Originally posted by sonof70s:
[Wow, that is saying a lot considering the '72 Olympics had the Munich Massacre. You are lucky to have such memories. Did The Exorcist come out the same year as The Godfather? Did The Godfather have a theme song on the radio? I know a lot of movies during that time did (The Sting, Exorcist, etc)
What I do recall is that Speak Softly Love was popular, but it was sung by crooners (exp. Al Martino,aka: Johnny) on talk shows (Dinah, Mike, Merv and Carson). I really don't recall hearing it on the radio that played top ten music.
Exorcist was released Dec. 1993 and it almost rocked Godfather out of its #1 spot.
Yes the Massacre was big news, but in the early 70's, the era of 1/2 hour news coverage, did not have minute to minute coverage of the same story like we do today. Therefore, we were somewhat detached from the story.
