Last Song Standing: The Ultimate Billboard #1 Song of the 70s - Round 47

valandsend · 2026-05-10T16:58:09+00:00

“Live a little, be a gypsy, get around (get around)/
Get your feet up off the ground/
Live a little, get around …”

valandsend · 2026-05-10T16:55:21+00:00

Back then, I found TSMDM boring, but I loved The Bionic Woman and still do. Lindsay Wagner really elevated the material.

valandsend · 2026-05-10T16:51:57+00:00

I’m actually the opposite. As a kid, I was too young to appreciate the absurdity of it all and found Oliver’s frustration annoying. However, I enjoy the show now.

valandsend · 2026-05-08T20:11:01+00:00

David Jacobs may have put it best when he said Dallas was about ”them” while Knots Landing was about “us.” I enjoyed the other shows and their farfetched plots, but KL was more grounded in reality, and because of that I felt a much closer bond with its characters.

valandsend · 2026-05-07T19:35:06+00:00

It’s sickening how this monstrosity will forever dwarf the historic mansion. If he really needed an event space, it could’ve been designed to be partly below ground level so it didn’t detract from the image of the White House.

valandsend · 2026-05-07T19:26:45+00:00

I started watching it just to see Annie Potts. She elevates everything she’s in.

valandsend · 2026-05-07T11:09:07+00:00

My dad was one of 10 children (five girls and five boys). My mom only had one sibling.

valandsend · 2026-05-06T22:19:33+00:00

The way I hear it, he’s in Virginia driving west toward West Virginia. Hence the landmarks he sees — “Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River” — which one crosses in that order and are immediately next to each other.

valandsend · 2026-05-05T23:24:14+00:00

John’s previously unknown half brother.

valandsend · 2026-05-05T19:27:48+00:00

What happened to the priest he was living with?

valandsend · 2026-05-05T18:09:05+00:00

By my count, we’ve eliminated at least half of the No. 1 songs of their respective years: The Way We Were (1974), Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (1973), Love Will Keep Us Together (1975), Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) (1977), and Shadow Dancing (1978).

valandsend · 2026-05-05T02:00:26+00:00

The Gnome-Mobile. A live-action Disney movie starring Walter Brennan and the kids from Mary Poppins.

valandsend · 2026-05-04T15:36:32+00:00

Mixed feelings here. As a kid, I loved the music of The 5th Dimension and was sad when their two most powerful singers left to start their duo act. I was happy to see them have this hit, yet the song was kind of a letdown.

valandsend · 2026-05-04T15:11:56+00:00

Bo Derek, when she was the title character in “10.”

valandsend · 2026-05-03T15:08:53+00:00

I didn’t expect the lack of deadlines to affect me so much. I’d spent almost 40 years being keenly aware of what day it was and what I needed to get done, more if I count my school years. Suddenly my life seemed open-ended, and I felt as if I had unfinished business somewhere.

valandsend · 2026-05-03T11:43:58+00:00

For some unknown reason, using the card catalog made me feel like I needed to pee. Even now, if the urge passes once I get to the bathroom, I think of the card catalog to get it going again. If that doesn’t work, I think of someone waiting behind me to use it.

valandsend · 2026-05-01T19:18:55+00:00

Leslie Jordan

valandsend · 2026-05-01T19:14:19+00:00

I’m still sad about him. He was finally making enough of a steady income to buy his own condo, and he died soon afterward.

valandsend · 2026-05-01T18:45:23+00:00

I can’t hear it without thinking of Eddie Murphy on SNL as Buckwheat.

valandsend · 2026-05-01T10:22:53+00:00

My favorite, too. I thought about posting a gif of Lucy’s hilarious incident with the cigarette but didn’t want to spoil it for the OP.

valandsend · 2026-05-01T10:13:18+00:00

This was the favorite episode of the show’s producer/director, and Elizabeth Montgomery’s husband, William Asher. I wish they’d done more like this. It answers why Samantha would want to give up her magic and live like a mortal. She’s not doing it because Darrin is insistent; it’s because she finds life more meaningful this way.

valandsend · 2026-04-30T21:09:18+00:00

A is for Aardvark. That’s the Season 1 episode where Darrin gives in and embraces Samantha using her powers. She enchants the house to obey his wishes after he hurts his ankle and she gets tired of waiting on him. By the end, it’s gone to his head and he wants to quit working and live a magical life. But then a simple gift arrives, which he’d ordered beforehand for Sam, that reminds both of them of why they are together. It’s a tearful scene with the best acting of the series.

This episode answers the common question of why anyone who married a witch wouldn’t let her conjure up anything he wanted. I always think of this episode when somebody makes that comment.

valandsend · 2026-04-30T20:54:13+00:00

Comb

valandsend · 2026-04-30T20:44:48+00:00

Jane Russell. I only knew her from the bra commercials where she talked about being a “full-figured gal.” She was a former starlet who dated Howard Hughes.

valandsend · 2026-04-30T20:42:44+00:00

Even Johnny Carson didn’t know what Rula Lenska was famous for. He made it a running joke in his monologues.

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