What was you doing in 79?

[meyerlansky123]

I am sitting here listing to my birthday present from my mum. TOTP 1979. The year I was born. So thought I would ask what was going on in your life in that year?

A reminder of some of the things going on then.

Music wise. Madness first the Prince got to 16. Blondy’s Sunday girl, Dr Hook’s When you in love with a beautiful women and Antis Ward’s ring my bell all climb to No 1.

Films that came out that year Rock 2, Alien, Kramer V’s Kramer, The Amityville horror, Star trek the motion picture and the warriors.

TV Hits. In the UK Not the Nine O’clock news, manor born and Are you being Severed. In the USA They had Taxi, Happy days and Mork and Mindy.

News Wise. Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, (will any one admit to voting for her LOL). Sony introduces the Walkman. Soviets forces invade Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq. US embassy in Iran seized by “students”, and embassy staff held hostage. Not really news worthy but I was all so born LOL.

So what was you all up to in 79?

[Ponygirl]

I was still waiting to be conceived! My mum and dad were enjoying their last few years of freedom before I came along… 🙂

[jazzy]

Sadly being a bit older i remember the sixties with fond memories.
Can you spot ten No 1 hits:

I met this uptown girl that you don’t know one day by the banks of the rivers of babylon.
I said,i remember you when you were only sixteen.Think if i’d had a picture of you,my living doll,i’d say your the one that i want,before i run out of time,because you are everything to me and i wanna hold your hand,.

just for fun 😉

Jazzy:dry:

[PRH]

What was I doing back in 1979 eh??
Well,for starters – I was still in High School and was very active in the School Band as well as Marching Band! ( a drummer,of course )-( believe I was impressed with the female sex just as I am in 2008 ,only more so now ):laugh:
I believe The Captain & Tennile was rather popular as well as some other bands that are now sadly out of circulation! ( I have a collection as I do some mobil dj-ing around sometimes )
I seemed to make friends ok and sadly,some I lost contact with now because they either moved or simply passed on in life!
I know I always attended any concerts that I could! ( still like that stuff,but finding my tastes have changed as I get older )
Seems to cover things for now pretty well,but I did have afew girlfriends ( now they are either married or divorced with kids – life happens )
– interesting little thread here –
:dry:

[Mask Man N95]

I think I was pretty much watching The Electric Company on PBS. Hasdn’t picked democrat or republican yet.

[admin]

Mask Man N95 wrote:

I think I was pretty much watching The Electric Company on PBS. Hasdn’t picked democrat or republican yet.

Holy smokes I had completely forgotten the Electric Company until I read your reply just now. That was one of my favorites about that time too. I even had an album from the show with the songs.

🙂 PK

[Anna]

In ’79 I would have been out playing all day in the local park and having battles with the German kids.

We didn’t have TV. Well we did but it was all in German so I’d watch ‘Heidi‘ and ‘Mia the Bee‘ trying my best to understand what was going on.

We have BFBS radio but I don’t remember the BFBS TV until we moved to Berlin. Once there we had German, British, French and American TV to choose from. That’s where we discovered TV dinners, Pringles, a mind boggling range of ice cream flavours (from the PX) and Bullwinkle and Rocky…and Batfink…

I was multicultural at a very young age. :woohoo:

[Serena]

‘Mia the Bee’

Ahahahaaaa

I loved Mia the Bee, only it was called Ape Maia around my neighborhood… m sure it was the 80’s tho…

I was only 2 in 79, but during the 80’s I spent too much time watching Japanese cartoons, mostly Manga. Took me (and my parents) a long time before realising that they were not meant for kids :ohmy:
All the dialogues were dubbed, except for the songs, which I happily sang along to in Japanese! :laugh:

Anna did you watch Belle and Sebastian? (the male version of Heidi.. big Saint Bernard dog and a slightly camp young swiss boy…..)

[Anna]

Belle and Sebastian doesn’t ring a bell…:unsure:

I do remember the Sandman though and some little men from another programme…’Munchen Men’ I think…

oooh look the Sandman is interactive!

http://www.sandmann.de/

Found Maya too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_the_Bee

and her Willi 😉

[Anonymous]

I was in gradeschool – sitting in my cute little plaid uniform listening to nun’s drone on about grammar and punctuation 😡

Ha!

[Serena]

Anna wrote:

Found Maya too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_the_Bee

and her Willi 😉

Awwww.. thanks Anna 🙂
Shot me back a few decades, and had completely forgotten about dear old Willi…
There are plenty of videos on Youtube.. 😉

XX
S

[Mask Man N95]

I like cute little plaid uniforms!

[meyerlansky123]

It seem we have a bit of a small age groping here lol.

[Love2Smell]

:ohmy: Of all the years you could have chosen, you picked the one that changed my life the most — and in ways which are quite relevant to the interests of this web site.

1979 was the only year that I lived outside of the United States. And I didn’t just saunter over to Canada. My Dad’s employment took the family to North Africa. It was an international project. People from at least nine different countries were gathered together.

Not only did 1979 provide me with a global perspective that would last the rest of my life, it was also the year I met my wife. I was in middle school. She was a young mother, 13 years my senior, recently married to a colleague of my Dad’s!

Don’t panic — she and I took no notice of each other until 13 years later. By that time, she was divorced from her first husband, and I had graduated from college.

Who knows if I would have ever taken an interest in panties if I had fallen in love with a woman my own age? I’m in my 40’s now, and she’s going through menopause. 🙁

[meyerlansky123]

Love2Smell wrote:

:ohmy: Of all the years you could have chosen, you picked the one that changed my life the most — and in ways which are quite relevant to the interests of this web site.

I would like to point out I did not pick the year my, Mum and Dad did.

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