BEST things about the 70s: Disco (particularly PRE-Saturday Night Fever), The Pittsburgh Steelers, Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose," Vanessa Del Rio, Clemenza's birth, Godfather, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, French Connection, Sex Pistols, Ramones, CBGB, pop rocks, Don Corleone, Don Corenelius, Don Kirshner.
WORST things: Jordache Jeans, Pet Rocks, Mayor Beame, Jimmy Carter, Donny & Marie, Shields & Yarnel, Shag haircuts, Emerson Lake & Palmer, "Free to be you and me," stagflation, Hef in the leisure suit, Elvis in the jump suit, herpes...
Dolly Parton, Tim Conway, Johnny Cash, Bobby Vinton, Mac Davis, and especially Flip Wilson all had their own prime-time variety shows.
Does anybody else remember the Hudson Brothers?