Fun Stuff

               

     1971 Top Television Shows:

  • ABC Movie of the Week 

  • Adam 12

  • All in the Family

  • The Flip Wilson Show

  • Funny Face

  • Gunsmoke 

  • Mannix

  • Marcus Welby M.D.

  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show

  • Sanford & Son

 

1971 Academy Awards:

Best Actor : Gene Hackman.

       Movie "THE FRENCH CONNECTION".

Best Actress : Jane Fonda.

       Movie "KLUTE".

Best Picture : "THE FRENCH CONNECTION".

Best Song : "THEME FROM SHAFT" by: Isaac Hayes.

       From "SHAFT".

                                 

                                                                             

                                              

1971 Grammy Awards

 

Album of the Year   Tapestry, Carole King 

Song of the Year   "You've Got a Friend," Carole King, songwriter

Best New Artist of the Year   Carly Simon

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male   "You've Got a Friend," James Taylor

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female   Tapestry, Carole King

Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Group   Carpenters, Carpenters

Best Rhythm and Blues Song "Ain't No Sunshine,"   Bill Withers

Best R & B Performance By a Group  "Proud Mary," Ike and Tina Turner

Best Country Song  "Help Me Make It Through the Night,"   Kris Kristofferson, 

Best Instrumental Composition  "Theme From Summer of '42,"  Michel Legrand,  

Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album    Godspell, Stephen Schwartz

Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture    Shaft, Isaac Hayes, composer

Best Comedy Recording   This Is a Recording,  Lily Tomlin 

Best Recording for Children   Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs

 

 

    1971 Prices

  • Bread:   $0.25/loaf

  • Milk:   $1.32/gal

  • Eggs:   $1.18/doz

  • Car:   $3,742

  • Gas:   $0.36/gal

  • House:   $28,300

  • Stamp:   $0.06   ($0.08 as of 5/16/71)

  • Minimum Wage:   $1.60/hr 

           

         

U.S. Statistics for 1971


  President:   Richard M. Nixon

  Vice President:   Spiro T. Agnew
  Population:   207,660,677

       (1999 Population:   272,878,000)

  Life expectancy:   71.1 years

       (1998 Life expectancy:   76.7 years)  

  Average Income:   $11,583 year   

  Dow Average:  890 

 

                  

Some of the artists of the '60s & '70s are revising their hits with new lyrics 

to accommodate aging baby boomers.  They include:

               

Hermann's Hermits

 Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker

The Bee Gees

 How Can You Mend a Broken Hip

Bobby Darin

 Splish, Splash, I Was Having' a Flash

Ringo Starr

 I Get By With a Little Help from Depends

Roberta Flack

 The First Time Ever I Forgot  Your Face

Johnny Nash

 I Can't See Clearly Now

Paul Simon

 Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver

Commodores

 Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom

Marvin Gaye

 I Heard it Through the GrapeNuts

Procol Harem

 A Whiter Shade of Hair

Leo Sayer

 You Make Me Feel Like Napping

The Temptations

 Papa's Got a Kidney Stone

Abba

 Denture Queen

Tony Orlando

 Knock Three Times on the Ceiling if you  Hear Me Fall

       

Helen Reddy

 I am Woman, Hear me Snore

Willie Nelson

 On the Throne Again

Leslie Gore

 It's My Procedure and I'll Cry if I Want To

 

 

Then vs. Now:  

Then: Long hair.

Now:  Longing for hair.

                                   

Then: The perfect high.

Now:  The perfect high-yield mutual fund.

                                 

Then: Keg.

Now:  EKG.

                        

Then: Acid Rock.

Now:  Acid reflux.

                            

Then: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your parents.

Now:  Watching John Glenn's historic flight with your children.

                                

Then: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor.

Now:  Trying not to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor.

                                

Then: US president's struggle with Fidel.

Now:  US president's struggle with fidelity.

                            

Then: Paar.

Now: AARP.

Then: Killer weed.

Now: Weed killer.

                             

Then: Hoping for a BMW.

Now:  Hoping for a BM.

                             

Then: The Grateful Dead.

Now:  Dr. Kevorkian.

                          

Then: Getting out to a new, hip joint.

Now:  Getting a new hip joint.

                              

Then: Rolling Stones.

Now:  Kidney stones.

                             

Then: Being called into the principal's office.

Now:  Calling the principal's office.

                         

Then: Peace sign.

Now:  Mercedes logo.

                                

Then: Parents begging you to get your hair cut.

Now: Children begging you to get their heads shaved.

                            

Then: Passing the driver's test.

Now:  Passing the vision test.
 

     

        

 

    

 

 
The Year 1971:             

  • Twenty-sixth Amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18.

  • Cigarette advertisements banned on TV

  • Phyllis Ann George of Texas reigns as 43rd Miss America

  • 1st time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard)

  • Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden

  • Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China.

  • US Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered.

  • Intel introduces the microprocessor.

  • Jim Morrison dies in Paris.

  • Charles Manson and three codefendants found guilty of Sharon Tate murder

  • William L. Calley, Jr., found guilty of premeditated murder in My Lai massacre

  • Nixon orders 90-day freeze on wages and prices and announces other economic measures designed to curb domestic inflation and strength the U.S. balanceof payments position.

  • All in the Family debuts on CBS  featuring 1st toilet flush on TV

  • Last issue of "Look" magazine is published

  • Texas Stadium opens - Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21

  • Ed Sullivan's final TV show aired.

  • Disney World opens in Orlando

  • "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest 727 with $200,000

 

YOU KNOW YOU ARE GETTING OLDER WHEN.....

Your arms are too short to read the newspaper.

You stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do

      while you' re down there.

At the breakfast table you hear snap, crackle, pop and you're

      not eating cereal.

Your back goes out more than you do.

When you wake up looking like your driver's license picture.

It takes two tries to get up from the couch.

When your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.

When happy hour is a nap.

When you're on vacation and your ENERGY runs out before

      your money does.

When you say something to your kids that your mother said to

      you, and you always hated it.

When all you want for your birthday is to not be reminded of

      your age.

Your memory is shorter and your complaining lasts longer.

Your little black book contains only names ending in MD.

You talk about "good grass" and you re referring to someone' s

      lawn.

The pharmacist has become your new best friend.

The twinkle in your eye is merely a reflection from the sun on

      your bifocals.

It takes twice as long - to look half as good.

You look for your glasses for half an hour and they were on

      your head the whole time.