1975, Hall and Oates and Monty Python
Thanks to James Hudnall for pointing me to Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975 and to The Sound of Young America.
I was 15 at the time of the clip and watching it sure brings back memories of how people acted, talked and dressed in those days. When I was 15 years old, I was starting 10th grade at Charles A. Lindbergh Senior High School. I was growing out my Dorothy Hamill hair cut in favor of the carefully feathered back look. I had just been allowed to start wearing mascara and clear lip gloss. The preppy look was in style. Bell bottoms were out and straight legs Levi’s were in. Two upperclassmen, whose names I have forgotten, sat on the steps of the commons area and gave impromptu concerts of soulful Hall and Oates and Neil Young songs, leaving everyone spellbound.
Would that this clip was a racy as comedy could get today! At 15, I was NOT allowed to watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus or attend the movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which came out that same year because of the adult humor. Yes, Monty Python was about as adult humor could get and still be on television. I did occasionally see the show if I snuck it.
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Whoa, here she comes, she’s a maneater
I used to sneak a small black and white tv up to my room so I could watch “Family” while listening with headphones.
Best H and O song ever: “Sara Smile.”
You and I are the same age..
I don’t know if I was lucky or not, but I did see The Grail in the theater when it first came out.