“We are further away in time from the movie than the movie was from the era it represented.”
It was only 11 years earlier, set in 1962 and released in 1973 but it was a million years away by then.
The hippies destroyed everything fast.
As kids we loved the soundtrack album. Listened to it all the time.
The soundtrack was songs of the 50s, not 1962. it was rock and roll before the Beatles hit.
1973 was the year of the nostalgic ‘Crocodile Rock’ which looks back in the song to “rockin’ ‘round the clock”, which would have been 1956.