Carlton's Examples of Interesting YouTube Links You Might Discuss with Your Children
Comedy:
Abbott and Costello’s Who’s On
First? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_gSWTQKE-0
Andy Griffith’s “What It Was
Was Football” -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMEC58rhRc
Johnny Carson -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6UUIdT0bzI
Red Skelton as Clem
Kadiddlehopper -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-jeIdQwKY
Hee Haw –
Music:
The Jackson 5 on the Ed
Sullivan Show -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GvDLDYhNM
Elvis Presley -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is
Dancing:
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH4dR1Dotc
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
in 1936 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ
Jennifer Lopez as a Fly Girl on
In Living Color –
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine
on The Gong Show –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAsnN-J2Pxs
Inspirational:
Great speech by Nicholas James
Vujicic, a man with no arms or legs –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lrXTvOTncU
Steve Jobs delivers graduation
speech at Stanford –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO6cFMRqXqU
Unforgettable Moments in
History:
The Moon landing in 1969 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTBIr65cL_E
The Hindenburg disaster in 1937
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWHbpMVQ1U
Great Sports
Moments:
Secretariat wins the Triple
Crown in 1973 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCMtaNiMDM
Larry Bird highlights -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSI1_eVuhs
Bob Beamon’s gold medal long
jump in 1968 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEt_Xgg8dzc
The Fosbury Flop -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9yzHEx2qcU
Mary Lou Retton wins Gold in
1984 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sSuTdsjxTI
US Hockey team beats Russians,
wins gold in 1980 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfD134ED54
Carlton Fisk’s World Series
homerun -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkJ5WFNL4k
Babe Ruth calls his homerun
shot in 1932 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEX0eb2eBo
Hershel Walker -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LGMzhhfe4
The Ridiculous
Sixties and Seventies:
Goldie Hawn on Laugh In (1968 -
1973) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G9FFi6pSyk
Sonny and Cher -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZaCIGOEeUo
Robin Williams in Mork and
Mindy (1978 - 1982) –
Gilligan’s Island (1964 - 1967) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H2zZoxVFUY
Get Smart (1965 - 1970) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQcvzWsszaI
Star Trek (1966 - 1969) –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJaJSooV-t8
The Wild Wild West (1965 -
1969) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2EF-c7wmAE
Great Failures:
Bill Buckner’s ‘tweener (1986) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CR9kKGeE5Q
Michael Jordan cries after
getting cut from the high school basketball team, Steve Jobs kicked out of
Apple, Dr. Seuss first rejected by 27 publishers, Abraham Lincoln defeated in
eight
elections, etc. –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYECIjmnQs
A fan possibly costs the Cubs
a trip to the World Series (2003) –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Qm3xzIf5A
Cartoons:
The Road Runner -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLzHbvwHq5U
Pink Panther -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdjLKetEAro
The Jetsons -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0idWiHiasKg
Old Television
Commercials:
The Frito Bandito; Hawaiian
Punch; Tootsie Pops; Don’t be a Litterbug; Mama Mia - That’s a Spicy Meatball;
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mkr3GureeA
Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz; Nobody
doesn’t like Sara-Lee, Snap Crackle Pop; Chiquita Banana jingle;
I’d
like to teach the world to sing; etc. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhHlxPKDUh4
Other:
The Sheraton Maui in 1963 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6uvs3opGQ
Steve Irwin, the Crocodile
Hunter -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQOUIYFjpCs
Dick Clark interviews John
Travolta on American Bandstand –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO31fP-uYg4
Did I miss your favorite links, if so, send them to me at carlton@asaresearch.com and I will add them below.