New Years Eve at Times Square - 1976 - 1977!!

[@43PETERR]

I was 17 years old and was with my parents that night in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria! It was Awesome! We went every year from 1973 -1976

[@dougtaylor2803]

What a great traditional and memories to cherish. My parents and I did something similar in Toronto as we would rent a hotel room right downtown for New Year's Eve and have dinner out then go back and watch the city celebrate...it was great.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Lucky you , I was also 17 , my parent's went out with friends, I ordered a pizza and drank an entire bottle of sparkling wine , on my own , all alone . Mom and Dad were not happy , the next day to find that I had consumed an entire bottle .

[@luislaplume8261]

I come from a dull family. We saw it on TV every year at home. We would never have thought of it, but my mother's brother would and do it. 2 very different personalities. His family had color TV, stereo record player, florescent lights in the kitchen and air conditioning. In my case we had a 1961 G.E AM band radio and black and white TV. It might as well be a middle class home circa 1910, but we lived in NYC! What a bummer thinking about it now! Thanks for your wonderful memories!

[@yuriribeiro9620]

My father was 16 and my mother was 4 at that time. I was born in 2002... I'd really like to enjoy a new year watching Guy Lombardo. He is not going to be forgotten.

[@misterimperfect2896]

16 v 4? lol?

[@yuriribeiro9620]

@@fadimkaramanoglu mom's birthdate: 1972 Mom's age: 49

[@JaydenTheSaigonLover]

16years or 4years

[@arthurweems2839]

I was 5 when 1977 came in Star Wars, Airport '77, Saturday NightFever, all my childhood faves. Also back then I went to bed and woke up in the new year.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

Don't forget Close Encounters of the First Kind, Smokey and the Bandit, Fun with Dick & Jane and The Silent Partner....GOOD MOVIES!!!...GREAT SOUNDTRACKS!!!

[@Ethan-ey4jx]

Don't forget about Slap Shot featuring Paul Newman. It was one of the first movies to break the mould of the movie industry by showing blatant content for adults like nudity and constant profanity, especially the f bombs. One of the first ever legit r rated movies.

[@giovanniandhisfriends2628]

Dont forget about chuck e cheese pizza time theater

[@ladygirl99]

I was born this year in July, so cool to see what it looks like.

[@dontatme7761]

@@fadimkaramanoglu no. She’s 3-4 months old

[@70sgirl1961]

I had just turned 15. 1977 was the year I got my driver's license. And totaled a car a week later! Lol Man, it seems so long ago.

[@jillianleda6732]

Aww wow what a great time 😊😊😊 Happy New Year 🎉🥂🎉

[@prince_yt3406]

Maybe it was so long ago

[@wattsjetton3027]

Coincidentally, 15 was the number of degrees during the 1977 ball drop. It was a Mega Freezefest!

[@Musicradio77Network]

This was at that time, a little radio station called KRUX in Phoenix, AZ was doing a Top 100 songs of 1976, and around 10 PM which was mountain time, Greg Mills was doing a countdown starting at #36 which was the Captain & Tennile doing a cover version of a Miracles hit "Shop Around". I listened to a KRUX New Year's Eve special yesterday on Rewound Radio during the "DJ Hall of Fame". That aircheck from KRUX from Phoenix, AZ was two hours left of 1976, and then, two hours later, a guy from KRUX rang in 1977 and played a #1 song which was Elton John & Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart", and it was an amazing accomplishment. In NYC was 2 AM which was two hours after welcoming in 1977. I thought you're in the southwest desert ringing in the New Year. Times have changed.

[@sambradley2975]

I was 9 in '77, I remember watching both, my folks would watch Guy Lombardo, but my sister & I would watch Dick Clark.

[@isaacabramovich3168]

Nothing like going back in time to a better time in America

[@arlenegage9873]

I have great memories of spending many New Years Eves watching Lombardi on our big black n white console!! What fun eating snacks and sipping the bubbly!!😍🥂

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

Never forget that night, Right before the ball dropped i was in the Loews State Theater on 45th Street watching King Kong and the movie ended right about midnight, when i exited the theater it was total mayhem....GOOD MEMORIES!!!

[@sambradley2975]

Peace be upon you Guy Lombardo! New Years hasn't been the same, you & Dick Clark.

[@wmbrown6]

You have to wonder if, in the next world, Dick Clark and Guy Lombardo are working together to usher in future New Year's . . .

[@leftbenchplayaa]

What a wonderful time...everyone seemed so happy and innocent. I feel like I was born in the wrong era.

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

Ben Grauer sure knew how to ramp up the excitement level. He put a lot of flair and thoughtful insight into his broadcasting delivery. That is the way it's done! Happy New Year to everyone in 2015.

[@justjeff53]

Looking for old music and happened to find this. I remember watching this live on WJW. I lived near Mansfield, Ohio at the time. I had no idea it would be Guy's last Hurrah. New Years Eve was just never the same without Guy Lombardo. And this is coming from a guy that loves rock music. Thanks for sharing this.

[@seosamhofionnaghain8699]

1977 was the year Groucho, Bing, Chaplin, and Elvis all died. Yes 1977 was to be a sad year for the entertainment industry.

[@teegeemedia]

Wow, what a roar from the crowd and what a color commentary. Epic.

[@GeorgeAD4]

This is amazing. Thank you for preserving this piece of TV history. If you could upload the whole show, it would be AMAZING!!!! The whole show should be preserved for history.

[@johnflynn1589]

When Ben Grauer said it was 15 degrees, it was actually the 2nd coldest NYE he covered. It was 11 degrees in '62 going into '63.

[@TimelordR]

I was 10 years old when this took place. Afterwards, my dad let me & my older brother stay up late just long enough to catch the Marx Bros. movie "Duck Soup" that used to run on New Years' morning on WGN-TV.

[@db3crashcoursecinema]

The Year I was Born,and what a perfect time it happened right at the Beginning of PUNK ROCK and HIP HOP,and DISCO,too!!!

[@stingsAUTTP]

& Nintendo enters the gaming industry!

[@lindaeasley5606]

1977 in music - top hits : Dreams by Fleetwood Mac , I Feel Love by Donna Summer , I Just Want To Be Your Everything by Andy Gibb and Got To Give It Up pt1 by Marvin Gaye Voyager 1 and 2 would be launched .Technological marvels still sending back information I turned 16 that year and was having a blast 😎

[@robzap19nintendosteampictures]

RIP Guy Lombardo & Ben Grauer

[@princejavv3314]

The late 20th century looked super fun, i wish time was more like this today

[@BegoneJonah]

Guy Lombardo - and his generation - were adults. They wore fedoras, not baseball caps, and weren't stunted adolescents concerned about seeming to be hip or cool. They just were.

[@annabelkitten07]

Times change.

[@ericbaker9688]

Wow..3 months later I was born! If I would have known what I know now I would've crawled back in. 👶🏾

[@Mitzi73]

Four months later (April 1977) Studio 54 opened to usher in a new era of decadence in Nyc.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

''RIP STUDIO 54'' Partied there from '83 to '87....GOOD TIMES!!!!

[@joshstephens3650]

God bless Studio 54.

[@danlivni2097]

@@1986SSMONTECARLO What were the popular clubs in NYC in the 80s. The one's i'v heard about were the Limelight, Palladium, Danceteria, Area and The World were popular.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

@@danlivni2097 Red Parrot, Zenons, Kamikazi, 4-D, Private Eyes, Tunnel, Underground, Cat Club, Roxy, 1018, Fun House, Garage, Bentley's, 555 and Nirvana to name few and my FAVORITE Plato's Retreat

[@MAA8772]

Remember watching this seems like a million years ago now!!!

[@sambradley2975]

I remember so well, sadly we would lose Guy Lombardo in 1977.

[@pinedelgado4743]

And Ben Grauer as well. :( :(

[@JaydenTheSaigonLover]

Someone yeah.

[@josearellano203]

And this video is from 40 years ago. Happy New Year again. My mom was 10 and my dad was 16. And we're also getting a new president this year, Donald Trump. I love New Years, now it's become my favorite holiday. I am glad to see a video from when 1977 began, and it's now 40 years ago.

[@wmbrown6]

It wasn't just Mr. Lombardo and Mr. Grauer for whom this would be the last New Year's celebration. In a few months the zipper atop the Bond Clothes building would be turned off (never to operate again) after their Times Square store closed, and also within the month of January the EPOK which had been a fixture of Times Square on the NE corner of 46th and Broadway since 1940 would go dark for good (the last advertiser to have film loops run their product through 4,104 photocells: Carlton cigarettes), the once-cutting edge and state-of-the-art display system having been rendered obsolete by the Spectacolor (seen around 2:40; its initial controls from the Mark 400 computer by American Sign & Indicator Corp.) which first went online on the 43rd Street side of One Times Square on Dec. 1, 1976. The One Times Square zipper itself, meanwhile, within several months of this, would also go dark for some nine years, until New York Newsday stepped in to operate it starting in 1986.

[@matthewbulger2299]

Sadly This Turned Out To Be Last New Years For The Late Guy Lombardo. He Died On November 5h,1977 At Age 75.

[@tommyparkerparker]

Also for Ben Grauer, who passed away 5 months before Guy Lombardo. New Year's Eve not since ringing in the new year with Guy, Ben and Dick Clark. RIP. All three were icons.

[@Pdasilva0324]

@@tommyparkerparker Dick Clark died in 2012 but they still call it Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve

[@pinedelgado4743]

With GOOD reason, @Paul DaSilva!! Because of Dick's profound impact on the way TV viewers ring in the new year, it wouldn't be called anything else!! ;-)

[@LindaoRicardo]

@ROBLOX Namo that is his brother, he also died

[@surferbri5346]

@@Pdasilva0324 thanks captain obvious

[@yuriribeiro9620]

Lombardo was so happy...

[@sambradley2975]

Back then, the older generation had Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians on CBS, & the younger generation had "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve", nowadays, only one survives, & most New Year shows are geared for the younger generation.

[@Pdasilva0324]

Interestingly, Guy's last NYE appearance was at age 75 while Dick Clark was on until he was 82

[@Aven_-de2py]

Goodbye 2010 Hello 2011

[@diegonotdrkatz]

1977 was the year when the original Star Wars movie was released.

[@IVR02]

40 years later... Happy 2017!

[@legasiguy551]

Those were state of the art graphics back in the day.

[@byrd56]

Yes, if you consider slide projection title cards and an timer insert from a camera shot state-of-the-art. Oh, there were these newfangled things called character generators, particularly with brand names like Vidifont or Chyron, but while CBS had some of those on hand, in studio and on remote, those weren't pressed into service for certain budgetary and/or artistic reasons. 2:30 - Something else new back then was the Spectacolor message board at 1 Times Square.

[@ComicManGus]

HAPPY NEW YEAR - EVERY YEAR, EVERYONE !!!!! LIVE LONG & PROSPER!!!

[@jamesniezgoda5454]

I get chills watching this

[@jasjas-rm9kc]

I was living in New York City at the time. Greenwich Village. I considered going to Times Square that night, but the weather was not too good, so I watched all this on TV.

[@hunterhellfire848]

Love the animation!

[@pinedelgado4743]

Yes, @Hunter Hellfire . It was TOP DRAWER!!! ;-)

[@bryansmith958]

We need something like this today, this new years eve 2014-2015

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Assuming anyone wants to do a "Big Band" approach these days.

[@WCPR1620AM]

RIP: Dick Clark, you made the best New Year's Eve show ever made.

[@gouriparale5224]

Try ball drops with Guy Lombardo that represent the Big Apple.

[@orbison]

For Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Zero Mostel, Joan Crawford....and yes, Guy Lombardo fans, 1977 was a sad year. :(:(:(:(:(:(

[@jackhproductions]

orbison, also Bing Crosby died in 1977. 😢

[@dougtaylor2803]

I was thinking that as well. My paternal grandfather passed on in February 1977.

[@pinedelgado4743]

Don't forget Ben Grauer describing things as they happened at Times Square! Ben passed away exactly five months later, May 31, 1977. God Bless Guy and Ben!!! :-)

[@Pdasilva0324]

I was born in 1977 lol 2016-18 are sadder lol

[@gochem3013]

1977 kills 8 of them.

[@DiscoverGuy]

4:07 1977!

[@MrPoe22]

I as born on August 10th if that year. So cool to watch the New Years celebration from the year you were born!

[@gochem3013]

So, that's why 1977 was the year when star wars was born. All of you star wars fan, you gonna watch this.

[@Magitroopa]

Happy 2019 lads

[@acastrohowell]

Watching 2022, I was 22 years old then, where did time go?

[@gochem3013]

RIP 1977 (1976-2015)

[@luisreyes1963]

A time when the only thing you had to worry about in a huge crowd is getting your pocket picked, not catch a deadly virus. 😷

[@nickrussolillo5414]

we want go there and see the ball drop there in times square

[@calvinbealer7264]

Great 😃👍 Memories.

[@sambradley2975]

Sadly these 2 men would pass in the new year. 😢

[@USA_672]

4:08 10 to Happy New Year! (HNY!)

[@MrMatteNWk]

Dick Clark wasn't kidding when he said that CBS's show was a bunch of old people dancing jowl-to-jowl to big band music.

[@epaddon]

Ben Grauer for many years ushered in the New Year on NBC doing a live hookup during the Tonight Show but once Johnny moved to LA that ended Ben's tradition of doing it on NBC. Few people don't know that Dick Clark was first considering having Ben announce the ball drop for his ABC specials just because he was so identified with it but the ABC execs told him he should do it instead in keeping with their going for the youth angle so Ben instead found a new home calling the New Year in on CBS with Guy until his death.

[@thetribeoffive5675]

Happy new year from the management and staff at wls-tv Chicago

[@billserratore]

Nothing like Guy Lombardo!

[@BFDI383]

Thanks for that

[@Zuzuyatts]

So much better then. I was 17 and liked my rock, but even I knew that to properly ring in the New Year you needed the Royal Canadians.

[@sambradley2975]

It was the year of Disco & Punk.

[@Megacooltommydee]

Isn't this the year Star Wars came out?

[@totymar1654]

Yup

[@GuilhermeGRM1712]

Love this Animation

[@pinedelgado4743]

So did/DO I, +Guilherme GRM!!! That was the best part--aside from Ben Grauer screaming his head off and the Solari mechanical digital clock on the bottom of the screen noting the time of day!! Hey! I can't help THAT--'cause I have AUTISM!!! #Autism

[@richardclifford2327]

The video begins with the Lombardo band playing "Red Roses For A Blue Lady," and Lee Jordan is the announcer in the video.

[@legasiguy551]

I think until the mid 1980's, the people that you would mostly see on TV and in movies were usually over 50 years old. Even younger people looked older. The 80's changed this and now younger people, look young and older people stay looking young into their 70's.

[@stingsAUTTP]

4 more months almost (as of this comment) and then 2025!

[@peachdaisyandrosalina9666]

Now it's less than 2 months away

[@danlivni2097]

I was in the first grade in 76/77 in NY.

[@nikaylajefferson2550]

mentally, here. physically, 2020.

[@raulmendoza418]

My mom was born in 1976 lol crazyyy

[@ivzyrdeleon4931]

HAPPY NEW YEAR 1977 December 31, 1976 Friday (New Year's Eve) January 1, 1977 Saturday (New Year's Day)

[@Orcus1138]

WOO!

[@lego5745]

Looks like I’ve found something cool to archive before 2021

[@betoland1259]

F for guy lombardo (he died in 1977)

[@animefan9944]

And Ben Grauer too

[@CCBTOGETHER2000]

R I P. (Ben Grauer) :( 😢

[@danlivni2097]

You must have one of the first VCRs ever. I think VCR's came out in 1975.. VCR started gaining mass market traction in 1975. Six major firms were involved in the development of the VCR: RCA, JVC, AMPEX, Matsushita Electric / Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba. Of these, the big winners in the growth of this industry were Japanese companies Matsushita Electric / Panasonic, JVC, and Sony, which developed more technically advanced machines with more accurate electronic timers and greater tape duration. The VCR started to become a mass market consumer product; by 1979 there were three competing technical standards using mutually incompatible tape cassettes. The industry boomed in the 1980s as more and more customers bought VCRs. By 1982, 10% of households in the United Kingdom owned a VCR. The figure reached 30% in 1985 and by the end of the decade well over half of British homes owned a VCR.[16]

[@RANDY4410]

1977 the birth of STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER,ANNIE, BLACKOUT IN NYC, EVIS DIED, FREDDIE PRINCE DIED,CHARLIE CHAPLIN DIED, THE SON OF SAM ON THE RISE, YANKEES WIN THE WORLD SERIES ETC... WHAT A YEAR

[@stingsAUTTP]

& Chuck E. Cheese

[@geometrydashandioscollection]

And VHS Tapes

[@stingsAUTTP]

Everything was exciting that you mentioned except for the death parts and the crime wave that was rising in NYC

[@billywilliams5394]

I was born in 1978 it’s cool to see this event

[@nuttmare9438]

I was born in March 76. This was my first new year in the world

[@jackieortegadesigns326]

My first love was born in 1977 ❤

[@richardleandro4508]

31/12/1976 Pela Primeira Vez Pela CBS

[@sambradley2975]

Until 2016, 1977 was the year that the Grim Reaper was working overtime.

[@Pdasilva0324]

2020 says, here hold my beers

[@hunterholliday4814]

Wasn’t 1976 a year before 1977?

[@c-kt666ancac3]

What is name on music 4:25 ?

[@thetribeoffive5675]

Happy new year from ksat 12 san antonio

[@briannasgamingchannel8415]

I’m 10! So I wasn’t even born or alive

[@edesaute]

Excellent! 1977: Here comes the punk rock!

[@PeterAthanasidy]

And Chuck E. Cheese, “Star Wars”, & 2 upstart channels that would later become MTV & Nickelodeon.

[@beholden2874]

Disco

[@bubble_nut5000]

I turned 6yrs. old in March 1977...

[@jovizelleperdigon7280]

Goodbye to 1976 and Hello to 1977!!!

[@juliaprohaska9295]

This year there will be no fireworks to celebrate the new year. It makes me so sad to think about that.

[@chrisfahrenheit2633]

Wow I die from excitement.

[@katrinaamaro]

Auld Lang Syne actually led by Guy Lombardo. Wow!

[@sambradley2975]

I remember this too...

[@susieaxym]

Wow... the graphics tho... in the 60s there were champagne glasses dancing across the screen

[@ABCDEFGH-or2eb]

Guy Lombardo passed 10 months later.

[@stingsAUTTP]

10 days til 2015 😃😃😃😃😄😄😄😄😀😀😀😀😊😊😊😊☺️☺️☺️☺️😍😍😍😍

[@schrollG]

Forty years ago!

[@ekop1778]

I REMEMBER THESE DAYS WHEN I WAS A KID GUY WAS A MASTER BETTER THAN RYAN SEAFUCK

[@rodneyjohnson7958]

I was almost three months old at that moment

[@tablacordia]

Great scott!!!

[@MadaraandBIPdoors]

Happy new years