Posts tagged with ‘1970s’

Foster Brooks on the Steve Allen Show

The undisputed King of the Drunks, Foster Brooks regularly appeared on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts in the 70’s.  As his “Lovable Lush” character, Brooks usually portrayed a conventioneer who had had a few too many drinks — not falling-down drunk, but inebriated enough that he would hilariously mix up his words.

His comedy routines as the lovable, but hilarious, drunk, were a testament to the art of comedy without the need for profanity or any other excessive blue humor.  Here, he appears on Steve Allen’s television show, where it’s clear that at least one of the other guests isn’t familiar with Brooks and his comedy stylings.

John Belushi’s 1975 Screen Test For ‘Saturday Night Live’

IHC After Dark: Donny and Marie cover Steely Dan. On Ice.

Oh 1970s, there was no depths to which you wouldn’t sink, were there?

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IHC After Dark movies: ‘The Driver’ (1978)

“The Driver” is a specialist in a rare business: he drives getaway cars in robberies. His exceptional talent prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police, a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises remission of punishment to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery

Saturday morning cartoons: 1970 Burger King ad

This animated Burger King ad from the 1970 stars a friendly mustachioed Whopper-slinging octopus.

IHC After Dark: Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii

The full director’s cut of Floyd’s famous concert from 1972. Something to give you some wacky dreams.

Afternoon music: Shirley Bassey “Light My Fire”

Doors cover songs seem to vary quite a lot… most musicians I’ve heard covering the Doors are trying too hard to imitate Jim Morrison in some way and miss the mark. But in 1970, Shirley Bassey did this classic her own damn way and nailed it. More or less.

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Morning music: Boney M. “Sunny”

Who says disco is dead?!

Perrier commercial from the 1970s shows how to do a slow, sensual handjob

I do this to all my beverages. They love it.

Ordering pizza with a computer from 1974

December 4, 1974: Donald Sherman, who lives with the neurological disorder Moebius Syndrome that results in impaired speech among other challenges, used a computer to order a pizza over the telephone. The system was developed by computer scientists Jerome (J.J.) Jackson and John Eulenberg, director of Michigan State University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Domino’s hung up on Sherman and the computer. Several tries later, Mr. Mike’s Pizza patiently took the order for a 16” pie with mushrooms, pepperoni, ham, and sausage, and this “high-tech sociolinguistic experiment,” as Eulenberg described it, was deemed a success.

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Star Wars immunization PSA from the late 70s

R2 worries about coming down with childhood diseases like ‘whooping cough’ (or Pertussis for you eggheads out there). Threepio, of all characters, calms him down then tells the ‘parents of Earth’ to make sure their kids are fully immunized.

HD stabilized video of the lunar rover from Apollo 16 in 1972

Using a HD transfer of the original Apollo 16 moon rover footage from 16mm film, it was cleaned up and stabilized. It’s almost like you’re right there, except with less real moon dust.

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Scary ass Alien action figure commercial from 1979

Damn that toy is scary.

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Daily Richard Feynman: “Take the World from Another Point of View”

From an interview on PBS NOVA from 1973.

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