The Most iconic musical opening sequence 

you literally uploaded a clip from a movie and put your own watermark on it

Apparently Travolta doesn't recall the window-shopping segment

You should DISCOunt the critics' ratings.

@@rcnelson I see what you did there, you clever rat!

A seven. It is a brilliant beginning. I watched half of it. A commentary, before, after and during would have made it better.

18th Ave

That's a neat idea

It's electrifying! Oops, wrong movie.

COOL memory!!!

Were you with your boyfriend?

I've strolled the streets with a machete, a roll of bubble wrap, detergent, my dinner and a dog in separate situations to this tune.

A 27 dollar shirt?? That's like 90 bucks in todays $

kkkkk só nos anos 70 mesmo para se ter umas cenas dessas

agree. It was probably empty.

or charm a customer who waited half an hour for it!

Amen

I was 18, SF was fun then in discos

Spot on. I was 12 and life fun. Then I grew up.

i turned 11 in the summer of 77 so no going to any disco for me, but i loved music since i was 6 so i loved the soundtrack and got to see the movie years later because it was not suitable for young kids. Anyway i grew up with 60's and 70's music and my best days were in the 80s, so in the disco 2.0 era, and is because i grew up from a older teenager to a young adult in that decade, so those were my best days and i'm glad that i ws at the right time and place and age because the 80's were the best times the western world has ever seen. The 90's were also okay but from 2000 until now the world has gone insane and now i'm glad that i'm no longer a young dude, because i don't want to be a part of today's young people because they all are weak, woke, feminized, political correct idiots. So to hell with the modern world, i lived my best years in the best decades, and that was worth more than all the money in the world!

Hey man, 66 and still struttin' except now when I oogle the ladies I am a "dirty old man" but lovin it.

And getting fat 😂

@@jrr3613 True! Disco was always a great workout. My music? Ah, not so much. You could get fat to my tunes. Take care and thanks for your reply!

Wow maam you were very lucky to be a teenager back then

So true, the internet, cell phones, really ruined the way humans interact and socialize

@@anonanon7235 I totally agree, but I keep writing music the old fashioned way, hoping the new generation will like what I bring back. Thanks for your reply and take care.

Your kidding me, I never knew...thank you..

@@jethro1260 You're very welcome.

I lived in the city too. Queens. But I drove a taxi all over - I drove through the Bronx the night of the blackout. That was an experience. But I loved those pizza joints all over the city. I was trying to remember how much a slice was back then. A lot of the pizza places I know closed, and the new ones don't seem as italian, or as good. In the old days there was a fresh pie coming out of the oven every fifteen minutes. I never saw anyone eat two slices at once like Tony did in this opening scene.

@@ppumpkin3282 I hear ya... We'll never get those days back again and we were lucky enough to live in that era... I did see a few dudes mimick that 2 slice scene, it was kinda cringey to watch. I also witnessed a few occasions with imbeciles mimicking the White Castle scene when they stuffed a bunch of sliders in their mouth... All in all, I miss those days dearly.

@@ppumpkin3282 Btw, I think a slice was around 45 cents then and if you ask for a pie in a pizza place in the south, they look at you like you have 2 heads.

The chick in the video wasn't nearly as impressed, she wanted none of that 😂

@@ckobo84 That's true but it sure did make an impression on Donna Pescow's(sp?) character :)

I've always felt he was doing a good-natured imitation of the typical confident straight guy, and it sure worked.

@@ckobo84 She did want it just not on the street. Simps have no regard for protocol and it explains why so many incels.

Check out, the reenactment of this iconic, scene, John Travolta,as Santa Claus, struttin down the street. Capital One, commercial 👍. When I first saw it, I was like 😳, is that John Travolta, and there's Donna Pescow.... 😅😅😊 Awesome 👍

Immigration 😢

@@reginaldforthright805 lol, NY was always full of immigrants going back over a century. Just be honest: you're only crying about the _skin color_ of the immigrants.

@@reginaldforthright805 Yeah, those Italians, lol.

@@eyesears113 Europeans are not the problem

​@@eyesears113 There are certain races and cultures that work in certain places in the world, Have you seen the fkkn state of the Uk?

Things do have a Soul...blessed bee 🐝 ...

You sound like my father back in 1971, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

My shoes have a sole!

​@@babthookawell said

@@babthooka So does your ahhh.

Bullshit. His character is a full on, affectatious, strutting peacock who window shops like a woman. Cringeworthy.

Kensington?

Look at John Travolta he had class in those days we had class and manners nowadays we got no class and no manners at all

@@anthonytheitalian2863 True. Also, people are not allowed to flirt anymore. We can't even compliment a good looking girl and say nice things without a herd of her friends ganging up on you and threatening to call the cops for attempted rape. Times have changed , my friend. I was six years old when this flick came out. I've seen it so many times already. ...takes me back to the good ole days.

​@@ShlomoKuhn-Silverstein "Also, people are not allowed to flirt anymore." - Wrong. "We can't even compliment a good looking girl and say nice things without a herd of her friends ganging up on you and threatening to call the cops for attempted rape. " - Wrong. "I was six years old when this flick came out." - No you didn't. Don't lie. "takes me back to the good ole days." - the good ole days that you weren't an adult for? You are so full of shit.

INDEED! 2nd only to the one from the greatest movie nobody saw- The Commitments, by the genius Alan Parker. That soundtrack is incredible. ❤🎷🎺🎹

I'm having trouble imagining someone trying to sell this script to a studio exec. Script writer: "Yea, it's about a kid that works in a hardware store by day and go's to discos on Saturday night to dance" Studio exec: "Uh............WHAT?" Who knew it would be a movie that would define a decade.

This movie killed disco....made it mainstream

@@joeyjbjoe all the better for it

They were 3 or 4 years behind disco.

@@realfacthunt But they made disco into a global phenomenon.

You are reading way too much into that bud.

@@rickwilliams967 Or, he likes it in the hoop.

@@rickwilliams967 half the fun!

Narcissism at it's finest.

@@henrycodm896 well, whatever it is, Travolta captured it perfectly

Definitely! Authentic New York City! A timeless classic. Travolta had the looks and swagger to carry this off with perfection 🕺

I found myself reminiscing about the taste of new york pizza. The water and altitude of Los Angeles where i live now dont add up to pizza that is as flavorful!!

I could smell the pizza

*Fact is its a Real pizza shop and that woman was his real elder sister and old woman buying the pot of paint is his real mom!!* 💡

@@afriend9428 haha. But what about Ellen? Where’s Ellen Travolta?

Just a year older than you but we definitely lived parallel lives! Those were the days and I danced every second of it I could.😁💃🏻. Taught myself to dance and became a little disco queen at 18. 💃🏻🪩💃🏻🕺 The absolute best times and memories of any period of my life thus far. It was really magical and I came of age at the perfect time!❤

And the 77 Monte Carlos in canarsie.

The bass so loud it thumped in your chest on the dance floor.

Yeah, back then the battle of the sexes wasn't a big deal like today. Women believe feminist myths about their capabilities now, try and flop at science, then blame it on 'the patriarchy' as an ego defense.

Give us some advice how to live, we have nothing now, women are hos, we will never get home, we will stay poor forever enslaved in the new autoritarian regimes they are getting ready for us...

Who was the women who didn't want anything to do with him. Very hot.

⁠that was my mum ,,,, lol

He handled both situations like a pro

Seriously 😮

* *hear*

I watched around 5 to 6 times . Awsome 🎉

Movie name

Same age same obsession, It was shown for 3 months at the ABC cinema , Went to see it 13 times and still watch it on tv , have it also on dvd, shame , I sold the soundtrack LP . It just bring me back to my teens .

I saw it 7 times as well. Couldn't stay away.

Those were simple and happy times.

The talk in the media was... is the bee gees music driving the music or is the movie driving the bee gees album... both were box office block busters

Click the 'edit' button; you meant to say "driving the movie" (not the "music"). But it was certainly mutually beneficial--the Bee Gees profited as much from the movie's exposure of their music as the movie was catapulted to heights it would never have reached without its now-iconic contributions from the Brothers Gibb.@@tomthrower3245

❤

Also the fact that he's obviously nipping out the store to buy a can of paint from a rival store while the customer is waiting and he still finds time to buy a pair of shoes, flirt, eat pizza, put a downpayment on a shirt, flirt again shows you his priorities are clothes, women and himself, definitely not work!

The movie itself is actually pretty bad tho. It’s really only famous for the dance scene.

You need to calm down

@@someguy42093 _ABSOLUTELY!_

@@Phil_X We'll see...

The greatest movie about growing up ever made, and probably Gene Siskel would agree with me.

@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 💥Possibly true, Doc. Gene's fave movie of all time, struck a nerve in him, seen it gazillion times, owns the white suit of Travolta acquired from a Hollywood auction --- ■

@@denniseudela411 Yes lol. I didn't know he went as far as saying it was his all-time fav, but I can see that. Way more than just a portrait of a generation.

No it just means people don't have a life.

Same haha

Stay a rocker , I am

I'm one of those who is a rocker, but totally in love with the Bee Gees too. Music has no boundaries. 😎

I was a grunge, punk, and metal kid in the 90's. These days I've been appreciating more dance and hip-hop music I would've passed up now that I'm older and more open-minded. You fall into cliques when you're young which is a shame because that prevents you from branching out and expanding your experiences.

I’m such a rocker I boycott the rock hall when they started putting disco, rap and hip hop in.

Yes ☝️☝️

The customer is Helen Travolta... John's mother in real life.

@@lawrencelazar3508Thank you for that, I never knew 🙂

also the guy in the background demanding a gallon of exactly this same paint... funny sequence.

@@lawrencelazar3508 and his sister was th eone who gave him his two slices of pizza.

Very astute observation!

I know that theater! My son lives nearby and I go to the Starbucks next door. That theater i# in many movie scenes!

Cool Memory

I don't quite get it, it is a interesting opening no doubt, but what do you mean rockin? Was John Travolta a big star back then? I am asking sincerely.

@@IshmaelDoe r u trying to to be funny?

@@jay5jay I don't live in US nor was I born around that time, people in where I live only make a sound in theater when it is funny, and almost never cheers. So I just want to know what they were (talking like mentioned in another post, or cheering..etc) and why.

Well, maybe not so Price Less! Ha! Lol ...blessings...

It also shows that John has a female gait (being a FTM); you can always tell by the way they walk they're womanly men, no time to talk.

@@wendynine-sc2sv she was mad waiting a half hour and he charmed her pants off. Then still charges extra three $$.

@Stevie-hn7mp I know! Priceless, right? In one way or another! Found out yesterday on an Older movie site that the elderly lady was his real mother, and the young pizza worker was his sister!

@@wendynine-sc2sv Damn, I was going to comment that and you were first!

No doubt

So would I , everything's gone to rack and ruin in the 21st century tbh

Hell yes

I'm in Belfast. The 70s here were grim.

do it ...why not,nothing to lose amigo,never is too late...warren buffet get rich a t 60 years old

Yeah but growing old has it's benefits

​@@johngrimes9188no it doesn't

I Will drink prune juice to that, old sucks. I am 79 I know.@@ThatGuy-vi6cj

@@johngrimes9188 i'd take young over the benefits....lol

And Close Encounters.

Punk Rock and Disco

And Annie Hall

Elvis died.

And real rock was 70s rock PERIOD.

Never mind those gal's who was that lady he was chasing down the street 😂😂😂 too funny 😊

@@johnrozs I have no idea. There's a very good shot of her face. You'd think that after all these years someone would have been able to identify her by now.

@@johnrozs: Which one? There were two.

@@timonsolus He only chases one of them, so it's kind of obvious which one he meant.

@@puppethound: No, he started chasing the first woman too, but gave up sooner.

I agree! The shoes, the hair, the jacket! Everything about this image was fashionable and iconic.

Bell bottoms were a good look. Maybe not the huge sail sized ones, but the moderately sized ones were. Better than those skinny high water jeans emos wear.

Are they bell bottoms or flares?

Elvis? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

​@@dplouroyes, Elvis. I was there, four years old back at the time this movie played, and I really couldn't tell them apart . Both are handsome, dark-haired guys, who look good both in a leather jacket and in a white suit, who both can dance and sing, no matter if they were in a fifties- or seventies-setting.

@@CanalPSG Sorry but I only knew Elvis as a drug addicted fat guy with an incredible bad taste wardrobe and without any talent left whatsoever. I was 18 in 1977 when I first saw the movie. And Travolta still rocks almost in his seventies.

@@dplouro I was too young for that part of Elvis-history. All I got to see were memorial shows that glorified the best of Elvis.

he definitely has magnetism and very handsome bloke

It be like that sometimes

@@famousbowl9926 maybe. I just think they filmed it over a course of time and didn’t pay attention.

Well, the lady did complain that it took him half an hour. Weather can change.....

@@tomaccino 🤣 good one

You ever been in New York? It's like Dublin, you can have 4 seasons in one day.

What movie is it

How many GF’s did you sneak in the back door to watch it free😂

That's so awesome! Good memories. This is my favorite movie ever.

I really wish I could've been a teenager in that glorious cultural decade...

same@@IronMan-tk8uc

Sad

Not so good now though

Mine also .But now i Love my Lord and Saviour The Lord Jesus Christ I know He died for every ones sins past present and future And All you have to do is put All your trust in him personally and in him alone to save you He died on the cross to save all humanity. I have so much peace Now that i have put all my trust in him and him alone to save me from Hell for ever. This will be the best news you will ever hear EVER.

women

*looks at Gay men* uhh...*points*

very gay @@PJ-sv4iw

TO THIS DAY TO THIS DAY

Man yall sound more that@@RPDNOIR

Why

He wasn’t in NYC

This wasn’t in New York. Also, NYC back then was called “Fear City.”

Last time I was there was 09 in Chelsea. What is it like now.

You can be lucky it's not the new york of the 70 or the 80s. The city almost went bankrupt and crime was rampant. T

5 years old? Yikes.

I've seen bits of the film since a teen but watched the whole thing about 3 years ago when I was 32... some prettty adult content in there lol. In fact the last 1/4 of the film was uhh... pretty heavy, even for an adult.

She gave you one of your fonder memories! She did alright with you. 😆

Derelict for sure I’m sry

No way. Kids were not allowed to R rated. I was 11. Unless you went to the pg version they created after

Whatever you do- do NOT go back and see what that area looks like TODAY. OMG it's dreadful. rips my heart out.

@@LannieLord Really? When were you there last, Lannie?

Whenever I hear that title I can’t help but remember, Samurai Night Fever on Saturday Night Live.

Absolutely my friend, too bad they don't make that kind of movie/music anymore.

💯

It was a good time for that era...... I miss it.

@@kat35lulu88 I'd go back in a heartbeat.

Barry didn't write it alone. It was written by Barry Robin and Maurice.

We all are. 😎

There are still some movies of this depth, but sadly the are no longer Hollywood mainstream. I thought the film about Adam Sandler as a diamond jeweler was great (forget name now).

we don't have that world anymore either.

Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler

Some if not many women today would call the police if you stand in their way and try to connect. World has turned to a much colder and more loveless place

So true. I think it unfortunately got hit with so much parody and such that even myself the first time I ever heard of it was when I was reading Mad magazine lol. And then I see this movie that takes place in my old neighborhood amidst this dead-end world of just getting by. It's far deeper than I think people realize.

@@RunesandReapers Parody? You mean like the "Samurai Night Fever" SNL skit with John Belushi? Dan Aykroyd sliding into a booth and saying, "This is the life! To be young and stupid and have no future!"? That parody? Hilarious.

SWEET ❤❤❤!!!!

Oh what lovely memory 🌷

I was the same age and you could not get away from the bee gees the whole world was dancing to the bee gees at the time

@ericmilesaz beautiful time capusule, greatings to your mom.

And his pizza eating !

I always thought this movie was just about people who liked dancing. When I finally saw it I wasn't really into the rape and self ending bits.

@@Roddy556so how did you feel watching “Barbie” ?

@@Roddy556 Yeah, the story is a lot darker than the "Disco is fun!! Check these crazy outfits!!" vibes which surround peoples' memories of it.

@callmesceptical9114 never saw Barbie either. Does it turn all dark and sinister too? If so I might steer clear of it.

"summer Kino" Outdoor cinema? Drive-in cinema?

@@Foersom_ Just outdoor.

Wasn't it! Good Times. Feeling so nostalgic now 😢

i remember well

Dam you got that right! We were upbeat, optimistic and the world seemed a much more rational place...mostly! Now we live in doom and gloom every bloody day. Every corner of the globe is at war. Women want to be men and men want to be women, and kids dont even know how to enjoy themselves anymore. Lousy seems an apt word to use.

Me too. We don't know each other but I know for sure that we are blessed to have grown up during that amazing era :D

So right about a lousy world with cell zombies glued to their phones 24/24!!! They never opened a book in their lives… Sad generation, I don’t feel sorry for them because you build your own destiny and us the lucky ones that grow up in the 70’s and 80’s, it was a blessing from God!!! PS It took 46 years to realize that Tony was eating two slices at the same time… LOL

I agree it was a blessing from God. My motto now is The older I get the less I care. @@hectorlabbe

What movie

Hope you didn't vote democrat coz you get what you vote for

Well, in the seventies, New York wasnt the heaven. Good example of memory that was never like that

NYC in the 70s was a crime ridden hell hole. What lol

well it never looked like Paris... lol...your memory is distorted

If you want "crazy violence" then try growing up in New York in the late 70's...

And bringing back Donna Pascow.

Yes just came back to this.

The sicko demonic lieng loser devil claws is santa clause i wont say s for its name i give it no power !!!

Easily pleased

still sounds good, because it was cleverly done to go with the beat of our hearts :D

Never say never. At least I hope mainstream music will become what it used to be in this golden era - clever, nice, exciting, sexy and funky. Today it's just pure garbage. All good music has gone on the internet, on Spotify, YT etc. Not on mainstream media.

@@DESSERT_X Clive Anderson got it right, they sang meaningless songs in high pitched voices

​@Heygoodlooking-lk9kg what about their 60 stuff ?

OH ABSOFUKINGLUTELY!!

Why do old people write comments like this all over youtube. The planet keeps spinning and it is not a bad place to live in 2024. Quit being so sad and find some joy. (I am giving this same advice to myself, by the way, because i am old too, ha!)

@@Mister_Listener By that definition, you could be right. I mean its ok. However, by comparrison. its really, really not as great as back then and to the OP. I would disagree that's actually the 80s but I digress.

@@BeyondDaX thanks for clarification. So overall, it is because these people hate getting older, i guess?

I so miss that era and what stories I could tell about it here in Atlanta...