50th Reunion: AHS Class of '73

Flashback

Our class was special and the years we spent at school was a unique time in history.
This page is dedicated to popular culture of the time. Go back in time with;
Music, TV, Movies, Sports, Fashion, Technology, Politics, Personalities and more.

Music

1	"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"	Tony Orlando and Dawn
2	"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"	Jim Croce
3	"Killing Me Softly with His Song"	Roberta Flack
4	"Let's Get It On"	Marvin Gaye
5	"My Love"	Paul McCartney & Wings
6	"Why Me"	Kris Kristofferson
7	"Crocodile Rock"	Elton John
8	"Will It Go Round in Circles"	Billy Preston
9	"You're So Vain"	Carly Simon
10	"Touch Me in the Morning"	Diana Ross
11	"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"	Vicki Lawrence
12	"Playground in My Mind"	Clint Holmes
13	"Brother Louie"	Stories
14	"Delta Dawn"	Helen Reddy
15	"Me and Mrs. Jones"	Billy Paul
16	"Frankenstein"	The Edgar Winter Group
17	"Drift Away"	Dobie Gray
18	"Little Willy"	Sweet
19	"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"	Stevie Wonder
20	"Half-Breed"	Cher
21	"That Lady"	The Isley Brothers
22	"Pillow Talk"	Sylvia Robinson
23	"We're an American Band"	Grand Funk Railroad
24	"Right Place Wrong Time"	Dr. John
25	"Wildflower"	Skylark
26	"Superstition"	Stevie Wonder
27	"Loves Me Like a Rock"	Paul Simon
28	"The Morning After"	Maureen McGovern
29	"Rocky Mountain High"	John Denver
30	"Stuck in the Middle with You"	Stealers Wheel
31	"Shambala"	Three Dog Night
32	"Love Train"	The O'Jays
33	"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby"	Barry White
34	"Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose"	Tony Orlando and Dawn
35	"Keep on Truckin'"	Eddie Kendricks
36	"Danny's Song"	Anne Murray
37	"Dancing in the Moonlight"	King Harvest
38	"Monster Mash"	Bobby 'Boris' Pickett
39	"Natural High"	Bloodstone
40	"Diamond Girl"	Seals and Crofts
41	"Long Train Runnin'"	The Doobie Brothers
42	"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"	George Harrison
43	"If You Want Me to Stay"	Sly & the Family Stone
44	"Daddy's Home"	Jermaine Jackson
45	"Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)"	Gladys Knight & the Pips
46	"I'm Doin' Fine Now"	New York City
47	"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"	The Spinners
48	"Daniel"	Elton John
49	"Midnight Train to Georgia"	Gladys Knight & the Pips
50	"Smoke on the Water"	Deep Purple

Movies

Best Picture	Best Director
The Godfather – Albert S. Ruddy, producer Cabaret – Cy Feuer, producer Deliverance – John Boorman, producer The Emigrants – Bengt Forslund, producer Sounder – Robert B. Radnitz, producer	Bob Fosse – Cabaret John Boorman – Deliverance Jan Troell – The Emigrants Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Sleuth
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Marlon Brando – The Godfather* as Vito Corleone (declined)** Michael Caine – Sleuth as Milo Tindle Laurence Olivier – Sleuth as Andrew Wyke Peter O'Toole – The Ruling Class as Jack Gurney Paul Winfield – Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan	*Liza Minnelli – Cabaret* as Sally Bowles** Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues as Billie Holiday Maggie Smith – Travels with My Aunt as Augusta Bertram Cicely Tyson – Sounder as Rebecca Morgan Liv Ullmann – The Emigrants as Kristina Nilsson
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Joel Grey – Cabaret* as the M.C.** Eddie Albert – The Heartbreak Kid as Mr. Corcoran James Caan – The Godfather as Santino "Sonny" Corleone Robert Duvall – The Godfather as Tom Hagen Al Pacino – The Godfather as Michael Corleone	*Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free* as Mrs. Baker** Jeannie Berlin – The Heartbreak Kid as Lila Kolodny Geraldine Page – Pete 'n' Tillie as Gertrude Wilson Susan Tyrrell – Fat City as Oma Shelley Winters – The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
Best Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
The Candidate – Jeremy Larner The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière Lady Sings the Blues – Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe and Terence McCloy Murmur of the Heart – Louis Malle Young Winston – Carl Foreman	The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo based on the novel by Puzo Cabaret – Jay Presson Allen based on the musical by Fred Ebb and John Kander and the book by Joe Masteroff The Emigrants – Bengt Forslund and Jan Troell based on the novels The Emigrants and Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg Pete 'n' Tillie – Julius J. Epstein based on the story Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries Sounder – Lonne Elder III based on the novel by William H. Armstrong
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France) in French – Luis Buñuel The Dawns Here Are Quiet (USSR) in Russian – Stanislav Rostotsky I Love You Rosa (Israel) in Hebrew – Moshé Mizrahi My Dearest Senorita (Spain) in Spanish – Jaime de Armiñán The New Land (Sweden) in Swedish – Jan Troell	Marjoe – Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith Ape and Super-Ape – Bert Haanstra Malcolm X – Arnold Perl (posthumously) and Marvin Worth Manson – Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick The Silent Revolution – Eckehard Munck
Best Documentary Short Subject	Best Live Action Short Subject
This Tiny World – Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden Hundertwasser's Rainy Day – Peter Schamoni K-Z – Giorgio Treves Selling Out – Tadeusz Jaworski The Tide of Traffic – Humphrey Swingler	Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream – Richard Barclay Frog Story – Ray Gideon and Ron Satlof Solo – David Adams
Best Animated Short Subject	Best Original Dramatic Score
A Christmas Carol – Richard Williams Kama Sutra Rides Again – Bob Godfrey Tup Tup – Nedeljko Dragic	Limelight – Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch (posthumously) and Larry Russell (posthumously) Images – John Williams Napoleon and Samantha – Buddy Baker The Poseidon Adventure – John Williams Sleuth – John Addison
Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score	Best Song Original for the Picture
Cabaret – Adaptated by Ralph Burns Lady Sings the Blues – Adapted by Gil Askey Man of La Mancha – Adapted by Laurence Rosenthal	*"The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure* – Music and Lyrics by Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha** "Ben" from Ben – Music by Walter Scharf; Lyrics by Don Black "Come Follow, Follow Me" from The Little Ark – Music by Fred Karlin; Lyrics by Marsha Karlin "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" from The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean – Music by Maurice Jarre; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman "Strange Are the Ways of Love" from The Stepmother – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

Cost of goods

Cost of a new home:	$26,600.00
Cost of a new car:	$
Median Household Income:	$8,734.00
Cost of a first-class stamp:	$0.06
Cost of a gallon of regular gas:	$0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs:	$0.62
Cost of a gallon of Milk:	1.15

TV programs

1.	All in the Family	CBS	20,654,400
2.	The Waltons	CBS	18,602,200
3.	Sanford and Son	NBC	18,205,000
4.	MAS*H	CBS	17,013,400
5.	Hawaii Five-O	CBS	15,888,000
6.	Maude	CBS	15,557,000
7.	Kojak	CBS	15,424,600
8.	The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour	CBS	15,424,600
9.	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	CBS	15,292,200
10.	Cannon	CBS	15,292,200
11.	The Six Million Dollar Man	ABC	15,027,400
12.	The Bob Newhart Show	CBS	14,762,600
13.	The Wonderful World of Disney	NBC	14,762,600
14.	The NBC Saturday Mystery Movie	NBC	14,696,400
15.	Gunsmoke	CBS	14,630,200
16.	Happy Days	ABC	14,233,000
17.	Good Times	CBS	14,166,800
18.	Barnaby Jones	CBS	14,166,800
19.	Monday Night Football	ABC	14,034,400
20.	CBS Friday Night Movie	CBS	14,034,400
21.	Tuesday Movie of the Week	ABC	13,902,000
22.	The Streets of San Francisco	ABC	13,769,600
23.	Adam 12	NBC	13,703,400
24.	ABC Sunday Night Movie	ABC	13,703,400
25.	The Rookies	ABC	13,438,600
26.	ABC Monday Movie	ABC	13,372,400
27.	The Carol Burnett Show	CBS	13,306,200
28.	Kung Fu	ABC	13,306,200
29.	Here's Lucy	CBS	13,240,000
30.	CBS Thursday Movie	CBS	13,173,800

Sports

Basketball

NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship –

UCLA wins 87–66 over Memphis State. Bill Walton of UCLA scored 44 points in the Championship game.

NBA Finals –

New York Knicks won 4 games to 1 over the Los Angeles Lakers

ABA Finals –

Indiana Pacers defeat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3

Ames High School defeats Wahlert to win the Iowa state basketball title

Boxing

22 January – George Foreman beats Joe Frazier by a knockout in two rounds to lift the world's Heavyweight championship from Frazier. It is HBO Boxing's first telecast.

Men's Golf

Masters Tournament – Tommy Aaron

U.S. Open – Johnny Miller – Miller's final round of 63 was a new major championship record which has been equaled several times since, it wasn't until 2017 when that record was broken by Branden Grace at The Open Championship when he shot a 62.

British Open – Tom Weiskopf

PGA Championship – Jack Nicklaus

PGA Tour money leader – Jack Nicklaus – $308,362

Ryder Cup – United States won 19–13 over Great Britain & Ireland in team golf

Triple Crown Races

Kentucky Derby – Secretariat

Preakness Stakes – Secretariat

Belmont Stakes – Secretariat

Tennis

Grand Slam in tennis men's results:

Australian Open – John Newcombe

French Open – Ilie Năstase

Wimbledon – Jan Kodeš

US Open – John Newcombe

Grand Slam in tennis women's results:

Australian Open – Margaret Court

French Open – Margaret Court

Wimbledon – Billie Jean King

US Open – Margaret Court

Football

January 14 − Super Bowl VII: the Miami Dolphins (AFC) won 14–7 over the Washington Redskins (NFC) to complete the only perfect (unbeaten and untied) season in the history of the NFL

Location: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Attendance: 90,182

MVP: Jake Scott, FS (Miami)

Rose Bowl (1972 season):

The Southern California Trojans won 42–17 over the Ohio State Buckeyes to win college football national championship

O. J. Simpson becomes the first player in NFL history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season.

Baseball

18 January – Orlando Cepeda signs with the Boston Red Sox, making him the first player signed by a team specifically to be a designated hitter.

The American League uses the designated hitter rule for the first time. Ron Blomberg is the first player to bat as a DH.

World Series – Oakland Athletics won 4 games to 3 over the New York Mets

World News

The United States ends its involvement in the Vietnam War after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords
OPEC oil to increase by 200%
Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win the Triple Crown
Alaska Oil Pipeline bill is passed to allow construction of a pipeline to access oil from the North Slope of Alaska
Supreme Court of the United States rules on Roe v. Wade.
Cod War UK and Iceland,
Three-Day Week put in place in the UK,
Sydney Opera House is opened
Yom Kippur War and Oil Embargo
UK inflation rate running at 8.4% and the US running at 6.16%

Politics and the Economy

President:	Richard M. Nixon
Vice President:	Spiro T. Agnew
Population:	205,052,174
Life expectancy:	70.8 years
Dow-Jones
High:	842
Low:	669
Federal spending:	$195.65 billion
Federal debt:	$380.9 billion
Inflation:	6.5%
Consumer Price Index:	38.8
Unemployment:	3.5%