▸ the year you arrived

1974

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You will be 52 this year — a child of the '70s.

The song that ruled the year you arrived

#1 of 1974

The Way We Were

Barbra Streisand

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Top 10 of 1974

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Your generation

Gen X

1974 belonged to

Elton John

3 year-end chart hits

🔙 The world you were born into

The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.

🎬 Set the scene

1974. A sunburned summer evening. You had a MoonPie, a Slush Puppie, and just enough of the day left to ride in the way-back of the station wagon.

Now play “The Way We Were”

🎬 At the movies

📺 On TV

📼 Saturday cartoons

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Schoolhouse Rock!
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
The Pink Panther Show
Hong Kong Phooey
The Jetsons
The Flintstones

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