I was 7 years old going on 8 in 1974 and Evel Knievel was definitely a boyhood hero for the majority of my Generation X peers. I would have loved to have gotten a ticket to the Snake River Canyon jump which was going to be broadcast on big screen closed circuit TV at Municipal Auditorium on September 8, but I would have to wait like millions more and see it later when ABC's Wide World of Sports showed it. 42 years later Hollywood stuntman, Eddie Braun, would make the jump successfully.
Evel
42 years later
Esther Phillips was coming to the Exit/In
Kudu recording artist Esther Phillip would be playing Exit/In, but notice the blurb at the bottom of the ad: Aug. 25 Special Evening of Music & Entertainment by the cast of Robert Altman's Movie "Nashville." The Altman classic with its massive cast along with hundreds of local extras was being filmed. You could have seen Keith Carradine at the Exit/In back when it was truly a listening room. Then on August 30th you could have gone to the Parthenon as the final concert scene was being shot. "You can be in the movie."
Keith Carradine "I'm Easy"
Nashville closing scenes SPOILER WARNING Y'ALL
Nashville trailer
The Tennessee State Fair was coming in a few weeks and three music heavyweights had been booked with Mac Davis, Black Oak Arkansas, and Lynyrd Skynyrd coming to play at the Speedway Grandstand. Who would you have seen if you could only see one?
I can't take no clinging vine
I went to Cal Jam and got hit in the head with a Black Oak Arkansas visor
along comes a Yankee slicker
Wednesday night would be a funktastic trip with Rufus, The Ohio Players, and the mighty Sly & The Family Stone. Sly wasn't the most reliable performer by this point so I wonder if he was on or not on this weeknight show. I hope he was awesome on that particular evening. Sly is an absolute creative giant.
tell me something good was a top 10 Nashville tune this week
We end this review with a look at the Top 10 Records. Olivia Newton-John honestly loves you and Rufus wants us tell Chaka Khan something good. Donny and Marie left it all up to Eric Clapton to shoot the sheriff. My favorites as a 7 year old going on 8 was "The Night Chicago Died" and "Billy, Don't Be A Hero."
Part 10 of an ongoing series listing every movie that played at the Marbro Drive-In once located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Today's post covers October 1968 through December1968. Look for 1969 coming soon.
October 1 - 2, 1968
October 3 - 5, 1968
October 6 - 9, 1968
October 10 - 12, 1968
October 13 - 16, 1968
October 17 - 19, 1968
October 20 - 23, 1968
October 24 - 26, 1968
October 27 - 30, 1968
October 31 - November 2, 1968
November 3 - 6, 1968
November 7 - 9, 1968
November 10 - 13, 1968
November 14 - 16, 1968
November 17 - 20, 1968
November 21 - 23, 1968
November 24 - 27, 1968
November 28 - 30, 1968
December 1 - 4, 1968
December 5 - 7, 1968
December 8 - 11, 1968
December 12 - 14, 1968
December 15 - 18, 1968
December 19 - 21, 1968
December 22 - 25, 1968
December 26 - 28, 1968
December 29 - 30, 1968
December 31, 1968 - January 2, 1969
List of movies that played the Marbro from October 1968 - December 1968
Hello boys and girls, it's time for a special no frills edition of the film flashback. No trailers, no links to IMDB. It's the ads only for every movie that played on August 28th from 1970 to 1979. I'm going to post the ads randomly and the first person who uses the comment section to tell me which year each film played at the appropriate theater will get bragging rights for their knowledge. NOTE: ads may have been pulled from August 27, 28, or 29 based on whether there was a paper that day (no Saturday editions of the DNJ in the Seventies) or if the printing was not legible.
