Songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days
Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days
And you knew where you were then
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
People seemed to be content.
Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent.
Those were the days
Take a little Sunday spin,
Go to watch the Dodgers win.
Have yourself a dandy day
That cost you under a fin.
Hair was short and skirts were long.
Kate Smith really sold a song.
I don't know just what went wrong
Those Were the Days
Third.
The Jeffersons was my first exposure to blacks, and remains my picture of them at their best. I laughed my ass off, enjoyed their ups and downs and learned some of their ways and manners. I suppose I owe some thanks to Norman Lear, that pointyheaded regressive.
RIP, Norman, Sherman, Isabel. Weezay!
Big leftist who started the downfall of America on tv.
Bookmark
Family time - Those were the days.
Lear failed at everything he tried to do. He wanted All In The Family to show the evils of bigotry and people embraced it. Sanford and Son ended up being basically a remake of Amos and Andy with characters taking over the show.
I love the fact that the viewing audience didn’t despise Archie and didn’t hold Meathead up as the enlightened hero despite Lear hoping they would.
Oscar?...................
Leaving out his politics, loved All in the Family and Sanford and Son. S&S was my first exposure to a black family lifestyle, may have been Hollywood but it was funny as heck.
Black girl spins around “I lost 20lbs” Fred Sanford, “Look behind you, you’ll find it.”
Song written by Charles Strauss and Lee Adams. Norman Lears legacy was to have ignorant backbiting people of different socioeconomic classes perform a sequence of comical vignettes and abusive one liners. Now almost every type of TV sit-com, rom-com etc. show is of that ilk....unwatchable..
Really something, reading those words to that song now.
First cousin of another TV innovator, David Susskind, who had the misfortune of dying 35 or so years ago. Lear was doing in “comedy” what Susskind had been doing with the talk show years before. It wasn’t really that good for the country.
Is his casket made of asbestos?
“Lear described himself as a “total Jew” but said he was never a practicing one.”
Died without HOPE.
Family shows were funny without an edge to them before this guy. Never again afterwards.
He was a horrible person. Should have died 60 years earlier.
Whether he was intending to or not Lear made Bunker a flawed but sympathetic character ... and Meathead a flat out loser freeloading off his father-in-law despite being a married man.
Memory Eternal!
He gave us one of my favorites, Archie Bunker!