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Episode 31 1975. “Back To Basics” Happy Birthday To Me David Bowie “Fame” off the album Young Americans his ninth studio album by the English musician David Bowie rip. 

The president signed a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package.

Extended the social distancing guidelines for another 30 days.

Dr. Anthony Fauci director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 

 

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was the 38th president. 

 

VietnamThe Battle of Ban Me Thuot

  • The Battle of Ban Me Thuot takes place during the Vietnam War, as North Vietnam begins its final push to end the war and capture the South. The battle of Ban Me Thuot between South Vietnam and North Vietnam ends on March 10th of 1975. North Vietnam began enacting a campaign to take the city of Ban Me Thuot earlier in the year in an effort to destabilize South Vietnam. On March 4th, North Vietnam launched its offensive against the city despite a cease fire having been agreed upon two years earlier. Ban Me Thuot quickly fell and it became clear that South Vietnam would have difficulty defending itself against the North in further attacks. By the end of the next month South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam, ending the state of war between the two that had existed since 1955. In April the Vietnam wars officially ended.

Cost of Living 1975

How Much things cost in 1975

Yearly Inflation Rate USA9.2%

Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 858

Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 7.25%

Cost of a gallon of Gas 44 cents

Average cost new car $4,250.00

A few More Examples

Average Cost of new house $39,300.00

Average Income per year $14,100.00

Average Monthly Rent $200.00

Foster Grant Sunglasses $5.00

Chevrolet Caprice $4,819

Ford Mustang II $4,105

Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale $5,626

Pontiac Ventura Coupe $3,829

Oil goes over $13.00 per barrel

OPEC 26.04 

Sony introduces Betamax videotapes and JVC introduces VHS.

During May of 1975, electronics manufacturer Sony released their Betamax video cassette recording system for sale in Japan. The system originally retailed for several thousand dollars and not long after the release other companies began selling their own systems using a different format, the VHS (Video Home System). Sony’s Betamax was somewhat popular throughout the late 1970’s but by the mid-1980’s VHS had won the so-called “Videotape Format War.”

First Blockbuster movie, Jaws, is released

  • One of the very first blockbuster films, Jaws, is released during June. 

The hit film Jaws had its theatrical release in June of 1975. It was one of the first blockbuster films and at the time of its release it had become the highest grossing film of all time. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw. The plot revolved around a killer shark terrorizing a small town and those who would hunt it. It was nominated for several Academy Awards and won three of them. Known for its dramatic score, superior editing and suspenseful premise, the film Jaws is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest films ever made.

New York City avoids bankruptcy

  • New York City avoids bankruptcy when President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion loan.

Popular Culture 1975

  • The film version of The Who's Tommy premiers in London
  • Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC On October 11, 1975, (SNL), a topical comedy sketch show featuring Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman.
  • Muhammad Ali beat Joe Fraser in the "Thriller In Manilla" match  Muhammad Ali would later say, it was the closest thing to death he had ever known. He and Joe Frazier had gone 14 brutal rounds in the stifling heat of a Philippines morning before Frazier's trainer, Eddie Futch, mercifully signaled things to an end.

 

 

 

Popular Films

  • Jaws
  • The Towering Inferno
  • Benji
  • Young Frankenstein
  • The Godfather Part II
  • Funny Lady
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • The Return of the Pink Panther
  • Tommy The Who
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jack Nickelson 

Popular Musicians and songs

  • Bruce Springsteen releases his third album, Born To Run, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time
  • Minnie Riperton Lovin You
  • Aerosmith “Toys in the attic” “Walk this way” 
  • Black Sabbath 1975 Album Sabotage “Hole in the sky” Ozzy Ozbourn Tony Iommi and Mike Butcher
  • Chicago
  • Bob Dylan “Blood on the tracks” “Tangled up in blue”
  • David Bowie with " Fame "
  • Alice Cooper
  • The Eagles with " Best of My Love "
  • Jefferson Starship
  • Elton John with Rock of the Westies is the tenth studio “Island Girl’ Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy,
  • Kiss “Hotter than Hell” “Hotter than hell” Gene Simmons
  • Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page Robert Plant John Bonham Physical Graffiti was the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released as a double album on 24 February 1975 “Ten Years Gone”
  • John Lennon Rock 'n' Roll is the sixth studio album by John Lennon. Released in 1975, it is an album of late 1950s and early 1960s songs as covered by Lennon “Stand by Me”
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers “Three little birds”
  • Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Pink Floyd  Wish you were here “ Wish you were here” It  was the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975.
  • Paul Simon “Still Crazy After All These Years” is the fourth solo studio album by Paul “Still crazy after all these years”.

 

 

Popular TV Programmes

  • The Six Million Dollar Man
  • Kojak
  • The Jeffersons
  • All in the Family
  • Maude
  • Good Times
  • M*A*S*H
  • The Carol Burnett Show

Born This YearBorn This Year 1975

Jimmie Johnson September 17th

Tiger Woods December 30th

Angelina Jolie June 4th

Kate Winslet October 5th

 

Technology

  • Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins
  • Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC program for the Altair 8800
  • Motorolla obtains patent for the first portable mobile phone
  • The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) and Microsoft becomes a registered trademark
  • NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
  • US Apollo and Soviet Soyuz 9 spacecraft link up in space and Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts shake hands
  • BIC launches first disposable Razor
  • The Microcomputer Altair 8800 is released
  • Work on the Alaskan Oil Line begins
  • Sony introduces Betamax videotapes and Matsushita / JVC introduce VHS
  • Tuvalu Gains Independence From Great Britain
  • Mozambique Gains Independence From Portugal
  • Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, invented by Seymour Cray

 

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )

Personal Computer USA Microsoft

The Digital Camera Steven Sasson and Kodak Company

Laser Printer USA.

Hang in there.

 

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