Bicentennial fun year good memories.

I was so excited about the bicentennial. I was nine years old and I would watch all the specials about America’s birthday. I’ve used to remember watching the bicentennial minutes on television, and my grandmother even made a colonial uniform for me that I wore at the Fourth of July parade.

June 1976 was a GREAT month for me! Turned 16 on the 24 (64 today) and looking forward to my driver's license later on that summer! Thanks Fred, great memories tied with this one, for sure!

Everything was gearing up for the Bicentennial.

Nice to see real journalists on TV.

What a great summer that was, I was 15 and working for my grandpa on the farm

I was 6 years old that year - I'm so blessed to have experienced a 70's childhood

Great music on this video Fred, always chasing the gloom away with these fun clips thank you!!!!

I turned 17 in March 76. That was a great year. Had a Summer job, a car, motorcycle, girlfriend and Mom & Dad paying all the bills 😂 and of course really great music 🎶.

Perhaps the best summer of my life. Junior high just ended and I was about to enter high school in the fall. Had my first official shave (mostly peach fuzz:). Hanging out with my two childhood buddies listening to great music, lifting weights, talking about girls and seeing some great movies! Exciting times! Thanks!😄

So excited in those days, knowing the BIG Bicentennial celebration was on the near horizon.

Mike ,Merv and Dinah in the afternoon. Good ol days

Thanks Fred! So much buried in the cobwebs of the mind!

Ah what times, I wish sometimes I could get them back! These videos help!

My Mom liked "Afternoon Delight." It was bright and cheerful. Obviously, she didn't have a clue as to what the song was about.

it’s funny all these years later and “1976” still means “the bicentennial summer” in my head lol… the movie “Dazed and Confused” kind of captured the spirit of that summer for teens who were. older than me

Wow, I am really old because I remember many of these magazine and tv guide covers! It's so strange seeing them again.

Still love the format! Keep up the great work Freddie! Mid 70's ..were the best

I remember this time very well. I turned 12 in October of 1976. SPECTACULAR time to be a kid....!!!

The great thing about the bicentennial is it was both a national celebration and a huge local celebration with town parades… almost like Xmas in July with summer fun replacing gift giving… if I recall the hype started in 1975 with all kinds of commercials, planning ahead, etc… It was a fabulous summer and I was only 5

Slightly before my time (I was 4 in June 1976), but about 10 years later my friend and I would raid his older brother's record collection and discover two stone-cold classics from 1976: Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak" album and Rush's "2112." My eyes (and ears!) were opened!!

What a great trip, thanks Fred! My sister and I used to mimic those twangy twins in the Shake n Bake commercial so much my mom threatened to stop making chicken--ah the good old days! 😅❤❤❤

My first video of the morning! Thank you so much.

Moonlight feels right, best marimba solo ever!

Jefferson Starship Spitfire - great album!

Loving this clip! 1976 was an amazing year to be a pre-pubescent boy! I love how you include the current issues of Marvel comics and Playboy! Playboy magazine wasn't just about beautiful women but every issue from the earlier days is now a time capsule of the culture we had the privilege to experience! Nice job using that particular album for the click-art!

Outlaw Josey Wales. “Dying ain’t much of a living, Boy!” One of the greatest lines in one of the greatest movies ever made

"Midway - in Sensurround!" - I noticed it in the newspaper ad, but the trailer omitted it.

That Cooper album was the first album I ever bought!

CB RADIO SALE! That's how I got my CB radio! My handle was Jetsetter... Breaker, breaker this is Jetsetter, what's your 20 good buddy?

I totally missed Mary Tyler Moore in Red Square in Moscow! And this was before Reagan told Gorbachev, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"!

Thin Lizzy? Really??? AWESOME!!! Midway I didn't get to see until it hit TV. That pan and scan version was criminal. Thank goodness cable came to the rescue. That FLEX shampoo add is pure disco. It was stuff like that that made WRIF 101.1 create D.R.E.A.D. (Detroit Rockers Engaged in the Abolishment of Disco). I got my card pretty early. Sold it on eBay 20 years ago (smacks myself upside the dome). Logan's Run is another one pan and scanned on TV. Jenny Agutter....oh my so very pretty AND a terrific actress. Never cared for The Omen, even though it has Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in it. Jose Wales rated PG? I don't believe it. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. First album from the Alan Parsons Project. First heard in 1977 7th grade English class. Mrs. Hubbard was pretty hip. I just listened to it yesterday (no lie). Never gets old. That was a great month in a so-so year, for me. Good stuff Fred.

Oh boy! I never realized they doubled up on the "and ah hayalped!" girl in the Shake and Bake commercials! Haha! June of 1976 was part of a long run of graduations in my family! My brother from junior high with a commencement ceremony and myself from sixth grade without!

Got a charge out of the Grand Union ad…just a few years later ,they would be my employer for twenty years…By this time in ‘76, every lamp post and fire hydrant in my neighborhood was painted red white and blue, I guess that’s how we showed our patriotism. Thanks for the memories Fred.

Thanks for this one, Fred. Simply one of the happiest months of my life. Summer vacation was well underway - and my family visited Hilton Head Island for the first time - which was peaceful and quiet in those days …. a perfect beach vacation. Anytime I hear Wings’ “Silly Love Songs” I’m reminded of that trip, as we heard it on the radio whole way down and throughout our stay. The other one often heard was indeed “Afternoon Delight” .. lol. And yeah I had those issues of Ghost Rider and Spidey (with another awesome Romita cover). What a wonderful time with my family all alive, well and happy.

🎵Thank you for this beautiful gem!🙂💯💙💚🖤💥👍!

Thanks Fred for another great trip into the past, wonderful memories for me

Thanks, Fred, that was fun! I felt that old nostalgia, and that's a good thing! Fond remembrance.

Nice Day on the Green poster. Those concerts were epic.

Right On and Ebony magazines, Starbuck, Ode to Billy Joe, and Shake 'n Bake. That commercial always cracked me up.

Turned 4 years old in June of 1976. Sadly, I don't remember too much about it being a bicentennial year. I was too busy being a kid to notice stuff like that! LOL!

A few years later, The Circle Jerks covered "Afternoon Delight", and that version ROCKED.

Midway was epic .. saw it in Sensurround as a 9 year old kid ... I cried when Heston bought it

One of my favourite things about these vids is pausing it to read every word on those magazine covers. Laurence Fishburn in 1976. Who knew? 2:40 And y'know, that People pic of Raquel Welch kinda looks like a fake, dunnit? Great stuff as always, Fred.

Midway used Sensurround, an early version of a subwoofer. Nice look back, Fred.

And we hailped! My sister used to say that when she was little. They had a reboot commercial in the 90s

Overseas duty made one appreciate AMERICA.

Hey when I was born!

I was 3 months old❤

I love the communitarian spirit of Fredflix videos… it’s rare these days

I love this channel. Thank you so much for the work you put in making these.

I was almost 19 and bulletproof. I was in Alabama at that time and ready to celebrate the bicentennial at the Fuzzy Duck bar. Which I did on July 4th.

Nice compilation.

my father lots of love memories in 1970 from there......he served electrical engineer there for 27 years

10 year olds going to matinee of "midway " it was supposed to be in something like 'Sensurround " and u were supposed to be able to see the theater shake outside yea maybe on some wacky sugar trip from od- ing on goobers and raisnettes

We went to the diner after seeing The Omen. A truck with those big dogs pulled up right at our window. That ruined pecan pancakes.

Production values… Amazing! I think 1976 was a real turning point and TV production! The commercials just sounded better. The music was produced very well! The cast of Midway was top drawer!

Thanks for the ear worms again Fred. (Moonlight...feels right.) Also, have used Peter Falk's line 'I have to go the can, i don;t wanna miss nothin' numerous times over the years

Was 15 at the time......please take me back!

5:14 Hey that Japanese-American chick was also in 1976's The Yakuza, as Robert Mitchum's daughter, I believe! 9:52 That dude was in The Yakuza too, as the young gun hired to protect Mitchum! Logan's Run was a good Sci-fi movie. Farrah Fawcett was in it too!

Thanks, Fred!

I was 14 great memories ❤

I turned 10 that very year. And to think Ronald Reagan nearly became a presidential candidate back then. Thanks, FredFlix. 🇺🇸

Thanks Fred 👍

This was so much fun!!

Got married to my beautiful wife 6/19/1976. 34 years until cancer caused by her love of gardening [Roundup].

I wonder... how many the seeds were planted yesteryear - in our "wonder years" - contributed to the insanity that we see today in our world? As kids growing up in the 50s-80s, we were bombarded with all sorts of entertainment and commercials for the good life. Go back 100 years and our wonder years would look like science fiction crazy, the way he works looks to many of us today. So, I'm nostalgic about my past, but I wonder what we've helped to create today?

You forget how expensive decent electronics we’re back in the day. You can buy a very nice smartphone TODAY for the same price they wanted for a CB in 1976! That was why in the 80s ud have to build ur stereo system piece by piece because the whole system cost a fortune

I was 9 and was having a great time!!

Good one, Fred. I really liked this one for some reason..

that shake n bake bit was for sure targeted for my neck of the woods lol.

Great job, Fred! 1:20 - Michael mentions that the Jacksons' new series would feature comedy. I read somewhere that he said he didn't like doing comedy because he didn't think he was funny. I thought they looked pretty good on Carol Burnett's show for a comedy sketch though, where she played a music teacher. Since Michael's not the youngest of the 5 (his brother, Randy, is) I guess an older brother, maybe Jermaine, sat out the series. 1:48 - This was the divorced Sonny & Cher, who figured they still needed each other though they were no longer married. 2:44 - Oh, yes! This is the year when CB Radios were a huge fad. My family members, at least those of us moving to a new state later that year, all got CB handles, and the radio helped us stay in contact in 2 separate cars. 3:50 - I remember seeing "Murder by Death" in school when I was in 7th grade. It was a lot of fun. 12:12 - I still remember "...and we haylped!" after all these years. I think the family was from somewhere in Florida. 13:13 - There was a Grand Union in my Upstate NY hometown, and I worked at a different one nearby when I was in college.

Murder by Death was hilarious. I haven't seen it in a long, I'll have to try to find it on demand. Thanks for the reminder Fred, and use your prepositions! 😂👍👍👍👍

March 5 th I reached 20, great year for music.

Thx Fredflix 👍📺🎥🎬

The Jackson 5 on with Dinah Shore? This was when they "jumped the shark" and kind of got lost. They were no longer that cute, kid pop band and it just wasn't the same. Then a couple years later, Michael gets together with Quincy Jones, does the "Off the Wall" album in 79 and he becomes one the greatest entertainers of his era.

Got myself a half sheet movie poster of logans run from when it was made

the music so was cool, back in those days. YOu could ahve hard rock, or nice musical toones like the one of Starbuck, or "mellow Yellow". Back in those days, The gratefull Dead were king.

7:41 1964 election. If Goldwater had won, Vietnam would not have blown up into the monster it became. For some reason LBJ took a small conflict that had been going on forever and in the name of "democracy" decided to end a few million lives. 58,000 of them were American soldiers who were 18-21 on average, most of them drafted. JFK had started small operations and sent advisors, LBJ started a war.

The month I graduated high school! Not the best time for popular culture, that’s for sure. I could have sworn the song MOONLIGHT FEELS RIGHT was a hit later that summer and not as early as June? You could have included the now semi-cult film LIFEGUARD into the mix. About a guy approaching an early mid-life crisis and what direction to take, it actually had a lot to say to me the month I turned 18 and just graduated high school. And now today I turn 66! Roll on, time and tide….

ya think jc penny will bring back that stylish jumpsuit back? i'll keep my eye out for sure....yeah right. lol thanks again dude.

I turned 17 on June10th that year.

Only one month away from my fifteenth birthday oh yeah learners licence 😮 and I wonder what that girl I met in NC is doing? I'll never understand why I didn't get her address so I could mail her ? Yes actually make a trip to the mailbox we don't do much of that these days 😊 no doubt it was the best of time's

Can I go back?!!!

Miss those days! The 21'st Century sucks.

11:42 June 1976. You're at the ballpark eating KFC on a big American flag tablecloth. Is there any moment more American?

had to stop and go somewhere for thin lizzy hits. brb

Was that Bill Bixby in the United commercial?

🔥 Jenny Agutter 🔥

My parents got married that October.

Had my first date in June 1976. Took her to see Murder by Death

u r gem

I'm going to skip commenting on the UA spot. Nuh-uh. 🙊 Murder by Death. Yeah, that was good. And so is that playing at 13:08. Title, please? Thanks. 💜🤟

"The Boys Are Back In Town" and "Afternoon Delight." God almighty damn, I hate those songs.

Outlaw Josey wales, never seen it, and i thought i had seen them all sigh lol

The month i was born in

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Is it just me or does Michael Jackson look different? Might be the lighting.

June 76 was one of the worst months of my life. I was 15 and about to go on a couple of serious cross-country crime sprees. Spent the next couple years locked up in the toughest place my state had to offer.

I didnt like the prequel of the omen that just came out. I understood it but the second movie is never better than the first