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Totally '70s

'70s icon Barry Williams (Greg Brady on TV's "The Brady Bunch") hosted The Real Greg Brady’s Totally '70s Pop Quiz starring Barry Williams


Arrocha

The term "Arrocha" is recent, but the music itself has existed since the mid-'70s, when admirers of Odair Jose Reginaldo Rossi Fernando Mendes and Waldick Soriano, in that it bought an electronic keyboard, began to sing the songs of their idols in bars and nightclubs in suburban areas or inland in the country.

Barris Industries

Yet another prominent employee was comedian Chris Bearde, who co-created and co-produced The Gong Show in both '70s and '80s versions.

Benoît Dorémus

His songs, mostly influenced by Eminem or the famous French singer-songwriter Renaud, very popular since the '70s, often describe his bipolarity between music and literature, Philippe Djian being his favourite author concerning the latest.

Bernd Stumpf

At the time Dynamo was under the patronage of the Stasi, East Germany's state secret police force headed by Erich Mielke, and since the late 70s had benefited from unfair player transfers and questionable officiating.

Bill Pratney

He took up racing again in his 70s and his last big ride was a 330 km ride in Australia at the age of 86.

Bintangor, Sarawak

There were express boat services connecting between Bintangor, Sarikei and Sibu town in the 70s and 80s.

Breakestra

The style in which the breakestra plays in the live setting & on record is much influenced by late 60s and early 70s funk & soul-jazz music and the respective samples that were used in late 80s/early 90s hip hop as The Live Mix, Part 1 and The Live Mix, Part 2 show.

Brunnen railway station

In the 1960s and '70s, Brunnen hosted international trains to Lecce, in Italy, and Hoek van Holland, in the Netherlands.

Century Radio

The station may be remembered for its variety of main stream hits from the 70s and 80s along with slick production and its punchy jingles from JAM Creative Productions in Dallas.

Dario Di Palma

Di Palma later reached the peak of his career in 70s, when he signed the cinematography of notable titles such as Lina Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi, Valerio Zurlini's Indian Summer and Ettore Scola's Ugly, Dirty and Bad.

Democratic Convergence of Catalonia

During the decade of the late 70s and 80s it claimed a social-democratic strand within its ranks, namely personified in militants such as Ramon Trias Fargas or Miquel Sellarès.

Dennis Ward

Denis Ward, rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s for Castleford

Douglas Webb

As the British film industry went into decline he moved to the Isle of Wight in 1986, where he began to catalogue the photos of Pamela Green taken in the 1960s and '70s.

Duncliffe Wood

During the 1960–70s, the woods were largely felled and replanted—predominantly with Norway Spruce (Picea abies) and oak, with lesser amounts of Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi) and beech.

Earle Mack

During the 1937 and 1939 seasons, Mack managed the Athletics when his father (by then in his mid-70s) was ill.

Elvin Bale

He would headline the Blue Unit in the 70s and early 80s, and his single trapeze act won him the Circus Oscar at the 1973 Circus World Festival in Madrid, Spain, as well as the 1976 Gold Clown, given out by the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo for the best circus performance of the year.

Fala Mangueira!

The live album features several medleys and individual singles by five of the greatest traditional samba artists of the 1960s and '70s: Odete Amaral, Carlos Cachaça, Cartola, Clementina de Jesus, and Nelson Cavaquinho.

Focus 9 / New Skin

This time Pierre van der Linden (drummer of the classic '70s Focus lineup) joins Thijs van Leer with Bobby Jacobs remaining on bass and Niels van der Steenhoven replacing guitarist Jan Dumée.

Fort Trumbull

One of the Merchant Marine officers trained at Fort Trumbull was actor Jack Lord who is best known for playing Steve McGarrett on the popular TV series Hawaii Five-O in the 1960s and 70s.

Gérard Patris

The late muse of Picasso, Sylvette David (now in her 70s and known as Lydia Corbett, see Sylvette) and Marie-Claire Schaeffer, his first wife, were the two mothers.

HaYarkon 96

One of the entrepreneurs, Zalman Shoval, and his family, lived there themselves between 1940 and the 70s.

Hughie Flint

Hughie Flint (born 15 March 1941, Manchester, Lancashire), is an English drummer, best known for his stint in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, playing drums on the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton album, released in 1966, for his group McGuinness Flint in the early 70s and for his subsequent association with The Blues Band.

Jock Butterfield

Butterfield ended up playing in the Foley Shield competition for Mount Isa and Cloncurry in Queensland's outback until his retirement in the early '70s.

Kim France

France appeared on I Love the '70s along with Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and a dozen celebrities from that decade.

Kinder dieser Welt

Lyricist Michael Kunze had previously co-written Silver Convention's 1977 entry for Germany, "Telegram", and in the late 70s both Kunze and co-writer Geoff Bastow had also worked as session musicians and composers for other successful Germany-based disco acts like Boney M. and Amanda Lear.

Les Illuminés

It includes a fine portrait and evaluation of French writer Jacques Cazotte, author of The devil in love, who inspired E. T. A. Hoffmann and Charles Nodier, and who was unjustly guillotined during the French revolution in his 70s.

Moroccan Arabic

In the troubled and autocratic Morocco of the 70s (known as the years of lead), the legendary Nass El Ghiwane band wrote beautiful and allusive lyrics in Moroccan Arabic which were very appealing to the youth even in other Maghreb countries.

Nicolai Gedda

A singer of unusual longevity, Gedda has been active well into his late 70s; in May 2001 he recorded the role of the Emperor Altoum in Puccini's Turandot and the role of the High Priest in Mozart's Idomeneo in June 2003.

Norman Toynton

During the 70s, he created a number of large installation pieces for solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Williams College Museum of Art.

Paul A. Verdier

During the late 70s, he was extremely notable and popular and was on a number of talk shows in San Diego and Los Angeles commenting on the Patty Hearst kidnapping as well as a number of cult related news stories.

Peet Coombes

Peet Coombes (1952–1997) was a British musician, guitarist and vocalist with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart in the two pre-Eurythmics bands, The Catch, who only released one single, "Borderline/Black Blood" (1977, Logo) before morphing into the other, The Tourists, who had quite a few UK hits in the late '70s. Many of The Tourists' songs were written by Peet.

Peter Coffield

Coffield guest starred on several TV shows throughout the '70s and early '80s, including The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Eight Is Enough, Wide World Mystery, Family, and Love, Sidney, and he acted in TV movies such as Washington: Behind Closed Doors, and The Man Without a Country.

Ron Gorchov

Gorchov was part of a group of artists working in Manhattan in the 1960s and 70s that was responding to the concept of "Action Painting" as defined by Harold Rosenberg, a concept that purported to demolish pictorial conventions and held as suspect the notions of facility and harmonious composition.

Sharda

Sharda Rajan Iyengar, playback singer in Hindi films in the 1960s and 70s

Svedberg

For bacterial ribosomes, ultracentrifugation yields intact ribosomes (70S) as well as separated ribosomal subunits, the large subunit (50S) and the small subunit (30S).

Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema

The book discuss the movies from late the 60s and early 70s that constituted the basis of the legend of Swedish sin—such as Ur kärlekens språk, Hon dansade en sommar and Thriller - en grym film.

Sydney Filmmakers Co-op

Founding members were the experimental filmmakers of the 60s and early 70s, including Aggy Read, David Perry, Albie Thoms, Phillip Adams, Phillip Noyce, and later Bruce Petty.

Tatyana Vedeneyeva

She became well known amongst the Soviet children of 70s and 80s for her leading role in children programs Good Night, Little Ones!, and Visiting a Fairy Land (V gostiakh u skazki) as "Aunt Tania".

Teako170

In the late 70s, he was primarily seen on the 2s and 5s of the IRT White Plains Road Line until fading from the scene in 1983 when he joined the United States Air Force.

The Fraternity Years

As the name implies, the album collects most of the music from the many singles that Mouse and the Traps released on Fraternity Records, so the last two singles released by the band in 1969 on Bell Records are omitted, as is the novelty song "Would You Believe" and the cover of "Psychotic Reaction" by Positively 13 O'clock.

The Lost 45s

"The Lost 45s" with "Barry Scott" is an American Classic Hits retro music radio program playing Top 40 hits from the 70s and 80s that you don't often hear anymore.

Time to Fly

The album was produced by '70s producer Nick Blagona who has worked with the likes of Deep Purple, The Police, and Rush amongst others.

Too Low for Zero

John also reunited with the core of his backing band of the early '70s: Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone as well as Ray Cooper, Kiki Dee and Skaila Kanga (who played harp on John's self-titled album and Tumbleweed Connection) – two other musicians were intended to join the line-up, but dropped out.

U.S. Snowboarding

Through the late 60s, 70s and early 80s snowboard designs with the help of snowboard innovators Jake Burton, Tom Sims, Mike Olson, Dimitrije Milovich and others.

Une petite française

The song was composed by Olivier Toussaint and Paul de Senneville, a very successful team whose compositions were recorded by major French singers such as Michel Polnareff, Christophe, Dalida, Petula Clark, Claude François and Mireille Mathieu all through the 60s and 70s.

Wait for Night

Stylistically, the album represented a move away from his early 70s light rock sound to the trademark arena-ready power pop/pop rock sound that Springfield would later find success with over the 80s.

WEZZ-FM

Core artists of the station known as "70s Hit Radio, 97-3 WODL" included Chicago, the Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, Barry Manilow, Earth, Wind and Fire and James Taylor.

Young Patriots

Young Patriots Organization, an American left-wing political organization of the 1960s and 70s


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