Do you remember August 1979?

If you attended high school in 1979, you are likely nearing age 65, the point when you’ll start making decisions about your Medicare options.

To learn more about your options, give me a call to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation informational meeting.

In the meantime, enjoy recalling these memories from August 1979:

Top 5 Singles – August 18, 1979

#1 “Good Times” – Chic

#2 “My Sharona” – The Knack

#3 “The Main Event / Fight” – Barbra Streisand

#4 “Bad Girls” – Donna Summer

#5 “After the Love Has Gone – Earth, Wind and Fire

Top-Grossing Movie – August 15, 1979

“The Amityville Horror ” 

August 1979 Events

• Major League Baseball star Thurman Munson was killed on a day off from playing for the New York Yankees while practicing takeoffs and landings with his private jet, a Cessna Citation I, at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport.
• American economist Paul Volcker was sworn in as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and guided U.S. economic planning for more than eight years.
• Michael Jackson released his breakthrough album “Off the Wall,” which sold 7 million copies in the United States alone.
• Sugar Ray Leonard won his first professional boxing title, the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) welterweight championship, by knocking out NABF champion Pete Ranzany at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
• “Apocalypse Now,” Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning Vietnam War film, premiered nationwide in the U.S. and Canada.
• The controversial film “Monty Python’s Life of Brian,” a satire of Christianity, premiered in the United States.
• Alexander Godunov, the principal male dancer with the Soviet Union’s Bolshoi Ballet, defected to the United States while the troupe was in New York City.
• “The Facts of Life” began a nine-season run on U.S. television as a situation comedy set at an all-girls boarding school. The show, starring Charlotte Rae, was a spin-off of NBC’s successful “Diff’rent Strokes.”
• New wave band The B-52s performed a concert in Boston that was recorded as a live album and released as “Live! 8-24-1979.”
• The romance/mystery television series “Hart to Hart,” starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as a husband-and-wife detective team, premiered on ABC and began a five-season run.   

—Source: Wikipedia

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