locks. The guard called the police, who arrived just in time to catch them red-handed.

It was not immediately clear that the burglars were connected to the president, though suspicions were raised when detectives found copies of the reelection committee's White House phone number among the burglars' belongings.

In August, Nixon gave a speech in which he swore that his White House staff was not involved in the break-in. Most voters believed him, and in November 1972 the president was reelected in a landslide victory.

Nixon's Obstruction of Justice

It later came to light that Nixon was not being truthful. A few days after the break-in, for instance, he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in "hush money" to the burglars.

Then, Nixon and his aides hatched a plan to instruct the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to impede the FBI 's investigation of the crime. This was a more serious crime than the break-in: It was an abuse of presidential power and a deliberate obstruction of justice.

Meanwhile, seven conspirators were indicted on charges related to the Watergate affair. At the urging of Nixon's aides, five pleaded guilty to avoid trial; the other two were convicted in January 1973.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Investigate

By that time, a growing handful of people-including Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, trial judge John J. Sirica and members of a Senate investigating committee-had begun to suspect that there was a larger scheme afoot. At the same time, some of the conspirators began to crack under the pressure of the cover-up. Anonymous whistleblower " Deep Throat " provided key information to Woodward and Bernstein.

A handful of Nixon's aides, including White House counsel John Dean, testified before a grand jury about the president's crimes; they also testified that Nixon had secretly taped every conversation that took place in the Oval Office. If prosecutors could get their hands on those tapes, they would have proof of the president's guilt.

Nixon struggled to protect the tapes during the summer and fall of 1973. His lawyers argued that the president's executive privilege allowed him to keep the tapes to himself, but Judge Sirica, the Senate committee and an independent special prosecutor named Archibald Cox were all determined to obtain them.

The Saturday Night Massacre

When Cox refused to stop demanding the tapes, Nixon ordered that he be fired, leading several Justice Department officials to resign in protest. (These events, which took place on October 20, 1973, are known as the Saturday Night Massacre.) Eventually, Nixon agreed to surrender some-but not all-of the tapes.

Early in 1974, the cover-up and efforts to impede the Watergate investigation began to unravel. On March 1, a grand jury appointed by a new special prosecutor indicted seven of Nixon's former aides on various charges related to the Watergate affair. The jury, unsure if they could indict a sitting president, called Nixon an "unindicted co-conspirator."

In July, the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to turn over the tapes. While the president dragged his feet, the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, criminal cover-up and several violations of the Constitution.

Nixon Resigns

Finally, on August 5, Nixon released the tapes, which provided undeniable evidence of his complicity in the Watergate crimes. In the face of almost certain impeachment by Congress, Nixon resigned in disgrace on August 8, and left office the following day.

Six weeks later, after Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president, he pardoned Nixon for any crimes he had committed while in office. Some of Nixon's aides were not so lucky: They were convicted of very serious offenses and sent to federal prison. Nixon's Attorney General of the United States John Mitchell served 19 months for his role in the scandal, while Watergate mastermind G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, served four and a half years. Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman spent 19 months in prison while John Ehrlichman spent 18 for attempting to cover up the break-in. Nixon himself never admitted to any criminal wrongdoing, though he did acknowledge using poor judgment.

His abuse of presidential power had a long-lasting effect on American political life, creating an atmosphere of cynicism and distrust. While many Americans had been deeply dismayed by the outcome of the Vietnam War, and saddened by the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and other leaders, Watergate added further disappointment to a national climate already soured by the difficulties and losses of the previous decade.

HISTORY Vault: Nixon: A Presidency Revealed

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The Watergate Scandal - Timeline, Summary & Deep Throat

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A June 1972 break-in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters led to an investigation that revealed multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration and a vote by the House Judiciary Committee for impeachment.

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1, She took dance lessons from the ages of three up
2, She used to be a professional go go dancer
3, She has won 4 awards 2 golden globes 2 academy awards

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Goldie Hawn, in full Goldie Jeanne Hawn, (born November 21, 1945, Washington, D.C., U.S.), American actress and producer who had a long career playing winsome, slightly ditzy women in numerous film comedies. Critics noted the endearing and effervescent quality of her performances, and she became a respected comic actress.

Hawn grew up in Maryland and took dance lessons from the age of three. After graduating from high school, she studied drama at American University and taught dance classes. She embarked on a career as a dancer, initially performing in chorus lines in summer stock theatre and as a go-go dancer in discotheques. After an agent spotted her in a chorus line in a 1967 television special, she was cast as the zany neighbour in the 1967-68 sitcom Good Morning, World. Hawn played a small part in the Disney film comedy The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) before her breakout role (1968-70) on the comedy variety TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

During her time on that show, Hawn also portrayed the free-spirited girlfriend of a dentist (played by Walter Matthau) in Cactus Flower (1969), the film adaptation of a popular stage comedy. While the movie itself drew mixed reviews, her performance was praised, and she won both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for best supporting actress. Hawn played similar parts in the comedy There's a Girl in My Soup (1970, opposite Peter Sellers) and the caper movie $ (1971, opposite Warren Beatty), and she costarred with Edward Albert in the 1972 film adaptation of the play Butterflies Are Free.

In 1975 Hawn shared top billing with Beatty and Julie Christie in the popular sex comedy Shampoo. She produced and starred in what was perhaps her best-known film, Private Benjamin (1980), for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress. Hawn's later movies included Swing Shift (1984), with Kurt Russell, who became her longtime companion; Bird on a Wire (1990), with Mel Gibson; Housesitter (1992), with Steve Martin; Robert Zemeckis's dark comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), with Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis; and The First Wives Club (1996), with Bette Midler and Diane Keaton. Hawn played a groupie in middle age in The Banger Sisters (2002), with Susan Sarandon, and, after a long hiatus, she portrayed the mother of Amy Schumer's character in Snatched (2017). In The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and its sequel (2020), Hawn and Russell appeared as Mrs. Claus and Santa Claus, respectively.

Several of Hawn's children became actors, most notably daughter Kate Hudson, whose father was Hawn's second husband, Bill Hudson.

Patricia Bauer The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Goldie Hawn | Biography, Movies, & Facts

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Goldie Hawn, American actress who had a long career playing winsome, slightly ditzy women in numerous comedies. Critics noted the endearing and effervescent quality of her performances, and she became a respected comic actress. Her notable films included Cactus Flower (1969) and Private Benjamin (1980).

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1, The first mobile phone cost $4000 which now is about $25,328.65 today
2, VCR was first released it cost 1400 which is now 10,144.52
3, Alen Shugart and a team of IBM engineers invented the first floppy disk
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7 Tech Advancements from the 70s That Changed the World

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Most of the technology we use today find their common ancestors from a product sold in the 1970s. So let’s look back at the 7 big tech advancements from the 1970s that completely changed the world

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1, led zeppelin's debut album cost $4300 to make and took 0ver 30 hours to make
2, David Bowie did not have heterochromia he had a permanently dilated eye
3, The doors band was friends with Alice cooper

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Funk and Soul Music

Funk music came out of the R&B, Jazz and Soul music of the late 1960s after artists added more beats and psychedelic tones to their songs. This genre saw the height of its popularity encompass the 1970s with artists like James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone and Kool and the Gang dominating the music charts. Funk was known for its danceable beats, strange costumes, outrageous personalities and often socially conscious lyrics. James Brown, "the hardest working man in show business", is often thought of as the creator of funk music and his 1967 album Cold Sweat is thought to feature some of the first main stream funk songs. Brown developed the funk sound into the 1970s and paved the way for many of the other popular funk groups like Sly and the Family Stone to make it big in the decade. Funk music was known to have no boundaries with psychedelic sounds coming from the likes of George Clinton and his ragtag gang of freaky musicians in Parliament to a more soulful and smooth yet funky sound coming from Rufus and Chaka Khan. In the middle of the seventies many artists, including James Brown and the group Earth, Wind and Fire, added some elements of the popular disco genre to their funk albums and saw even greater mass appeal.

**It is important to note that these were not the only popular genres during the decade. For example, Singers and Songwriters were quite popular in the 1970s as well, with artists like Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Elton John, Carole King and Billy Joel, sharing time in the spotlight too. Their music reflected deep themes with simpler musical arrangements and many of these artists had been prominant in the songwriting scene but relatively unknown as they were not often the face of their own music. The seventies more than any other decade gave them a chance to go solo and gain recognition.**

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1970s Music History including Seventies Styles, Bands And Artists

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Popular Music from the 1970s, Genres including Disco/Club, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock/New Wave, Funk & Soul and top songs and artists from each year

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1, Introduced by Luis Marx and co. from Pennsylvania
2 , The first African American baby alive doll was made in 1970
3, Stan Weston made the first action figure but he sold it to Hasbro at a toy fair

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In a 1973 letter to a colleague, then-ambassador to India Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote "That's it. Nothing will happen. But then nothing much is going to happen in the 1970s anyway." And for a time that prediction seemed to ring true. Smashed between the white-hot 1960s and the "greed is good" attitude of the materialistic 1980s, the 1970s seem, at best, a troubled decade, primarily defined by the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

While it remains true that the '70s are often overlooked and undervalued, the decade did have several long-lasting, decidedly negative effects on American culture. First, before the decade every class, culture, and industry was an upwardly mobile one. Since the close of the '70s, this no longer is true. Second, American culture, as a whole, is much more individualistic and far less communitarian than it was before the decade. According to American Heritage, this makes notions our culture used to take for granted, like deferred gratification, sacrifice, and sustained national effort a "hard sell."

But not everything that came out of the '70s was bad. The decade had its fair share of positive moments. For example, Apple Computers was founded in 1976, "Star Wars" premiered in 1977, and Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Also, toy companies seriously stepped up their game, producing some truly iconic playthings throughout the decade, and revolutionizing the industry. In this article, Stacker used historical and retail websites to compile a list of 30 toys popular in the United States in the 1970s, many of which remain popular today. From Stretch Armstrong to Pet Rocks to an updated Easy-Bake Oven, click through the list and take a trip down memory lane to recall some highlights of the often-overlooked '70s.
You may also like: Scientific breakthroughs from the year you were born

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1, bell-bottoms were originally worn by sailors
2, neck scarves/ headscarves originate in Egypt, were worn by queen Nefertiti
3, gogo boots' names come from the French expression à gogo meaning in abundance glamor

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The 1970s. A to the max time when hippies ran rampant, disco ruled the clubs, no array of colors were ignored when it came to looking fab and shirt collars were the size of Dumbo's ears. With so many amazing fashion choices to digest, it's only appropriate that we get the skinny on the trends that made the decade so memorable.

Can you did it?

1. Bellbottoms

Bellbottoms were like the clothing mullet before the mullet was really a thing. These pants that looked business up top yet screamed party down low were a staple for 70's fashion goers everywhere.

2. Platforms

Wanting to be taller is a common wish among people. High heels have done an amazing job of this for centuries, but then platforms hit the masses in the 70s and women fell in love with a new form of heightened shoe. The look even made a spicy return in the 90s ... If you catch my zig-a-zig-ah drift.

3. High-waisted jeans

Apparently, fashionistas were trying to reinvent pants in the 70s as high-waisted jeans, in addition to bellbottoms, swept across the fashion industry. Say hello butt and good-bye bellybutton.

4. Tie-dye

The 70s were experimental to say the least and that extended into all aspects of trends, especially fashion. Plain shirts were so drab, so adding every color in the spectrum in unique cotton candy-like swirls, aka tie-dye, became all the rage for hippies everywhere. Plus, it looked pretty stellar under black light.

5. Feathered hair

Might as well just called this the Farrah Fawcett 'do. This lusciously feathered and perfectly primped hairstyle added density and flowiness (we're making it a word) to many a hairdo in the 1970s. By the 80s it became all about the hairspray.

6. The afro

If the Farrah Fawcett look wasn't your bag, baby, then the afro was just as big ... literally, emitting a sense of confidence and swagger behind your strut.

7. Corduroy

Maybe it was the fine thin lines or maybe it was soft suede-like feel, but corduroy was very, very popular in everything from pants to jackets to hats and more.

8. Circular sunglasses

Made most infamous in the 70s by the late John Lennon, circular sunglasses gave wearers an added sense of style meets sophistication.

9. Military/safari look

Maybe it was a result of watching U.S. troops fighting overseas in Vietnam, but there was a strong military trend (and surplus) that swept the decade as people donned khaki and olive green rucksack bags, fatigue-inspired jackets, belts, boots and more.

10. Ethnic/folk look

Similar in some ways to the hippie vibe, this look featured bright prints and patterns but focused more on cultural designs including strong nods to Native American features and European folk - dresses, ponchos, and embroidered patterns

11. Underground punk

Black leather jackets, hair that don't care and studs all became a trend for punk enthusiasts, so much so that the fashion started to spill over into popular culture in the mid to late 70s.

12. Hot pants

Talk about risqué for the time. Hot pants were anything but pants. These women short shorts were the center of so many heated societal debates that they earned the name hot pants.

13. Chevron

Patterns come and go, and some will always be - looking at you flannel. But in the 70s, chevron made itself known as the next big pattern - one that has recently seen a big reemergence.

14. Large, floppy collars

Men and women in the 70s were big proponents of tight fitting shirts with abnormally large (and often pointy) collars. Seriously, collars in the 70s were nearly twice the size of today's standard collars. Saturday night fever must have been contagious because the more chest/neck that men showed with these excessive collars ... the better (and usually christened with a medallion necklace).

15. Puka shell & love beads

Of course, clothing wasn't the only mentionable fashion of the 70s. Men and women had a fair share of jewelry to accessorize with and puka shells, love beads and mood rings led the charge.

Yep, the 1970s sure had quite the range of unique fashion statements. So unique that nothing could ever top them right? Oh, hello 80s ...

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The 1970s. A to the max time when hippies ran rampant, disco ruled the clubs, no array of colors were ignored when it came to looking fab and shirt collars were the size of Dumbo's ears.