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Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder

Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting

Tour De Force - .38 Special

Night and Day - Joe Jackson

Breakin' Away - Al Jarreau

At around 6AM, the newspaper boy and the milkman will come in almost at the same time - the newspaper boy (riding a bike) will gingerly put the Times Journal and the Bulletin Today inside the crevices of the top gate, while the milkman will buzzer and get an empty Chocolait bottle as replacement for the new, cold one he was delivering.

I'd devour every single article on the newspapers, particularly during summer when there's not too much to do but I still end up waking early.

After breakfast, I'd watch "Good Morning Manila" hosted by Merce Henares and get to know the vegetable prices at Nepa-Q-Mart brought by their roving reporter. After GMM, I'd watch a sports show on RPN 9 at 8AM, where they normally feature old basketball games. This was where I was able to catch the replays of the Philippine national basketball team going up against the likes of Japan and South Korea in the Manila ABC of 1973. At around 9:30AM, I'd watch Sesame Street, a cartoon strip after, Electric Avenue on IBC 13 at around 11AM, Suerte Sa Siete at 11:30AM, and Student Canteen at 12NN (until Eat Bulaga! came in sometime 1979).

After lunch, I'd try to lull myself to siesta by watching old Filipino classics from LVN, Premiere or Sampaguita Pictures on Sine Siete at 1:30PM. This was where I got acquainted with past celebrities like Tita Muñoz, Carmen Rosales, Rogelio Dela Rosa, Jaime Dela Rosa, Norma Blancaflor, Nida Blanca, Nestor De Villa, Pancho Magalona, Tita Duran, among many others. 3PM was the time i switched the TV off as The 700 Club was on air. I go out of the house after merienda and play outside with the other kids, or, do "walling" using a tennis racquet and a tennis ball using our perimeter wall. By the time i'm done, it would be the animated programs already - Voltes V, Mazinger Z, UFO Grendaizer, Mekanda Robot, and Daimos. The teledramas would follow (Flordeluna on RPN, Anna Liza on GMA) then the news at 7PM (Harry Gasser at Newswatch, Lee Andres at Balita, Frankie Evangelista on IBC News 13, Bon Vibar at GTV 4, Tina Monzon-Palma on News at 7).

You had several options to watch after - the canned TV shows of GMA and RPN, the Tagalog teleseryes of BBC, or the old flix at IBC 13 on Piling Piling Pelikula. The news came in at around 10PM and most of the stations were already off the air by midnight...

1. Synchronicity - The Police

2. Revolver - The Beatles

3. White Album - The Beatles

4. 52nd Street - Billy Joel

5. Private Eyes - Hall & Oates

1. Real Property Tax

2. Association dues

3. Utilities

4. Housing Amortization

5. Household Expenses

6. Insurance

7. Car Amortization

 

Susan Henson, Leila Hermosa, Jean Saburit, Janet Bordon, Anna Marin, Ruby Anna

Ellen Esguerra, Tet Antiquerra (pantyless)

I remember one issue of the Panorama (Sunday magazine of The Bulletin Today) that featured these sexy stars in skimpy outfits. My favorite was Ruby Anna. I think others who came out included Chona Castillo, Ellen Esguerra, and Tet Antiquera. Wish there was someone here who could still post that.

Yes, I posted a page back that "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl" was shown on BBC-2. Saturday Fun Machine started around 1982. "Super Friends" was my favorite cartoon show on SFM. I also remember Sealab 2020. Kasabay ata sila ng "Little Rascals" cartoons. I think "Spin-A-Win" was hosted by Subas Herrero. Correct me if I am wrong.

It was Jeanne Young. She became a household name with this show. Prior to this, she did co-hosting gigs for some TV programs and guested in "Discorama," "Student Canteen," that Ariel Ureta show (I forgot the title), among others.

Yup, loved Superfriends too. I think there were two editions - one that had the more complete list which featured Green Lantern, Flash, etc. and the other that had the atrocious "Wonder Twins" and their "wonder twin power, activate..." . Obviously, I preferred the original one, especially since GL was my favorite superhero.

Tama, SFM was early 80's nga ata. Parang after that, yun noontime program ng RPN 9 was "Kwarta O Kahon" by the late Pepe Pimentel, although I'm not sure if the timeline is correct.

Here's Jeanne Young....

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I think it was BBC-2.

Both of you are actually correct. Star Rangers started on RPN 9 every Saturdays at 5:30PM, and was later re-aired on BBC 2 in the early part of the 80's.

There was this Saturday afternoon super hero flick show (for girls) called Electra Woman and Dyna Girl that was shown around 2:30PM on BBC 2. It starred Deidre Hall as the blonde Electra Woman.

I remember another sci-fi cartoon show, Sealab 2020 was aired on BBC 2 or RPN 9 every Saturdays at 11:30AM. As a kid growing up in the 70's, the Saturday Fun Machine that featured cartoons from as early as 8AM to 12NN was one of the entertainment highlights. Shazam and Mightor (back to back with Moby Dick) were just some of the cartoon shows aired during that time zone.

Spin-A-Win was the viewing habit on Sunday noontime, even before German Moreno came out with Germside. I fondly remember the phrase, "agree or disagree" becoming very popular. And if you got a correct answer, people will reply, "SPIN-A-WIN!"

This is your opinion but Marcos is the greatest president we ever had. If he was really a thief, why wasn't he ever convicted? Labeling him a thief is conjecture. It has never been proven to be a fact. The accusations hurled against him are punishable by imprisonment. So far, there has been no conviction. He was vilified by the crooked yellow media and the gullible bought into the lies fed to them about Marcos.

Yikes! Never thought there are still Marcos loyalists prevailing. I thought they were long dead or have found the light, especially after enriching themselves during the dictatorship.

No need to discuss politics here, really. We have our respective choices. Let's talk 80's instead minus the politics...

One of the downers of the 80s was the farce of a revolution in 1986.

I actually think it was the best thing that ever happened to the Philippines...not only in the 80's, but the entire historical landscape.

Removing a treacherous, evil and scheming leader considered as the world's second biggest thief was a testament to the principles, beliefs and values of the Filipinos back then.

Sadly, we can't say the same today...

Classic cassette tape brands included the top of the lines like TDK SAX-90 and metal, and Sony Chrome. The cheaper ones included Betamag (ughh!), and Uni. BASF later came into the scene in the late 80's or early 90's, which improved the quality of the cassette dramatically.

I remember going to the old National Bookstore branch along Quezon Avenue after my class in UP almost weekly to look for new LP albums to buy. Back then, an LP cost P26 while a 12" (extended mix) version was at P19. Some of my best buys included:

1. The Fixx - Reach The Beach

2. Men At Work - Cargo

3. Billy Joel - Glass House

4. Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger

5. Madonna - Madonna (1983)

Good times and better music!

No, McDonalds has always been at the same site ever since it opened in Greenhills way back when.

This is correct. McDonald's entered the PHL scene in 1981 with its first store located at Morayta. Their Greenhills store was the 4th McDonald's branch that opened in the country and it has always been situated right across the Greenhills Shopping Center and beside the open parking lot.

Greenlanes (the bowling center) was also there, beside Mr. Donut, where one of the best brewed coffees was made at least during that time. And prior to Sugi opening in the 90's, there was Kimpura.

102 XB was the disco station in late 70s. It featured the music from Where Else on Saturday nights. Levi's was the major sponsor.

Tagline was Magic Disco 102, and yes, they played disco music all day long (6AM to 12NN). Some of the jocks I remember were The Friendly DJ, Lady Love, King George (later George Boone), and a host of others.

Even local disco tracks were given airtime. These included Passionata's "Disco Araw-Araw," Ella Del Rosario's "Mr. Disco," and of course, the classics from VST and Co.

yeah! meron din ako niyang whote canvass na madumi dumi pa. do you happen to know kung meron pang nagbibenta ng ganyan? nagtry ako sa res-toe-run kaso puro bagong styles na e

Just ordered a pair through Amazon and had this delivered at my buddy's house in LA. Perhaps my favorite canvass shoes of all time...

The_sentinel, yeah, out of topic na nga tayo dun. Anyway, I don't know any song of Natural Selection. Yes, Damn Yankees is glam rock. Their song that I liked was "Can you take me high enough." If I am not mistaken, 102.7 was already declining or was defunct in the beginning part of the 90s.

 

Now, I remember 101.1. Yeah, I sometimes listened to that station. Wilson Phillips was also one of my staples. Some of their songs that I liked were "Release me", "Impulsive", and "Hold on".

Yup, Damn Yankees and Extreme were part of that glam rock genre, which also included the Nelson twins, Poison, G&R, among others. Natural Selection was more of a funk / soul band, their most popular RT track was "Hearts Don't Think (They Feel)." Vonda Shepard became very popular because she was the singer of most of the songs that came out of the Ally McBeal soundtrack, although a personal favorite is "I Shy Away," an unmistakeable RT hit.

I remember listening to RT in the 90s in college. New wave was a dying genre and glamour rock was the genre I was listening to. Warrant, Skid Row, Heart, Aerosmith were some of the rock bands I listened to on RT. What station was KISS-FM? I remember it but I forgot what station exactly?

Sorry for the OT - I guess the topic we're talking about now is a spillover of what the 70's gave to us...

101.1, now owned by the FJE Group and where YES-FM is. Personally, I think KISS-FM may be the best pop station ever formed after RT, just that they were more creative and changed the dynamics of Philippine FM radio. Too bad their weak 5k signal didn't help them, but despite the limitation, they created a niche market in the elite level, which at that time, was dominated by RT.

You're correct about your recollection of the early 90's of RT when they had jocks like North Andrew, Joe Schmoe, Joshua, among others. They weren't ROTC already anymore back then (I think they were already Maximum Music) but the playlist was still founded on Billboard's Top 40. Glam rock was exceptionally doing well in the charts that time so that's not a surprise. Other early 90's hitmakers associated with RT included Natural Selection, Maxi Priest, Extreme, Damn Yankees, Wilson Phillips, Vonda Shephard, among others.

Red Hot's personalities included OB Hollywood Andrew, Johnny Cesar, Mighty Thor, Bob Magoo, among others.

I didn't know that their station was in Taft. There wasn't any station that played new wave music in 80s except that station.

RT did try to tinker with their playlist sometime 1986 when they reformatted and became the Red Hot Radio Station after Rhythm of the City. This was triggered by KISS-FM's success in eating up their listener share. In a knee-jerk move made by then part-owner cum DJ OB Hollywood Andrew, RT generally became a new wave station sprinkled with some American hits that didn't pan out. They reverted to the ROTC format a year or two after.

Yes, XB's location was in Manila, somewhere in the Taft area. Can't recall the actual street but it's not exactly what we normally see on television shows like WKRP in Cincinnati, those Wolfman Jack shows, and even those Howard Stern clips. It's a dingy, not even a building but more of a residential house type. Still, they played really great music that impacted heavily in the non-mainstream market.

No WXB 102? That was the "in" station in the mid-80s. Puro new wave. I remember always waiting for the song " If You Leave" when I listen to this station.

That also. But since the signal was horrendously weak, it wasn't easy to pick up the frequency in the car while driving, or on the boombox in our school organization's tambayan...

I won't forget WXB 102 since our mobile disco group was featured one Saturday night. We were once doing a party in one of the clubhouses in QC when someone approached me and introduced himself as a DJ of WXB. Appreciating the playlist that we were doing, he invited us to be the mobile feature of the station for one Saturday.

Because the station didn't actually have sophisticated equipment, we were asked to bring a cassette tape of our best new wave mixes, provided that it was clear copy. We did so, went to the station in Taft around 8:30PM, and came on board at 9PM.

We listened to the same stations but I listened to this in the 80s because I was still a kid in the 70s.

Was also a kid back in the 70's but since there's a strong radio influence at home (my eldest sib is / was a FM DJ), I had an early start.

In the 80's, the station I listened to where:

1. 99.5RT (Rhythm of the City)

2. 97.1 WLS-FM (The Best Music) - only up to 1985 though

3. 101.1 KISS-FM (HOT HITS!)

4. 101.9 ZOO-FM (Hayop Talaga!)

5. 94.7 DWLL-FM (Mellow Touch)

6. 96.3 DWRK-FM (Real Radio) - not the WROCK version

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Coming from someone who was part of a triumvirate that rivalled the TVJ group back in the 70's to the 90's, this must mean a lot...

For No One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuphFPEqJqw

Blackbird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrxZhWCAuQw

Hello Goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkH3PdDZZuA

This was why Sunday nights at 8PM gave men a reason to stay home and watch the boob tube...

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One of my favorite shows back in the 70's - albeit, only shown once a year. I can never forget the first year when Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back, Kotter) captained ABC, Telly Savalas (Kojak) was head of CBS and Robert Conrad (Baa Baa Black Sheep) skippered NBC. There was a protest filed by Conrad against ABC and to settle the dispute, Conrad and Kaplan duked it out on the obstacle course. Kaplan, with his long limbs, easily won, making Conrad eat crow.

And yes, the photo says it all - it's called the "baseball dunk" that spun off several imitations in local variety shows, in particular, Suerte Sa Siete, the pre-programmer of Student Canteen back then.

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I'm not familiar with Jealousy but I heard of it. After the disco era, genres like house and trance or whatever you call those didn't appeal to me.

Guess it's a periodic thing. After the disco scene, what came out next were jazz bars like Jazz Rhythms, Reasons, etc. After this period came the concert scene when live bands started performing in bars - most popular of which in the 90's was Music Hall located near EDSA.

Some of the best albums back in the 70's:

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First time we got a Sony Betamax set SL-5800 was back in 1980. First tape that we played in that machine? James Clavell's novel "Shogun". First R-rated that we played there? "Stay The Way You Are" starring the luscious Nastassja Kinski! Of course, you know which one was easier to remember...

Also loved playing Game & Watch back then, particularly during summer when there was nothing to do. Popeye, Octopus and Chef were the gadgets we had at home and it was quite addicting.

Whenever one bought a new Atari machine, it came in with a free game. The game was "Combat," one of the most boring video games back then. I actually enjoyed "Super Breakout" but became fascinated with Activision games like "Tennis" and "Donkey Kong."