Babes Of The 1970s: Lovely Ladies

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Bionic Disco proudly presents Babes of the 1970s: Lovely ladies. Feast your eyes on 20 lovely and luscious female entertainers we found enticing and exciting in the years 1970 through 1979.

This visual list contains a healthy amount of feminine babes but there are many more we could have included. If response is good we’ll post part two in the coming days (and also present some “manly males“). Here now, in alphabetical order we have Loni Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Barbi Benton and many more. Dream on…

Loni Anderson

Loni Anderson


Loni Anderson. Best known in the 70s for: Portraying Jennifer Marlowe on TV’s WKRP in Cincinnati.

Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Barbeau


Adrienne Barbeau. Best known in the 70s for: Portraying Carol Traynor on TV’s Maude (1972-1978), guest starring on shows such as The Love Boat (1977) and Eight Is Enough (1978).

Barbi Benton

Barbi Benton


Barbi Benton. Best known in the 70s for: guest starring TV roles on shows like Hee Haw (1972) and McCloud (1975) and appearing as a regular on the short-lived series Sugar Time! (1977-78), recording country-flavored albums, posing in Playboy.

Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset


Jacqueline Bisset. Best known in the 70s for: starring in films such as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and The Deep (1977).

Linda Blair

Linda Blair


Linda Blair. Best known in the 70s for: starring in The Exorcist (1973) and The Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) playing troubled teens in TV movies like Born Innocent (1974) and Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975).

Lynda Carter

Lynda Carter


Lynda Carter. Best known in the 70s for: Portraying Wonder Woman in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1975-1979).

Charo

Charo


Charo. Best known in the 70s for: appearing on TV talk shows, guest starring on shows like The Love Boat (1977) and The Hollywood Squares (1972-1978), playing flamenco guitar, saying “cuchi-cuchi.”

Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson


Angie Dickinson. Best known in the 70s for: starring in TV’s Police Woman as Sgt. “Pepper” Anderson, starring in films such as Big Bad Mama (1974).

Lola Falana

Lola Falana


Lola Falana. Best known in the 70s for: appearing on TV shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1970-78) and The New Bill Cosby Show (1972), hosting The Muppet Show (1979) and starring in her own variety series Lola! (1975-76).

Agnetha Fältskog

Agnetha Fältskog


Agnetha Fältskog. Best known in the 70s for: singing in the band ABBA – one of the most successful pop groups of all-time. Winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett


Farrah Fawcett. Best known in the 70s for: portraying Jill Munroe on TV’s Charlie’s Angels (1976-1980), guest starring TV roles on shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man (1974-76) and Harry-O (1974-76), selling millions of posters bearing her image.

Pam Grier

Pam Grier


Pam Grier. Best known in the 70s for: starring in films such as Coffy (1973), Foxy Brown (1974) and Greased Lightning (1977).

Deborah Harry

Deborah Harry


Deborah Harry. Best known in the 70s for: being the lead singer of New York-based pop-punk band Blondie.

Lauren Hutton

Lauren Hutton (Photo by Rex Features)


Lauren Hutton. Best known in the 70s for: her fashion modeling career, starring in films such as The Gambler (1974) and Viva Knievel! (1977).

Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret


Ann-Margret. Best known in the 70s for: Singing and dancing on TV talk shows like The Mike Douglas Show (1970-79) and Dinah! (1975-79), starring in films such as Carnal Knowledge (1971), Tommy (1975) and Magic (1978), Las Vegas stage shows.

Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd


Cybill Shepherd. Best known in the 70s for: her modeling career, starring in films like The Last Picture Show (1971), The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and Taxi Driver (1976).

Jaclyn Smith

Jaclyn Smith


Jaclyn Smith. Best known in the 70s for: portraying Kelly Garrett on TV’s Charlie’s Angels (1976-1981).

Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers


Suzanne Somers. Best known in the 70s for: portraying Chrissy Snow on TV’s Three’s Company (1977-1981)

Cheryl Tiegs

Cheryl Tiegs


Cheryl Tiegs. Best known in the 70s for: her modeling career (including being a Sports Illustrated cover model), selling millions of posters bearing her image.

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch


Raquel Welch. Best known in the 70s for: TV appearances on shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974-1988), hosting Saturday Night Live (1976) and The Muppet Show (1978), starring in films like Kansas City Bomber (1972) and The Three Musketeers (1973).

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Music for Monday: David Soul, ‘Don’t Give Up On Us’

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David “Hutch” Soul, ‘Don’t Give Up On Us’, late 1976

Actor David Soul, star of TV’s Starsky & Hutch, released “Don’t Give Up On Us” in late 1976. The song, written and produced by Tony Macaulay, spent four weeks at the top of the UK charts and a single glorious week at #1 in the US (April 16, 1977).

No matter what he did, David had “Soul.” OK, technically he was born “Solberg,” but work with me on this one.

70s stories in the news: 70s Harlem, Denver denies ’76 Olympics, The Jeffersons – little known facts

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Time for a quick round-up of 1970s-related stories in the news. Today, we take a look at photos of Harlem in the 70s, find out why Denver, Colorado was awarded the 1976 Winter Olympics and then turned them down and read up on half a dozen little-known facts about TV’s The Jeffersons.

’70s Portrait of Harlem

Harlem, late 1970s by Dawoud Bey via NY Times

The New York Times has a story on photographer Dawoud Bey and his exhibit of tasteful shots taken in Harlem in the late 1970s. View some wonderful photos.

NY Times Quote:

“This summer at the Art Institute of Chicago, for the first time since the 1979 Studio Museum show, his Harlem series is being exhibited in its entirety…By the mid-’70s (Bey) was using a single-lens reflex camera and had started taking the Harlem street photographs that would eventually make up the Studio Museum show. Unlike most street photographers he worked slowly, taking few pictures and making an average of only three exposures of each subject.”

Why Denver Said ‘No’ to the ’76 Olympics

Mental_floss reports on the awarding of the 1976 Olympics to Denver and how the city eventually said “No, thanks” and turned them down. Innsbruk, Austria picked them up. Explore this interesting Olympics story.

Mental_floss Quote:

“In May 1970 the International Olympic Committee awarded the 1976 Winter Olympics to Denver, which edged out Sion, Switzerland, Tampere, Finland, and Vancouver. Denver’s politicians and media rejoiced; getting the Games was a major coup for them. Colorado had been trying to nab the Winter Olympics for nearly 20 years.”

RIP Sherman Hemsley: Six stories about The Jeffersons

Sherman Hemsley as George Jefferson, 1975. (Video grab: Bionic Disco)

Also at mental_floss we have a story entitled, “RIP Sherman Hemsley: 6 Stories About The Jeffersons.” Find out about how George Jefferson got his start, the actor who first played the role prior to Sherman Hemsley and more on Isabel Sanford who played “Weezy” and how she was 10-years older than Hemsley.

Mental_floss Quote:

“‘Movin’ On Up,’ the toe-tappin’, gospel-flavored theme song for The Jeffersons, was co-written by Jeff Barry and Ja’Net Dubois. Barry was a veteran Brill Building songwriter with hits like ‘Leader of the Pack’ in his portfolio; Dubois was best known as gossipy neighbor Willona Woods on another popular African-American sitcom, Good Times. Ja’Net belted out the lyrics with such confidence that it’s hard to believe that ‘Movin’ On Up’ marked her debut as a professional singer.”

Mood Music: Pink Floyd, ‘The Wall’

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Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2”, 1979

“All in all you’re just another brick in the wall…”

Pink Floyd released their epic concept album, The Wall, at the tail-end of the 70s, on November 30, 1979 in the UK (a week or so later in the US). The L.P. spent 15 weeks at the top of the US charts and went on to become one of the best-selling albums in US history.

Here’s the official video for the lead-off single “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2.” The animations are by famed British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe.

Funshine Friday: The Oddball Couple

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DePatie-Freleng Enterprises’ The Oddball Couple, 1975

“Now, one of them is fussy, very proper and clean – while the other one has got a very special talent – for messing up the team…”

DePatie-Freleng’s The Oddball Couple originally aired on ABC from September through December, 1975. 16, 30-minute-long episodes were produced of this animated anthropomorphic take on Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple.

The show features a prim and proper cat named Spiffy (Frank Nelson) and a lazy, filth-loving dog called Fleabag (Paul Winchell). Enjoy the intro for the show below. According to IMDb, the music is provided by Spike Jones alums Joe Siracusa and George Rock.

The Oddball Couple – one second before hilarity ensues

The Oddball Couple Wiki, IMDb

70s Spots: Robert Blake for STP Oil

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Baretta’s gone country. Robert Blake for STP, 1977.

Here’s a double dose of TV spots from the late 1970s (’77-’78) featuring Robert “Baretta” Blake for STP Oil and Gas Treatments. Blake was a 70s-era spokesman for STP and made a large number of manly commercials for the product . And…dat’s da name of dat tune.